ANIMALS - Bats and rabies virus: More data on colonies at high risk
A new approach to rabies virus epidemiology in bats shows that the risk of infection is higher in large and multispecies colonies. The research, published on the journal PLOS ONE, has been led by Jordi Serra Cobo, professor from the Department of Animal Biology at the University of Barcelona and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-rabies-virus-colonies-high.htm
ANIMALS - Fall Toxins That Are Poisonous To Pets: Common Poison Control Emergencies
It's officially fall!While you're admiring the changing leaves, setting up for Halloween and gathering fresh, crisp apples it's important to keep your pets' safety in mind. Adorable as they may be, our furry friends are always getting into some mischief. In addition to the usual dangers like lilies (which can result in acute kidney failure in cats), onions, garlic and grapes (which can be toxic for both dogs and cats) there are some hazards that ...
ART - Beautiful brushstrokes drawn from data
A good painter uses simple strokes of a brush to bring texture, contrast and depth to a blank canvas. In comparison, computer programs can have difficulty reproducing the complex and varied forms of brushstrokes, and often require painstaking effort to mimic a brief sweep of paint. A new program creates the look and texture of actual brushstrokes .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130926123455.ht
ART - Blue lines: the colour of the moment in homewares – in pictures
From navy to teal to indigo, blue is this season's must-have colou .. ...
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2013/sep/27/
BOOKS - Digitial Reading Company Kobo 'On Pace To Be A Billion Dollar Company'
Where Barnes and is waffling about tablet manufacturing, has recently shed a CEO and is in some financial distress, the Canadian-founded, Japanese-owned digital e-reading company, Kobo, seems to be flourishing. They are growing in revenue, launched several new e-reader and tablet devices that are well received by critics, and just hired away a star executive from Amazon .. ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/avaseave/2013/09/27/digitial-rea
BOOKS - The New English Garden - in pictures
Images from a new book surveying the most significant gardens in England toda .. ...
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2013/sep/27/
CLIMATE - 15 Things You Should Know About The New IPCC Report On Climate Science
Click to enlarge. The IPCC, or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, just released its latest scientific report that looks at what the world’s top experts understand about climate change. The review takes years to complete, and will be used for years as a vital resource for climate science. During a briefing on the report Friday morning organized by The Climate Group, three of the lead authors offered blunt summaries of their work: “Wa ...
CLIMATE - Alarming IPCC Prognosis: 9°F Warming For U.S., Faster Sea Rise, More Extreme Weather, Permafrost Collapse
Humanity's choice (via IPCC): Aggressive climate action ASAP (left figure) minimizes future warming. Continued inaction (right figure) results in catastrophic levels of warming, 9°F over much of U.S. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) now says we are as certain that humans are dramatically changing the planet’s climate as we are that smoking causes cancer. So perhaps the best way to think about the IPCC, which has issued a s ...
CLIMATE - Climate Change Report: We Are Playing Russian Roulette
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its latest assessment of what science is telling us about the state of our planet. Researchers are more certain than ever before that humans are causing climate change and that some of its most dangerous impacts are accelerating faster than expected.Many Americans already know this to be true. We have seen our own communities pummeled by more intense and more frequent heat waves, droughts ...
CLIMATE - Climate Change: It’s Still Our Fault
It’s still our fault (via The Economist)IT HAS been a long time coming. But then the fifth assessment of the state of the global climate by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations body, was a behemoth of an undertaking. It runs to thousands of pages, involved… .. ...
CLIMATE - Climate Change: Man’s Role More Certain Than Ever [VIDEO]
Editorial Note: EarthTechling is running special expanded coverage today of the new UN climate report and its implications. To read the latest from us and our editorial partners, go here.Sky’s Thomas Moore on the IPCC’s claims that humans are ‘very likely’ to have caused climate change and how it could impact on our everyday lives.Climate Change: Man’s Role More Certain Than Ever (via Sky News)Sky’s Thomas Moore on the IPCC’s claims that humans a ...
Editorial Note: EarthTechling is running special expanded coverage today of the new UN climate report and its implications. To read the latest from us and our editorial partners, go here.Manmade global warming is rapidly transforming the planet at rates that are unprecedented in human history, from melting Arctic sea ice to heating the land and seas and contributing to extreme weather events, concluded a new landmark climate report from the Unite ...
EARTH - Satellite measures 'quake island'
The "quake island" that rose from the sea off Pakistan this week is pictured clearly in a new satellite image .. ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21468664#sa-ns
ECONOMICS - The Pros And Cons Of Sibling Partnerships
Partnership is hard enough without the added pressure and emotional baggage that a sibling brings to the table. But the benefits may outweigh the challengeshttp://www.forbes.com/sites/amandaneville/2013/09/27/the-pro
EDUCATION - A child's spatial and math thinking likely improved simply by playing with blocks
Playing with blocks may help preschoolers develop the kinds of skills that support later learning in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), according to a new study by researchers at the University of Delaware and Temple University. And for low-income preschoolers, who lag in spatial skills, such play may be especially important. The study is published in the journal Child Development. More than a hundred 3-year-olds of various socioe ...
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/266614.ph
EDUCATION - The building blocks of learning, literally
Simple toys like blocks feed into kids' spatial skill and offer a foundation for learning subjects like math and science, according to a new study .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130927105018.ht
ENERGY - More Good News On Renewables Integration
It’s a common criticism of wind and solar power from the anti-renewables crowd: Using these common renewable energy sources doesn’t really lead to greenhouse gas emission reductions – and is prohibitively expensive – because coal and natural gas plants have to ramp up and down frequently in response to their variable production.Well it’s not true. So says the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in one of the key findings of its ongoing Western W ...
ENVIRONMENT - Carbon offsets could help lower emissions without harming the economy
Instead of harming the economies of developing countries, carbon offsets and taxes on shipping and aviation would have a minimal or even a positive economic impact if implemented wisely, according to a new study .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-carbon-offsets-emissions-econom
ENVIRONMENT - Minamata convention treaty seeks to reduce mercury pollution
(Phys.org) —People from 140 countries across the globe will be signing a treaty this month—its purpose is to reduce the amount of man-made mercury pollution being released into the environment. The treaty signing follows meetings by representatives that have previously agreed to sign it—the signing will be held in Minamat Japan—site of one of the largest mercury spills in history. David Krabbenhoft and Elsie Sunderland of the U.S. Geological Surv ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-minamata-convention-treaty-merc
FASHION - Beauty tips: Sali Hughes's guide to wearing autumn make-up – video
Sali Hughes gives her expert advice on how to update your skincare and make-up for autumnSali HughesAlex HealeyMichael Tai .. ...
http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/video/2013/sep/27/sali-hu
FASHION - How to dress: kilts
'If you are wearing a kilt because it's on trend and you fancy a new skirt then all three of tartan, pleats and buckles is too much'I am not remotely Scottish. I have never been a punk. I am not the reincarnation of Alicia Silverstone in Clueless. (Although, in that last particular, it's not for want of trying, believe you me.) And yet here I am wearing a kilt. Such is the power of fashion.The kilt is having a moment, you see. The soundtrack to t ...
http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2013/sep/27/how-to-dress-
FASHION - Kilts: get the look - in pictures
So you've read our fashion editor's column on kilts, but how do you go about getting the look yourself .. ...
http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2013/sep/27/kilts
GARDENS - Gardens: damp-proof plants
You don't need a bog to grow large-leaved beauties such as ligularias and rodgersias, just a patch of moist soilThis summer, I visited Copenhagen, where I was intrigued to find many plants we associate with the bog garden growing in mixed borders in parks and gardens. In Amaliehaven, a crisp, modern park next to Amalienborg Palace (you've seen it on Borgen), the large, showy leaves of ligularias, hostas and rheums showed to fine effect against cl ...
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/sep/27/gardens-
MOVIES - 13 Iconic Movie Quotes With Internet-Obsessed Twists
Certain film lines stick with us far beyond a movie's theater run. Despite time barriers and changes in technology, these classics still pop up regularly in today's pop culture references.Yet times have changed, and these famous quotes don't quite connect to the digital age. Dorothy wouldn't have woken up lost in Kansas without at least questioning the reliability of her GPSSee also: Internet, Keep Your Damn Hands Off My Rom ComsComedians Paul Ga ...
MOVIES - Mad cows, cannibalism and the shaking death
The new film We Are What We Are is about a family of cannibals, one of whom succumbs to a human form of mad cow diseaseI made a brief appearance on HuffPostLive on Wednesday, to talk about kuru, a human form of mad cow disease' that is transmitted by eating infected nervous tissue. It was for a segment of the broadcast featuring cast members of We Are What We Are, a new film about a family of cannibals, one of whom succumbs to the disease.Kuru an ...
http://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2013/sep/
MOVIES - Physicist-produced documentary to appear in New York Film Festival
The temperature is heating up for Particle Fever, a documentary produced by Johns Hopkins University professor David Kaplan that highlights the construction of one of the most audacious ventures in modern science. The film will be screened on Sept. 29 and Oct. 2 at the New York Film Festival, one of the most prestigious in the country .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-physicist-produced-documentary-
PEOPLE - Super Recognizers Used By London Police To Fight Crime
LONDON — Paul Hyland almost never forgets a face. He's a "super recognizer," and that's giving an unusual kind of help to his employer: Scotland Yard.Several years ago, for example, London police were on the lookout for a burglar wanted for nine robberies. About a month after seeing the burglar's picture, Hyland and two colleagues were stuck in traffic. "I looked up and noticed this guy coming out of a university and knew it was him," Hyland reca ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/27/super-recognizers_n
PEOPLE - The Most Fascinating People in America
Get inside the nation's most eccentric minds. .. ...
SCIENCE - Physicists Discover New Form of Matter—and Compare It to a Lightsaber
http://www.slate.com/articles/video/video/2013/09/new_form_o
SCIENCE - Researchers demonstrate “accelerator on a chip”
In an advance that could significantly shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, researchers have used a laser to accelerate electrons at a rate 10 times higher than conventional technology in a nanostructured glass chip smaller than a grain of rice. The achievement was reported today in Nature by a team including scientists from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University.We still ...
SCIENCE - Researchers devise a means to obtain abnormal grain growth in metal using cyclic heat treatment
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers from Tohoku University and Kyoto University in Japan has found a way to cause abnormal grain growth in metal crystals using cyclic heat treatment. In their paper published in the journal Science, the team describes how they came up with the approach, how well it works and how it might be used in future applications .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-abnormal-grain-growth-metal-cyc
SCIENCE - Superfast switching of quantum light sources
Usually, an elementary light source – such as an excited atom or molecule – emits light of a particular color at an unpredictable instance in time. Recently, however, scientists have shown that a light source can be coaxed to emit light at a desired moment in time, within an ultrashort burst. The superfast switching of a light source has applications in fast stroboscopes without laser speckle, in the precise control of quantum systems and for ult ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130927092348.ht
SCIENCE - Weird Science! The Friday News Quiz (Sept. 27, 2013)
In this edition: mysterious photographs, fossilized bears and a curious admission from Bill Gates .. ...
http://news.discovery.com/human/weird-science-quiz-130927.ht
SPACE - Mysterious 'Second Moon' In Orbit Around Earth Turns Out To Be Man-Made
A mysterious 'asteroid' discovered in orbit around Earth that baffled astronomers turns out to be man-made.The strange object identified as '2013 QW1' was discovered in August from data taken by the PanSTARRS sky survey in Hawaii.Though it appeared as little more than a blip on a screen, the object immediately intrigued researchers. It was caught in a wide orbit around Earth, and it was difficult to tell if it really was an asteroid which had bee ...
SPACE - NASA's Curiosity finds two percent of Martian soil is comprised of water
We already knew Mars was blanketed in ancient riverbeds, which points to the existence of water in the distant past. What we didn't know, however, is that H2O exists on Mars in the here and now -- albeit embedded in Martian soil. A paper recently published in the journal Science revealed that as much as two percent of dirt from the Red Planet contains the precious liquid. The Curiosity rover gathered samples of the sand from the "Rocknest" area n ...
SPACE - Scientists find a Martian igneous rock that is surprisingly Earth-like
Scientists report on the analysis of a surprisingly Earth-like Martian rock, discovered by the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, that offers new insight into the history of Mars's interior and suggests parts of the Red Planet may be more like our own than we ever knew .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130927092730.ht
SUSTAINABILITY - Argentine farmers hoard soybeans as inflation hedge
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine farmers are hoarding more soy this season than in past years, threatening to reduce much-needed export tax revenue as raw beans become the preferred unit of savings in an economy impaired by double-digit inflation .. ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/27/us-argentina-soy-e
SUSTAINABILITY - Green business from recycled dairy wastewater
An innovative new way of treating dairy wastewater and whey could cut water and energy consumption dramatically, saving the food industry millions of euros .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-green-business-recycled-dairy-w
URBAN - Cities and the Environment
Here at the Pisces Foundation, we are in the midst of our first strategic planning process. This is a chance to step back, look at what we have been doing, and make plans for the future. As part of this process, we are taking the time to explore issues outside our existing focus areas of water, environmental education, and climate and energy. In the spirit of sharing what we are learning, here is some of the interesting data we are finding about ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-s-beckman/cities-and-the
URBAN - Leaning Tower of Pisa leaning less?
http://www.today.com/video/today/5312123
URBAN - Stunning Maps Show A Day In New York And San Francisco In 32 Seconds
Foursquare, the location-based social network, has put together a series of videos tracking "the pulse" of various metropolises -- New York, San Francisco, London, Chicago, Tokyo and Istanbul -- using check-in data from its users. The resulting animated maps are gorgeous, all black backgrounds, stark white lines and neon movement creating the effect of stained glass in motion.What the maps show is fascinating: cities moving to the rhythm of the d ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/27/foursquare-maps_n_3
URBAN - Venice's Sinking Map From Satellite Data Teases Apart Natural, Man-Made Influences (PHOTOS)
By: Tanya Lewis, Staff Writer Published: 09/26/2013 01:59 PM EDT on LiveScience Venice, the "floating city" of romance and gondolas, is slowly sinking into its watery foundations. A new study using modern satellite data has shown the amount that Venice is sinking with an unprecedented level of resolution, allowing scientists to tease apart the influence of natural causes of the sinking, due to compaction of the sediments on which the city is bui ...
WATER - Design challenge seeks portable, renewables-powered alternative to diesel water pump
A new open design challenge is looking for viable alternatives to the dirty diesel pumps that provide irrigation water for off-grid farmers in India .. ...
WATER - The Status of Global Geothermal Power Development
According to a recent study, there are 806 geothermal power projects in development around the world with a combined capacity of 23,313 megawatts, with the majority located in Asia, North America and Africa. That sounds impressive, but the industry faces strong challenges everywhere. Projects need to secure government approval, public consent (sometimes complicated by local opposition), power purchase agreements and, last but not least, necessa ...
WIND - Photo Essay Of Wind Tower
Our friends over at Clean Energy Canada recently put together a cool photo essay about the building of a wind tower. Very cool. I won’t steal their thunder, but here are a few of my favorites photos from that (all photos by Dax Melmer on behalf of Clean Energy Canada):The work above takes place in Windsor, Canada. The company is CS Wind Canada. Haven’t heard of CS Wind Canada? Well, you’ve surely heard of the companies that will use these to .. ...
WORK - 3 Digital Agencies Redefining Advertising
Despite the ubiquity of Facebook and Twitter, it's no easy task to become a social media maven. Building a company of mavens is even more challenging.Between representing a diverse group of clients and keeping up with best practices for social networks such as Vine and LinkedIn, creating brilliant campaigns in the digital space requires true innovationThree of the leading agencies in this space — and the finalists for the Mashies' Best Digital
WORK - I worked all week for free?!: The horrifying, true story of $0 paychecks
In the annals of degrading, infuriating labor practices, this one may take a prize: Meet the cleaning workers who received ... zero-dollar paychecks.Now, defying alleged deportation threats and protesting those empty paychecks, a handful of striking guest workers from Jamaica are demanding accountability from the boss who hired them, the companies whose buildings they were cleaning, and the Florida politicians like Marco Rubio who took those comp ...
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/27/i_worked_all_week_for_free_t
WORK - Steven Pressfield: What's Keeping You From Doing The Work You Love
By Steven PressfieldThe author of The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles explains what keeps us from doing what we most want to do—and shows us how to finally get started toward our long-deferred goals.Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.Have you ever brought home a treadmill and let it gather dust in the attic? Ever quit a diet, a cou ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/27/steven-pressfield-r
WRITE - Does Handwriting Still Matter In A Digital World?
Do we still need handwriting in a digital world? The question is beginning to make me testy. Of course we do! Forget romantic sentimentality (those old love letters in the attic). Forget the joys of handwritten thank-you notes. Forget "self-expression" via the way we cross our t's. Forget our duty to keep alive an ancient and noble art. Forget the relief of turning off the screens and slowing down. Not that those considerations aren't valid. But ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kitty-burns-florey/handwriting
WRITE - Why snubbing books by women is not the same as snubbing motorbikes | Emer O'Toole
When I learned that Canadian lecturer David Gilmour has no interest in teaching female writers, I tried tackling the issue on my online dating profileHere in Canada, a literary and pedagogical storm is a-brewing. A University of Toronto lecturer, David Gilmour, himself a novelist, gave an interview to Emily M Keeler of Hazlitt magazine, in which he explained that he's not interested in teaching books by women. According to Gilmour, he only teachehttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/27/women-b
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