AIR - CO2 levels in atmosphere reaching 400ppm for first time in 3 million years
The first measurements at the Mauna Loa observatory in 1958 had CO2 levels at 317ppm ...
ANIMALS - 11 Baby Animals So Cute You'll Squeeze Your Eyeballs Out
Spring is here! The flowers are in bloom, the sun is shining and new life is all around. It's just like the movie Bambi, except you're probably not in love with a skunk!The best part of this season (and any other time of the year, really) is all the baby animals. These little creatures are curious and playful, and we have the good fortune to see them in action, thanks to YouTube.SEE ALSO: AHHCHOO! 16 Moments Ruined by AllergiesFrom baby seals to ...
ANIMALS - Does Summer Always Get You Down? You Might Be A Rat
Rats get SAD in the summer Peter Boylan via Wikimedia Commons For nocturnal rodents, long days prompt long faces. During the short, dark winter days, many humans suffer from seasonal affective disorder, in which they experience symptoms of depression that subside come springtime (and recent research suggests all mental illnesses, not just depression, might get worse in winter.) A new study has found that rats get SAD, too-but during the long, sun ...
ANIMALS - Europe votes for 2-year ban on pesticides suspected in bee deaths
Campaigners rejoice as Europe implements a temporary ban on the use of neonicotinoids on crops favored by bees ...
ANIMALS - Goats Can Recover From Neglect
The finding in goats offers hope that previously neglected animals, including dogs, can recover and live contented lives. Continue reading ↠...
http://news.discovery.com/animals/goats-can-recover-from-neg
ART - New Biodiversity Education Treehouse Planned for the Eden Project's Largest Indoor Rainforest
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CLIMATE - Climate Change Is In The Air
This article originally appeared on the Mosaic website.By Rosana FrancescatoLast year climate change became reality for the United States. New York City flooded, a historic drought blanketed the Midwest, and we saw one of the worst fire seasons ever recorded. By July, the US had shattered over 40,000 daily heat records.The question now is whether last year's events will lead to new momentum for climate solutions. Will we get a shift in publi .. ...
CLIMATE - Hurricane Sandy's Untold Filthy Legacy: Sewage
To embed this interactive, click the preferred size for the code: 720 x 910 | 500 x 905 Report Summary Hurricane Sandy was one of the largest storm to hit the northeast U.S. in recorded history, killing 159, knocking out power to millions, and causing $70 billion in damage in eight states. Sandy also put the vulnerability of critical infrastructure in stark relief by paralyzing subways, trains, road and air traffic, flooding hospitals, cripplin ...
EARTH - Helium Gas As Volcano Eruption Detector
Helium gas released from volcanoes may anticipate the detection of magmatic movement even before those movements can be detected by seismic activity ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/rocks-fossils/volcano-erupti
EARTH - Your (Mom's) Ticket to the Universe: Review
A new book, filled with stunning images, takes you on a tour of our cosmic backyard -- just in time for Mother's Day. Continue reading ↠...
http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/review-your-ticket
ECONOMICS - 5 Bootstrapped Startup Tips to Survive the First Year
Brian Casel is a designer and founder of a few bootstrapped startups. Connect with Brian on Twitter @CasJam.Bootstrapping a startup is no easy task. That first year is particularly grueling. Yet these days, a lot of folks are bootstrapping their web startups, rather than going the VC-funded route. It takes a tremendous commitment from the founder(s) to make it through the ups and downs during those early months. You must overcome many roadbloc ...
ECONOMICS - Curriculum & Resources: 10 Reasons Why Co-ops Rock
The good people at Toolbox for Education and Social Change believe that co-ops rock and are proud to tell you why. This colorful poster is an engaging teaching tool for your classroom. Spanish language version available, too! Pay what you want prices. To order your 10 Reasons Co-ops Rock poster, click hereVisit Toolbox for Education and Social Change's official website for more educational tools The Toolbox for Education and Social Change (TES ...
ECONOMICS - Vermont Time Bankers Build a More Personal Economy
A 700-member time bank in Central Vermont from Olivier Asselin on Vimeo.Interested?Time Banking: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? Why let the availability of money determine the range of the possible? Time banks are taking off, in ways you never expected.Dollars with Good Sense: DIY CashThree ways ordinary people are printing their own money without breaking the law.Crash Course in ResilienceWe can strengthen our communities and ourselves to prep ...
http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/vermont-time-bankers-bu
EDUCATION - Forget Studying Abroad, Take a Semester Online
Undergrads may not complete their degrees for a variety of reasons. A family member becomes ill and they need to return home; they find a promising internship in another city; they don't think their campus' coursework is the right fitA new offering from online education platform 2U, Semester Online, hopes to provide a better option for stifled undergrads. For $4,200 per course, undergrads can enroll in and receive credits for the 11 courses offer ...
ENERGY - 100% Renewable Energy For Australia Not So Costly
Editor's note: This article will be added to our "70%, 80%, 99.9%, 100% Renewables - Study Central" page.This article originally appeared on RenewEconomy.An exploratory study into 100% renewable energy scenarios for Australia has concluded that its impact on consumer electricity prices over the next few decades may be no more than the increases in the last few years to support much criticised network upgrades and the introduction of the carb .. ...
ENERGY - 7 Reasons Why Oil Prices Won't Plunge
The United States is in the midst of a miraculous supply boom that has seen domestic oil output soar by more than 1 million barrels per day in the past year to the highest levels in decades. U.S. oil output is now at 6.5 million bbl per day, in third place after Saudi Arabia and Russia (both at roughly 9.8 million bpd). And the growth shows no sign of slowing down ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2013/04/29/7-r
ENERGY - Gasland's Josh Fox on investigating the gas industry
Josh Fox is on Andrew Sullivan's Ask Me Anything series this week. In his first video he talks about how he became interested in the natural gas industry and how his first film came about ...
ENERGY - Verizon's Bid To Be A Power Producer
Many large businesses, including industrial operations, have long produced their own power instead of relying only on their local utilities. The emergence of solar, fuel cells and other low-carbon technologies are opening up new possibilities for companies that want an uninterrupted power supply while lowering their carbon footprint at the same time ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/uciliawang/2013/04/30/verizons-b
FASHION - 10 Hairstyles That Don't Deserve a Comeback
Hooray, it's National Hairstyle Day! Finally, a day dedicated to our long (or short) and luscious (or not) tressesMany consider hair one of our most important assets, but we don't always provide it with the loving care and comfort that it deserves. Over the past years, humanity as a whole has put hair through some troubling moments. So, in honor of this holiday, here are 10 heinous 'dos that should forever be banishedAlso, share a photo of your ...
FASHION - No-Wash Shirt Doesn't Stink After 100 Days
A New York City startup is saying it can produce a men's button-down shirt from wool that's super-soft, doesn't need ironing and won't smell even after being worn for 100 days straight without washing. And the company's founder apparently did just that.SEE ALSO: Stealth Clothing Averts Government SnoopersThe clothing company, called Wool&Prince, was started several months ago by Portland, Oregon native Mac Bishop two of his friends. Their but ...
HOMES - Historic Horse Stables Converted into a Contemporary Home in the UK
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HOMES - Honda Launches Smart Home Project
Right around the same time as Ford and KB Home teamed up to launch a smart home pilot project, Honda launched one of its own - Honda Smart Home US. Solar panels on the home in Davis, CA, will be used to charge a Honda Fit EV.From the construction on, the project is being documented and shared via the Honda Smart Home US website.Aside from the solar panels and EV, the home will include several energy efficiency components, and as a result wil .. ...
MUSIC - Facebook Music Game GIG-IT Will Let Players Create Virtual Concerts
GIG-IT, a new social game coming to Facebook in May, will let players create 3D concerts featuring virtual versions of famous musicians along with music from the game's library or music available to purchase within the experiencePlayers will be able to customize every aspect of the concert such as the music, backup dancers, speakers, opening act, headline performers, wardrobes, sponsors and venue. They will then have the option to share their cre ...
PEOPLE - 15 Women-Led Startups Making It Work
In celebration of International Women's Day, 20 promising businesses built by 100% female founding teams ...
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PLANTS - Glowing algae makes for a living night light
With the right set-up, phosphorescent algae can create a lightshow in your room at night ...
SCIENCE - Comparing proteins at a glance: Technique for easy comparisons of proteins in solution
A revolutionary X-ray analytical technique enables researchers at a glance to identify structural similarities and differences between multiple proteins under a variety of conditions and has already been used to gain valuable new insight into a prime protein target for cancer chemotherapy ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130429130545.ht
SCIENCE - New research helps to show how turbulence can occur without inertia
For more than a century, the field of fluid mechanics has posited that turbulence scales with inertia, and so massive things, like planes, have an easier time causing it. Now, new research has shown that this transition to turbulence can occur without inertia at all ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130430142102.ht
SCIENCE - The science of magic: It's not all hocus pocus
Think of your favourite magic trick. Is it as grandiose as David Copperfield's Death Saw, or is it as simple as making a coin disappear in front of your very eyes ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-science-magic-hocus-po
SCIENCE - UFOs Flunk Believability Test for Alien Contact
The search for extraterrestrial life is so multipronged we have to ask ourselves what sort of detection of life off Earth would be most scientifically reliable? And, what scenario would have the biggest impact on the public? Continue reading ↠...
http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/ufos-f
SPACE - Does antimatter fall up or down? First direct evidence of how atoms of antimatter interact with gravity
The atoms that make up ordinary matter fall down, so do antimatter atoms fall up? Do they experience gravity the same way as ordinary atoms, or is there such a thing as antigravity? Recent results, which measured the ratio of antihydrogen's unknown gravitational mass to its known inertial mass, did not settle the matter. Far from it. If an antihydrogen atom falls downward, its gravitational mass is no more than 110 times greater than its inertial ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130430113429.ht
SPACE - How Do You Puke in Zero Gravity?
How do you throw up in a place where "up" and "down" don't exist?Puking in the microgravity of the International Space Station can be quite a problem, but that doesn't mean it never happens.Astronauts get sick even in the weightlessness of the orbiting outpost, and thanks to a new video from Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield, everyone on the surface of the Earth can get a glimpse of how it happens."When we first get to space, we feel ...
SPACE - Mars Rover Opportunity Switches Itself to Safe Mode
After three weeks of radio silence from NASA's veteran Mars rover Opportunity, mission managers regained contact with the robot only to find it had dropped into a self-imposed "safe mode." Continue reading ↠...
http://news.discovery.com/space/mars-rover-opportunity-drops
SPACE - What's Next for Curiosity? Mars Mountaineering
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity returns to work on Wednesday following a month-long hiatus due to the sun blocking radio communications with Earth ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/curiosity-next-mission-mount
SUSTAINABILITY - Apocalypse Now? Creating a Survival Plan
What do we actually do on an individual, practical level? Here's a start ...
http://news.discovery.com/adventure/survival/creating-a-surv
URBAN - 2013 Mies van der Rohe European Architecture Prize goes to Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik
It is a wonder that the green glass gem by Hennig Larson Architects and Olafur Eliasson ever got finished ...
URBAN - Fab Launches First Retail Store, Design-Your-Own Furniture
Fab is continuing to evolve from a flash sales site into something bigger - as its founders hope, the world's largest store for design.The startup, which pivoted from a flash sales site aimed at gay men two years ago, held a presentation in New York Monday night to chronicle its progress and outline its larger visionCEO Jason Goldberg said that Fab now has 12 million registered members in 28 countries, and that 40% of last month's sales took ...
URBAN - Gorgeous Prefab Patagonia Lodge Adapts to Rough Climate Conditions in Chile
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URBAN - Ideas for making smart growth smarter
The idea of Smart Growth is under attack from both sides; here are some ideas for updating it to the 21st century ...
URBAN - If Americans Don't Like Walkable Cities, Why Aren't They Cheaper?
An acquaintance once told me that Joel Kotkin is like the climate change denier of the urbanism world.Joel Kotkin's theories about the preference for suburbia don't square with the fact that places like Logan Circle in Washington, DC, are so expensive. Image: Flick RiverHe's a professor at Chapman University in Orange County, California. And his shtick is trying to convince people that suburbs - not cities - are the future of American li ...
URBAN - If Americans Don't Like Walkable Cities, Why Aren't They Cheaper?
An acquaintance once told me that Joel Kotkin is like the climate change denier of the urbanism world.Joel Kotkin's theories about the preference for suburbia don't square with the fact that places like Logan Circle in Washington, DC, are so expensive. Image: Flick RiverHe's a professor at Chapman University in Orange County, California. And his shtick is trying to convince people that suburbs - not cities - are the future of American li ...
URBAN - Megaport
The Most Efficient Cargo Handler Courtesy Port of Rotterdam; Inset A: Courtesy APM Terminals; Inset B: Paul Wootton; Inset C: Courtesy APM Terminals; Inset D: Courtesy Port of RotterdamThe robot-staffed, windmill-powered Dutch port poised to become the most efficient cargo handler ever. Business is booming at Europe's largest port, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, which sees the lion's share of the continent's imports and exports. About 34,000 ship ...
WATER - Solar-powered nanofilters pump in antibiotics to clean contaminated water
Using the same devious mechanism that enables some bacteria to shrug off powerful antibiotics, scientists have developed solar-powered nanofilters that remove antibiotics from the water in lakes and rivers twice as efficiently as the best existing technology ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130501112848.ht
WIND - Clever MIT floating wind turbines can store power for when the wind doesn't blow
Wind and solar are growing rapidly worldwide, but because the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow, we need to find more ways to store energy ...
WIND - Floating Wind Turbines In Scotland Get £15 Million
Floating offshore wind energy is looking like an increasingly likely possibility in the near future, thanks to the Scottish government's recent unveiling of a £15 million fund for the development of new deep-water foundation technologies.Image Credit: World's First Full-Scale Floating Wind TurbineFloating foundation technologies are currently in the early stages of their development, but once proved on the industrial scale, they will allow .. ...
WIND - Reshuffling Our Top 5 Micro Wind Turbines
One of the most popular micro wind turbine companies around, Southwest Windpower, began to scale back operations last year and has apparently closed its doors, which means that our list of Top 5 Micro Wind Turbines is overdue for a re-do.As a preliminary step, let's take a look at JLM Energy, Inc., an all-around renewable energy company that has figured out a way to piggyback its Zefr micro wind turbine arrays onto Southwest's poles, resulti .. ...
WORK - 10 Hot Social Media Jobs in New York, California and More
Whether you're unemployed, underemployed or just looking for something a bit more interesting, the Mashable Job Board is full of listings to take your career to the next level.Since 2005, Mashable has been committed to bringing the top digital, social and tech news and resources to our readers. Over time, we've built a readership of 20 million people who are well versed in digital trends, social media and all the hottest technologies. So when the ...
WORK - 6 Ways To Absolutely Make Sure You Don't Get The Job
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WRITE - Newspapers need to stop lying to themselves - and to advertisers - about their circulation
There has been much hue and cry about the New York Times passing USA Today in circulation to become the second-largest newspaper in the United States, thanks in part to a boost from the NYT's digital susbcription plan, which reportedly boosted circulation to almost 2 million daily readers. These numbers are notoriously dodgy, however - and if anything, they have gotten worse instead of better with the arrival of online measurement and new digital ...
WRITE - The Company That's Buying the Online News Ecosystem
In the past couple years, an ecology of sorts has come into being among online news sites. It's the blogosphere metastized, maybe, or merged with the money of traditional mediaA web writer, or a newspaper reporter or a far-afield staff writer finishes a story and files it into their content management system. She tweets it from her personal Twitter; her publication tweets it, too. It drops into the topmost spot of the homepage.Then it begins. Oth ...
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