The Lumpen Proletarian

Lotus to Show OMNIVORE Engine Concept at Geneva Motor Show : TreeHugger

Showcasing the OMNIVORE Engine, Ideally Suited for Flex-Fuel Operation I recently wrote about a promising variable compression ratio engine by MCE-5. Of course, they're not the only ones working on that concept; Lotus Engineering will demonstrate a 1-cylinder variable

Joblessness Rises as Orders and Home Sales Fall - NYTimes.com

New data on home sales, manufacturing and unemployment offered another snapshot of the deepening economic slowdown.

Compilatie crashes tijdens bootraces | Flabber

Elke dag een paar bijzondere, interessante, sexy of humoristische posts.

Living Together - Sharing Your Home With a Primate, or If a Cat Just Isn’t Enough - NYTimes.com

There are many thousands of pet primates in the U.S., and their owners seem to have a remarkably consistent way of looking at them. [too ridiculous not to read]

Colorado Backyard Yields Cache of Stone Age Tools - NYTimes.com
The 83 stone-cutting implements are believed to have come from a nomadic people about 13,000 years ago. Some have enough blood residue to identify the animals they were used to butcher.

CIA Awkwardly Debriefs Obama On Creation Of Crack Cocaine | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

WASHINGTON—In his first meeting with president-elect Barack Obama, CIA crime and counternarcotics analyst Timothy R. McIntire haltingly...

YouTube - Everything's amazing, nobody's happy

Conan hosts the comedian Louis CK who is talking of the spoiled generationworth watching!Enjoy!THIS VIDEO DOES NOT BELONG TO ME

Bohemian Sprawl Hits the Limits in Los Angeles - NYTimes.com

A Los Angeles neighborhood that once attracted baby boutiques, lattes and foot traffic is hit by the recession.

Prints Show a Modern Foot in Prehumans - NYTimes.com

Fossil footprints show that as early as 1.5 million years ago an ancestral species had already evolved the feet and walking gait of modern humans.

Green Smoke Starts People Thinking About Energy : TreeHugger

Image via: HeHe The artists Helen Evans and Heike Hanson, who work together under the alias HeHe, give new meaning to the term 'chemical sensitivity' by lighting up the smoke trailing from a tall smokestack which looms over the

Canadian Oil Sands — National Geographic Magazine
Once considered too expensive, as well as too damaging to the land, exploitation of Alberta's oil sands is now a gamble worth billions.

Cool Earth Solar: Technology

Cool Earth Solar provides renewable solar energy solutions. Our technology incorporates inflated photovoltaic collectorsto enable solar energy farming at well below the cost of coaland other non-renewable energy sources.

Growing Economic Crisis Threatens the Idea of One Europe - NYTimes.com

An emergency meeting of European leaders pointed up the very worries it was designed to calm: that the crisis threatens to split Europe into rival camps.

Forced From Executive Pay to Hourly Wage - NYTimes.com

Mark Cooper’s tumble from security manager to janitor is one of the often hidden consequences of the downturn.

Professor Accused of Pocketing NASA Money - NYTimes.com

Federal investigators say a University of Florida professor and members of his family submitted fraudulent proposals to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Generation B - On the Front Lines of a Broken Economy - NYTimes.com

College grads are no longer the majority at job fairs as baby boomers are forced to start from scratch.

Vegetable-based drug could inhibit melanoma
Compounds extracted from green vegetables such as broccoli and cabbage could be a potent drug against melanoma, according to cancer researchers. Tests on mice suggest that these compounds, when combined with selenium, target tumors more safely and effectively than conventional therapy.

Novel pandemic flu vaccine effective against H5N1 in mice

Vaccines against H5N1 influenza will be critical in countering a possible future pandemic. Yet public health experts agree that the current method of growing seasonal influenza vaccines in chicken eggs is slow and inefficient.

On New York Streets With Snuggie - Watch Your Back - NYTimes.com

There is one aspect of Snuggie, the fleece “blanket with sleeves,” that has been little explored: its use in public. One reporter does a field test.

BMOW: a home made cpu - Hack a Day

Laser lighter - Hack a Day

Researchers make stem cell breakthrough
In a study to be released on March 1, 2009, Mount Sinai Hospital's Dr. Andras Nagy discovered a new method of creating stem cells that could lead to possible cures for devastating diseases including spinal cord injury, macular degeneration, diabetes and Parkinson's disease. The study, to be published ...

Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse? | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Panelists debate whether games like Fallout 3 and Gears Of War 2 are teaching children skills they'll really need in the End Times.

Bloomberg.com: Latin America

Parents Wary of Their Finances Deciding Whether to Keep Their Kids in Private School or Not - NYTimes.com

Parents debate whether private school is really worth it.