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ANIMALS - Loyal dog died after nine years sits by owner's grave (Video)
A dog called Coly (Collie Dog Breed) after nine years, which has become a symbol of loyalty and fidelity, has died dog all this time had stood beside the grave of his owner, impressive in the city, was admitted a day earlier after being found howling at his usual place of La Piedad Cemetery, in the town of Rosario-Argentina.Monday found the animal howling in pain, and the members of an association defending the animals got move to a veterinary cl ...
ANIMALS - New & Extremely Rare Species of River Dolphin Discovered in Brazil
Imagine: You are a zoologist on a research expedition, exploring the remote riverine ecosystems in some of the remotest parts of the Brazilian Amazon river basin…You have heard rumors from the local tribes people of a large, strange, long-nosed creature that inhabits the waters here (it’s bad luck to kill a such a creature)…You know of only two such other river dolphins, but each is found in distant and distinct basins of the Brazilian Amazo .. ...Sitting on the couch, with your dog curled up by your side looking ever-so-peaceful, maybe youve been overcome by the thought, Gosh, wouldnt Banjo make the most perfect therapy dog!? .. ...
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/dog-spies/2014/01/26/wou
It is the big design show where I keep looking for what's new and green, and always leave feeling that sustainability no longer matters to anyone .. ...
Four pesticides commonly used on crops to kill insects and fungi also kill honeybee larvae within their hives, according to new research. Scientists also found that N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone -- an inert, or inactive, chemical commonly used as a pesticide additive -- is highly toxic to honeybee larvae .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140127122825.ht
Island plants and animals are often different from their mainland relatives. In general, the lack of top predators and large herbivores on isolated oceanic islands influences traits of island organisms. Consider, for example, the dodo: this island-dwelling, flightless bird was so fearless that it was hunted to extinction by humans within 200 years of first contact. Human interaction is just one threat to conservation. Differences in the threats p ...
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-bluebirds-struggle-happiness-is
BOOKS - People Habitat by Kaid Benfied is a must-read for anyone who cares about cities (Book review)
These 25 essays are not just about cities; they are about making sense of the way we live .. ...Emory Eye Center Director of Research, P. Michael Iuvone, the Sylvia Montag Ferst and Frank W. Ferst Professor of Ophthalmology, has published a new book, The Retina and Circadian Rhythms (Springer, 2014), along with fellow editors Gianluca Tosini (Morehouse College of Medicine), Douglas G. McMahon (Vanderbilt University), and Shaun P. Collin (University of Western Australia) .. ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-01-relationship-retina-ci
Leading sceptics getting big slots to reject global warming indicates a growing climate denial bias at Westminster.Richard Lindzen/MITA parliamentary committee will this week provide further proof that political debate in the UK about climate change is becoming as depressingly unscientific and polarised as it is in the United States.As part of its inquiry into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the House of Commons select committee on ...
We’re overconsuming ourselves into environmental oblivion.Harvesting sugar cane in Brazil. Shell.Farming will eliminate forests, plains, and other wild areas nearly the size of Brazil by 2050 around the world if we can’t mend our agricultural, dietary, and biofuel-burning ways. This unsustainable drive for more growing land will result in rising hunger and more frequent riots as food prices increase.That’s the salty prognosis in a new report by s ...
Another fabulous landscape of water and sky .. ...
EDUCATION - Girl's Education: The 2013 Report Card
Teach.com and the Global Agenda Council on Education and Skills have collaborated to create an infographic, Girls’ Education: The 2013 Report Card, to better illustrate the current state of girls’ education internationally .. ...
http://www.good.is/posts/girl-s-education-the-2013-report-ca
EDUCATION - Personalized Learning: 5 Future Technology Predictions from IBM
It is common knowledge that every person has an optimal way of learning. By analyzing a range of data sets that include curricula, student attendance records, and students’ behavior on e-learning platforms, IBM aims to turn big data into usable information for education systems on all levels. IBM researcher, Chalapathy Neti, Director of Education Transformation at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, has predicted that in five years, classroom . ...
http://www.good.is/posts/personalized-learning-5-future-tech
Imagine a generator pumping more electricity than a nuclear power plant into the grid, but inconsistently and without the grid's caretakers being able to see what it was doing. How could they maintain the critical balance between generation and consumption that the grid requires? A key to the answer hovers some 22,000 miles overhead .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-satellites-power-grid.htm
Introducing ICCP-1, the world's first magma-enhanced geothermal system. Located in Iceland, it's an important proof-of-concept that could lead to a revolution in the energy efficiency of high-temperature geothermal areas across the globe. Read more... .. ...
If you live in an apartment or house with old, wheezing radiators in winter and cumbersome window air conditioners that you hoist into windows every summer, it can seem as though technology has left you behind when you read about the coming connected home. But for those people (this reporter among them), there are new options in the realm of connected air window conditioners. And for at least one brand, the Wi-Fi connection can also give custome ...
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/coned-and-thinke
The tubes have been humming with news of a new form of 3-D graphene based on sugar bubbles, though “bubbles” hardly does justice to blown sugar, the centuries-old Chinese folk art that inspired the researchers.Part performance art, sugar blowing was practiced by street vendors well into modern times, resulting in delicate, sometimes elaborate sculptures that resemble blown glass. It is dying out as a traditional street art but who knows, th .. ...
One family’s attempt to live deliberately, with only the essentials, during a summer roadtrip visiting and filming other tiny house aficionado .. ...
Read the rest of Photographer Helps Build His Own Home Deep in the Hungarian Forest in Just Two DaysPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: Architecture, Bence Turanyi, budapest, Budapest architecture, cabin built in two days, forest cabin, Hungary, photographer Zsolt Batar, photographer's house, pilis forest, Prefab Housing, T2a Architects, tiny cabins, tiny homes, winter retreats, Zsolt Bata .. ...
“Imagine being able to watch as Edison turned on the first light bulb, or as Franklin received his first jolt of electricity.” -Particle Fever: With One Switch, Everything Changes. .. ...
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/psi-vid/2014/01/26/parti
MOVIES - Song of Hiawatha - Native American Movie (Video)
This screen adaptation of the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tells the tale of Hiawatha (Litefoot), a Native American brave, and his great love for the beautiful Minehaha (Irene Bedard)“Everybody knows Hiawatha, just nobody ever met him.” So says O Kagh (Graham Greene: Dances with Wolves), who’s guiding the French trapper Bertrand (Michael Rooker: The Bone Collector) and priest Marcel (David Strathairn: Simon Birch, Home for the Holidays ...Writing lyrics, making videos helped them get through grueling treatment, connect with others, study foun .. ...
PEOPLE - Off the Rez: Unforgettable tale of a Native American Women (Video)
This doc follows a young American Indian basketball player and her mother/coach as they fight to save their hoop dreams and prove that Native American women can become champions off the Rez.The story of a Native American family in Oregon that leaves the reservation in pursuit of the American dream on behalf of one of their 8 children, a 16 year?old girl who is one of the best high school basketball players in the country. Four generations of str ...
SCIENCE - Alt-week 01.26.14: Hawking says there are no black holes, and a 3D printed liver could be on the way
Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days.Science. What good is it if the end result is Robosapien and a sweet 3D printed phone cases? Thankfully, there are great minds at work to put it to .. .. ...An interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers from The MITRE Corporation and Harvard University have taken key steps toward ultra-small electronic computer systems that push beyond the imminent end of Moore's Law, which states that the device density and overall processing power for computers will double every two to three years. In a paper that will appear this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team describ ...
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-law-nanocomputing-nanowire-tile
A network of chemists has developed an innovative method to study protein structures by means of magnetic labels. The ingenious thing about it is that the magnetic labels are directly incorporated inside the cell when the protein is naturally biosynthesized. The research results might have an impact on many areas of structural biology .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140127093029.ht
The notion of an "event horizon," from which nothing can escape, is incompatible with quantum theory, Hawking says .. ...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stephen-hawking-th
In a remote corner of the Cleveland Police Museum, a famous robot languished gathering dust. In its glory days, this robot was part of the fight in the 1970s against Mafia domination in Cleveland .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-robots-earth-space.htm
SPACE - Water Erupts Across the Solar System
Reading the scientific headlines recently one would be forgiven for thinking that we’re experiencing a bout of interplanetary gastrointestinal distress. .. ...
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/2014/01/2
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A few years ago, I sat down with Cameron Sinclair to talk about his recently-launched Open Architecture Network. He describes it as a “gift to the design community” with a simple mission: “to generate design opportunities that will improve living standards for all “by providing an open-source platform through which anyone can view, post, share, and adapt sustainable, humanitarian-based, scalable solutions. The idea that designs and all associated ...
URBAN - Watershed Materials’ New Building Block Uses Half the Concrete of a Conventional Masonry Block
Concrete has a giant carbon footprint yet concrete blocks are a ubiquitous building material used around the world. Watershed Materials has produced a new, beautiful and sustainable masonry block that uses half the cement of a traditional concrete block. And now, with support from the National Science Foundation, the company is researching the production of a durable, resilient block made with zero cement.+ Watershed MaterialsThe article above wa ...
WIND - Google Signs 10-Year Deal To Buy Power From Eolus Vind In Sweden
Google continues to put its money where its mouth is with regard to renewable energy, as its recent agreement to purchase electricity from the noted Swedish wind energy company Eolus Vind demonstrates.The recent agreement between Google and Eolus Vind calls for the energy company to provide electricity from 29 wind turbines located in Southern Sweden (59 MW) to the tech giant for the next ten years. The deal signifies a notable step towards .. ...Wind power generation in Texas continued its steady upward march in 2013, and it’s now on the doorstop of generating 10 percent of the state’s electricity supply. New data from grid operator ERCOT showed that wind provided 9.9 percent of Lone Star State electrical generation last year, up from 9.2 percent in 2012. The 9.9 percent proportion represents a doubling in five years -- in 2008, wind was at 4.9 percent. Wind owned a bigger slice of gene ...
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/In-Texas-Wind-Ne
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