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Cuba Relies on Urban Gardens to Feed Hungry Populace : TreeHugger

Planet Ark/Reuters has a nice piece out of Havana about how urban gardens are filling a key void in food production after three hurricanes wiped out 30 percent of the country's farm crops. In Cuba, urban gardens have proliferated in

World Briefing - Europe - Giving Them an Inch, and a Pint - NYTimes.com

The European Parliament voted to allow the continued use of the pint and the mile on Tuesday, a relief for Britain and Ireland.

Engineering algae to make fuel instead of sugar

PhysOrg.com: In pursuing cleaner energy there is such a thing as being too green. Unicellular microalgae, for instance, can be considered too green. In a paper in a special energy issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley describe a method for using microalgae for making biofuel. The researchers explain a way to genetically modify the tiny organisms, so as to minimize the number of chlorophyll molecules needed to harvest light without compromising the photosynthesis process in the cells. With this modification, instead of making more sugar molecules, the microalgae could be producing hydrogen or hydrocarbons.

Paradise Lost . NOW on PBS

For many island nations like Kiribati and Niue in the South Pacific, climate change is already more than just a theory -- it is a pressing, menacing reality.

A Glitch Closes Toronto Stock Exchange For a Day - NYTimes.com

The problem appeared to be with the computers that delivered trading information to brokerage houses and news organizations.

A Houston Surgeon’s Home, an Ode to His Wife and to God - NYTimes.com
A retired surgeon’s vision, made by his own hands in his Houston home, is an ode to love and morality.

New Discovery Could Rejuvenate the Brain

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of British Columbia have discovered why the brain loses its capacity to re-grow connections and repair itself, knowledge that could lead to therapeutics that “rejuvenate” the brain.

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World Coal Reserves Could Be a Fraction of Previous Estimates | Wired Science from Wired.com

SAN FRANCISCO — A new calculation of the world's coal reserves is much lower than previous estimates. If validated, the new info could have a massive impact on the fate

Mapping the Rats in New York City - TIME
Rats and cities have gone together since at least the Middle Ages. Now New York City is employing a high-tech tool — geocoding — to fight an age-old plague