Sunday, January 23, 2011

Atlantic currents have seen 'drastic' changes: study

 

TNT Degradation within the Sheep Rumen

 

Lightweight Thermal Energy Recovery (LighTER) Systems

 

Wave Disk Engine


 Fetuses may have a womb with a view - life - 09 January 2011 - New Scientist

 

How the vaccine crisis was meant to make money -- Deer 342 -- bmj.com

 

China and Intellectual Property Theft - NYTimes.com

 

Tired Of Waiting, Haitians Build Their Own Homes : NPR

 

Short Sharp Science: The touchdown that shook the Earth

 

Thunderstorms caught making antimatter - physics-math - 11 January 2011 - New Scientist


CO2 Levels at Leaking Canadian Carbon Storage Project Could Asphyxiate You In One Place : TreeHugger

 

Scare Flies Away With Water With This Chic Version Of The Popular Latin American Bug Repellent : TreeHugger

 

Honey laundering: The sour side of nature’s golden sweetener - The Globe and Mail

 

A Battery-Ultracapacitor Hybrid - Technology Review

 

Move Over, WALL-E: A Power-Line Putterer - NYTimes.com

 

Virus killer gets supercharged


A Walled Wide Web for Nervous Autocrats - WSJ.com

 

Tunisian Rioters Overwhelm Police Near Capital - NYTimes.com

 

Vaccine fridge keeps its cool during 10-day power cut - tech - 13 January 2011 - New Scientist

 

Fall of Roman Empire linked to wild shifts in climate - environment - 13 January 2011 - New Scientist

 

'96 Jeep Cherokee: Need Opinions - JeepForum.com

 

BBC News - A Caribbean cruise with former CIA chiefs


Prion disease can spread through air - health - 13 January 2011 - New Scientist

 

Crystal sieves could make oil sands greener - tech - 14 January 2011 - New Scientist

 

Engineered chickens can't pass on flu - health - 14 January 2011 - New Scientist

 

When Will the Food Bubble Burst? : TreeHugger

 

On the Size of China's Economy, a Dissenter - NYTimes.com

 

For the Arab World, a Potent Lesson - NYTimes.com


Arizona Shootings Trigger Surge in Glock Sales Amid Fear of Ban - Bloomberg

 

Computer History Museum Unveils Its Makeover - NYTimes.com

 

No McMansions for Millennials - Developments - WSJ

 

Thieves make BMW hottest car in Detroit - Business - Autos - msnbc.com

 

Lori Nix's haunting, sorrowful photographed dioramae - Boing Boing

 

BBC News - BP and Russia in Arctic oil deal


Stuxnet Worm Used Against Iran Was Tested in Israel - NYTimes.com

 

Tubercle Technology blades - Ask Nature - the Biomimicry Design Portal: biomimetics, architecture, biology, innovation inspired by nature, industrial design

 

BBC News - Sudanese diaspora in Europe vote for secession

 

New Influx of Haitians, but Not Who Was Expected - NYTimes.com

 

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Tunisia copycat burnings in 3 North African countries | Reuters


Swiss whistleblower hands bank data to WikiLeaks | Reuters

 

The genetic basis of friendship networks - life - 17 January 2011 - New Scientist

 

BBC News - China banks lend more than World Bank - report

 

BBC News - Dutch scientist advocates bugs as a green superfood

 

Lenore Skenazy: Eek! A Male! - WSJ.com

 

BBC News - Mansion unlocked after 100 years


Breakthrough in converting heat waste to electricity

 

In Paul Clemens’s ‘Punching Out,’ Part of Detroit Disappears - NYTimes.com

 

Video: Alaskan Surfers Ride Epic 5-Mile Wave | Playbook

 

New Magnets Could Solve Our Rare-Earth Problems - Technology Review

 

In China, Traffic Jam Is Windfall for Enterprising Villagers - NYTimes.com

 

YouTube - Sarah Palin Battle Hymn


The economic jungle: How ecologists could save banking - physics-math - 19 January 2011 - New Scientist

 

Black market steals half a million pollution permits - environment - 20 January 2011 - New Scientist

 

Blackwater Founder Is Said to Back African Mercenaries - NYTimes.com

 

BBC News - FBI charges 127 alleged mobsters in north-east US

 

New Scientist TV: Mini robot helicopters build towers, pyramids or walls

 

Slime Molds Are Earth’s Smallest, Oldest Farmers | Wired Science | Wired.com


Mark Visser surfs massive waves on moonlit night with LED vest and surfboard - Boing Boing

 

Mark Landis, Prolific Art Forger - NYTimes.com

 

In India, a Right-to-Know Law Comes With Risks - NYTimes.com

 

Tunisia’s Inner Workings Emerge on Twitter - NYTimes.com

 

One Per Cent: Green machine: Bringing a forest to the desert

 

BBC News - Are strict Chinese mothers the best?


One Per Cent: Boeing invention lets planes spot dangerous turbulence

 

Ex-Spy, Duane R. Clarridge, Runs His Own Private C.I.A. - NYTimes.com

 

Maybe Japan Was Just a Warm-Up to the Rivalry With China - NYTimes.com

3 comments:

  1. Gittes,

    Thank you once again for a delightful assortment of interesting linked articles.

    My Potemkin Village duties now include "Welcome Wagon" visits to the crowds who were asked to gather in front of the new façades.

    claudio

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  2. Gittes,

    Avian cholera reaches the Artic, Eider ducks dying in great numbers.

    Tough times ahead, for all species.

    claudio

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  3. Gittes,

    I have had a day or two of snow shoveling here in Zero City.

    I finished reading the Madoff Chronicles and its is clear that ALL of his employees (AKA family members plus mistresses) knew from day one that it was a major scam operation.

    B. Madoff is Global Scumbag #1.

    claudio

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