AIR - Study discovers high levels of air-cleansing compound over ocean
(Phys.org)-Researchers have detected the presence of a pollutant-destroying compound iodine monoxide in surprisingly high levels high above the tropical ocean, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-high-air-cleansing-compound-oce
ANIMALS - Biggest Dinos Had Tennis Ball-Sized Brains
Cows may be triple Einsteins -- compared to most dinosaurs, scientists say ...
http://news.discovery.com/animals/dinosaurs/dinosaurs-had-te
ANIMALS - Chimps use touches and noisy gestures when trying to get another chimps attention, researcher finds
(Phys.org)-A team led by USC Dornsife Ph.D. student Maureen McCarthy found evidence that chimpanzees are aware of the attention and responsiveness of the chimp they're communicating with, modifying their method of communication to suit ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-chimps-noisy-gestures-attention
ANIMALS - Dung beetles use stars for orientation
You might expect dung beetles to keep their "noses to the ground," but they are actually incredibly attuned to the sky. A report published online on January 24 in Current Biology shows that even on the darkest of nights, African ball-rolling insects are guided by the soft glow of the Milky Way ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-dung-beetles-stars.htm
ANIMALS - Jellyfish 'blooms' wax and wane in natural cycles
Once a month, on the darkest nights near the new moon, otherworldly beings emerge from Pacific Ocean depths and drift onto the beaches of Hawaii ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-jellyfish-blooms-wax-wane-natur
ANIMALS - Lost Cat Travels Two Months, 200 Miles Home
How the cat found her way home is a total mystery. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/animals/pets/lost-cat-travels-two-
ANIMALS - New Zealander Wants to Ban Cats as Pets
Your furry friend is actually a friendly neighborhood serial killer. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/animals/pets/new-zealander-wants-t
ART - Quebec's New Hotel de Glace Ice Castle Takes Guests on a 'Journey to the Center of Winter'!
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BOOKS - Macmillan to launch two-year ebook library lending pilot
Big-six publisher Macmillan, which has kept its ebooks out of libraries until now, is launching a pilot lending program, the company announced Thursday. The pilot is limited to 1,200 older titles from the Minotaur Books mystery and crime fiction imprint (part of Macmillan's St. Martins division). Libraries will be able to lend out the ebooks for two years or 52 times, whichever comes first, before having to buy a new copy. According to Library Jo ...
BOOKS - New York Times editor to take 75,000 Twitter followers out the door with him
Jim Roberts, the assistant managing editor of the New York Times who has overseen many of the paper's digital initiatives, confirmed on Thursday that he would accept a buyout and leave the paper. When he goes, the Times will not just lose his 26 years of experience but also many of the 75,000 people who follow Roberts on Twitter. News of the departure came by (what else) Twitter and was first reported by Politico. In response to a question from p ...
BOOKS - The New Wave of Journalist @Forbes
A new generation of reporters are changing how the FORBES newsroom works ...
http://video.forbes.com/fvn/business/new-wave-of-journalist-
CLIMATE - Climate change beliefs of independent voters shift with the weather, another study finds
There's a well-known saying in New England that if you don't like the weather here, wait a minute. When it comes to independent voters, those weather changes can just as quickly shift beliefs about climate change ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-climate-beliefs-independent-vot
CLIMATE - In perceiving climate change, feeling the heat counts
(Phys.org)-Human beings around the world are observing and accurately detecting changes in their local climates, according to a new study led by Yale University researchers. The finding provides the first global evidence for the phenomenon and could have meaningful implications for attempts to combat climate change, they said ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-climate.htm
EARTH - A quiet breakthrough in geothermal power tech
Not a lot of startups tackle the field of geothermal power, which entails tapping into hot rocks deep in the Earth to produce energy and electricity. That's because it can be an expensive proposition, and can require extensive permits and environmental reports. But a rare startup called AltaRock Energy has recently delivered a promising breakthrough that it says can lead to the commercialization of its next-generation geothermal technology. AltaR ...
EARTH - Rise of the Dead in Israel
For the first time in 10 years, the Dead Sea has risen. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/weather-extreme-events/rise-
EARTH - Roman Marker Used to Measure Earth Found
Ancient Romans once measured Earth based on triangulated measurements and now archaeologists have uncovered one of their key markers. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/roman-marker-used-to-measure
ECONOMICS - America's 20 Dirtiest Cities
These are the most polluted cities in America ...
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mef45jidl/americas-dirtiest-c
ECONOMICS - Corporate America's next creative consultants? College kids on MindSumo
When big companies want new ideas, they typically turn to outside consulting and innovation firms. But MindSumo, a startup backed by Google Ventures, wants them to tap the creativity of college kids. Launched by three co-founders who weren't in college so long ago themselves, the startup provides an online marketplace of mini competitions sponsored by companies and organizations looking for solutions to real problems. The challenges give college ...
ECONOMICS - The 10 Things Innovative Companies Do To Stay On Top
Innovation isn't this abstract thing that some companies have and some don't. Innovation is actually a business skill that executives and employees can develop and master. So says Booz & Company management consultants Barry Jaruzelski, John Loehr, and Richard Holman. The authors of Booz's annual "Global Innovation 1,000 report" named the most innovative companies in the world for 2012 and studied what makes them so. In addition to looking ...
ECONOMICS - The Most Important Thing I Learned in a Business Meeting... Ever
The year was 1992. I was the Marketing Director for Infobases, Inc. Paul Allen and Dan Taggart owned the company, they later went on to found Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com. Ancestry.com is the cloud computing genealogy powerhouse that just passed the 2 million subscriber mark and added the 10th billion record to thei ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenkrogue/2013/01/24/the-most-im
ECONOMICS - The Question That Will Define Your Company in 2013
You?ve swept up the confetti and boxed away the Christmas lights. Your employees cashed their bonus checks and thanked heaven that they still had jobs. Even the flu bug that decimated your company has seemingly passed. Yes, it?s a new year. Looking back, you can?t help but smile. Finally, your team rallied around a common cause. Only now do you realize just how much you accomplished ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffschmitt/2013/01/25/the-quest
ECONOMICS - The Question That Will Define Your Company in 2013
You've swept up the confetti and boxed away the Christmas lights. Your employees cashed their bonus checks and thanked heaven that they still had jobs. Even the flu bug that decimated your company has seemingly passed. Yes, it's a new year. Looking back, you can't help but smile. Finally, your team rallied around a common cause. Only now do you realize just how much you accomplishedhttp://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffschmitt/2013/01/25/the-quest
ENERGY - 30 Under 30: Energy
These young stars will transform our energy future ...
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/ehim45ieii/leslie-dewan-27-11
ENERGY - Energy's Latest Battleground: Fracking For Uranium
Deep in the heart of the Texas oil and gas boom, a tiny Canadian company has found a novel way to dredge up fuel for nuclear reactors. And it's prompted the most unusual battle i ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2013/01/23/fra
ENERGY - How To Horribly Communicate The $$ Side Of A Clean Energy Revolution - World Economic Forum Report
First of all, yes, different studies serve different purposes, and we do need narrowly focused studies of all sorts. However, one of the things that most irks me professionally is the horrible way in which researchers, reporters, politicians, and everyone in between discuss the "costs" of a clean energy transition or clean energy revolution.If you paid attention to the questions I posed to Connie Hedegaard at the World Future Energy Summit las .. ...
ENERGY - Renewable Energy Revolution: Declining Costs, Surging Capacity
The renewable energy revolution is under way. Renewable power generation now accounts for around 50% of all new power generation capacity installed worldwide.The combination of rapid deployment and high learning rates for technology "has produced a virtuous circle that is leading to significant cost declines and is helping fuel a renewable revolution," according to a new global study of renewable power generation costs in 2012 produced by IREN .. ...
FASHION - 3-D scanning shapes the future of childrenswear
Childrenswear designers and retailers will be able to design and make better fitting clothes for British children from four to seventeen years thanks to 3-D scanning of children ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130123195123.ht
FASHION - 3D scanning shapes the future of childrenswear
Childrenswear designers and retailers will be able to design and make better fitting clothes for British children from four to seventeen years thanks to 3D scanning of children by researchers at the University of Hertfordshire ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-3d-scanning-future-childrenswea
GARDENS - New way to identify 'smoked' grapes and wines
With climate change sparking concern about an increased risk of wildfires, scientists are reporting development of a way to detect grapes exposed to smoke from those fires, which otherwise could be vented into bad-tasting wine ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130123133715.ht
HOMES - 'Air shower' saves 50 percent water
A new shower nozzle that uses up to 50 per cent less water while maintaining the sensation of full pressure could provide Australians with guilt-free showers over the hot, dry summer - simply by adding air ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-air-shower-percent.htm
HOMES - A land grab emerges over the connected thermostat
For years thermostats have been ugly and downright stupid devices that sit neglected on our walls. But over the past 18 months the connected thermostat has morphed into a gadget that has been drawing the attention of some of the most cutting-edge software startups, which are looking to use it to connect with utilities and consumers. A Khosla Ventures-backed energy analytics startup called Bidgely is the latest to go after the next-gen smart therm ...
HOMES - Stimulo's Sprightly Ah-Bre LED Lamp is Made from 50% Recycled Materials
Created by Barcelona-based Stimulo, Ah-Bre is a svelte, plant-like LED table lamp that is made from 50% recycled materials. The lamp's twiggy branches provide a convenient place to store personal items like rings and watches, and over 98% of the project's total materials are readily recyclable. If you like this design and would like to support small companies creating sustainable home furnishing products, check out the Ah-Bre Kickstarter page!+ A ...
SOLAR - Up And Coming Solar PV Innovators Aim To Grow Markets, Drive Costs Even Lower
Industry players and the Department of Energy's renewable energy initiatives are focusing in on the soft costs of having solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems installed given the sharp drops in cost of solar PV equipment experienced in recent years; soft costs such as permitting, installation, and operations and maintenance.That by no means implies that equipment cost reductions have reached their limit, or that entrepreneurial start-ups and l .. ...
SOLAR - V3Solar Spin Cell = 8 Cents/kWh? (CleanTechnica Exclusive)
Quite frankly, if the company's numbers are correct, this could be the biggest solar news of the decade, or even a greater timespan. (And CleanTechnica got the inside scoop - due to our sincere passion for helping the world, and probably also our status as the top cleantech or clean energy site in the world.)As a quick refresher, we've covered V3Solar before, back when the name was Solarphasec. See: Solarphasec - Solar Power Meets Art (I think .. ...
SPACE - Astronomer creates computer models that help explain how galaxies formed and evolved
(Phys.org)-When most people think of astronomers, they envision scientists who spend time peering at stars and galaxies through telescopes on high mountain tops. Rutgers astronomer Rachel Somerville depends on those who make such observations, both from telescopes on the ground and orbiting earth in space. But her primary tool for understanding how galaxies formed billions of years ago - and how they continue to evolve in our contemporary univers ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-astronomer-galaxies-evolved.htm
SPACE - Chameleon pulsar baffles astronomers
A pulsar that is able, without warning, to dramatically change the way in which it shines has been identified by an international team of astronomers ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-chameleon-pulsar-baffles-astron
SPACE - Construction begins on Canada's largest radio telescope
Construction is now under way in Penticton, B.C. on Canada's largest radio telescope - and the first research telescope to be built in the country in more than 30 years ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-canada-largest-radio-telescope.
SPACE - Do Black Holes Really Look Like This?
Using model data of our galaxy's central black hole, it is thought the first observations of Sgr A* will be crescent-shaped ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/black-hole-event-h
SPACE - ESA: 2013 to be bumper year for space science
European probes this year will return a treasure trove of data from explorations into the Big Bang, water on Mars and climate change, European Space Agency (ESA) chief Jean-Jacques Dordain said on Thursday ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-esa-bumper-year-space-science.h
SPACE - How the universe has cooled since the Big Bang fits Big Bang theory
Astronomers have taken the universe's temperature, and have found that it has cooled down just the way the Big Bang theory predicts ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130123101622.ht
SPACE - New thesaurus created for the astronomy community
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have jointly announced the gift of a new astronomy thesaurus called the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) to the American Astronomical Society (AAS) that will help improve future information discovery for researchers ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-thesaurus-astronomy.htm
TECH - 'Deaf People Will Hear Again:' How ViviTouch and Able Planet's Haptic Technology Will Change The World
For the past 8 years, Dirk Schapeler and his team at Artificial Muscle, Inc (a division of Bayer MaterialScience) have been toiling away on something special: Electroactive polymer-based actuators, with applications for sensors, pumps, valves, and robotics. Two years ago the team dubbed the technology "ViviTouch" and decided to concentrate their efforts on haptics for gaming. What they didn't realize at the time was how important their creation w ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2013/01/25/how-vi
TECH - Apple Makes Play For India With 29-Cent iTunes Songs
Apple is waking up to the harsh realities of the world. Perhaps the fall in stock price has helped. There is simply more competition and Apple has to adjust to it ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2013/01/25/app
TECH - Belkin to buy Linksys router maker from Cisco
Belkin, a maker of smartphone cases and computing accessories, said Thursday that it is buying the home networking business unit of Cisco, including the Linksys router brand ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-belkin-linksys-router-maker-cis
TECH - Capture Your Own 'Google Street View' Video
Sphericam lets you capture your world in a seamless 360-degree, high-def video. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/capture-goog
TECH - Cuba turns on fiber-optic IT link to Venezuela (Update)
An undersea fiber-optic cable stretching from Cuba to Venezuela has been switched on, in the first hard-wired link from the communist-run island to international telecom networks, the state telecom agency announced Thursday ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-cuba-fiber-optic-link-venezuela
TECH - Dot Map Shows Every Person In The US, Canada
An interactive map shows where you -- and every other person -- lives. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/tech/apps/dot-map-shows-every-pers
TECH - Google Experiments With New Flight Explorer Feature
Google is trying out a new travel search tool that seems to be aimed primarily at casual travelers that are as concerned about price as they are about a destination ...
http://searchengineland.com/google-experiments-with-new-flig
TECH - Let the Boys Have Their Social Media While Women Save the World
You often hear Silicon Valley moguls say "we wanted flying cars; instead, we got 140 characters". They believe that we've run out of ideas and that innovation is dead; that mobile and social-media technologies are our last hurrah. Not surprisingly, it is these startups that they mostly fund ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2013/01/24/let-the-b
TECH - New York police get X-ray vision
The New York Police Department already has the long arm of the law. Now it gets X-ray eyes ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-york-police-x-ray-vision.htm
TECH - Open Garden teams with TextMe to connect the unconnected tablet
Sometimes two startups were just meant to be with one another. You can make that case for crowdsourced mesh-networking company Open Garden and over-the-top IP communications provider TextMe, which plan to announce an alliance on Friday. Here's the problem: TextMe turns devices that weren't intended to be phones into phones. Its downloadable clients for the iPod touch, iPad and Android tablets bring text, voice and video chat capabilities - all li ...
TECH - Privacy Visor Confuses Face Recognition Camera
In another blow at ubiquitous surveillance, a Japanese researcher has invented glasses that hide your face from computers. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/glasses-foil
TECH - Researchers develop grammar-aware password cracker
When writing or speaking, good grammar helps people make themselves be understood. But when used to concoct a long computer password, grammar-good or bad-provides crucial hints that can help someone crack that password, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-grammar-aware-password-cracker.
TECH - Stretchable Electrical Wires Are Self-Healing
The new technology has multiple benefits for repairing or rewiring circuits ...
TECH - What Startup Homepages Are Most Simple, Clear, And Effective?
Answer by Danny Sauter, Product & Operations at Zaarly ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/01/24/what-startup-ho
TECH - Why Opera's lightweight Mini browser is more popular than ever
Back in the early days of the internet-capable mobile phone - and by this I mean 2006, the pre-iPhone era - Opera Mini came out, and it was the best way to surf the web from such a device. The browser uses server-side compression to squeeze data by up to 90 percent, so it meant faster page loads and less data usage. That was then, this is now. But it turns out the popularity of Opera Mini is still growing like mad - in fact, last December saw the ...
URBAN - Build a Famous European Landmark With One of Another Studio's MONUmini Model Kits
Another Studio would like to introduce two new building sets that lets individuals recreate a pair of European landmarks in mini architectural form: Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. Dubbed MONUmini, this iconic architectural model kit comes with a sheet of etched stainless steel pieces that pop out, fold and lock together to create the miniature structure. Each kit also includes step-by-step assembly instructions and ...
URBAN - How NREL Influences New High Performance Buildings
From the good folk over at NREL (notably, I recently landed an interview with the Director of NREL just after he had given a presentation - at the International Renewable Energy Conference - in which he discussed this amazing building a bit):By Heather LammersEnergy-efficient features found in NREL's Research Support Facility, including daylighting, are being replicated in other buildings across the country. Credit: Dennis SchroederThe Researc .. ...
URBAN - Michael Maltzan's Prefab Star Apartments Are In Mid-Construction in Downtown LA
Read the rest of Michael Maltzan's Prefab Star Apartments Are In Mid-Construction in Downtown LAPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: "sustainable architecture", downtown los angeles, eco design, green architecture, Green Building, green design, homeless, Los Angeles, michael maltzan, michael maltzan architects, michael maltzan architecture, prefab apartments, skid row housing, skid row housing trust, star apartments, Sustainable Building ...
URBAN - Même Experimental House is a Luminous Reinterpretation of Japanese Earth and Grass Architecture
Read the rest of Même Experimental House is a Luminous Reinterpretation of Japanese Earth and Grass ArchitecturePermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: chise, earth and grass, earth and grass homes, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan, Kengo Kuma and Associates, luminous home, Meme Experimental House, PET, Recycled Materials, tiny homes, traditional architecture, vernacula ...
URBAN - Urban metabolism for the urban century
Like organisms, cities need energy, water, and nutrients, and they need to dispose of wastes and byproducts in ways that are viable and sustainable over the long run. This notion of "urban metabolism" is a model for looking systematically at the resources that flow into cities and the wastes and emissions that flow out from them-to understand the environmental impacts of cities and to highlight opportunities for efficiencies, improvements, and tr ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-urban-metabolism-century.htm
WATER - Acid Oceans -- Incentivizing Solutions Today
By Robert K. Weiss is the Vice Chairman and President of the X PRIZE Foundation ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2013/01/24/1287
WATER - Reconciling agronomic production, water-saving and soil preservation
Unexpectedly, some crops such as maize or rapeseed have been found to act as carbon sinks, extracting CO2 from the atmosphere. However, others like sunflower and silage maize are carbon sources. These are the main conclusions of a study carried out by a research team from the Centre d'études spatiales de la biosphère. Over seven years, researchers measured the carbon and water fluxes of two experimental field plots. Their results show that the ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-agronomic-production-water-savi
WIND - North America's Largest Wind Energy Storage Facility Fires Up In Texas
Where else to site the nation's biggest wind energy storage facility but in Texas, the state known for its extra bigness? Duke Energy has fired up the new 36 megawatt energy storage and management facility, which is linked to the Notrees Windpower wind farm in the western part of the state. Aside from showcasing some nifty new energy management bells and whistles, the new storage facility blows a Texas-sized raspberry in the direction of renew .. ...
WORK - Imagining a future when machines have all the jobs
Martin Ford saw it everywhere, even in his own business. Smarter machines and better software were helping companies do more work with fewer people. His Silicon Valley software firm used to put its programs on disks and ship them to customers. The disks were made, packaged and delivered by human beings. Now Ford's customers can just download the software to their computers - no disks, no packaging, no delivery workers ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-future-machines-jobs.htm
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