FLOAT House | Morphopedia | Morphosis Architects

The FLOAT House is a new kind of house: a house that can sustain its own water and power needs; a house that can survive the floodwaters generated by a storm the size of Hurricane Katrina; and perhaps most importantly, a house that can be manufacture

 

Unboxed - I.B.M Tries to Help Cities Work Smarter - NYTimes.com

With money very tight, state and local officials hope to mine vast troves of government data for insights to streamline services and guide policy.

 

In Mitch Epstein’s Images, a Nation’s Thirst for Energy - NYTimes.com
The photographer Mitch Epstein routinely came under suspicion while taking pictures of dams and power plants for his new book, “American Power.”

 

Beauty in Destruction - Hack a Day

Unnatural selection: Birth control pills may alter choice of partners

There is no doubt that modern contraception has enabled women to have unprecedented control over their own fertility. However, is it possible that the use of oral contraceptives is interfering with a woman's ability to choose, compete for and retain her preferred mate? A new paper published by Cell ...

 

US gun maker arming Wii shooter game

Legendary rifle maker Remington Arms Company said Friday it has teamed with videogame maker Mastiff to put virtual versions of its guns in a hunting title tailored for Wii consoles.

 

The Fall of the Maya: 'They Did it to Themselves'

For 1200 years, the Maya dominated Central America. At their peak around 900 A.D., Maya cities teemed with more than 2,000 people per square mile -- comparable to modern Los Angeles County. Even in rural areas the Maya numbered 200 to 400 people per square mile. But suddenly, all was quiet. And the ...

 

Downhill bike race in Brazil | Flabber

In een Braziliaanse sloppenwijk werd de downhill bike race Desafio no Morro georganiseerd. Bekijk hoe dat er uit ziet vanuit het perspectief van de

 

Super-Efficient BMW Concepts Are Simple and Clever | Autopia | Wired.com
BMW, the company that brought you Gina, that wild shape-shifting concept car made of cloth, went even further off the deep end with a pair of wacky concepts

 

CBC News - Toronto - Ont. researchers tout cheap eHealth alternative

Researchers at McMaster University say they have devised an electronic medical records system that can be implemented across the province for two per cent of the money the provincial government has spent in its bid to do the same.

 

Samso Journal - From Turbines and Straw, Danish Self-Sufficiency - NYTimes.com

A tiny island just completed a 10-year experiment to see whether it could become energy self-sufficient, and its residents say they have met the goal.

 

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | 'Scary' climate message from past

Refined measurements of past climate suggest some current political targets on CO2 are "playing with fire".

 

Legal Cost for Throwing a Monkey Wrench - NYTimes.com

Tim DeChristopher decided to make bids on oil and gas leases with no interest in drilling. Now he may pay for it.

 

Swine Flu Rates Up to 5 Times Higher for Native Groups
Today's announcement that U.S. swine flu deaths among children are "shooting up" is generating headlines. Meanwhile swine flu is infecting another group up to five times more often than the general public, advocates say.

 

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YouTube - UWO arrest October 14 2009

Arresting a drunk on campus

 

"Coal" Is A Dirty Word In Troubling New Documentary : TreeHugger

Image credit: Photo of mountaintop removal coal mining at Kayford Mine, West Virginia. © 2006 B. Mark Schmerling, courtesy Sierra Club Library A new award-winning film premiering on Planet Green on November 14 will change the way you think

 

Technology Review: Biofuel from Sewage
Qteros forms a partnership to use sewage as a feedstock for making ethanol.

 

Building a Bridge of (and to) the Future - NYTimes.com

Carbon- and glass-fiber fabric tubes filled with concrete offer strength, light weight and resistance to corrosion.

 

Some Canadian rivers at risk of drying up

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some Canadian rivers are at risk of drying up as impacts of climate change intersect with growing water demand from the country's cities, industries and agriculture, a new WWF report has found.

 

Oct. 16, 2002: Second Great Library Opens in Alexandria | This Day In Tech | Wired.com

2002: The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is officially dedicated in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria. It is a conscious attempt, even down to its Latin name,

 

YouTube - The spider that invented the wheel

The Golden Wheel Spider (Carparachne aureoflava) is truly a unique and amazing creature of the beautiful Namib Desert. It builds burrows that extend 40-50cm ...

 

Climate Change Threatens Rice Production

Once-in-a-lifetime floods in the Philippines, India's delayed monsoon, and extensive drought in Australia are taking their toll on this year's rice crops, demonstrating the vulnerability of rice to extreme weather.

 

Arctic Lake Sediments Show Warming, Unique Ecological Changes In Recent Decades
An analysis of sediment cores indicates that biological and chemical changes occurring at a remote Arctic lake are unprecedented over the past 200,000 years and likely are the result of human-caused climate change, according to a new study.

 

Global Surface Temperature Was Second Warmest For September

The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the second warmest September on record, according to NOAA. Scientists also reported that the average land surface temperature for September was the second warmest on record, behind 2005. Additionally, the global ocean surface temperature was tied for the fifth warmest on record for September.

 

NZ Feature Project: Broken Barrier - The New Zealand Film Archive

Food Experts Worry as World Population and Hunger Grow - NYTimes.com [via claudio]

The number of hungry people in the world rose to 1.02 billion this year, according to the United Nations, despite a 12-year concentrated effort to cut the number.

 

$13 an Hour? 500 Sign Up for One Opening - NYTimes.com [via claudio]

A trucking company in Indiana realized that the recession allowed it to be methodical in picking one candidate from among nearly 500 applicants.

 

Hydropower industry braces for glacier-free future | Green Business | Reuters

RHONE GLACIER, Switzerland (Reuters) - Standing on the glacier at the source of the Rhone river, glaciologist Andreas Bauder poses next to a 3-meter high pole sticking out of the ice, and gestures above

 

Technology Review: Next Stop: Ultracapacitor Buses
A U.S.-Chinese venture is out to prove the benefits of quick-charge buses.<br />

 

Pollution Turns Leaves Magnetic | LiveScience

Magnetic pollution particles stick to leaves, provide easy way to track pollutants.

 

'Paranormal Activity' Review: A Horror-Film Phenomenon - TIME

Art That Illustrates the Danger of Antibacterial Everything - Boing Boing

Art Review - 'Art of the Samurai' - Way of the Artful Warriors, at the Metropolitan Museum - NYTimes.com
This sumptuous, revelatory and long-awaited exhibition is a once-in-a-lifetime event for children, war buffs and connoisseurs of all ages.

 

Scientists reveal secrets of drought resistance

A team of biologists in California led by researchers at The Scripps Research Institute and the University of California, San Diego has solved the structure of a critical molecule that helps plants survive during droughts. Understanding the inner workings of this molecule may help scientists design ...

 

Algae may be secret weapon in climate change war

Driven by fluctuations in oil prices, and seduced by the prospect of easing climate change, experts are ramping up efforts to squeeze fuel out of a promising new organism: pond scum.

Spotting Illegal Toxic Waste From Space : TreeHugger

Image via New Scientist Digging into sites that are suspected to be toxic waste dumps is expensive and potentially dangerous to nearby water supplies, so investigators want a way to spot toxic waste before diving in. Now, they have

 

Mind - How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect - NYTimes.com

When things don’t add up, the mind goes into high gear.

 

Non-PV Solar Power
Hello, in this Instructable I will show you how to generate solar power using inexpensive solid state parts and without ...

 

Cocaine Vaccine Shows Promise for Treating Addiction

(PhysOrg.com) -- Immunization with an experimental anti-cocaine vaccine resulted in a substantial reduction in cocaine use in 38 percent of vaccinated patients in a clinical trial supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of the National Institutes of Health. The study, published ...

 

High mortality rates may explain small body size

A new study suggests that high mortality rates in small-bodied people, commonly known as pygmies, may be part of the reason for their small stature. The study, by Jay Stock and Andrea Migliano, both of the University of Cambridge, helps unravel the mystery of how small-bodied people got that way.

 

Filming photons, one million times a second

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a CMOS (semiconductor) camera capable of filming individual photons one million times a second. The breakthrough will impact on all the most advanced areas of science and makes Europe the world leader in the technology.

 

Death by light: Nanoparticles as agents for the photodynamic killing of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

(PhysOrg.com) -- The increasing antibiotic resistance of bacteria is a serious problem of our time. Hospital germs in particular have developed strains against which practically every current antibiotic is ineffective. In the battle against resistant microbes, a team at the University of Münster (Germany) ...

 

The 10 Most Disturbing Books Of All Time

In my younger days if I heard a book or movie was disturbing or hard to handle I generally took that as a challenge. Most books generally turned out to not be

 

The Athenians: Another warning from history?
(PhysOrg.com) -- The collapse of Greek democracy 2,400 years ago occurred in circumstances so similar to our own it could be read as a dark and often ignored lesson from the past, a new study suggests.

 

Black Soot Coating Himalayan Glaciers is Accelerating Melting : TreeHugger

photo: McKay Savage via flickr. The soot from diesel fumes and indoor cooking fires is a well known human health problem, but here's the broader angle on that: New research shows that black carbon emitted from older diesel engines

 

Can Nanotubes Help Your Garden Grow?

(PhysOrg.com) -- When we think of nanotubes, we often think of solar panels and physical science. However, it appears that nanotubes can also provide valuable help to plants as a fertilizer. Just add carbon nanotubes, say researchers at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, and you can get plants ...

 

Facebook measuring the mood in the US

Facebook is tracking how happy people are in the United States. Mother's Day was predictably upbeat, according to a Gross National Happiness index graph on the popular social networking service's blog on Tuesday, but for reasons unknown people's moods evidently sank days later.

 

Draft NIST report on Cowboys facility collapse released for comment

A fabric-covered, steel frame practice facility owned by the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys collapsed under wind loads significantly less than those required under applicable design standards, according to a report released on October 6 for public comment by the Commerce Department's National ...

 

GOOD.is | Transparency Contest

Senegal: President builds $27 million statue, claims tourism profits over "intellectual rights."

Tiny bug could wipe out California's citrus trees

YouTube - Life's Gonna Suck When You Grow Up...

Sucks pretty bad right now, don't ya think?

 

Crap. Global Warming Could Reduce "Catch Potential" in Tropical Fisheries by 40% : TreeHugger

Increases in Productivity in Some Places, Decreases in Others Researchers at the University of British Columbia have looked into how climate change could affect fisheries around the world. There's no way to be certain what will happen, but using

 

Single HD Gyro Image stabilizer

This Single Hard Disk (HD) Gyro Image Stabilizer is much easier to handle and move around than my first 2 HD stabilizer ...

 

Skin Deep - Dentists See More Teeth Grinding in Stressful Times - NYTimes.com
In a faltering economy, dentists see an upturn in teeth grinding.

 

Even the Camels Are Dying - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

Millions face starvation in a broad stretch of Kenya and Somalia scorched by drought.

 

Microwaving Water from Moondust (w/ Video)

NASA is figuring out how to make water from moondust. Sounds like magic? 'No magic--' says Ed Ethridge of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center '-- just microwaves. We're showing how microwaves can extract water from moondust by heating it from the inside out.'

 

Color-changing roof tiles absorb heat in winter, reflect it in summer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has ever stepped barefoot onto blacktop pavement on a hot sunny day knows the phenomenon very well: Black surfaces absorb the sun's heat very efficiently, producing a toe-scorching surface. In the wintertime, that can be a good thing: A dark roof heats up in the sun and helps ...

 

BPA linked to aggressive behavior in young girls, research suggests

Pre-birth exposure to a chemical widely used in plastics appears to be linked to more aggressive behavior in little girls, according to research published Tuesday by a scientist at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

 

Review: Low-Budget Paranormal Activity Thrills With High-Value Horror | Underwire | Wired.com

Indie horror flick Paranormal Activity, made on an incredibly tiny $11,000 budget and hyped with clever guerrilla marketing, has been written off by some as

 

How'd They Do That?: Poison Ivy and Carbon Dioxide Studies - Boing Boing

Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Wireless Network Modded to See Through Walls

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

 

New Concrete Made From Coal Plant Waste Lasts 10 Times as Long : TreeHugger
Photo via Science Daily Researchers have created an impressive new kind of concrete that's made out of waste products from coal plants--concrete that could both last for hundreds of years and reduce carbon emissions by 90%. The cement industry

 

Will Indian Car Maker Be First To Market A Tough, High-Mileage 4WD Pickup In The USA? : TreeHugger

Mohindra diesel pickup. Image credit:AutoGreenBlog. India's Mahindra may launch new diesel pickup in U.S. in 2010. New York Times reports that domestic truck sales have plummeted badly. Real bad for auto workers and stockholders. Good for the enironment. Here's

 

I Breathe Dead People: Soot From Cremated Human Bodies Falls on Ottawa Homes : TreeHugger

Okay, there are no zombies in Ottawa. But it's still raining human remains in some backyards. A Different Kind of Pollution digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/crematorium-soot-pollution-ottawa-canada-zombies.php';Looks like we're celebrating Halloween early this year... Residents of Ottawa, Canada, have been complaining that

 

Eating sweets every day in childhood 'increases adult aggression'

Children who eat sweets and chocolate every day are more likely to be violent as adults, according to new research.

 

Cars may one day mimic fish to avoid collisions

Engineers in Japan say they are a step closer to developing technology they hope will cut the risk of car crashes -- by mimicking the behaviour of fish.

 

Oldest "Human" Skeleton Found--Disproves "Missing Link"

There was never a chimp-like missing link between humans and today's apes, says a new fossil-skeleton study that could rewrite evolutionary theory. Said one scientist, "It changes everything."

 

Tamiflu in Rivers Could Breed Drug-Resistant Flu Strains | Wired Science | Wired.com
The premier flu-fighting drug is contaminating rivers downstream of sewage-treatment facilities, researchers in Japan confirm. The source: urinary excretion

 

20 Years of Moving Atoms, One by One | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

<< previous image | next image >> Sometimes genius looks like an elegant equation written in chalk on a

 

BBC NEWS | Technology | Anti-wi-fi paint offers security

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a new paint which can block out wireless signals.

 

The Road - In Theaters November 25 - Official Site

The Road. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Cormac McCarthy. Author of No Country For Old Men. In Theaters November 25.

 

We Still Have A 50-50 Chance At Not Frying Ourselves, Says MIT Study : TreeHugger

Photos via MIT Energy Initiative. Credit: Donna Coveney Good News! If we make the needed changes, we still have a 50-50 chance of stabilizing the climate and not going more than a few tenths above the 2 degree target

 

Technology Review: Startup That Builds Biological Parts
Ginkgo BioWorks aims to push synthetic biology to the factory level.

 

Aspirin misuse may have made 1918 flu pandemic worse

The devastation of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic is well known, but a new article suggests a surprising factor in the high death toll: the misuse of aspirin. Appearing in the November 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases and available online now, the article sounds a cautionary note as present ...

 

Sony develops highly efficient wireless power transfer system based on magnetic resonance

Sony Corp. today announced the development of a highly efficient wireless power transfer system that eliminates the use of power cables from electronic products such as television sets. Using this system, up to 60 Watts of electrical energy can be transferred over a distance of 50cm (at an efficiency ...

 

Shootouts, Pot Fields and Spy Drones: Danger Room in Afghanistan (Bumped) | Danger Room | Wired.com

<< previous image | next image >> KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The final day was, in

 

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Big Brother is watching you shop

Increasingly businesses are reaching out to customers using technology that could invade privacy

 

Luck of the Draw - New York Times

New York won by losing the Olympics.

 

Woman’s Shattered Life Shows Ground Beef Inspection Flaws - NYTimes.com

Stephanie Smith, 22, was left paralyzed in 2007 after eating a burger tainted by E. coli. Tracing her burger shows why eating ground beef is still a gamble.

 

Economic View - A Smarter (and Cost-Efficient) Way to Fight Crime - NYTimes.com

Focusing on one group of offenders to raise the chance that they will be caught, then moving on to another group, can be effective.

 

The Cayman Islands Consider a Heretical Idea, Collecting Taxes - NYTimes.com

With shrinking revenue and high public spending, the Cayman Islands might have to raise taxes.

 

5. Europe Blocks US Toxic Products | Project Censored

Study prompts provinces to rethink flu plan - The Globe and Mail

Report suggests people who get vaccinated are more likely to catch H1N1

 

Interactive Graphic: How A Vaccine Battles Cancer - TIME

The immune system is good at battling most diseases, but cancer is equally good at eluding our defenses. New vaccines are designed to deliver the one-two punch: helping the immune system better spot cancer, then prodding it to attack the disease.

 

The Associated Press: 50 years later, 'Twilight Zone' bridges time