ART - Finding Colors that Sell
Color draws attention to your marketing collateral, signage and business documents. The right color choice can dramatically differentiate your business, improve the way work gets done, and even generate revenue .. ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/xerox/2013/09/11/finding-colors-
ART - Zen in the Art of Citizen Science: Apps for Collective Discovery and the 1 Percent Rule of the Web
When it comes to online participation in collective endeavors, 99% of us typically take a free ride.From Wikipedia and YouTube to simple forum discussions, there is a persistent pattern known as the...-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co .. ...
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/09/11/ze
BOOKS - Book Excerpt: Rumi and Confucius
Ibrahim Ozdemir on the Confucian teaching that at 70 years of age you are free to follow your heart's desire .. ...
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/books/excerpts.php?id
BOOKS - Book Excerpt: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi
Peter M. Wayne and Mark L. Fuerst on joy coming to those interested in continuous growth .. ...
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/books/excerpts.php?id
BOOKS - Texas Book Festival Announces Author Lineup
Texas Book Festival announces wide-ranging lineup of authors for October event in Austi .. ...
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/texas-book-fes
CLIMATE - Hottest days in some parts of Europe have warmed four times more than the global average
Some of the hottest days and coldest nights in parts of Europe have warmed more than four times the global average change since 1950, according to a new article .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130911120752.ht
CLIMATE - Record Heat Wave Blasts U.S. Midwest
By Carey Gillam(Reuters) - A blast of late summer heat baked the U.S. [More]-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co .. ...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=record-heat
EARTH - A map of the world's happiest (and least happiest) countries
The UN-sponsored World Happiness Report 2013 has just been released — a project that determined a country's level of happiness by using a number of social and economic indicators taken from 2010 to 2012. This map provides a quick overview of the results. Read more.. .. ...
EARTH - Before a volcano erupts violently: the warning signs
Volcanoes prone to explosive eruptions exist all over the world, but the warning signs are not well understood. Now, in a new study, a group of scientists including a senior author from Yale identifies the key signals of imminent eruption. The paper appears online in Nature Geoscience .. ...
http://news.yale.edu/2013/09/11/volcano-erupts-violently-war
EARTH - Jewish medallion found amid golden treasures near Temple Mount
Archaeologists have uncovered a 1,400-year-old hoard of gold coins and jewelry — plus a medallion marked with Jewish religious symbols — at the foot of Jerusalem's Temple Mount, a holy site for three world religions .. ...
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/jewish-medallion-other-golden
EARTH - Researchers develop model to correct tornado records
(Phys.org) —In the wake of deadly tornadoes in Oklahoma this past spring, Florida State University researchers have developed a new statistical model that will help determine whether the risk of tornadoes is increasing and whether they are getting stronger .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-tornado.htm
EARTH - Understanding the forces that shape the Earth
Subduction is the process occurring where the Earth's tectonic plates meet - and one plate slides beneath the other, taking surface material to its interior. This process leads to a large variety of phenomena at the Earth's surface, ranging from volcanism to the deepest and most destructive earthquakes .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-earth.htm
EARTH - What is Fracking? Why Makes it So Terribad? This Video Explains it All …
Longtime readers of this blog should already have a sense of why fracking is bad, how fracking causes earthquakes, exhausts water supplies, contaminates drinking water, “disrupts” families, puts toxic arsenic into the ground, and produces a product that, every now and then, blows up cornfields in the middle of the night. Still, there’s always been a few emails that trickle in asking, in essence, “What is fracking?”As ...
ECONOMICS - Plastic banknotes 'ready for 2016'
Smaller, wipe-clean plastic banknotes could be introduced by the Bank of England from 2016, matching currency across the world .. ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24029785#sa-ns_mchannel=r
EDUCATION - Bulletproof school supplies aim to keep kids safe
http://www.today.com/video/today/5298129
EDUCATION - Google Expands Role In Digital Education, Teams Up With edX To Build A YouTube For Free Online Courses
It’s turning into a busy week for Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) providers, and the tech companies that love them — particularly Google. On Monday, Udacity co-founder and CEO Sebastian Thrun and California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom announced the Open Education Alliance, a consortium of online organizations dedicated to closing the skills gap, developing standards for career readiness and providing the content that will help get stu ...
EDUCATION - The Learning Network Blog: Word of the Day | extradition
This word has appeared in 198 New York Times articles in the past year .. ...
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/11/word-of-the-day
ENERGY - Energy management app turns off the heat when you leave the house
The app uses GPS to track your movements and once you're away from home, it cuts off the heat to save energy .. ...
ENVIRONMENT - Cold no curb on appetite
Living in a low temperature environment does not affect bacteria's appetite for hydrocarbons, according to recent research. This new knowledge could affect environmental risk assessment in the Arctic .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-cold-curb-appetite.htm
ENVIRONMENT - How do you dispose of chemical weapons?
In the midst of a particularly brutal civil war, international attention focused on the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons against civilians. With a potential deal on the table for Russia to take and store Syria's chemical weapons, here is a look at what chemical weapons are, and what it takes to safely dispose of them.What are chemical weapons?Broadly, a chemical weapon is a toxic chemical delivered by an explosion, such as a bomb, arti ...
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/11/how_do_you_dispose_of_chemic
ENVIRONMENT - Oregon’s Massive Wildfires, As Seen Through Google Glass
Andrew Satter is the Senior Video Producer at the Center for American Progress. The damage from one of Oregon’s recent wildfires, shot with Google Glass. GRANTS PASS, OREGON — Deep in the dense forest of Southwest Oregon, 25 miles from this old logging town, tendrils of smoke billow from a charred valley below. To my left sits a copse of 40-year old Douglas Fir, burned to the crowns. The air smells of day-old campfire. The smoke plume is what re ...
FASHION - Bizarre style at New York Fashion Week
http://slideshow.today.com/slideshow/todayphoto/bizarre-styl
FASHION - Health Tip: Buying Children's Shoes
Title: Health Tip: Buying Children's ShoesCategory: Health NewsCreated: 9/10/2013 7:35:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 9/10/2013 12:00:00 A .. ...
http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rs
FASHION - Rope is the new wood in furniture design
Forget about wood furniture, we are all tied up in knots about rope .. ...
HOMES - After the meltdown: Is another mortgage bubble coming?
Andy Pollock rode the last subprime mortgage wave to the top then got out as the industry collapsed and took the U.S. economy with it. Today, he’s back in business.Pollock was president and CEO of First Franklin, a subprime lender whose risky loans to vulnerable consumers hastened the downfall of Merrill Lynch after the Wall Street investment bank bought it in 2006 for $1.3 billion. He was still running First Franklin for Merrill in 2007 when he ...
HOMES - California city backs plan to seize negative equity mortgages
RICHMOND, Calif (Reuters) - Richmond, California's leaders approved on Wednesday morning a plan for the city to become the first in the nation to acquire mortgages with negative equity in a bid to keep local residents in their homes .. ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/11/us-richmond-eminen
MOVIES - A Hollywood Studio Where Dogs Learn to Fly
Dog is my co-pilot: Hollywood studio offers class to prep canines to fly _ as passenger .. ...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/hollywood-studio-dogs-lea
MOVIES - Doctor Who's 50th schedule announced
The BBC announces its schedule of programmes marking the 50th anniversary of the first-ever Doctor Who, including a 75-minute special episode called The Day of the Doctor .. ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24038234#sa-ns_
MOVIES - TIL that Elijah Wood created his Lord of the Rings Frodo audition tape in his backyard with a homemade Hobbit costume
submitted by BunyipPouch [link] [13 comments] .. ...
MOVIES - The Monty Python and the Holy Grail trailer recut into a serious flim
What if the Monty Python gang made a super serious Holy Grail movie? It would probably look a lot like this. Read more.. .. ...
http://io9.com/the-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-trailer-r
PLANTS - Substance that gives grapefruit its flavor and aroma could give insect pests the boot
The citrus flavor and aroma of grapefruit — already used in fruit juices, citrus-flavored beverages, and prestige perfumes and colognes — may be heading for a new use in battling mosquitoes, ticks, head lice and bedbugs thanks to a less expensive way of making large amounts of the once rare and pricey ingredient, scientists say .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130911092719.ht
SCIENCE - Beyond peer review: NIST and five journals find a way to manage errors in research data
Traditional peer review is not enough to ensure data quality amid the recent boom in scientific research findings, according to results of a 10-year collaboration between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and five technical journals .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-peer-nist-journals-errors.htm
SCIENCE - Fat Gravity Particle Gives Clues to Dark Energy
The Wall Street mantra “greed is good” could soon be adopted by cosmologists to explain the origins of dark energy, the mysterious entity that is speeding up the expansion of the...-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co .. ...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fat-gravity
SCIENCE - Got 15 minutes? Invisibility cloak coming up
(Phys.org) —Researchers have discovered an alternative way to make an invisibility cloak that departs from other attempts to do so. Attempts in the past have been via metamaterials, created by assembling structures that interact with the light they will cloak. Metamaterials are far from perfect, are expensive, and are time-consuming, so the research team, from Zhejiang University in China, the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and Nationalhttp://phys.org/news/2013-09-minutes-invisibility-cloak.htm
SCIENCE - New cell component important to tea and wine-making
Scientists have discovered where plants build tannins, complex chemicals used by plants for defence and protection. The source is the tannosome, a newly discovered organelle that is found in most land plants .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-cell-component-important-tea-wi
SCIENCE - Our universe may contain TARDIS-like regions of spacetime
Doctor Who’s TARDIS is unique in that it appears larger on the inside than it does from the outside. According to scientists from the University of Helsinki, our universe may exhibit similar properties, a phenomenon they're dubbing Tardis spacetime. It’s a new theory that could solve a longstanding mystery in cosmology.Read more.. .. ...
SPACE - Bob Geldof set to travel into space
Bob Geldof has announced he will travel into space as a passenger on a commercial flight .. ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24031979#sa-ns
SPACE - New map of Universe may reconcile conflicting cosmological observations
(Phys.org) —In Jonathan Swift's 1726 book "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts," the miniature Lilliputians experience the world very differently from the giant Brobdingnagians .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-universe-conflicting-cosmologic
SPACE - Vintage NASA animations make us long for a fully funded space program
From NASA's 1977 Aeronautics and Space Report comes this retro-tastic animation of the Agency's logo in spiral. Read more.. .. ...
SUSTAINABILITY - Biodegradable cabinet: A new approach to sustainability
A furniture design academic from Sheffield Hallam University has started creating furniture made from 100 per cent biodegradable material, which can be composted at the end of its lifespan .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-biodegradable-cabinet-approach-
TREES - Bacteria enhance growth of fruit trees up to 40 percent
Improvement in reforestation and agriculture is possible thanks to the work of scientists in the Center of Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav) who use different strains of fungi and bacteria to promote development and health in trees, which have enabled them to accelerate growth of different species up to 40 percent .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-bacteria-growth-fruit-trees-per
TREES - Case Study: A Fast-Growing Tree Service Considers Selling Franchises
An owner wants to add more locations, but is not sure whether he wants to own the locations or franchise them .. ...
http://www-nc.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/business/smallbusiness/
URBAN - Designing A High Performance Building: It Takes Planning To Do It Right
Net zero buildings and high-performance buildings have on key trait in common - to do them right, you have to invest in an integrated planning process, and define the outcomes you want. The Parkland Hospital is an example of taking the time to integrate the various concerns and get it right, especially from the patient's point of view .. ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterdetwiler/2013/09/11/designi
URBAN - Town says $20,000 treehouse is a hazard, not a haven
A Florida couple had more than child’s play in mind when they built their two-story beachfront treehouse.Richard Hazen calls the $20,000 home “a work of love.” His wife, Lynn Tran, said it fosters serenity.“It’s a place to be with nature and to be one with nature .. ...
http://www.today.com/news/town-says-20-000-treehouse-hazard-
URBAN - Urban planning: City dynamics yield to computer modeling
A new computer model of city dynamics could pave the way to planning sustainable urban areas .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130911125313.ht
WATER - An Engineer Who Rides the Waves, For Work And Fun
Andrew Scott is an engineer and project manager in Scotland who spends his workday like most engineer-project-managers, populating spreadsheets and going to meetings. But his circumstances depart from the norm in two crucial ways .. ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidferris/2013/09/11/an-engine
WATER - In the World: Small Mexican village produces clean water with solar-powered system
In a small village deep in the jungles of the Yucatan Peninsula—a day's drive from any source of clean, drinkable water—researchers from MIT are testing a system that purifies water with the help of the sun .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-world-small-mexican-village-sol
WORK - 7 Tips for Keeping Your Day Job
I've often heard that you can't half-ass a startup. While that's true, not every entrepreneur has saved up between six and 24 months worth of living expenses.In other words, while you're laying the groundwork for your startup, there's still the pesky reality of rent, mortgages and other billsSee also: 8 Startups You Didn't Know Were RelatedSince it's not always practical to dive in head-first, you have to know how to ease into the waters. That us ...
WORK - More Americans Pursuing Meaning Over Money At Work, Survey Finds (INFOGRAPHIC)
Which is more important in your career -- meaning or money? For more and more American workers, finding a job that's personally fulfilling is worth sacrifices in salary, according to 2013 Philips Work/Life Survey. At a time when more than eight in 10 U.S. workers are stressed about their jobs, the new data points toward a positive shift in the workplace, with more people prioritizing happiness and satisfaction over money. Nearly half of survey re ...
(1)(1)+60X3+60+17.jpg)
0 comments:
Post a Comment