Beyond Traffic Lights: China Is Already "Light" Years Ahead of the West : TreeHugger

An article in the IHT last week raised China's billion-dollar, billion-ton-of-CO2 question: how will a country known for its inimitable capacity for imitation manage to switch to an economy based on innovation and invention? Note that the question is

Did a Deadly Algal Toxin Inspire Hitchcock's 'The Birds'? : TreeHugger

Image from exfordy Alfred Hitchcock may not have been a marine biologist, but he was a keen observer of the news. So it was that the famed horror movie director may have found inspiration for the 1963 film, 'The

Phoenicians Left Deep Genetic Mark, Study Shows - NYTimes.com

New research suggests that as many as 1 in 17 men living today on the coasts of North Africa and southern Europe may have a Phoenician direct male-line ancestor.

Video: Jared Diamond on Why Societies Collapse : TreeHugger

Avoiding Collapse Jared Diamond, a man of multiple talents (evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer, professor of geography and physiology at UCLA, non-fiction author), gave an interesting talk at TED about why societies collapse. Environmental factors play a big role in

Move Over, My Pretty, Ugly Is Here - NYTimes.com

The repulsive and the simply unattractive are getting a philosophical and political makeover.

A Psychologist Helps Repackage Democrats’ Message - NYTimes.com
Democrats trying to escape labels like “liberal” are finding help in a handbook by a professor who was virtually unknown in political circles not long ago.

Jargon Watch: Bikeism : TreeHugger

cyclist and driver interaction in Toronto a few years ago. Photos Adam Krawesky via Spacingwire We have seen it many times in the comments in TreeHugger: Drivers complaining that cyclists are generally irresponsible 'lycra lizards' who ignore traffic signals

Dow Chemical Challenges Canadian Chemical Ban : TreeHugger

Former Republican Massachusetts governor and Ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci tells us that an Obama presidency: 'would present a 'danger' to Canada because he could renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, imperiling the future economic integration of the continent.'

"World Will Struggle To Meet Oil Demand" : TreeHugger

(Photo of IEA director Nobuo Tanaka visiting Russia) Ready for peak oil, anybody? The Financial Times has gotten hold of a draft of the International Energy Agency's annual report, which states that the rate of output decline is 9.1

Biokube: A Septic Tank That Waters Your Lawn : TreeHugger

Photo via GreenLight Most days when I wash my dishes, I cart bowlfuls of water out to my hopelessly brown California yard and dump it, the whole time snarling at the neighbor’s bubbling sprinklers and thinking that even if

As Gas Prices Go Down, Driving Goes Up - NYTimes.com

The decline in gasoline use earlier this year suggested the possibility of a permanent change in driving habits. But with prices down, drivers are returning to their old ways.

Public Works Projects Promoted at Hearing - NYTimes.com
Business executives, labor unions and members of both political parties are clamoring for a new initiative to stimulate the economy with more spending on infrastructure.

New Bio Lab on a Texas Island Worries Environmentalists and Locals - NYTimes.com

Scientists plan to study viruses like Ebola and Marburg in this Texas island where hurricanes regularly wreak havoc.

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Locksmiths, Computer Scientists Say

PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key.

Angry faces take priority in our brain

PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- In any social situation, we need to be aware of threats to our own safety from other people. That may be why our brains are better attuned to remembering the identity of angry faces over short periods of time.

Phony Friends? Rejected People Better Able To Spot Fake Smiles

All of us have "faked a smile" at some point. Now, a new study might make us think twice about sending out a phony grin. It has been shown that individuals who are experiencing rejection are better at picking up subtle social cues and according to a recent study published in Psychological Science, socially rejected people are particularly good at discerning fake smiles from real ones.

Corrosion suspected in pipeline burst: Top Stories | adn.com

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Buddhist Temple Built from Beer Bottles : TreeHugger

Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a building block. It never happened, so Buddhist monks from Thailand's Sisaket province took matters into their own hands and collected a

Newspaper Circulation Continues to Decline Rapidly - NYTimes.com

The long long decline in newspaper circulation continued to accelerate, with sales over the spring and summer falling almost 5 percent from the previous year.

White House Explores Aid for Auto Deal - NYTimes.com

The Bush administration is examining a range of options to spur a merger between General Motors and Chrysler, government officials said.

21-Year Health Study of Children Set to Begin - NYTimes.com

Researchers will begin recruiting in January for a nationwide study that will follow more than 100,000 children for more than two decades.

A Rise in Kidney Stones Is Seen in U.S. Children - NYTimes.com

Kidney stones, once considered a disorder of middle age, are now showing up in children as young as 5 or 6.

Global Update - Polio Spreads to New Countries and Increases Where It’s Endemic - NYTimes.com
Since April, polio outbreaks have been found in 10 countries beyond the 4 in which polio is considered endemic — Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan.

'Digital dark age' may doom some data

PhysOrg.com: What stands a better chance of surviving 50 years from now, a framed photograph or a 10-megabyte digital photo file on your computer's hard drive?

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Class of 76 'cleverer' than kids of today - Yahoo! News UK

Clever teenagers of today are not as bright as kids in the class of 1976, according to researchers.

Ghost Lusters: If You Want to See a Specter Bad Enough, Will You?: Scientific American

Researchers set up

Neo-Nazis charged over Obama 'assassination plot' - Times Online

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China Being Submerged in Sand: Desertification Spreads 1,300 Square Miles Per Year : TreeHugger
photo: Josh Chin Many TreeHugger readers probably know the now-familiar sobering statistics regarding the nature of China’s economic rise and its toll on the environment: 14,000 new cars on the roads each day, 52,000 miles of roadways under construction,

MIT Boosts Methanol Fuel Cells Efficiency by 50% : TreeHugger

Making Methanol Fuel Cells Better Many researchers and engineers have wanted to replace batteries in consumer electronics with methanol fuel cells for a while, but their big weakness so far has been the proton membrane. 'The more protons cross

Abroad - At the Grand Palais, the Masters Trump Picasso - NYTimes.com

No show in Europe at the moment bids to be more spectacular, or ends up being more exasperating, than “Picasso and the Masters.”

Tapping the Vortex for Green Energy | Wired Science from Wired.com

A bane of Big Oil's offshore rigs could become a boon for renewable energy. By tapping the natural motion of slow-moving water, a new hydrokinetic generator could open vast new

Psychological study reveals that red enhances men's attraction to women

PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- A groundbreaking study by two University of Rochester psychologists to be published online Oct. 28 by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology adds color—literally and figuratively—to the age-old question of what attracts men to women.

Study Confirms Amphibians' Ability to Predict Changes in Biodiversity

PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists have long suspected that amphibians, whose moist permeable skins make them susceptible to slight changes in the environment, might be good bellwethers for impending alterations in biodiversity during rapid climate change.

Analysis of a Toxic Death | Cancer | DISCOVER Magazine
A year ago two dozen emergency room staff were mysteriously felled by fumes emanating from a dying young woman. Investigations turned up nothing--until a team of chemists from a nuclear weapons lab got involved. Visit Discover Magazine to read this article and other exclusive science and technology news stories.

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A Modern Use for Thoreau’s Notes on Flora - Linking Patterns to Climate Change - NYTimes.com

Scientists are using notes from Henry David Thoreau to discern patterns of plant abundance in New England and to link those patterns to changing climate.

Europe Is Forcing Airlines to Buy Emissions Permits - NYTimes.com

European Union governments approved a potentially costly system capping greenhouse gases from any airline flying into or out of the trade bloc.

Chrysler to Cut 25% of Salaried and Contract Jobs - NYTimes.com

The automaker, which is in merger talks with General Motors, said that it would offer buyout and early retirement packages in the next two weeks and that layoffs would follow.

Climate Change Seeps into the Sea

PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- Good news has turned out to be bad. The ocean has helped slow global warming by absorbing much of the excess heat and heat-trapping carbon dioxide that has been going into the atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Revolution.

Cuts signal deepening woes at GM | The Detroit News | detnews.com

Cuts signal deepening woes at GM | Mounting problems fueling possible deal with Chrysler, analysts say. | detnews.com | The Detroit News

Best Environmental Ads - Powerful Environmental Ads - thedailygreen.com

These Images From Various Ad Campaigns Around The Globe Remind Us That The Planet Is In Peril.

Prototype - If No One Sees It, Is It an Invention? - NYTimes.com
Sharing an idea through a video posted on YouTube has been an essential part of an inventor’s success.

General Motors, Driven to the Brink - NYTimes.com

G.M., like other American automakers, tied its fortunes to the S.U.V., a product line that may be the industry’s undoing.

Economic View - But Have We Learned Enough? - NYTimes.com

Understanding the Great Depression and avoiding another one are two different things.

Spending Stalls and Businesses Slash U.S. Jobs - NYTimes.com

As the financial crisis cuts demand for American goods and services, the workers who produce them are losing their jobs by the tens of thousands.

'Flying syringe' mosquitos, other ideas get Gates funding

PhysOrg.com: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded 100,000 dollars each on Wednesday to scientists in 22 countries including funding for a Japanese proposal to turn mosquitos into 'flying syringes' delivering vaccines.

Researchers say voters swayed by candidates who share their looks

PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- Made up your mind who to vote for? Maybe it's because you like the looks of the candidate. Or maybe it's because the candidate looks a little like you, even if you don't realize it.

Computer Keyboard Hacking

PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- Swiss researchers from the Security and Cryptography Laboratory have demonstrated different ways of eavesdropping on wired keyboards from at least 11 different models. The keyboards range from the latest ones to the ones used in 2001. Test show that all these keyboards were vulnerable to at least four of their attacks.

Segway Inventor Turns Mind to the Poor - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

Home - Cold War Modern - Victoria and Albert Museum

The website for the V&A's Cold War Modern exhibition

G.M. and Chrysler Plan More Cutbacks - NYTimes.com

Both automakers announced plans for layoffs as they continue to shrink their operations ahead of a possible merger.

Canada to Guarantee Bank Loans - NYTimes.com

Loan guarantees offered by the Canadian government on Thursday suggest that even healthy banking systems might require government support for international borrowing.

British Architect Norman Foster to Design Public Library’s Renovation - NYTimes.com

Norman Foster, the eminent British architect, has been selected for a major renovation of the New York Public Library’s landmark 1911 main building.

Losing More Than a Roof Overhead - NYTimes.com

Inability to make mortgage payments is driving families to make difficult choices and forcing them to reconsider what home means.

Classic Clothes - It’s Their Moment Again - NYTimes.com
Some clothes never change — Barbour, Filson, Red Wing — and this is their moment.

With hot coffee, we see a warm heart, researchers find

PhysOrg.com: Our judgment of a person's character can be influenced by something as simple as the warmth of the drink we hold in our hand.

Could your initials influence where you choose to work?

PhysOrg.com: One of the most important decisions that we can make is what company we will work for. There are a number of factors to consider when making this decision, including salary, benefits and work location. However, there may also be less-obvious factors in play that sway our decision, and without us even knowing it. It is well known that unconscious thoughts can influence certain aspects of our behavior. An intriguing example of this is the 'name-letter effect,' a phenomenon which shows that we have a preference for things that begin with the same letter as our first name.

Half of Doctors Routinely Prescribe Placebos - NYTimes.com

Half of all doctors in the U.S. regularly prescribe placebos to patients despite professional rules that forbid the practice, according to a nationwide survey.

The Food Chain - Drought Resistance Is the Goal, but Methods Differ - Series - NYTimes.com

Scientists are trying to create varieties of corn, wheat and other crops that can thrive with little water.

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The little nation that could go green - and is
Who would have thought a dictator inspired a renewable energy campaign? That's one explanation for how Portugal has come to embrace clean energy so enthusiastically.

Naturhus Wraps A House In Its Own Private Greenhouse : TreeHugger

The house-in-a-greenhouse probably wouldn't play very well in say, Arizona, where enclosing your house in glass shell would be folly. But Bengt Warne, a Swedish architect, starting designing what he called the Naturhus (Nature House) in 1976 to work

Don’t Eat High Fructose Corn Syrup? You’re Both Snobby and a Racist : TreeHugger

Even though Lloyd wrote about the Corn Refiners Association ramping up an ad campaign to push back against the rising tide of realization that perhaps our current corn-centered agricultural system isn’t the best thing for our collective health or

Momentum Slows for Alternative Energy - NYTimes.com

Renewable energy technologies are facing big challenges because of the credit freeze and plunge in oil and natural gas prices.

3 Oil Countries Face a Reckoning - NYTimes.com

Plummeting oil prices are raising questions about whether Venezuela, Iran and Russia can sustain their bids to challenge United States hegemony.

Basics - The Wonders of Blood - NYTimes.com

Even the most extravagant blood lore pales in comparison to the biochemical, evolutionary and engineering marvels of the genuine article.

Scientist at Work - Nathan Wolfe - Studying Blood of Hunters and Prey in Search of Emerging Viruses - NYTimes.com
Nathan Wolfe hopes his research will result in staving off global pandemics before they happen.

Group bragging betrays insecurity, study shows

PhysOrg.com: From partisans at a political rally to fans at a football game, groups that engage in pompous displays of collective pride may be trying to mask insecurity and a low social status, suggests new research led by University of California, Davis, psychologists.

Note to Next President: Modern-Day WPA Will Save the Economy | Autopia from Wired.com

Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have been all but silent when it comes to repairing America's failing infrastructure, and with all that's going on in the world right now,

Police in Mexico find private zoo as drug cartel's party house - Telegraph

Mexican authorities have arrested more than a dozen members of an alleged
drug-trafficking ring, seizing weapons, vehicles - and a private zoo.

Photos from Zombiecon 2008 - iBored!

Funny Videos, Pictures and Links when Bored. For Best Results, Read Constantly

Gorillas and humans use similar body language to communicate | Mail Online

We already know that we are closely related to gorillas, but researchers now reveal that we even use body language in a similar way.

On the Train to Tibet: Railroading the Roof of the World : TreeHugger
The Highest Railway Even after less than a handful of hours of sound sleep, I awoke with a start just before my alarm sounded. Suddenly, the vents began to emit a steady woosh—oxygen being piped in to assist our

As Oil Prices Drop, OPEC Ponders Tough Solutions - NYTimes.com

History suggests that OPEC will face a tough time propping up prices as oil consumption slows down and the world teeters on the edge of a global recession.

Caste in the colony: How fate is determined between workers and queens

PhysOrg.com: 'The history of all past society has consisted in the development of class antagonisms…the exploitation of one part of society by the other'. – Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto.

American Dream a Biological Impossibility, Neuroscientist Says | Wired Science from Wired.com

What if people are biologically unsuited for the American dream? The man posing that troubling question isn't just another lefty activist. It's Peter Whybrow, head of the Semel Institute for

Solar Refrigeration: A Hot Idea for Cooling: Scientific American

How to build a solar refrigerator: the brighter the sun, the better it works.

Empires Built on Debt Start to Crumble - NYTimes.com

In the global financial crisis, no community of the superaffluent has fallen as hard, or as fast, as the brash Kremlin-connected insiders.

Observatory - Worm Grunting - A Mystery Solved - NYTimes.com

Researchers have provided an answer to why vibrations made with a stake driven into the ground can cause earthworms to come to the surface.

Exhibition Review - 'Climate Change' - Apocalypse Now, via Diorama, at American Museum of Natural History - NYTimes.com

If the End of Days were going to be portrayed in a museum exhibition, it might look like the array of natural disasters that can be found at “Climate Change” at the American Museum of Natural History.

Armyworms attacking pastures, wheat in Texas

PhysOrg.com: (AP) -- Texas farmers are once again battling armyworms and the voracious creatures are attacking fields and pastures in formidable numbers.

When under attack, plants can signal microbial friends for help

PhysOrg.com: Researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered that when the leaf of a plant is under attack by a pathogen, it can send out an S.O.S. to the roots for help, and the roots will respond by secreting an acid that brings beneficial bacteria to the rescue.

Waste from gut bacteria helps host control weight, researchers report
PhysOrg.com: A single molecule in the intestinal wall, activated by the waste products from gut bacteria, plays a large role in controlling whether the host animals are lean or fatty, a research team, including scientists from UT Southwestern Medical Center, has found in a mouse study.

The Hypocrisy of the World Wildlife Fund's Eco Tour | Autopia from Wired.com

Lush plant life and exotic wild animals. Formal dinners and luxury accommodations. Twenty five adventurous days in 11 different countries, all reached by private jet. Sounds like a great vacation,

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The other man on the podium

When Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave a gloved Black Power salute on the Olympic podium in 1968 it sent a shockwave through sport. But what happened to the other man on the platform?

China photographs all internet cafe customers | The Australian

ALL visitors to internet cafés in Beijing will be required to have their photographs taken in a stringent new control on the public use of cyberspace.

Financiapocalypse: Automaker Lays Off Detroit Office With Blog Post

var digg url 'http digg com autos The New Pink Slip Tesla Nixes Employees Via Blog' UPDATE Tesla notifies Detroit

Coffee can make women's breasts smaller: Swedish study - The Local

Women who drink a lot of coffee may see their breasts become more petite, according to the results of a new Swedish study.

Scrap Life - Pakistan with Robert Knoth | Greenpeace International

YouTube - Ghetto Defendant by The Clash

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Truck Maker Plans to Cut 3,500 Jobs in U.S. and Canada - NYTimes.com

Daimler, the world’s largest maker of heavy vehicles, announced plans to eliminate its Sterling truck brand and shift production from the United States to Mexico.

Scientist at Work - James W. Pennebaker - Psychologist James Pennebaker Counts, and Analyzes, Words - Biography - NYTimes.com

James W. Pennebaker looks at every single word people use — even the tiny ones — and is leading a resurgent interest in text analysis.

Schoolhouse Rock "Energy Blues" Now 30 - An Annotated Perspective : TreeHugger

Thirty years ago, a certain generation digested large amounts of Schoolhouse Rock on their way from being Sugar Bomb Eaters to 9-to-fivers; many a happy moment was spent staring at the glass screen figuring out how a bill becomes

Videos Simulate Earthquake in San Francisco Bay Area | Wired Science from Wired.com
A major earthquake in California is a matter of when, not if. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates a 62 percent chance of a magnitude 6.7 or greater earthquake striking somewhere

Plunge in Stocks Highlights Ailing Economy - NYTimes.com

Even as governments around the world rolled out an ambitious bailout plan, the sell-off on Wall Street underscored the depth of the economy’s troubles.

Fossil Fish Shows Complexity of Transition to Land - NYTimes.com

Scientists are finding striking evidence of the steps by which marine vertebrates evolved into land animals.

Rancher’s Goat Meat Grabs Attention of Chefs - NYTimes.com

Bill Niman, who last year walked away from the meat company he started in the 1970s, is hoping goat meat will be the cornerstone of his comeback.

Northerners' hands up to 3 times dirtier than those living in the South

PhysOrg.com: The further north you go, the more likely you are to have faecal bacteria on your hands, especially if you are a man, according to a preliminary study conducted by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Reservoirs promote spread of aquatic invasive species
PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- The latest 'damming' evidence suggests that manmade reservoirs are facilitating the spread of invasive species in Wisconsin lakes.

Scientists restore movement to paralyzed limbs through artificial brain-muscle connections

PhysOrg.com: Researchers in a study funded by the National Institutes of Health have demonstrated for the first time that a direct artificial connection from the brain to muscles can restore voluntary movement in monkeys whose arms have been temporarily anesthetized. The results may have promising implications for the quarter of a million Americans affected by spinal cord injuries and thousands of others with paralyzing neurological diseases, although clinical applications are years away.

Plug Pulled on Hamas' YouTube Ripoff | Danger Room from Wired.com

A few weeks ago, Western intelligence officials discovered that the Palestinian jihadist group Hamas had set up a video-sharing site — to spread propaganda and to train would-be terrorists. Now,

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Vials From Miller-Urey Experiment Offer New Hints on Origin of Life - NYTimes.com

Researchers who have taken a second look at a classic 1953 experiment say it points to volcanoes as perhaps a more likely environment for where life originated.

Blackwater: We'll Fight Somalia's Pirates | Danger Room from Wired.com

Security analysts and the Somali government are publicly flirting with the idea of hiring mercenaries to stop the pirates that are terrorizing east Africa. Now, the notorious guns-for-fire at Blackwater

New solar energy material captures every color of the rainbow
PhysOrg.com: Researchers have created a new material that overcomes two of the major obstacles to solar power: it absorbs all the energy contained in sunlight, and generates electrons in a way that makes them easier to capture.

Interviews At An Ohio Republican Sarah Palin Rally Expose Racism Against Barack Obama | Prose Before Hos

Al-Jazeera reports from St. Clairsville, Ohio after a Sarah Palin rally and interviews locals on their views of Barack Obama. Many dislike Obama because he is black, muslim, and a terrorist.

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HEAT Documentary Looks at Global Struggle to Reinvent Fossil Fuel Use : TreeHugger

Last night we attended the preview of HEAT, a two-hour FRONTLINE investigation that will air Tuesday, October 21 EST on PBS. Produced by veteran FRONTLINE journalist Martin Smith, the investigation looks at what big business is and isn't doing, both

Science News / An Attractive Source For Spintronics

Science News: the weekly magazine of The Society for Science and the Public

Only in Hamilton: Vote For Architectural Crime vs Heritage : TreeHugger

I am constantly agog at the shenanigans that go on in Hamilton, Ontario with respect to its historic buildings. Hamilton has everything it needs to be a great small city except leadership and vision. It also has 'one of

Math Skills Suffer in U.S., Study Finds - NYTimes.com

While the study suggests many girls have exceptional talent in math, they are rarely identified in the U.S., because culture discourages girls — and boys — from excelling.

Market Free Fall: 10 Depressing Facts | Epicenter from Wired.com

View the full .DJIA chart at Wikinvest The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank 678.91 points (-7.33%) Thursday, its seventh consecutive loss. Here are 10 less-than-fun facts about to put today's

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WHO probing deaths from mystery disease in SAfrica

PhysOrg.com: (AP) -- The U.N. health agency says it is investigating a mystery disease that killed three people in the South African city of Johannesburg.

Deadly bird flu virus found at German farm: EU

PhysOrg.com: German authorities were culling poultry at a farm in Germany after the discovery of a case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, the European Commission announced Friday.

Researchers developing wireless soil sensors to improve farming

PhysOrg.com: Ratnesh Kumar keeps his prototype soil sensors buried in a box under his desk. He hopes that one day farmers will be burying the devices under their crops.

The Frugal Teenager, Ready or Not - NYTimes.com

With no choice but to cut back, parents say “no” and children say, “Huh?”

A Power That May Not Stay So Super - NYTimes.com

Britain overreached imperially. The U.S. has been doing it financially.

CapeCodTimes.com - Shuttle driver reflects on Nobel snub
A former Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientist who now works in Alabama shared research with others who won the top chemistry prize this week.

Charlie Brooker: Nightclubs are hell | Comment is free | The Guardian

Charlie Brooker: I'm convinced no one actually likes clubs. It's a conspiracy. We've been told they're cool and fun; that only 'saddoes' dislike them.

GADISS: Top Mass Murderers in History

Finance Students Keep Their Job Hopes Alive - NYTimes.com

Financial companies are shedding tens of thousands of jobs, yet applications to graduate business schools rose this year.

Clashes Fuel Talk of Anti-Immigrant Surge in Italy - NYTimes.com

A recent spate of violence against immigrants across Italy is fueling a national conversation about racism and tolerance.

Slipstream - Intuition + Money - An Aha Moment - NYTimes.com

The discovery of a new material called black silicon offers a lesson in government financing of science and technology.

Whale Oil as Space Lubricant: Better than Anything We Can Create? : TreeHugger
The Big Cheese behind TreeHugger, Graham Hill, hit the Arctic as part of Cape Farewell's 2008 Disko Bay expedition to witness the direct environmental effects of climate change. In a science research boat, he traveled alongside over 40 artists,

Observatory - Rising Temperatures May Dry Up Peat Bogs, Causing Carbon Release - NYTimes.com

Ordinarily peat bogs are a huge carbon sink, but a new study suggests that might not be the case for northern bogs as temperatures rise.

Link By Link - Spinning a Web of Lies at Digital Speed - NYTimes.com

In recent days there has been a range of false Internet reports that managed to gain great purchase across the globe while the truth is still logging on.

In Modern Chinese Cities, Urbanus’s ‘Little Kingdoms’ for the People - NYTimes.com

A new exhibition offers further evidence that China has become the most fertile territory on the globe for experimentation by architects.

The Food Issue - An Open Letter to the Next Farmer in Chief - Michael Pollan - NYTimes.com

What the next president can and should do to remake the way we grow and eat our food.

Tides Have Major Impact on Planet Habitability

PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers searching for rocky planets that could support life in other solar systems should look outside, as well as within, the so-called 'habitable zone,' University of Arizona planetary scientists say.

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Read the latest AP Technology News and how the digital world is shaping business, entertainment, communications and culture on Wired.com.

Crunch Time: How a Mega-Shredder Reduces a Sedan to Scrap

Get product reviews and news about digital cameras, computers, laptops, mp3 players, iPod, PDAs, phones, PCs, Macs and wireless from Wired.com

Toshiba Just Months Away From First Fuel Cell Device : TreeHugger

Photo of Toshiba's prototype fuel cell-powered cell phone via TechOn We heard last year that Toshiba planned to launch a fuel cell-powered portable media player by late ’08. Well, we’re getting on to late ’08 and we finally have

Konarka Opens World's Largest Roll-To-Roll, Solar Photovoltaic, Thin-Film Production Plant : TreeHugger

Konarka is calling their flexible, thin-film solar material, to be made in New Bedford MA, Power Plastic. There are several layers of good news to the announcement. One is that former employees of a closed Polaroid plant are getting

Underground rainwater storage in an IBC with pumped supply

Budget pumped rainwater storage. Commercial rainwater storage can be several thousand pounds. To save money I wondered ...

Central Banks Coordinate Global Cut in Interest Rates - NYTimes.com

The world’s major central banks, including the Federal Reserve, moved together to stanch the financial crisis.

YouTube Commenters Hear Their Own Gibberish - Webmonkey

The Web Developer's Resource

Don't Blame Biofuels for Food Crisis | Wired Science from Wired.com
Biofuels have contributed far less to rising food prices than previously estimated, a new United Nations report's data suggests. The State of Food and Agriculture 2008 projects that biofuels production

Siren voice means she's fertile

PhysOrg.com: A woman raises the pitch of her voice during her most fertile period of the month in an unconscious boost to her femininity, according to a study published Wednesday in the British journal Biology Letters.

Researchers Moving Closer to Creating Viable Energy From Sewage

PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- When a newly developed technology for producing hydrogen gas from biowaste is brought to commercial use – as researchers believe it can be – then it appears the world will have plenty of energy if it can just solve the stubborn shortage of sewage.

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad visits the impoverished camps for the men building the skyscrapers of Dubai and Abu Dhabi | World news | The Guardian

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad: Behind the dizzying construction boom is an army of migrant labourers lured into a life of squalor and exploitation

New pain relief that is eight times stronger than morphine - Telegraph

Telegraph Earth is your source for environmental and green news and environmental and green issues, with information on climate change, global warming, pollution, green living and recycling, and all other environment issues.

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Global Warming Disease - The Deadly Dozen Diseases Incubated by Global Warming - thedailygreen.com
The 12 diseases likely to increase because of global warming.

Ecopolis Plans Future Green Cities : TreeHugger

Image source: The Science Channel What will future cities look like? How will we feed the estimated 75% of the global population that will be living in cities by 2050? How will we transport and house and clothe all

Kiss Penguins Goodbye if the Planet Warms 2 Degrees Celsius: WWF : TreeHugger

photo: Martha de Jong-Lantink Though the jury is still out on whether global warming had anything to do with large numbers of dead penguins washing ashore in Brazil back in July, according to a report from WWF if global

Change Coming To Water Politics - Twelve US States Face Extended Drought Conditions : TreeHugger

The US Climate Prediction Center projects large areas of drought 'Persist' conditions (graphically indicated in solid brown) in Hawaii, Southern California and Nevada, in South-Central Texas, and in seven southern US states, including the Lake Lanier watershed, which currently

Prototype technology turns laptop heat into power News - PC Advisor

Thermoelectric device generates electricity - Murata Manufacturing demonstrated at the Ceatec exhibition in Japan a thermoelectric device capable of turning heat into electricity. The device could one day find a home in laptops, and other products.

Super-Efficient Free-Piston Engines Could Replace Traditional Gas and Diesel Engines : TreeHugger

Free-Piston Engines: The Future? While we wait for battery and hypercapacitor breakthroughs to allow us to go 100% electric and ditch internal combustion engines, series plug-in hybrids (electric motors turn the wheels and a gas generator kicks in when

Keeping Wary Eye on Crime as Economy Sinks - NYTimes.com
Historic crime highs have usually followed an economic crisis — a cause for concern for New Yorkers these days.

Scientist warns cash woes 'devastating' to science

PhysOrg.com: (AP) -- Famed scientist Richard Leakey warned that the worldwide credit crisis will be 'just devastating' to scientific research in coming years, as endowment interest income drops and companies cut donations.

At 2.8 km down, a 1-of-a-kind microorganism lives all alone

PhysOrg.com: The first ecosystem ever found having only a single biological species has been discovered 2.8 kilometers (1.74 miles) beneath the surface of the earth in the Mponeng gold mine near Johannesburg, South Africa. There the rod-shaped bacterium Desulforudis audaxviator exists in complete isolation, total darkness, a lack of oxygen, and 60-degree-Celsius heat (140 degrees Fahrenheit).

Senecavirus Structure Revealed (Oh, And It Still Kills Cancer Cells 10,000 Times Better Than Traditional Chemotherapeutics) | Scientific Blogging

The Senecavirus is a "new" virus, discovered several years ago by Neotropix Inc., a biotech company in Malvern, Pennsylvania. It was at first thought to be a laboratory contaminant, but researchers found it was a pathogen, now believed to

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Scientists adapt economics theory to trace brain's information flow

PhysOrg.com: Scientists have used a technique originally developed for economic study to become the first to overcome a significant challenge in brain research: determining the flow of information from one part of the brain to another.

Well - In Bad Economic Times, Are People Healthier? - NYTimes.com

Most people are worried about the health of the economy. But does the economy also affect your health?

Findings - Energy Lessons From the ’70s - Hard Power vs. Soft Power - NYTimes.com

In the last few decades, there have been surprises on each side of the energy debate.

Advertising - When Doctors, and Even Santa, Endorsed Tobacco - NYTimes.com

An exhibit of hundreds of print ads and television commercials presents cigarettes ads from the 1920s through the early 1950s.

Memo To US Government: Five Ways To Fix The Housing Industry : TreeHugger

MEMO: You own the Housing industry now, Here is what you should do with it. Now that the United States Government owns all the mortgages, the guarantors of the mortgages, and the reinsurer of all the insurers, and possibly

Emerging Markets Find They Aren’t Insulated From the Tumult - NYTimes.com

Emerging markets took one of their biggest collective tumbles in a decade as stock markets from Mexico to Indonesia to Russia were gripped by fears of a collapse.

Australia and Japan Make Defensive Moves - NYTimes.com
The Australian central bank cut its key interest rate and the Bank of Japan dampened speculation of coordinated rate cuts by major economies as the global financial crisis deepened.

Iceland Seeks Emergency Loan From Russia - NYTimes.com

In addition to seeking the $5.4 billion loan from Russia, Iceland pegged its currency to an index and took control of one of its largest banks as it struggled to keep its economy afloat.

Markets Plunge Despite Hint of Rate Cut - NYTimes.com

Wall Street extended its heavy losses despite reassurances from the Fed chairman that the central bank was prepared to lower interest rates.

Protective Instinct Drives the Urge to Punish Wall Street - NYTimes.com

The urge to punish is more than Wall Street loathing: it’s based in instincts that have had a protective effect on communities throughout human history.

New gene that helps plants beat the heat

PhysOrg.com: Michigan State University plant scientists have discovered another piece of the genetic puzzle that controls how plants respond to high temperatures. That may allow plant breeders to create new varieties of crops that flourish in warmer, drier climates.

The Color of Evolution: How One Fish Became Two Fish

PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since Darwin discovered that species can evolve, scientists have wondered how new species form. Answering this question is the key to understanding the diversity of all of life. A group of colorful fishes in Africa's Lake Victoria have been the focus of scientific efforts to unravel how new species form. This lake contains more than 500 species of cichlids, which play a leading role because of their rapid speciation and remarkable diversity. Still, the mechanisms involved in the rapid appearance of new cichlid species have remained elusive to scientists.

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Evolution stops here: Future Man will look the same, says scientist | Mail Online

For centuries, writers have attempted to predict the future of the human race -

Intel’s Barrett: Teachers Matter More Than PCs - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

In ‘The Way You Work’ David Macaulay Explains That Most Remarkable Structure - the Human Body - NYTimes.com

David Macaulay’s “The Way We Work” is an illustrated guide to the body’s vast array of architecture, chemical reactions and moving parts.

The Street Artist Shepard Fairey Moves Closer to the Mainstream but Is Still Rebellious - NYTimes.com

This year, Shepard Fairey, a star in the world of street art, has earned a new level of mainstream attention.

Coastlines could be protected by 'invisibility cloak'

PhysOrg.com: Scientists at the University of Liverpool have tested an 'invisibility cloak' that could reduce the risk of large water waves overtopping coastal defences.

When seeing IS believing
PhysOrg.com: New research published in the journal Science explains why individuals seek to find and impose order on an unruly world through superstition, rituals and conspiratorial explanations by linking a loss of control to individual perceptions. The research finds that a quest for structure or understanding leads people to trick themselves into seeing and believing connections that simply don't exist.

Models of Eel Cells Suggest Electrifying Possibilities

PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers long have known that great ideas can be lifted from Mother Nature, but a new paper by researchers at Yale University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology takes it to a cellular level. Applying modern engineering design tools to one of the basic units of life, they argue that artificial cells could be built that not only replicate the electrical behavior of electric eel cells but in fact improve on them. Artificial versions of the eel’s electricity generating cells could be developed as a power source for medical implants and other tiny devices, they say.

This is your grid on brains

PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- Managing power networks in the future may involve a little more brain power than it does today, if researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology succeed in a new project that involves literally tapping brain cells grown on networks of electrodes.

Armored truck robber uses Craigslist to make getaway | Top Stories | KING5.com | News for Seattle, Washington

Your trusted source of Seattle Washington breaking news and top stories, King5.com, K5 coverage coverage you can count on as your trusted source. See live video for the latest news in Seattle Washington.

Solar Paint on Steel Could Generate Renewable Energy Soon

In three years, buildings covered in steel sheets could be generating large amounts of solar electricity, thanks to a new photovoltaic paint that is being developed in a commercial partnership between UK university researchers and the steel industry.

Fiber Composites: Materials Of Green Energy Production : TreeHugger

The trade publication Plastics Technology Online has an excellent technical article on the manufacturing of wind turbine blades. Awesome reading if you are a wind-industry insider. Or, if you have a degree in chemistry or chemical engineering. The scale

Battle in Seattle (2007)
Directed by Stuart Townsend. With Martin Henderson, Michelle Rodriguez, Woody Harrelson. Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings. Visit IMDb for Photos, Showtimes, Cast, Crew, Reviews, Plot Summary, Comments, Discussions, Taglines, Trailers, Posters, Fan Sites

Advertising - Brainy Brand Names Where They’re Least Expected - NYTimes.com

Publications like The Atlantic and The Economist emphasize cleverness in marketing campaigns to seek readers and advertisers.

Strippers, armadillos inspire Ig Nobel winners

PhysOrg.com: (AP) -- Deborah Anderson had heard the urban legends about the contraceptive effectiveness of Coca-Cola products for years. So she and her colleagues decided to put the soft drink to the test. In the lab, that is.

Researcher investigates ancient geology to understand human development, climate change

PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- To figure out how ancient humans adapted to their environment and constructed civilizations, you need to know the environment in which they lived -- including climate change over thousands of years.

Plant Tweak Could Let Toxic Soil Feed Millions | Wired Science from Wired.com

Thanks to a genetic breakthrough, a large portion of Earth's now-inhospitable soil could be used to grow crops -- potentially alleviating one of the most pressing problems facing the planet's

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Boy fed zoo reptiles to crocodile

A seven-year-old boy is filmed killing rare reptiles and feeding live ones to a crocodile at a popular zoo in Australia.

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Food for thought -- regulating energy supply to the brain during fasting

PhysOrg.com: If the current financial climate has taught us anything, it's that a system where over-borrowing goes unchecked eventually ends in disaster. It turns out this rule applies as much to our bodies as it does to economics. Instead of cash, our body deals in energy borrowed from muscle and given to the brain.

Form of Crohn's disease traced to disabled gut cells

PhysOrg.com: Scientists report online this week in Nature that they have linked the health of specialized gut immune cells to a gene associated with Crohn's disease, an often debilitating and increasingly prevalent inflammatory bowel disorder.

Carole Cadwalladr explores the dark side of Dubai | World news | The Observer

As two Britons face jail for indecent behaviour Carole Cadwalladr explores the dark side of Dubai

Ocean Acidification Conference: Acidity Up 30% Since Industrial Revolution - Producing Toxic Assets For The World : TreeHugger

The 2nd Symposium on the ocean in a high CO2 world, is being held at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco from 6th to 9th October, 2008, attended by 250 scientists from 32 countries . 'Under the patronage of Prince

Film - The Box-Office Gamble of ‘Body of Lies,’ Another Drama Set in the Mideast, Starring Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio - NYTimes.com
Can “Body of Lies,” with Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, finally make the Iraq war entertaining?