BBC News - Oxfam warns about effects of 'land rush'

For-Profit Colleges, Vulnerable G.I.’s - NYTimes.com

 

Energy 'fracking' critics raise new concern: sand - US news - Environment - msnbc.com

 

Date volgens haar, date volgens hem | Flabber

 

How Should We Make Hard Decisions? | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

In North Dakota, Wasted Natural Gas Flickers Against the Sky - NYTimes.com

 

Scientists Discover Gene Behind Melting Zombie Caterpillars : TreeHugger

Recyclers Extract Coolant From Old Refrigerators - NYTimes.com

 

Sept. 27, 1941: First Liberty Ship Launched, More to Follow | This Day In Tech | Wired.com

 

Divers Set Sights on Sunken WWII Ship Laden With Silver - NYTimes.com

 

747s as flying Unix hosts: SCADA in the sky – Boing Boing

 

How tide predicting, analog computers won World War II – Boing Boing

 

Oddities’ Ryan Cohn’s apartment – Boing Boing

A Way to Make Motor Fuel Out of Wood? Add Water - NYTimes.com

 

MacArthur Genius Will Allen Shows Us the Future of Urban Agriculture (Video) : TreeHugger

 

Will robots steal your job? If you're highly educated, you should still be afraid. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine

 

New Battery Could Be Just What the Grid Ordered - Technology Review

 

GPS Data on Beijing Cabs Reveals the Cause of Traffic Jams - Technology Review

 

Inside Alvin: Scientists as Makers – Boing Boing

Small Fixes - Poisoned Nectar Is a Double-Edged Delicacy for Mosquitoes - NYTimes.com

 

Kongsberg NSM anti-ship missile test - YouTube

 

Engineers 'cook' promising new heat-harvesting nanomaterials in microwave oven

 

Baby Sharks Birthed in Artificial Uterus | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

Canadian ice shelves halve in six years

 

Wall Street people in suits drink champagne as protests rage – Boing Boing

Fossil Fuel Subsidies to Hit $660 Billion by 2020 : TreeHugger

 

Line of clothes based on WWII Russian penal battalions – Boing Boing

 

Smartypants Occupy Wall Street protester makes Fox News interviewer look stupid, interview doesn’t air – Boing Boing

 

Strange Russian “numbers station” – Boing Boing

 

Images from Occupy Wall Street's Protest Camp : TreeHugger

 

At Chicago Board of Trade: “We are the 1 percent” signs mocking Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Chicago protests – Boing Boing

Debate Sharpens Over N.H.L. Safety Rules and Fighting - NYTimes.com

 

Protesters at ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Eat Well - NYTimes.com

 

How To Store Wind Power: Pump It Into A Big Underwater Balloon : TreeHugger

 

A swell trick with a nail and a block of wood – Boing Boing

 

Art Pope: The Multimillionaire Helping Republicans Win NC : NPR

 

Premier vows to protect jobs

Is the Near-Trillion-Dollar Student Loan Bubble About to Pop? | | AlterNet

 

Wind, Water, and Solar Power for the World - IEEE Spectrum

 

Quarry on Ont. farmland was the plan, firm says - Yahoo! News

 

BBC News - Ultraviolet light shone on cold winter conundrum

 

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TransCanada in Eminent Domain Fight Over Pipeline - NYTimes.com

 

To Get Water to Cities, California Farmers Paid Not to Plant - NYTimes.com

 

Trouble for Gilded-Age Beech Trees in Newport, Rhode Island - NYTimes.com

 

Burger King billboard gets diabetes graffiti – Boing Boing

 

Ancient cooking pots reveal gradual transition to agriculture

 

Mastodon - Cut you up with a Linoleum Knife - YouTube

Solar Still Makes Water Purification Easy, Works Like an Upside-Down Coffee Maker : TreeHugger

 

Smart Kitchen Space-Saver: Dish Drying Closet Above The Sink : TreeHugger

 

High-Living Spiders Make Skyscraper "Like a Haunted House" : TreeHugger

 

Another Reason To Move To Buffalo: The Architecture Is Amazing : TreeHugger

 

Modern-Day Johnny Appleseed Has Planted 13,849 Trees : TreeHugger

 

Can Software Patch the Ailing Power Grid? - Technology Review

Growing something out of nothing

 

's Werelds eerste kogelvormige vliegrobot | Flabber

 

It Has Begun: Suburbs Are Turning Into Slums : TreeHugger

 

16 Year Old Builds Tiny House for a Mortgage-Free Future (Video) : TreeHugger

 

China Takes Loss to Get Ahead in Desalination Industry - NYTimes.com

 

The Importance of Mind-Wandering | Wired Science | Wired.com

BBC News - Chinese buy their favourite Bordeaux by the vineyard

 

BBC News - Catch-22: Is the novel still relevant to modern soldiers?

 

Crony Capitalism Comes Home - NYTimes.com

 

America’s Exploding Pipe Dream - NYTimes.com

 

BBC News - Icelandic rocks could have steered Vikings

 

BBC News - Hewlett Packard to build servers using ARM-based chips

Use of Supercritical Water Could Cut Costs for Ethanol - Technology Review

 

Coal Ash Spill in Lake Michigan Occurs Within Days of New EPA Data on Hazardous Coal Ash Ponds : TreeHugger

 

Coffee and Power Site Aims to Get Jobs Done, Bit by Bit - NYTimes.com

 

Plastic bottles solve Nigeria's housing problem

 

Review: Urbanized Dissects the Modern Metropolis | Underwire | Wired.com

 

Linux Foundation memo: how to make a computer that doesn't lock out GNU/Linux - Boing Boing

Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard) - NYTimes.com

 

Sheep Lawn Mowers, and Other Go-Getters - NYTimes.com

 

What happens when you flush a toilet in the world's tallest building - Boing Boing

 

World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns | Environment | The Guardian

 

How Reclaimed Hand Tools Can Revive the Local Economy (Video) : TreeHugger

 

Adobe to Kill Mobile Flash, Focus on HTML5 - NYTimes.com

Birds help keep vineyards pest-free

 

Leonardo DiCaprio in Clint Eastwood’s ‘J. Edgar’ - NYTimes.com

 

U.S. and China on Brink of Trade War Over Solar Power Industry - NYTimes.com

 

20 kilovolts replaces push pins on this bulletin board - Hack a Day

 

BBC News - Amazon fire season 'linked to ocean temperature'

 

BBC News - Realising the high-speed wire-free dream

DIY Gas Mask

 

Renovation and Repair Creates Way More Jobs, Uses Far Less Material Than New Construction : TreeHugger

Stop Coddling the Super-Rich - NYTimes.com

Anger in Japan Over Withheld Radiation Forecasts - NYTimes.com

 

Growing Pains for Burning Man Festival - NYTimes.com

 

BBC News - New body 'liquefaction' unit unveiled in Florida funeral home

 

BBC News - Hurricane Irene: Did New York over-react?

 

Two AI chatBots attempt to have a conversation with each other – Boing Boing

 

Desktop jellyfish tank – Boing Boing

Gorgeous machined Stirling engine kits – Boing Boing

 

Fighting Trousers: Quality Victorian-parody rap video – Boing Boing

 

Paintings of paused VHS frames – Boing Boing

 

In-game Ponzi nets US$50K – Boing Boing

 

Stasi spywear: the inept art of commie disguise – Boing Boing

 

How do you think this stairway was built? – Boing Boing

SF mockumentary: ‘Ghosts With Shit Jobs’ — China looks at westerners with awful jobs – Boing Boing

 

Why poor people support tax breaks for the rich? – Boing Boing

 

Economic inequality in America: how bad is it? – Boing Boing

 

Heat from Fingertips Could Help ATM Hackers - Technology Review

 

Hunting down farmyard pests with technology - Hack a Day

 

Crazy slingshot guy at it again with a 220 lb steel ball cannon - Hack a Day

3D Printed Model of a Virus Self Assembles When Shaken - YouTube

 

Virtual Machine for microcontrollers lets you run Python on AVR chips - Hack a Day

 

Artist Builds Awesome "Magical" Timber Homes (Video) : TreeHugger

 

Car-to-Car Communication System to Get a Massive Road Test - Technology Review

 

One Sperm Donor, 150 Sons and Daughters - NYTimes.com

 

Canadian embassies have till Sept. 15 to hang the Queen's portrait - The Globe and Mail

World's Largest Geodesic Dome House Runs On Renewable Power (Photos) : TreeHugger

 

An American Drug Lord in Acapulco | Rolling Stone Culture

 

Home-Stagers Who Have Perfected the Art of Living Well - NYTimes.com

 

Sound, the Way the Brain and the Ear Prefer to Hear It - NYTimes.com

 

Was Marx Right? - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review

 

Beverly Hall, Schools Chief During Atlanta Cheating Scandal, Defends Actions - NYTimes.com

Chili peppers’ surprising pain relief – Boing Boing

 

In Detroit, Two Wage Levels Are the New Way of Work - NYTimes.com

 

Sept. 12, 1958: Kilby Chips In, Integrates Circuit | This Day In Tech | Wired.com

 

New York on Front Lines of Fight Against Emerald Ash Borer - NYTimes.com

 

Grandpa...reminiscing. - Imgur

 

Vladimir Putin, Action Man - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic

Secrets of WTC Shipwreck Sleuthed Out : Discovery News

 

British to Test Geoengineering Scheme  - Technology Review

 

How big are solar flares, really? – Boing Boing

 

The psychopathic neurobiologist – Boing Boing

 

Birds of a feather talk together - Australian Geographic

For Waterlilies, an Odd Refuge in Texas - NYTimes.com

 

Future Iceland Eruptions Could Be Deadly for Europe | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

Nanotube Cables Hit a Milestone: As Good as Copper - Technology Review

 

Uprooting the Old, Familiar Parking Meter - NYTimes.com

 

David Shaftel - The Food Was Great, the Groveling Wasn’t - NYTimes.com

 

Expressing Technology: A Roundtable With Sir James Dyson | Epicenter | Wired.com

Stunning Film On the Beauty and Craft of Brooklyn's First Modern Distiller (Video) : TreeHugger

 

Clever Tunnel System Makes Chickens Do The Gardening (Video) : TreeHugger

Sandia Labs “Hopper” Robot - Hack a Day

Hideouts or Sacred Spaces? Experts Baffled by Mysterious Underground Chambers - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Cheap Plastic Made from Sugarcane - Technology Review

Human-Powered Drill Strikes Water in Tanzania, Offers Hope for Cheaper Wells (Video) : TreeHugger

One-Time Pad Encryption Dates Back to Telegraph Codebook - NYTimes.com

Attack of the Deadly Slime: Farm Effluent Ruins French Beaches | Wired Science | Wired.com

How Algorithms Shape Our World, Fascinating TED Talk by Kevin Slavin – Boing Boing

Awesome Vertical Garden With Recycled PET Bottles At Poor Family Home In Sao Paulo : TreeHugger

Reforestation's cooling influence -- a result of farmer's past choices

Grandparents connected to success of human race

New York - Empire of Evolution - NYTimes.com

Cod resurgence in Canadian waters

Lessons From the U.S. Economy's Malaise - NYTimes.com

Polar Dwellers Have Bigger Eyes, Brains | Wired Science | Wired.com

Feds silence scientist over salmon study

Marvelous Destroyers: The Fungus-Farming Beetles | Wired Science | Wired.com

Bottle and Can Scavengers in Brooklyn Make Every Penny Count - NYTimes.com

Practice of Water Banking Questioned in Lawsuits - NYTimes.com

Sneak Peek! Designing The Utility Bike of The Future (Video) : TreeHugger

China’s Plan to Beat U.S.: Missiles, Missiles and More Missiles | Danger Room | Wired.com

Iowa Eclipses Canada in Grain Production, Challenges China in Soybean Production : TreeHugger

New Language for Programming in Parallel - Technology Review

Data Show Weaknesses, Strengths in U.S. Manufacturing - Technology Review

In Cappadocia, Returning to the Cave - On Location - NYTimes.com

Wooden machine belongs in Willy Wonka’s factory - Hack a Day

A Vine Bounces Back Sound to Signal Bats - NYTimes.com

Soybean genetic treasure trove found in Swedish village

Tequila plant could fuel vehicles and help reduce emissions

Life in a Day Distills 4,500 Hours of Intimate Video Into Urgent Documentary | Underwire | Wired.com

Your Genome Structure, Not Genetic Mutations, Makes You Different | Wired Science | Wired.com

Train crash explanation raises more public doubts

Like-for-like photos of life in Mumbai and NYC – Boing Boing

Flying Drone Can Crack Wi-Fi Networks, Snoop On Cell Phones - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall - Forbes

Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo System Sounds Better than Your new One

Why Americans Are So Angry - Newsroom: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont)

Researchers Say Vulnerabilities Could Let Hackers Spring Prisoners From Cells | Threat Level | Wired.com

Sun-free photovoltaics - MIT News Office

In Test Tube, Hint of Chemicals Coming Alive - NYTimes.com

Permaculture Emerges From the Underground - NYTimes.com

A Japanese POW in the Soviet Union « Dickiebo – Yesterday's Man!

Glacier National Park, Montana, and Its Fading Glaciers - NYTimes.com

Ultrafine Location Fixes - Technology Review

Introducing RoundTail (TM), a revolutionary custom made bicycle frame that dramatically increases comfort.

Hydroponic Produce Gains Fans and Flavor - NYTimes.com

Who Succumbs to Addiction, and Who Is Left Unscathed? - NYTimes.com

Cities See Another Side to Old Tracks - NYTimes.com

‪NYC 2nd ave subway construction worker, Gary‬

‏ - YouTube

Swede held for building nuclear reactor in his kitchen - The Local

Galactic-Scale Energy | Do the Math

Pewter model of the Texas School Book Depository – Boing Boing

Ultimaker: high-speed, low-cost 3D printer – Boing Boing

Matt Damon explains non-financial motivations and the education sector – Boing Boing

Kinetic sculpture with 1,200 Matchbox-type cars – Boing Boing

The Sign of an Advancing Society? An Organized War Effort - NYTimes.com

When Will Urban Honey Bees Run Out of Food? : TreeHugger

The changing landscape of England

Russia Becomes a Magnet for American Fast-Food Chains - NYTimes.com

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power of friction‬‏ - YouTube

S.&P. Downgrades Debt Rating of U.S. For the First Time - NYTimes.com

BBC News - UK student wins Microsoft Excel World Championship

BBC News - China scolds US over S&P credit downgrade

BBC News - On the trail of George Orwell’s outcasts

BBC News - The Great Gatsby: What it says to modern America

Boolean Logic with 555s – The Paleotechnologist

New leukemia treatment exceeds 'wildest expectations' - Health - Cancer - msnbc.com

Nature’s Economist Calculates the Need for More Protection - NYTimes.com