Friday, July 3, 2009

Squatters seize the 'main home' of Labour couple | Mail Online
These are the squatters who took over married Labour MPs Ann and Alan Keen's 'main home' after it had been left empty for almost a year..

The Ache Guayaki Project, or How Cultivation under Native Woods can Help Indigenous Communities : TreeHugger
Photos: Courtesy of Guayaki. Keeping native communities and woods untouched may seem like a beautiful idea, but it is -in most cases- an unrealistic goal. Many communities of indigenous people want to develop and grow, and work their lands.

Technology Review: A Robot that Navigates Like a Person
A new robot navigates using humanlike visual processing and object detection.

When you don't know what you want
How is it possible that you were not planning on going shopping, but that you still end up going and even return home with four new pairs of trousers?

Swine Flu: Just the Latest Chapter in a 91-Year Pandemic Era | Wired Science | Wired.com
The current strain of H1N1 influenza, or swine flu, has people scared because it's a novel virus that most of the population has never been exposed to. But

Make Like a Dolphin: Learn Echolocation | Wired Science | Wired.com
With just a few weeks of training, you can learn to see objects in the dark using echolocation the same way dolphins and bats do. Ordinary people with

Pictured: The battered and bruised face of a burglar who got on the wrong side of a 72-year-old former boxer | Mail Online
A burglar who broke into a house and attacked a pensioner got more than he bargained for when his 72-year-old victim turned out to be a retired boxer.

The Toaster Project: Art Student Builds a Toaster From Scratch : TreeHugger

Technology Review: Butane Charger
From MIT. Information on Emerging Technologies & impact on business & society

Technology Review: Quantum-Dot Lighting
From MIT. Information on Emerging Technologies & impact on business & society

Tibetan Monks and Nuns Turn Their Minds Toward Science - NYTimes.com
At the Dalai Lama’s urging, exiled monastics seek more physical knowledge.

Desert rhubarb -- a self-irrigating plant
Researchers from the Department of Science Education-Biology at the University of Haifa-Oranim have managed to make out the 'self-irrigating' mechanism of the desert rhubarb, which enables it to harvest 16 times the amount of water than otherwise expected for a plant in this region based on the quantities ...

Grow, Canada: Sustainable Biofuel From the Great White North | Autopia | Wired.com
In honor of Canada Day we bring you news from just outside the Canadian capital, where a suburban service station has become the first in the world to sell

BBC - Earth News - Ant mega-colony takes over world
Argentine ants living on three continents belong to the same colony, the largest of its kind ever known.

5 Years After: Portugal's Drug Decriminalization Policy Shows Positive Results: Scientific American
Street drug–related deaths from overdoses drop and the rate of HIV cases crashes

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