AIR - DNews: China Air Pollution: Off the Chart
The smog in China is now so bad that one millionaire is manufacturing cans of air to help people breathe! No joke. It's so bad that on the Air Quality Inde ...
http://news.discovery.com/videos/china-air-pollution-off-the
ANIMALS - Are Fish Getting High From Drug Waste?
Fish are becoming bolder and hungrier from human drugs flushed down the drain ...
http://news.discovery.com/animals/fish-on-drugs-from-pharmac
ANIMALS - Dolphins Call Each Other By Name
Bottlenose dolphins use signature whistles when they're separated ...
http://news.discovery.com/animals/whales-dolphins/dolphins-c
ANIMALS - In Rats, Males Are the Communicative Sex
A protein governs speech and language development in many animals, including humans, but it acts differently in different species ...
http://news.discovery.com/animals/rats-males-communicate-mor
ANIMALS - New study shows how seals sleep with only half their brain at a time
(Medical Xpress)-A new study led by an international team of biologists has identified some of the brain chemicals that allow seals to sleep with half of their brain at a time ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-brain_1_2.htm
ANIMALS - Newly Found Owl Sings One Note
The owl whistles a one-note song that rhymes with the name of its island home. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/animals/new-owl-discovered-on-indo
CLIMATE - 5 Ways to Become a Citizen Climate Scientist
Non-professional scientists can contribute to climate change research by participating in one of these five projects ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/how-to-become
CLIMATE - Debunking 3 Myths About U.S. Emissions
The national conversation around climate change has resumed. In both the Inauguration and State of the Union addresses, President Obama devoted considerable time to the issue, including his declaration that "we must do more to combat climate change. ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/manishbapna/2013/02/20/debunking
EARTH - Mount Etna's Dramatic New Eruption
Italy's Mount Etna sent lava and gas shooting toward the stars early this morning (Feb. 19), the first big eruption for the volcano in 2013 ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/mount-etna-eruption-130220.h
EARTH - New Documentary 'Earth from Space' Is Cosmic
A new documentary premiering tonight (Feb. 13) on PBS explores how satellites and spacecraft have revolutionized how scientists look at Earth ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/earth-from-space-documentary
EARTH - Shifting sands: Force is the key to granular state-shifting
Ever wonder why sand can both run through an hourglass like a liquid and be solid enough to support buildings? It's because granular materials -- like sand or dirt -- can change their behavior, or state. Researchers have found that the forces individual grains exert on one another are what most affect that transition ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130217085037.ht
ECONOMICS - As economy rebounds, more folks try turning back hands of time
(HealthDay)-Evidence of the economic upturn can be found in more than housing starts and auto sales: A new report shows that the number of cosmetic procedures grew 5 percent in 2012 ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-economy-rebounds-folks
ECONOMICS - China Rich List: The Top 25
The top 25 people on Forbes' 2012 list of China's richest ...
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mlg45mflj/zong-qinghou
ECONOMICS - Square introduces "Business in a Box" to set stores up with hardware
Square plans to sell a "Business in a Box" package that includes two Square Readers, an iPad stand, a cash drawer, and an optional receipt printer, it announced Wednesday. The items will all work together to allow business owners to accept credit card purchases, furthering the company's mission of simplifying payments. "Square Register serves as the full point-of-sale system for businesses to accept payments, track sales, and share item and locat ...
ECONOMICS - This Company's Still Throwing Good Money After Bad
For all of the talk about Microsoft's perceived irrelevance, investors often forget that this is a company that still produces a significant amount of cash flow. The problem, however, has been the company's inability to effectively deploy its capital. Too, Microsoft's biggest challenge is convincing a market filled with pessimism that it can finally shed its PC dependency. So it came as a surprise when the company made a $2 billion investment in ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardsaintvilus/2013/02/19/thi
EDUCATION - A New Way to Listen to Extinct Languages
A new software program could help modern people hear how ancient civilizations talked thousands of years ago ...
http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/listen-extin
EDUCATION - New method to measure the redundancy of information
Understanding information as well as its redundancy, or duplication, has been crucial in the development of many of our everyday items such mobile phones, the internet, the compact disc as well as ensuring the success of many space missions. Using information geometry tools, researchers have developed a new mathematically precise method of measuring information redundancy ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130214132809.ht
ENERGY - Chevron Makes Big Discovery In Louisana - And It's Not Even Done Drilling Yet
They haven't even finished drilling yet, but this morning McMoran Exploration announced a significant oil and gas discovery at the ultradeep Lineham Creek prospect in coastal Louisiana ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2013/02/20/che
ENERGY - Compact Thermal Energy Storage Technologies (VIDEO)
Continuing on with our daily series on Leonardo ENERGY videos, here's one on the topic of compact thermal energy storage technologies.Compact Thermal Energy Storage Technologies (VIDEO) was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook or Twitter, or just visit our homepage .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/19/compact-thermal-energy-s
ENERGY - GE And Google Team Up For Improved Utility Productivity
Earlier this month GE and Google announced that they were partnering to help utilities boost their productivity. GE's Smallworld electrical, telecommunications and gas applications will now come with Google Maps out of the box to provide better visualising and analysis of data."We are relentlessly looking at ways to bring value to our customers and this agreement brings together two world-leading solutions providers to help improve productivit .. ...
FASHION - 10 Vintage Winter Boots Ready for a Comeback
Cold-weather footwear, from the stylish to the super-practical, can meet the needs of any icy occasion ...
http://news.discovery.com/adventure/montana-tourism/10-vinta
HOMES - Six in ten people worldwide lack access to flush toilets or other adequate sanitation
It may be the 21st century, with all its technological marvels, but 6 out of every 10 people on Earth still do not have access to flush toilets or other adequate sanitation that protects the user and the surrounding community from harmful health effects, a new study has found. The research, published in ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology, says the number of people without access to improved sanitation is almost double the pre ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-ten-people-worldwide-l
MOVIES - Trainsforming America - New Documentary
A new film, Trainsforming America, takes a look at passenger rail in the US from the passengers' perspective. This is a documentary produced by two concerned citizens, Katie Chen and Rebecca (Autumn) Sansom, who are worried (like many people are) about what an increasing population combined with climate change is going to do to our beautiful country.Europeans' lives involve mass transit, large bike paths (more like streets in some places) much .. ...
MUSIC - Nanotech And Laptop Orchestras Of The Future
For anyone who's ever wondered about the far future of musical instruments, perhaps part of the answer lies in an old episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation. ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2013/02/19/nanotec
PEOPLE - Billionaires Anoint Biogeeks
Hey Nobel Prize in Medicine! You've got competition. This morning, a bevy of techoscenti billionaires including Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin announced the first recipients of their Breakthrough Prize for Life Sciences, a $3 million award "recognizing excellence in research aimed at curing intractable diseases and extending human life." This year, there are 11 recipients, meaning a total $33 million payout, but in the future five ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2013/02/20/billion
PEOPLE - Meet the Youngest Video Game Programmer
Zora Ball is a first-grader who's already programming video games. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/tech/apps/youngest-video-game-prog
PERMACULTURE - Virtual Fence Offers High-Tech Herding
A USDA biologist has a high-tech solution to herding cattle. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/tech/biotechnology/virtual-fence-o
SCIENCE - DNews: Predicting News in the Future
Predicting the future is science fiction no more! Could it be that an Israeli university, along with one of the world's biggest multinational corporations ...
http://news.discovery.com/videos/predicting-news-in-the-futu
SCIENCE - Diamond sheds light on basic building blocks of life
The UK's national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, is now the first and only place in Europe where pathogens requiring Containment Level 3 - including serious viruses such as those responsible for AIDS, Hepatitis and some types of flu - can be analyzed at atomic and molecular level using synchrotron light. Studying pathogens in this way has the potential to open up new paths for the development of therapeutic treatments and vaccines ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130217134244.ht
SCIENCE - Eco-safe antibacterial fiber discovered
Researchers have discovered an antibacterial polymer that can be used in everyday products such as sportswear, diapers and bandages, without causing resistant bacteria ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130214075447.ht
SCIENCE - Molecules assemble in water, hint at origins of life
Researchers are exploring an alternate theory for the origin of RNA: they think the RNA bases may have evolved from a pair of molecules distinct from the bases we have today. This theory looks increasingly attractive, as researchers were able to achieve efficient, highly ordered self-assembly in water with small molecules that are similar to the bases of RNA ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130220123332.ht
SOLAR - German Solar PV In January - €1.52/Watt
Reposted from Solar Love:German solar PV power prices continue to fall. According to the latest data, the price of solar power for solar power plants with up to 100 kW of capacity has dropped to €1.52 per watt (or $2.03 per watt). Here's a chart on solar's long price drop in Germany, via a German PV website:And below's a German PV price history from the site, followed by information on the source of the data:Photovoltaic Price History:MonthP .. ...
SOLAR - Jamaica's Solar Industry To Receive A Major Boost From USSolar
Jamaica is an island in which the solar panel industry is small, but the Jamaican government's Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) have implemented some policies that would provide solar panel owners and prospective buyers with more options to lower their electricity bills.Solar panels under a gorgeous blue sky. Image obtained from Shutterstock.One of the key policies is net metering. Residents are now able to connect their own solar panels t .. ...
SOLAR - Solar Power Cheaper Than Nuclear In Cloudy Old England
Once again it appears that reality is interfering with the building of new nuclear power plants in the UK. As a result, it looks very unlikely that any new reactors will be built. Personally, this is a setback for me, as I am very much in favour of the building of new nuclear plants in the UK, and indeed in pretty much any country that isn't Australia.I favour the building of new reactors, not because nuclear power is a cheap way to reduce gre .. ...
SOLAR - Solar Resource Monitoring Using Satellite Data (VIDEO)
Continuing on with our daily series on Leonardo ENERGY videos, here's one on the topic of solar resource monitoring using satellite data.Solar Resource Monitoring Using Satellite Data (VIDEO) was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook or Twitter, or just visit our homepage .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/20/solar-resource-monitorin
SPACE - Move Over, Drones - Here Come Disposable Satellites
While most of the country has been focused on the growing number of drones in this country - both military and civilian - Raytheon has already moved on to the next generation of surveillance. Last month, the company announced that it is developing tiny, near-disposable satellites for use in getting battlefield surveillance quickly ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/02/19/move-over-d
SPACE - Space Invaders Unlikely -- For Now
Research suggests that it is unlikely we'll be attacked by renegade aliens. That's a relief. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/space-
TECH - 10 Incredibly Simple Things You Can Do To Protect Your Privacy
These are the really, really simple things you should be doing to keep casual intruders from invading your privacy ...
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eglg45ekidm/password-protect-
TECH - 10 Thin, Light And Fast Ultrabook Laptops
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/fhjj45ffgd/acer-aspire-s3-2
TECH - A Startup to Take the Sting Out of Moving
Moving day ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2013/02/19/a-star
TECH - At Most 19 Clicks Connect Any Two Web Pages
Any two web pages have 19 degrees of separation, just like the six degrees of Kevin Bacon among people ...
http://news.discovery.com/tech/clicks-web-pages-degrees-kevi
TECH - Breakthrough architecture for quantum computers proposed
Scientists have proposed a new computational model that may become the architecture for a scalable quantum computer ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130217084916.ht
TECH - Electronic Telekinesis from Temporary Tattoo
Super-thin, flexible electronic "tattoos" read brain wave activity in a non-invasive way and could be used to control machines. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/tech/biotechnology/electronic-tele
TECH - Future Soldiers to Communicate Via Their Shirts
A group of MIT scientists have developed microscopic fibers that could allow future combat uniforms to detect light, heat and sound. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/future-soldi
TECH - Get Ready to Doodle With The First 3D Drawing Pen
Remember Etch A Sketch? Created by a French inventor in the late 1950s in his basement, but sold through the Ohio Art Company, it kept thousand of kids and adults entertained for decades, event today ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2013/02/20/get-rea
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 - If You Have A Great Idea (And $1,500) You Can Be A Google Glass Explorer
Google put out a call today for people who have creative ideas about how to use its new augmented reality Glass product and want to get one around their heads before the general public. Contestants can apply through Twitter or Google+, and an unspecified number will be eligible to go to "attend a special pick-up experience, in person, in New York, San Francisco or Los Angeles. ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/02/20/if-you-
TECH - In the Rush to Cloud Computing, Here's One Question Not Enough People are Asking
Many business and IT leaders get consumed in many questions: Should we go with private cloud? Public cloud? Hybrid model? What about our legacy systems? Where do we find the skills to make cloud happen ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2013/02/19/in-the-
TECH - It turns out a lot of companies like building their own storage gear
First, cloud storage startup Backblaze pioneered the concept of open source storage hardware. Then, it showed how to pack 135 terabytes into a 4U case (which Backblaze calls a "pod") for less than $8,000. As it turns out, a lot of people really like what the company is doing: Backblaze rolled out the specifications of its third-generation storage pods on Wednesday against the backdrop of hundreds of companies building and actually selling the des ...
URBAN - Melbourne's Sealight Pavilion is Designed for Contemplating the Elements
Read the rest of Melbourne's Sealight Pavilion is Designed for Contemplating the ElementsPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: Architecture, Art, australia, Cypress, Daylighting, Felicetti, grimshaw, habitable sculpture, John Stanislav Sadar, Melbourne Docklands, monash university, reclaimed wood, Recycled Materials, Rintala Eggerstsson, Sealight Pavilion, water issue .. ...
URBAN - Safe glass facades for buildings
Glass facades are attractive, but they also have to be safe. Say if a bomb were to go off nearby, would they withstand the blast? Researchers are using a shock tube to find out, and one of their projects is a new building complex in San Francisco ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130214075537.ht
WORK - Five Top Resume Turnoffs
This is a guest post by Briana Meade, a contract resume writer at RezBiz, freelance writer and blogger who covers millennials, motherhood, and careers ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2013/02/19/five-t
WORK - How To Be Happy At Work: Why Not A Higher Purpose?
In response to my article, How To Be Happy At Work, where I suggested that delighting customers is key to being happy at work, one colleague responded that "delighting the customer" is insufficiently ambitious ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/02/19/how-to-b
WORK - It's off to work we go
Researchers have discovered that decisions about where to live and how to get from home to work happen simultaneously. What's more, your commuting choices depend not only on cost and travel time, but also on who you are and where you live ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130219121503.ht
WORK - Oracle 'Onshores' Manufacturing Jobs To Oregon
Following Apple?s recent move to begin making some Macs in the U.S., Oracle will begin manufacturing its high-end servers and storage systems at one of the five facilities it operates in Oregon ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/oracle/2013/02/19/oracle-onshore
WORK - Top jobs of the week in digital media
Here at paidContent, we're relieved that our three-day weekend was calmer than the scene over at Burger King, whose Twitter account was hacked over the holiday. Although the fast food company seems to have recovered from the incident (and gained a nice boost in followers), we'll stick to bringing you the latest batch of job postings from around the country: Fox News Channel: Manager, Strategy and Design (Digital) (New York) Akamai Technologies: ...
WORK - What Does a Pope Get When He Retires?
Abdicating Pope Benedict XVI will get less than a top-ranked cardinal, but he will be very well taken care of by his former employer. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/history/religion/pope-retiring-ben
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