BBC NEWS | Technology | TED on porn, malaria and robots [via claudio]

Bill Gates shocks the so called TEDsters attending the world famous brainstorming conference by releasing mosquitoes into the audience

Technology Review: Blogs: Potential Energy: NASA's Climate Satellite Crashes Back to Earth

From MIT. Information on Emerging Technologies & impact on business & society

Technology Review: TR10: Biological Machines
Michel Maharbiz's novel interfaces between machines and living systems could give rise to a new generation of cyborg devices.

Technology Review: TR10: Traveling Wave Reactor

A new way of fueling reactors could make nuclear power safer and less expensive, says John Gilleland.

Technology Review: TR10: Liquid Battery

Donald Sadoway conceived of a novel battery that could allow cities to run on solar power at night.

MCE-5 Variable Compression Ratio Engine: 1.5-Liter With Torque Like a V8! : TreeHugger

Increasing Engine Efficiency and Power Most of us are probably anxious to get rid of internal combustion engines (ICE) and move on to electric motors. Unfortunately, refining a technology until it is affordable and performs well enough for the

Square Feet - Manhattan Towers Gather Their Own Heat for Power - NYTimes.com

A way of recycling wasted heat is gaining popularity in a few big Manhattan buildings, which are building cogeneration plants.

New Yorkers Try Composting With Worms - NYTimes.com
An increasing number of New Yorkers have been taking up the challenge of turning their fruit skins and eggshells into nutritious compost.

Magnets might dissuade crocodiles from settling in neighborhoods

Magnets taped to the heads of captured crocodiles could keep them from returning to South Florida neighborhoods where they're not wanted, state wildlife officials said Monday.

To Save Animals, Put a Price on Them | Wired Science from Wired.com

Rather than relying on warm, fuzzy feelings to protect animals, conservationists suggest appealing to something more reliable: greed. By selling financial contracts pegged to species health, the government could create

Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street

Get Wired's take on technology business news and the Silicon Valley scene including IT, media, mobility, broadband, video, design, security, software, networking and internet startups on Wired.com

Gallery - The next generation of mirrors - Image 1 - New Scientist

Superhuman: The secrets of the ice man - life - 24 February 2009 - New Scientist

How do you survive swimming in sub-zero water wearing nothing but swimming trunks? New Scientist asks a man who has made it a habit

Obama Budget Taxes Richest to Help Pay for Health Care - NYTimes.com
President Obama’s budget will include tax increases on the affluent and credits for low and middle-income people, marking a pronounced shift in the American tax burden.

Preparing for a Flood of Energy Efficiency Spending - NYTimes.com

Experts worry that cities aren’t ready to oversee the energy-efficiency money coming their way.

Technology Review: The Doctor Kiosk

An automated health-care interface aims to streamline preventative screening.

In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth - NYTimes.com

Questions about the importance of the liberal arts in a complex and technologically demanding world have taken on new urgency.

The sun is a star when it comes to sustainable energy

At a national scientific meeting last week where biofuels - principally ethanol - were uniformly trashed as an environmental train wreck, one bright, carbon-free light gleamed in our energy future: the sun.

Without Tears, Is There Still Sadness? | Wired Science from Wired.com

Now you see sadness, now you don't. A new study has found that removing just the tears out of pictures of people crying reduces the sadness that viewers perceive in

Alt Text 21: Snarking Validation - Video - Wired
Have you ever suspected you're the only intelligent person on the planet? If only there were some way of proving it so that you can get the adulation and free beers you deserve.

What the Stimulus Bill Means for High-Speed Rail | Autopia from Wired.com

The whining about who got what in the $787 billion economic stimulus bill is well underway, but you won't hear many complaints from high-speed rail advocates. They walked away with

Science News Examiner: UCLA team creates functional neurons from adult somatic cells

UCLA team creates functional neurons from adult somatic cells by local Science News Examiner expert, Meg Marquardt.

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TG Daily - Marvell's Plug Computer: A tiny, discrete, fully functional 5 watt Linux server

TG Daily, Marvell's Plug Computer: A tiny, discrete, fully functional 5 watt Linux server

A Serbian Photographer's Memories of Belgrade - Photo Essays - TIME

In his new book, Serbian photographer Boogie explores the memory of the city he left behind

Technology Review: A More Efficient Ethanol Engine

Technology Review: A Rodent's Anti-Aging Secrets

Healthier proteins may be the key to the long life span of naked mole rats.

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | German village turns off street lights

A German village is pioneering a method of saving energy and reducing carbon emissions by switching off the street lights at night.

Drought to Cut Off Federal Water to CA Farms - TIME

Federal water managers said Friday that they plan to cut off water, at least temporarily, to thousands of California farms as a result of the deepening drought gripping the state

Hydraulic ram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

These Toes Were Made for Running | Wired Science from Wired.com

If you've ever wondered why humans don't have long, prehensile toes that would turn our feet into extra hands, here's an answer: stubby toes may be custom-made for running. Biomechanical

BBC NEWS | Europe | Prison break repeat shocks Greece
Two of Greece's most notorious criminals escape from Athens' top security prison by helicopter in a repeat of a daring 2006 breakout.

A Series of Suicides at West Point Unnerve a Renowned Academy - NYTimes.com

Two suicides and two suicide attempts among cadets, as well as two suicides by staff members, have stirred concern at the renowned military academy.

Engineered Osmosis: Revolutionizing Saltwater Desalination : CleanTechnica

Technology Review: A Cheaper Solar Concentrator

A new light-guiding optic combines low cost with high efficiency.

Technology Review: Blogs: Potential Energy: Fool's Gold for Solar Panels

From MIT. Information on Emerging Technologies & impact on business & society

Technology Review: Cheap Hydrogen from Scraps
Turning organic waste into hydrogen now works without expensive platinum.

Silent Snow Documentary Shows Greenland's Plight : TreeHugger

Photo of Greenland via Wili-hybrid Silent Snow is a powerful short film documenting the pollution that affects the Inuits of Greenland. The pollution circulates from all over the world up to Greenland where it concentrates in the fish, seals

The Museum of Old Techniques : TreeHugger

TreeHugger often notes that, notwithstanding our love of technology, sometimes the older, slower, simpler ways of doing things, like growing your own food or riding a bike, are better than the high tech processed stuff or hydrogen cars. Now

Crossway Zero Carbon Home Brings Back the Timbrel Vault : TreeHugger

all crossway photos via architects website Architect Richard Hawkes is just finishing what he calls a zero-carbon house, using all of the latest technologies but also demonstrating 'how contemporary design can celebrate local materials and crafts and integrate new

Climate Denial Crock of the Week - "That 1500 Year Thing" : TreeHugger

'That 1500 Year Thing' Via:YouTube Greenman is brilliant in this medium. He has several well done, short YouTube posts, including the one shown above. All show us climate change denialists waiting on cars at their last custard stand. Better

Technique tricks bacteria into generating their own vaccine

Scientists have developed a way to manipulate bacteria so they will grow mutant sugar molecules on their cell surfaces that could be used against them as the key component in potent vaccines.

Generation B - Tito Santana - A Real Wrestler - NYTimes.com
What happens to big-time wrestlers when they hit middle age?

New Search Technologies Mine the Web More Deeply - NYTimes.com

Search engines are starting to penetrate databases that are set up to respond to typed queries.

Stinky Soy Goo Could Fight Alzheimer's | Wired Science from Wired.com

Natto is a soybean product that is sticky, slimy and smelly, but it might be able to ward off Alzheimer's disease. Once a theme ingredient on Iron Chef, natto contains

Simple elixir called a 'miracle liquid' - Los Angeles Times

It's a kitchen degreaser. It's a window cleaner. It kills athlete's foot. Oh, and you can drink it.

Many wonder what's in stimulus bill for them - The Boston Globe

Brian Carpenter bought his Woburn home in 1980, and 29 years later, he has never missed a mortgage payment. It wasn't always easy. With three kids, it meant driving old cars, clipping coupons, and brown-bagging it to work.

From One Genome, Many Types of Cells. But How? - NYTimes.com

Understanding the epigenome has become a major frontier of research. New findings suggests that chromatin does a lot more than hold chromosomes together.

As It Falters, Eastern Europe Raises Risks - NYTimes.com
Once-vibrant economies have weakened, making it riskier for Western companies to do business.

Liza Mundy: Multiple Births 'Changing Our World' : NPR [via claudio]

<em>Washington Post</em> staff writer Liza Mundy discusses how multiple births are affecting parents, their babies and society. Mundy is the author of <em>Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Our World</em>.

Commentary :: David Korten :: Don't Fix Wall Street, Replace It [via claudio]

The End of Wall Street's Boom - National Business News - Print - Portfolio.com [via claudio]
To this day, the willingness of a Wall Street investment bank to pay me hundreds of thousands of dollars to dispense investment advice to grownups remains a mystery to me.

Aerosols – their part in our rainfall (Media Release)

Aerosols may have a greater impact on patterns of Australian rainfall and future climate change than previously thought, according to leading atmospheric scientist, CSIRO’s Dr Leon Rotstayn.

The Cooperative Launches Plan Bee to Help Save UK's Honeybee : TreeHugger

The Cooperative The causes of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) are still in question. While it's surely a combination of factors including climate change and voracious pests like the varoa mite, one of the key suspects is pesticides. Late last

Ecological Stimulus Package: Investing In Natural Capital : TreeHugger

Creating natural capital: restored forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Image credit: J. Pfeiffer By: Jeanine Pfeiffer, Earthwatch Institute What if we gave our environment the same wallop of attention we're giving our economy? What if we valued natural capital

Japan's Economy, The World's Second Largest, Plunges at Fastest Pace Since ’74 - NYTimes.com

The country’s real gross domestic product shrank at an annual rate of 12.7 percent in the fourth quarter.

The TV Watch - Economists Try Target Practice in a Fun-House Mirror - NYTimes.com

Two new television documentaries demonstrate that in making sense of an economic meltdown, there’s enough blame to go around.

Bid to Stop the Killing of Albinos - NYTimes.com
One man's quest to stop the murders of albinos in Tanzania.

Easing Atmospheric CO2 Levels Using Nanotubes and Sunlight

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The Pennsylvania State University have determined a way to use arrays of nanotubes in a solar-based process to convert carbon dioxide and water into methane and other hydrocarbon fuels. Their method may provide a new way to reduce carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere—rising ...

Paper sheds new 'light' on fascinating rhythms of the circadian clock

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long known that interrupting the 24-hour circadian rhythm plays havoc with the lives and health of medical, military and airline personnel, factory employees and travelers.

New software dramatically speeds enzyme design

A Duke University-led team has brought powerful software to the never-ending arms race between antibiotics and germs. Working together, computer scientists and biochemists have developed and laboratory-tested a computer program that can show experimentalists how to change the machinery that bacteria ...

Hydrophobic Sand Could Combat Desert Water Shortages

(PhysOrg.com) -- Water scarcity is a major problem for people living in desert areas, including much of the Middle East and Africa. According to the United Nations, more than 1.6 million people die every year due to lack of access to clean water.

Image pinpoints all 5 million atoms in viral coat

(PhysOrg.com) -- If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Rice University's precise new image of a virus' protective coat is seriously undervalued. More than three years in the making, the image contains some 5 million atoms -- each in precisely the right place -- and it could help scientists find ...

Beaver delivers some good news for Detroit - Environment- msnbc.com
Wildlife officials are celebrating the sighting of a beaver in the Detroit River for the first time in decades, signaling that efforts to clean up the waterway are paying off.

Macquarie Island Shows Consequences of Cat Eradication - NYTimes.com

Macquarie Island looks beautiful, but it has become a sobering illustration of what can happen when efforts to eliminate an invasive species end up causing unforeseen collateral damage.

Gallery: The Michael Jackson auction | Music | The Guardian

In April, an auction by Julien's Auctions at the Beverley Hills Hilton will provide an unprecedented look into the private world of Michael Jackson

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Basics - A Haven for Spare Parts Lives On in Silicon Valley - NYTimes.com

Once serving entrepreneurs like the boys from Apple, a shop is now the realm of hobbyists.

FRONTLINE: heat: watch the full program | PBS [via claudio]

FRONTLINE: inside the meltdown | PBS [via claudio]

Investigating how the economy went so bad so fast and what Bernanke and Paulson

didn't see, couldn't stop and weren't able to fix.

BBC NEWS | Business | Turning crack dealers into chief executives [via claudio]

A prison project in Houston is helping to turn criminals into legitimate businessmen.

For Uninsured Young Adults, Do-It-Yourself Health Care - NYTimes.com [via claudio]

People in their 20s who lack insurance may try everything from self-diagnoses to borrowing medications.

In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock - NYTimes.com [via claudio]

Rights groups have begun a campaign to improve the treatment of foreign sheepherders in the American West.

Technology Review: Personal Rapid Transit Startup
Small, automatic electric vehicles will be demonstrated in two new projects.

Checking In - Hotel Designs With Cinematic Flavor - NYTimes.com

Films as dark as “A Clockwork Orange” and “The Shining” have served as inspiration for boutique hotels in New York.

Economic View - Go Ahead and Save. This Is the Government’s Problem. - NYTimes.com

Government is in a far better position than consumers to provide immediate economic stimulus.

Video Game Review - Call of Duty - World at War - From Activision, Play That Blasts Enemies but Pricks Consciences - NYTimes.com

Call of Duty: World at War balances the exciting action of a conventional shooter with a frank acknowledgment of war’s brutality.

Rise in Jobless Poses Threat to Stability Worldwide - NYTimes.com

High unemployment rates have led to protests in countries as varied as Latvia, Chile, Greece and Iceland and to strikes in Britain and France.

Mixed population provides insights into human genetic makeup

Genetic diseases and genetically mixed populations can help researchers understand human diversity and human origins according to a Penn State physical anthropologist.

Paris digs deep to harness Earth's green energy
A major new project is under way in Paris to provide ecologically clean heating for an entire district by extracting piping hot water from nearly two kilometres under the earth.

Global Shipping Industry Makes World Flat — Biologically | Wired Science from Wired.com

CHICAGO — The global shipping industry hasn't just tied together the world's nations economically, but biologically, too. The average Great Lakes port, such as Chicago, is only an average of

'Post-War Myths': The Logic Behind the Destruction of Dresden - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

For years, the anniversary of the World War II bombing of Dresden has been a rallying point for neo-Nazis eager to accuse the Allies of war crimes. But, British historian Frederick Taylor explains, there was a clear military rationale behind the attack.

Biotechnology's potential barely exploited: scientists

New research tools will bring a boom in biotechnology that will unlock the enormous potential of using synthetic life to cure disease and develop environmentally friendly fuels, scientists say.

U.S. Military Will Offer Path to Citizenship - NYTimes.com

The new effort, the first since the Vietnam War, will target immigrants on temporary visas, giving them a chance to become citizens in as little as six months.

Damn Interesting » In Soviet Russia, Lake Contaminates You

The Next Slum? - The Atlantic (March 2008)
The subprime crisis is just the tip of the iceberg. Fundamental changes in American life may turn today’s McMansions into tomorrow’s tenements.

USATODAY.com - China makes ultimate punishment mobile

China is slowly phaisng out public executions by firing squad in favor of letha injections, but unlike the United States and Singapore, the only two other countries where death is administered by injection, China metes out capital punishment from...

Science News / Sponge’s Secret Weapon Restores Antibiotics’ Power

Bacteria treated with compound lose their resistance

A New Gang Comes to Los Angeles: Solar-Panel Installers - WSJ.com

Ontario Premier Says No to NIMBY : TreeHugger
Bravo to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty for taking a stand against NIMBY Scarberians who are objecting to the idea of a wind farm two to four kilometers off the Scarborough Bluffs, a deteriorating sandy hill overlooking Lake Ontario. Energy

How the Crash Will Reshape America - The Atlantic (March 2009)

The crash of 2008 continues to reverberate loudly nationwide—destroying jobs, bankrupting businesses, and displacing homeowners. But already, it has damaged some places much more severely than others. On the other side of the crisis, America’s economic landscape will look very different than it does today. What fate will the coming years hold for New York, Charlotte, Detroit, Las Vegas? Will the suburbs be ineffably changed? Which cities and regions can come back strong? And which will never come back at all?

Ex-G.M. Workers Try to Reboot Their Lives - NYTimes.com

Their $28-an-hour jobs gone, laid-off workers from a plant in Wisconsin are trying to reinvent themselves.

Involuntary maybe, but certainly not random

Our eyes are in constant motion. Even when we attempt to stare straight at a stationary target, our eyes jump and jiggle imperceptibly. Although these unconscious flicks, also known as microsaccades, had long been considered mere 'motor noise,' researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies ...

Children's early gesture have important link to school preparedness (Video)

Children who convey more meanings with gestures at age 14 months have much larger vocabularies at 54 months than children who convey fewer meanings and are accordingly better prepared for school, according to research at the University of Chicago published in the journal Science on Friday, Feb. 13.

Abroad - Before the Wall Fell, Art in Two Germanys Often Spoke the Same Tongue - NYTimes.com

An exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art mixes works from West and East Germany, often in ways that blur the distinction.

CSI Scandinavia: Computer Dissects Cadavers With No Scalpel
Get the latest in science news, including space, physics, planet earth, discoveries, NASA, satellites, and space travel from Wired.com

What Makes Us Human? Neanderthal Genome Holds Clues | Wired Science from Wired.com

Why do boys and girls prefer different toys? | Psychology Today Blogs

BarbieThroughout the world, boys and girls prefer to play with different types of toys. Boys typically like to play with cars and trucks, while girls typically choose to play with dolls. Why is this? A traditional sociological explanation is that boys and girls are socialized and encouraged to play with different types of toys by their parents, peers, and the “society.” Growing scientific evidence suggests, however, that boys’ and girls’ toy preferences may have a biological origin.

AskMen.com - 5 Things You Didn't Know: AK-47

Here are 5 things you didn't know about AK-47 assault rifles.

Questioning Authority: A Rethinking of the Infamous Milgram Experiments | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet

Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them - Haaretz - Israel News

Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them
-News and commentary relating to events in Israel, the occupied territories, and the world, along with an archive of past issues

The Frame: Chronicling the economic downturn

Mindfuck Movies by Matthew Baldwin - The Morning News

An online magazine, published weekdays.

34% Drop in US Electric Demand Possible Through Energy Efficiency Improvements: Rocky Mountain Institute : TreeHugger

photo: Eric Jusino We often say that making energy efficiency improvements is the easiest way to reduce energy demand, but a new report coming out of the Rocky Mountain Institute shows just how much of a reduction in electric

Europe’s Recession Deeper Than Expected - NYTimes.com

The economy of the euro area declined by 1.5 percent in the fourth quarter, 6 percent on an annualized basis, according to new figures.

Flash of Genius (2008)

Directed by Marc Abraham. With Jake Abel, Aaron Abrams, Alan Alda. Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper. Visit IMDb for Photos, Showtimes, Cast, Crew, Reviews, Plot Summary, Comments, Discussions, Taglines, Trailers, Posters, Fan Sites

Winners gallery 2009 - World Press Photo

Mambo - the dynamic portal engine and content management system

Pre-verbal number sense common to monkeys, babies, college kids
Basic arithmetic and 'number sense' appear to be part of the shared evolutionary past of many primates; it's the use of language to explain abstractions that apparently takes human math to a higher level.

Engineers create intelligent molecules that seek-and-destroy diseased cells

Current treatments for diseases like cancer typically destroy nasty malignant cells, while also hammering the healthy ones. Using new advances in synthetic biology, researchers are designing molecules intelligent enough to recognize diseased cells, leaving the healthy cells alone.

Twisted radio beams could untangle the airwaves - tech - 13 February 2009 - New Scientist

Transmitting radio beams in a helical shape provides a new way to encode information, a possible solution to crowded airwaves

Cooking Has Been Both Boon and Bane for Humans | Wired Science from Wired.com

CHICAGO — Raw-food devotees take note: Your diet is not in any way natural. Humans are as adapted to cooking our food as cows are to eating grass, or ticks

RT: Features : Almost all water in Russia is undrinkable

RT is the first 24/7 English-language news channel bring the Russian view on global news. RT provides viewers with original stories, breaking news, comments on politics, business, and public affairs.

China aims for its own Silicon Valley | csmonitor.com

Like the 'Asian tigers' before it, China is pushing into higher-end manufacturing and innovation.

New Wave Power Device Will Attach to Offshore Wind Turbine : TreeHugger
Animation of how the Wave Treader is viewable at: Green Ocean Energy Ltd We’ve profiled different methods of generating power from the waves on a number of occasions, and usually there’s one commenter who suggests that someone develop a

Why Are Australian and New Zealand Houses So Cool? : TreeHugger

It is a question I have pondered since I first saw Andre Hodgskin's Bachkit way back at the turn of the century. Coming from another big country with a small population, I wondered why their stuff was so cool,

Book About Air-Filtering Plants: How to Grow Fresh Air : TreeHugger

50 House Plants that Purify Your Home or Office Yesterday, I wrote about the best air-filtering house plants and TreeHugger reader Tim pointed out in the comments that B. C. Wolverton, the first author of the NASA study on

Square Feet - Frank Gehry’s Software Keeps Buildings on Budget - NYTimes.com

Frank Gehry, known for using curved shapes in his architecture, also offers modeling software to compute the cost of building those designs.

Is It Still a Carolina Wren If It No Longer Calls Carolina Home? : TreeHugger

Image via: Audubon Society Following closely on the heels of a recent report by the University of York, the Audubon Society today announced that the Carolina Wren is just one of over 305 bird species that are now spending

More power from bumps in the road: Energy-harvesting shock absorbers

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of MIT undergraduate students has invented a shock absorber that harnesses energy from small bumps in the road, generating electricity while it smoothes the ride more effectively than conventional shocks. The students hope to initially find customers among companies that operate ...

Bushfires in Victoria, Australia - The Big Picture - Boston.com
The Big Picture - News Stories in Photographs from the Boston Globe

English Russia » Fool Your Neighbors

Interesting news from Russia in English language.

Survey: 31% of Europeans blame economic crisis on Jews - Israel News, Ynetnews

News: Anti-Defamation League poll conducted in seven European countries shows almost half of Europeans believe Jews more loyal to Israel than countries they live in, 40% say Jews have too much power

Human evolution kicks into high gear - Science- msnbc.com

To suggest that humans have undergone an evolutionary makeover from Stone Age times to the present is nothing short of blasphemous. Yet a team of researchers has done just that.

West Antarctic Glacier Disintegrating Rapidly: First Hand Account : TreeHugger

photo: Wikipedia The effects of climate change on Antarctica seem to be coming more clearly into focus recently. At least based on things posted here on TreeHugger. For a very interesting first hand perspective on what’s happening down there,

Technology Review: Hybrids Powered by Air

Storing energy with compressed air, rather than batteries, could cut the cost of hybrid vehicles.

Technology Review: A Laser That Heals Surgeons' Incisions

Lasers and a century-old dye could supplant needles and thread.

Two Chicago Towers Fall Victim to Scarce Financing - NYTimes.com

Two projects that stood out as harbingers of a bright future for residential development in Chicago have ground to a halt.

Massive Theft, Vandalism Plaguing Parisian Bike Sharing Program : TreeHugger

Broken Vélibs in Paris (Sybil Star on Flickr) Eighteen months into a wildly successful launch, the Parisian bike-sharing program Vélib - a portmanteau of vélo (bicycle) and liberté (freedom) – has run into serious problems with theft and vandalism of

Kevin Kelly -- The Technium

Engineers revolutionize nano-device fabrication using amorphous metals

Yale engineers have created a process that may revolutionize the manufacture of nano-devices from computer memory to biomedical sensors by exploiting a novel type of metal. The material can be molded like plastics to create features at the nano-scale and yet is more durable and stronger than silicon ...

Dangerous laser printer particles identified

The identity and origin of tiny, potentially hazardous particles emitted from common laser printers have been revealed by a new study at Queensland University of Technology.

For Dinner and Fast - The Taste of Home - NYTimes.com
Immigrants in New York bring with them their daily dishes, meals that could easily make their way into the city’s larger repertory of dinners for busy nights.

Ravenous Clock Runs Backward, Scares Children

Get in-depth tech news coverage from Wired and read about how it is shaping culture, education, entertainment, communications and technology.

Some Banks Want to Return Government Money - NYTimes.com

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have indicated their companies were hoping to return bailout funds as quickly as possible, on worries the government may intrude further in their business.

Laid-Off Foreigners Flee as Dubai Spirals Down - NYTimes.com [via claudio]

As layoffs hit Dubai’s foreign workers, their departure is making parts of the city look like a ghost town.

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China declares drought emergency
China declares an emergency in north and central drought-hit regions, where nearly four million people are short of water.

Will Recycling Survive the Recession? : TreeHugger

Photo via Stock.Xchng The recycling industry is in a state of panic, hit by two forces beyond its control. The first problem is the economy (go figure). Demand for consumer products is down; retailers are focusing on price versus

Planet Hazard: Mapping Air Pollutants in the U.S. : TreeHugger

Pinning Polluters to the Map The Planet Hazard website takes data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and makes it easy to read by putting it up on Google maps. Because is maps 86,320 polluters, browsing the data can

Biomimicry Breakthrough: Butterfly Wings Could Lead to Better Solar Panels : TreeHugger

A Butterfly-Powered Future? Biomimicry is the act of applying biological principles to to human designs. Velcro is the most obvious example (see more of them in our Nature-Inspired Innovations slideshow). The latest discovery has to do with butterfly wings

Akeena Aims to Make Solar Cheaper With AC Integrated Panels : TreeHugger

Image via: Akeena Solar Akeena Solar, maker of photovoltaic panels and racking systems, and Enphase Energy, maker of microinverters, have joined up to make integrated systems even more integrated. Taking out steps in the installation process, taking out steps

What Slums Can Teach Us About Sustainability : TreeHugger

A low-income area being razed in Istanbul. In the name of redevelopment, many low-income neighborhoods in Istanbul are being torn down, and the residents relocated to high-rise sites (apartment blocks) on the outskirts of the city. But rather than

BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | 'My life cleaning Delhi's sewers'
Rupa Jha meets the men who risk their lives unblocking the sewers of Delhi.

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Zakaria: The Canadian Solution | Newsweek Voices - Fareed Zakaria | Newsweek.com

Canadian banks are typically leveraged at 18 to 1--compared with U.S. banks at 26 to 1.

Have Car, Need Briefs? In Russia, Barter Is Back - NYTimes.com

In a sign of the financial times, barter deals made up 3 to 4 percent of total sales in Russia in November.

Trying to Live on 500K in New York City - NYTimes.com

The president's Wall Street salary cap threatens life as some know it in Manhattan.

The Feed - Farm Living (Subsidized by a Job Elsewhere) - NYTimes.com

More Americans are making a living from farming, but subsidizing their work with an off-the-farm job.

The Way We Live Now - The Toxic Paradox - Can We Protect Our Children From Everything? - NYTimes.com
Can we really protect our kids from everything?

The End of Alone - The Boston Globe

At our desk, on the road, or on a remote beach, the world is a tap away. It's so cool. And yet it's not. what we lose with our constant connectedness.

Will Allen's Innovative Aquaculture System Insprires Commercial Application : TreeHugger

Sweet Water Organics' warehouse, pre-fish by Emmanuel Pratt viaMilwaukee Renaissance Will Allen has received a lot of recognition lately. The Milwaukee resident was named a MacArthur genius, and he came in fourth in the voting to become the White

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Fire rips through Beijing hotel

Firefighters have been battling a blaze at the yet to be opened Mandarin hotel.

Best Air-Filtering House Plants According to NASA! : TreeHugger

Plants to Filter the Air in Your House Having good indoor air quality is very important, especially since many of us spend so much time inside. NASA did a study to find out which plants were best to filter

What’s Your New Plan B? - NYTimes.com

The old Plan B was a fantasy of dropping everything for a better life. Now it’s the backup plan for when the worst comes to pass.

Circulation Drops for Celebrity Magazines - NYTimes.com
Defying the maxim that escapism sells in tough times, celebrity gossip magazines took a recessionary hit last year, with some experiencing double-digit declines in circulation.

How an Antarctic worm makes antifreeze and what that has to do with climate change

Two Brigham Young University researchers who just returned from Antarctica are reporting a hardy worm that withstands its cold climate by cranking out antifreeze. And when its notoriously dry home runs out of water, it just dries itself out and goes into suspended animation until liquid water brings ...

757 Labs - OpenVulture - Multi-Platform Hardware Automation

Cognitive Computing Project Aims to Reverse-Engineer the Mind | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

Imagine a computer that can process text, video and audio in an instant, solve problems on the fly, and do it all while consuming just 10 watts of power. It

Acrassicauda, an Iraqi Metal Band, Moves to America - NYTimes.com
In Baghdad their practice space was bombed. Now an Iraqi heavy metal band has found refuge in America.

What your mother did when she was young has an effect on your memory

A mother's life experience can affect the biology of her offspring, according to new animal research in the February 4 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The study shows that a stimulating environment improved the memory of young mice with a memory-impairing genetic defect and also improved the memory ...

Clive Thompson on How More Info Leads to Less Knowledge

Get Wired's take on technology business news and the Silicon Valley scene including IT, media, mobility, broadband, video, design, security, software, networking and internet startups on Wired.com

Trial Begins for HIV Gene Therapy | Wired Science from Wired.com

Gene therapy that could immunize people against the most common type of HIV is ready to be tested on humans. Recruiting for the trial began Tuesday, and the first people

Taking Traffic Control Lessons — From Ants | Wired Science from Wired.com

If humans took their cues from ants, they might spend less time in traffic. When opposing streams of leafcutter ants share a narrow path, they instinctively alternate flows in the

U.K. physicist invents inexpensive, water-filled eyeglasses to help poor -- chicagotribune.com

OXFORD, England &#8212; Joshua Silver, a lifelong tinkerer, was fiddling around one day with a cheap water-filled lens he'd built as an optics experiment when he noticed something interesting.

Transport Ships Turned Into Floating Parking Garages : TreeHugger
source Selling cars, fueling cars, building garages for cars are a major part of the economy. And the factories kept turning them out long after the market for them crashed. Now it appears that not only are all the

Greener Drugs At Swedish Doctors' Fingertips : TreeHugger

Little green pills via Deco Fernandez @ flickr. Sweden has created a new database to comply with European Union legislation and to let doctors see if the drugs they are prescribing might potentially harm the environment. Many antidepressants, painkillers,

Resilient in Hard Times - The Family Business - NYTimes.com

After a few generations, memories of other downturns can inspire frugality and steadfastness.

Obama Calls for ‘Common Sense’ on Executive Pay - NYTimes.com

President Obama unveiled a salary cap of $500,000 for top executives at companies that receive the largest amounts of bailout money.

Study suggests link between agricultural chemicals and frog decline

(PhysOrg.com) -- Around the world, amphibian populations are in decline, and scientists have not been able to figure out why. Now a study of leopard frogs in Pennsylvania has identified a possible culprit, and the ramifications are troubling, according to a Penn State ecologist.

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Ottawa puzzled by sewage radiation find - Yahoo! Canada News

Canada's leader in breaking news coverage. Get the latest headlines, news stories and current events from Yahoo! Canada News

TED 2009: How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air : TreeHugger

How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air - TED 2009 TalkView more presentations from jaymeattle. (tags: plants greenhouse) In case you don’t know TED 2009 is going on in California: TreeHugger’s own Graham Hill is in attendance, but one thing

What’s Lurking in Your Countertop? - NYTimes.com

As the popularity of granite countertops has increased, so have reports that some are emitting radiation and radon at surprisingly high levels.

Microbanks Are Getting a Cash Infusion - NYTimes.com

The effort by the World Bank and the German government highlights how even small banks in poor countries are getting caught in the financial crisis.

MIT researchers make 'sixth sense' gadget

US university researchers have created a portable 'sixth sense' device powered by commercial products that can seamlessly channel Internet information into daily routines.

Rot's unique wood degrading machinery to be harnessed for better biofuels production
An international team led by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory have translated the genetic code that explains the complex biochemical machinery making brown-rot fungi uniquely destructive ...

Black wolves: The first genetically modified predators?

Emergence of black-colored wolves is the direct result of humans raising dogs as pets and beasts of burden, according to new research by a University of Calgary biologist published today by the prestigious academic journal Science. And dark coloring may also aid the survival of the species as wolf habitat ...

Man-Made Dam May Have Triggered Great China Quake | Wired Science from Wired.com

The weight of the water in a man-made reservoir may have triggered the massive earthquake that struck China in May killing more than 70,000 people. Immediately following the quake, scientists

Societal Cost of Meth Use Is Gauged in New Study - NYTimes.com

A new study said that methamphetamine abuse imposed costs of $23.4 billion in 2005, suggesting that the drug takes an economic toll nearly as great as heroin.

Op-Ed Columnist - Bailouts for Bunglers - NYTimes.com [via claudio]
The plans for rescuing the banking system are shaping up as a classic exercise in “lemon socialism”: taxpayers bear the cost if things go wrong, but stockholders and executives get the benefits if things go right.

Intel Demos RF Energy Harvesting Technology : TreeHugger

Photo via harvester/10837/picture/65530/'>Gizmag One of Intel's focuses for eco-technology is increasing our ability to harvest free energy sources from the sun to kinetic energy. This also includes RF energy harvesting from sources like WiFi, cell phone towers and TV

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Serotonin May Be Key to Controlling Locusts - NYTimes.com

Serotonin has been shown to be responsible for turning desert locusts from stand-offish loners into super-gregarious pests.

'The robots are coming'

Alexander Stoytchev and his three graduate students recently presented one of their robot's long and shiny arms to a visitor. Here, they said, swing it around.

Novel Technology Could Produce Biofuel for Around $0.65 a Liter
(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel technology for synthesising chemicals from plant material could produce liquid fuel for just over €0.50 ($0.65) a liter, say German scientists. But only if the infrastructure is set up in the right way, states the research published in this month’s issue of Biofuels, Bioproducts ...

Sun, sea and sewage in the playground of the rich in Dubai -Times Online

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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Bush shoe attack spawns artwork

A sculpture of an enormous shoe is erected in Iraq to honour a journalist who threw his footwear at ex-US President George W Bush.

Satoyama: Japan's Amazing Rice Fields and Farms : TreeHugger

(Photo from Ataru's blog Tokai no Inaka) Satoyama is a word that describes the farming landscape near the hills and mountains in Japan, where water is abundant and farmers for a long time have maintained the soil for rice

Film Review: Mad Cow Sacred Cow : TreeHugger

Karma Films Mad Cow Sacred Cow depicts the personal journey of filmmaker Anand Ramayya, a self-professed meat eating Hindu. Ramayya and his crew travel from his in-law's small cattle operation nestled in the heart of the Canadian prairies to

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War-Time Advice is Still Relevant : TreeHugger
image from MOBPA The Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising is a little museum that displays packaging of brands over the last hundred years. It's interesting because packaging in the old days was very simple and straight forward, with

The Green Belt of World's Longest Desert Highway : TreeHugger

Noburu Ogata China's massive public works projects and geoengineering efforts are unparalleled. Pruned points us to an impressive emblem of both: The Tarim Desert Highway crosses the Taklamakan desert from north to south at a length of 552km, approximately

An Algae Bioreactor from Recycled Water Bottles

In this instructable, we describe how to build a photo-bioreactor that uses algae to convert carbon dioxide and sunlight...

Transfer of Mother’s Cells Molds Baby’s Immunity - NYTimes.com

Researchers have discovered that a mother’s cells slip across the placenta, enter the fetus’s body and teach it to treat these cells as its own.

Company Says It’s Found 1744 Wreck of Famed British Warship - NYTimes.com

Sea explorers say they have discovered the HMS Victory, which sank in 1744 carrying four tons of gold coins.

Experiments Bring Internet to Remote African Villages - NYTimes.com

When Internet connections arrive in small towns like Entasopia, Kenya, they put new tools into the hands of people hungry to use them, and for some there, that has had wide repercussions.

As Home Prices Go, So Do Cities - Floyd Norris Blog - NYTimes.com

A Company Prospers by Saving Poor People’s Lives - NYTimes.com

Vestergaard-Frandsen’s products are used in refugee camps and disaster areas all over the third world and are not only life-saving, but even beautiful.

Of mice and men: Cognitive scientists find both species equally adept at assessing risk

Humans and mice are both good at assessing risk in everyday tasks, according to a study by Rutgers University scientists published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Amazing Chemicals Invented by Nature, Rebuilt in Lab

See the latest multimedia and applications including videos, animations, podcasts, photos, and slideshows on Wired.com

Your Family May Once Have Been A Different Color : NPR

Skin pigmentation in human lineages has changed much faster and more frequently than scientists previously thought, says anthropologist Nina Jablonski. A population can be one color (light or dark), and 100 generations later &mdash; with no intermarriage &mdash; can be a very different color.