ART - Forging an Art Market in China
In China’s growing art market, now the second largest in the world, outsize auction results often overshadow false sales data and forged art .. ...
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/china-art-fraud/?partne
BIRDS - Tell-tale toes point to oldest-known fossil bird tracks from Australia
Two fossilized footprints found at Dinosaur Cove in Victoria, Australia, were likely made by birds during the Early Cretaceous, making them the oldest known bird tracks in Australia. These tracks are evidence that we had sizeable, flying birds living alongside other kinds of dinosaurs on these polar, river floodplains, about 105 million years ago .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131028090821.ht
CLIMATE - Scientist Paul Mayewski on climate change, and what scares him the most
BROOKLYN, New York — According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Earth's climate system is a "complex, interactive system consisting of the atmosphere, land surface, snow and ice, oceans and other bodies of water and living things."And, yes, the scientific community pores over all kinds of data related to this system every day.But how should ordinary people think about the science of what's happening right now to the planet ...
CLIMATE - Scientists Discover Clue to Longer-Range Heat Wave Prediction
Heat waves are the deadliest weather threat in the United States, killing more people each year than hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes combined. [More .. ...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=scientists-
EARTH - "Lost World" Discovered in Remote Australia
Three new vertebrate species, isolated for millions of years, found in rugged Cape Melville terrain .. ...
http://news.discovery.com/animals/lost-world-discovered-in-r
EARTH - Turkey to open first sea tunnel to ever link two continents
Turkey will on Tuesday unveil the world's first sea tunnel connecting two continents, fulfilling a sultan's dream 150 years ago, but also fuelling recent anti-government sentiment for such mega projects .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-turkey-sea-tunnel-link-continen
EARTH - Using Futuristic Tools To Unlock Secrets From The Past
Editor's Note: Sarah Parcak, an Egyptologist, is pioneering the young field of satellite archaeology, using futuristic tools to unlock secrets from the past and transform the way discoveries are made. Recently named a National Geographic Fellow, Parcak blends expertise with advanced computer programs, satellite imagery analysis, and old-fashioned digging to reveal thousands of new sites, including lost pyramids, temples, monasteries, tombs, home ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rahimkanani/2013/10/28/using-fut
ECONOMICS - America's Most Promising Companies: The Top 25
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/elld45eefmi/3cinteractive-4
EDUCATION - 7 Great Educational Apps And Games
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/fhjg45fhhl/dragonbox-8
ENERGY - Bio-electrochemical systems: Electricity generators of the future?
Billions of euros are spent treating trillions of litres of wastewater every year, consuming substantial amounts of energy. However, this wastewater could act as a renewable resource, saving significant quantities of energy and money, as it contains organic pollutants which can be used to produce electricity, hydrogen and high-value chemicals, such as caustic soda .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-bio-electrochemical-electricity
ENERGY - Scientists wary of shale oil and gas as U.S. energy salvation
After 10 years of production, shale gas in the United States cannot be considered commercially viable, according to scientists. They argue that while the use of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling for "tight oil" is an important contributor to U.S. energy supply, it is not going to result in long-term sustainable production or allow the U.S. to become a net oil exporter .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131028141516.ht
ENERGY - Urban underground holds sustainable energy
Vast energy sources are slumbering below big cities. Sustainable energies for heating in winter and cooling in summer may be extracted from heated groundwater aquifers. Researchers developed an analytical heat flux model and found that increasing heat in the underground is mainly caused by an increase in surface temperatures and heat release from buildings .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131028090414.ht
ENVIRONMENT - Japan nuclear watchdog urges 'bold' Fukushima action
Japan's nuclear watchdog on Monday urged "bold and drastic" action to fix problems with radioactive water at Fukushima, as it warned of the growing risks over coming months .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-japan-nuclear-watchdog-urges-bo
ENVIRONMENT - Study maps human impacts on top ocean predators along US west coast
The California Current System along the U.S. west coast is among the richest ecosystems in the world, driven by nutrient input from coastal upwelling and supporting a great diversity of marine life. Like coastal regions in general, it is also heavily impacted by human activities. A new study led by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, reveals areas along the west coast where human impacts are highest on marine predators such as ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-human-impacts-ocean-predators-w
MOVIES - Netflix Wants To Replace The Movie Theater
Netflix apparently wouldn't mind if you just never left your house again.If you hate spending money to see lame new Hollywood movies in theaters, Netflix wants to fix that for you, by letting you watch all of the lame new Hollywood movies on your own couch. This, in Netflix's estimation, might actually make movies better. It would almost certainly improve Netflix's profits. "Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theat ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/28/netflix-movies_n_41
MOVIES - Never-Before-Seen Footage From 'Star Wars' Appears on Facebook
For Star Wars fans, Christmas has come early. Last week, never-before-seen footage from Return of the Jedi appeared on Facebook, posted by a fan who bought an old LaserDisc that Lucasfilm created back in the '80s to showcase an editing system.The fan has posted nine videos to a Facebook page so far. Most are alternate takes of well-known scenes, such as when Luke Skywalker visits Jedi Master Yoda for the last time. There's also a minute-long clip ...
PEOPLE - Edythe Kirchmaier, Facebook's Oldest User, Shares Her Beautiful Wisdom (VIDEO)
At 105 years old, Edythe Kirchmaier is Facebook's oldest registered user. "When I was 95 my children gave me a computer, a printer and a digital camera and turned me loose," Kirchmaier says in the above video from "Super Soul Sunday" on OWN. She isn't just using social media to look at pictures of her grandchildren -- Kirchmaier has more than 41,000 friends and is using Facebook to make the world a better place. "I’ve always liked to help people, ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/28/edythe-kirchmaier_n
PEOPLE - How These Inspiring Pairs Are Redefining The Term 'Power Couple'
When we hear about "power couples," our minds may leap to glamorous celebrities (Jay-Z and Beyonce), political pairings (Barack and Michelle Obama), or tech-world execs (Sheryl Sandberg and Dave Goldberg) -- couples where both members have climbed the ladder of success, becoming rich and powerful and famous along the way. But what about those who, after achieving so much as individuals, commit as a couple to looking outward, giving back, and sha ...
PEOPLE - How To Get Strangers To Pay For Your Vacation Online
Kickstarter has helped thousands of people raise over $700 million for their projects, from independent films to the world's largest jockstrap. But what about the other, more everyday projects people want to fund? BoostUp, a startup that recently snagged a $1 million investment and moved to Detroit from Chicago, lets users start free accounts to raise money for vacations, cars, houses and weddings -- and encourages them to ask friends and familie ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/28/boostup-crowdfundin
PEOPLE - Study on gender: Who counts as a man and who counts as a woman
Gender is no longer determined solely by biological factors, according to a new study by a Grand Valley State University researcher whose article, "Doing Gender, Determining Gender: Transgender People, Gender Panics, and the Maintenance of the Sex/Gender/Sexuality System," was recently published in Gender & Society .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-gender-woman.htm
PLANTS - FYI: Why Do Leaves Turn Different Colors?
Leaves imagedepotpro/Getty Images Leaves are loaded with chlorophyll, which makes them green. But all green plants also carry a set of chemicals called carotenoids. On their own, these look yellow or orange—carotenoids give color to corn and carrots, for example—but they’re invisible beneath the chlorophyllic green of a leaf for most of the year. In the fall, when the leaves are nearing the end of their life cycle, the chlorophyll breaks dow ...
SCIENCE - Analyzing hundreds of cells in a few mouse-clicks
An EPFL PhD student has developed a technique for analyzing hundreds of images of cells in just a few mouse-clicks .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-hundreds-cells-mouse-clicks.htm
SCIENCE - Making rubber from dandelion juice
Rubber can be extracted from the juice of the dandelion. Yet the decisive breakthrough to industrial manufacturing is proving to be a tough step. Scientists are now building the first ever pilot system to extract vast quantities of dandelion rubber for making tires: an important milestone on the path to rubber procurement in Europe .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131028114547.ht
SCIENCE - Scientists Can Now Genetically Modify Facial Features
This image is a CT scan of a mouse's face — but not just any mouse. Scientists at Berkeley have identified thousands of small DNA regions responsible for influencing the development of facial features — and they used this insight to modify the faces of embryonic mice. The question now is, are humans next?Read more.. .. ...
SCIENCE - Scientists Discover a Substance that Appears Cold When You Heat it Up
The hotter an object gets, the more heat it radiates. Simple, right? It's a fundamental physical principle that makes instruments like infrared goggles possible. But now researchers at Harvard have identified a material that defies this principle by actually appearing colder as it warms up.Read more.. .. ...
SCIENCE - Scientists identify a mathematical 'crystal ball' that may predict calamities
Neuroscientists have come up with a mathematical equation that may help predict calamities such as financial crashes in economic systems and epileptic seizures in the brain .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-scientists-mathematical-crystal
SPACE - 'Astroinformatics' helps astronomers exploring the sky
The new HITS research group "Astroinformatics" will develop methods and software for astronomers and help facilitating the analysis and processing of the rapidly growing amount of data in astronomy. The junior group led by Kai Polsterer will work closely with other astronomical research groups in Heidelberg .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-astroinformatics-astronomers-ex
SPACE - 'Mars Showcase': Take A 3D Trip Over The Red Planet With ESA's Amazing New Video
Ever wanted to fly over Mars? A new video by the European Space Agency can almost make that possible.'Mars Showcase' is a dramatically detailed 3D visualisation of the surface of the Red Planet, made from data gathered by the Mars Express spacecraft after more than 12,500 orbits of the planet.Set to a pumping techno beat, the result is a pretty magical trip across a world most of us will never see with our own eyes.ESA says:"From the highest volc ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/10/28/mars-showcase-vid
SPACE - Carbon worlds may be waterless, NASA study finds
Planets rich in carbon, including so-called diamond planets, may lack oceans, according to NASA-funded theoretical research .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131028141507.ht
SPACE - Historic demonstration proves laser communication possible
In the early morning hours of Oct. 18, NASA's Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) made history, transmitting data from lunar orbit to Earth at a rate of 622 Megabits-per-second (Mbps). That download rate is more than six times faster than previous state-of-the-art radio systems flown to the moon .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-historic-laser.htm
SPACE - NASA to probe why Mars lost its atmosphere
NASA said Monday it is on track to launch its Maven probe to Mars next month to find out why the Red Planet lost much of its atmosphere .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-nasa-probe-mars-lost-atmosphere
SPACE - Our nearest stellar neighbor like you've never seen it before
No, this isn't a picture of our Sun — it's of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our solar system. This new image from Hubble presents it in unprecedented detail.Read more.. .. ...
SPACE - Sun continues to emit solar flares
After emitting its first significant solar flares since June 2013 earlier in the week, the sun continued to produce mid-level and significant solar flares on Oct. 27 and Oct. 28, 2013 .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-sun-emit-solar-flares.htm
SPACE - United Nations to Adopt Asteroid Defense Plan
When a meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February, the world’s space agencies found out along with the rest of us, on Twitter and YouTube. That, says former astronaut Ed Lu, is...-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co .. ...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=un-asteroid
SPACE - Welcome to the Oldest Known Galaxy in the Universe
http://www.slate.com/articles/video/video/2013/10/welcome_to
URBAN - Copenhagen to get smart street lighting via Silver Spring, Citelum
The awesome city that is Copenhagen is getting some next-gen smart street lighting tech. According to an announcement, smart grid company Silver Spring Networks and street lighting giant Citelum will network 20,000 street lights in Copenhagen in 2014.Related research and analysis from Gigaom Research:Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial.Ups and downs for cleantech in Q1Green IT Q4: solar, subsidies and the outlook for EVsCleantech, meet c ...
URBAN - Fogo Island Inn is more than a building, it is a vision of the future
Zita Cobb develops a new economic model for a dying outport in Newfoundland .. ...
URBAN - Google may be building floating data center in San Francisco Bay
They've been preparing to build a floating data center that would run off wave power for years .. ...
URBAN - Lou Reed : An urbanist and an environmentalist
Listen to The Last American Whale .. ...
URBAN - New Wave of Development Follows Streetcar Construction in Mid-Sized Cities
When selecting a parking lot along the Kansas City streetcar line as the site for a 50-unit, five-story apartment building, Boulder-based developer Linden Street Partners was clear: “The streetcar is the big thing that drew us, absolutely,” the company’s Scott Richardson told the Kansas City Star. “We like the demographics and the economic trends. I walked the area and liked the site.”Developers are pouring $71 million into Kansas City's Commerce ...
URBAN - Super-efficient rooftop units for heating and cooling
Putting new super-efficient rooftop HVAC units in broad use would be about equal to taking 700,000 cars off the road each year in terms of saved energy and reduced pollution, according to a new study .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131028100853.ht
WIND - Wind Power Has Dramatically Cut Global Warming Pollution In The U.S.
As required by Congress, the EPA recently released annual greenhouse gas data “detailing carbon pollution emissions and trends broken down by industrial sector, greenhouse gas, geographic region, and individual facility.”Interestingly, in 2012, coal-fired electricity generation increased while natural gas generation decreased considerably. This is counter to all the talk about the shale gas revolution (“bridge,” if you’re optimistic), includ .. ...
WORK - Calculating a living wage for clothing workers
A professor from Northumbria University, Newcastle, is calling for a new minimum wage to be adopted for clothing factory workers in Bangladesh .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-wage-workers.htm
WORK - How IBM's Watson Will Change The Way We Work
General Chuck Yeager is a living legend—a flying ace in World War II, the first man to break the sound barrier and a pioneer of the Space Program. Yet, to achieve what he did, he needed not just skill and courage, but also to evolve and adapt to a new era .. ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2013/10/27/how-ibms-w
WORK - Social science graduates more likely to be in work than science or arts graduates, report says
Social science graduates are more likely to be in employment after their first degree than graduates in other areas such as science and the arts, and a higher proportion are in managerial and senior official roles, a new report says .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-social-science-arts.htm
WORK - The Office is Obsolete
37signals just produced an excellent video about the benefits of working remotely.As the world's first international online peer-to-peer microlending community, Zidisha has never had a dedicated office space. Like 37signals, we have a globally dispersed team who use online tools to collaborate. Why go office-less?1. It saves money. Not paying rent for an office lets us focus our resources on delivering value to our members.2. It makes our tea ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julia-kurnia/the-office-is-obs
WRITE - Embattled IQ Scholar Reemerges As National Review Writer
Jason Richwine, who parted ways with the Heritage Foundation over his research arguing Hispanics are intellectually inferior to whites, has quietly begun writing semi-regularly for the flagship conservative publication National Review.Before May 2013, Richwine had written seven items for National Review, five full articles and two blog posts on The Corner, National Review’s catchall blog. In May, when The Washington Post’s Dylan Matthews dug up R ...
WRITE - Who is a journalist?
A new study from a University of Dayton professor finds that how a journalist is commonly defined needs revision because it is outdated and inadequate to protect those who practice journalism in the 21st century .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-journalist.htm
WRITE - With Satago, Freelancers Can Anonymously Report When They Actually Get Paid
As a freelancer or small business owner, you probably know that one of the most pressing issues is late payments and chasing customers months after a job was done. Meet Satago, the online platform where small businesses and freelancers can anonymously report when they get paid by their clients. It launches today at Disrupt Europe. All you need to do is link your accounting software to Satago - then everything will happen automatically. This way, ...
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