ANIMALS - As chimpanzees grow, so does yawn contagion
As sanctuary-kept chimpanzees grow from infant to juvenile, they develop increased susceptibility to human yawn contagion, possibility due to their increasing ability to empathize, says a study published October 16, 2013, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Elainie Madsen and colleagues from Lund University .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-chimpanzees-contagion.htm
ANIMALS - Chimpanzees: Alarm calls with intent?
Major research led by University of York scientists has discovered remarkable similarities between the production of vocalisations of wild chimpanzees and human language .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-chimpanzees-alarm-intent.htm
ANIMALS - Glowing neurons reveal networked link between brain, whiskers
New research on mouse whiskers reveals a surprise -- at the fine scale, the sensory system's wiring diagram doesn't have a set pattern. And it's probably the case that no two people's touch sensory systems are wired exactly the same at the detailed level, according to this study .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131016112714.ht
ANIMALS - Researchers find bats use curled leaves for sound amplification
(Phys.org) —A pair of researchers, one from Universidad de Costa Rica, the other North Dakota State University has found that a type of bat that hides from predators inside a curled leaf plants, gains acoustic advantages from doing so. In their paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Gloriana Chaverri and Erin Gillam describe recording experiments they conducted with the types of plants the bats hid ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-amplification.htm
ANIMALS - Using animal behavior data to better inform mathematical models of animal movements
Many animals are adapting to human encroachment of their natural habitats. Carnivores in particular require territories of sufficient size and so are often forced to move between numerous small habitat patches. To date, scientists often use mathematical models to predict these important routes, but fishers fitted with GPS sensors are now showing that their calculations may be missing the mark if they ignore animal behaviour .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-animal-behavior-mathematical-mo
BIRDS - I'm singing in the rainforest: Researchers find striking similarities between bird song and human music
The origin of human music has long been the subject of intense discussion between philosophers, cultural scientists and naturalists. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany and Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, US, have now found striking parallels between our music and the song of a small brown bird living in the Amazon region. The Musician Wren favors consonant over dissonant intervals, something th ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-im-rainforest-similarities-bird
BOOKS - Book Excerpt: Catching Up with Jesus
Diarmuid O'Murchu on how the superiority we attribute to Jesus may be an obstacle following Jesus as a Christ of faith .. ...
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/books/excerpts.php?id
BOOKS - National Book Awards finalists announced
NEW YORK (AP) -- Thomas Pynchon, Jhumpa Lahiri and George Saunders were among the finalists Wednesday for the National Book Awards.A month after releasing long-lists of 10 in each of the four competitive categories, the National Book Foundation announced the five remaining writers for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature.Winners receive $10,000 and will be announced at a dinner ceremony in Manhattan on Nov. 20.All five fictio ...
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/16/national_book_awards_finalis
CLIMATE - Climate Change To Impact Every Inch of the Ocean
Every corner of the world's oceans — from pole to pole and sea surface to seafloor — will undergo changes associated with global climate change .. ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/climate-change-to-imp
CLIMATE - Climate Change, A $10 Trillion Opportunity… Here And Now
By Douglas Elbinger, Energy Policy Analyst, GreenLancer.comMany of us who have been on the ground floor of the renewable energy business are secretly experiencing the warm fuzzy feelings that precede explosive global growth. Economic opportunity of this scale happens very rarely. Recent history tells us that nothing changes on this scale ‘peacefully’ until the economics are in alignment with necessity and invention. This is a true test of a .. ...
CLIMATE - Scientists in 1932: Carbon Dioxide Heats The Earth
This isn't news to most of us, but it's a good reminder of how uncontroversial basic physics once was and should be .. ...
CLIMATE - Unexpected Victims of Climate Change
Global warming threatens many species that don't often appear in the news .. ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/unexpected-vi
EARTH - Dinosaur skeleton found by boys in Wyoming is going to auction in Britain
A huge dinosaur skeleton found by two boys in Wyoming is being sold in Britain. Summers Place Auctions said the female Diplodocus longus skeleton was found accidentally near a quarry in 2009. Paleontologist Raimund Albersdörfer, who was working at the quarry, sent his sons Benjamin, 14, and Jacob, 11, off to play. The boys discovered a huge bone. Albersdörfer’s crew dug up the rest. Read full article >> .. ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/dinosaur-sk
EARTH - Secret location of King Herod's tomb remains buried in history
Herod the Great, the king of Judea who ruled not long before the time of Jesus, seems to have eluded historians once again .. ...
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/secret-location-king-herods-t
EARTH - See What It's Like to Fall From the Stratosphere
Red Bull releases a point-of-view video shot during Felix Baumgartner's jump from the stratosphere. Continue reading .. ...
http://news.discovery.com/adventure/activities/see-what-its-
EARTH - Wari, predecessors of the Inca, used restraint to reshape human landscape
The Wari, a complex civilization that preceded the Inca empire in pre-Columbia America, didn't rule solely by pillage, plunder and iron-fisted bureaucracy, a Dartmouth study finds. Instead, they started out by creating loosely administered colonies to expand trade, provide land for settlers and tap natural resources across much of the central Andes .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-wari-predecessors-inca-restrain
EDUCATION - Drones will deliver textbooks to Australian students
The unmanned flying devices cut out expensive and polluting shipping methods for the heavy books .. ...
EDUCATION - Farm and germ education go hand in hand
School children demonstrated significantly increased knowledge of germ spread and prevention on a farm after working on an interactive lesson about microbes. Published October 16, 2013, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Meredith K. D. Hawking and colleagues from Public Health England, these results show the measurable benefits of education in increasing children's knowledge about the risk of infection during school farm visits, and the sprea ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-10-farm-germ.htm
ENERGY - Addressing economic dangers of 'peak oil': Team identifies key industries for policy action
Researchers from the University of Maryland and a leading university in Spain demonstrate in a new study which sectors could put the entire U.S. economy at risk when global oil production peaks ('Peak Oil"). This multi-disciplinary team recommends immediate action by government, private and commercial sectors to reduce the vulnerability of these sectors .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-economic-dangers-peak-oil-team.
ENERGY - Güssing, Austria Powered Entirely By Renewable Energy
Originally published on the Rocky Mountain Institute website. By Laurie Guevara-?Stone.A small town in Austria that had no significant industry or trade business is now thriving thanks to local renewable resources.Güssing (population: 4,000) sits in eastern Austria. In 1988 the region (population: 27,000) was one of the poorest districts in the country. It relied on agriculture, there was no transportation infrastructure, unemployment was hi .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/16/renewable-energy-poweredMOVIES - Documentary Film Review: Enzo Avitabile Music Life
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/films.php?id=25
PEOPLE - Faith in humanity restored (Video)
http://thechive.com/2013/10/16/faith-in-humanity-restored-vi
PEOPLE - TIL all blue eyed people are genetically related to a person who lived in the Black Sea region sometime between 6 – 10,000 years ago.
submitted by comrad92 [link] [50 comments] .. ...
PLANTS - Without plants, Earth would cook under billions of tons of additional carbon
(Phys.org) —Enhanced growth of Earth's leafy greens during the 20th century has significantly slowed the planet's transition to being red-hot, according to the first study to specify the extent to which plants have prevented climate change since pre-industrial times. Researchers based at Princeton University found that land ecosystems have kept the planet cooler by absorbing billions of tons of carbon, especially during the past 60 years .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-earth-cook-billions-tons-additi
SCIENCE - This map of Nobel prize winners shows a disturbing level of inequality
Max Fisher from the Washington Post has compiled some maps and charts showing all Nobel Prize winners by region since 1901. Surprisingly, 83% of all Nobel laureates have come from Western countries, revealing a significant amount of scientific inequity around the globe.Read more.. .. ...
SPACE - 'Black hole indigestion' captured by giant radio telescope
A powerful radio telescope in Chile has peered deeply into the universe and captured an incredible sight: an ancient black hole chowing down on a massive snack .. ...
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/black-hole-indigestion-captur
SPACE - Curiosity confirms origins of Martian meteorites
Earth's most eminent emissary to Mars has just proven that those rare Martian visitors that sometimes drop in on Earth—a.k.a. Martian meteorites—really are from the Red Planet. A key new measurement of Mars' atmosphere by NASA's Curiosity rover provides the most definitive evidence yet of the origins of Mars meteorites while at the same time providing a way to rule out Martian origins of other meteorites .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-curiosity-martian-meteorites.ht
SPACE - Huge Meteor Chunk Pulled from Lake in Russia
The half-ton meteorite is said to have been part of the ground-shaking meteor from February 2013 that hurt 1,200 people .. ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/asteroids-meteors-meteorites
SPACE - New survey tools unveil two celestial explosions
Developed to help scientists learn more about the complex nature of celestial objects in the universe, astronomical surveys have been cataloguing the night sky since the beginning of the 20th century. The intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF)—led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)—started searching the skies for certain types of stars and related phenomena in February. Since its inception, iPTF has been extremely successf ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-survey-tools-unveil-celestial-e
SPACE - SETI Could Hunt Alien Transmitters in the Solar System
How might we detect the presence of an alien transmitter snooping on us in our solar system? Continue reading .. ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/seti-could-hunt-al
SPACE - Shedding new light on star death: A new class of super-luminous supernovae
Astronomers at Queen's University Belfast have shed new light on the rarest and brightest exploding stars ever discovered in the universe. The research is published tomorrow in Nature. It proposes that the most luminous supernovae – exploding stars – are powered by small and incredibly dense neutron stars, with gigantic magnetic fields that spin hundreds of times a second .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-star-death-class-super-luminous
SPACE - What if the Moon was as close as the International Space Station?
The International Space Station orbits at roughly 420 kilometers (260 miles) above the surface of the Earth. What would it look like if the Moon circled about our planet at a similar distance? Pretty damn epic, that's what.Read more.. .. ...
TREES - How to move a prized tree
Ornamental trees and shrubs can outgrow their allotted space or find themselves in the way of a new patio or addition. By relocating a prized plant, the gardener can not only save a tree but also provide a great focal point for a reworked area. Several factors determine whether to move a tree or shrub — the beauty and age of the plant, its sentimental value and its chances of survival if moved — but one aspect carries the most weight: the size. R ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/how-to-move-a-p
URBAN - Apple’s “spaceship” campus is happening
According to CEO Tim Cook, the Cupertino City Council has unanimously approved Apple's new "spaceship" campus in today's vote.The neighbors may be cranky about it, but the issues the council considered in the project's environmental impact report––noise, traffic, and the sheer size of the 6-million-square-foot project––seem to be outweighed by the economic boon of having the nation's second most valuable company stay and bring even more jobs to t ...
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/16/apples_spaceship_campus_is_h
URBAN - How to demonstrate a Passive House with a Cornish Pasty or a whiteboard
Lots of strange tweets coming out of a UK passive house conference .. ...
URBAN - World’s Largest Certified Net Zero Energy Building Opens In Los Altos
More companies and organizations are finally putting their money where their mouth is when it comes to sustainability. Most recently, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, which provides non-profit grants for conservation and science, announced that its new headquarters had achieved Net Zero Energy Building Certification through the International Living Future Institute (ILFI).This is no small feat as the building, located at 343 Second Street ...
WORK - “Dilbert” creator: Don’t follow your passion
Scott Adams, creator of "Dilbert" the gently mocking comic about the corporate world, that the corporate world subsequently embraced shared his career advice with the Wall Street Journal. The nut? Don't do what you love .. ...
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/16/dilbert_creator_dont_follow_
(1)(1)+60X3+60+17.jpg)
0 comments:
Post a Comment