Moving big animals to places they don’t already live is at once appealing and disturbing, a sort of adolescent environmental fantasy come to life: African lions in Nebraska! Komodo dragons in Australia! But at the beginning of the 21st century, moving species around is a controversial but legitimate option.
Nothing says you’ve given up all hope more than clinging to senseless traditions. Here are five ways we can catapult Christmas into the 21st century (no figgy pudding allowed).
When Lucovsky walked into Steve Ballmer’s office in 2004 and told the Microsoft CEO he was leaving the company for Google, Ballmer picked up his chair and chucked it across the room. Now, ex-Microsoft man Paul Maritz has turned the tables on Google, bringing Lucovsky to VMware, where’s he’s building a new software platform for the internet age.
Think only Boy Scouts can earn badges in bad-ass activities like robotics and video games (whatever happened to wood carving and fire building)? Well you are wrong sir (or ma’am). The Girl Scouts of America are giving their merit badges a 21st century makeover, adding high-tech accomplishments like Computer Expert and Digital Movie Maker, as well as more esoteric points of pride like Locavore. Even old standbys are being reinvented for the modern age like the Fashion, Fitness and Makeup badge, which is now known as the Science of Style and focuses on how things like sunscreen work and making your own perfume. The update sounds like the sort of thing that strong, tech-savvy women like Lady Ada might approve of and we’re all for it, why should the Boy Scouts be the only ones to learn about nuclear fusion? Just make sure our Thin Mints still arrive on time… seriously, we’re starting to go through withdrawal over here!
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