ANIMALS - Chimps Communicate Like Passionate Italians
Eavesdropping on chimpanzees in captivity shows they communicate through a mix of emphatic gestures and vocalizations ...
http://news.discovery.com/animals/chimps-communicate-like-pa
ANIMALS - Cat Paw Prints Found on 15th-Century Manuscript
It was just a mundane, typical house-cat moment, but one that would be preserved for hundreds of years. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/animals/pets/medieval-cat-paw-prin
ANIMALS - Could These 10 Animals Be Resurrected?
New technologies could pave the way for these extinct creatures to make a comeback ...
http://news.discovery.com/animals/extinct-animals-resurrecte
BOOKS - Today's Launch of The Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) went live a few hours ago. It's the culmination of the work, over the last couple of years, of thousands of people and institutions. But it's just the beginning. Starting with over two million items, each with its own special story and significance, the Digital Public Library of America will continue to assemble items from America's libraries, archives, and museums, and connect them with the public ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2013/04/18/todays-launc
CLIMATE - Global Warming Doubted By Majority Of Pastors
A LifeWay Research survey found that 54% of Protestant pastors disagreed with a statement saying that global warming is real and man made. This figure was lower than for the same survey conducted in 2010 when it was 60%.Image Credit: Public Domain, Wiki CommonsDemocratic pastors mostly agreed that global warming is real and man made, while their Republican counterparts tended to disagree. Another split was identified by physical location: ci ...
CLIMATE - Reuters Fail - Oceans Are Absorbing The Heat, No Global Warming Slowdown
Reuters has published an article that genuinely fails honest, researched, and trustworthy journalism. It claims (incorrectly) that climate scientists don't know why the atmosphere isn't warming as fast as it was. It claims (incorrectly) that there is a gap in the climate science and in climate scientists' understanding of global warming, and that there is an unexpected global warming slowdown. Notably, the article doesn't quote a single clim ...
CLIMATE - Scientists Raise Questions on Drought and Climate
When the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a report on April 11 that seemed to exonerate global warming as a cause of last summer's historic drought, a reasonable person might conclude that global warming had been exonerated. After all, NOAA is a highly respected organization, and the report's lead author, meteorologist Martin Hoerling, is a widely respected scientist. Judging by the reactions of other respected scientists, ...
CLIMATE - Storms Chip Away at Drought in Northern U.S.
Two weeks of storms and a slowly melting snowpack in the northern U.S. continued to chip away at the drought gripping the center of the country. But even as the drought has contracted nationwide, parts of the Texas and the Southwest have seen conditions deteriorate, and are likely to face another tough summer of drought. The northern part of the U.S. saw the biggest gains, which was welcome news for a region hit hard by drought for the past year ...
EARTH - DNews: Hawking: We Need to Leave Earth
Renowned scientist Stephen Hawking says we have 1,000 years left on Earth before all the planet's resources will be used up. Laci looks at the problems we'l ...
http://news.discovery.com/videos/hawking-we-need-to-leave-ea
EARTH - Stonehenge 5,000 Years Older Than Thought
Carbon dating near the monument reveals a settlement occupied between 7,500 and 4,700 BC. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/stonehenge-set
ECONOMICS - The 20 Largest Private Companies In America
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ECONOMICS - Is This The Fastest-Growing Game Company Ever?
In less than a year Supercell has launched two of the biggest app ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2013/04/17/is-thi
ECONOMICS - The sharing economy grows, as survey finds nationwide "disownership" trend
Cat Johnson at Shareable points to a new survey that finds there is "a nationwide trend toward "disownership" that crosses age, geographic and cultural boundaries. ...
ECONOMICS - In an economic crash, public health improves
The economic crash in Cuba following the fall of the Soviet Union has provided researchers with a unique natural experiment on obesity, diabetes and heart disease ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-economic-health.htm
ENERGY - China Reclaims Top Spot Over US In Clean Energy Sector
Movement within the clean energy sector during 2012 has been put under the microscope by The Pew Charitable Trusts in their fourth-annual Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? report. Released on Wednesday, the report states that a total of 88 gigawatts (GW) of additional generating capacity was installed during 2012, despite an 11% decline in investment levels from the year previously.Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? 2012 Edition cover"C .. ...
ENERGY - Colorado Looks To Raise Renewable Energy Standard To 25 Percent For Rural Electric Co-Ops
This post originally appeared on ThinkProgressby Matt KasperAdoption of renewable energy standards - which require electric utility companies to produce a portion of their electricity from wind, solar, and other renewable sources - has considerably driven clean energy advances in recent years.Image Credit: SunpowerSome 29 states and the District of Columbia have adopted hard targets for renewable energy production with another eight states s .. ...
ENERGY - Considerable Clean Energy Progress, But Still Too Much Dirty Energy
Reposted from Greenpeace International (only the image changed):In the big picture, renewable energy is doing pretty well. It's our continued addiction to dirty energy that is the problem, and lack of interest towards energy efficiency. This can be concluded from the many reports published today, on the first day of the Clean Energy Ministerial, by IEA (International Energy Agency) and others.Despite policy uncertainties and setbacks in many .. ...
ENERGY - Germany's Energy Storage Incentive To Start May 1
We covered Germany's coming energy storage incentive back in February. At the time, an official announcement was expected a week later. A couple months later, the incentive seems to be fully determined and is set to start on May 1.Germany solar panels & flag via ShutterstockAs reported in February, the focus is on battery storage technology for solar PV systems. For year one, €25 million is being set aside. The money is going to be dis .. ...
ENERGY - Google Backs New Plan For Utility-Supplied Renewable Energy Option
In a new post on Google's blog, Google Director of Global Infrastructure Gary Demasi has just put forth a plan that could really blow up the domestic renewable energy market. Since utility companies have long charged different rates (aka tariffs) for different classes of customers, the idea is to establish a special renewable energy tariff for customers that request it. In typical Google fashion the company is already putting its money where .. ...
ENERGY - Rapid Change Needed In Way We Supply, Use Energy
This article first appeared on RenewEconomy By Giles Parkinson and Sophie VorrathThe International Energy Agency has painted a bleak picture of progress on the decarbonisation of the world's energy systems, saying governments are not acting fast enough and the world shows few signs of being able to achieve the stated target of limiting global warming to a maximum average rise of 2°C.In the third comprehensive assessment of clean energy tech .. ...
ENERGY - The Dept of Energy's other hand facilitating tar sands development in Alaska
A bunch of my friends are up in arms about the Keystone XL pipeline, and the "carbon bomb" it would be if built. Why carbon bomb? Because it is a vast store of hydrocarbon fossil fuels, and building the pipeline would facilitate extraction of those fuels. There's another deposit of tar sands not too far away, in Alaska's North Slope. The U.S. Dept of Energy (DoE) just signed a Memorandum o ...
http://www.longtailpipe.com/2013/04/the-dept-of-energys-othe
ENERGY - The Wall Street Journal Is Wrong Here: Low Carbon Permit Prices Are Just Great
The Wall Street Journal tells us that the entire edifice of Europe's attempt at controlling carbon emissions has come tumbling down. They say this because the price of permits on the trading exchange has tumbled. But they seem to be unaware that low prices are just great, this is what we actually desire ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/04/18/the-wall-
HOMES - Like a Swiss Army knife, transformer D*Table hides 8 tables in 1
Multifunctional and ever-changing, this transformer table works like a 3D puzzle in your living room that can be changed to suit your needs ...
HOMES - Passivhaus Precedents: Zero Energy House from 1970s recognized with award
The passive house principles didn't just pop out of thin air, but were based on the work of others before it. But why are some precedents missing in action ...
MUSIC - World's largest instrument makes incredible organ music from limestone rock (Video)
Spanning over acres and taking decades to build, The Great Stalacpipe Organ makes beautiful music by tapping on the cavern's hanging stalactites ...
MUSIC - New study shows what happens in the brain to make music rewarding
A new study reveals what happens in our brain when we decide to purchase a piece of music when we hear it for the first time. The study, conducted at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital - The Neuro, McGill University and published in the journal Science on April 12, pinpoints the specific brain activity that makes new music rewarding and predicts the decision to purchase music ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-brain-music-rewarding.
PLANTS - New Strains Of Common Wheat Diseases May Threaten Global Food Supplies In The Coming Years, Researchers Warn
To a large degree modern industrial agriculture owes its success to the various forms of disease-resistant crops that have been developed over the past 50 or so years. But the development of new disease resistant crops has been slowing down in recent years, for a variety of reasons. And now, a global team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota is warning that without a large increase in such research, that new strains of a deadly ...
SCIENCE - Freedom of assembly: Scientists see nanoparticles form larger structures in real time
Scientists have, for the first time, captured movies of nanoparticle self-assembly, giving researchers a new glimpse of an unusual material property ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130419171645.ht
SCIENCE - Technique unlocks design principles of quantum biology
Researchers have created a synthetic compound that mimics the complex quantum dynamics observed in photosynthesis and may enable fundamentally new routes to creating solar-energy technologies ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130419120954.ht
SCIENCE - What Makes Fertilizer Plants So Explosive?
Ammonium fertilizers help crops grow leaves and maintain their green color but they can also break down rapidly and produce a tremendous amount of heat. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/the-capricious-chemistry-of-
SCIENCE - You can pluck graphene from thin air - but then what?
Graphene! It's the wonder stuff: the thinnest, stiffest, strongest and most impermeable material known to humanity, as well as the best thermal and electrical conductor. What's more, a company called Graphene Technologies has figured out how to more-or-less pluck the stuff out of thin air - the firm has a scalable, patented technique for creating very pure graphene out of carbon dioxide. So why does Graphene Technologies CEO John Myers sound so d ...
SPACE - DNews: Hawking: We Need to Leave Earth
Renowned scientist Stephen Hawking says we have 1,000 years left on Earth before all the planet's resources will be used up. Laci looks at the problems we'l ...
http://news.discovery.com/videos/hawking-we-need-to-leave-ea
SPACE - Hubble's Latest Mind Blowing Cosmic Pictures
Hubble has churned out over a million observations of the Cosmos. Here are some of our favorite recent views from the space telescope to celebrate its 23rd year in space ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/galaxies/hubble-space-telesc
SPACE - Kepler-62: A Star System With Two Earths?
Around 1,200 light-years from Earth, two potentially habitable Earth-sized worlds orbit a sun-like star ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/kepler
SPACE - Monster Hawaiian Telescope Approved
The summit of Mauna Kea on Big Island, Hawaii, already plays host to 13 observatories -- now a new, monster addition the telescopic family is one step closer to reality. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/hawaiian-monster-t
SPACE - NASA Announces Newest Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Found By Kepler Mission
An artist's conception depicting Kepler-62f, a planet 1.4 times the size of Earth that circles in the habitable zone of its host star. The small shining object at right is Kepler-62e, another potentially habitable world in the five-planet system.(Image Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL/Cal Tech via Space.comAt a press conference earlier today, NASA scientists announced the discovery of three new 'Super Earths' - exoplanets that are slightly larger than ...
TECH - Games for the weekend: Repulze
Games for the Weekend is a weekly feature aimed at helping you avoid doing something constructive with your downtime. Each Friday we'll be recommending a game for Mac, iPhone or iPad that we think is awesome. Here is one cool enough to keep you busy during this weekend. Repulze ($2.99 Universal) is more than a racing game with insanely fast courses, upgradable hovercraft and challenging obstacles - and those hovercraft are equipped with weapons. ...
URBAN - BIG Breaks Ground on Daylit Marknagil Education Center in the Faroe Islands
BIG just broke ground on the daylit, vortex-shaped Marknagil Education Center, which is set to be one of the biggest buildings on the Faroe Islands. The center was designed in collaboration with local architects Fuglark, and it will combine the Faroe Islands Gymnasium, Torshavns Technical College and Business College of Faroe Islands in one building.Read the rest of BIG Breaks Ground on Daylit Marknagil Education Center in the Faroe IslandsPerma ...
URBAN - Forget the green gizmos and bamboo floors; Green building is all about moderation
Martin Holladay gets down to the essentials: Size, siting, sun and sealin ...
URBAN - Gorgeous Glass Shino House Soaks Up Daylight on a Mountainside in Japan
Read the rest of Gorgeous Glass Shino House Soaks Up Daylight on a Mountainside in JapanPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: day light home, eco design, flexible living space, glass curtains, green design, KimuraMatsumoto Architects, Shino House, sustainable design, Wakayama Japa .. ...
URBAN - Hotello is a Pop-Up Hotel Room That Fits Inside a Trunk
Read the rest of Hotello is a Pop-Up Hotel Room That Fits Inside a TrunkPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: antonio scarponi, Das konzept, eco design, foldable hotel room, green design, Hotello, Milan Design Week, modular office space, pop up hotel room, pop up office space, portable office space, Roberto de Luca, sustainable desig .. ...
URBAN - MGM Grand Announces Plans to Build a $100 Million New York-Style Park in Las Vegas
Long gone are the days when Las Vegas casino owners booked the Rat Pack and did whatever was necessary to keep patrons at the gambling tables. With the arrival of Cirque du Soleil, family-friendly venues, spas, and world-class restaurants, Sin City has reinvented itself as a vacation destination for a broader swath of the public. This Thursday, Jim Murren, CEO of the MGM Grand, announced that he will be investing $100 million to create a New York ...
URBAN - Seattle's Bertschi Elementary School is the World's Fourth Living Building
Seattle's Bertschi Elementary School was just certified as the world's fourth Living Building. The elementary school, situated in the heart of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, is a 3,380-square-foot interactive learning environment filled with numerous green features - including composting toilets, solar panels and a slew of other additions that allowed it to meet the rigorous standards of the Living Building Challenge 2.0.READ MORE >Perma ...
WATER - Interactive: Short-Lived Pollutants and Sea Level Rise
By Climate Central The article, "Mitigation of short-lived climate pollutants slows sea level rise", by Hu et al., is a collaboration between scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Climate Central, and examines how much the rate and amount of global sea level rise can be reduced by cutting emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and four short-lived climate pollutants (SLCP) - metha ...
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/interactive-short-lived-p
WIND - Cheap Wind Power Disrupting Brazilian Energy Market
As the cost of wind power drops, and the wind industry grows, wind farms have a greater impact on electricity markets. And one of those big impacts is reducing the price of electricity.As we've been writing for years, due to the merit order effect, wind power lowers the price of wholesale electricity. At the same time, due to technology improvements and cost reductions from economies of scale, the overall cost of wind power has been coming d .. ...
WORK - Job of the Week
Just one job posted to our Job Listings this past week. Learn more via the link below...Mechanic/sales/service - - Waterfront BicyclesService TechnicianFor a complete list of available jobs, click here. If you'd like more information about the BikePortland Job Listings, contact us, or visit the Job Listings page.You can sign up for all the latest job listings via RSS, email, or by following us on Twitter ...
http://bikeportland.org/2013/04/19/job-of-the-week-64-8568
WORK - What a hiring suggestion feature can teach us about LinkedIn and corporate recruiting
If LinkedIn has become the quiet success of the major social web companies, LinkedIn's Recruiter page is the quiet success - and cash machine - within the company. And a brand new feature shows how the company is turning your professional data into a gold mine for recruiters. LinkedIn's "talent solutions" service, which gives recruiters and hiring managers the ability to post job ads and hunt for candidates, is the fastest-growing and most profi ...
WRITE - WORK - Job of the Week
Just one job posted to our Job Listings this past week. Learn more via the link below...Mechanic/sales/service - - Waterfront BicyclesService TechnicianFor a complete list of available jobs, click here. If you'd like more information about the BikePortland Job Listings, contact us, or visit the Job Listings page.You can sign up for all the latest job listings via RSS, email, or by following us on Twitter ...
http://bikeportland.org/2013/04/19/job-of-the-week-64-8568
WRITE - WORK - What a hiring suggestion feature can teach us about LinkedIn and corporate recruiting
If LinkedIn has become the quiet success of the major social web companies, LinkedIn's Recruiter page is the quiet success - and cash machine - within the company. And a brand new feature shows how the company is turning your professional data into a gold mine for recruiters. LinkedIn's "talent solutions" service, which gives recruiters and hiring managers the ability to post job ads and hunt for candidates, is the fastest-growing and most profi ...
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