Thursday, September 23, 2010

Oregano Is New CO2-Cutting Drug of Choice (For Cows) : TreeHugger


Roma, on Move, Test Europe’s ‘Open Borders’ - NYTimes.com



Recession Raises Poverty Rate to a 15-Year High - NYTimes.com



An Introduction to the OPOC™ Powertrain | EcoMotors



Desktop Manufacturing - Video Library - The New York Times



Movie Review - 'The Town' - Ben Affleck Returns to Boston in a Crime Drama - NYTimes.com



Disabled Japanese tourist plans robo-suit adventure


'Archeologists of the air' isolate pristine aerosol particles in the Amazon



Foraging for fat: Crafty crows use tools to fish for nutritious morsels



Researchers build Moon garden



The “Indian Superbug”: Worse Than We Knew | Wired Science | Wired.com



Kill Whitey. It’s the Right Thing to Do. | Wired Science | Wired.com


IEEE Spectrum: Why Are Terrorists Often Engineers?



Gogol Bordello: "Immigraniada (We Comin' Rougher)" - Boing Boing



Inside a termite mound - Boing Boing



Around the Solar System - The Big Picture - Boston.com



Chemists discover method to create high-value chemicals from biomass



YouTube - Flying with the fastest birds on the planet: Peregrine Falcon & Gos 



Hawk - Animal Camera - BBC


Op-Ed Columnist - The Angry Rich and Taxes - NYTimes.com



Limnion Geothermal Energy Reactors Offer Idiot-proof Installation, Small Footprint : TreeHugger



Unglazed Clay Pots Create Efficient Drip Irrigation (Video) : TreeHugger



Facing Social Pressures, Families Disguise Girls as Boys in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com



Rapid Prototyping for Microcontrollers | mbed



A Perk of Our Evolution - Pleasure in Pain of Chilies - NYTimes.com


Apollo discovery tells a new story



Turning over a new leaf



Study examines men's priorities when looking for mates



Buyer backlash: Why do slogans about saving money increase spending?



Paper-thin supercapacitor has higher capacitance when twisted than any non-

twisted supercapacitor



New Compass Uses Light Beams to Detect Magnetic Field | Wired Science | Wired.com


Chemistry Ph.D. thesis explained via dance routine - Boing Boing



Rogue high-speed traderbots chaffing the market with thousands of nonsensical transactions every second - Boing Boing



Juárez, Mexico: Amid escalating violence against press, local paper asks narcos, 

"What do you want from us?" - Boing Boing



Amazon.com: People of Walmart: Shop and Awe (9781402250712): Andrew Kipple, Adam Kipple, Luke Wherry: Books



BBC News - A journey from Hudson Bay north to the Canadian Arctic



Designers Create a "More Efficient" Chainless Bike : TreeHugger


Starling Flocks Mesmerize in Coordinated Swarms : TreeHugger



Yahoo's New Efficient Data Center Modeled After Chicken Coops : TreeHugger



Introducing Stringbike: the bike with no chain (w/ Video)



Global map of air pollution - Boing Boing



BBC News - Chernobyl plant life endures radioactivity



Eileen Nearne, Wartime Spy, Dies at 89 - The New York Times


How the CIA ran a secret army of 3,000 assassins - Asia, World - The Independent



Baby Carrots: Eat ‘Em Like Junk Food

Thursday, September 16, 2010

The
German Military is Freaked Out by Prospect of Peak Oil :
TreeHugger




The
Italian Mafia is Making Money with Wind Power : TreeHugger



Technology
Review: The Next Stage of Online Video Evolution




Technology
Review: Building an Implantable Artificial Kidney




Movie
Review - 'I’m Still Here' - Joaquin Phoenix Tries Running Away From
the Circus - NYTimes.com




Researchers
expand yeast's sugary diet to include plant fiber




Lasers
keep mini helicopter hovering for hours




Bionic
speech recognition



New
method to help computer vision systems decipher outdoor scenes




Tour
of a sub-100 sqft house - Boing Boing




Nail
house - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Interview with the Assassin (2002)


Technology Review: Subway Trains to Generate Power for the Grid



German Identity, Long Dormant, Reasserts Itself - NYTimes.com



Wildflower uses self-imposed armour to fight off disease



Soldiers' helmets could control brain activity with ultrasound



Paris building to be warmed by commuters' body heat



Rich-world diseases could hijack poor world's biotech - health - 13 September 2010 - New Scientist


Solar funnel



Archaeologists Sound Alarm about Risk BP Drilling in Libya Could Pose to Ancient Sites : TreeHugger



Technology Review: Wheelchair Makes the Most of Brain Control



The Oil Spill’s Money Squeeze - NYTimes.com



Secret Corps of Filmmakers Documented Nuclear Bomb Tests - NYTimes.com



Tug of War Pits Genes of Parents in the Fetus - NYTimes.com


Melting sea ice forces walruses ashore in Alaska



EPA told gas drilling does, does not taint water



YouTube - Ants Circle



Tightened muzzle on scientists is 'Orwellian'



BBC News - How good software makes us stupid



Field Report - Will Work for Food - NYTimes.com


Shareable: Is Algae the DIY Answer to Fuel & Food Crises?



Remarkable Creatures - Hybrids May Thrive Where Parent Species Fear to Tread - NYTimes.com



globeandmail.com: Shell to spend billions to boost natural-gas sites



YouTube - Law School Husslin



PA Homeland Security Spies on Anti-Drilling Activists, Reports to Drilling Company : TreeHugger


Human Impacts on Deep Sea Floor Measured for First Time : TreeHugger



Technology Review: Turning Exhaust Gas Into Fuel



China's Young Workers - Video Library - The New York Times



U.S. Zeroes In on Use of Antibiotics by Pork Producers - NYTimes.com



Home's electrical wiring acts as antenna to receive low-power sensor data



Stairway to Heaven | Flabber


9/11 Memorial Lights Trap Thousands of Birds | Wired Science | Wired.com



For Fighters, Success May Come Down to Smell | Playbook



Laminated Linen Protected Alexander the Great : Discovery News



Prison inmates vs bulls - Boing Boing



Voices of the Transition - Trailer (english) on Vimeo

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Questions Linger as Shrimp Season Opens in Gulf - NYTimes.com


Beyond Fossil Fuels - Gasoline Substitutes Researched With U.S. Funds - NYTimes.com

 

Technology Review: Google Offers Cloud-Based Learning Engine

 

Protein that destroys HIV discovered | KurzweilAI

 

How Much Is Left? The Limits of Earth's Resources, Made Interactive: Scientific American

 

Eggshells look even more colorful through the eyes of birds | Ultraviolet | Color Vision | LiveScience

 

What Is It About 20-Somethings? - NYTimes.com


Russia, the US, China... now Denmark to send man into space - Science, News - The Independent

 

Banksy Continues His Environmental Theme in Graffiti : TreeHugger

 

High Levels of Arsenic Found in Children's Urine, You'll Never Guess Where it Came From : TreeHugger

 

BBC - Earth News - Wild chimps outwit human hunters

 

Mind - Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits - NYTimes.com

 

Observatory - In a Fight for a Tree, Ants Thwart Elephants - NYTimes.com


A different take on electric motor cars - Hack a Day

 

Cockroach brains could be rich stores of new antibiotics

 

Upside to global warming: 'New North' will thrive

 

These cancer cells will self-destruct in 5...4...

 

Japanse Precisie | Flabber

 

Bee decline already having dramatic effect on pollination of plants - Telegraph


Free the 'Shine! Why it's finally time to legalize liquor - Boing Boing

 

MIT's Self-Assembling Solar Cells Recycle Themselves Repeatedly, Just Like Plant Cells | Popular Science

 

Cotton Cloth Coated in Nanotubes Electrifies Bacteria to Purify Water : TreeHugger

 

Technology Review: Blogs: Mims's Bits: Microwave-Powered Rocket Ascends without Fuel

 

Technology Review: Transplanting Gut Microbes to Treat Disease

 

LiveLeak.com - Pacific Sun Cruise liner in very heavy seas. Internal CCTV footage.


Yes you can build a low-cost 'green' house

 

Microbial breakthrough impacts health, agriculture, biofuels

 

Irrigation's cooling effects may mask warming in some regions -- for now

 

Canadian authorities to try 3D image of child to slow drivers

 

Why Everything Wireless Is 2.4 GHz | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

 

Supercomputing on a cell phone


BBC News - Good dancing may be sign of male health, scientists say

 

Gulf Doctors Advised to Learn to Treat Oil-Related Illnesses : TreeHugger

 

A Technical Look At Termite Mounts Foretells Changes in Africa's Ecosystems : TreeHugger

 

Technology Review: New Chip Captures Specialized Immune Cells

 

Your Very Own $400,000 Robot - NYTimes.com

 

New super strong alloy discovered


Computer models predicts path of lost hikers

 

CTV Edmonton - Can Facebook make you feel better about yourself? - CTV News

 

The Technological Disobedience of Ernesto Oroza: In Isolated Cuba, Inventing to Survive | Motherboard

 

Bombing Guam with dead mice - Boing Boing

 

Native Toad Fights Back Against Yellow Crazy-Ant Invasion | Wired Science | Wired.com