AIR - Groundbreaking air-cleaner saves polluting industrials
Industries across Europe are threatened with shutdown as European Union emission rules for Volatile Organic Compounds are tightened. Now an air cleaning invention from the University of Copenhagen has proven its ability to remove these compounds. And in the process they have helped a business in Danish town Aarhus improve relations to angry neighbors ...http://phys.org/news/2012-12-groundbreaking-air-cleaner-poll
AIR - Wood-burning sets off pollution alarm bells in Athens
Air pollution in Athens has surged in recent days because of people choosing wood over more expensive fuels to heat their homes in the grips of a continuing economic crisis, the environment ministry said Friday ...http://phys.org/news/2012-12-wood-burning-pollution-alarm-be
ANIMALS - Sharks Explode from Mall Aquarium: DNews Nugget
Mall shoppers in Shanghai got a wet willy when an aquarium burst, spilling sharks, fish and turtles across the floor ...http://news.discovery.com/animals/sharks-explode-from-mall-a
ANIMALS - These Are The Biggest Animal Stories Of 2012
Humans have a complicated relationship with our non-human cousins. Some animals we invite into our homes, and treat as members of our families. Indeed, in November of this year singer Fiona Apple made headlines when she announced that she would cancel the South American segment of her tour to be with her dying dog. Some animals we brine, barbecue, bake, roast, fry, or saute. Strong opinions were expressed on all sides of the issue when a law pass ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/biggest-animal-stories-of-201
ANIMALS - Wild Dolphins Observed Giving Gifts to Humans
While it's already well-known that dolphins rank among the most intelligent creatures on the planet, new research is suggesting that they just might be one of the most magnanimous too ..
http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/wild-dolphins-obs
BOOKS - Copyright, Patents, Trademarks: The Outlook For 2013
Guest post written by Alexandre Montagu and Thomas Wals ...http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/12/28/copyright-
BOOKS - The Ridiculously Easy Way to Donate Books Online
If you're decluttering your bookshelves, there's a website that will make donating your books to charity amazingly simple. You won't even have to leave your livingroom ...
http://www.treehugger.com/gadgets/ridiculously-easy-way-dona
EARTH - Oldest Known Depiction of Pharaoh Found
Dating back more than 5,000 years, the rock drawings represent the earliest depictions of royal power in Egypt ...http://news.discovery.com/history/oldest-pharaoh-found-12122
EARTH - Study warns of more great quakes in the Himalayas
A research team led by scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has discovered that massive earthquakes in the range of 8 to 8.5 magnitudes on the Richter scale have left clear ground scars in the central Himalayas ...http://phys.org/news/2012-12-great-quakes-himalayas.htm
ECONOMICS - 5 Essential Year-End Tax Tips For Small Business Owners
To quote Benjamin Franklin, "Nothing in life is certain but death and taxes." There's usually more work involved for small businesses than for individuals when it comes to filing taxes, but that doesn't mean it has to be more daunting. We spoke to Greg Jones, CEO of the outsourced financial intelligence consulting company BookKeeping Express, and Glen Ross, founder of the tax preparer search site Prosado.com, and discovered exactly what ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/year-end-tax-tips-for-small-b
ECONOMICS - Fiscal Cliff? What We Really Need Is Another Stimulus
Yes, you heard me right. Another Stimulus. With new technologies rising faster than sea level on a hot planet, America is headed for the biggest energy boom in 60 years. But we're also headed for a big disappointment if we don't have another stimulus package that will allow us to take advantage of this wealth of energy ...http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/12/27/fiscal-cli
ECONOMICS - INSTANT MBA: If You Want Your Business To Grow, You Have To Travel
Today's advice comes from Dan T. Cathy's interview with Muhtar Kent, CEO of The Coca-Cola Company via Youtube: "People have to grow, businesses have to grow and countries have to grow -sustainably. And if you want to find a way to do that in a business-grow sustainably-you have to really understand what's happening in the world not just by reading and by seeing only on a screen. You have to touch and breath and create relationships ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-best-way-to-grow-your-bus
EDUCATION - 7 Easy Ways To Be More Innovative
Trying to be innovative is, at least for most people, nearly impossible. Don't believe me? Try it. Right now. Think of something innovative. Come up with something new and different. I'll try it too. Back so soon? Don't feel bad; I was back long before you. Creativity isn't a switch most of us can turn on at will, so the key to being innovative is to view a problem from a different perspective. Necessity is the mother of innovation, so creating a ...http://www.businessinsider.com/7-easy-ways-to-be-more-innova
EDUCATION - Podcast: The A.V. Club's Kyle Ryan breaks down the year's best podcasts
Podcasts are awesome. The only thing better than creating podcasts is listening to them. And the only thing better than that is talking about podcasts with Kyle Ryan, Managing Editor for the A.V. Club. He and his team put together the Podmass Central podcast reviews section over at the A.V. Club and have, of course, created a best podcasts of 2012 list. This is a great conversation about how the medium is maturing, where it's heading and who is d ...http://gigaom.com/2012/12/27/podcast-the-a-v-clubs-kyle-ryan
EDUCATION - Teachers Taking Up Arms
Teachers are enrolling in classes on how to fire guns in order to deter school shootings like the one in Newtown, Conn ...http://news.discovery.com/human/teachers-taking-up-arms-1212
EDUCATION - Visual Learning: High and Dry
This Visual Learning activity will get your students thinking about what it would be like to live in a remote area and between two worlds-the past of their ancestors and the present of American mainstream culture ...http://www.yesmagazine.org/for-teachers/curriculum/visual-le
ENERGY - Algae Biofuel Breakthrough Hinges On Common Bacteria
One of the key factors standing between algae biofuel and the real world of market-competitive energy is something that has a lot in common with the common cold, and that is bacteria. The tiny little buggers can interfere with an efficient growth process and they really go to work as soon as algae is harvested, which shortens its shelf life and makes storage and transportation a dicey proposition. However, while a cure for the common cold i .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/28/algae-biofuel-breakthrou
ENERGY - Energy Efficiency Saves New England $260 Million In Transmission Costs
Energy efficiency represents the biggest potential to cut consumer costs and reduce power demand - one report has found America is just 43.8% efficient. While individual projects show small results, when they accumulate across a regional grid, efficiency savings add up quickly, as New England's grid operator recently discovered.Is that an LED bulb in the iconic Maine lighthouse?State and private programs designed to reduce consumer energy d .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/27/energy-efficiency-saves-
ENERGY - Interview: What does the future hold for energy and lighting?
(Phys.org)-As 2012 comes to a close, scientists and engineers are looking forward to molding the future, starting with the work they do in their own labs. Phys.org has interviewed a few of today's leading researchers in the areas of energy and lighting, and asked them what they're most excited about in their fields in the years to come ...http://phys.org/news/2012-12-future-energy.htm
FASHION - The Most Devastating Things Critics Have Said About Kanye West's Foray Into Fashion
Kanye West's rep announced earlier this year that the rapper won't be returning to Paris Fashion Week. Click here to see the worst things the critics had to say about him > Fashion is a brutal world, and while West still makes headlines every time he makes a fashion statement - like this kilt he wore earlier this month - that doesn't mean you get a pass to become a successful designer. Critics from The New York Times to Women's Wear D ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/kanye-west-fashion-collection
MOVIES - The Best Television Episodes Of 2012
Atlantic contributors and staffers pick their favorite moments on Mad Men, Louie, New Girl, and more from the past year in TV. Check out the best of TV in 2012 >Girls: "All Adventurous Women Do" There was so much groaning over the line from Girls's pilot episode, in which Lena Dunham's Hannah says, "I think I may be the voice of my generation. Or at least a voice of a generation." Some thought the warts-and-all approach Dunham used
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-best-television-episodes-
PEOPLE - Forbes Life Elon Musk
At Home With The Bachelor Billionair ...http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mkm45gemji/elon-musk-25
PLANTS - World's smelliest and largest flower blooms in Brazil
Hundreds of visitors are flocking daily to a botanical garden in southeastern Brazil to watch the rare blooming of the Titan arum, the world's smelliest and largest tropical flower ...http://phys.org/news/2012-12-world-smelliest-largest-blooms-
SCIENCE - 5 Ways Your Life Sucks Because You Don't Know Math
Question and answer site Quora asks: "What are some tasks people do laboriously because they lack knowledge in mathematics?" Here's are a few of the best answers, embedded with permission from the users: Read Quote of Henry Wong's answer to Mathematics: What are some tasks people do laboriously because they lack knowledge in mathematics? on Quora Read Quote of Dan Piponi's answer to Mathematics: What are some tasks people do laboriously be ...http://www.businessinsider.com/5-ways-your-life-sucks-becaus
SCIENCE - Light Powers Levitating Magnets
Moving levitating objects with light beams could open up new paths in solar power and transportation ...http://news.discovery.com/tech/light-powers-levitating-magne
SCIENCE - Liquid crystal research may lead to creation of new materials that can be actively controlled
Contributing geometric and topological analyses of micro-materials, mathematicians aided experimental physicists by successfully explaining the observed "beautiful and complex patterns revealed" in three-dimensional liquid crystal experiments. The work is expected to lead to creation of new materials that can be actively controlled ...http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121227110803.ht
SCIENCE - Physicists creates 'recipe book' for building new materials
By showing that tiny particles injected into a liquid crystal medium adhere to existing mathematical theorems, physicists have opened the door for the creation of a host of new materials with properties that do not exist in nature ...http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121228133734.ht
SCIENCE - Revealing quantum flow
(Phys.org)-UK-based physicist Ole Steuernagel from the University of Hertfordshire, alongside Dimitris Kakofengitis and Georg Ritter, have found that a new powerful tool they call 'Wigner flow' is the quantum analogue of phase space flow ...http://phys.org/news/2012-12-revealing-quantum.htm
SOLAR - 2012 Record Year For Utility-Solar Installations
2012 has been a record-breaking year for utility-sized solar power installations. Utility-scaled solar installations this year reached 8.5 gigawatts (GW), according to a recent PV-Tech article.Solar panels near San Antonio Via Duke Energy/Flickr/Some Rights ReservedThe preliminary data from Wiki-Solar noted that newly installed power plants exceeding 10 megawatts (MW) in size have so far reached a total installed capacity of 3 GW in 2012,
http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/28/2012-record-year-for-uti
SOLAR - Nanomaterials that Split Sunlight Into Separate Colors Could Bring Solar Panels to 50% Efficiency
The processes to make these panels are still expensive, but with economies of scale, they should come down in price dramatically over time ...
http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/nanomaterials-spl
SOLAR - New World Record Set for Solar Cells: 44% Efficiency
Scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Solar Junction have set a new record for high-efficiency solar cells with an unprecedented 44% efficiency rate ...
http://www.treehugger.com/solar-technology/44-efficient-sola
SOLAR - Solar power prices to continue falling through 2025, experts say
Prices for solar modules—the part of solar panels that produce electricity—will continue to fall, in line with the long-term trend since 1980, according to a survey of experts by Near Zero, , a nonprofit energy research organization. However, for prices to keep falling for the long term will require continued committment to research, such as on materials used for making solar modules ...http://phys.org/news/2012-12-solar-power-prices-falling-expe
SOLAR - SolarCity Announces Pricing of Its Initial Public Offering
SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SolarCity Corporation, a provider of clean distributed energy, announced today the pricing of its initial public offering of 11,500,000 shares of common stock at a price of $8.00 per share. The common stock is expected to begin trading on The NASDAQ Global Market on December 13, 2012 under the ticker symbol “SCTY.” A total of 11,434,988 shares are being offered by SolarCity and 65,012 shares are being offered b ...http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121212006723/en/Sola
SPACE - How Humans Will Change On Ultra-Long Space Voyages
In the Disney film "Wall-E," a colony of humans becomes an obese population after hundreds of years locked inside a spaceship. A lack of activity and an abundance of food left the starship denizens with little desire to stay in shape. But while "Wall-E" was science fiction, but at least one anthropologist believes the human race will change when it embarks on multigenerational space missions to Alpha Centauri or other nearby stars. To
http://www.businessinsider.com/humans-evolve-on-space-voyage
SPACE - Measurements hint why the universe is dominated by matter, not anti-matter
Physicists have made a precise measurement of elusive, nearly massless particles, and obtained a crucial hint as to why the universe is dominated by matter, not by its close relative, anti-matter ...http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121226153024.ht
SPACE - Moonlighting: Enjoy the Last Full Moon of 2012
December's full moon rises tonight, Dec. 28, in a final lunar display for the year ...http://news.discovery.com/space/moonlighting-enjoy-the-last-
SPACE - Newly Found Comet Could Outshine the Moon
Skywatchers may be in for a rare treat in 2013 -- a newly discovered comet is expected to pass very close to the sun, putting on what could be the celestial show of a century ...http://news.discovery.com/space/newly-found-comet-could-outs
SPACE - Super-tiger backgrounder: The case of the cosmic rays
(Phys.org)-Grade-school science teachers sometimes hand out "mystery boxes" containing ramps, barriers and a loose marble. By rotating the boxes and feeling the marble hang up or drop, the students try to deduce what's inside the box ...http://phys.org/news/2012-12-super-tiger-backgrounder-case-c
SUSTAINABILITY - Unilever to phase out 'microplastics' by 2015
(AP)-Unilever, the maker of Vaseline, Axe deodorants and Dove soaps, among other cosmetic and hygiene products, says it will phase out the use of microplastics by 2015 ...http://phys.org/news/2012-12-unilever-phase-microplastics.ht
TECH - "Twitterverse" cracks list of most annoying words - just sayin'
Better break it gently to the, um, people on Twitter: the word "Twitterverse" has joined perennial irritators "you know" and "like" on a list of words most likely to annoy people in conversation. The finding comes via an annual Marist Poll in which 9 percent percent of adults (and 17 percent of those 18 to 29 ) picked "Twitterverse" to be most annoying. The word "whatever" topped the list for the fourth year in a row at 38 percent while "just say ...http://gigaom.com/2012/12/27/twitterverse-cracks-list-of-mos
TECH - Big Data Analytics: Not Just for Big Business Anymore
Guest post written by Seshu Edal ...http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/12/28/big-data-a
TECH - Expect 'Snow Fall' To Be The First Of Many Online News Experiments
The reaction to the New York Times' article 'Snow Fall' has made for some very interesting reading. The interactive feature is passing three and a half million page views (via Jim Romenesko), with between a quarter and a third of those visitors being 'drive-bys' making their first visit to nytimes.com ...http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2012/12/28/expect-sno
TECH - Four Big Questions (and Predictions) for Social Media in 2013
Social media, as we know it today, has not been around for very long. Both Facebook and Twitter came into being less than decade ago and really only gained public consciousness over the past five years. Ditto for newcomers like Instagram, Tumblr and Quora, the oldest of which is just five years old ...http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkantrowitz/2012/12/28/four-b
URBAN - Experimental Recycled Paper Bale Structure Serves Up Some Surprises
Recycled paper makes an unexpected appearance as the main building material in this temporary project in Essen, Germany ...
http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/paper-house-dra
URBAN - Luxurious Apartment Complex Made From 93 Shipping Containers Coming to Detroit
A new project in Detroit will upcycle 93 shipping containers into a luxury multi-family home, aptly named The Power of Green Housing Development. Designed by Steven C. Flum, the sprawling development will span four floors, and it will include 20 residences of varying size. The apartment complex will be the first luxury multi-family home in the United States made from shipping containers.The condominium units will be available in studio, 1-, 2- an ...
http://inhabitat.com/luxurious-apartment-complex-made-from-9
URBAN - New Orleans May Get 242 Solar Trash Cans
The upcoming Super Bowl will be hosted by the city of New Orleans on February 3, 2013. Before the big event, the city hopes to have at least 150 solar-powered trash compactors installed. This number could be expanded to 242, but the bids and contracts haven't been finalized yet. The new trash compactors would be installed in the French Quarter, where tourists typically gather in very large numbers and generate much trash.The solar-powered ..
http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/28/new-orleans-may-get-242-
URBAN - No new storage in 2013
We recently queried some large enterprise IT storage architects about planned storage acquisitions in the next 12 months. The answer from one storage architect of a top-five financial institution was ?ZERO, Nada, None. The CIO has told us there will be no new storage purchases this year; we must use what we have. ...http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwebster/2012/12/28/no-new-st
WIND - Why It's The End Of The Line For Wind Power
It's the end of the world as we know it. That's what the U.S. wind power industry is saying to itself these days. And they aren't talking about some Mayan doomsday nonsense ...http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2012/12/21/why
WIND - Wind Farm Completed In Maui
The 21MW Auwahi Wind Farm has been completed in the southern part of Maui. It is located on the Ulupalakua Ranch in Kula. This area is near the mountain of Haleakala and is at nearly 2,000 feet. (It is less commercially developed than the Lahaina side of the island.)There are eight Siemens AG turbines and a 10-megawatt storage system at the site. Power generated by it will go to the Maui Electric Company (MECO)."From the Hawaiian perspectiv .. ...http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/28/wind-farm-completed-in-m
WORK - The Three Best Job Titles Of 2012 (And A Wish For 2013)
For me, 2012 was an intense year of encounters and meeting of the minds. As I was replaying it in my mind, I remembered three unusual job titles, and three special persons behind those job titles ...http://www.forbes.com/sites/kostaperic/2012/12/28/the-three-
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