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
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