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Dipping Into the World’s Most Stunning Hot Springs

Baua Electric

I learned to use the onsen properly: to pull up a small stool and a bowl to the shared shower area, to scrub every inch of the body, to shampoo and condition my hair, to clean between my toes and under my fingernails, to rinse my body and the area I occupied. Once clean, you soak. You soak until your body is red with warmth.

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Video Friday: Fluidic Fingers

Cars That Think

Listening to the language here about SoftBank's Whiz cleaning robot, I’ve got some concerns. My worry is that the value that the robot is adding here is mostly in perception of cleaning, rather than actually, you know, cleaning. Drone Adventures maps wildlife in Namibia from above. MIT CSAIL ]. SoftBank ]. MIT CSAIL ].

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Asambe & Kuva’s Partnership Shows the Potential of Fintech, E-Commerce, & Electric Mobility to Transform Africa

CleanTechnica EVs

Asambe, an all-electric transportation and end-to-end logistics service, is scaling up operations building on its initial pilot and several partnerships for delivery services.

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US convenes Minerals Security Partnership meeting

Green Car Congress

First announced in June 2022, the MSP is a new multilateral initiative to bolster critical mineral supply chains essential for the clean energy transition. Additional minerals-rich countries in attendance included Argentina, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, and Zambia.

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Should the Cobalt for EVs Come From the Congo or the Seafloor?

Cars That Think

Would having another large source available—the deep Pacific—help corporate buyers pressure Congolese mining companies to clean up their act? There are many examples of seafloor disruption most people never think about—trawling by fishing vessels, dredging, even the mining of diamonds off the coast of Namibia , to name a few.

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