AIR - The smog in Los Angeles doesn't quite sting like it used to, but there's still work to be done
For a long time, Los Angeles was synonymous with eye-watering, lung-blackening smog. Things have gotten better over the years, though the air quality in the city is nowhere near ideal ...
ANIMALS - How similar are the gestures of apes and human infants? More than you might suspect
Psychologists who analyzed video of a female chimpanzee, a female bonobo and a female human infant in a study to compare different types of gestures at comparable stages of communicative development found remarkable similarities among the three species ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-similar-gestures-apes-
ANIMALS - Meet the adorable Fairy Penguin, the smallest penguin species on Earth!
Check out these beautiful photos and learn more about this awesome, but often overlooked, littlest of penguin. There's even a direct link between them and Tux, the Linux mascot ...
ART - Artists Do Indeed Have A Role In Solving Humanity's Grand Challenges
By Quincy Jones, who is a record producer, conductor, arranger, composer, television producer, trumpeter, educational philanthropist, and XPRIZE Visioneer. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and 27 Grammy Awards. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 18, 2013. His philanthropic efforts extend to the Quincy Jones Foundation, Quincy Jones Musiq Consortium, Harvard School of Public Health 'Project Q,' ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2013/06/06/artists-d
CLIMATE - Become fluent in the vocabulary of solar flares and space weather
With all the exciting solar activity lately, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center shared this helpful tutorial about the vocabulary of space weather on their Facebook page. Now you can tell your CMEs apart from your solar flares ...
http://io9.com/become-fluent-in-the-vocabulary-of-solar-flar
CLIMATE - Climate Change Consensus Tracked
A new study finds near-unanimity among climate scientists: humans are causing global warming. Continue reading ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/strong-scient
CLIMATE - GPS Could Provide Fast Local Tsunami Warning
Using satellite data, scientists might be able to give people faster warning of tsunamis. Continue reading ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/gps-could-provide-tsu
CLIMATE - If you've ever wondered what a tornado looks like on radar
This is easily the clearest and most defined example of a tornado on radar that I've come across. This is from the tornado in Oklahoma that struck Carney not long ago. Started out smallish and grew into a mile-wide wedge shaped tornado.Photo is from DFW Scanne ...
EARTH - House of the Sun: Majestic timelapse from Haleakala, a volcano bigger than Manhattan
If you need a reminder of how majestic our planet can be - or maybe just a Friday mental health break - check out this beautiful timelapse video by Dan Douglas ...
ECONOMICS - Five Ways To Revive Venture Capital
Venture capital (VC) used to be a great business. But in the 13 years since the NASDAQ peaked at 5,049, the VC business has not kept up with the S&P 500. In the last few years, some VCs have adapted by following five strategies that could revive the industry ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2013/06/06/five-ways-
EDUCATION - Avoid The Hype: Online Learning's Transformational Potential
In Larry Cuban?s recent piece in the Washington Post, ?Why K-12 online learning isn?t really revolutionizing teaching,? he in essence says that our research showing that online learning is a disruptive innovation that has the potential to transform K?12 education into a student-centric learning design that can allow each student to realize his or her fullest potential is unfortunate hype from academic gurus ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelhorn/2013/06/06/avoid-the
ENERGY - $1 Billion Nuclear Power Project Abandoned In Iowa
Plans for Iowa's second nuclear power plant have been dropped by Mid American Energy. No design has been approved for the type of nuclear plant the company had intended, so they have let the idea go. It was reported that ratepayers will be refunded the $8.8 million they paid for a completed feasibility study. Sites not far from Council Bluffs and Davenport were being considered for the plant.(Iowa's one nuclear power plant.) Image Credit: Js .. ...
ENERGY - Dangerous Times As Energy Sources Get Costlier To Extract
What really matters is the cost of resources, in terms of resources required, including energy resources, to keep producing oil. On that front, the U.S. is losing ground at an alarming pace. Simply put, it takes energy to get energy ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2013/06/05/dan
ENERGY - Farm Connections: Learning About Energy Efficiency On Turkey Farms And Conservation Opportunities
On some level, everyone is connected to agriculture. That simple fact is at the heart of KSMQ's local series, Farm Connections, now in its fifth season. Joel Haskard and Fritz Ebinger with the Clean Energy Resource Teams joined Farm Connections host Dan Hoffman and other guests to highlight energy efficiency innovations and opportunities on Minnesota farms.On some level, everyone is connected to agriculture. That simple fact is at the heart .. ...
ENERGY - Interior Department Approves Up To 4GW Of New Renewable Energy Projects
DOE has been considered the catalyst of renewables in America, but two major announcements by the Interior Department may have just served notice it could be the real driver of clean energy growth during President Obama's second term.Within 24 hours, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell approved three renewable energy projects on federal land in Arizona and Nevada, and announced Interior will hold the first auction for US offshore wind far .. ...
ENERGY - Number of the Day: $675 million in saved energy costs during 2012 thank to LED lights
The era of LEDs is upon us, and massive energy savings are still ripe for reaping ...
ENERGY - San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant To Be Retired
Southern California Edison, the operator of the San Onofre plant north of San Diego, has decided to retire the reactors. '[The plant] has served this region for over 40 years. But we have concluded that the continuing uncertainty about when or if [the plant] might return to service was not good for our customers, our investors, or the need to plan for our region's long-term electricity needs,' explained the company's CEO. (Source: BBC News) .. ...
FASHION - New York City's textile recycling program reaches 1 million pound mark
Re-fashioNYC, which recycled used cloths and fabric, had collected 1 million pounds of donations ...
HOMES - How Cozy Helps Renters And Landlords
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/fhgl45edde/list-your-property
MUSIC - Music Streaming Service Slacker Makes Moves Toward Analytics
Streaming services are busting out analytics in order to increase their competitiveness in a fast-growing market ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/livbuli/2013/06/07/music-streami
PEOPLE - How The Human Face Might Look In 100,000 Years
A designer and geneticist have teamed together to show how extreme weather, light and implants might change the way we look in the future ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2013/06/07/how-the-hu
SCIENCE - Elusive Graphene Butterfly Finally Spreads Its Wings
Graphene is an ultra-thin, ultra-conducting, ultra strong material that could spawn a whole new generation of ultra-efficient electronics, and hundreds if not thousands of researchers around the globe are racing to unlock the secrets behind its unique properties. It looks like the latest match will end in a draw, as two international research teams have both succeeded in manipulating graphene to produce a phenomenon that until now has only b .. ...
SCIENCE - LHC Creates Tiny Drops of Big Bang 'Blood Spatter'
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has recreated the world's tiniest droplets of a primordial state of matter that last existed moments after the Big Bang, some 13.82 billion years ago. Continue reading ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/lhc-creates-worlds-smallest-
SCIENCE - 8 Of The Year's Most Oddly Gorgeous Science Images
Maze Dweller A goby fish peeks out of the coral it lives in. Goby fish are good housekeepers--they may remove algae from the coral that would otherwise smother it, undergraduate Chhaya Werner explained. Werner took this photo while doing field work in Panama. Chhaya Werner '14, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology A water slide for worms, the glorious C. instagram, and more Click here to enter the gallery Is this the era of C. instagra ...
SCIENCE - Artificial Skin That's Way More Sensitive to Touch Than The Real Thing
Scientists have created a paper-thin flexible "skin" that can detect pressure that's a few hundred times lighter than a gentle touch. This new material could eventually make its way into artificial or robotic limbs - but for now researchers have found that it is absolutely amazing at reading a pulse. We recently told you about new artificial skin that's as sensitive to touch as our fingertips. That sensor was made out of piezoelectr ...
SCIENCE - Physicists let magnetic dipoles interact on the nanoscale for the first time
Physicists have found out how tiny islands of magnetic material align themselves when sorted on a regular lattice -- by measurements at BESSY II. Contrary to expectations, the north and south poles of the magnetic islands did not arrange themselves in a zigzag pattern, but in chains ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130515151548.ht
SCIENCE - The Unexpected Artwork of Physicist Richard Feynman
In addition to being a world-renowned physicist, Richard Feynman was also an amateur artist, one who was fascinated by the power of lines and forms. He felt that his appreciation of art was deeply connected to his love of physics, representing an appreciation of the complexity and beauty of the world.Brain Pickings has a great collection of Feynman's art, and cites this paragraph from his essay "But Is It Art?" which appears in Sure ...
SCIENCE - Whimsical, animal-filled illustrations of mathematical concepts
Kasia Jackowska's Drawing Mathematics series takes an unusually adorable approach to illustrating mathematical concepts. The Pythagorean Theorem and Sierpinski triangles are conveyed through drawings of elephants, snakes, and deer.Jackowska created this series for a brochure published by the Department of Mathematics of the University of Warsaw. You can see the rest at her website.Drawing Mathematics [Kasia Jackowska via Radiolab ...
SCIENCE - World's smallest liquid droplets ever made in the lab, experiment suggests
Physicists may have created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab. That possibility has been raised by the results of a recent experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle collider located at the European Laboratory for Nuclear and Particle Physics (CERN) in Switzerland. Evidence of the minuscule droplets was extracted from the results of colliding protons with lead ions at velocities approac ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130516200641.ht
SPACE - NASA's asteroid-grab mission is to be powered by solar
Do you lie awake at night worrying about the possibility of an asteroid flying into Earth and ruining your day - or worse? Fret not. One way or another, solar power aims to save us ...
SPACE - Does Alien Life Thrive in Venus' Mysterious Clouds?
Venus might not be somewhere you'd expect to find life, but there's a chance that its sulfrous clouds could be hiding something. Continue reading ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/are-ve
SPACE - Here's the supernova Johannes Kepler studied 400 years ago
These are the remnants of the last supernova known to explode in our galaxy whose light has reached Earth. It lit up the night sky in 1604 and attracted the attention of Johannes Kepler himself. But it's only in the last couple of decades that we've developed the technology to understand exactly what kind of supernova this is.Indeed, Kepler and his contemporaries didn't even have the benefit of telescopes when studying this supernova, let alone g ...
SPACE - LHC Creates Tiny Drops of Big Bang 'Blood Spatter'
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has recreated the world's tiniest droplets of a primordial state of matter that last existed moments after the Big Bang, some 13.82 billion years ago. Continue reading ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/lhc-creates-worlds-smallest-
SPACE - New method proposed for detecting gravitational waves from ends of universe
A new window into the nature of the universe may be possible with a device proposed by scientists that would detect elusive gravity waves from the other end of the cosmos ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130516161739.ht
URBAN - Construction to Begin on Zaha Hadid's Naturally-Cooled 2022 World Cup Stadium in Qatar
In preparation for hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Qatar has hired starchitect Zaha Hadid to design a sprawling new soccer stadium. Hadid's studio will partner with AECOM to construct the stadium in Al Wakrah outside of Doha. Details of the design are still a bit fuzzy, but the new stadium will use renewable energy to cool the spectators in the desert climate.Read the rest of Construction to Begin on Zaha Hadid's Naturally-Cooled 2022 World Cup ...
URBAN - Facit Homes' D-Process Creates Buildings that Snap Together Like LEGO Bricks
Read the rest of Facit Homes' D-Process Creates Buildings that Snap Together Like LEGO BricksPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: 2013 Index: Awards, 3d modeling techniques, digital 3d modeling, digital fabrication, Facit Homes, Facit Homes D-Process, green homes, Index Awards, lego-like building, on-site fabrication, plywood homes, Prefab Housing, prefab plywood, Sustainable building .. ...
URBAN - New Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is designed by Sou Fujimoto
This year's architecturally designed pavillion is by Sou Fujimoto and it is light as a cloud ...
URBAN - Refuge du Goûter: Space-Age Self-Sufficient Alpine Lodge is the Highest Building in France
Read the rest of Refuge du Goûter: Space-Age Self-Sufficient Alpine Lodge is the Highest Building in France .. ...
URBAN - Wretched Excess or the future of housing design? Another look at the car elevator
There is a perverse logic to this idea of bringing your car to your apartment ...
WATER - Tidal Energy Could Be Next Big Wave
The U.S. Department of Energy has just unveiled a floating off-shore wind platform that it thinks could make a big splash. But it has already been working hard to commercialize ?tidal energy" that uses underwater turbines to create electricity, which must then be wired into the grid. SeaGen - world's firs ...
WATER - Melting Glaciers: Photos
Goodbye, glaciers. These rivers of ice are melting worldwide ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/melting-glaci
WATER - Nanoscavengers could usher in next generation water purification
A new synthetic nanoparticle could disinfect, depollute, and desalinate contaminated water and then get removed magnetically. This improves upon existing technologies through ultraresponsiveness to magnetism ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130515151543.ht
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