ANIMALS - Small Animals Sense Time Slower Than Humans, Study Finds
From Mother Nature Network's Russell McLendon:Time doesn't fly if you're a fly, a new study suggests. In fact, flies excel at dodging our slaps and swats because they perceive the passage of time more slowly than we do.We tend to assume time is the same for everyone, but according to research published in the journal Animal Behaviour, it has different speeds for different species. Small-bodied animals with fast metabolic rates — whether they're h ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/25/small-animals-time-
ART - Stunning Live Visual Effects in Box
Wow. This is the most awesome thing I saw yesterday, even though I watched – and enjoyed – Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. . This short video entitled, “Box,” packed a bigger punch in...-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co .. ...
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/but-seriously/2013/09/25
CLIMATE - In new report, climate experts to warn of sea peril
UN experts are expected to warn on Friday that global warming will hoist sea levels higher than was projected six years ago, threatening millions of lives .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-climate-experts-sea-peril.htm
EARTH - Massive quake creates island off Pakistan coast
(AP)—Alongside the carnage of Pakistan's massive earthquake came a new creation: a small island of mud, stone and bubbling gas pushed forth from the seabed .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-massive-quake-island-pakistan-c
ECONOMICS - Warby Parker Co-Founder: Glasses Can Empower Communities
Two glasses companies have a revolutionary idea: Spectacles should be cheap, and anyone who needs them should be able to have a pair.Warby Parker pitches its product to customers as stylish specs. But underneath the chic is a business model set to change the way glasses are distributed. For each pair sold, the company donates another to VisionSpring, a non-profit dedicated to selling those donated glasses in poorer communities worldwide. See also ...
EDUCATION - Tool Kit: A Surge in Growth for a New Kind of Online Course
Three major sites have emerged in the last couple of years to offer massive open online courses, greatly expanding the opportunity to take college classes .. ...
http://www-nc.nytimes.com/2013/09/26/technology/personaltech
ENERGY - 800 Years of Power From Waste: Bill Gates is funding research to build a reactor that runs on uranium 238, the waste product from modern u-235 reactors
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http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1n3maq/800_years
ENERGY - California Renewables Rise And The Grid Survives
Forecasts of doom for the California power grid have been popping up since the state began its aggressive pursuit of more renewable energy, and have became more emphatic since the San Onofre nuclear power plant, in Southern California, went offline at the end of January 2012.Now two summers have passed and fresh data shows renewables assuming an ever-growing share of the state’s energy generation – at times providing more than one-quarter of a da ...
ENERGY - China's synthetic gas plants would be greenhouse giants
Coal-powered synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130925092224.ht
ENERGY - Clean Energy Industry Jobs Grow in Massachusetts
As the American economy begins to recover, some might argue that renewable energy has played a role. In Massachusetts, the clean energy industry has caused significant growth. Jobs in the state’s clean energy sector have increased by 24 percent since 2011, according to the latest report from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC).Now almost 80,000 people are employed by the state’s clean energy industry with jobs focused on renewable ene ...
ENVIRONMENT - Aspen Plastic Bag Ban Has Collected Over $44K In Just Over A Year
A 20-cent plastic bag fee imposed in one Colorado mountain town has really added up.The City of Aspen has raised $44,826 in fees since the ban was put into place in May of 2012, according to a report by The Aspen Times. Despite being a famous Colorado ski town, Aspen only has two grocery stores which were allowed to keep $1,000 of the money raised in the first year and an extra $100 each month following that. The remainder of the money goes to a ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/25/aspen-plastic-bag-b
ENVIRONMENT - Common cosmetic and sunblock ingredient, titanium dioxide, may have potential health risks
Using a particular type of titanium dioxide -- a common ingredient in cosmetics, food products, toothpaste and sunscreen -- could reduce the potential health risks associated with the widely used compound .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130925130656.ht
ENVIRONMENT - New adsorbent is more effective and environmentally friendly for treating wastewater
A new adsorbent for removing emerging contaminants from wastewater that is more effective, reusable and eco-friendly, has been developed .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130924174152.ht
FASHION - Fashion goes high-tech at futuristic Guy Laroche show
Timeless classics on Wednesday got a makeover for spring/summer 2014 at Paris fashion week in a futuristic science fiction-inspired collection from Guy Laroche, marrying versatile high-tech fabrics with traditional silks .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-fashion-high-tech-futuristic-gu
GARDENS - 10 Amazing Indoor Gardens
The world's best gardens are a balanced partnership between humans and Mother Nature .. ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/25/10-amazing-indoor-g
GARDENS - Ley gardening in your back yard
The year was 1948, and the English grassland specialist Sir George Stapledon sounded an alarm for the food situation in his country, stating that it was “as serious now as it was at any time during the war, and serious it will long remain.” Early fall is the optimum period to plant most shrubs and trees, when conditions promote root growth in advance of next year’s growing season. Small, young trees are easier to manipulate than larger ones, suf ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/ley-gardening-i
HOMES - Sales of new U.S. homes up – slightly
Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Purchases of new U.S. homes rose in August, capping the weakest two months this year, showing the fallout from mortgage rates at a two-year high is cooling the real-estate rebound.Sales increased 7.9 percent to a 421,000 annualized pace following a 390,000 rate in the prior month that was less than previously estimated, figures from the Commerce Department showed today in Washington. Demand slumped 14.1 percent in July. Th ...
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/25/sales_of_new_u_s_homes_rises
MOVIES - 'Wizard of Oz' in 3D Puts You on the Yellow Brick Road
The Wizard of Oz may be 75 years old, but for the first time — and for only one week in theaters — you can feel what it's like to actually be inside Oz.Warner Bros. has brought the classic film to IMAX 3D theaters from Sept. 20 to 27 to show off its digitally remastered look, and despite worry that a piece of work so iconic and well-known could be lessened by a modern tech spin, it's stunning in its new form.See also: 14 Songs That Made Film Adap ...
MOVIES - 10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. To celebrate, Star Wars historian J.W. Rinzler has created another of his gorgeous coffee-table books, chock full of never-revealed secrets about the making of the film. We pored over his tome, and discovered 10 things you never knew about Jedi.Read more.. .. ...
MOVIES - Apocalyptic short film shows us Paris with all the people "deleted"
What would the most crowded parts of Paris look like without any people in them? That's what travel-focused filmmakers Claire and Maxime wanted to find out. The two hate crowds, and wanted to see their city with only animals in it. The result is gorgeous and haunting.Read more.. .. ...
http://io9.com/apocalyptic-short-film-shows-us-paris-with-al
MOVIES - Valerie Plame on female spies in movies and TV
Our colleague David Beard asked Valerie Plame -- now promoting her new espionage novel, “Blowback” -- for her thoughts on the portrayal of various lady spies in popular culture. She’s skeptical of Claire Danes’s brilliant-but-skittish loner Carrie Mathison on “Homeland”: “If you’re going to be in human intelligence, having a high EQ is kind of essential.” But overall, she gets a higher grade for realism, than, say, Jennifer Garner in “Alias.” Rea ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/post/val
PEOPLE - Hillary Clinton Cites 'Unfinished Business' in Empowering Women
Hillary Clinton will lead a global evaluation of women's rights by 2015 .. ...
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/09/hillary-clinton
PLANTS - A new technique for panoramic, very-high-resolution, time-lapse photography for plant and ecosystem research
Ever wonder what plants do when you're not around? How about an entire forest or grassland? Not even the most dedicated plant researcher can be continuously present to track environmental effects on plant behavior, and so numerous tools have been developed to measure and quantify these effects. Time-lapse photography has been used to study many aspects of plant behavior, but typically only a few plants can be captured with a single camera at the ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-technique-panoramic-very-high-r
PLANTS - Hardy citrus trees take root in local Virginia suburbs
There are clues to John Saia’s passion for pushing the plant envelope in the front yard of his otherwise comfortably congruous suburban home in the Potomac Falls neighborhood of Sterling, but his wonderfully alien world deserves a closer look. Read full article >> .. ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/hardy-citrus-tr
PLANTS - New study offers hope for halting incurable citrus disease
The devastating disease Huonglongbing, or citrus greening, looms darkly over the United States, threatening to wipe out the nation's citrus industry, whose fresh fruit alone was valued at more than $3.4 billion in 2012 .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-halting-incurable-citrus-diseas
SCIENCE - Chemical synthesis: A simple technique for highly functionalized compounds
Researchers have demonstrated a technique that allows direct functionalization of alkenes without the need for metallic reagents, photolysis or extreme reaction conditions .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130925112231.ht
SCIENCE - Elementary magnets coming in double-packs
Simulating solid state properties with precisely controlled quantum systems is an important goal. Now scientists have come one step closer – to be precise, to the understanding of processes in ferromagnetic solid state crystals in which elementary excitations, so-called magnons, can emerge .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130925152100.ht
SCIENCE - Fundamental physicists discover surprise new use for super-chilled neutrons to measure the movement of viruses
First evidence that ultra-cold neutrons interact with moving nano-sized particles provides a new tool for chemists, biologists and engineers. Billiard-ball collisions may also explain inaccuracies in 60-year-old experiments to measure the lifetime of the neutron and explain the origin of matter in the universe .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130925092111.ht
SCIENCE - Genius Grant Statistician Says, I can t be anything else
Of the 24 Fellows honored today with the MacArthur Foundation’s 2013 “genius” awards, about half labor on the frontlines of science and technology. One of those is Susan Murphy, a...-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co .. ...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=genius-gran
SCIENCE - Lab chemists help find binding site of protein that allows plant growth
A research team has discovered where a protein binds to plant cell walls, a process that makes it possible for plants to grow. The discovery could lead to bigger harvests for bioenergy .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130924153626.ht
SCIENCE - One Day, You Will Smell Like a Dead Chicken
Unfortunately, this is true. I’ll explain.Dogs are trained to sniff out a lot of things, and some of those “things” are human remains. Human remains, except those in a cemetery,...-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co .. ...
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/dog-spies/2013/09/25/one
SCIENCE - Seeing light in a new light: Scientists create never-before-seen form of matter
Scientists have managed to coax photons into binding together to form molecules -- a state of matter that, until recently, had been purely theoreticalhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130925132323.ht
SCIENCE - Turning plastic bags into high-tech materials
Researchers have developed a process for turning waste plastic bags into a high-tech nanomaterial. The innovative nanotechnology uses non-biodegradable plastic grocery bags to make 'carbon nanotube membranes' -- highly sophisticated and expensive materials with a variety of potential advanced applications including filtration, sensing, energy storage and a range of biomedical innovations .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130925102651.ht
SPACE - What will we do when the sun dies?
Readers answer other readers' questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific conceptsGiven the news that the sun – and therefore the Earth – only has another 1.75-3.5bn years of life left, is anyone making any special plans?Graham Todd, Cardiff• Post your answers – and new questions – below or email them to nq@theguardian.com. Please include name, address and phone numberThe suntheguardian.com © 2013 Guardian N ...
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/sep/25/what-wil
SUSTAINABILITY - Family Resiliency Center helps study how food-bank clients afford basic non-food items
Many families struggle to afford basic non-food household goods, such as personal care, household, and baby-care products, according to a new nationwide Feed America study that benefited from assistance from the University of Illinois Family Resiliency Center (FRC) .. ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-09-family-resiliency-cent
TREES - Seeing the forest and the trees: Panoramic, very-high-resolution, time-lapse photography for plant and ecosystem research
A new technique uses the GigaPan EPIC Pro, a robotic camera system, to create time-lapse sequences of panoramas that allow the viewer to zoom in at an incredible level of detail, e.g., from a landscape view to that of an individual plant. This system greatly improves the utility of time-lapse photography by capturing interactions between the environment and plant populations in a single sequence .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130925152134.ht
URBAN - America’s most energy efficient cities, ranked
The nation's top city is Boston, Massachusetts -- in terms of energy policy, at least. A recent report from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) ranked 34 of the most populous U.S. cities on their local government, community initiatives, buildings, energy and water utilities and transportation.Beantown only scored about 77 points out of a potential 100 on ACEEE's scale, meaning there's plenty of room for improvement. The 1 ...
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/25/americas_most_energy_efficie
URBAN - Anish Kapoor and Arata Isozaki Unveil the World’s First Large-Scale Inflatable Concert Hall
Read the rest of Anish Kapoor and Arata Isozaki Unveil the World’s First Large-Scale Inflatable Concert Hall |Add todel.icio.usdiggPost tags: Anish Kapoor, Arata isozaki, Ark Nova concert hall, Ark Nova inflatable hall, inflatable architecture, Inflatable Design, Japan eathquake, Japan Tsunami 2011, membrane architecture, mobile architecture, pop-up concert, temporary concert hall .. ...
URBAN - How Cities Are Using Big Data in Big Ways
New York City released more than 200 high-value data sets to the public on Monday — a way, in part, to provide more content for open-sourced mapping projects like OpenStreetMap. It's one of the many releases since the Local Law 11 of 2012 passed in February, which calls for more transparency of the city government's collected data.See also: 5 Big Data Projects That Could Impact Your LifeBut it's not just New York: Cities across the world, large ...
URBAN - How Online Education Strengthens the Learning Experience at Boston Architectural College Landscape Design
Image: The rooftop of the California Academy of Sciences Building designed by Renzo PianoTeaching studio-based design courses online has numerous advantages to the student not available in the traditional classroom. As an instructor with over fifteen years of landscape design teaching experience, I have found that translating classroom learning to an online class actually enriches the experience of a landscape design class. An online forum provid ...
URBAN - The Poshpacker Hostel Finder Generates Cheap, High-End Accomodations
The very idea of a luxury hostel was once an oxymoron, but what started as an unusual phenomenon in a few forward thinking cities has now spread to the most unlikely – and pricey – destinations, including Reykjavik and, most recently, Venice, which now has a swish new affordable place to stay courtesy of Generator Hostels .. ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/25/the-poshpacker-host
URBAN - The future of the suburbs
Few living environments are more universally maligned than the suburbs. The suburbs stand accused of being boring, homogeneous, inefficient, car-oriented, and sterile. Some critics even argue that the suburbs make people fat. While criticisms mount, however, a large proportion of the world’s population continues to live in the suburban fringes of growing cities. What factors will affect the future of the suburbs? What changes do planners need to ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130925091743.ht
URBAN - What is the most normal town in the UK?
Readers answer other readers' questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific conceptsWhat is the least pretentious, least yuppie-infiltrated, most unassuming, most normal town in the UK?Peter Kaan, Exeter, Devon• Post your answers – and new questions – below or email them to nq@theguardian.com. Please include name, address and phone numberLocal governmentBuilding and town and country planningtheguardian.com © 2 ...
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/sep/25/most-nor
WATER - The deep Greenland Sea is warming faster than the world ocean
Recent warming of the Greenland Sea Deep Water is about ten times higher than warming rates estimated for the global ocean. Scientists analyzed temperature data from 1950 to 2010 in the abyssal Greenland Sea, which is an ocean area located just to the south of the Arctic Ocean .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130925102833.ht
WIND - Dutch wind turbine crowdfunded in just 13 hours
Crowdfunding the latest gizmo is one way to be an early adopter, but all you get out of it is a gadget. Crowdfunding a renewable energy project, on the other hand, could deliver clean energy to your home .. ...
WORK - 7 Apps To Beat Stress In The Workplace
Work, kids, in-laws, spouses, mass transit systems—life in general can cause a heck of a lot of stress for the average thinking human. Pressure come from all angles in the fast-moving, modern world.It’s only right that we have various oases that we can escape to when the going gets rough. As you’d probably guessed, there’s an app for that. A bunch of them, in fact. Here are a few…Serenit .. ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2013/09/25/7-apps
WORK - California signs law raising minimum wage to $10/hour by 2016
California has become the first state in the nation to commit to raising the minimum wage to $10 per hour, although the increase will take place gradually until 2016 under a bill signed into law by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown on Wednesday .. ...
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/california-signs-law-raising
WRITE - David Gilmour's Refusal To Teach Women Writers Sparks Rage (TWITTER)
Writer and U of T professor David Gilmour's penchant for saying inflammatory things has got him in trouble once again.The nominee for this year's Giller Prize told online literary magazine Hazlitt that he doesn't teach any women writers to his students."I’m not interested in teaching books by women. Virginia Woolf is the only writer that interests me as a woman writer, so I do teach one of her short stories," Gilmour said. "When I was given this ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/09/25/david-gilmour-women-
WRITE - Think Writing A Fake Yelp Review Is Easy? Think Again
It's not easy writing fake reviews.One company that posted bogus praise online for its clients told its writers to make their reviews seem authent... Read more: Fake Yelp Reviews, Operation Clean Turf, Online Reviews, Eric Schneiderman, Reputation Management Firms, Reputation Management, Attorney General Fake Online Reviews, Yelp, Google Local, Citysearch, Fake Citysearch Reviews, Fake Online Reviews, Astroturfing, Technology New .. ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/25/fake-yelp-reviews_n
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