AIR - Billboard transforms air into clean water in Peru (Video)
This innovative billboard does double duty: advertising for a university's engineering program while producing much-needed clean drinking water for local communities ...
AIR - Google Buildings Polluted With Toxic Vapors From Chemical Spills
Silicon Valley was all abuzz on Friday over news that two of Google's buildings on North Whisman Road in Mountain View were suffering from toxic vapors seeping up from the ground below ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2013/02/23/goo
ANIMALS - Cats could be more harmful to birds than previously suspected, scientists discover
The study, by researchers at the universities of Sheffield and Exeter, suggests that killing birds is just a small part of the problem cats cause our feathered friends ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-cats-birds-previously-scientist
ANIMALS - New discovery on animal memory opens doors to research on memory impairment diseases
If you ask a rat whether it knows how it came to acquire a certain coveted piece of chocolate, Indiana University neuroscientists conclude, the answer is a resounding, "Yes." A study newly published in the journal Current Biology offers the first evidence of source memory in a nonhuman animal ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-discovery-animal-memory-doors-i
ANIMALS - Uncovering maternal to paternal communications in mice
Researchers at Japan's Kanazawa University have proven the existence of communicative signalling from female mice that induces male parental behavior ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-uncovering-maternal-paternal-mi
BIRDS - Promoting poultry health through diet
Developing strategies to increase the amount of saleable product while reducing dietary inputs is a priority for animal scientists. University of Illinois researchers have been looking at how dietary components affect gut health and disease resistance in chickens ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-poultry-health-diet.htm
BIRDS - Songbirds' brains coordinate singing with intricate timing, study reports
As a bird sings, some neurons in its brain prepare to make the next sounds while others are synchronized with the current notes-a coordination of physical actions and brain activity that is needed to produce complex movements, new research at the University of Chicago shows ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-songbirds-brains-intri
CLIMATE - Why fossil fuel divestment is key to climate progress
Bill McKibben has a must-read post at Rolling Stone explaining the strategic logic of pressuring universities to divest from the fossil fuel industr ...
EARTH - 24 Countries To Be Represented At Iceland Geothermal Conference
The Iceland Geothermal Conference will be taking place between the 5th and 8th of March 2013, with over 300 participants from 24 countries. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Jeffery Tester, a Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University. He is the co-author of ten books and author or co-author of over 200 scientific publications. (One of his recent papers was about assessing .. ...
ECONOMICS - America's 20 Most Powerful CEOs 40 And Under
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/emeh45gkll/no-1-larry-page
ECONOMICS - America's Most Miserable Cities 2013
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eeee45gdfe/1-detroit-mich
ECONOMICS - Hans Rosling debunks myths of child birth and the "developing world"
The brilliant Hans Rosling has a data visualization video that helps debunk the myths of the birth and child mortality rates of the so-called developed and developing countries ...
ECONOMICS - How a Nutrient Economy Can Save Our Farmers, Our Health and Our Environment
Logan Yonavjak (@Loganyon) explains the potential benefits of a new system of food production-a new economy-in which nutrients are viewed as currency ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ashoka/2013/02/27/how-a-nutrient
ECONOMICS - What's Wrong With Today's Business Schools?
Harvard Business School professor Rakesh Khurana offers a scathing critique of business schools in an article in January strategy + business. Among other things, he says ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/02/26/whats-wr
EDUCATION - Business Education for Women at Harvard -- the Early Years
In 1962, Harvard Business School admitted women into the full two-year MBA program for the first time. Eight women enrolled in the program in 1963, alongside 676 men. HBS is celebrating the 50th anniversary of this milestone with a series of events and programs, including a new exhibit that traces women's business education history at Harvard back to the 1930s ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2013/02/26/b
ENERGY - Bulk Solar Electricity Production (VIDEO)
Continuing on with our daily series on Leonardo ENERGY videos, here's one on the topic of "bulk solar electricity production" (or, more specifically, CSP and CPV): Bulk Solar Electricity Production (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/2013/02/23/bulk-solar-electricity-p
ENERGY - Future Electric Grids (VIDEOS)
Continuing on with our daily series on Leonardo ENERGY videos, here are two on "Future Electricity Grids" (smart grid stuff - a little bit, transmission stuff, renewable energy stuff, and much more):Future Electric Grids (VIDEOS) 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/2013/02/27/future-electric-grids-vi
ENERGY - Renewable Energy Adoption - Not Fast Enough
Solar panel, wind turbine & globe via ShutterstockHere on CleanTechnica, we regularly see article after article trumpeting the advances wind power has made (for example, last year, the rate of installation increased by about 20%) or praising the huge installation of photovoltaic power in Germany, Italy, or even the Czech Republic! While Europe may be the clean energy standard that many champion as leading the field, we also see noteworthy .. ...
FASHION - Names You Need to Know in 2011: FiveFingers
Here's something you need to know about: Could we be seeing the beginning of the end of the modern running shoe? A growing legion of runners and recreational joggers-I am one-backed by a rising number of physiologists, believe that running shoes do more harm than good for millions of people ...
HOMES - The Stooler converts any object into a stool
A simple but practical idea that lets you cinch up any collection of object(s) to create unique seating ...
MUSIC - Should you be worried about the new "six strikes" anti-piracy rules? Yes and no
A new system designed to combat copyright infringement was launched in the U.S. on Monday, a joint venture between content companies and internet service providers known as the Copyright Alert System. The name sounds harmless enough, and its supporters argue that it is an appropriate balance between copyright and an open internet - but critics argue that the so-called "six strikes" process is the thin edge of an increasingly broad wedge that copy ...
PEOPLE - David Einhorn
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/emde45mfi/david-einhorn
PEOPLE - Dr. Q: From Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa's life is so storied it could fill a book. In fact, it has, as the doctor authored his recent autobiography Becoming Dr. Q. He was also featured in a recent study by the National Foundation for American Policy that found 35 percent of the physician scientists at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center are immigrants ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2013/02/26/dr-q-f
PEOPLE - Sugata Mitra: An Interview with the 2013 TED Prize Winner
Professor Sugata Mitra is the winner of the $1 million dollar TED prize. He is a visionary in the field of education and technology. He is best known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiments. The experiments placed a computer in a wall in a slum, connected it to the internet and then turned it over to the community to see what would happen. No teachers, no instructions, just access to the world's living library, the internet. The result was rad ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkluge/2013/02/26/sugata-mitr
PEOPLE - The Most Powerful Women In Tech, 2012
The 15 most powerful women in technology ...
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/elld45khil/the-most-powerful-
PLANTS - A promising fruit: The tree tomato
A researcher at the UPM is collaborating in the characterization of genetic resource of the tree tomato to enhance its cultivation and commercialization in Andean and Mediterranean countries ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-fruit-tree-tomato.htm
PLANTS - Previously unknown world of life found on common apple blossom
A succession of distinct but surprising microbial communities populate apple blossoms during the flowers' life cycle, suggesting that the bacteria have a carefully regulated relationship with the common fruit tree, say Yale scientists ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-previously-unknown-world-life-c
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