Friday, December 17, 2010

Navy Antenna Using Seawater instead of Metal - Technology Review

 

Japan Pushing the Yakuza Mob Out of Businesses - NYTimes.com

 

Reimagining Detroit as Grow Town - NYTimes.com

 

UN: Drug-resistant malaria spreading in Asia

 

Bio-Based Phase-Changing Material Adds Instant Thermal Mass : TreeHugger

 

The 5 Most Profitable Drugs: They Never Cure You - New York News - Runnin' Scared


Russian criminal tattoos as fashion designs - Boing Boing

 

Clever octopus tentacles stuffed with neurons - Boing Boing

 

Inside Foxconn City: A Vast Electronics Factory Under Suicide Scrutiny | Raw File

 

BBC News - Fishing for bodies on China's Yellow River

 

What Killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones? | Mother Jones

 

Importing Coal, China Burns It as Others Stop - NYTimes.com


APNewsBreak: EU in Kosovo probes organ trafficking - Yahoo! News

 

Pesticides: Smoking them out | The Economist

 

Liang Congjie, Chinese Environmentalist, Dies at 78 - NYTimes.com

 

For Poor Russians, Blond Hair Is a Snippet of Gold - NYTimes.com

 

The Tuatara, a Still-Evolving Original - NYTimes.com

 

Lessons in Sumerian Math on Display - NYTimes.com


Upper-class people have trouble recognizing others' emotions

 

End to cheap coal closer than we thought?

 

Cadmium, lead found in drinking glasses

 

Slayer Christmas Lights: this holiday house decoration totally shreds - Boing Boing

 

Zapotec Indians Grow Trees, and Jobs, in Oaxaca, Mexico - NYTimes.com

 

Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food - Newsweek


Telehealth Devices Monitor Patient Information at Home - NYTimes.com

 

Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, Virus-Hunting Master - NYTimes.com

 

‘Crisis Status’ in South Korea After North Shells Island - NYTimes.com

 

After 250,000 flushes, Western engineered toilet valve now saving water

 

Plant-derived scavengers prowl the body for nerve toxins

 

Shining symbiosis: Bobtail squid and their bacteria buddies


NASA study finds Earth's lakes are warming

 

Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty - Boing Boing

 

Wall Street Dares to Indulge Itself Again - NYTimes.com

 

Cement From Thin Air | Popular Science

 

The Benefits of Weight Training for Kids - NYTimes.com

 

Female fish -- and humans? -- lose interest when their male loses a slugfest


Solar furnace melts rock - Boing Boing

 

Wall Street, investment bankers, and social good : The New Yorker

 

World 'Dangerously Close' to Food Crisis, U.N. Says - NYTimes.com

 

Cookie-eating health boss loses job- Politics - Canoe.ca

 

BBC News - Why Russians backed anti-police rage

 

Can the Chinese Become Big Spenders? - NYTimes.com


South Korea Reassesses Its Defenses After Attack - NYTimes.com

 

Morphine Economics « Articles « Conscientious Equity

 

Norfolk, Va., on Front Line, Tackles Rise in the Sea - NYTimes.com

 

Eating the Irish - NYTimes.com

 

Family’s Fall From Affluence Is Swift and Hard - NYTimes.com

 

Johann Hari: There won't be a bailout for the earth - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent


Green Car Congress: Graphene-based supercapacitor offers energy density comparable to NiMH battery, but with rapid charge and discharge

 

Clever Bike Lock Can Climb a Light Pole (Video) : TreeHugger

 

Farmers Wage Organic Battle Against Pests and Weeds - NYTimes.com

 

Inexpensive, on-farm method controls invasive beetle

 

Wall Street Firm Uses Algorithms to Make Sports Betting Like Stock Trading | Magazine

 

Delightful science fiction story in review of $6800 speaker cable - Boing Boing


Singapore Comes to Indonesia - Surabaya Journal - NYTimes.com

 

The Men Who Stole the World -TimeFrames- Printout - TIME

 

Roosevelt Island Tramway Reopens After Renovations - NYTimes.com

 

Short Sharp Science: Geek words founded today's English

 

Sun and sand breed Sahara solar power - environment - 30 November 2010 - New Scientist

 

CultureLab: Anarchy or empire? The internet in the balance


An Excerpt from Bicycle Diaries - Boing Boing

 

"Utopian" Detroit sign modification - Boing Boing

 

From WikiChina - NYTimes.com

 

Composting As Animal Husbandry - Moving Way Beyond Recycling : TreeHugger

 

WikiLeaks Archive - U.S. Fretted Over Canada’s Chip - NYTimes.com

 

Researchers discover how worms promote healing


Ruckus Smart Antennas May Be Key to Nationwide Wi-Fi | Epicenter | Wired.com

 

Paolo Bacigalupi's SHIP BREAKER: YA adventure story in a post-peak-oil world - Boing Boing

 

Jonathan Coulton's "Shop•Vac" in kinetic type - Boing Boing

 

Inside the Fortified, Nuke-Proof Bunker that's Now Hosting Wikileaks - Technology Review

 

Alcoholism Is Rarely Treated Soberly on TV - NYTimes.com

 

Rich getting richer, data shows


Russia's Permafrost Not So Permanent Anymore (Video) : TreeHugger

 

United States diplomatic cables leak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Big business clear winner in Peru's asparagus industry | Global development | guardian.co.uk

 

How Modern Life Is Like a Zombie Onslaught - NYTimes.com

 

Toxic heavy metals reach top of the world - environment - 02 December 2010 - New Scientist

 

Celebration, Fla., Has Its First Killing - NYTimes.com


Precast Concrete Windmill Base Improves Wind Turbine Tower Efficiency | Today's Concrete Technology

 

What Is a College Degree Worth in China? - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

 

Some Retirees Opting for Campus Life - NYTimes.com

 

BBC News - Topshop's flagship London store hit by tax protest

 

Teacher Evaluations May Get a Video Assist - NYTimes.com

 

Buffett Helps U.N. Agency Create Nuclear Fuel Bank - NYTimes.com


YouTube - How not to wash your car...

 

How a man named Nobody became the battered face of G20 protests - The Globe and Mail

 

YouTube - Hitler Finds Out His Exam is Cancelled [a little something the UWO community cooked up]

 


Is "Peak Fertilizer" Nearer Than We Think? New Report Fuels Concern : TreeHugger

 

Airlines = Largest Source of Lead Air Emissions : TreeHugger


Swiss cut off bank account for WikiLeaks' Assange

 

Navy test fires electromagnetic cannon

 

Greenland's ice has secret weapon against melting - environment - 09 December 2010 - New Scientist

 

Brazilian farmers are unlikely climate heroes - environment - 08 December 2010 - New Scientist

 

Zoologger: Weaponised eggs turn predators' stomachs - life - 08 December 2010 - New Scientist

 

T-cell suicide stops mice fighting off flu - health - 08 December 2010 - New Scientist


BBC News - Pro-Wikileaks activists abandon Amazon cyber attack

 

BBC News - Global warming maps: A glimpse into the future

 

Scorpions glow in the dark to detect moonlight - life - 10 December 2010 - New Scientist

 

Body Fell From Plane, Authorities Say - NYTimes.com

 

Using Waste, Swedish City Shrinks Its Fossil Fuel Use - NYTimes.com

 

Curbing Candidacy in Drift to One-Party Rule - NYTimes.com


Sexual selection: Hunkier than thou | The Economist

 

Post-Meltdown, Banks Still Rule Derivatives Trade - NYTimes.com

 

Cryptographers chosen to duke it out in final fight - physics-math - 13 December 2010 - New Scientist

 

Wireless at the speed of plasma - tech - 13 December 2010 - New Scientist

 

Ancient Chinese Farming Techniques | eHow.com

 

BBC News - Social discontent rising in China, says report


YouTube - Kosovo PM Thaci: Mafia boss behind drugs, organ trafficking?

 

China’s Push Into Wind Worries U.S. Industry - NYTimes.com

 

Kilpatrick Indicted in Criminal Ring - NYTimes.com

 

Max Fish on Lower East Side Is Closing - NYTimes.com

 

Mark Madoff's Name Became Too Big a Burden - NYTimes.com

 

In 500 Billion Words, a New Window on Culture - NYTimes.com

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Technology Review: A Back-of-the-Panel Boost for Solar Power

 

Scientists suggest that cancer is purely man-made

 

Love Makes You Increasingly Ignorant of Your Partner | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

Why it's hard to crash the electric grid

 

Detroit | Palladium Boots

 

Scientist at Work - Dr. Abraham Verghese - Restoring the Lost Art of the Physical


Technology Review: China's Rare-Earth Monopoly



Celebrating Boomboxes, the ‘Instant Parties’ of the ’80s - NYTimes.com

 

World's longest tunnel breaks down Swiss Alpine barrier (Update 2, Pictures)

 

BBC News - German radar satellites fly tight space waltz

 

Peak Everything | Inspired By You

 

Wealth Matters - Studying the Elite, Whether They Like It or Not - NYTimes.com


Garage biotech: Life hackers : Nature News

 

Rescued Miners’ Secrecy Pact Erodes in Spotlight - NYTimes.com

 

Bacteria 'R' Us | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune.

 

Killer of Aspen Slows, but Worries About a Beloved Tree Remain - NYTimes.com

 

Study: Future droughts will be shockers - U.S. news - Environment - Climate Change - msnbc.com

 

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Technology Review: A Cell-Phone Network without a License

 

Study Warns of Bond Risk as Water Becomes Scarce - NYTimes.com

 

In Kansas, Climate Skeptics Embrace Green Energy - Series - NYTimes.com

 

Slows Bar-B-Q in Detroit Has Renewal on the Menu - NYTimes.com

 

Who Lives There - A Home in the Pyramid Atop Seattle's Smith Tower - NYTimes.com

 

Midnight Snack 204 - Gangs | Flabber


Making Ignorance Chic - NYTimes.com

 

Noam Chomsky Interview (Oct. 12th, 2010) 1/2 Video

 

Noam Chomsky: Israels Loyalty Oath, War Crimes in Fallujah, and more Video

 

Automation Insurance: Robots Are Replacing Middle Class Jobs - Business - GOOD

 

Longing for the Lines That Had Us at Hello - NYTimes.com

 

Plunging Mortgage Refinancing Rates Aid the Thrifty - NYTimes.com


Biotechnology in North Carolina: After tobacco | The Economist

 

Technology Review: Chinese Chip Closes In on Intel, AMD

 

China's New Wave: Music Festivals - Video Library - The New York Times

 

The middle class in Africa - Boing Boing

 

New Keith Morris video: "I Don't Belong" - Boing Boing

 

19th century New York City was knee-deep in trash - Boing Boing


Alain de Botton: A Week at the Airport - Boing Boing

 

Machiavelli Is Everywhere - Boing Boing

 

BBC News - Randy Quaid and wife request asylum in Canada

 

Once Banned, Dogs Reflect China’s Rise - NYTimes.com

 

Public Housing Repairs Can’t Keep Pace With Need - NYTimes.com

 

YouTube - RSA Animate - Crises of Capitalism


Algenol's Algae-to-Ethanol Delivers 67% to 87% Reduction in CO2 : TreeHugger

 

Science Helps Conserve Paul Thek’s ‘Untitled’ at Whitney - NYTimes.com

 

How King Cobra Maintains Its Reign - NYTimes.com

 

'Hydraulic fracturing' mobilizes uranium in marcellus shale

 

As Arctic warms, increased shipping likely to accelerate climate change

 

When Hormone Creams Expose Others to Risks - NYTimes.com


Corruption perceptions: The usual suspects | The Economist

 

BBC News - North Koreans in Japan remain loyal to Pyongyang

 

waz.euobserver.com / Five thousand roses to clean soil in polluted Macedonian city

 

The Great Chemical Unknown: A Graphical View of Limited Lab Testing: Scientific American

 

BP dispersants 'causing sickness' - Features - Al Jazeera English

 

Can the U.S. Rare-Earth Industry Rebound? - Technology Review


The Great Unwashed - NYTimes.com

 

How to Make an Engineering Culture - NYTimes.com

 

Optimization at the Intersection of Biology and Physics - NYTimes.com

 

A Safety Kink in Hair Relaxing? - Skin Deep - NYTimes.com

 

Farmers Replace Corn with Weeds, and Make Money Doing It : TreeHugger

 

From Farm to Fridge to Garbage Can - NYTimes.com


For Some Bushmen, a Homeland Worth the Fight - NYTimes.com

 

Fear Darkens Czech Uranium Mining Town - NYTimes.com

 

How the AK-47 Rewrote the Rules of Modern Warfare | Magazine | Wired.com

 

BBC News - Canadian officials see through 'unbelievable' disguise

 

Microsoft vs. Software Piracy - Inside the War Room - NYTimes.com

 

The China Education Boom on U.S. Campuses - NYTimes.com


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Rachel Corrie’s Family Continues Battle in Israeli Courts - NYTimes.com

 

Adding Cabbie Know-How to Online Maps - Technology Review

 

Nanogenerator Powers Up - Technology Review

 

At Legal Fringe, Empty Houses Go to the Needy - NYTimes.com

 

Rare-Earth Minerals Hold Promise for Seabed Mining - Science in 2011 - NYTimes.com


Dangerous chemicals in food wrappers likely migrating to humans: study

 

Danish sailors make insane harbor entry in high seas - Boing Boing

 

One-Factory Town, a Soviet Holdover, Faces Extinction - NYTimes.com

 

Chocolate: Worth its weight in gold? - Features, Food & Drink - The Independent

 

BBC News - Location, location and how the West was won


Gold Hits Nominal Record as Investors Seek ‘Hiding Place’ - NYTimes.com

 

Life in Shadows for Mentally Ill in China - NYTimes.com

 

California's whales suffer sunburn - environment - 10 November 2010 - New Scientist

 

Chinese acquisitions: China buys up the world | The Economist

 

Study shows brass devices in plumbing systems can create serious lead-in-water problems

 

Alcohol damages much more than the liver


Why Making Dinner Is a Good Idea | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

275-foot tower in Ohio blasted for demolition falls in wrong direction - Boing Boing

 

Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S., Report Says - NYTimes.com

 

Defying Trend, Canada Lures More Migrants - NYTimes.com

 

BBC News - Capitalism's tough reality for many Russians

 

Countdown to 'thermogeddon' has begun - environment - 11 November 2010 - New Scientist


Blood bubbles promise new treatments for brain disease - health - 12 November 2010 - New Scientist

 

Assertive Chinese Held in Mental Wards - NYTimes.com

 

Video: Quantitative Easing Explained | Credit Writedowns

 

The Story of Stuff

 

CC licensed Dutch documentary on California and the subprime meltdown - Boing Boing

 

Europe Fears Debt Crisis Is Growing - NYTimes.com


The 'Israelification' of airports: High security, little bother - thestar.com

 

Miami Catches First Case of Dengue Fever in 50 Years : TreeHugger

 

Molecular Animation - Where Cinema and Biology Meet - NYTimes.com

 

Pittsburgh Bans Fracking, Eliminates Some Rights of Corporate Personhood With New Ordinance : TreeHugger

 

Vitamin C: A potential life-saving treatment for sepsis

 

China’s Censorship Backfires in ‘Li Gang’ Case - NYTimes.com


Engineered Bacteria Can Fill Cracks In Aging Concrete | Popular Science