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Climate Change to Make the World Lazier, Study Finds : TreeHugger
Photo via Flickr Climate change is causing weather patterns to grow more severe, sure, and sea levels are rising. Such consequences of global climate change are well known--but here's an effect of climate change that few consider: it will

Creative Recycling: The Standard's Floor of 50,000 Pennies : TreeHugger

Lloyd Alter After I toured the Standard Hotel, straddling the new High Line Park in New York, I could not show photos of the floor in the new café because it was not yet opened. I learned from NOTCOT

Technology Review: Nanopillar Solar Cells

A new solar-cell design could cut costs and is suitable for large-scale flexible panels.

Material World - When Glass Acts Like Concrete and Steel - NYTimes.com

With new technology, builders are imagining structures made entirely of glass.

Jobless Koreans Turn to Manual Labor, Quietly - NYTimes.com

Former white-collar workers go to great lengths to keep their new jobs, like deckhand on a crab boat or back-scrubber in a bathhouse, from family and friends.

Tropical zone expanding due to climate change: study

Climate change is rapidly expanding the size of the world's tropical zone, threatening to bring disease and drought to heavily populated areas, an Australian study has found.

A New Way of Treating the Flu
(PhysOrg.com) -- What happens if the next big influenza mutation proves resistant to the available anti-viral drugs? This question was presenting itself to scientists and health officials recently at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, as they continued to do battle with H1N1, the so-called ...

Study finds role for parasites in evolution of sex

What's so great about sex? From an evolutionary perspective, the answer is not as obvious as one might think. An article published in the July issue of the American Naturalist suggests that sex may have evolved in part as a defense against

parasites.

July 6, 1947: The AK-47, an All-Purpose Killer | This Day In Tech | Wired.com

1947: The AK-47, one of the world's first operational assault rifles and probably the most durable and enduring small-arms weapons ever made, goes into

AK-47: An Assault Rifle for Everyman | Raw File | Wired.com

<< previous image | next image >> It’s probably not a stretch to describe Mikhail Kalashnikov’s

BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | Passenger fixes faulty airliner

An engineer who was a passenger on a holiday jet steps in to fix a problem with the aircraft.

I Come To Shanghai: Your Lazy eye on Vimeo
The music video for the song "Your Lazy Eye" by the band I Come To Shanghai.

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Technology Review: Solar for Dark Climates

Solar technology that generates both heat and electricity could make solar energy practical in places that aren't sunny.

Making Solar Panels Sustainably: Niagara Falls To Power New Solarworks Plant : TreeHugger

Niagara Falls. Image credit:State University of New York What is the ultimate green solar panel? A true-green solar panel must have the following characteristics: design life of major components of equal length (functionality lasts as long as the shortest-lived

Basics - Panama Canal Project Opens a Tropical Window - NYTimes.com

For scientists, the massive engineering project promises spectacular spinoffs, yanking back the cloak where many life forms got their start.

Mind - Why the Imp in Your Brain Gets Out - NYTimes.com

Having the worst thing come to mind might make it more likely to happen.

Some See Beetle Attacks on Western Forests as a Natural Event - NYTimes.com

Some environmentalists and scientists argue that the insects are a natural phenomenon, like forest fires, and play a vital ecological role.

Swine flu testing to grow after resistant US case
(AP) -- U.S. health officials are stepping up testing of swine flu cases for Tamiflu resistance.

Physicists find way to control individual bits in quantum computers

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have overcome a hurdle in quantum computer development, having devised a viable way to manipulate a single 'bit' in a quantum processor without disturbing the information stored in its neighbors. The approach, which makes novel use of ...

BBC NEWS | Technology | Wall 'could stop desert spread'

The growing environmental threat of desertification could be stopped in Africa by solidifying dunes using bacteria.

Technology Review: Cheaper Geothermal

Fluid extracts more heat out of low-temperature wells.

1 in 6 public health workers unlikely to respond in pandemic flu emergency

Approximately 1 in 6 public health workers said they would not report to work during a pandemic flu emergency regardless of its severity, according to a survey led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The findings are a significant improvement over a 2005 study conducted ...

Japanese professor creates baseball-playing robots

(AP) -- Look out Ichiro Suzuki and Daisuke Matsuzaka. A pair of baseball-playing robots that can pitch and hit with incredible results have been developed in Japan.

Eat It to Save It - Idea of the Day Blog - NYTimes.com
<strong>Friday &#124; Today's idea: Farm biodiversity is disappearing, so we should eat endangered crops and livestock to boost demand for them and thereby save them from extinction, an article says. [<a href="http://www.miller-mccune.com//science_environment/eat-em-to-save-em-1338">Miller-McCune&

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Technology Review: A Biofuel Process to Replace All Fossil Fuels

A startup unveils a high-yield process for making fuel from carbon dioxide and sunlight.

U.S. Home Vacancies Hit 18.7 Million on Bank Seizures (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

More than 18.7 million [bn:WBTKR=HOWNVAC:IND] homes [] stood
empty in the U.S. during the second quarter as the steepest
recession in 50 years sapped demand for real estate and banks
seized properties from delinquent borrowers.

At 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Stripping Away the Darkness From Murals - NYTimes.com
Conservators are removing decades of yellowed varnish from the famed Art Deco murals in the lobby of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

Well - Alcohol Has Major Role in Latest Potter Movie - NYTimes.com

Will tipsy wizards send a message to teenagers about how to cope?

A Quest for Batteries to Alter the Energy Equation - NYTimes.com

The competition is on to build smaller, lighter, more powerful batteries that could help transform the American energy economy.

Late-blight fungus ruining crops in 13 states

A fungus that caused the infamous 1840s Irish potato famine has hit this summer's commercial and homegrown tomato crop in 13 states, putting farmers and agricultural experts on edge.

Women are getting more beautiful - Times Online

FOR the female half of the population, it may bring a satisfied smile.

Forensics Myths Debunked - The Truth Behind Real CSI Evidence - Popular Mechanics

Forensic science was not developed by scientists. And as hundreds of criminal cases begin to unravel, many established practices are coming under fire. PM takes an in-depth look at the shaky science that is putting innocent people behind bars.

Cutthroat Capitalism: An Economic Analysis of the Somali Pirate Business Model
Get in-depth politics and legal news coverage including online privacy, Internet security, government regulations, censorship and free speech from Wired.com.

The Crow Paradox : NPR

Here's a surprise: Wild crows can recognize individual people. They can pick a person out of crowd, follow them, and remember them for years. But people &mdash; even people who love crows &mdash; can't recognize individual crows. Here, two experiments that tell the story.

Technology Review: Cheaper Solar Thermal Power

A simpler design could reduce the cost of solar power generated by concentrating sunlight on Stirling engines.

Brain Power - In Battle, Hunches Prove to Be Valuable - Series - NYTimes.com

U.S. soldiers are at the center of an effort to understand how it is that some people’s brains can sense danger before others’ do.

First genetically-engineered malaria vaccine to enter human trials

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute scientists have created a weakened strain of the malaria parasite that will be used as a live vaccine against the disease. The vaccine, developed in collaboration with researchers from the US, Japan and Canada, will be trialled in humans from early next year.

Nanodiamonds deliver insulin for wound healing
Using tiny nanodiamonds, researchers at Northwestern University have demonstrated an innovative method for delivering and releasing insulin at a specific location over a period of time. The nanodiamond-insulin clusters hold promise for wound-healing applications and could be integrated into gels, ointments, bandages or suture materials.

6 Reasons Why The U.S. Economy May Never Recover |

Islamist Militia Threatens Kenya’s Border - NYTimes.com

The Shabab, a radical Islamist militia that has taken over much of southern Somalia, is considered a threat to the tens of thousands of Westerners living in Kenya.

With Insufficient Insurance, Injured Athletes Add Medical Bills to College Debt - NYTimes.com

While some colleges accept considerable responsibility for medical claims, many others assume almost none.

Ancient Maya Practiced Forest Conservation -- 3,000 Years Ago

(PhysOrg.com) -- As published in the July issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science, paleoethnobotanist David Lentz of the University of Cincinnati has concluded that not only did the Maya people practice forest management, but when they abandoned their forest conservation practices it was to the ...

July 21, 1904: All Aboard for Siberia, Tovarich | This Day In Tech | Wired.com
1904: Decreed by a czar, built by thousands of workers over a period of more than a decade, the Trans-Siberian Railway is officially completed. As you'd

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Seawater Greenhouse - The process

Bio Soil Enhancers, Inc. Soil Amendment Products

Bio Soil Enhancers, Inc. Amendment Products can be used in small gardens, lawns, farms, food plots, houseplants, flower gardens, and basically anywhere plants are grown.

Eastman Wins Green Chemistry Award : TreeHugger

Future scientists will surely look back at the tremendous growth era of chemistry in the previous century and muse about the medieval 20th century technology. For millenia, nature has produced everything life on the planet needed using only the

Build a Geodesic Dome Solar Greenhouse to Grow Your Own Food : TreeHugger
What do you do when you want to grow your own food, but live here? That's the question my dad wanted to answer when he started this project about a year ago: Living at 7,750 feet above sea level,

Technology Review: Big Oil Turns to Algae

ExxonMobil invests $300 million in Synthetic Genomics to develop algae biofuel.

A New Path of Conduction for Future Electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month, researchers from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory made headlines when they revealed experimental evidence of a topological insulator: a material that could revolutionize computer processors by allowing electricity to flow without resistance. This week in Science, SLAC ...

Trees evolved camouflage defense against long extinct predator: First evidence of camouflage defense in plants

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many animal species such as snakes, insects and fish have evolved camouflage defences to deter attack from their predators. However research published in New Phytologist has discovered that trees in New Zealand have evolved a similar defence to protect themselves from extinct giant ...

Turnster kan dingen met een bal | Flabber

Tijdens een oefening op de mat laat deze turnster zien wat balcontrole betekent in de vrouwenwereld.

The longest solar eclipse of the century - The Big Picture - Boston.com

The Big Picture - News Stories in Photographs from the Boston Globe

SCORE! New Biomass Cookstove Also Doubles As Electrical Generator : TreeHugger
The vast majority of TreeHugger readers undoubtedly take for granted cooking on a stove that doesn't produce prodigious amounts of smoke every time you use it -- that smoke's produced elsewhere a lot of the time, at the power

Reintroducing Wolves to Scotland Could Bring Back the Forests of Old : TreeHugger

19th century gray wolf hunt. Image: Public domain More Wolves = More Birds (Who Knew?) Hunted to extinction in Scotland about 250 years ago, the gray wolf might make a comeback. Scientists have been studying the impact of the

Technology Review: Blogs: Potential Energy: A Biofuel Milestone

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

Maximum Security and a Starring Role - NYTimes.com

A thriving theater company at a maximum-security prison in Italy is giving convicts a new identity: actor.

Flu Changes Summer Camp Life - NYTimes.com

Tamiflu and hand sanitizer are added to the usual routines of swimming and crafts.

Who can cool his body fast? Toucan
(AP) -- The toucan's colorful bill gives new meaning to the phrase cool dude. Indeed, that gigantic schnoz turns out to be a radiator the rain forest dweller uses to lose body heat. The bill of the Toco Toucan makes up about one-third of its body length and ornithologists have long wondered about the ...

CUPE member faces charges over confrontation with trash dumper

WINDSOR, Ont. -- A 51-year-old CUPE worker is facing charges of theft under $5,000 after she allegedly

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Mumbai faces acute water shortage

The Indian city of Mumbai faces water rationing for the first time in living memory as supplies are hit by poor monsoon rain.

Combined Heat & Power Greenhouse : TreeHugger
Greenouse tomatoes. Image credit:Garden of Eaden How many tomatoes can a power plant grow, if a power plant could grow plants? Great Northern Hydroponics, has installed a GE Energy designed, 12-megawatt commercial power plant at a 55-acre tomato greenhouse

Concrete columns with internal bars made of glass fibers can make a building sturdier

Conventional means of internal reinforcement for concrete member in buildings involve steel bars. Yet for structures that function in harsh environments like coastal regions, or for structures that support sensitive equipment, such as magnetic resonance imaging units; the use of fiber reinforced polymer ...

Permaculture in Palestine: Bustan Qaraaqa Greens the Hills Outside Bethlehem : TreeHugger

For a group of British ecologists working in development organizations in the West Bank, researching the sorry state of the Palestinian environment became, at some point, rather unsatisfying. “We wanted to move from writing reports on environmental destruction and

Vaccinating With Remembee Against Bee Colony Collapse Disorder : TreeHugger

With the deadly swine flu, bird flu and bee colony collapse disorder it kind of makes you feel like nature is biting back. Some good news for at least one of the big problems: the Israeli company Beeologics has

Inexpensive Arsenic Filtration System Based on Cattails Could Help Clean Up the Drinking Water of 57 Million People : TreeHugger

Photos: Jon Clark/Flickr, CC Awesome Discovery! According to the World Health Organization's fact sheet about arsenic in drinking water, there are between 46-57 million people globally who are exposed to levels of arsenic higher than the 'safe' 0.01 mg/l.

Cities Like Seoul Rediscover Waterways They Paved Over - NYTimes.com

Cities from San Antonio to Singapore are resuscitating waterways that once lay buried under rivers of concrete.

Video: Moth Blocks Bat Attack by Jamming Sonar | Wired Science | Wired.com
Navy engineers aren't the only ones who can jam sonar. Scientists have discovered a species of tiger moth that thwarts hungry bats by emitting extra-loud

Potential Neurotoxin Could Be in Our Food | Wired Science | Wired.com

Long after a potentially neurotoxic flame retardant is off the market, it could linger in our food chain. One of the most comprehensive analyses yet of

Using Scientific Tools in an International War on Fake Drugs - NYTimes.com

A doctor is applying mass spectrometers to find counterfeit pharmaceutical drugs, especially in poorer countries, where government regulation is weak.

Young men living at home with parents are more violent

Young men who stay at home with their parents are more violent than those who live independently, according to new research at Queen Mary, University of London.

New life histories emerge for invasive wasps, magnify ecological harm

A switch from annual to multiyear colonies and a willingness to feed just about any prey to their young have allowed invasive yellowjacket wasps to disrupt native populations of insects and spiders on two Hawaiian islands, a new study has found.

Mysterious, Glowing Clouds Appear Across America’s Night Skies | Wired Science | Wired.com

Mysterious, glowing clouds previously seen almost exclusively in Earth's polar regions have appeared in the skies over the United States and Europe over the

Inhabitat » Earthquake-Proof Wood House Survives 7.5 Magnitude Quake
A Green Design Blog, Sustainable Design Blog, Future-forward design for the world you inhabit - your daily source for innovations in sustainable architecture and green design for the home.

Movie Review - Tony Manero - Somebody in Chile Worships the Disco-Era Travolta - NYTimes.com

The Medium - Street Smart - Urban Dictionary - NYTimes.com

The unruly, unlexicographical but surprisingly useful offerings of Urban Dictionary.

Producing hydrogen from urine
(PhysOrg.com) -- You do two things at motorway services: fill up one tank and empty another. US chemists have combined refuelling your car and relieving yourself by creating a new catalyst that can extract hydrogen from urine.

The Great American Bubble Machine : Rolling Stone

In Rolling Stone Issue 1082-83, Matt Taibbi takes on the Wall Street Bubble Mafia — investme...

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Cross of the sickle

Last month, Communists from across Canada gathered in a
Montreal classroom to plan revolution. With

Ruins of the Second Gilded Age - The New York Times > Magazine > Slide Show > Slide 1 of 13
What the real estate boom has left behind.

Honduras Withdraws From Group of Nations - NYTimes.com

Honduras withdrew from the Organization of American States before that organization could oust it over a military coup.

In Naples, Ex-Convicts Keep a Close Eye on Tourists - NYTimes.com

After less than a month, a project that enlists ex-convicts to escort tourists through Neapolitan streets with seedy reputations has caused considerable problems for its supporters.

How Much Did Michael Jackson Rock the Web? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

Compete, an analytics firm, crunched some numbers to quantify the demand for Michael Jackson information after his death.

Scientists' Drill Hits Magma: Only Third Time on Record

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists drilling a borehole deep into Iceland’s rocky crust to explore new methods of using geothermal energy hit a major roadblock on Thursday: Their drill ran into molten rock at a depth of 6,900 feet.

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YouTube - That Mitchell and Webb Look: Homeopathic A&E
Hilarious sketch from the fourth episode of series three of 'That Mitchell and Webb Look.'

Recirculating Marine Aquaculture: Farmed Fish Minus the Pollution : TreeHugger

Image credit: UMBI Center of Marine Biotechnology Fully Contained, Indoor Fish Farming The dire state of global fish stocks is pretty well known by now - with costs of poor management of fish stocks running to $50 billion a

TROUBLE IN TEHRAN- Blog | VBS.TV

Watch original content on VBS.TV, streaming a mix of domestic and international news, pop and underground culture coverage, and the best music in the world.

Incandescent Bulbs Return to the Cutting Edge - NYTimes.com

New energy standards are causing major innovation in incandescent light bulbs, a family of bulbs that some thought would not survive.

Wind power may have its own environmental problems

Wind power generation is expected to be a clean and environmentally friendly natural energy source, but a new kind of environmental problem has surfaced as infrasonic waves caused by windmills are suspected of causing health problems for some people.

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PICTURES: World Wonders Added to UN Heritage List
The Tower of Hercules, a sacred mountain, and royal tombs are among the sites recognized for their universal value to humanity during a 2009 World Heritage Committee session.