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Fuel Subsidies Overseas Take a Toll on U.S. - NYTimes.comTo understand why fuel prices in the U.S. have soared over the last year, it helps to get an idea of how foreign governments are subsidizing energy prices.
Gas Rush Is On, and Louisianians Cash In - NYTimes.com
A no-holds-barred, all-American gold rush for natural gas is underway in a forgotten corner of the South.
DIY 3D Controller - Instructables - DIY, How To, tech - The Instructables Book Contest Entry
Make a 3D interface using an six resistors, aluminum foil, and an Arduino. Take that, Wii.
The basic goal here was to make a 3D hand-position sensing...
'Sun-eating dragon' returns to China
PhysOrg.com: Earth, the Sun and the Moon will align in a celestial ballet on Friday, rewarding China, where the first record of an eclipse was made more than 4,000 years ago, with a dazzling show. Longingly awaited, the first total solar eclipse since March 2006 kicks off at 0923 GMT, when the lunar shadow touches down on the fringes of Nunavut province in northern Canada.
Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search
PhysOrg.com: (AP) -- Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system. She believes her latest invention is even more valuable - only this time it's not for sale.
British scientist hopes for 'yeti hair' breakthrough
PhysOrg.com: A British scientist said Monday he was anxiously awaiting the results of DNA tests on hair claimed to be from a yeti after initial examinations showed it had human and ape-like characteristics.
New biomass technology dramatically increases ethanol yield from grasses and yard waste
PhysOrg.com: University of Georgia researchers have developed a new technology that promises to dramatically increase the yield of ethanol from readily available non-food crops, such as Bermudagrass, switchgrass, Napiergrass—and even yard waste.
Mini-Microscope Could Lead to Cell-Sorting Implants | Wired Science from Wired.com
Imagine a microscope implanted into your body that could automatically sort out cancerous cells based on how they looked. That's the long-term promise of a lensless microscope that Caltech researchers
How to Do Business With a Blacklisted Russian Weapons Company | Danger Room from Wired.com
We now know that the U.S. Army handed out a sole-sourced deal to sell nearly two dozen Russian Mi-17 helicopters to Iraq. But the lingering question is, how? Rosoboronexport, the
Trying to Build a Greener Britain, Home by Home - NYTimes.comThrough a host of small efforts by residents, the seaside town of Hove has become a prototype of a green village.
Lyall Watson, 69, Scientific Polymath and Explorer - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
Mr. Watson was a maverick scientific polymath and explorer who wrote the best-selling book “Supernature” and introduced the “hundredth monkey” theory.
Observatory - Icebergs Digging Deep, With Implications for Life on the Bottom of the Sea - NYTimes.com
Close to the coast the seafloor can take a pounding as icebergs are moved around by currents, wind and tides.
Vital Signs - Risks - High PCB Levels, Fewer Births of Boys - NYTimes.com
Women exposed to high levels of polychlorinated biphenyl are significantly less likely to give birth to boys, according to a new study.
Vital Signs - Having a Baby - Infant’s Smile Works on Mom’s Brain - NYTimes.com
A picture of a mother’s own smiling baby activates reward-processing regions of her brain much more strongly than seeing a picture of an unknown baby, a new study shows.
Rise in Tuberculosis Is Linked to Loans From International Monetary Fund - NYTimes.com
The rise in tuberculosis cases in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is associated with the receipt of loans from the fund, a new study has found.
'Snow flea antifreeze protein' could help improve organ preservation
PhysOrg.com: Scientists in Illinois and Pennsylvania are reporting development of a way to make the antifreeze protein that enables billions of Canadian snow fleas to survive frigid winter temperatures.
Amazon powers tropical ocean's carbon sink
PhysOrg.com: Nutrients from the Amazon River spread well beyond the continental shelf and drive carbon capture in the deep ocean, according to the authors of a multi-year study.
Researchers find key to saving the world's lakes
PhysOrg.com: After completing one of the longest running experiments ever done on a lake, researchers from the University of Alberta, University of Minnesota and the Freshwater Institute, contend that nitrogen control, in which the European Union and many other jurisdictions around the world are investing millions of dollars, is not effective and in fact, may actually increase the problem of cultural eutrophication.
Beijing's smog takes shine off Olympic gold - Scotsman.com News
Beijing's smog takes shine off Olympic gold - Lung-busting pollution may mean few records are broken at this year's Games, writes <strong>Fiona MacLeod</strong>
Crude Reporting: Ask the Tough Questions About Oil
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Stoooopid .... why the Google generation isn’t as smart as it thinks - Times Online
On Wednesday I received 72 e-mails, not counting junk, and only two text
messages.
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Global Warming Talks Leave Few Concrete Goals - News Analysis - NYTimes.com
The sobering reality behind the G-8 summit was that it ended without an agreement on firm targets.
Researchers open new 'window' on solar energy: Cost effective devices expected on market soon
PhysOrg.com: Imagine windows that not only provide a clear view and illuminate rooms, but also use sunlight to efficiently help power the building they are part of. MIT engineers report a new approach to harnessing the sun's energy that could allow just that.
Wilkins Ice Shelf hanging by its last thread
PhysOrg.com: The Wilkins Ice Shelf is experiencing further disintegration that is threatening the collapse of the ice bridge connecting the shelf to Charcot Island. Since the connection to the island in the image centre helps to stabilise the ice shelf, it is likely the break-up of the bridge will put the remainder of the ice shelf at risk.
Control switches found for immune cells that fight cancer, viral infection
PhysOrg.com: Medical science may be a significant step closer to climbing into the driver's seat of an important class of immune cells, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report in Nature Immunology.
A third of reef-building corals face extinction
PhysOrg.com: A third of reef-building corals around the world are threatened with extinction, according to the first-ever comprehensive global assessment to determine their conservation status. The study findings were published today by Science Express.
Big babies and small families make evolutionary sense
PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- Macquarie University researchers have discovered and modelled the key factors responsible for offspring and family size.
Can microorganisms be a solution to the world's energy problems?
PhysOrg.com: Microorganisms once reigned supreme on the Earth, thriving by filling every nook and cranny of the environment billions of years before humans first arrived on the scene. Now, this ability of microorganisms to grow from an almost infinite variety of food sources may play a significant role in bailing out society from its current energy crisis, according to the Biodesign Institute's Bruce Rittmann, Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, and Rolf Halden.
Weldon's Firm Made Defective-Tank Deal With Iraq | Danger Room from Wired.com
If, someday, there are T-shirts sold in Iraq that read, the United States invaded our country and all we got were these crappy tanks, here is the explanation for what
New legal threat to teaching evolution in the US - opinion - 09 July 2008 - New Scientist
Religious groups hostile to the idea of evolution have adopted a cynical new tactic in Louisiana, says Amanda Gefter
In an Iranian Image, a Missile Too Many - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog
Reading, watching, discussing and blogging the day's local, national, and international news at The New York Times on the Web.
Whales & Dolphins Inspire a Novel Design for Wind Turbines
The Daily Galaxy -News from Planet Earth & Beyond, is an eclectic text and video presentation of fascinating news and original insights on science, space exploration, technology, and their reflections in popular culture (film, books, events).
Hybrid Medical Animation | Demo Reel 2008
High-end 3D medical illustration and medical animation for marketing professionals engaged in the fields of healthcare, biotechnology & medicine
Crawling the Internet to track infectious disease outbreaksPhysOrg.com: Could Internet discussion forums, listservs, and online news outlets be an informative source of information on disease outbreaks? A team of researchers from Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School thinks so, and it has launched a real-time, automated data-gathering system called HealthMap to gather, organize and disseminate this online intelligence. They describe their project in this week's PLoS Medicine.
Matsushita Electric Works says it has developed eco-friendly lamp
PhysOrg.com: Japan's Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. said Tuesday it had developed a fluorescent lamp that does not use mercury or a gas-discharging process.
New study finds that some plants can adapt to widespread climate change
PhysOrg.com: While many plant species move to a new location or go extinct as a result of climate change, grasslands clinging to a steep, rocky dale-side in Northern England seem to defy the odds and adapt to long-term changes in temperature and rainfall, according to a new study by scientists from Syracuse University and the University of Sheffield (United Kingdom) published online in the July 7 issue of the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Male cyclists risk sexual problems if they don't choose the right bike
PhysOrg.com: Men who take up cycling in an effort to stay fit, do their bit for the environment or avoid spiralling motoring costs, could be harming their health if they don't choose the right bicycle. That's the stark warning from consultant urological surgeon Mr Vinod Nargund from St Bartholomew's and Homerton Hospitals, London, in the urology journal BJU International.
How intense will storms get? New model helps answer question
PhysOrg.com: A new mathematical model indicates that dust devils, water spouts, tornadoes, hurricanes and cyclones are all born of the same mechanism and will intensify as climate change warms the Earth's surface.
Scientists discover new reefs teeming with marine life in Brazil
PhysOrg.com: Scientists announced today the discovery of reef structures they believe doubles the size of the Southern Atlantic Ocean's largest and richest reef system, the Abrolhos Bank, off the southern coast of Brazil's Bahia state. The newly discovered area is also far more abundant in marine life than the previously known Abrolhos reef system, one of the world's most unique and important reefs.
Researchers Track Disease With Google News, Google.org Money | Wired Science from Wired.com
When the next salmonella or avian flu outbreak hits, the internet will have the news first. But good luck finding that news amid the chatter about Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise
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PC Pro: News: Internet cable-laying boom
Dozens of new undersea internet cables to be laid across the world, in bid to boost capacity
globeandmail.com: Arkansas fight fans fall for Baron Cohen stunt
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Torontoist: Steal My Sunshine
Can WALL-E Win Best Picture? - TIME
No animated movie has ever won the coveted Oscar, but Hollywood is already abuzz with talk that Pixar's smash-hit post-apocalyptic robot could change that
Mystery of the meat-eaters' molecule - Telegraph
Telegraph Earth is your source for environmental and green news and environmental and green issues, with information on climate change, global warming, pollution, green living and recycling, and all other environment issues.
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Large Solar Energy Array Set for G.M. in Spain - NYTimes.com
The solar electric system on the roof of a G.M. assembly plant in Spain will be the largest in the world, a thousand times larger than most projects.
Europeans Reconsider Biofuel Goal - NYTimes.com
European officials proposed scaling back drastically on their goal of increasing Europe’s use of biofuels, a major about-face on a central environmental and energy issue.
New Supercomputer Is Intended to Aid Scientific Research - NYTimes.com
A special-purpose supercomputer is intended to offer more than a thousandfold increase in performance for complex molecular simulations.
Corals, Already in Danger, Face New Threat in Algae Grown by People - NYTimes.com
Efforts to spread seaweed cultivation across the Pacific have backfired and are putting coral reefs at risk.
Super strong antimicrobial coatings for medicine, defense
PhysOrg.com: One of the world' strongest materials meets one of Nature's most powerful germ killers in a new research project that produced incredibly tough anti-bacterial surfaces with multiple applications in home appliances, medicine, aerospace, and national defense. A report on this long-awaited genre of stronger disinfectant surfaces is scheduled for the July 9 issue of ACS' Nano Letters.
Scientists discover chemical cues that stimulate egg laying by pregnant mosquitoes
PhysOrg.com: North Carolina State University scientists have figured out one reason why pregnant yellow fever mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti), one of the most important disease transmitters worldwide, choose to lay their eggs in certain outdoor water containers while eschewing others.
Are We in the Peak of an Oil Bubble?
PhysOrg.com: Since 2003, worldwide oil prices have quadrupled. According to a new study, the price of oil is rising at a faster-than-exponential rate, and cannot be sustained. In other words, we’re in the midst of an oil bubble, say researchers Didier Sornette and Ryan Woodard of ETH Zurich in Switzerland and Wei-Xing Zhou of the East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai, China.
Montauk Struggles With Growing Influence of the Hamptons - NYTimes.com
The monied spirit and the allure of the Hamptons flow east. Some locals of “The End” hope to stem the tide.
After 40 Years, Moon Rocks Still in Demand for Research - NYTimes.com
Decades after the Apollo astronauts brought the first moon rocks back to Earth, they are still providing scientists with new secrets.
July 7, 1936: Get a Grip — Phillips Screws Up the Toolbox
Get the latest in science news, including space, physics, planet earth, discoveries, NASA, satellites, and space travel from Wired.com
Chinese bloggers evade censors by writing backwards
By Mark O'Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] You have to hand it to Chinese bloggers - they are determined to get the truth out, no matter what. OK,
Drug-Infused Nanoparticles Stop Cancer From Spreading | Wired Science from Wired.com
By using tumor-targeting nanoparticles filled with chemotherapy drugs, scientists kept kidney and pancreas cancers from spreading through the bodies of mice. In an experiment described today in the Proceedings of
Chess boxers slug it out | NEWS.com.au
A RUSSIAN man has been crowned world champion in the novelty sport of chess boxing, a game that requires equal skill at moving pawns and throwing punches.
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GORBACHOV: THE MUSIC VIDEO - BIGGER AND RUSSIANER on Vimeo
I did this video for a Russian Metal Band called ANJ. It is pretty crazy. When I saw the lyrics it seemed to be an earnest tribute to Mikael Gorbachov (that's how the Russians spell it), so I was a bit confounded about what the video concept should be, but then I had a brainstorm to take it way over the top and I think it was just the thing. Suffice to say it's half Russian History allegory as told through an old zombie movie made in the Soviet Union, and half animated Soviet Propaganda posters. It's in HD, so let it load a bit before you play it and then click the little "four arrows" symbol on the lower right part of the viewer to see it in true HD.
