Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Hunters Urged Not To Put Deer Pee On Their Clothing & Stuff. : TreeHugger


How the Food Industry Fights to Keep Us Sick (Video) : TreeHugger

 

Technology Review: A Second Life for Old Vehicle Batteries

 

China Blocks Vital Exports to Japan - NYTimes.com

 

Movie Review - 'The Social Network' - A Facebook Creation Story With Mark Zuckerberg - NYTimes.com

 

FCC opens up unused TV signals for broadband

 

City living helped humans evolve immunity to TB


Groundwater depletion rate accelerating worldwide

 

Unforeseen Consequences | Flabber

 

Kinetic Wave Sculptures | Flabber

 

Midnight Snack 179 - Greed is Good | Flabber

 

Solar Roads Fix The Grid And Crumbling Pavement | Autopia | Wired.com

 

The insect highways in the sky - Boing Boing


Movie Review - 'Wall Street - Money Never Sleeps' - Michael Douglas Returns in Oliver Stone’s Sequel - NYTimes.com



YouTube - MIDDLE CLASS IN THE USA (Party in the USA Parody THE SSP)

 

CBC News - Ottawa - G8/G20 costs include $80M for food, lodging

 

BBC News - Japan frees Chinese boat captain amid diplomatic row

 

Can Linda McMahon Win in a State That Defines Preppy? - NYTimes.com

 

Told to Eat Its Vegetables, America Orders Fries - NYTimes.com


BBC News - Florida robbers strap 'bomb' to bank worker in heist

 

BBC News - Seagulls 'may be spreading superbugs'

 

As L.S.S.I. Takes Over Libraries, Patrons Can’t Keep Quiet - NYTimes.com

 

Short Sharp Science: Is this the start of the element wars?

 

CultureLab: Triumph of the north or technological salvation?

 

Why the Stuxnet worm is like nothing seen before - tech - 27 September 2010 - New Scientist


China Investigates Extralegal Prisoner Detentions - NYTimes.com

 

BBC News - FBI agents cheated on exam using answer sheets - report

 

Volvo Working on Storing Energy in a Car's Body Panels : TreeHugger

 

Nine Storey Apartment Built Of Wood in Nine Weeks By Four Workers : TreeHugger

 

Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs Widespread on British Farms : TreeHugger

 

Technology Review: Blogs: TR Editors' blog: Robotic Archer Hits Bull's Eye


Critic’s Notebook - In Arabian Desert, a Sustainable City Rises - NYTimes.com

 

Right or left? Brain stimulation can change which hand you favor

 

Urban gardeners beware: There may be lead in your soil and food

 

Making Diesel Engines Burn Gasoline | Autopia | Wired.com

 

Dirty Movie Reveals Secrets to Abundant, Healthy Soil (Video) : TreeHugger

 

The Humdrum Events of the Dark Side of Medicine - NYTimes.com


Katherine Bouton - Reports from the Hive, Where Democracy Is About the Queen - NYTimes.com

 

Thriving in Harsh Settings, Old Trees May Soon Meet Their Match - NYTimes.com

 

Living Bridges in India Have Grown for 500 Years (Pics) : TreeHugger

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Oregano Is New CO2-Cutting Drug of Choice (For Cows) : TreeHugger


Roma, on Move, Test Europe’s ‘Open Borders’ - NYTimes.com



Recession Raises Poverty Rate to a 15-Year High - NYTimes.com



An Introduction to the OPOC™ Powertrain | EcoMotors



Desktop Manufacturing - Video Library - The New York Times



Movie Review - 'The Town' - Ben Affleck Returns to Boston in a Crime Drama - NYTimes.com



Disabled Japanese tourist plans robo-suit adventure


'Archeologists of the air' isolate pristine aerosol particles in the Amazon



Foraging for fat: Crafty crows use tools to fish for nutritious morsels



Researchers build Moon garden



The “Indian Superbug”: Worse Than We Knew | Wired Science | Wired.com



Kill Whitey. It’s the Right Thing to Do. | Wired Science | Wired.com


IEEE Spectrum: Why Are Terrorists Often Engineers?



Gogol Bordello: "Immigraniada (We Comin' Rougher)" - Boing Boing



Inside a termite mound - Boing Boing



Around the Solar System - The Big Picture - Boston.com



Chemists discover method to create high-value chemicals from biomass



YouTube - Flying with the fastest birds on the planet: Peregrine Falcon & Gos 



Hawk - Animal Camera - BBC


Op-Ed Columnist - The Angry Rich and Taxes - NYTimes.com



Limnion Geothermal Energy Reactors Offer Idiot-proof Installation, Small Footprint : TreeHugger



Unglazed Clay Pots Create Efficient Drip Irrigation (Video) : TreeHugger



Facing Social Pressures, Families Disguise Girls as Boys in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com



Rapid Prototyping for Microcontrollers | mbed



A Perk of Our Evolution - Pleasure in Pain of Chilies - NYTimes.com


Apollo discovery tells a new story



Turning over a new leaf



Study examines men's priorities when looking for mates



Buyer backlash: Why do slogans about saving money increase spending?



Paper-thin supercapacitor has higher capacitance when twisted than any non-

twisted supercapacitor



New Compass Uses Light Beams to Detect Magnetic Field | Wired Science | Wired.com


Chemistry Ph.D. thesis explained via dance routine - Boing Boing



Rogue high-speed traderbots chaffing the market with thousands of nonsensical transactions every second - Boing Boing



Juárez, Mexico: Amid escalating violence against press, local paper asks narcos, 

"What do you want from us?" - Boing Boing



Amazon.com: People of Walmart: Shop and Awe (9781402250712): Andrew Kipple, Adam Kipple, Luke Wherry: Books



BBC News - A journey from Hudson Bay north to the Canadian Arctic



Designers Create a "More Efficient" Chainless Bike : TreeHugger


Starling Flocks Mesmerize in Coordinated Swarms : TreeHugger



Yahoo's New Efficient Data Center Modeled After Chicken Coops : TreeHugger



Introducing Stringbike: the bike with no chain (w/ Video)



Global map of air pollution - Boing Boing



BBC News - Chernobyl plant life endures radioactivity



Eileen Nearne, Wartime Spy, Dies at 89 - The New York Times


How the CIA ran a secret army of 3,000 assassins - Asia, World - The Independent



Baby Carrots: Eat ‘Em Like Junk Food

Thursday, September 16, 2010

The
German Military is Freaked Out by Prospect of Peak Oil :
TreeHugger




The
Italian Mafia is Making Money with Wind Power : TreeHugger



Technology
Review: The Next Stage of Online Video Evolution




Technology
Review: Building an Implantable Artificial Kidney




Movie
Review - 'I’m Still Here' - Joaquin Phoenix Tries Running Away From
the Circus - NYTimes.com




Researchers
expand yeast's sugary diet to include plant fiber




Lasers
keep mini helicopter hovering for hours




Bionic
speech recognition



New
method to help computer vision systems decipher outdoor scenes




Tour
of a sub-100 sqft house - Boing Boing




Nail
house - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Interview with the Assassin (2002)


Technology Review: Subway Trains to Generate Power for the Grid



German Identity, Long Dormant, Reasserts Itself - NYTimes.com



Wildflower uses self-imposed armour to fight off disease



Soldiers' helmets could control brain activity with ultrasound



Paris building to be warmed by commuters' body heat



Rich-world diseases could hijack poor world's biotech - health - 13 September 2010 - New Scientist


Solar funnel



Archaeologists Sound Alarm about Risk BP Drilling in Libya Could Pose to Ancient Sites : TreeHugger



Technology Review: Wheelchair Makes the Most of Brain Control



The Oil Spill’s Money Squeeze - NYTimes.com



Secret Corps of Filmmakers Documented Nuclear Bomb Tests - NYTimes.com



Tug of War Pits Genes of Parents in the Fetus - NYTimes.com


Melting sea ice forces walruses ashore in Alaska



EPA told gas drilling does, does not taint water



YouTube - Ants Circle



Tightened muzzle on scientists is 'Orwellian'



BBC News - How good software makes us stupid



Field Report - Will Work for Food - NYTimes.com


Shareable: Is Algae the DIY Answer to Fuel & Food Crises?



Remarkable Creatures - Hybrids May Thrive Where Parent Species Fear to Tread - NYTimes.com



globeandmail.com: Shell to spend billions to boost natural-gas sites



YouTube - Law School Husslin



PA Homeland Security Spies on Anti-Drilling Activists, Reports to Drilling Company : TreeHugger


Human Impacts on Deep Sea Floor Measured for First Time : TreeHugger



Technology Review: Turning Exhaust Gas Into Fuel



China's Young Workers - Video Library - The New York Times



U.S. Zeroes In on Use of Antibiotics by Pork Producers - NYTimes.com



Home's electrical wiring acts as antenna to receive low-power sensor data



Stairway to Heaven | Flabber


9/11 Memorial Lights Trap Thousands of Birds | Wired Science | Wired.com



For Fighters, Success May Come Down to Smell | Playbook



Laminated Linen Protected Alexander the Great : Discovery News



Prison inmates vs bulls - Boing Boing



Voices of the Transition - Trailer (english) on Vimeo