Ontario Premier Says No to NIMBY : TreeHugger
Bravo to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty for taking a stand against NIMBY Scarberians who are objecting to the idea of a wind farm two to four kilometers off the Scarborough Bluffs, a deteriorating sandy hill overlooking Lake Ontario. Energy

How the Crash Will Reshape America - The Atlantic (March 2009)

The crash of 2008 continues to reverberate loudly nationwide—destroying jobs, bankrupting businesses, and displacing homeowners. But already, it has damaged some places much more severely than others. On the other side of the crisis, America’s economic landscape will look very different than it does today. What fate will the coming years hold for New York, Charlotte, Detroit, Las Vegas? Will the suburbs be ineffably changed? Which cities and regions can come back strong? And which will never come back at all?

Ex-G.M. Workers Try to Reboot Their Lives - NYTimes.com

Their $28-an-hour jobs gone, laid-off workers from a plant in Wisconsin are trying to reinvent themselves.

Involuntary maybe, but certainly not random

Our eyes are in constant motion. Even when we attempt to stare straight at a stationary target, our eyes jump and jiggle imperceptibly. Although these unconscious flicks, also known as microsaccades, had long been considered mere 'motor noise,' researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies ...

Children's early gesture have important link to school preparedness (Video)

Children who convey more meanings with gestures at age 14 months have much larger vocabularies at 54 months than children who convey fewer meanings and are accordingly better prepared for school, according to research at the University of Chicago published in the journal Science on Friday, Feb. 13.

Abroad - Before the Wall Fell, Art in Two Germanys Often Spoke the Same Tongue - NYTimes.com

An exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art mixes works from West and East Germany, often in ways that blur the distinction.

CSI Scandinavia: Computer Dissects Cadavers With No Scalpel
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What Makes Us Human? Neanderthal Genome Holds Clues | Wired Science from Wired.com

Why do boys and girls prefer different toys? | Psychology Today Blogs

BarbieThroughout the world, boys and girls prefer to play with different types of toys. Boys typically like to play with cars and trucks, while girls typically choose to play with dolls. Why is this? A traditional sociological explanation is that boys and girls are socialized and encouraged to play with different types of toys by their parents, peers, and the “society.” Growing scientific evidence suggests, however, that boys’ and girls’ toy preferences may have a biological origin.

AskMen.com - 5 Things You Didn't Know: AK-47

Here are 5 things you didn't know about AK-47 assault rifles.

Questioning Authority: A Rethinking of the Infamous Milgram Experiments | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet

Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them - Haaretz - Israel News

Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them
-News and commentary relating to events in Israel, the occupied territories, and the world, along with an archive of past issues

The Frame: Chronicling the economic downturn

Mindfuck Movies by Matthew Baldwin - The Morning News

An online magazine, published weekdays.

34% Drop in US Electric Demand Possible Through Energy Efficiency Improvements: Rocky Mountain Institute : TreeHugger

photo: Eric Jusino We often say that making energy efficiency improvements is the easiest way to reduce energy demand, but a new report coming out of the Rocky Mountain Institute shows just how much of a reduction in electric

Europe’s Recession Deeper Than Expected - NYTimes.com

The economy of the euro area declined by 1.5 percent in the fourth quarter, 6 percent on an annualized basis, according to new figures.

Flash of Genius (2008)

Directed by Marc Abraham. With Jake Abel, Aaron Abrams, Alan Alda. Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper. Visit IMDb for Photos, Showtimes, Cast, Crew, Reviews, Plot Summary, Comments, Discussions, Taglines, Trailers, Posters, Fan Sites

Winners gallery 2009 - World Press Photo

Mambo - the dynamic portal engine and content management system

Pre-verbal number sense common to monkeys, babies, college kids
Basic arithmetic and 'number sense' appear to be part of the shared evolutionary past of many primates; it's the use of language to explain abstractions that apparently takes human math to a higher level.

Engineers create intelligent molecules that seek-and-destroy diseased cells

Current treatments for diseases like cancer typically destroy nasty malignant cells, while also hammering the healthy ones. Using new advances in synthetic biology, researchers are designing molecules intelligent enough to recognize diseased cells, leaving the healthy cells alone.

Twisted radio beams could untangle the airwaves - tech - 13 February 2009 - New Scientist

Transmitting radio beams in a helical shape provides a new way to encode information, a possible solution to crowded airwaves

Cooking Has Been Both Boon and Bane for Humans | Wired Science from Wired.com

CHICAGO — Raw-food devotees take note: Your diet is not in any way natural. Humans are as adapted to cooking our food as cows are to eating grass, or ticks

RT: Features : Almost all water in Russia is undrinkable

RT is the first 24/7 English-language news channel bring the Russian view on global news. RT provides viewers with original stories, breaking news, comments on politics, business, and public affairs.

China aims for its own Silicon Valley | csmonitor.com

Like the 'Asian tigers' before it, China is pushing into higher-end manufacturing and innovation.

New Wave Power Device Will Attach to Offshore Wind Turbine : TreeHugger
Animation of how the Wave Treader is viewable at: Green Ocean Energy Ltd We’ve profiled different methods of generating power from the waves on a number of occasions, and usually there’s one commenter who suggests that someone develop a

Why Are Australian and New Zealand Houses So Cool? : TreeHugger

It is a question I have pondered since I first saw Andre Hodgskin's Bachkit way back at the turn of the century. Coming from another big country with a small population, I wondered why their stuff was so cool,

Book About Air-Filtering Plants: How to Grow Fresh Air : TreeHugger

50 House Plants that Purify Your Home or Office Yesterday, I wrote about the best air-filtering house plants and TreeHugger reader Tim pointed out in the comments that B. C. Wolverton, the first author of the NASA study on

Square Feet - Frank Gehry’s Software Keeps Buildings on Budget - NYTimes.com

Frank Gehry, known for using curved shapes in his architecture, also offers modeling software to compute the cost of building those designs.

Is It Still a Carolina Wren If It No Longer Calls Carolina Home? : TreeHugger

Image via: Audubon Society Following closely on the heels of a recent report by the University of York, the Audubon Society today announced that the Carolina Wren is just one of over 305 bird species that are now spending

More power from bumps in the road: Energy-harvesting shock absorbers

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of MIT undergraduate students has invented a shock absorber that harnesses energy from small bumps in the road, generating electricity while it smoothes the ride more effectively than conventional shocks. The students hope to initially find customers among companies that operate ...

Bushfires in Victoria, Australia - The Big Picture - Boston.com
The Big Picture - News Stories in Photographs from the Boston Globe

English Russia » Fool Your Neighbors

Interesting news from Russia in English language.

Survey: 31% of Europeans blame economic crisis on Jews - Israel News, Ynetnews

News: Anti-Defamation League poll conducted in seven European countries shows almost half of Europeans believe Jews more loyal to Israel than countries they live in, 40% say Jews have too much power

Human evolution kicks into high gear - Science- msnbc.com

To suggest that humans have undergone an evolutionary makeover from Stone Age times to the present is nothing short of blasphemous. Yet a team of researchers has done just that.

West Antarctic Glacier Disintegrating Rapidly: First Hand Account : TreeHugger

photo: Wikipedia The effects of climate change on Antarctica seem to be coming more clearly into focus recently. At least based on things posted here on TreeHugger. For a very interesting first hand perspective on what’s happening down there,

Technology Review: Hybrids Powered by Air

Storing energy with compressed air, rather than batteries, could cut the cost of hybrid vehicles.

Technology Review: A Laser That Heals Surgeons' Incisions

Lasers and a century-old dye could supplant needles and thread.

Two Chicago Towers Fall Victim to Scarce Financing - NYTimes.com

Two projects that stood out as harbingers of a bright future for residential development in Chicago have ground to a halt.

Massive Theft, Vandalism Plaguing Parisian Bike Sharing Program : TreeHugger

Broken Vélibs in Paris (Sybil Star on Flickr) Eighteen months into a wildly successful launch, the Parisian bike-sharing program Vélib - a portmanteau of vélo (bicycle) and liberté (freedom) – has run into serious problems with theft and vandalism of

Kevin Kelly -- The Technium

Engineers revolutionize nano-device fabrication using amorphous metals

Yale engineers have created a process that may revolutionize the manufacture of nano-devices from computer memory to biomedical sensors by exploiting a novel type of metal. The material can be molded like plastics to create features at the nano-scale and yet is more durable and stronger than silicon ...

Dangerous laser printer particles identified

The identity and origin of tiny, potentially hazardous particles emitted from common laser printers have been revealed by a new study at Queensland University of Technology.

For Dinner and Fast - The Taste of Home - NYTimes.com
Immigrants in New York bring with them their daily dishes, meals that could easily make their way into the city’s larger repertory of dinners for busy nights.

Ravenous Clock Runs Backward, Scares Children

Get in-depth tech news coverage from Wired and read about how it is shaping culture, education, entertainment, communications and technology.

Some Banks Want to Return Government Money - NYTimes.com

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have indicated their companies were hoping to return bailout funds as quickly as possible, on worries the government may intrude further in their business.

Laid-Off Foreigners Flee as Dubai Spirals Down - NYTimes.com [via claudio]

As layoffs hit Dubai’s foreign workers, their departure is making parts of the city look like a ghost town.

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China declares drought emergency
China declares an emergency in north and central drought-hit regions, where nearly four million people are short of water.

Will Recycling Survive the Recession? : TreeHugger

Photo via Stock.Xchng The recycling industry is in a state of panic, hit by two forces beyond its control. The first problem is the economy (go figure). Demand for consumer products is down; retailers are focusing on price versus

Planet Hazard: Mapping Air Pollutants in the U.S. : TreeHugger

Pinning Polluters to the Map The Planet Hazard website takes data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and makes it easy to read by putting it up on Google maps. Because is maps 86,320 polluters, browsing the data can

Biomimicry Breakthrough: Butterfly Wings Could Lead to Better Solar Panels : TreeHugger

A Butterfly-Powered Future? Biomimicry is the act of applying biological principles to to human designs. Velcro is the most obvious example (see more of them in our Nature-Inspired Innovations slideshow). The latest discovery has to do with butterfly wings

Akeena Aims to Make Solar Cheaper With AC Integrated Panels : TreeHugger

Image via: Akeena Solar Akeena Solar, maker of photovoltaic panels and racking systems, and Enphase Energy, maker of microinverters, have joined up to make integrated systems even more integrated. Taking out steps in the installation process, taking out steps

What Slums Can Teach Us About Sustainability : TreeHugger

A low-income area being razed in Istanbul. In the name of redevelopment, many low-income neighborhoods in Istanbul are being torn down, and the residents relocated to high-rise sites (apartment blocks) on the outskirts of the city. But rather than

BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | 'My life cleaning Delhi's sewers'
Rupa Jha meets the men who risk their lives unblocking the sewers of Delhi.

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Zakaria: The Canadian Solution | Newsweek Voices - Fareed Zakaria | Newsweek.com

Canadian banks are typically leveraged at 18 to 1--compared with U.S. banks at 26 to 1.

Have Car, Need Briefs? In Russia, Barter Is Back - NYTimes.com

In a sign of the financial times, barter deals made up 3 to 4 percent of total sales in Russia in November.

Trying to Live on 500K in New York City - NYTimes.com

The president's Wall Street salary cap threatens life as some know it in Manhattan.

The Feed - Farm Living (Subsidized by a Job Elsewhere) - NYTimes.com

More Americans are making a living from farming, but subsidizing their work with an off-the-farm job.

The Way We Live Now - The Toxic Paradox - Can We Protect Our Children From Everything? - NYTimes.com
Can we really protect our kids from everything?

The End of Alone - The Boston Globe

At our desk, on the road, or on a remote beach, the world is a tap away. It's so cool. And yet it's not. what we lose with our constant connectedness.

Will Allen's Innovative Aquaculture System Insprires Commercial Application : TreeHugger

Sweet Water Organics' warehouse, pre-fish by Emmanuel Pratt viaMilwaukee Renaissance Will Allen has received a lot of recognition lately. The Milwaukee resident was named a MacArthur genius, and he came in fourth in the voting to become the White

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Fire rips through Beijing hotel

Firefighters have been battling a blaze at the yet to be opened Mandarin hotel.

Best Air-Filtering House Plants According to NASA! : TreeHugger

Plants to Filter the Air in Your House Having good indoor air quality is very important, especially since many of us spend so much time inside. NASA did a study to find out which plants were best to filter

What’s Your New Plan B? - NYTimes.com

The old Plan B was a fantasy of dropping everything for a better life. Now it’s the backup plan for when the worst comes to pass.

Circulation Drops for Celebrity Magazines - NYTimes.com
Defying the maxim that escapism sells in tough times, celebrity gossip magazines took a recessionary hit last year, with some experiencing double-digit declines in circulation.

How an Antarctic worm makes antifreeze and what that has to do with climate change

Two Brigham Young University researchers who just returned from Antarctica are reporting a hardy worm that withstands its cold climate by cranking out antifreeze. And when its notoriously dry home runs out of water, it just dries itself out and goes into suspended animation until liquid water brings ...

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Cognitive Computing Project Aims to Reverse-Engineer the Mind | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

Imagine a computer that can process text, video and audio in an instant, solve problems on the fly, and do it all while consuming just 10 watts of power. It

Acrassicauda, an Iraqi Metal Band, Moves to America - NYTimes.com
In Baghdad their practice space was bombed. Now an Iraqi heavy metal band has found refuge in America.

What your mother did when she was young has an effect on your memory

A mother's life experience can affect the biology of her offspring, according to new animal research in the February 4 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The study shows that a stimulating environment improved the memory of young mice with a memory-impairing genetic defect and also improved the memory ...

Clive Thompson on How More Info Leads to Less Knowledge

Get Wired's take on technology business news and the Silicon Valley scene including IT, media, mobility, broadband, video, design, security, software, networking and internet startups on Wired.com

Trial Begins for HIV Gene Therapy | Wired Science from Wired.com

Gene therapy that could immunize people against the most common type of HIV is ready to be tested on humans. Recruiting for the trial began Tuesday, and the first people

Taking Traffic Control Lessons — From Ants | Wired Science from Wired.com

If humans took their cues from ants, they might spend less time in traffic. When opposing streams of leafcutter ants share a narrow path, they instinctively alternate flows in the

U.K. physicist invents inexpensive, water-filled eyeglasses to help poor -- chicagotribune.com

OXFORD, England — Joshua Silver, a lifelong tinkerer, was fiddling around one day with a cheap water-filled lens he'd built as an optics experiment when he noticed something interesting.

Transport Ships Turned Into Floating Parking Garages : TreeHugger
source Selling cars, fueling cars, building garages for cars are a major part of the economy. And the factories kept turning them out long after the market for them crashed. Now it appears that not only are all the

Greener Drugs At Swedish Doctors' Fingertips : TreeHugger

Little green pills via Deco Fernandez @ flickr. Sweden has created a new database to comply with European Union legislation and to let doctors see if the drugs they are prescribing might potentially harm the environment. Many antidepressants, painkillers,

Resilient in Hard Times - The Family Business - NYTimes.com

After a few generations, memories of other downturns can inspire frugality and steadfastness.

Obama Calls for ‘Common Sense’ on Executive Pay - NYTimes.com

President Obama unveiled a salary cap of $500,000 for top executives at companies that receive the largest amounts of bailout money.

Study suggests link between agricultural chemicals and frog decline

(PhysOrg.com) -- Around the world, amphibian populations are in decline, and scientists have not been able to figure out why. Now a study of leopard frogs in Pennsylvania has identified a possible culprit, and the ramifications are troubling, according to a Penn State ecologist.

Seed: Urban Paradox

We create and distribute original Science is Culture content that communicates science's fast-changing place in our culture to an international audience. Our mission is to help nurture a science-savvy global citizenry by increasing public interest in science and public understanding of science.

Damn Interesting » Any Officer Who Goes Into Action Without His Sword is Improperly Dressed

Ottawa puzzled by sewage radiation find - Yahoo! Canada News

Canada's leader in breaking news coverage. Get the latest headlines, news stories and current events from Yahoo! Canada News

TED 2009: How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air : TreeHugger

How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air - TED 2009 TalkView more presentations from jaymeattle. (tags: plants greenhouse) In case you don’t know TED 2009 is going on in California: TreeHugger’s own Graham Hill is in attendance, but one thing

What’s Lurking in Your Countertop? - NYTimes.com

As the popularity of granite countertops has increased, so have reports that some are emitting radiation and radon at surprisingly high levels.

Microbanks Are Getting a Cash Infusion - NYTimes.com

The effort by the World Bank and the German government highlights how even small banks in poor countries are getting caught in the financial crisis.

MIT researchers make 'sixth sense' gadget

US university researchers have created a portable 'sixth sense' device powered by commercial products that can seamlessly channel Internet information into daily routines.

Rot's unique wood degrading machinery to be harnessed for better biofuels production
An international team led by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory have translated the genetic code that explains the complex biochemical machinery making brown-rot fungi uniquely destructive ...

Black wolves: The first genetically modified predators?

Emergence of black-colored wolves is the direct result of humans raising dogs as pets and beasts of burden, according to new research by a University of Calgary biologist published today by the prestigious academic journal Science. And dark coloring may also aid the survival of the species as wolf habitat ...

Man-Made Dam May Have Triggered Great China Quake | Wired Science from Wired.com

The weight of the water in a man-made reservoir may have triggered the massive earthquake that struck China in May killing more than 70,000 people. Immediately following the quake, scientists

Societal Cost of Meth Use Is Gauged in New Study - NYTimes.com

A new study said that methamphetamine abuse imposed costs of $23.4 billion in 2005, suggesting that the drug takes an economic toll nearly as great as heroin.

Op-Ed Columnist - Bailouts for Bunglers - NYTimes.com [via claudio]
The plans for rescuing the banking system are shaping up as a classic exercise in “lemon socialism”: taxpayers bear the cost if things go wrong, but stockholders and executives get the benefits if things go right.

Intel Demos RF Energy Harvesting Technology : TreeHugger

Photo via harvester/10837/picture/65530/'>Gizmag One of Intel's focuses for eco-technology is increasing our ability to harvest free energy sources from the sun to kinetic energy. This also includes RF energy harvesting from sources like WiFi, cell phone towers and TV

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Serotonin May Be Key to Controlling Locusts - NYTimes.com

Serotonin has been shown to be responsible for turning desert locusts from stand-offish loners into super-gregarious pests.

'The robots are coming'

Alexander Stoytchev and his three graduate students recently presented one of their robot's long and shiny arms to a visitor. Here, they said, swing it around.

Novel Technology Could Produce Biofuel for Around $0.65 a Liter
(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel technology for synthesising chemicals from plant material could produce liquid fuel for just over €0.50 ($0.65) a liter, say German scientists. But only if the infrastructure is set up in the right way, states the research published in this month’s issue of Biofuels, Bioproducts ...

Sun, sea and sewage in the playground of the rich in Dubai -Times Online

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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Bush shoe attack spawns artwork

A sculpture of an enormous shoe is erected in Iraq to honour a journalist who threw his footwear at ex-US President George W Bush.

Satoyama: Japan's Amazing Rice Fields and Farms : TreeHugger

(Photo from Ataru's blog Tokai no Inaka) Satoyama is a word that describes the farming landscape near the hills and mountains in Japan, where water is abundant and farmers for a long time have maintained the soil for rice

Film Review: Mad Cow Sacred Cow : TreeHugger

Karma Films Mad Cow Sacred Cow depicts the personal journey of filmmaker Anand Ramayya, a self-professed meat eating Hindu. Ramayya and his crew travel from his in-law's small cattle operation nestled in the heart of the Canadian prairies to

TreeHugger: A Trip to the California Academy of Sciences (Slideshow)

War-Time Advice is Still Relevant : TreeHugger
image from MOBPA The Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising is a little museum that displays packaging of brands over the last hundred years. It's interesting because packaging in the old days was very simple and straight forward, with

The Green Belt of World's Longest Desert Highway : TreeHugger

Noburu Ogata China's massive public works projects and geoengineering efforts are unparalleled. Pruned points us to an impressive emblem of both: The Tarim Desert Highway crosses the Taklamakan desert from north to south at a length of 552km, approximately

An Algae Bioreactor from Recycled Water Bottles

In this instructable, we describe how to build a photo-bioreactor that uses algae to convert carbon dioxide and sunlight...

Transfer of Mother’s Cells Molds Baby’s Immunity - NYTimes.com

Researchers have discovered that a mother’s cells slip across the placenta, enter the fetus’s body and teach it to treat these cells as its own.

Company Says It’s Found 1744 Wreck of Famed British Warship - NYTimes.com

Sea explorers say they have discovered the HMS Victory, which sank in 1744 carrying four tons of gold coins.

Experiments Bring Internet to Remote African Villages - NYTimes.com

When Internet connections arrive in small towns like Entasopia, Kenya, they put new tools into the hands of people hungry to use them, and for some there, that has had wide repercussions.

As Home Prices Go, So Do Cities - Floyd Norris Blog - NYTimes.com

A Company Prospers by Saving Poor People’s Lives - NYTimes.com

Vestergaard-Frandsen’s products are used in refugee camps and disaster areas all over the third world and are not only life-saving, but even beautiful.

Of mice and men: Cognitive scientists find both species equally adept at assessing risk

Humans and mice are both good at assessing risk in everyday tasks, according to a study by Rutgers University scientists published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Amazing Chemicals Invented by Nature, Rebuilt in Lab

See the latest multimedia and applications including videos, animations, podcasts, photos, and slideshows on Wired.com

Your Family May Once Have Been A Different Color : NPR

Skin pigmentation in human lineages has changed much faster and more frequently than scientists previously thought, says anthropologist Nina Jablonski. A population can be one color (light or dark), and 100 generations later &mdash; with no intermarriage &mdash; can be a very different color.

Another Dire Global Warming Effect: 10 Times As Many Ocean Dead Zones : TreeHugger
image: US DEP We’ve written about the subject of ocean dead zones on a number of occasions—basically that they’re expanding because of human activity, fertilizer run-off, other factors—but new research indicates that we may be writing about them even

Obama’s Order Is Likely to Tighten Auto Standards - NYTimes.com

President Obama will direct regulators to move swiftly on an application by 14 states to set strict automobile emissions and fuel efficiency standards.

Spread of Malaria Strain Feared as Drug Loses Potency - NYTimes.com

The parasite that causes the deadliest form of malaria is showing the first signs of resistance to the best new drug against it.

News Analysis - Nationalization Gets a New, Serious Look - NYTimes.com

The White House is dancing around a delicate question: Is the president prepared to nationalize the banking system?

Iceland’s Government Collapses - NYTimes.com

Large anti-government demonstrations in Iceland have been mirrored elsewhere in Europe, but the largest economies have been spared.

Can networked human computation solve computer language comprehension?

Researchers at the University of Essex hope to answer this question by getting more volunteers to take part in their online game, Phrase Detectives.

Scientists Identify Bacteria That Increase Plant Growth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Through work originally designed to remove contaminants from soil, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and their Belgium colleagues at Hasselt University have identified plant-associated microbes that can improve plant growth on marginal land. ...

New Catalyst Paves the Path for Ethanol-Powered Fuel Cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Delaware and Yeshiva University, has developed a new catalyst that could make ethanol-powered fuel cells feasible. The highly efficient ...

Future Watch: A.I. comes of age

After decades of limited application, artificial intelligence is everywhere. And it really works this time.

The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor: Scientific American

Two billion years ago parts of an African uranium deposit spontaneously underwent nuclear fission. The details of this remarkable phenomenon are just now becoming clear

Towns Are Sad to See Their Prisons Leaving the Scene of the Grime - WSJ.com

As states close more prisons, small towns are worrying how they'll replace the cheap labor the convicts provide.

Hundreds of Birds Killed in Oil Spill on Russia’s Sakhalin Island : TreeHugger

map: Wikipedia It may not be the Exxon Valdez spill, still less the TVA coal ash spill, but two miles of coastline on Sakhalin Island in the far east of Russia has been covered with fuel oil, killing hundreds

World's First Solar Powered Autonomous Snow Plow : TreeHugger
Photo via i-Shovel Robots are cool, especially when they're solar powered and let you stay inside where it's warm and toasty while they do the hard labor of shoveling snow. Check out the i-Shovel, a solar powered, fully automatic

Nail-less, glue-less almost screw-less fire finished bed

DO YOU MOVE A LOT FROM ONE HOUSE TO ANOTHER? you need nomad furniture and this bed is really good to move it around, jus...

Nuclear fusion-fission hybrid could contribute to carbon-free energy future

Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a new system that, when fully developed, would use fusion to eliminate most of the transuranic waste produced by nuclear power plants.

Engineers Closing the Gap Between High-Speed Data Transmission and Processing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego have achieved world-record speeds for real-time signal processing in an effort to meet ambitious goals set by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop the first Terabit-scale technology for optical ...

Climate Change Could Choke Oceans for 100,000 Years | Wired Science from Wired.com

According to a simulation of planetary warming trends, failure to drastically cut greenhouse gas pollution within the next half century could choke Earth's oceans for the next 100,000 years. digg_url

Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury - washingtonpost.com

MONDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or second-highest labeled ingredient, according to...

Obama Officials Tell Citibank To Ditch Plans For $50 Million Private Jet
Obama Officials Tell Citibank To Ditch Plans For $50 Million Private Jet - The Huffington Post

Nazi 'Angel of Death' not responsible for town of twins - life - 27 January 2009 - New Scientist

High birth rates of blond, blue-eyed twins in a Brazilian community are due to inbreeding, not Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele, say experts

Lynne Brindley: We're in danger of losing our memories | Technology | The Observer

We have to make sure digital doesn't mean ephemeral, says the head of the British Library, Lynne Brindley

Economic Stimulus! Sometimes What We’re Looking For is Right Under Our Nose. : TreeHugger

The Equitable Building, Denver, CO is currently undergoing significant energy retrofit including window rehab, lighting, controls, HVAC, and infiltration reduction. Image credit: St. Charles Town Co. By Elaine Gallagher Adams, RMI Economic stimulus? Have I got a deal for

What Women Know About Water : TreeHugger

Women carrying water in Ethiopia. Photo by magnusfranklin via Flickr. Last week, delegates from around the world met in Rome to help set the agenda for the 5th World Water Forum, which will be held in Istanbul this March.

Personal Health - Babies Know - A Little Dirt Is Good for You - NYTimes.com

The hygiene hypothesis suggests that organisms that enter the body along with “dirt” spur the development of a healthy immune system.

G.M. and Chrysler Are Closing Jobs Banks - NYTimes.com
General Motors said that it would eliminate its jobs bank, a program often held up by critics as a symbol of Detroit’s inefficiency, as of next week. Chrysler has ended its jobs bank.

For Refrigeration Problems, a Magnetically Attractive Solution

(PhysOrg.com) -- Your refrigerator’s humming, electricity-guzzling cooling system could soon be a lot smaller, quieter and more economical thanks to an exotic metal alloy discovered by an international collaboration working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s Center for Neutron ...

Autonomous Robots Invade Retail Warehouses | Wired Science from Wired.com

Next time you order a new pair of skinny jeans from Gap.com, you should know that you are helping welcome in the hive-mind robot overlords of retail. Warehouses run by

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Forest Death Rates Doubled on the West Coast : TreeHugger
Photo via gmnonic Since the 1970s, tree death rates have doubled on the west coast, according to research appearing in the journal Science. And the causes seem to be stress from drought and global warming.

James Lovelock’s One Last Chance to Save Humanity From Climate Change: Burying Large Amounts of Charcoal in the Ground : TreeHugger

For those that don’t know who James Lovelock is here’s the one sentence bio: Originator of the Gaia hypothesis, chemist, did work on atmospheric chlorofluorocarbons which eventually led them from being banned, advocate of nuclear power. Which is to

Chi-Town Roots

Upon leaving office, George W. Bush returned to the seclusion
of his 1,600-acre ranch 20 minutes out

Euro, Once a Boon, Is Now a Burden for Some - NYTimes.com

Euro membership allowed some countries to gloss over economic problems that have now roared to the fore.

Study Pinpoints Main Source of Asia’s Brown Air Pollution Cloud - NYTimes.com

Burning of biomass is the greater culprit in creating the soup of sooty haze over South Asia, a new study suggests.

Got a Question? Ask KGB Agents for the Answer - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

Keeping cool using the summer heat
(PhysOrg.com) -- While most Australians are taking care to shield themselves from the harsh summer heat, scientists from the CSIRO Energy Transformed Flagship are working on ways to harness the sun’s warmth to cool our homes and offices.

Pics: Inside the Tunnels of Gaza | Danger Room from Wired.com

JERUSALEM - Arms-smuggling is just the start. The tunnels dug into the sandstone, to bring goods from Egypt into Gaza have become a central component of both sides' economies. Everything

Business Report - Vodka tax cut to ease Russian pain

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Ecologists warn the planet is running short of water - Times Online

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A swelling global population, changing diets and mankind's expanding “water
footprint” could be bringing an end to the era of cheap w

In Britain and Spain, More Signs of Slowdown - NYTimes.com

As Britain officially falls into recession, unemployment in Spain hits an eight-year high.

In Effort to Build Support, Obama Details Stimulus Plan - NYTimes.com

Releasing new details of an $825 billion economic recovery plan, President Obama depicted the proposal as critical to rebuilding for a new era.

Science News / A Prayer For Archimedes
A long-lost text by the ancient Greek mathematician shows that he had begun to discover the principles of calculus.

Registered with the do-not-call list? Expect more calls, says consumer watchdog

Canada's highly touted do-not-call list is having the opposite effect, leading to more telemarketer calls, says the Consumers' Association of Canada

Employees Work Hard to Look Busy - NYTimes.com

Idleness comes in many disguises, but there may be no tricking the bottom line.

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Freak Caterpillar Invasion Eating Its Way Through Liberia : TreeHugger

It happens once in a while: That tiny thread holding the fine balance of nature together somehow snaps. This is what's happening in Liberia, right now, the AP reports. Millions of crop devouring caterpillars known as 'army worms' are taking

Exposed to Solvent, Worker Faces Hurdles - NYTimes.com

Research has linked contaminants to diseases, but that often fails to help victims win worker’s compensation.

Scientists to tap river currents to create clean energy
In the eerie green glow of flashing lasers in a darkened University of Michigan lab, a cylinder on springs moves methodically up and down in a giant tank as water flows over it, simulating a stream.

Generation B - My Generation, Maligned and Misunderstood - NYTimes.com

Baby boomers enter late middle age and find it nowhere as welcoming as expected.