Earth Portation News November 12th

ART - Photographer Takes on the Tech Industry Through Art

http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/clean-technology/rape-and-conflict-minerals-photographer-takes-technology-industry-through-art/

BIRDS - Cornell Offering Mini Bird Grants

http://www.treehugger.com/lawn-garden/cornell-mini-grants-available-community-cird-nature-events-2013.html

BIRDS - Neural circuit in the songbird brain that encodes representation of learned vocal sounds located

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-neural-circuit-songbird-brain-encodes.html

CLIMATE - Why Antarctic sea ice cover has increased under the effects of climate change 

http://phys.org/news/2012-11-antarctic-sea-ice-effects-climate.html#ajTabs

CLIMATE - Extreme Weather Preceded Collapse of Ancient Maya Civilization

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121108142750.htm

CLIMATE - Research: Cultural dimensions of climate change are underestimated, overlooked and misunderstood

http://phys.org/news/2012-11-cultural-dimensions-climate-underestimated-overlooked.html#ajTabs

CLIMATE - Super Storm Tracked by European Space Agency Water Mission
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121109084106.htm


EARTH - Surveying Earth's interior with atomic clocks
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-surveying-earth-interior-atomic-clocks.html

EARTH - Greenland Rocks Provide Evidence of Earth Formation Process
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121108073921.htm

EARTH -The Mystery Island From 'Skyfall' And How You Can Go There
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewbender/2012/11/09/the-mystery-island-from-skyfall-and-how-you-can-go-there/


ECONOMICS - Greece To Default By Friday Unless Brussels Sends The Bailout Cash
http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2012/11/12/greece-to-default-by-friday-unless-brussels-sends-the-bailout-cash/

ECONOMICS - The Irresistible Desire for Small Services
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michakaufman/2012/11/12/small-services/

ECONOMICS - How to Prepare For the Next Recession
http://www.forbes.com/sites/billconerly/2012/11/12/how-to-prepare-for-the-next-recession/

ECONOMICS - For Mission-Based Businesses, Crowd Funding Offers New Opportunities
http://www.treehugger.com/economics/mission-based-businesses-crowd-funding-offers-new-opportunities.html


ENERGY - Energy, Obama's Election and a House of Irrelevance
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/11/12/energy-obamas-election-and-a-house-of-irrelevance/

ENERGY - Italy Looks For Relief With First New Energy Plan In 25 Years
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christophercoats/2012/11/12/italy-looks-for-relief-with-first-new-energy-plan-in-25-years/

ENERGY - U.S. Energy Independence Will Make Enemies And Help China
http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewhulbert/2012/11/12/ten-reasons-to-be-concerned-about-u-s-energy-independence/

ENERGY - The Truth Behind New York's Epic Gasoline Lines
http://www.forbes.com/sites/blakeclayton/2012/11/12/the-truth-behind-new-yorks-epic-gasoline-lines/

ENERGY - 3 Myths About America's Clean Energy Future
http://www.forbes.com/sites/manishbapna/2012/11/12/3-myths-about-americas-clean-energy-future/

ENERGY - Using rust and water to store solar energy as hydrogen
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-rust-solar-energy-hydrogen.html#ajTabs


ENVIRONMENT - How One Kid Can Make A Difference For The Environment
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ashoka/2012/11/12/how-one-kid-can-make-a-difference-for-the-environment/

ENVIRONMENT - Erosion has a point—and an edge, researchers find
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-erosion-pointand-edge.html

ENVIRONMENT - Researchers find undersea gas leaks off Israel's coast
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-undersea-gas-leaks-israel-coast.html


GARDENS -How to Build Irrigation-Free Raised Beds with Hugelkultur
http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-agriculture/how-build-irrigation-free-raised-beds-hugelkultur.html


PLANTS - Nature Blows My Mind! Weird and Deadly Carnivorous Plants
http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/nature-blows-my-mind-weird-deadly-carnivorous-plants.html

PLANTS - Stealing nature's photosynthetic secrets
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-nature-photosynthetic-secrets.html

PLANTS - New Way Plants Control Flower Production
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121111153805.htm
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-production.html#ajTabs


SCIENCE - 'Supercharging' Atoms With X-Ray Laser
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121111153811.htm
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-supercharge-atoms-x-ray-laser.html#ajTabs

SCIENCE - Making a Better Invisibility Cloak
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121111153931.htm
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-invisibility-cloak.html#ajTabs

SCIENCE - Researchers create gel that displays spontaneous motion (w/ Video)
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-gel-spontaneous-motion-video.html

SCIENCE - Team demonstrates new hybrid nanomaterial for power generation
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-team-hybrid-nanomaterial-power.html

SCIENCE - Chemistry Job Market Likely to Rebound Before Biosciences
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2012/11/12/chemistry-job-market-likely-to-rebound-before-biosciences/

SCIENCE - 10 Questions To Distinguish Real From Fake Science
http://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2012/11/08/10-questions-to-distinguish-real-from-fake-science/

SCIENCE - Students may rely on calculators to bypass a more holistic understanding of mathematics, researcher says
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-students-bypass-holistic-mathematics.html

SCIENCE - Is dark energy static or dynamic?
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-dark-energy-static-dynamic.html

SCIENCE - First noiseless single photon amplifier
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-noiseless-photon-amplifier.html


SOLAR -A Startup Shows Off 'Smart Windows' In San Francisco Hotel
http://www.forbes.com/sites/uciliawang/2012/11/12/a-startup-shows-off-smart-windows-in-san-francisco-hotel/

SOLAR - Breakthrough for Solar Energy Conversion?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121112095943.htm

SOLAR - Using Rust and Water to Store Solar Energy
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121111153755.htm


SPACE - NASA's cure for a common phobia
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-interstellar-sun.html

SPACE -Discovery of a giant gap in the disk of a sun-like star may indicate multiple planets
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-discovery-giant-gap-disk-sun-like.html#ajTabs

SPACE -Scientists detect carbon dioxide accumulation at the edge of space (Update)
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-atmospheric-co2-space-junk.html#ajTabs


SUSTAINABILITY -Documentary Shows Scale of E-Waste
http://www.treehugger.com/gadgets/new-documentary-shows-scale-e-waste-problem.html


TECH - Japan's gadget failures: The futures that never happened
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-japan-gadget-failures-futures.html#ajTabs

TECH - Flex­ible and trans­parent super­ca­pac­itor: For energy-storage devices, thin is in (w/ Video)
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-flexible-transparent-supercapacitor-energy-storage-devices.html

TECH - Techniques for the manipulation of matter at the nano scale: New insights on 3-D printing
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-techniques-nano-scale-insights-d.html

TECH - 'Strain tuning' reveals promise in nanoscale manufacturing
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-strain-tuning-reveals-nanoscale.html

TECH - App Urges You to Spend Less on Stuff, Donate More
http://www.treehugger.com/gadgets/app-helps-you-spend-less-stuff-more-charity.html


URBAN - Ottawa Condo Is A Model For Green Intensification
http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/ottawa-condo-model-green-intensification.html

URBAN -The Crystal is a Super Sustainable Building and a Museum Too
http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/crystal-sustainable-building.html

URBAN -The City of Tomorrow, 1934
http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/picture-worth-city-tomorrow-1934.html


WATER - River Thames From its Source (Photos)
http://www.treehugger.com/culture/river-thames-documented-photography.html


WIND - New Wind Farm Could Be Largest In North America
http://www.forbes.com/sites/eco-nomics/2012/10/11/new-wind-farm-could-be-largest-in-north-america/

WIND - Secret Wind Patterns Revealed by Kinetic Facade (Video)
http://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/windswept-installation-charles-sowers.html


WORK -Where the Green Jobs Are
http://www.forbes.com/sites/pikeresearch/2012/11/09/where-the-green-jobs-are/