AIR - Hidden dangers in the air we breathe
(Medical Xpress)-For decades, no one worried much about the air quality inside people's homes unless there was secondhand smoke or radon present. Then scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) made the discovery that the aggregate health consequences of poor indoor air quality are as significant as those from all traffic accidents or infectious diseases in the United States. One major sourc ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-hidden-dangers-air.htm
ANIMALS - Do dolphins, whales, chimps and elephants deserve "human" rights?
Where does it end? Andy Revkin raises the kinds of questions that make you think about your dinner ...
ANIMALS - Lady flies can decide who will father their young
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ART - Art Imitates Life
An article in today's New York Times gave me pause and got me thinking about the relationship between art, culture, society - a topic on which I love to endlessly ruminate. Specifically, the article covers the clash between Silicon Valley and New York values in the realm of the art world (see: Art and Techology: a Clash of Cultures) ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/04/11/art-imitates-li
ART - Nigel Brown: A New Zealand Original
Meditation on a Rural Idyll If David Hockney or Gerhard Richter can rightly be considered among the most prolific and brilliant painters alive in the Northern Hemisphere, the same can easily be claimed for the much younger Nigel Brown, down in the Southern Hemisphere and half-way to the Antarctic. Brown's commentary o ...
CLIMATE - Carbon dioxide removal can lower costs of climate protection
Directly removing carbon dioxide from the air has the potential to alter the costs of climate change mitigation. It could allow prolonging greenhouse-gas emissions from sectors like transport that are difficult, thus expensive, to turn away from using fossil fuels. And it may help to constrain the financial burden on future generations, a new study shows ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130412132403.ht
CLIMATE - Climate Change Could Lead to More Turbulent Flights
It may be time to add another item to the growing list of problems likely to worsen with climate change. A new paper in the journal Nature Climate Change argues that thanks to projected changes in the jet stream, one form of air turbulence will likely increase in intensity by between ten and 40 percent in the North Atlantic by 2050, making for more white knuckle transatlantic flights and increasing costs to airlines, damage to planes and injurie ...
CLIMATE - Sense And Sensitivity: How The Economist Got It Wrong On Warming
A recent Economist article suggested that climate change may not be as bad as feared. But the report was based on one flawed study and missed a lot of important points. Climate Progress has repeatedly debunked the notion that recent temperature trends suggest we won't see dangerous warming this century. See "Memo To Media: 'Climate Sensitivity' Is NOT The Same As Projected Future Warming, World Faces 10°F Rise" and here. In this post, two scie ...
CLIMATE - Spring Blizzard Aids Drought-Stricken States
A sprawling spring storm is bringing multiple hazards to the West, Great Plains, and Midwest on Tuesday, before moving east and setting off more severe thunderstorms in the Mississippi River Valley later in the week. The storm is delivering a crushing load of heavy snow to parts of the drought-plagued Plains, with the greatest amounts falling in South Dakota, where the National Weather Service is forecasting upwards of 2 feet by the time the sno ...
CLIMATE - Starbucks, Nike, eBay, Adidas, IKEA: "We Cannot Risk Our Kids' Futures On The False Hope The Vast Majority Of Scientists Are Wrong"
I couldn't come up with a better title than Joe Romm used on his post. This line is just such a kicker: "We Cannot Risk Our Kids' Futures On The False Hope The Vast Majority Of Scientists Are Wrong."That's one we should all repeat daily. I simply put Adidas, eBay, and IKEA in the title instead of Intel because they stand out to me more as household names. But the amazing thing is that beyond those 6 companies, another 27 major companies sign .. ...
EARTH - Breathtaking time-lapse video captures New Zealand's North Island over six months
Photographer Bevan Percival has created a jaw-dropping timelapse video of the vibrant sunsets, sunrises, and night skies over New Zealand. It's 6 minutes of "Whooooa! ...
ECONOMICS - 10 Business Cliches To Avoid Like The Plague
I love the language of business. I really do. I love its nuance. I admire its complete unwillingness to acknowledge negativity except in the most oblique and disingenuous terms. In its own way, it's as tightly controlled as the platitudes of state-run media, just informed by a very different financial philosophy ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2013/04/11/10-busin
ECONOMICS - 5 Leadership Lessons for Today's Executive
The poster of 12 O'clock High, the 1949 Gregory Peck-led vehicle centering on the underperforming 918th Bomber Group, hangs framed in my Aveksa office. This is not because of its reputation as one of the best WWII films to emerge from the glut of late 1940's war-centric cinema, but as a constant reminder of the timeless lessons of leadership the film triumphed. Through juxtaposing the leaderships styles of Colonel Davenport and Brigadier General ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/vickvaishnavi/2013/04/11/5-leade
ECONOMICS - Five Must-Do Steps Before Filing Your Taxes
Before you mail or file your tax return electronically, take a breath. These 5 steps may sound silly but could save you a notice or even an audit ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2013/04/11/five-must-
ECONOMICS - In A Perfect World, No One Would Be Excited To Get A Tax Refund
According to surveys and IRS data, approximately 59% of Americans are expecting to receive a tax refund this year, with an average refund amount of $2,894. This means many tax payers are letting their employers deduct way too much from their checks. While anyone can adjust their withholdings at any time by requesting a new W-4 form, many Americans may rather receive that large check at the end of the year. The ideal is to neither owe nor receive ...
EDUCATION - Compulsory domestic abuse prevention lessons needed in schools
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EDUCATION - TigerDirect's Build Your Own PC Classes: Coming To A School Near You?
I recently had an eye-opening experience while conducting some regular maintenance on my desktop PC. I was outside on the porch using compressed air to rid my mid tower case of the endless Nevada dust, when a girl roughly 10 years of age approached me. "What are you doing," she asked. "Cleaning out my computer," I replied nonchalantly. Her brow furrowed and her expression turned quizzical. She then exclaimed "That's a ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2013/04/12/tigerd
ENERGY - Israel's Natural Gas Finds Win the World's Notice
Israel's visiting guest this week is not a head-of-state. But he is just as important. It is Noble Energy's Chief Executive Charles Davidson, whose company is working with government and business there to commercialize huge natural gas deposits ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2013/04/11/israel
ENERGY - NJ May Start Funding Renewable Energy Energy Storage
The state of New Jersey may start funding renewable energy storage projects. This comes at the same time that the state is cutting renewable energy funding down to $7.5 million for 2014 for solar, biomass, hydroelectric, and onshore wind power.A solar panel array under a sunny blue sky.Image Credit: Bennyartist via ShutterstockThis appears to be more of a shift of funding to help accommodate the more efficient use of solar and wind power. Ne .. ...
ENERGY - Statements On Obama Budget From NRDC, CAP, & SEIA
The professional policy wonks have their statements out on Obama's Fiscal Year 2014 Budget plan. Below are statements from three groups I greatly respect.From Franz Matzner, associate director of government affairs for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC):"President Obama's budget once again calls for eliminating billions of dollars in taxpayer handouts to the dirty energy industry of the past, which it doesn't need, and harms our he .. ...
GARDENS - 9 Products That Help Gardeners Create Healthy, Organic Soil
A teaspoon of healthy soil contains more microbes than there are humans on this planet. These products can help you maintain that diversity ...
HOMES - Architects Turned A Master Bedroom Into A 130-Square-Foot Apartment [PHOTOS]
From NYC's micro apartments to one couple's 140-square-foot home, small living spaces are the "it" trend in home design. And now it seems they've made their way over to Europe. First reported on by Wired, American architect Marc Baillargeon and French architect Julie Nabucet converted a 130-square-foot master bedroom in Paris into a chic studio, and the result is incredible. The apartment is located in the Montparnasse neighborhood of Paris, and ...
MUSIC - Musicians who learn a new melody demonstrate enhanced skill after a night's sleep
(Medical Xpress)-A new study that examined how the brain learns and retains motor skills provides insight into musical skill ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-musicians-melody-skill
MUSIC - New study shows different brains have similar responses to music
Do the brains of different people listening to the same piece of music actually respond in the same way? An imaging study by Stanford University School of Medicine scientists says the answer is yes, which may in part explain why music plays such a big role in our social existence ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-brains-similar-respons
PEOPLE - Women Entrepreneurs, Special Deliveries, And The Trends They Are Shaping
Since launching her business in 2012, Melissa Beese has become the BFF that every mom wants to have, armed with the best toy recommendations for your child and even delivering them to your doorstep, as an added bonus ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianalopez/2013/04/12/women-en
PEOPLE - Youngest Billionaires of 2013
The top 15 richest technology billionaires from the 2013 Forbes Billionaires Lis ...
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SCIENCE - Bose-Einstein condensates evaluated for quantum computers
Physicists have examined how Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) might be used to provide communication among the nodes of a distributed quantum computer. The researchers determined the amount of time needed for quantum information to propagate across their BEC ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130411105827.ht
SCIENCE - Innovative self-cooling, thermoelectric system consumes no electricity
Researchers have produced a prototype of a self-cooling thermoelectric device that achieves "free" cooling of over 30ºC in devices that give off heat. It is a piece of equipment that acts as a traditional cooler but which consumes no electricity because it obtains the energy it needs to function from the very heat that has to be dissipated ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130411075454.ht
SCIENCE - Liquid on liquid goes solid
Not all liquids are mixable. Researchers have investigated chemical processes with atomic resolution at the interface between two such liquids and have made an exciting discovery. They observed the formation of an ordered crystal of exactly five atomic layers between the two liquids, which acts as a foundation for growing even bigger crystals ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130410131135.ht
SCIENCE - Molecular 'superglue' based on flesh-eating bacteria
In a classic case of turning an enemy into a friend, scientists have engineered a protein from flesh-eating bacteria to act as a molecular "superglue" that promises to become a disease fighter ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130411105822.ht
SPACE - Can One Buy the Right to Name a Planet? - The IAU Responds to Recent Name-Selling Campaign
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TECH - X-rays reveal coexisting structures in glass
Despite the long and rich history and widespread use of glass, surprisingly little is known about the interplay between the mechanical properties of glasses and their inner structures. For the first time, researchers have monitored subtle structural changes in a glass made from microscopic silica spheres, which they exposed to shear stress ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130410131229.ht
URBAN - Affordable bamboo housing floats when it floods
Severe flooding is a major concern in many parts of the world, but this low-cost bamboo house may literally help its inhabitants keep afloat during a disaster ...
URBAN - Even More Tiny Apartments Could Be Coming to NYC
If you read Inhabitat on the regular, you probably know that tiny dwellings have blown up in a big way - so much so that New York City is looking to expand their batch of micro apartments before the first one has even been built. The city recently announced that they'll be looking for two or three additional small housing concepts to join nArchitects' design, which was chosen to be the first micro unit development in NYC.READ MORE >Permalink ...
URBAN - HOK Unveils Plans for New LEED Gold Medical Campus in Buffalo
Last year, the State University of New York at Buffalo announced that it had selected HOK Architects to design a new School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences near downtown Buffalo. Now, almost a year later, more details about the design have been revealed. The new building will be one of the largest to be built in Buffalo in decades, and it will also be one of the city's most energy-efficient new buildings. With a dramatic six-story glass atriu ...
URBAN - London's annual Design Museum Competition winners announced
It's the Academy Awards of the design world, so let's see who's in the running ...
URBAN - The Wedge: Heimplanet's New Inflatable Two-Person Tent Pops Up in a Snap
Read the rest of The Wedge: Heimplanet's New Inflatable Two-Person Tent Pops Up in a SnapPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: camping, dome tent, geodesic dome, geodesic dome tent, Heimplanet, Heimplanet tent, hiking, Inflatable tent, outdoors, Recycled Materials, TENT, tents, The Wedge, two-person ten .. ...
URBAN - The World's First Algae-Powered Building Opens in Hamburg
The world's first algae-powered building just opened in Hamburg! Dubbed the BIQ House, the project features a bio-adaptive algae facade and it will serve as a testing bed for sustainable energy production in urban areas and self-sufficient living buildings. International design firm Arup worked with Germany's SSC Strategic Science Consultants and Austria-based Splitterwerk Architects to develop the BIQ House, which launched as part of Hamburg's I ...
WATER - "Artificial Leaf" Makes Clean Energy From Dirty Water
What's all this fuss about silly federal research projects? If one day in the not too distant future you can go to the dollar store, buy a thin, flat device the size of a playing card, dunk it in a quart of dirty bath water and use it to generate about 100 watts of electricity 24 hours a day, you can thank the Air Force. Along with other federal agencies, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research has been pouring funds into the development .. ...
WATER - Arctic Sea Ice: The Death Spiral Continues
The story of the decade is the collapse of Arctic sea ice and its impact on our extreme weather (see "CryoSat-2 Confirms Sea Ice Volume Has Collapsed"). That merits the latest monthly update of sea ice volume by creative tech guru Andy Lee Robinson showing that "death spiral" is the right visual metaphor: Many experts now say that if recent volume trends continue we will see a "near ice-free Arctic in summer" within a decade. And that may well u ...
WIND - U.S. had 45,100 wind turbines at the end of 2012, a growth of 28% over 2011
Wind power in the U.S. is doing well, and the country has only just begun to tap its massive potential (especially offshore) ...
WORK - Five Keys To Getting The Best Possible Sales Job
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WORK - Rosie The Riveter On A Wind Turbine: Women And The Growing Green Economy
By Mari Hernandez and Rebecca Lefton In March, the Bureau of Labor Services released its green jobs report, which reported a total of 3.4 million jobs associated with the production of green goods and services in 2011 - up from 3.1 million green jobs in 2010. Growing at a rate four times faster than all other jobs, the green sector offers new opportunities for good-paying jobs across the U.S. and raises the question: Are women benefitting from th ...
WORK - Unemployment's toll can be heartbreaking
(HealthDay)-As anyone who's lost a job can attest, stress and worry often quickly follow. But the health of your heart after unemployment can also take a tumble ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-unemployment-toll-hear
WORK - Who Should You Hire? LinkedIn Says: Try Our Algorithm
LinkedIn has upended corporate recruiting in the past decade, allowing talent scouts to scour a vast database of 200 million people's career profiles. That was just the start. Now LinkedIn has created algorithms that might do the sorting even more nimbly. The result: a digital cheat-sheet for recruiters, called: "People You May Want to Hire." ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2013/04/10/who-shou
WRITE - WORK - Five Keys To Getting The Best Possible Sales Job
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WRITE - WORK - Rosie The Riveter On A Wind Turbine: Women And The Growing Green Economy
By Mari Hernandez and Rebecca Lefton In March, the Bureau of Labor Services released its green jobs report, which reported a total of 3.4 million jobs associated with the production of green goods and services in 2011 - up from 3.1 million green jobs in 2010. Growing at a rate four times faster than all other jobs, the green sector offers new opportunities for good-paying jobs across the U.S. and raises the question: Are women benefitting from th ...
WRITE - WORK - Unemployment's toll can be heartbreaking
(HealthDay)-As anyone who's lost a job can attest, stress and worry often quickly follow. But the health of your heart after unemployment can also take a tumble ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-unemployment-toll-hear
WRITE - WORK - Who Should You Hire? LinkedIn Says: Try Our Algorithm
LinkedIn has upended corporate recruiting in the past decade, allowing talent scouts to scour a vast database of 200 million people's career profiles. That was just the start. Now LinkedIn has created algorithms that might do the sorting even more nimbly. The result: a digital cheat-sheet for recruiters, called: "People You May Want to Hire." ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2013/04/10/who-shou
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