ANIMALS - Beetle Battles: The Secret World of Leg Wrestling and Abdomen Squeezing
Credit: iStockphoto This is the frog-legged leaf beetle ( Sagra buqueti ), and there’s a good chance those gigantic gams are his weapons. [More]-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co .. ...
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/2013/09/2
ANIMALS - How Could We Recognize Pain in an Octopus?
At the level of personal experience, there is nothing that seems easier to understand than pain. When I jam my finger in a doorway, I have no difficulty at all recognizing the sensation that...-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co ..http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/09/20/ho
ART - Noninvasive Technique Gauges Art Canvas Health
Iconic works of art get exhibited worldwide. But as those paintings age, they can become too fragile to withstand travel around the globe. The paint can be visually examined to gauge its integrity....-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co .. ...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=non
BOOKS - Book Review: Love and Math
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality [More]-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co .. ...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=book-review
CLIMATE - A 'super typhoon' is about to smash into East Asia
It's called Super Typhoon Usagi — and it's picking up serious steam as it churns away in the western Pacific Ocean. Now the equivalent of a Category 5 Atlantic hurricane, it's poised to hit some of the most densely populated regions in the world, including Taiwan, the northern Philippines, and Hong Kong. Read more.. .. ...
CLIMATE - Global Warming 'Hiatus' Unlikely to Last
By Environment Correspondent Alister DoyleOSLO (Reuters) - A "hiatus" in global warming so far this century is partly caused by natural variations in a chaotic climate and is unlikely to last, a...-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co .. ...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=global-warm
EARTH - Life on Earth has another good 1.75 billion years to go, study says
Earth could continue to host life for at least another 1.75 billion years, as long as nuclear holocaust, an errant asteroid or some other disaster doesn't intervene, a new study calculates .. ...
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/life-earth-has-another-good-1
EARTH - Proof of alien life? You need a lot more evidence than that
Could life really exist on other planets? The most positive scientific answer we can offer is: well, maybe, but we do not yet have enough evidence for or against .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-proof-alien-life-lot-evidence.h
EARTH - Sahara oasis from space
Deep in the Sahara Desert, the Al Jawf oasis in southeastern Libya is pictured in this image from Japan's ALOS satellite .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-sahara-oasis-space.htm
ECONOMICS - Is Money Like Food?
Do you have enough enoughness in your life? Your biology definitely does. But your unevolved economic appetite might not. Life is limited–as are all corporeal appetites. Limitless errors feed...-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co .. ...
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/09/20/is
EDUCATION - Is Teaching to a Student s Learning Style a Bogus Idea?
Ken Gibson was an advanced reader in elementary school and easily retained much of what he read. But when the teacher would stand him up in front of the class to read a report out loud, he...-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co .. ...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-teaching
ENERGY - EPA Announces CO2 Rules for New Power Plants
U.S. EPA will unveil a proposal for the first-ever technology standards to rein in power plant emissions of carbon dioxide today. [More]-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co .. ...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=epa-announc
ENERGY - EPA Challenges Coal Industry to Adopt New Technology
Image: Wigwam Jones The White House unveiled a powerful incentive to speed track carbon capture technology innovations this morning with the release of highly-anticipated requirements to harness...-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co .. ...
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2013/09/20/
ENERGY - Energy aware means energy efficient
'Smart Grids' are the future of electricity supply, allowing consumers to become interactive participants in a supply network that includes decentralised as well as centralised power generation. 'Information and communication technologies' (ICT) will help consumers manage and minimise their energy consumption - and allow electricity suppliers to match supply with demand. An EU-funded project has developed ways to collect and analyse the real-time ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-energy-aware-efficient.htm
ENERGY - How Much Energy Does Your iPhone (And Other Devices) Really Use?
Are they vampires or sippers? Here's what's worth worrying about and what's not .. ...
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mef45lmgm/ipad-1-50-per-year-
ENERGY - The British Government Really Is Bonkers About Renewable Energy
There are times when it's almost unbearable to see the mistakes being made about climate change and renewable energy by that British Government that claims my allegiance. Their latest pricing numbers for renewables subsidies is one such painful moment .. ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/09/20/the-briti
ENERGY - The Future Of Clean Energy Is Arriving
It would be hard for most Americans to look around and conclude that we are in the middle of an historic shift in our energy sector. Gas-powered cars still dominate the roads, most of us don’t own a solar PV system, and more than 70 percent of homes still rely on 100-year-old incandescent light bulbs.But within the energy industry, there are major improvements in the economics of renewables, electric vehicles and lighting that are accelerating an ...
FASHION - Four U.S. Patagonia Stores Will Now Sell Gently Used Clothing!
As clothing companies go, Patagonia has been a long-standing leader in sustainability. They’ve even gone so far as to tell people not to buy their clothes if they don’t really need them. Now, the leading designer of outdoor clothing and footwear has announced another initiative that will benefit both people and the planet: a program to recycle gently used Patagonia clothing for those who might not be able to afford the full-price versions.The pro ...
HOMES - An Innovative (and Very Simple) Way to Reignite America’s Housing Market
Image Credit: Images_of_Money via Flickr The government’s announcement that housing starts were disappointing for the second month in a row is not just a substantial economic problem -- it’s also a significant environmental one. Let me explain: This is an economic problem because, as the New York Times has argued, “Until the [housing] market recovers, the entire recovery is imperiled.” And it is an environm ...
MOVIES - Here's one classic Doctor Who story that's scary AND packed with ideas
Patrick Troughton's second season starring in Doctor Who was the "base under siege" era, where relentless monsters terrorize an embattled crew of humans in story after story. But judging from the newly released "Ice Warriors," it was also an era of good idea-driven science fiction.Read more.. .. ...
PEOPLE - Martin Gardner s Autobiography: A Lifelong Quest for Truth and Meaning
In 1956 Martin Gardner invented the perfect job for himself: writing a monthly column called Mathematical Games in the pages of Scientific American . Then he invented the Martin Gardner who could do...-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co .. ...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=martin-gard
PERMACULTURE - Farmers markets, real food, real living, and the deathly sprawl of America
It's been a long time since Americans have thought of Farmers Markets as a normal way to buy food.
http://www.longtailpipe.com/2013/09/farmers-markets-real-food-real-living.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook#sthash.hJv4o8oc.dpuf
SCIENCE - Fuel-efficient cars, planes cheaper with magnesium drawn from ocean
A lightweight metal that reduces fuel use in cars and planes could be extracted from the ocean through a unique process being developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The process could ultimately make fuel-efficient transportation more affordable and expand the American magnesium market .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-fuel-efficient-cars-planes-chea
SCIENCE - See the explosion that mimics the strike of a match
Striking a match isn't a particularly dramatic process. But an explosion that goes off with the tap of a glass rod? Much more dramatic. Yet they both stem from the same reaction.Read more.. .. ...
http://io9.com/see-the-explosion-that-mimics-the-strike-of-a
SPACE - Here's why everybody is freaking out about methane on Mars
After almost a year of searching, NASA's Curiosity rover has turned up no traces of the four-pronged hydrocarbon known as methane. This special molecule is regarded by many as a chemical signature of past or present life on the red planet. That means there's no life on Mars, right? Wrong.Read more.. .. ...
SPACE - How About a Hug?! Nearby Galaxy Cluster Has Giant Plasma Arms
A nearby cluster of galaxies is reaching out into the universe with colossal plasma arms -- galactic tentacles so long they are nearly five times the width of the Milky Way, astronomers say. [More]-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co .. ...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-about-a
SPACE - New message to aliens could be uploaded to New Horizons spacecraft
Astronomical artist Jon Lomberg — the same guy who helped develop the Voyager Interstellar record back in 1977 — is launching a new initiative to persuade NASA to upload a new message to the New Horizons spacecraft once its mission to Pluto is complete. He's calling it Voyager Record 2.0.Read more.. .. ...
SPACE - The Moon Is Not Black And White, It Just Looks That Way
Hands up if you think about the Moon in black and white? Yes – well, you’re not alone, and there’s actually good reason for you to, because the surface of the Moon is nearly devoid...-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co .. ...
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/2013/09/2
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