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Insect Infestation as Green Architecture Tool : TreeHuggerPhoto by James Haefner So what do you get when you add an invasive bug that kills millions of trees to a heavily wooded area? If you’re the Ann Arbor District Library (AADL), you use the situation as an
James Dyson Award
Technology Review: Supercritical Fuel Injection
A supercritical diesel engine could increase efficiency and cut emissions.
China’s Trash Incinerators Loom as Global Pollution Hazard - NYTimes.com
Running out of space in its landfills, China is racing to build incinerators that have become a growing source of toxic emissions.
Parasite causes zombie ants to die in an ideal spot
A study in the September issue of The American Naturalist describes new details about a fungal parasite that coerces ants into dying in just the right spot -- one that is ideal for the fungus to grow and reproduce. The study, led David P. Hughes of Harvard University, shows just how precisely the fungus ...
Binge drinking affects attention and working memory in young university students
A new study looks at binge drinking's impact on attention and visual working memory processes in young Spanish university students. Results indicate that binge drinkers expend more attentional effort to complete a given task, and also have problems differentiating between relevant and irrelevant information.
Mentally Ill Offenders Strain Juvenile System - NYTimes.com
Cash-starved states are increasingly relying on the prison system to handle young offenders with mental illnesses, who often need therapy more than punishment.
Civil War in Uganda, the Stuff of Vertigo’s Unknown Soldier Comic - NYTimes.com
The comic book series Unknown Soldier is set in a world filled with violence, where boys are used as soldiers and girls are punished for innocent acts like riding bicycles.
Camera flash turns an insulating material into a conductor
An insulator can now be transformed to conduct electricity by an ordinary camera flash.
Roadsides, contaminated fields could be unlikely solutions to fuel shortages, water pollution
(PhysOrg.com) -- The lonely, weed-choked roadsides along America's highways may turn out to be an unexpected solution to two of the biggest issues facing the U.S. today -- potential fuel shortages and water pollution.
Carbon-eating "green" cement wins funds for UK firm: Scientific American
A British start-up company developing a cement that absorbs carbon dioxide ...
How can New York City hot dog vendors afford to pay half a million dollars in rent? - By Meredith Simons - Slate Magazine
A hot dog vendor was kicked from the curb outside New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art last week for failure to pay his monthly rent—of $53,558. Pasang Sherpa was under contract to pay the Parks Department $362,201 a year for a stand on the south sid
Technology Review: A Cool Micro Fuel Cell
A high-power cell uses materials already on the market and operates at lower temperatures.
YouTube - Shatner Of The Mount by Fall On Your Sword
www.fallonyoursword.comCaptain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain?Free MP3 download from the FOYS site
Observatory - Early Humans Used Heat-Treated Stone for Tools - NYTimes.com
Tool manufacturers know that sometimes you have to heat-treat a material to make it harder or stronger.
Study finds higher pathogen loads in collapsed honeybee colonies
Honeybees in colonies affected by colony collapse disorder (CCD) have higher levels of pathogens and are co-infected with a greater number of pathogens than their non-CCD counterparts, but no individual pathogen can be singled out as the cause of CCD, according to a study by an international team of ...
Mango seeds may protect against deadly food bacteria
Life in the fruit bowl is no longer the pits, thanks to a University of Alberta researcher.
'Printed chips' could be boon for consumers
Until now, creating the microchips that power all of our electronic gadgets has been a laborious, complex and time-consuming process costing billions of dollars. But if a Milpitas, Calif.-based startup succeeds, making them could be as easy as printing a piece of paper.
Lucky Sleep Mutants Need Fewer Zzzzzs | Wired Science | Wired.com
No one knows why some lucky folks thrive on five or six hours of sleep per night, while the rest of us suffer if we don't get eight hours of shut-eye.
Killer Drones to Get Sound System | Danger Room | Wired.com
Your Predator drone has all the latest gear, including communications, laser target designator, day and night cameras and, of course, Hellfire missiles. But,
New battery could change world, one house at a time
<p>In a modest building on the west side of Salt Lake City, a team
of specialists in advanced materials and
BBC - Earth News - Why flamingoes stand on one leg
It is one of nature's cutest mysteries, and now scientists think they have the answer.
Scientists reveal why world's highest mountains are at the equator | Environment | The Guardian
Ice and glacier coverage at lower altitudes in cold climates more important than collision of tectonic plates, researchers find
Technology Review: Gene Therapy Creates a New Fovea
Treatment leads to an unexpected improvement in vision for one patient.
Scientists take early steps toward mapping epigenetic variability
Brown University scientists have taken the first steps toward mapping epigenetic variability in cells and tissues. Mapping the human epigenome, similar to the human genome project in the 1990s, could someday allow for quicker and more precise disease diagnoses and more targeted treatments of many chronic ...
The Sky Is Not Falling: Pollution in eastern China cuts light, useful rainfall
New research shows that air pollution in eastern China has reduced the amount of light rainfall over the past 50 years and decreased by 23 percent the number of days of light rain in the eastern half of the country. The results suggest that bad air quality might be affecting the country's ability to ...
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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Facial expressions 'not global'
A new study suggests that people from different cultures might read facial expressions differently.
Why Humans and Their Fur Parted Ways - The New York Times
Orchids and fungi -- partners for life
Three Thai orchids have been found to rely on a wide range of fungi to help them take carbon out of the soil instead of producing their own organic carbon. A detailed study of the relationship, published in the open access journal BMC Biology, also features stunning pictures of the plants.
Gittes,
ReplyDeleteOnce again an outstanding collection of thought provoking blog linked articles.
I have read through them all once and will attempt to process their contents over the next 24 hours.
Comments to follow.
claudio
Gittes,
ReplyDeleteUpon my return to your blog I was drawn to the article entitled,
“The Sky Is Not Falling: Pollution in eastern China cuts light, useful rainfall”
which contains the passage,
“While the light rains have diminished, pollution has increased dramatically in China in the last half of the 20th century. For example, while China's population rose two and a half times in size, the emissions of sulfur from fossil fuel burning outpaced that considerably -- rising nine times.”
Sulfur emissions increased by a factor of nine times over a mere 50 years.
I was there; I saw it, I breathed it, I feared it.
claudio