Saturday, July 14, 2012

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

Saturday, June 2, 2012

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 knieƫn | 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 
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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