ANIMALS - Monkeys Remember "Words" Used by Their Ancestors Centuries Ago
In the mid-1600s, green monkeys from Africa were introduced to the West Indies island of Barbados. Despite living a predator-free life for centuries, the Barbados population still responds to an ancestral alarm call that means, roughly translated, “Run up a tree or a leopard will eat you!” Read more.. .. ...
ANIMALS - New species of labrisomidae fish discovered in Brazil
Researchers from Brazil have published data on a new species of fish in the Labrisomidae family on the Brazilian archipelago of Trindade and Martim Vaz in the Atlantic Ocean. It is an endemic species that can only be found in this group of islands due to how far it is from the coast .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-species-labrisomidae-fish-brazi
ANIMALS - Researchers use microscope equipped camera to learn how ticks pierce and adhere to skin (w/ Video)
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers from the U.S. and Germany has succeeded in filming ticks as they pierce the skin of a mouse ear, attach themselves and then start sucking blood. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, the team describes how they filmed the ticks and what they learned in analyzing the video they created .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-microscope-equipped-camera-pier
ANIMALS - We now have baby pictures of the newly-discovered olinguito
Described as part teddy bear, part house cat, the olinguito is by far the front-runner for the best new species discovered this year. While we've actually had an olinguito in captivity for the past 30 years, it was only this August that researchers finally figured out that it was, in fact, distinct from its larger cousin, the olinguo.The nocturnal mammal, native to Central and South America, is cute enough on its own: it weighs in at under an oun ...
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/30/we_now_have_baby_pictures_of
ART - City Room: New York Today: Fall Colors
What you need to know for Wednesday: a city leaf-peeping guide, cloudy skies and a possible Superfund site in Queens .. ...
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/30/new-york-today-
ART - 12 Totally Genius 1980s-Inspired Costumes
The 1980s-inspired Halloween costume has become predictable. Other things happened in the decade besides Flashdance and "Physical." Really.Look to television, toys and Ronald Reagan for inspiration. Or, just skim Reddit and Imgur to find creative people rocking Halloween looks inspired by history's most bitchin' 10 years.See also: 22 Hallowmeme Costumes Inspired by Too Much Time on the InternetSo banish the leg warmers and crimped hair from your ...
BOOKS - Book Excerpt: Art as Therapy
Commentaries on two paintings revealing their relevance and meaning to everyday life .. ...
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/books/excerpts.php?id
BOOKS - Book Excerpt: Losing Moses on the Freeway
Chris Hedges on how the Ten Commandments lay down guidelines to sustain community .. ...
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/books/excerpts.php?id
CLIMATE - 74% Of Voters Back EPA Power Plant Emissions Regulation
Fighting emissions regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency must be a winning national electoral issue, right? Otherwise why would so many politicians fight so hard to allow power plants to keep spewing pollution into the air?Um, not so much. An overwhelming majority of voters in swing states across the country support EPA action to limit the amount of carbon power plants can emit, according to a new survey from the League of Conse .. ...
CLIMATE - The countries most immediately at risk from climate change
Yesterday's anniversary of Superstorm Sandy was as good a reminder as any of the threats from climate change that we'll all increasingly face in the future. But for certain populations are more immediately vulnerable to the effects of a warming climate; in these places, the need to adapt is especially urgent.In its sixth annual Climate Change Vulnerability Index, the global risk analytics firm Maplecroft took into account countries' exposure to c ...
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/30/the_countries_most_immediate
CLIMATE - Modelling the future behaviour of oceans and atmosphere
Over the past century, the atmosphere and ocean have warmed, sea ice extent has reduced and greenhouse gases have increased. How future changes will evolve and how humankind can protect itself from possible calamities depends on the implementation of effective political measures and scientific insight. These are major challenges that require international collaboration .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-future-behaviour-oceans-atmosph
CLIMATE - Powerful Storm Blasts Northern Europe
At least 13 people died, hundreds of thousands lost power and many people were stranded when trains, planes and ferries were canceled .. ...
http://www-nc.nytimes.com/2013/10/29/world/europe/powerful-s
EARTH - Colorado's Destructive Floods Leave Scientists with Questions
DENVER -- The widespread impacts of September's extraordinary rainfall in Colorado's Front Range, from landslides to peak river flows, are still being cataloged by scientists across the state. [More .. ...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=colorados-d
EARTH - Watch as an earthquake sends a massive wave across the US
The USArray project has produced a remarkable animation showing how earthquake waves travel across massive expanses of landmasses. As you'll see in this video, these waves are a lot like ripples on a pond. Very powerful ripples.Read more.. .. ...
http://io9.com/watch-as-an-earthquake-sends-a-massive-wave-a
EARTH - Looking for a new gold mine? We've got the map
As published this month in Nature Geoscience, researchers and industry partners have produced the first major 'cat scan of the earth'. Their work reveals a new chart of the sub-continental lithosphere mantle and its potential mineral hotspots, visible only through a set of newly integrated technologies .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-gold-weve.htm
EARTH - Study of Brazilian Amazon shows 50,000 km of road was built in just three years
Nearly 17,000 kilometres of road were built in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest every year between 2004 and 2007 .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-brazilian-amazon-km-road-built.
ECONOMICS - 'World's first' bitcoin ATM opens in Canada
Three young entrepreneurs have opened what they call the world's first ATM able to exchange bitcoins for any official currency .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-world-bitcoin-atm-canada.htm
ECONOMICS - How General Motors Was Really Saved: The Untold True Story Of The Most Important Bankruptcy In U.S. History
Five years after an unprecedented governmentbailout there's no shortage of people--includingPresident Obama--taking credit for rescuingthe most important industrial companyin American history. But the truth of whathappened during GM's darkest dayshas never been told. Until now .. ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danbigman/2013/10/30/how-general
ECONOMICS - The Rich Get Richer: Who's the Richest Person in Your State?
The rich are indeed getting richer, at least according to a list of the richest person in each of the 50 states. As it turns out, the names at the top richest 10 people haven't changed at all, led by Microsoft founder Bill Gates in Washington state. But their net worth values have ticked up. The top 10 are collectively worth a whopping $362 billion, 67 percent of the total wealth of the 50 folks in a list compiled by Wealth-X, a firm that researc ...
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wealthiest-people-state-riche
ECONOMICS - US unemployment will rise unless jobs growth quickens, top economist warns
Latest ADP jobs report shows US added 130,000 jobs in October, with job growth weakened across most industriesDominic Rush .. ...
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/oct/30/us-jobs-repo
ECONOMICS - Economix Blog: If Prices Go Up, Incomes May Lag
Driving up inflation might feel a lot like a national sales tax. A key question is whether the tax would be permanent .. ...
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/28/if-prices-go-up
ECONOMICS - Shanghai Free Trade Zone May Create A New Financial Hub In The City
It’s been almost a month since the pilot Shanghai Free Trade Zone was formally launched with fanfare and high hopes. The zone covers 28 square kilometers in four areas of the city. What will be some of the biggest impacts for one of both China’s and Asia’s most important international business centers .. ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/russellflannery/2013/10/28/shang
EDUCATION - Cuba's Tower of Babel gives free medical education
On a beach outside Havana stands the crown jewel of Cuba's renowned international program of medical education, training 13,000 students from around the world free of charge .. ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-10-cuba-tower-babel-free-
ENERGY - Peak Oil Religion And Other Reader Inquiries
Time to respond to reader inquiries. We receive a bunch each week via email, replies here at the blog, or on Twitter, and often don?t have time to respond to the best of them, so we thought it time to dedicate a column here during Halloween week to do just that .. ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2013/10/29/peak-oi
ENERGY - Swiss nuclear plant to close in 2019
Switzerland's state-controlled energy company BKW said Wednesday its Muehleberg nuclear plant would go offline in 2019, as the country seeks to exit nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima disaster .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-swiss-nuclear.htm
ENERGY - World's Richest Oil Countries
Oil is a blessing and a curse. It's a foreign policy problem. It's a national defense problem. But for some country's, it's a source of wealth for everyone living there. Here are the wealthiest oil nations per capita. And a look at what their real per capita and poverty level is despite that wealth. Source: Ria Rating, IMF, OPEC, United Nations, BP, Russia's Economic Development Ministry .. ...
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/ejmj45k/oil-wealth-not-always
ENERGY - Energy Storage Company Lands $5 Million In Funding For Its $0-Down Energy Storage Offer
Stem Inc. offers commercial and industrial customers advanced energy storage solutions for no upfront cost, allowing immediate energy savings. The company announced at the end of last week that it has now landed $5 million in funding from Clean Feet Investors I, LLC (CFI) in order to continue this offering.Just as solar leasing and related models have broadened the solar market, presumably bringing in a large number of customers who wouldn’t .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/28/energy-storage-company-l
ENERGY - Energy-saving: It's a social thing
With energy bills again rising and the winter approaching, researchers from Keele University in the UK have found a positive way of helping householders to keep their energy costs down and houses warm .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-energy-saving-social.htm
FASHION - Why you remember what you wore for big events
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http://www.today.com/video/today/5341342
MOVIES - See Wolf Children, from the director of Girl Who Leapt Through Time!
Holy cow, Wolf Children looks like an amazing film. From Mamoru Hosada, the director of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, this is the story of a woman struggling to raise her half-wolf children after she falls in love with a wolfman. And you can arrange a screening in your town!Read more.. .. ...
http://io9.com/see-wolf-children-from-the-director-of-girl-w
PEOPLE - 2 Years Before He Died, This Comedian Made 1 Simple Point About Life
Bill Hicks passed away almost 20 years ago, but his words about life still resonate. His time on earth was short. But if he lived by his own advice, I bet it was a good ride.ORIGINAL: By Bill Hicks. .. ...
http://www.upworthy.com/2-years-before-he-died-this-comedian
PEOPLE - Can Older Women “Have It All,” Too?
Can women ever “have it all”? In an era in which American women are on average dying at the ripe old age of 81, the cultural conversation around “work-life balance” is laser-focused on the tension between chasing after rugrats and scrambling up the career ladder. That’s a juggling act that affects women most acutely in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. But what if we all lived to 150? Could we have it all then .. ...
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/1
PEOPLE - Divorced people more likely to die from preventable accidents
Divorced people are more likely to die from preventable accidents than married counterparts, according to a new study from sociologists at Rice University and the University of Pennsylvania. The study also found that single people and those with low educational attainment are at greater risk for accidental death .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-divorced-people-die-accidents.h
PEOPLE - The Dutch Don’t Care About Marriage
I was in Amsterdam for probably three hours when I began to see that having children and not being married was not a big deal there. In fact, marriage itself is not a big deal there. I was there to talk about my book In Praise of Messy Lives, which was coming out in Dutch, but what passes in America for a messy life is in Amsterdam just, well, how things go .. ...
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/roiphe/2013/10/marria
PEOPLE - The things people say they regret the most in their old age (20 Photos)
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PLANTS - 15 Hawaii animals, plants added to endangered list
The federal government says an eyeless shrimp and 14 other Hawaii creatures and plants have been added to the endangered species list .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-hawaii-animals-added-endangered
SCIENCE - Less toxic metabolites, more chemical product
By preventing the build-up of toxic metabolites in engineered microbes, a dynamic regulatory system can help boost production of an advanced biofuel, a therapeutic drug, or other valuable chemical products. The system has already been used to double the production in E. coli of amorphadiene, a precursor to the premier antimalarial drug artemisinin .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131029133554.ht
SCIENCE - Spinning atoms in light crystals
(Phys.org) —After more than 40 years of intense research, experimental physicists still seek to explore the rich behaviour of electrons confined to a two-dimensional crystalline structure exposed to large magnetic fields. Now a team of scientists around Prof. Immanuel Bloch (Chair for Experimental Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and Director at MPQ) in collaboration with the theoretical physicist Dr. Belén Paredes (CSIC/UAM M ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-atoms-crystals.htm
SCIENCE - Two teams use cold atoms and lasers to create a system that should exhibit Hofstadter's butterfly
(Phys.org) —Two teams working independently of each other have created systems that are expected to exhibit Hofstadter excitations (a butterfly). One team was run by lead researchers at the University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute in Germany, the other by a team at MIT. Both have published papers in the journal Physical Review Letters, detailing their nearly identical systems and results .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-teams-cold-atoms-lasers-hofstad
SPACE - Best way to stop a killer asteroid? Form a committee
The United Nations (UN) has adopted several recommendations of a new asteroid defence plan, the first steps in preventing Earth from being struck by an asteroid .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-killer-asteroid-committee.htm
SPACE - First results from LUX dark matter detector rule out some candidates
In its first three months of operation, the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment has proven itself to be the most sensitive dark matter detector in the world, scientists with the experiment announced today .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-results-lux-dark-detector.htm
SPACE - Researchers succeed in predicting the spread of microbes in spacecraft
Research scientists from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland participated in the EU's and Russia's joint BIOSMHARS project for developing means of controlling harmful microbes in manned spacecraft. The spread of microbes in closed spaces could be reliably predicted. By using the research results and calculation models, methods can also be developed for the management of the spread of microbes and bacteria in hospitals, public transport and o ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-microbes-spacecraft.htm
SPACE - Sun emits fourth X-class flare in a week
The sun emitted a significant solar flare—its fourth X-class flare since Oct. 23, 2013—peaking at 5:54 p.m. on Oct. 29, 2013. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however—when intense enough—they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. This disrupts the radio signals for as long as ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-sun-emits-fourth-x-class-flare.
SPACE - The United Nations Wants to Save Us All From Asteroids
http://www.slate.com/articles/video/video/2013/10/united_nat
WIND - 2013 to be Record Year for Offshore Wind
Offshore wind power installations are on track to hit a seventh consecutive annual record in 2013. Developers added 1,080 megawatts of generating capacity in the first half of the year, expanding the world total by 20 percent in just six months .. ...
http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/2013-be-record-ye
WIND - US Has 11 Offshore Wind Farms in the Works (Sort Of)
Image Credit: Shutterstock.com The U.S. is steadily inching toward installing some offshore wind power, with nearly a dozen projects in the works, according to a new report prepared for the Department of Energy. But although the report labels all of those projects as being in the “advanced stages” of development, their prospects are far from certain. And global industry trends -- including a shift toward bigger ...
WORK - If You've Ever Heard People Say, 'There Are Plenty Of Jobs Out There...' Then Take A Look At This
When my conservative father-in-law says that all of those folks on some sort of assistance need to just boot-strap themselves and go find a job, this is the kind of thing I'm going to show him. Surprise — there are none out there!ORIGINAL: By the Economic Policy Institute. Thumbnail image via Akuppa John Wigham, used under Creative Commons license .. ...
WORK - Job Growth Slowed Further In October, Survey Signals
Just 130,000 jobs were added to private payrolls this month, according to the latest ADP National Employment Report. In addition, the September gain was revised down.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.u .. ...
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/30/241807398/job
WORK - Work commutes getting longer and gender differences persist
On average, Swedish men and women have different commuting habits. Despite an increasingly gender-equal society, traditional household patterns are changing very slowly. The regional enlargement in many parts of the country – or geographic extension of labour markets – imply longer commuting times. These are the key conclusions of a new doctoral thesis from the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-commutes-longer-gender-differen
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