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
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Gittes,
ReplyDeleteTreasures galore, thanks for sharing.
claudio