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The Hummer EV First Edition sold out… even though it doesn’t exist yet The mad rush to get one As Tesla has experienced with all of its new models and Ford saw with the Mach-E, a well-designed and featured EV can attract attention—and orders. GM won’t say how many Edition 1 models it will produce (rumor set the number at 1,000), but said the allotment is fully reserved. The follow-up models are also gathering some reservations....

I once went to a water park and spent the entire day beating theTop Gunarcade game over and over with a buddy. By the end of the visit, two quarters was all we needed to blast our way through to the end, two skinny kids with dripping neon swim trunks and cheap sunglasses hanging from our necks onCroakies. Constantly aware of girls with their oh-so-tan shoulders, leaning in at the edge of the cabinet, watching our progress....

Yes, I know that this was a running joke for a while, but after stumbling over iton Uncrate, I found out that you can now actually purchase theiCade via ThinkGeek. The iCade is a miniaturized, Bluetooth-enabled dock for your iPad. Slide your Apple device inside and you have arcade-style controls for loads of games such as Donkey Kong and Ms. Pac-Man (which, as any geek worth their quarter will tell you, is far superior to the original Pac-Man)....

Social entrepreneurship essentially boils down to doing good while doing well. This emerging movement is based on the premise of building a profitable business that also looks to address big picture problems like poverty, unemployment, malnutrition and climate change. It’s been gaining speed in recent years, thanks to influential people like Jeff Skoll, the co-founder ofeBay. In fact, the2011 Skoll World Forumon Social Entrepreneurship kicked off this past Thursday in Oxford, England....

Seven years ago, a huge magnet was transported over 3,200 miles (5,150km) across land and sea, in the hope of studying a subatomic particle called a muon. Muons are closely related to electrons, which orbit every atom and form the building blocks of matter. The electron and muon both have properties precisely predicted by our current best scientific theory describing the subatomic, quantum world, thestandard model of particle physics. A whole generation of scientists have dedicated themselves to measuring these properties in exquisite detail....