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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.

www.icometoshanghai.com

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 ...