Sunday, March 28, 2010

The New Poor - For-Profit Schools Cashing In on Recession and Federal Aid - NYTimes.com


Fearing Drug Cartels, Reporters in Mexico Retreat - NYTimes.com [via claudio]

 

SXSW: Comic Bill Hicks Posthumously Rocks Austin | Underwire | Wired.com

 

LiveLeak.com - Clothing Store Riot



Top 25 Censored Stories for 2010 | Project Censored

 

In a Desert in China, a Trove of 4,000-Year-Old Mummies - NYTimes.com

 

Technology Review: Turning Gas Flares into Fuel


Cro Magnon skull shows that our brains have shrunk

 

Adding iron to sea boosts deadly neurotoxin: study

 

The Cuban Agro-Ecological Revolution: A Look Behind the Curtain [via claudio]

 

McDonald's Happy Meals Evidently Invincible : TreeHugger

 

Affresol: Prefab Houses Made From Plastic Landfill : TreeHugger

 

Technology Review: Fingertip Bacteria: A Promising Forensic Tool


Technology Review: Drug Production Gets Aquatic

 

Technology Review: A Cheap, Portable Wound-Healing Device

 

Number of People Living on New York Streets Soars - NYTimes.com

 

1 gene lost = 1 limb regained? Scientists demonstrate mammalian regeneration through single gene deletion

 

Perils of plastics: Risks to human health and the environment

 

Acne drug prevents HIV breakout (w/ Video)


Rich Get Richer in ‘Hot News’ Stock-Tip Fight | Threat Level | Wired.com

 

Feds Deem Pedestrians, Cyclists and Motorists Equals | Autopia | Wired.com

 

6 Cars So Alluring They’re in an Art Museum | Autopia | Wired.com

 

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou - Boing Boing

 

Evolution of Fairness Driven by Culture, Not Genes | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

China Drawing High-Tech Research From U.S. - NYTimes.com [via claudio]


China Leaders Vie for Control of Exchange Rate - NYTimes.com [via claudio]

 

BBC News - Forest loss slows, as China plants and Brazil preserves [via claudio]


 

CRUDE: A Joe Berlinger Film [via claudio]

 

The Gazette - Coulter’s campus visit stirs controversy

 

BBC News - US marine to face trial over Iraq killings [via claudio]

 

China: Closing for Business? - BusinessWeek [via claudio]

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Haiti's Rebuild May Be Biochar's Big Breakthough : TreeHugger

Shifting Soil Is Threat to a House’s Foundation - NYTimes.com


Study Says Undersea Release of Methane Is Under Way - NYTimes.com



Why Do Lizards Have Ears? To Eavesdrop, Perhaps - NYTimes.com



Doctor and Patient - The Doctor’s Failure to Cut Costs - Question - NYTimes.com



Hip-Hop Cuisine - Rabbit for Dinner - NYTimes.com



Mind-reading computers turn heads at high-tech fair


A new energy source from the common pea



Study: Arctic seabed methane stores destabilizing, venting



Oldest measurement of Earth's magnetic field reveals battle between Sun and 



Earth for our atmosphere



Fears of Undersea Methane Leaks Already Coming True | Wired Science | 

Wired.com



‘Mission Impossible’ Crew Pinches $26,000 in Apple Notebooks | Epicenter | Wired.com



FPL Experiments With Solar Thermal at Gas-Fired Power Plant - NYTimes.com


Toxie Awards Name Worst Chemicals of the Year | GreenBiz.com



Technology Review: Magnetic Solder to Wire 3-D Chips



For Auto Towns, Ed Montgomery Is an Ambassador of Hope - NYTimes.com



It's who you kill that matters, according to new research



Waste watchers? UK group fears trash bin spies



Physicists unlock the mysteries of crack formation


Ancient Texts Present Mayans As Literary Geniuses



History's Forgotten Fallen



Human brains grow, change and can heal themselves



Animation of Giant Iceberg Collision as Seen From Space | Wired Science | Wired.com



How Big Waves Go Rogue | Wired Science | Wired.com



Heimo's Arctic Refuge 1 of 5 - Far Out | VBS.TV


The Vice Guide to Liberia 1 of 8 - The Vice Guide to Travel | VBS.TV



Tour de Dandong - The Flying Pigeon Project [via claudio]



Slavemaker Ants



Doctor accused of going into ER drunk, harassing nurses [via claudio]

Budget deep freeze will lead to end of climate research lab - The Globe and Mail [via claudio]



Pulsed Electric Field Processing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Olympic Hockey Final Affects Water Supply, Canadian Economy : TreeHugger



Pre-Dinosaur Era Plant Specimens Brazenly Stolen : TreeHugger



Technology Review: Ultra-Efficient Gas Engine Passes Test



Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: New Charging Method Could Slash Battery Recharge Times



With New Homes, Town Makes Amends for Discrimination Decades Ago - NYTimes.com



For the Afflicted, a Little Black Box to Jog Failing Memory - NYTimes.com


Lava lamp centrifuge - Hack a Day



Machine-learning revolutionises software development



Turn a quarter of Detroit into "semi-rural" farms? - Boing Boing



White trash video addiction: Bargain Barn - Boing Boing



Technology Review: Gasifying Biomass with Sunlight



A lesson in courting foreign students - The Globe and Mail [via claudio]


SolidWorks Sustainability Software Helps Designers Make The Greenest Products (Video) : TreeHugger



Einstein's Theory of Relativity On Display - NYTimes.com



Rapid Rise in Seed Prices Draws U.S. Scrutiny - NYTimes.com



Traces of the past: Computer algorithm able to 'read' memories



US military developing geolocation system for underground



Scavenging energy waste to turn water into hydrogen fuel


The ’70s Photos That Made Us Want to Save Earth | Wired Science | Wired.com



NASA’s New Jumbo Jet Keeps Giant Eye on Heavens | Magazine



Feds: TSA Worker Tried to Sabotage Terror Database | Threat Level | Wired.com



Lifestyle Adjustments, As Poverty Comes To The American Suburbs : TreeHugger



Taxi Drivers Gouged Riders Out of Millions, New York Says - NYTimes.com



As Its Arms Industry Withers, Russia Buys Abroad - NYTimes.com


Generation B - Time, It Turns Out, Isn’t on Their Side - NYTimes.com



Harnessing Our Sensory Superpowers



5 Second Films - de top 20 | Flabber



Wind resistance



BBC News - Hailing the arrival of alien predators



Decapitated skeletons were Vikings: scientists


China looks to 'combustible ice' as a fuel source

Ice Fishing in Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario - NYTimes.com

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Solar panels go through extreme tests at San Jose lab


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YouTube - 「ジェイソンさん」ビッグダディを彫る「BIOSHOCK」

 

Triumph of the Golden Rule | gmilburn.ca

 

Technology Review: Implanted Neurons Let the Brain Rewire Itself Again

 

German Skill in Exporting Puts Pressure on E.U. Neighbors - NYTimes.com

 

Doctors Struggle to Treat Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections - NYTimes.com


Observatory - Yeast Produces Heat in Plants, Researchers Find - NYTimes.com

 

The most frequent error in medicine

 

Coffee hit by global warming say growers

 

Mechanical devices stamped on plastic

 

New material traps radioactive ions using 'Venus flytrap' method

 

Depression’s Upside - NYTimes.com


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Olympic Drinking Games: Why Vancouver Gets the Gold - TIME

 

 Op-Ed Contributor - We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change - NYTimes.com

 

BBC News - Why did fewer die in Chile's earthquake than in Haiti's?

 

Turning Beetle-Infested Wood to Good (Design) Use : TreeHugger

 

Memo From Tripoli - Unknotting Father’s Reins in Hope of ‘Reinventing’ Libya - NYTimes.com


Human Culture Plays a Role in Natural Selection - NYTimes.com

 

How the Men Reacted as the Titanic and Lusitania Went Under - NYTimes.com

 

For Pennies, a Disposable Toilet That Could Help Grow Crops - NYTimes.com

 

Military Bases as Wildlife Havens - Video Library - The New York Times

 

Research finds attractive women increase risky behaviour in young men

 

Darkness increases dishonest behavior


Pandemic flu, like seasonal H1N1, shows signs of resisting Tamiflu

 

Stone Age Engravings Found on Ostrich Shells | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

Solar Storms Could Be Earth's Next Katrina : NPR

 

Protecting the community from burglars, murderers and blogs

 

Little Big Men - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com

 

Modern man found to be generally monogamous, moderately polygamous


Road Salt and Cars Produce Extreme Water Contamination in Frenchman's Bay, 

 

Chilean Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days

 

Millions of Tons of Water Ice Found at Moon’s North Pole | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

How OK Go’s Amazing Rube Goldberg Machine Was Built | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

 

The Kisseloff Collection: a one-man museum of 20th century ephemera - Boing Boing

 

Profile of ex-narc who's declared war on the "War on Drugs" - Boing Boing


Baby monkeys receive signals through their mother's breast milk

 

Lagos Disco Inferno! - Boing Boing

 

James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss | Video on TED.com [via claudio]

 

Concerns Over ‘Metal on Metal’ Hip Implants - NYTimes.com

 

Hollywood Gets Tightfisted in Deals With Stars - NYTimes.com

 

'World's Most Useful Tree' Provides Low-Cost Water Purification Method for Developing World


Mineral studies advance antibacterial alternatives

 

Hella Good: Scientists Petition to Name a Very Large Number