AIR - Many Americans breathing cleaner air, report suggests
(HealthDay)-Although many Americans are now breathing cleaner air, others are living in cities that are more polluted than they were a decade ago, a new report shows ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-americans-cleaner-air.
ANIMALS - Gallery: Animals Can Suffer Human Diseases Too
Koala Bears Get Chlamydia Wikimedia CommonsZoonotic diseases can go from us to them. Click to launch the photo gallery This week we found out that fruit flies can get depressed--in at least one experiment, anyway--after they realize they cannot escape uncomfortable heat no matter what they do. Depression is actually pretty common in the animal kingdom, especially when it's induced in the lab. Many kinds of animals exhibit a classic depression-re ...
BIRDS - New Bird Flu Spreads: What You Need To Know
In A Meat Market Caged domestic pigeons in a meat market in eastern China. This photo was taken in 2009, in a location several hours north by car from the provinces where confirmed H7N9 cases have occurred. felibrilu on Flickr, CC BY_NC 2.0The deadly H7N9 has advanced beyond mainland China. The avian H7N9 virus keeps spreading in China and even beyond the mainland, with one case confirmed in Taiwan April 24. We updated you on April 12 about the s ...
EARTH - Massive deposit of lithium found in Wyoming could meet all U.S. demand
Lithium's not rare, but it looks like it's about to become even less so. This deposite could make the US lithium-independent, and maybe even an exporter of the useful metal ...
ECONOMICS - The #1 Waste of Time for Entrepreneurs
Recently, a first time entrepreneur asked me for advice on "revenue sharing agreements." He mentioned that it was taking his startup team a lot of time to work through this issue. I started telling him that in my experience, "rev shares" had a typical structure with partners getting a percentage kickback for business they send your way. He shook his head, and responded, "No, I mean revenue sharing among business partners." I stared back, not unde ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stellafayman/2013/04/25/startup-
ECONOMICS - Which Corporations Pay The Highest Taxes?
The 25 biggest tax bills go to the likes of Apple, ExxonMobil, Microsoft and General Electric ...
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ECONOMICS - People Are More Pessimistic About The Economy Now Than At Any Point In The Past 8 Years
Americans are more pessimistic about the immediate future of the economy now than at any point in the past eight years, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center. Only 25 percent of respondents said that they expected the economy to get better within the next year, according to the poll. On the other hand, 32 percent said they expected things to get worse over the next year. That's a big shift from last year, when Pew found that 44 ...
ECONOMICS - The Ultimate Visual Representation Of America's Boom, Collapse And Epic Comeback
The U.S. economy was on a tear as it surged with the housing bubble. And it quickly collapsed when the bubble burst and the financial system spiraled into a credit crisis. Now we are witnessing the economy has stage a remarkable comeback. Over the past three months, 41 of the 50 states showed increasing activity, according to the Philly Fed's coincident index of employment, unemployment, manufacturing hours and wages. Each month, the Philly Fed ...
EDUCATION - Best Research Universities
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EDUCATION - Learn To Read Chinese In Eight Minutes
To a non-Chinese speaker (like me), and especially to a Westerner (like me), Chinese is the most impenetrable family of languages on Earth. While there may be only an eighth as many syllables as in English, the tonal variations for each syllable in Standard Chinese impute vastly different meanings. The word "ma" can mean linen, horse, mother or scold, depending on how your tone rises or falls ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2013/04/25/learn-to-r
EDUCATION - Learn To Read Chinese In Minutes
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EDUCATION - US Colleges Teach America How To Build A Clean Energy Future
Is America's most significant lesson on how to combat climate change by building a clean energy economy being taught on our college campuses?College graduation image via ShutterstockClimate issues are clearly important to today's college students - 62% of all college applicants in a 2013 Princeton Review survey said a school's commitment to the environment would influence their decision to apply or attend the school, and students have begun .. ...
EDUCATION - Why I Let My Students Cheat On Their Game Theory Exam
Cheaters always prosper? DreamstimeTeaching people game theory is good. Making them live it is even better, says UCLA professor Peter Nonacs. On test day for my Behavioral Ecology class at UCLA, I walked into the classroom bearing an impossibly difficult exam. Rather than being neatly arranged in alternate rows with pen or pencil in hand, my students sat in one tight group, with notes and books and laptops open and available. They were poised to ...
ENERGY - Annual Renewable Energy Investment Set To Sky-rocket By 2030
The next 15 years and more are going to be interesting ones for the renewable energy industry, as the cost of manufacturing and installation drop and the public face of fossil fuels continues to be tarnished. Specifically, the rising popularity and efficiency of wind and solar energy will push the renewable energy industry as a whole into a new era of prominence. According to new research from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the future of the .. ...
ENERGY - Former CIA Director: The Grid Is Vulnerable To Attack
The electric power grid in the United States is vulnerable to attacks that have already begun, former CIA Director R. James Woolsey said in Chicago Thursday night, and America needs distributed generation as backup-primarily in the form of natural-gas cogeneration and solar power ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2013/04/26/former-ci
ENERGY - Peak Oil: Supply and Demand
Painting peak oil by the numbers ...
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FASHION - New App Gives You An Automatic Nosejob
Pixtr At Work From "Pixtr Demo" by Aviv Gadot on YouTubeThe company's tagline is, "Putting your best face forward." Facial recognition technology helps Facebook to guess who's in pictures and, in a pilot program, the FBI to match mug shots. Or check out this creepy face mashup using recognition tech. Now here's another use for computer programs that are able to recognize faces in photos: Automatic retouching. An app in the works, Pixtr, automatic ...
GARDENS - New Chemical Trick To Make Fertilizer That Won't Explode
Sandia National Laboratories chemical engineer Vicki Chavez with Kevin Fleming Sandia National LaboratoriesIt turns out another industry's trash is fertilizer's lifesaver. The same chemical that makes fertilizer so useful also makes it really cheap bomb fuel. Researchers at Sandia labs in Albuquerque wondered if they could render the explosive properties of fertilizer inert while still keeping the beneficial properties intact, and this week annou ...
HOMES - Brettstapel: another way of building with wood
This method of building solid wood panels of wood may be the greenest yet ...
HOMES - Shipping Container Homes Ease UK Homeless Crisis
A slew of converted shipping containers are expected to help ease a growing homelessness epidemic in cities across England. The number of homeless youth has tripled in the UK in the last few years, prompting groups like Charity Forest YMCA and Brighton Homeless Trust to convert shipping containers into affordable housing. The cargotecture homes are designed to serve as stepping stones for youths trying to re-enter the work force. Read the rest of ...
MOVIES - The Tangled Logic Of Time Travel In Movies [Infographic]
Time Travel in Movies Mr. DalliardThis flowchart contains spoilers! This infographic by Mr. Dalliard documents the nature, logic, and scale of time travel in film. Most of the terms are straightforward, and then there's the "Novikov self-consistency principle." Developed by a Russian physicist between 1975 and 1990, it asserts that if an event exists that would give rise to a paradox, or to any "change" to the past whatsoever, then the probabil ...
PEOPLE - People Who Beat The Odds Aren't Brilliant, Just Lucky
Money Man 401(K) 2013 via FlickrSucceeding once or twice on a longshot doesn't make someone a savant. Overall, that person's predictions will probably be less accurate than average. If a person made a smart business decision that was counterintuitive, you might look through the bars of his or her gated home as that person backstroked through a pool of gold coins and think, "Wow! That person has good business sense." You would almost certainly be ...
SCIENCE - A Library Of Every Drug That Could Ever Exist
All the Drugs A new computer program allows the mining of chemical libraries that do not yet exist, providing a near-infinite source of novel compounds that could be developed into new drugs. Virshup et al./JACSDrug researchers go along on a stochastic voyage. Billions of billions of billions of maybe-helpful molecular compounds remain to be discovered, and used for targeting a whole host of medical problems. But who has the time to conjure a nov ...
SCIENCE - Einstein's gravity theory passes toughest test yet
A strange stellar pair nearly 7,000 light-years from Earth has provided physicists with a unique cosmic laboratory for studying the nature of gravity. The extremely strong gravity of a massive neutron star in orbit with a companion white dwarf star puts competing theories of gravity to a test more stringent than any available before ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130425142250.ht
SCIENCE - Light bursts out of a flying mirror
Researchers have succeeded in generating flashes of extreme ultraviolet radiation via the reflection from a mirror that moves close to the speed of light ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130423134142.ht
SCIENCE - New Chemical Trick To Make Fertilizer That Won't Explode
Sandia National Laboratories chemical engineer Vicki Chavez with Kevin Fleming Sandia National LaboratoriesIt turns out another industry's trash is fertilizer's lifesaver. The same chemical that makes fertilizer so useful also makes it really cheap bomb fuel. Researchers at Sandia labs in Albuquerque wondered if they could render the explosive properties of fertilizer inert while still keeping the beneficial properties intact, and this week annou ...
SCIENCE - Oxford Institute Forecasts The Possible Doom Of Humanity
What's the greatest threat to our species' continued existence? Take a look in the mirror. Most of us are content to just worry about the future of humanity in our spare time, but there's an entire group of academics at Oxford University in England who make that their professional mission. Each member of the Future of Humanity Institute has his own focus. Some are concerned with climate change and its impact on humanity; others with the future o ...
SCIENCE - Parachuting Canister Detects Chemical Weapons
Global Strike System Sensor U.S. ArmyAn Army research project wants to cover a battlefield with dozens of soda-can-sized sensors to detect invisible threats. Army researchers at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) are developing new technology that could help U.S. troops battle chemical warfare. The technology, a canister about the size of a soda can, can sniff out dangerous chemicals and relay information about potential hazards back ...
SCIENCE - Seeding a new kind of concrete
Sunflower seed husks, a huge waste product of the vegetable oil and food industry, could be used as an environmentally friendly filler, or aggregate, for concrete according to Turkish researchers. The team demonstrated that the use of husks reduces the density of concrete as well as boosting the material's resistance to cracking after exposure to icy then thawing conditions ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130425132528.ht
SCIENCE - Vaterite: Crystal within a crystal helps resolve an old puzzle
With the help of a solitary sea squirt, scientists have resolved the longstanding puzzle of the crystal structure of vaterite, an enigmatic geologic mineral and biomineral ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130425142241.ht
SPACE - Conscientious Galaxy Uses All Its Fuel To Make New Stars, Leaving No Waste Behind
Ultra-High-Efficiency Galaxy In a galaxy called SDSSJ1506+54, nearly all of the gas has been driven to the central core of the galaxy and ignited into stars. This is a composite of images from the Hubble Space Telescope and Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer. NASAThis newly spotted galaxy is the least profligate galaxy ever seen. A newly found faraway galaxy called SDSSJ1506+54 is the most efficient star maker ever seen, using up almost all of t ...
SPACE - New matter-antimatter difference observed in LHCb experiment at CERN
Researchers at CERN are reporting the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the decays of the particle known as the B0s. It is only the fourth subatomic particle known to exhibit such behavior ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130424094512.ht
SPACE - What planets are made of: Findings establish counterintuitive potential planet-forming materials
Scientists have made a startling prediction that challenges existing chemical models and current understanding of planetary interiors -- magnesium oxide, a major material in the formation of planets, can exist in several different compositions ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130424125444.ht
SUSTAINABILITY - Alabama man feeds the homeless by teaching them to grow their own food
Even in the dark pit of poverty, where rays of hope shine their dimmest, there's often still light enough for a new life to take hold ...
TREES - How Stopping Deforestation Would Make Us Richer [Infographic]
Deforestation By The Numbers Jan Willem TulpBad news for the timber industry but great news for tourism Deforestation definitely isn't doing nature any favors, but at least there's a financial incentive for it, right? Well, not really, actually, as this infographic shows. Based on an economic valuation of Sumatra's Leuser National Park, designer Jan Willem Tulp breaks down the pros and cons of alternatives to deforestation in a beautiful intera ...
URBAN - Brazil's Inhotim is a sustainable art park
Inhotim is a Brazilian sustainable architecture and art project set amidst a palm forest and it's fabulous ...
URBAN - Dome of Visions: Mobile Greenhouse Studio Boasts a Facade of CNC-Cut "Fish Scales" in Copenhagen
Read the rest of Dome of Visions: Mobile Greenhouse Studio Boasts a Facade of CNC-Cut "Fish Scales" in CopenhagenPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: Art, Benny Jepsen, CNC-cut materials, copenhagen, cultural center, culture, Denmark, Dome of Visions, eco design, geodesic dome, green design, greenhouse, Kristoffer Tejlgaard, mobile project, music, sustainable design, temporary design, Urban Farmin .. ...
URBAN - Five of the Ten greenest buildings of 2013 chosen by the American Institute of Architects
They still care about green building at the AIA, really they do. Here's proof ...
URBAN - Hortus Celestia: Vertical Farm Showcases the Future of the Dutch Greenhouse Industry
The Hortus Celestia vertical farm is designed to showcase innovation in the Dutch greenhouse industry with 14 floors of flourishing gardens. Designed by Except and Sign, the 28-story vertical farm features a promenade that starts at the panoramic roof garden and winds down through the tower.Read the rest of Hortus Celestia: Vertical Farm Showcases the Future of the Dutch Greenhouse IndustryPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: "solar ener ...
URBAN - New LED streetlight design curbs light pollution
Recent innovations in light emitting diodes (LEDs) have improved the energy efficiency of streetlights, but, until now, their glow still wastefully radiated beyond the intended area. A team of researchers has developed a new lighting system design that harnesses high-efficiency LEDs and ensures they shine only where they're needed, sparing surrounding homes and the evening sky from unwanted illumination ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130424103130.ht
URBAN - Radhaus is a Glowing Bike Shop & Storage Facility in Eastern Germany
Read the rest of Radhaus is a Glowing Bike Shop & Storage Facility in Eastern GermanyPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: "sustainable architecture", bicycle shop, bicycle station erfurt, bicycle storage, bike shed, bike shop, Bike Storage, Daylighting, eco design, erfurt, germany, green architecture, Green Building, green design, indoor bike storage, Osterwold Schmidt, Osterwold+Schmidt, radhaus, Sustainable Building, sustainable de ...
URBAN - Ryerson School of Interior Design year end show is built almost entirely from RAW recycled scrap
They have turned the Designboom booth from the Interior Design Show into a display system and a demonstration of reuse and repurposing ...
URBAN - San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Headquarters Boasts Solar Panels and Built-in Wind Turbines
Read the rest of San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Headquarters Boasts Solar Panels and Built-in Wind TurbinesPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: "sustainable architecture", building integrated wind turbines, eco design, green architecture, Green Building, KMD Architects, photovoltaics, public utility commission headquarters, puc, San Francisco, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, san francisco public utility commission, ...
URBAN - Shipping Container Homes Ease UK Homeless Crisis
A slew of converted shipping containers are expected to help ease a growing homelessness epidemic in cities across England. The number of homeless youth has tripled in the UK in the last few years, prompting groups like Charity Forest YMCA and Brighton Homeless Trust to convert shipping containers into affordable housing. The cargotecture homes are designed to serve as stepping stones for youths trying to re-enter the work force. Read the rest of ...
URBAN - Solar-Powered Berlin Home Features a Camouflaging Pixelated Facade
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URBAN - Toyo Ito's Daylit Odate Dome Shrugs Off Snowstorms and Monsoons in Japan
Read the rest of Toyo Ito's Daylit Odate Dome Shrugs Off Snowstorms and Monsoons in JapanPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: "energy efficiency", Air quality, Akita Cypress wood, Akita Prefecture, Architecture, daylight, Daylighting, green materials, Japan, monsoon, Odate Dome, snow, teflon, toyo it .. ...
URBAN - UC San Diego's Charles David Keeling Apartments Set the Bar for Sustainable Student Housing
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WIND - Vestas And GE Tie For First Place Among 2012 Turbine Manufacturers
2012 was a good year for renewable energy installations, and a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance shows that it was a very good year for the wind energy sector, installing a record 48.4 GW of new capacity.This report comes just days after the report from Pew Charitable Trusts was released, which reported that a total of 88 GW of additional renewable generating capacity was installed during 2012.The wind energy sector's contribution .. ...
WORK - Jobs of the Week
Holy bikenomics Batman! We've had a record number of jobs posted to our Job Listings this past week. Eight great opportunities to work on and around bicycles in the Portland region. Check them out via the links below...Retail Store Manager (Woodburn, OR) - Pearl IzumiShipping Specialist - Velotech, Inc.Development Director - The League of American BicyclistsRetail Sales - Bike GalleryService Technician- Bike GalleryDevelopment Manager - Community ...
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