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Worldwide She-Male Fish Mystery Widens: Discovery NewsA new class of chemicals takes part of the blame for feminized male fish that are appearing around the world.
Economy to Dominate Annual Chinese Gathering - NYTimes.com
Worried that the economic crisis could provoke unrest, the Communist Party might propose more stimulus spending.
Student Proving Walls (Even Sofas) Can Talk
Most college students will admit to searching their couch cushions for extra coins to do laundry. But Jon McKinney's cushion hunt isn't about finding money. He wants to help epidemiologists identify what's triggering diseases like asthma in children, and he's got the backing of the Environmental Protection ...
Is the Dead Sea dying?
The water levels in the Dead Sea - the deepest point on Earth - are dropping at an alarming rate with serious environmental consequences, according to Shahrazad Abu Ghazleh and colleagues from the University of Technology in Darmstadt, Germany. The projected Dead Sea-Red Sea or Mediterranean-Dead Sea ...
Politicians can use fear to manipulate the public
A new study in the American Journal of Political Science explores how and when politicians can use fear to manipulate the public into supporting policies they might otherwise oppose. Politicians' use of fear is more likely with regard to topics that are abstract and difficult for citizens (and/or the ...
Interact: Watch 24 Brilliant Hours of U.S. Flights
See the latest multimedia and applications including videos, animations, podcasts, photos, and slideshows on Wired.com
Robots - The Big Picture - Boston.com
The Big Picture - News Stories in Photographs from the Boston Globe
We are friendlier to people who resemble us, scientists find - Telegraph
The more someone looks like us the more likely we are to help them, scientist find.
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Movie Preview: "Age of Stupid" - So Is We, Or Isn't We? : TreeHugger
I've just viewed Wall•E, that precocious Disney/Pixar look at a future in which the robots are smart while the humans are fat blobs of over-pampered flesh unable to live on the (literally) trashed Earth. Other family members were mollified
Vice Magazine - SCHOOL'S OUT FOREVER - PART 1
Vice Magazine - SCHOOL'S OUT FOREVER - PART 1 - by JAMES GRIFFIOEN
World Tree Technologies | Products | Main Content
World Tree Technologies, Inc. is an environmental company focused on the global commercialization of the Empress™ Splendor Tree.
Book Review: Sea Sick : TreeHugger
In case you haven't heard, the oceans are dying. The coral, the fish, the plankton, the whole bloody system is going topsy-turvy. In her new book Sea Sick, Canadian Journalist Alanna Mitchell travels from the shore line to the depths
Vertical Farm in Dubai Uses Seawater : TreeHugger
Images from Studiomobile via Designboom A good rendering is a thing of beauty, and when it is of an amazing vertical farm, so much the better. Italian architects Studiomobile has developed a Seawater vertical farm to be built in
Auditors Raise Doubts About G.M.’s Viability - NYTimes.com
As G.M. reported that its survival was in doubt, the White House said that helping the auto industry was a priority.
Economists say copyright and patent laws are killing innovation; hurting economy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Abolishing patent and copyright laws sounds radical, but two economists at Washington University in St. Louis say it's an idea whose time has come. Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine see innovation as a key to reviving the economy. They believe the current patent/copyright system discourages ...
Watchmen's World Draws From Strangelove, Taxi Driver | The Underwire from Wired.com
The Owl Ship from the Watchmen movie rests in the Owl Chamber, a large, enclosed set built on a soundstage in Vancouver, British Columbia. Photo: Clay Enos/Warner Bros. Subway superhero
Radical Approach to Block HIV Gets Some Results | Wired Science from Wired.com
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The Crisis of Credit Visualized on Vimeo [via claudio]
The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis.
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No jail for man in bus beheading - Americas- msnbc.com
A Canadian judge ruled Thursday that a man accused of beheading and cannibalizing a fellow Greyhound bus passenger is not criminally responsible due to mental illness.
"Bat Box" Heaters Could Save Animals' Lives
Solar-powered heaters could help save the lives of bats infected with a deadly fungus, a new study suggests.
Carrot City: Anything Grows : TreeHugger
Pig City, MVRDV- each tower can feed 500,000 people Carrot City is a fabulous display of the possibilities of urban farming, both vertical and horizontal, in an exhibition at Toronto's Design Exchange that shows 'a mix of realized projects
Nevada Water Authority Executive Proposes High-Stakes Mississippi River Floodwater Diversion : TreeHuggerAtlantic City, New Jersey casino Image credit:NJ.com The Las Vegas Review-Journal cites the general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority saying 'now may be the time to take a serious look at a decades-old idea of capturing floodwater
Volunteers Put The Economist Into Chinese - NYTimes.com
A Chinese group has been working to translate each issue of the British newsweekly The Economist, a risky enterprise since authorities have banned the magazine in the past.
The Real High-Tech Immigrant Problem: They’re Leaving - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Rewiring the Brain: Inside the New Science of Neuroengineering
Get the latest in science news, including space, physics, planet earth, discoveries, NASA, satellites, and space travel from Wired.com
'Inlet Outlet' Lets Users Give Power Back To Wall Sockets
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever wish you could you power your home's electrical appliances with the energy you generate on your exercise bike? A new concept called an 'inlet outlet' could allow homeowners to put power from kinetic household activities - such as exercise equipment - back into the grid through ...
Here's looking at you, fellow!
(PhysOrg.com) -- Already Charles Darwin investigated facial expressions of monkeys in order to find out how closely related humans and monkeys really are. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics have now shown that rhesus monkeys and humans employ the same strategies to process ...
YouTube - Extreme motorhome racing - Top Gear - BBC
Richard Hammond adopts a new motorsport - Extreme Motorhome Racing! Watch the race in all it's chaotic destructive glory here in high quality, and don't forg...
What I learned from reading the entire Bible. - By David Plotz - Slate Magazine
In 2006 and 2007, David Plotz blogged the Bible for Slate, starting with "In the beginning …" and reading right through to the end. This week, Plotz publishes Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I R
Annals of Science: Darwin’s Surprise: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Why are evolutionary biologists bringing back extinct deadly viruses?
How Do You Regrow a Rainforest? Willie Smits Knows : TreeHugger
Rainforest clearcutting is devastating. The majority of the time, it opens up the area to such extensive soil erosion that even the tenacious (native) plants of the rainforests can't easily regrow. So how do you get a clearcut area
Peak Oil and Agriculture: A Farm for the Future Revisited : TreeHugger
Image credit: Daily Mail Film Maker Explores Post-Oil Farming Last week I wrote about a BBC documentary which I hadn't seen, but the green scene in the UK was all a flutter over. A Farm for the Future explores
Arcam AB ::: CAD TO METAL®
Arcam's business concept is to develop, produce and market equipment and methods for producing solid components directly from metallic powder, based on a 3D CAD model.
Ohio power plant called a fish 'killing machine' | detnews.com | The Detroit News
Conservationists are labeling a power plant near Toledo a 'prodigious killing machine' for its impact on fish in Lake Erie -- many of which migrate through the Detroit River -- and calling on Ohio officials to force the company to change its operation.
Mind - Interruption Can Make an Experience Better - NYTimes.com
Hate commercials? They may enhance your television-viewing experience.
Scientists Fear Visa Trouble Will Drive Foreign Students Away - NYTimes.com
Foreign students are having a difficult time obtaining permission to study in the United States.
Basics - In a Helpless Baby, the Roots of Our Social Glue - NYTimes.com
Babies display many of the characteristics that distinguish us from other animals.
In Congo, With Rebels Now at Bay, Calm Erupts - NYTimes.com
If the endangered mountain gorillas are any sign, things may finally be looking up in eastern Congo as Rwandan aid in combating rebels has paid off.
Dial H for Happiness: How Neuroengineering May Change Your Brain
Get the latest in science news, including space, physics, planet earth, discoveries, NASA, satellites, and space travel from Wired.com
Researchers find potential cause of heart risks for shift workers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and colleagues have identified the potential cause of the increased risk for cardiovascular and metabolic disease in shift workers.
Musicians' Brains 'Fine-Tuned' to Identify Emotion
(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking for a mate who in everyday conversation can pick up even your most subtle emotional cues? Find a musician, Northwestern University researchers suggest.
Power and the illusion of control: Why some make the impossible possible and others fall short
Power holders often seem misguided in their actions. Leaders and commanders of warring nations regularly underestimate the costs in time, money, and human lives required for bringing home a victory. CEOs of Fortune 500 companies routinely overestimate their capacity to turn mergers and acquisitions ...
Queens County Farm Museum Transforms Into a Working Farm - NYTimes.com
For the past year, the Queens County Farm Museum has been raising more crops and animals, using sustainable methods, and plans to expand.
Lotus to Show OMNIVORE Engine Concept at Geneva Motor Show : TreeHuggerShowcasing the OMNIVORE Engine, Ideally Suited for Flex-Fuel Operation I recently wrote about a promising variable compression ratio engine by MCE-5. Of course, they're not the only ones working on that concept; Lotus Engineering will demonstrate a 1-cylinder variable
Joblessness Rises as Orders and Home Sales Fall - NYTimes.com
New data on home sales, manufacturing and unemployment offered another snapshot of the deepening economic slowdown.
Compilatie crashes tijdens bootraces | Flabber
Elke dag een paar bijzondere, interessante, sexy of humoristische posts.
Living Together - Sharing Your Home With a Primate, or If a Cat Just Isn’t Enough - NYTimes.com
There are many thousands of pet primates in the U.S., and their owners seem to have a remarkably consistent way of looking at them. [too ridiculous not to read]
Colorado Backyard Yields Cache of Stone Age Tools - NYTimes.com
The 83 stone-cutting implements are believed to have come from a nomadic people about 13,000 years ago. Some have enough blood residue to identify the animals they were used to butcher.
CIA Awkwardly Debriefs Obama On Creation Of Crack Cocaine | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
WASHINGTON—In his first meeting with president-elect Barack Obama, CIA crime and counternarcotics analyst Timothy R. McIntire haltingly...
YouTube - Everything's amazing, nobody's happy
Conan hosts the comedian Louis CK who is talking of the spoiled generationworth watching!Enjoy!THIS VIDEO DOES NOT BELONG TO ME
Bohemian Sprawl Hits the Limits in Los Angeles - NYTimes.com
A Los Angeles neighborhood that once attracted baby boutiques, lattes and foot traffic is hit by the recession.
Prints Show a Modern Foot in Prehumans - NYTimes.com
Fossil footprints show that as early as 1.5 million years ago an ancestral species had already evolved the feet and walking gait of modern humans.
Green Smoke Starts People Thinking About Energy : TreeHugger
Image via: HeHe The artists Helen Evans and Heike Hanson, who work together under the alias HeHe, give new meaning to the term 'chemical sensitivity' by lighting up the smoke trailing from a tall smokestack which looms over the
Canadian Oil Sands — National Geographic Magazine
Once considered too expensive, as well as too damaging to the land, exploitation of Alberta's oil sands is now a gamble worth billions.
Cool Earth Solar: Technology
Cool Earth Solar provides renewable solar energy solutions. Our technology incorporates inflated photovoltaic collectorsto enable solar energy farming at well below the cost of coaland other non-renewable energy sources.
Growing Economic Crisis Threatens the Idea of One Europe - NYTimes.com
An emergency meeting of European leaders pointed up the very worries it was designed to calm: that the crisis threatens to split Europe into rival camps.
Forced From Executive Pay to Hourly Wage - NYTimes.com
Mark Cooper’s tumble from security manager to janitor is one of the often hidden consequences of the downturn.
Professor Accused of Pocketing NASA Money - NYTimes.com
Federal investigators say a University of Florida professor and members of his family submitted fraudulent proposals to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Generation B - On the Front Lines of a Broken Economy - NYTimes.com
College grads are no longer the majority at job fairs as baby boomers are forced to start from scratch.
Vegetable-based drug could inhibit melanoma
Compounds extracted from green vegetables such as broccoli and cabbage could be a potent drug against melanoma, according to cancer researchers. Tests on mice suggest that these compounds, when combined with selenium, target tumors more safely and effectively than conventional therapy.
Novel pandemic flu vaccine effective against H5N1 in mice
Vaccines against H5N1 influenza will be critical in countering a possible future pandemic. Yet public health experts agree that the current method of growing seasonal influenza vaccines in chicken eggs is slow and inefficient.
On New York Streets With Snuggie - Watch Your Back - NYTimes.com
There is one aspect of Snuggie, the fleece “blanket with sleeves,” that has been little explored: its use in public. One reporter does a field test.
BMOW: a home made cpu - Hack a Day
Laser lighter - Hack a Day
Researchers make stem cell breakthrough
In a study to be released on March 1, 2009, Mount Sinai Hospital's Dr. Andras Nagy discovered a new method of creating stem cells that could lead to possible cures for devastating diseases including spinal cord injury, macular degeneration, diabetes and Parkinson's disease. The study, to be published ...
Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse? | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Panelists debate whether games like Fallout 3 and Gears Of War 2 are teaching children skills they'll really need in the End Times.
Bloomberg.com: Latin America
Parents Wary of Their Finances Deciding Whether to Keep Their Kids in Private School or Not - NYTimes.com
Parents debate whether private school is really worth it.
BBC NEWS | Technology | TED on porn, malaria and robots [via claudio]
Bill Gates shocks the so called TEDsters attending the world famous brainstorming conference by releasing mosquitoes into the audience
Technology Review: Blogs: Potential Energy: NASA's Climate Satellite Crashes Back to Earth
From MIT. Information on Emerging Technologies & impact on business & society
Technology Review: TR10: Biological Machines
Michel Maharbiz's novel interfaces between machines and living systems could give rise to a new generation of cyborg devices.
Technology Review: TR10: Traveling Wave Reactor
A new way of fueling reactors could make nuclear power safer and less expensive, says John Gilleland.
Technology Review: TR10: Liquid Battery
Donald Sadoway conceived of a novel battery that could allow cities to run on solar power at night.
MCE-5 Variable Compression Ratio Engine: 1.5-Liter With Torque Like a V8! : TreeHugger
Increasing Engine Efficiency and Power Most of us are probably anxious to get rid of internal combustion engines (ICE) and move on to electric motors. Unfortunately, refining a technology until it is affordable and performs well enough for the
Square Feet - Manhattan Towers Gather Their Own Heat for Power - NYTimes.com
A way of recycling wasted heat is gaining popularity in a few big Manhattan buildings, which are building cogeneration plants.
New Yorkers Try Composting With Worms - NYTimes.com
An increasing number of New Yorkers have been taking up the challenge of turning their fruit skins and eggshells into nutritious compost.
Magnets might dissuade crocodiles from settling in neighborhoods
Magnets taped to the heads of captured crocodiles could keep them from returning to South Florida neighborhoods where they're not wanted, state wildlife officials said Monday.
To Save Animals, Put a Price on Them | Wired Science from Wired.com
Rather than relying on warm, fuzzy feelings to protect animals, conservationists suggest appealing to something more reliable: greed. By selling financial contracts pegged to species health, the government could create
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
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
Gallery - The next generation of mirrors - Image 1 - New Scientist
Superhuman: The secrets of the ice man - life - 24 February 2009 - New Scientist
How do you survive swimming in sub-zero water wearing nothing but swimming trunks? New Scientist asks a man who has made it a habit
Obama Budget Taxes Richest to Help Pay for Health Care - NYTimes.com
President Obama’s budget will include tax increases on the affluent and credits for low and middle-income people, marking a pronounced shift in the American tax burden.
Preparing for a Flood of Energy Efficiency Spending - NYTimes.com
Experts worry that cities aren’t ready to oversee the energy-efficiency money coming their way.
Technology Review: The Doctor Kiosk
An automated health-care interface aims to streamline preventative screening.
In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth - NYTimes.com
Questions about the importance of the liberal arts in a complex and technologically demanding world have taken on new urgency.
The sun is a star when it comes to sustainable energy
At a national scientific meeting last week where biofuels - principally ethanol - were uniformly trashed as an environmental train wreck, one bright, carbon-free light gleamed in our energy future: the sun.
Without Tears, Is There Still Sadness? | Wired Science from Wired.com
Now you see sadness, now you don't. A new study has found that removing just the tears out of pictures of people crying reduces the sadness that viewers perceive in
Alt Text 21: Snarking Validation - Video - Wired
Have you ever suspected you're the only intelligent person on the planet? If only there were some way of proving it so that you can get the adulation and free beers you deserve.
What the Stimulus Bill Means for High-Speed Rail | Autopia from Wired.com
The whining about who got what in the $787 billion economic stimulus bill is well underway, but you won't hear many complaints from high-speed rail advocates. They walked away with
Science News Examiner: UCLA team creates functional neurons from adult somatic cells
UCLA team creates functional neurons from adult somatic cells by local Science News Examiner expert, Meg Marquardt.
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TG Daily - Marvell's Plug Computer: A tiny, discrete, fully functional 5 watt Linux server
TG Daily, Marvell's Plug Computer: A tiny, discrete, fully functional 5 watt Linux server
A Serbian Photographer's Memories of Belgrade - Photo Essays - TIME
In his new book, Serbian photographer Boogie explores the memory of the city he left behind
Technology Review: A More Efficient Ethanol Engine Technology Review: A Rodent's Anti-Aging Secrets
Healthier proteins may be the key to the long life span of naked mole rats.
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | German village turns off street lights
A German village is pioneering a method of saving energy and reducing carbon emissions by switching off the street lights at night.
Drought to Cut Off Federal Water to CA Farms - TIME
Federal water managers said Friday that they plan to cut off water, at least temporarily, to thousands of California farms as a result of the deepening drought gripping the state
Hydraulic ram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These Toes Were Made for Running | Wired Science from Wired.com
If you've ever wondered why humans don't have long, prehensile toes that would turn our feet into extra hands, here's an answer: stubby toes may be custom-made for running. Biomechanical
BBC NEWS | Europe | Prison break repeat shocks Greece
Two of Greece's most notorious criminals escape from Athens' top security prison by helicopter in a repeat of a daring 2006 breakout.
A Series of Suicides at West Point Unnerve a Renowned Academy - NYTimes.com
Two suicides and two suicide attempts among cadets, as well as two suicides by staff members, have stirred concern at the renowned military academy.
Engineered Osmosis: Revolutionizing Saltwater Desalination : CleanTechnica
Technology Review: A Cheaper Solar Concentrator
A new light-guiding optic combines low cost with high efficiency.
Technology Review: Blogs: Potential Energy: Fool's Gold for Solar Panels
From MIT. Information on Emerging Technologies & impact on business & society
Technology Review: Cheap Hydrogen from Scraps
Turning organic waste into hydrogen now works without expensive platinum.
Silent Snow Documentary Shows Greenland's Plight : TreeHugger
Photo of Greenland via Wili-hybrid Silent Snow is a powerful short film documenting the pollution that affects the Inuits of Greenland. The pollution circulates from all over the world up to Greenland where it concentrates in the fish, seals
The Museum of Old Techniques : TreeHugger
TreeHugger often notes that, notwithstanding our love of technology, sometimes the older, slower, simpler ways of doing things, like growing your own food or riding a bike, are better than the high tech processed stuff or hydrogen cars. Now
Crossway Zero Carbon Home Brings Back the Timbrel Vault : TreeHugger
all crossway photos via architects website Architect Richard Hawkes is just finishing what he calls a zero-carbon house, using all of the latest technologies but also demonstrating 'how contemporary design can celebrate local materials and crafts and integrate new
Climate Denial Crock of the Week - "That 1500 Year Thing" : TreeHugger
'That 1500 Year Thing' Via:YouTube Greenman is brilliant in this medium. He has several well done, short YouTube posts, including the one shown above. All show us climate change denialists waiting on cars at their last custard stand. Better
Technique tricks bacteria into generating their own vaccine
Scientists have developed a way to manipulate bacteria so they will grow mutant sugar molecules on their cell surfaces that could be used against them as the key component in potent vaccines.
Generation B - Tito Santana - A Real Wrestler - NYTimes.com
What happens to big-time wrestlers when they hit middle age?
New Search Technologies Mine the Web More Deeply - NYTimes.com
Search engines are starting to penetrate databases that are set up to respond to typed queries.
Stinky Soy Goo Could Fight Alzheimer's | Wired Science from Wired.com
Natto is a soybean product that is sticky, slimy and smelly, but it might be able to ward off Alzheimer's disease. Once a theme ingredient on Iron Chef, natto contains
Simple elixir called a 'miracle liquid' - Los Angeles Times
It's a kitchen degreaser. It's a window cleaner. It kills athlete's foot. Oh, and you can drink it.
Many wonder what's in stimulus bill for them - The Boston Globe
Brian Carpenter bought his Woburn home in 1980, and 29 years later, he has never missed a mortgage payment. It wasn't always easy. With three kids, it meant driving old cars, clipping coupons, and brown-bagging it to work.
From One Genome, Many Types of Cells. But How? - NYTimes.com
Understanding the epigenome has become a major frontier of research. New findings suggests that chromatin does a lot more than hold chromosomes together.
As It Falters, Eastern Europe Raises Risks - NYTimes.com
Once-vibrant economies have weakened, making it riskier for Western companies to do business.
Liza Mundy: Multiple Births 'Changing Our World' : NPR [via claudio]
<em>Washington Post</em> staff writer Liza Mundy discusses how multiple births are affecting parents, their babies and society. Mundy is the author of <em>Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Our World</em>.
Commentary :: David Korten :: Don't Fix Wall Street, Replace It [via claudio]
