Tories shut down 'groundbreaking' freshwater research station - The Globe and Mail
 

Is This the Key to Vastly Better Batteries? - Technology Review

 

Lofty Ambitions for Cross-Laminated Timber Panels - NYTimes.com

 

Algae, lichens, and mosses take up huge amounts of carbon dioxide and nitrogen from atmosphere

 

Energy-dense biofuel from cellulose close to being economical

 

Homeless and Overweight: Obesity Is the New Malnutrition | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

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World's environmental outlook grim, UN warns - Technology & Science - CBC News

 

Earth reaching an environmental 'state shift': Report

 

Companies Try to Create Room on Radio Spectrum - NYTimes.com

 

With Prometheus, Ridley Scott Makes Sci-Fi Horrifyingly Believable Again | Underwire | Wired.com

 

Suicides Eclipse War Deaths for U.S. Troops - NYTimes.com

 

Glass Is Jersey City Man’s Preoccupation - NYTimes.com

 

The Arsenic Diet | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

Scientists risk their lives to sample volcanic lava - Boing Boing

 

Artist Berndnaut Smilde creates indoor clouds - The Style Blog - The Washington Post

 

Texel, Netherlands: An island where science and culture meet - Boing Boing

 

More carbon dioxide in the air could threaten rice crops

 

U.K.’s Trash Becomes Biofuel Treasure - IEEE Spectrum

 

Electric Signal Might Warn of Collapsing Bridges, Failing Turbines, Earthquakes, and More - IEEE Spectrum

 

A Faster Fourier Transform - Technology Review

 

Honeybee Swarms Increase in N.Y.C. After Mild Spring - NYTimes.com

 

The Great German Energy Experiment - Technology Review

 

Salvaged robot arm makes a big 3d printer - Hack a Day

 

Volumetric display looks like a DaVinci sketch - Hack a Day

 

Studies of Human Microbiome Yield New Insights - NYTimes.com

 

Bike Tribes: A Field Guide to North American Cyclists (Book Review) : TreeHugger

 

Tarantula with strange, antler-like fungal appendages - Boing Boing

 

Lego Turing Machine Is Simple Yet Sublime | Underwire | Wired.com

 

Switzerland is one gigantic booby-trap - Boing Boing

 

Dept. of Sanitation: Whoosh : The New Yorker

 

Cleaner Coal’s Last Stand - IEEE Spectrum

 

General Electric and Sargas Announce Carbon Capture Plans - IEEE Spectrum

 

Botched Computer Analysis Does in California Nuclear Power Plant - IEEE Spectrum

 

John Pilger - The Quiet Mutiny - World in Action (1970) - YouTube

 

News for Youse: The word of the day is "misinformation" | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com

 

America's Last Prisoner of War | Politics News | Rolling Stone

 

Travelers run for cover as cops kill cops at Mexico City airport - World News

 

19 Patents Invented by Ingenious Celebrities (Plus One by Paula Abdul) | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

 

The Most Important Milestone from China's Impressive Week of Exploration | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

AutoCAD Worm Stealing Designs, Blueprints | threatpost

 

Infinite-capacity wireless vortex beams carry 2.5 terabits per second | ExtremeTech

 

Pentagon's Zombie Satellite Program Comes to Life | Danger Room | Wired.com

 

Bicycle quadcopter flies for dozens of seconds - Hack a Day

 

Melting beer cans and building engines - Hack a Day

 

London's towering SHARD is a microcosm of everything that's wrong in the world - Boing Boing

 

Palestinian Village Tries to Protect Landmark - NYTimes.com

 

Visualizing pizza company's network: from the farm to local deliveries - Boing Boing

 

An Online Encyclopedia that Writes Itself - Technology Review

 

In a Big Network of Computers, Evidence of Machine Learning - NYTimes.com

 

Fabricating and Running a Scratch Built Engine from Beer Cans - YouTube

 

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GlaxoSmithKline settles fraud case for $3 billion - Bottom Line

 

Twisted Light Leads to 2.56 Tb/s Link - IEEE Spectrum

 

The Brain-Damaging Chemical Lurking In Your Food - MSN Healthy Living - Health and Wellness

 

New Communication Tech for Deep-Space Missions - IEEE Spectrum

 

Sockeye salmon adult populations in widespread decline - Canada - CBC News

 

Secret Connections - Technology Review

 

‘Living Wills’ of How to Unwind Big Banks Are Released - NYTimes.com

 

Klassieke flashmob is mooi | Flabber

 

Nanoporous graphene could outperform best commercial water desalination techniques

 

Man Lives Off Craigslist for One Crazy Month in Craigslist Joe | Underwire | Wired.com

 

The Inside Story of the Extra Second That Crashed the Web | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

 

Video: Crane lifts crane lifts crane - Boing Boing

 

Job insecurity in America: a terrified nation of disposable workers - Boing Boing

 

How the Selectric's digital-to-analogue converter worked - Boing Boing

 

Causes of death: 1900 and 2010 - Boing Boing

 

Terrorist watch now available in chartreuse, magenta, ginger and more - Boing Boing

 

One squillion gimme pens from Big Pharma - Boing Boing

 

Sarah Robles: The strongest woman in America lives on $400 a month - Boing Boing

 

Russia's nuclear sledgehammers - Boing Boing

 

California’s Bioterror Victim, Eucalyptus trees

 

Drought hits 56 percent of continental US; 'significant toll' on crops - U.S. News

 

Sewer hunters of Victorian London - Boing Boing

 

Where Wal-Mart departs, a library succeeds - latimes.com

 

Fixing Wind Power’s Bat Problem - IEEE Spectrum

 

A Skeptic Looks at Alternative Energy - IEEE Spectrum

 

Up to 20,000 sea turtle eggs crushed by bulldozers on Caribbean island - World News

 

Cagle Post » Three Ways the Rich and Powerful Have Cheated Young Americans

 

Rosenhan experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

China's costly pollution problem - World - CBC News

 

The One Percent - YouTube

 

Canadian Scientists March on Ottawa to Protest the "Death of Evidence" : TreeHugger

 

Black Market for Cigarettes Expands, Costing E.U. Billions - NYTimes.com

 

Baseball at relativistic speeds and other wild hypotheticals - Boing Boing

 

The Air Conditioned Nightmare: China and India Like To Be Cool Too. : TreeHugger

 

A Stellar Opportunity - Science Careers - Biotech, Pharmaceutical, Faculty, Postdoc jobs on Science Careers

 

New 3-D Printers that Don't Suck | Wired Design | Wired.com

 

Scorpion Venom Heals Drug-Resistant Bacteria Infection | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

Defying Gravity: When Strange Liquids Act Like Solids | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

Tiny Antennas Save Streaming Internet TV Service | Threat Level | Wired.com

 

Vast Deposits of Gold and Other Ores Lure Seabed Miners - NYTimes.com

 

U.S. Bill Would Fight Chip Counterfeiting - IEEE Spectrum

 

Bird species declining in Canada, report says - Canada - CBC News

 

Why Obama Will Free Jonathan Pollard by Grant Smith -- Antiwar.com

 

David Sanger: 'Obama's Secret Wars' Against America's Threats : NPR

 

The Future of Food - YouTube

 

Maldives creates world’s biggest marine reserve - The Globe and Mail

 

Commercial Drones and GPS Spoofers a Bad Mix - IEEE Spectrum

 

From Testing Lipstick to Spotting Terrorists - IEEE Spectrum

 

Indoor navigation on your smartphone, using the Earth’s magnetic field — just like a pigeon | ExtremeTech

 

How software-defined radio could revolutionize wireless | Ars Technica

 

‘Strategic Vision,’ by Zbigniew Brzezinski - NYTimes.com

 

Human Memory, Computer Memory, and Memento - IEEE Spectrum

 

Drones and GPS Spoofing Redux - IEEE Spectrum

 

Revenge of the Nerds: Tech Firms Scour College Campuses for Talent - WSJ.com

Lift - YouTube

Romeo Phillion launches $14-million lawsuit for wrongful conviction

Secrets of the first practical artificial leaf

Radioactive Topological Insulators - IEEE Spectrum

BBC News - Massive rise in Asian eye damage

BBC News - 3D printers could create customised drugs on demand

Plant DNA vs. Counterfeit Chips - IEEE Spectrum

Eccentric-hub scooter / bike (no pedals)

A historic event: American black widow spiders bring victory in World War I and II

HOWTO decorate like a Mafia boss - Boing Boing

Terrifying thrill-ride - Boing Boing

Air is mightier than eight Frenchmen - Boing Boing

Introducing Cross-laminated Timber (CLT) to North America - YouTube

From Graduate School to Welfare - Graduate Students - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Reggie Watts: F_ck Sh_t Stack - YouTube

msnbc video: Bee deaths linked to pesticides

NASA scientist James Hanson says civilization will be at risk if Canada exploits oil sands | Canada 

Politics - Yahoo! News Canada

Politics - The Globe and Mail

120 Giants Found Living With 86-Year-Old Man : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR

Siemens Develops Modular Power Storage for Renewable Energy : TreeHugger

Antimatter Propulsion Engine Redesigned Using CERN's Particle Physics Simulation Toolkit - Technology Review

Graduating Into Debt - Video Library - The New York Times

‘Ring’ Heads - Video Library - The New York Times

New Cement-Making Method Could Slash Carbon Emissions - Technology Review

In Sperm Banks, a Roll of the Genetic Dice - NYTimes.com

Contracts Help Private Sector Edge Deeper Into Space - NYTimes.com

Alt Text: 4 Scams That Fool the Skeptics | Underwire | Wired.com

Researchers generate electricity from viruses

High-tech ghost-town being built in the middle of the NM desert - Boing Boing

World's Scariest Drug - Colombian Devil's Breath Documentairenet.nl

Ford + TechShop: Getting Employees to Tinker | Wired Design | Wired.com

BBC News - Mexico violence: Monterrey police find 49 bodies

Great Pacific Garbage Patch 'has increased 100-fold since the 1970s' - Telegraph

Fracking backed by Environment Agency head - Telegraph

‘Civilization - The West and the Rest,’ on PBS - NYTimes.com

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BBC News - Crime and punishment, Norwegian style

Russen zorgen weer voor knikkende knieën | Flabber

Homemade motorcycle improvised out of a Citroen 2CV in the middle of the desert - Boing Boing

How past land use affects the current landscape - Boing Boing

Afterlife: Making Rotten Food Beautiful | Wired Science | Wired.com

Prepared for Zombies? Then British Columbia Thinks You're Ready for Anything | GeekDad | Wired.com

Bees Prefer Working Class Gardens Over Affluent Gardens : TreeHugger

Kodak had weapons-grade uranium - Boing Boing

Slime computes freeways systems - Boing Boing

Thousands of college students in Ontario need help with grade school math | Daily Brew - Yahoo! News Canada

Vortex tube - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

American Scientists Fear Losing Edge in Physics - NYTimes.com

VHS Loyalists - Video Library - The New York Times

Ultra-Efficient Solar - Technology Review

Sound increases the efficiency of boiling

'The Demise of Guys': How video games and porn are ruining a generation - CNN.com

Spread of Chagas Is Called ‘The New AIDS of the Americas’ - NYTimes.com

SpaceX mission control vs. NASA mission control (photo comparison) - Boing Boing

Pictures: World War II "Time Capsule" Fighter Found in Sahara

Ted Kaczynski's Harvard alumni directory listing - Boing Boing

Security researcher: I found secret reprogramming backdoors in Chinese microprocessors - Boing 

Boing

Life before plastic - Boing Boing

Award-Winning Lamp Eliminates Need for Direct Sunlight : TreeHugger

How to Spot Income Inequality from Space: Look for the Trees : TreeHugger

A SIM Card for Domineering Parents - Technology Review

The Great Bandwidth Brawl - Technology Review

Keeping Drones From Crashing - IEEE - The Institute

Apples that won't go brown coming soon? - Science - Canoe.ca

Last Call at the Oasis: The global water crisis has arrived - The Globe and Mail

Dim Prospects for Financial Crisis Prosecutions - NYTimes.com

The Quest for a Universal Memory - IEEE Spectrum

How to make a model hydraulic ram - YouTube

Harper is right: Foreign radicals are after the oil sands - The Globe and Mail

Half of Detroit’s Streetlights May Go Out as City Shrinks - Bloomberg

Health - Brian Fung - It's Not Just You: 'Old Person Smell' Is Real - The Atlantic

German teen solves 300-year-old mathematical riddle posed by Sir Isaac Newton | Fox News

Toronto News: Rookie cop takes heat for arresting off-duty officer - thestar.com

Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks (Mariachi Live Performance) - YouTube

IEEE Technology Time Machine 2012: Siemens the Car Maker - IEEE Spectrum

My Year Trying to Live Cash Free - IEEE Spectrum

BBC News - Why does the UK love the monarchy?

Russians Working Out On A Bridge! 500 meters tower 2012 - YouTube

Visualizing sound without a computer - Hack a Day

Freedom Toaster dispenses FOSS… for free - Hack a Day
 

Meest ingewikkelde kurkentrekker ooit | Flabber

 

Meet Slovak Batman - Boing Boing

 

Interviews Before Execution: Chinese reality talk show with death row inmates - Boing Boing

 

From Their Graves, Ancient Nomads Speak - NYTimes.com

 

Reusable Sticky Tape Could Hold Up Your TV - Technology Review

 

For Some in Vietnam, Prosperity Is a South Korean Son-in-Law - NYTimes.com

 

Britain allows student's extradition to US over website

 

Diamond brightens the performance of electronic devices

 

3D-printer with nano-precision

 

Research reveals carbon footprint caused by China's irrigation system

 

Northern Lights Paint Sky Over Arctic Volcano | Raw File | Wired.com

 

Staph In Pigs And Pig Farmers: The Latest Reports (ICEID 1) | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

Tracking Antarctic Krill as More Is Harvested for Omega-3 Pills - NYTimes.com

 

After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses - NYTimes.com

 

Starling Flocks Behave Like Flying Magnets | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

BBC News - Nazi persecution saw Jews flee abroad as servants

 

Virtual Power Plants, Real Power - IEEE Spectrum

 

BBC News - Antihydrogen undergoes its first-ever measurement

 

BBC News - US economy adds 227,000 jobs in February

 

BBC News - Europe's water resources 'under pressure'

 

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PhotoBlog - A rare tornado touches down on Oahu

 

BUFFALO FORGE POST DRILL DEMO. - YouTube

 

U.S. News - Former Vice President Dick Cheney cancels trip to Canada, says it's too dangerous

 

Fresh Air Interview: John Villasenor - Drones Over America: What Can They See? : 

NPR

 

The Big Fracking Bubble: The Scam Behind the Gas Boom | Politics News | Rolling Stone

 

Superconductors for Whopping Wind Turbines - IEEE Spectrum

 

Gross and tantalizing menu from the Explorer's Club dinner - Boing Boing

 

US law-school bubble pops - Boing Boing

 

China's ageing population and the "demographic time-bomb" - Boing Boing

 

Pop! Goes the Law School Bubble - Jordan Weissmann - Business - The Atlantic

 

A Taste of Exotic Meats at the Explorers Club Annual Dinner | Popular Science

 

Justices Reject Patents for Medical Tests Relying on Drug Dosages - NYTimes.com

 

Nanowire Forest Splits Water with Sunlight - IEEE Spectrum

 

A new target for tech patent trolls: cash-strapped American cities

 

Laser de-printer lifts ink from paper, leaving it ready to be reused - Boing Boing

 

Famous painter of prehistoric murals for museums, Charles R. Knight - exclusive excerpt - Boing Boing

 

1. More US Soldiers Committed Suicide Than Died in Combat | Project Censored

 

World News - Honeybee die-offs linked to insecticide, study says

 

Jobless grads are suing U.S. law schools - The Globe and Mail

 

Yes, Deepwater Horizon Oil Did Enter the Food Chain | Popular Science

 

The 2012 Heat Wave: "Almost Like Science Fiction" | Popular Science

 

BBC News - In pictures: Russian Empire in colour photos

 

Open Source Comes to Textbooks - IEEE Spectrum

 

Playing "Still Alive" with a fiber laser and a piece of stainless steel - Boing Boing

 

Art That Goes Bang: Cai Guo-Qiang's Gunpowder Paintings - Boing Boing

 

Hilarious memoirs from the HR department: chapter 15 of "Let's Pretend This Never Happened" - Boing Boing

 

Copyright Math: the best TED Talk you'll watch all year - Boing Boing

 

One Drug to Shrink All Tumors - ScienceNOW

 

Google Street View Maps the Amazon : TreeHugger

 

35,000 gallons of prevention: Containing a tunnel flood with an inflatable stopper

 

Has Modern Science Become Dysfunctional? | News Room

 

Satiric birthday song for Wernher von Braun - Boing Boing

 

SOM Architects Call for a 100 Year Vision for the Great Lakes : TreeHugger

 

Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy - YouTube

 

At the Maastricht Art Fair, a Flight to Beauty - NYTimes.com

 

Great Lakes Century on Vimeo

 

John La Grou plugs smart power outlets | Video on TED.com

 

Chinese Tractors in Guilin - YouTube

 

Derrick Jensen on Identification - YouTube

 

Invisible Robota: the robots who ate our jobs - Boing Boing

 

The penny's days are numbered - Business - CBC News

 

America's highest paid CEOs - executive compensation - MSN Money

 

MEMS Switches for Low-Power Logic - IEEE Spectrum

 

Over 60 and still paying student loans- MSN Money

 

Snails in a Race for Biological Energy Harvesting - IEEE Spectrum

 

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The Computing Trend that Will Change Everything - Technology Review

 

Studies fault Bayer in bee die-off - CSMonitor.com

 

Building a better circuit for renewable energy harvesting - Hack a Day

 

TM65 Liquid Propellant Rocket Engine - Episode 1 - YouTube

 

Massive 100,000 s.f. Greenhouse Planned for Brooklyn Rooftop : TreeHugger

 

For Texas Schools, a Year of Doing Without - NYTimes.com

 

Working software-defined radio with a TV tuner card. - Hack a Day

 

The Big Fix - Official Trailer [HD] - YouTube

 

U of G food science prof identifies plants to serve as 'famine foods' in Mali - Winnipeg Free Press

 

Hybrid copper-gold nanoparticles convert  - MIT News Office

 

Jonathan Foley: The other inconvenient truth | Video on TED.com

 

How a Radical Leftist Became the FBI's BFF | Mother Jones

 

msnbc video: Drought plagues more than half the U.S.

 

Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists - Features - Al Jazeera English

 

BBC News - Google unveils Project Glass augmented reality eyewear

 

Biogenerator | Flintbox

 

The black box: Inside America's massive new surveillance centre (Wired UK)

 

Making Objects Invisible to Magnetic Fields - IEEE Spectrum

 

The World According to DARPA - IEEE Spectrum

 

BBC News - Who, What, Why: Why do we know Timbuktu?

 

BBC News - 3D printers could create customised drugs on demand

 

Mechanical CPU Clock

 

Hardware Store Plastic Roller Bearings

 

NASA Wants to Launch Floating Algae Farms - Technology Review

 

How to Enjoy Turntables Without Obsessing Over Them - NYTimes.com

 

Reading credit cards with a tape head - Hack a Day

 

Only in India: ill-advised bodges from the subcontinent - Boing Boing

 

India Struggles to Dig Up Enough Fuel to Power Growth - NYTimes.com

 

A Ban on Some Seafood Has Fishermen Fuming - NYTimes.com

 

Half Life of a Tech Worker: 15 Years - Slashdot

 

Geothermal System Taps Sewage Instead of Bedrock : TreeHugger

 

Mechanical Principles (1930) by Ralph Steiner [4min selection] - YouTube

 

Designing for 'Spaceship Earth': R. Buckminster Fuller's Grand Vision | Wired Design | Wired.com

 

High-stakes one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma on a British game show with an astounding strategy - Boing Boing

 

Physicists Crack Fusion Mystery - Technology Review

 

Biochemist creates CO2-eating light that runs on algae | Geek.com

 

BBC News - Leonardo da Vinci: How accurate were his anatomy drawings?

 

DIWire Bender makes nearly any shape imaginable - Hack a Day

 

Chris Bathgate's machined-metal sculpture book: the making of beautiful, abstracted, stern but inviting forms - Boing Boing

 

Photos of people living off-the-grid in the United States - Boing Boing

 

Talking Heads' "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" performed on traditional Chinese instruments - Boing Boing

 

Extreme longboard freeride down a mountain road - Boing Boing

 

3D whiteboard without the whiteboard - Hack a Day

 

Incredible home made miniature engines - Hack a Day

 

Wanted: Version Control for Stuff | Wired Design | Wired.com

 

A 267 mph ride on the Shanghai maglev train - Boing Boing

 

Sun-powered Stirling engine with automatic tracking - Hack a Day

 

Marijuana Growers Move to the Suburbs - NYTimes.com