Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Tree-mendous - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com


In The Garden - Growing Your Own Horseradish - NYTimes.com

 

Greenbutts Cigarette Filters Create Garden of Flowers from Discarded Butts : TreeHugger

 

The Pros and Cons of Induction Cooking - NYTimes.com

 

Economic Scene - To Cut Health Costs, U.S. Needs to Learn to Say No - NYTimes.com

 

Sound bullets could treat cancers and replace ultrasound (w/ Video)

 

Using plants to purify canal water


Gut feeling: Intestinal germ helps sushi digestion

 

Traditional Inuit knowledge combines with science to shape weather insights

 

Texas Town Installs a Monster Battery for Backup Power | Popular Science

 

YouTube - MUTE BEAT - Dub In The Fog

 

Libertarian Legacy | TPMCafe

 

Stigler's law of eponymy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Quiet sun puts Europe on ice - environment - 14 April 2010 - New Scientist

 

YouTube - Axis Of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles)

 

Man operates strip club in his basement - Boing Boing

 

You've heard of peak oil. How about peak gold? - The Globe and Mail

 

The Oil Drum: Europe | Peak asphalt: the return of gravel roads

 

The most beautiful suicide


For nations living the good life, the party's over, IMF says

 

The rootless world of the super-rich - Telegraph

 

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BBC News - How big is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?

 

BBC News - 50 years of a sometimes bitter pill

 

YouTube - Toccata


$2.2 Trillion Gulf Economy Is Threatened By The Spill

 

BBC News - Can free market economics boost Amazonian land rights?

 

Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration? | Video on TED.com

 

Giant Plumes of Oil Found Under Gulf of Mexico - NYTimes.com

 

Why Generation-Y Can’t Read Nonverbal Cues - WSJ.com

 

Vintage ads depicting abused and domesticated women - Boing Boing


Foucault's Pendulum cable snaps, causing irreparable damage - Boing Boing

 

YouTube - Literature gets a ride in the streets of Buenos Aires

 

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Flickr Photo Download: BP Cake

 

Crackdown in Bangkok - The Big Picture - Boston.com

 

Greenland rapidly rising as ice melt continues


The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: What happens when three men who identify as 

 Jesus are forced to live together? - By Vaughan Bell - Slate Magazine

 

YouTube - Temptations - Shakey Ground

 

Pushed to Lower Salt Use, Food Industry Pushes Back - NYTimes.com

 

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Your Money - Another Debt Crisis Is Brewing, This One in Student Loans - NYTimes.com

 

Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience: A breakthrough cure for Ebola


Haitian Farmers Refuse Monsanto's Seeds and Instead Commit to Burning Them : TreeHugger

 

Colombia to Elect World's First Green Party President : TreeHugger

 

Geek Gardening: A Wired Guide to Domestic Terraforming | Magazine | Wired.com

 

Battling a Virus Ravaging East Africa’s Cassava Crops - NYTimes.com

 

A Crack in the Stoic’s Armor - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com

 

Global Update - Poisoned Wells - In Asia, Cutting Arsenic Risk in Water Through Well-Drilling Techniques - NYTimes.com


Art - Marina Abramovic’s Silent Sitting at MoMA Reaches Finale - NYTimes.com

 

Detoxifying the Home - NYTimes.com

 

Men are dying for sex: Mating competition explains excess male mortality

 

McRefugees in Shanghai find refuge in fast food joints - Boing Boing

 

Living in denial: Why sensible people reject the truth - opinion - 19 May 2010 - New Scientist

 

Adderall Receives Honorary Degree From Harvard | The Onion - America's Finest News Source


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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Really Extreme Makeover - The New York Times > Key Magazine > Slide Show > Slide 1 of 17

Los Angeles Loses Streetcars, Cairo Wins : TreeHugger








Whale Power Technology Kicks Big Ass : TreeHugger











Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric heights [via claudio]











Last Supper helpings have grown - latimes.com











Could Tiny Bubbles Cool the Planet? - ScienceNOW











New York to End a Program to Give Cash to the Poor - NYTimes.com






Technology Review: From Biomass to Chemicals in One Step











Suicides, Some for Telangana’s Cause, Jolt India - NYTimes.com











News Analysis - With or Without Health Reform, We Pay for Others’ Bad Habits - NYTimes.com











Oil Spill Verdict Against Total Is Affirmed - NYTimes.com











Giant Greenhouses Mean Flavorful Tomatoes All Year - NYTimes.com











Chemicals in smoke help plants grow sturdier, study shows






Toads' earthquake exodus











Essential oils to fight superbugs











March 30, 1848: Niagara Falls Runs Dry | This Day In Tech | Wired.com











Can Roads Control Your Driving? The Truth About Safety-Enhancing Road Design » INFRASTRUCTURIST











Explained: Dynamo theory











Airplane repo men - Boing Boing






Scale model of a war-torn WWII town built and photographed by brain-damaged beating victim - Boing Boing











YouTube - Battle at Kruger











Magnets Can Manipulate Morality : Discovery News











How a Can Collector Died a Secret Millionaire : TreeHugger











Technology Review: Speedier Bug Catching











For Some, Cycling Eases Parkinson’s Symptoms - NYTimes.com






Modern Love - A Life to Live, This Side of the Bars - NYTimes.com











Separating Pranks From Fraud on the Web - NYTimes.com











Op-Ed Columnist - China, Concubines and Google - NYTimes.com











BBC - Earth News - Ant mega-colony takes over world [via claudio]












Microbe Wakes Up After 120,000 Years in Ice - Science News | Science &  Technology | Technology News - FOXNews.com [via claudio]












Microscopic nanobees 'sting cancer tumours to death' - Telegraph [via claudio]












'Buy farmland and gold,' advises Dr Doom - Times Online [via claudio]












Chinese investors eye Quebec farmland [via claudio]












China among countries buying up farmland around the world [via claudio]












Asian Carp Solution for the Great Lakes? Bring on the Pelicans! : TreeHugger











Canada Approves Enviropig™, Piglets Inherit Genetic Modifications for Clean Manure : TreeHugger






Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Meet Great Lakes Garbage Patch: Don't Plant Plastic in the Lakes : TreeHugger











In Syria, a Prologue for Cities - NYTimes.com











Eating like a bird helps forests grow











'Failure is good'











This is your brain on Cryptococcus: Pathogenic fungus loves your brain sugar











Sequencing the Video Genome | Wired Science | Wired.com






Wikileaks: CIA leaked video | Flabber











YouTube - drunkhistoryTesla.avi











Open source prosthetics - Boing Boing











The Psychological Immune System | Psychology Today











FORA.tv - Dr. Katherine Pollard: What Makes Us Human?











In social dealings, being older is being wiser






Basics - Even Among Animals - Leaders, Followers and Schmoozers - 





NYTimes.com











Report: Exxon Paid NO Federal Income Tax in 2009 : TreeHugger











Some Queries Prompt Google To Offer Suicide Hotline - NYTimes.com











Australia Leader Angry Over Beached Chinese Vessel - NYTimes.com











Vest to prevent balance disorder patients falling











Fossil Turtle Had Extra-Thick Shell to Fend Off World’s Largest Snake | Wired Science | Wired.com

Sunday, March 28, 2010

The New Poor - For-Profit Schools Cashing In on Recession and Federal Aid - NYTimes.com


Fearing Drug Cartels, Reporters in Mexico Retreat - NYTimes.com [via claudio]

 

SXSW: Comic Bill Hicks Posthumously Rocks Austin | Underwire | Wired.com

 

LiveLeak.com - Clothing Store Riot



Top 25 Censored Stories for 2010 | Project Censored

 

In a Desert in China, a Trove of 4,000-Year-Old Mummies - NYTimes.com

 

Technology Review: Turning Gas Flares into Fuel


Cro Magnon skull shows that our brains have shrunk

 

Adding iron to sea boosts deadly neurotoxin: study

 

The Cuban Agro-Ecological Revolution: A Look Behind the Curtain [via claudio]

 

McDonald's Happy Meals Evidently Invincible : TreeHugger

 

Affresol: Prefab Houses Made From Plastic Landfill : TreeHugger

 

Technology Review: Fingertip Bacteria: A Promising Forensic Tool


Technology Review: Drug Production Gets Aquatic

 

Technology Review: A Cheap, Portable Wound-Healing Device

 

Number of People Living on New York Streets Soars - NYTimes.com

 

1 gene lost = 1 limb regained? Scientists demonstrate mammalian regeneration through single gene deletion

 

Perils of plastics: Risks to human health and the environment

 

Acne drug prevents HIV breakout (w/ Video)


Rich Get Richer in ‘Hot News’ Stock-Tip Fight | Threat Level | Wired.com

 

Feds Deem Pedestrians, Cyclists and Motorists Equals | Autopia | Wired.com

 

6 Cars So Alluring They’re in an Art Museum | Autopia | Wired.com

 

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou - Boing Boing

 

Evolution of Fairness Driven by Culture, Not Genes | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

China Drawing High-Tech Research From U.S. - NYTimes.com [via claudio]


China Leaders Vie for Control of Exchange Rate - NYTimes.com [via claudio]

 

BBC News - Forest loss slows, as China plants and Brazil preserves [via claudio]


 

CRUDE: A Joe Berlinger Film [via claudio]

 

The Gazette - Coulter’s campus visit stirs controversy

 

BBC News - US marine to face trial over Iraq killings [via claudio]

 

China: Closing for Business? - BusinessWeek [via claudio]

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Haiti's Rebuild May Be Biochar's Big Breakthough : TreeHugger

Shifting Soil Is Threat to a House’s Foundation - NYTimes.com


Study Says Undersea Release of Methane Is Under Way - NYTimes.com



Why Do Lizards Have Ears? To Eavesdrop, Perhaps - NYTimes.com



Doctor and Patient - The Doctor’s Failure to Cut Costs - Question - NYTimes.com



Hip-Hop Cuisine - Rabbit for Dinner - NYTimes.com



Mind-reading computers turn heads at high-tech fair


A new energy source from the common pea



Study: Arctic seabed methane stores destabilizing, venting



Oldest measurement of Earth's magnetic field reveals battle between Sun and 



Earth for our atmosphere



Fears of Undersea Methane Leaks Already Coming True | Wired Science | 

Wired.com



‘Mission Impossible’ Crew Pinches $26,000 in Apple Notebooks | Epicenter | Wired.com



FPL Experiments With Solar Thermal at Gas-Fired Power Plant - NYTimes.com


Toxie Awards Name Worst Chemicals of the Year | GreenBiz.com



Technology Review: Magnetic Solder to Wire 3-D Chips



For Auto Towns, Ed Montgomery Is an Ambassador of Hope - NYTimes.com



It's who you kill that matters, according to new research



Waste watchers? UK group fears trash bin spies



Physicists unlock the mysteries of crack formation


Ancient Texts Present Mayans As Literary Geniuses



History's Forgotten Fallen



Human brains grow, change and can heal themselves



Animation of Giant Iceberg Collision as Seen From Space | Wired Science | Wired.com



How Big Waves Go Rogue | Wired Science | Wired.com



Heimo's Arctic Refuge 1 of 5 - Far Out | VBS.TV


The Vice Guide to Liberia 1 of 8 - The Vice Guide to Travel | VBS.TV



Tour de Dandong - The Flying Pigeon Project [via claudio]



Slavemaker Ants



Doctor accused of going into ER drunk, harassing nurses [via claudio]

Budget deep freeze will lead to end of climate research lab - The Globe and Mail [via claudio]



Pulsed Electric Field Processing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Olympic Hockey Final Affects Water Supply, Canadian Economy : TreeHugger



Pre-Dinosaur Era Plant Specimens Brazenly Stolen : TreeHugger



Technology Review: Ultra-Efficient Gas Engine Passes Test



Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: New Charging Method Could Slash Battery Recharge Times



With New Homes, Town Makes Amends for Discrimination Decades Ago - NYTimes.com



For the Afflicted, a Little Black Box to Jog Failing Memory - NYTimes.com


Lava lamp centrifuge - Hack a Day



Machine-learning revolutionises software development



Turn a quarter of Detroit into "semi-rural" farms? - Boing Boing



White trash video addiction: Bargain Barn - Boing Boing



Technology Review: Gasifying Biomass with Sunlight



A lesson in courting foreign students - The Globe and Mail [via claudio]


SolidWorks Sustainability Software Helps Designers Make The Greenest Products (Video) : TreeHugger



Einstein's Theory of Relativity On Display - NYTimes.com



Rapid Rise in Seed Prices Draws U.S. Scrutiny - NYTimes.com



Traces of the past: Computer algorithm able to 'read' memories



US military developing geolocation system for underground



Scavenging energy waste to turn water into hydrogen fuel


The ’70s Photos That Made Us Want to Save Earth | Wired Science | Wired.com



NASA’s New Jumbo Jet Keeps Giant Eye on Heavens | Magazine



Feds: TSA Worker Tried to Sabotage Terror Database | Threat Level | Wired.com



Lifestyle Adjustments, As Poverty Comes To The American Suburbs : TreeHugger



Taxi Drivers Gouged Riders Out of Millions, New York Says - NYTimes.com



As Its Arms Industry Withers, Russia Buys Abroad - NYTimes.com


Generation B - Time, It Turns Out, Isn’t on Their Side - NYTimes.com



Harnessing Our Sensory Superpowers



5 Second Films - de top 20 | Flabber



Wind resistance



BBC News - Hailing the arrival of alien predators



Decapitated skeletons were Vikings: scientists


China looks to 'combustible ice' as a fuel source

Ice Fishing in Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario - NYTimes.com

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Solar panels go through extreme tests at San Jose lab


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YouTube - 「ジェイソンさん」ビッグダディを彫る「BIOSHOCK」

 

Triumph of the Golden Rule | gmilburn.ca

 

Technology Review: Implanted Neurons Let the Brain Rewire Itself Again

 

German Skill in Exporting Puts Pressure on E.U. Neighbors - NYTimes.com

 

Doctors Struggle to Treat Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections - NYTimes.com


Observatory - Yeast Produces Heat in Plants, Researchers Find - NYTimes.com

 

The most frequent error in medicine

 

Coffee hit by global warming say growers

 

Mechanical devices stamped on plastic

 

New material traps radioactive ions using 'Venus flytrap' method

 

Depression’s Upside - NYTimes.com


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Olympic Drinking Games: Why Vancouver Gets the Gold - TIME

 

 Op-Ed Contributor - We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change - NYTimes.com

 

BBC News - Why did fewer die in Chile's earthquake than in Haiti's?

 

Turning Beetle-Infested Wood to Good (Design) Use : TreeHugger

 

Memo From Tripoli - Unknotting Father’s Reins in Hope of ‘Reinventing’ Libya - NYTimes.com


Human Culture Plays a Role in Natural Selection - NYTimes.com

 

How the Men Reacted as the Titanic and Lusitania Went Under - NYTimes.com

 

For Pennies, a Disposable Toilet That Could Help Grow Crops - NYTimes.com

 

Military Bases as Wildlife Havens - Video Library - The New York Times

 

Research finds attractive women increase risky behaviour in young men

 

Darkness increases dishonest behavior


Pandemic flu, like seasonal H1N1, shows signs of resisting Tamiflu

 

Stone Age Engravings Found on Ostrich Shells | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

Solar Storms Could Be Earth's Next Katrina : NPR

 

Protecting the community from burglars, murderers and blogs

 

Little Big Men - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com

 

Modern man found to be generally monogamous, moderately polygamous


Road Salt and Cars Produce Extreme Water Contamination in Frenchman's Bay, 

 

Chilean Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days

 

Millions of Tons of Water Ice Found at Moon’s North Pole | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

How OK Go’s Amazing Rube Goldberg Machine Was Built | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

 

The Kisseloff Collection: a one-man museum of 20th century ephemera - Boing Boing

 

Profile of ex-narc who's declared war on the "War on Drugs" - Boing Boing


Baby monkeys receive signals through their mother's breast milk

 

Lagos Disco Inferno! - Boing Boing

 

James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss | Video on TED.com [via claudio]

 

Concerns Over ‘Metal on Metal’ Hip Implants - NYTimes.com

 

Hollywood Gets Tightfisted in Deals With Stars - NYTimes.com

 

'World's Most Useful Tree' Provides Low-Cost Water Purification Method for Developing World


Mineral studies advance antibacterial alternatives

 

Hella Good: Scientists Petition to Name a Very Large Number