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Nevada Water Authority Executive Proposes High-Stakes Mississippi River Floodwater Diversion : TreeHugger

Atlantic City, New Jersey casino Image credit:NJ.com The Las Vegas Review-Journal cites the general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority saying 'now may be the time to take a serious look at a decades-old idea of capturing floodwater

Volunteers Put The Economist Into Chinese - NYTimes.com

A Chinese group has been working to translate each issue of the British newsweekly The Economist, a risky enterprise since authorities have banned the magazine in the past.

The Real High-Tech Immigrant Problem: They’re Leaving - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

Rewiring the Brain: Inside the New Science of Neuroengineering
Get the latest in science news, including space, physics, planet earth, discoveries, NASA, satellites, and space travel from Wired.com

'Inlet Outlet' Lets Users Give Power Back To Wall Sockets

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever wish you could you power your home's electrical appliances with the energy you generate on your exercise bike? A new concept called an 'inlet outlet' could allow homeowners to put power from kinetic household activities - such as exercise equipment - back into the grid through ...

Here's looking at you, fellow!

(PhysOrg.com) -- Already Charles Darwin investigated facial expressions of monkeys in order to find out how closely related humans and monkeys really are. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics have now shown that rhesus monkeys and humans employ the same strategies to process ...

YouTube - Extreme motorhome racing - Top Gear - BBC

Richard Hammond adopts a new motorsport - Extreme Motorhome Racing! Watch the race in all it's chaotic destructive glory here in high quality, and don't forg...

What I learned from reading the entire Bible. - By David Plotz - Slate Magazine

In 2006 and 2007, David Plotz blogged the Bible for Slate, starting with "In the beginning …" and reading right through to the end. This week, Plotz publishes Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I R

Annals of Science: Darwin’s Surprise: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Why are evolutionary biologists bringing back extinct deadly viruses?

How Do You Regrow a Rainforest? Willie Smits Knows : TreeHugger

Rainforest clearcutting is devastating. The majority of the time, it opens up the area to such extensive soil erosion that even the tenacious (native) plants of the rainforests can't easily regrow. So how do you get a clearcut area

Peak Oil and Agriculture: A Farm for the Future Revisited : TreeHugger

Image credit: Daily Mail Film Maker Explores Post-Oil Farming Last week I wrote about a BBC documentary which I hadn't seen, but the green scene in the UK was all a flutter over. A Farm for the Future explores

Arcam AB ::: CAD TO METAL®

Arcam's business concept is to develop, produce and market equipment and methods for producing solid components directly from metallic powder, based on a 3D CAD model.

Ohio power plant called a fish 'killing machine' | detnews.com | The Detroit News

Conservationists are labeling a power plant near Toledo a 'prodigious killing machine' for its impact on fish in Lake Erie -- many of which migrate through the Detroit River -- and calling on Ohio officials to force the company to change its operation.

Mind - Interruption Can Make an Experience Better - NYTimes.com

Hate commercials? They may enhance your television-viewing experience.

Scientists Fear Visa Trouble Will Drive Foreign Students Away - NYTimes.com
Foreign students are having a difficult time obtaining permission to study in the United States.

Basics - In a Helpless Baby, the Roots of Our Social Glue - NYTimes.com

Babies display many of the characteristics that distinguish us from other animals.

In Congo, With Rebels Now at Bay, Calm Erupts - NYTimes.com

If the endangered mountain gorillas are any sign, things may finally be looking up in eastern Congo as Rwandan aid in combating rebels has paid off.

Dial H for Happiness: How Neuroengineering May Change Your Brain

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Researchers find potential cause of heart risks for shift workers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and colleagues have identified the potential cause of the increased risk for cardiovascular and metabolic disease in shift workers.

Musicians' Brains 'Fine-Tuned' to Identify Emotion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking for a mate who in everyday conversation can pick up even your most subtle emotional cues? Find a musician, Northwestern University researchers suggest.

Power and the illusion of control: Why some make the impossible possible and others fall short
Power holders often seem misguided in their actions. Leaders and commanders of warring nations regularly underestimate the costs in time, money, and human lives required for bringing home a victory. CEOs of Fortune 500 companies routinely overestimate their capacity to turn mergers and acquisitions ...

Queens County Farm Museum Transforms Into a Working Farm - NYTimes.com

For the past year, the Queens County Farm Museum has been raising more crops and animals, using sustainable methods, and plans to expand.