ANIMALS - Researchers find chimps, like people, can be fooled into overeating
Now, research at Georgia State University shows chimpanzees also suffer from this common human problem – their eyes can fool their stomachs ... http://phys.org/news/2013-09-chimps-people-overeating.htm
ANIMALS - Scientists uncover genetic similarities between bats and dolphins
The evolution of similar traits in different species, a process known as convergent evolution, is widespread not only at the physical level, but also at the genetic level, according to new research led by scientists at Queen Mary University of London and published in Nature this week ... 
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-scientists-uncover-genetic-simi
BIRDS - Return of the Natives: How Wild Bees Will Save Our Agricultural System
Field biologists have a strange affinity for spending countless hours in the hot sun scrutinizing tiny things. You might see a bee buzzing on a flower and think, “Oh, a bee.” A biologist, though, will want to know: Is it a nonnative, domesticated honeybee? Or is it one of 4,000 bee species native to the U.S.—maybe an ultragreen sweat bee, a metallic-sheened creature that drinks human perspiration ... http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=return-of-t
CLIMATE - 1600 year old tunic found in melting glacier
Global warming is allowing archeologists to learn more about human history, as textile fragments have been recovered from melting glaciers. One particularly rare item is an intact tunic found on the Norwegian Lendbreen glacier. Researcher Lise Bender Jørgensen told Discovery News about its significance ... http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/1600-year-old-tunic
CLIMATE - Climate change makes hurricanes less likely to hit NYC
Climate change is making all kinds of extreme weather events more likely, from floods to droughts to tropical storms. However, a new report published in the National Academy of Science of the United States suggests that another super storm like Hurricane Sandy is less likely to hit New York. “What made Sandy so different was that it was steered into the coast rather than away from it,” Elizabeth Barnes, author of the report, told Raw Story ... http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/climate-change-make
EARTH - Earthquake In Tokyo - Business Insider
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake has struck Japan, according to Reuters, citing Japan's NHK. Witnesses in Tokyo reportedly saw tall buildings in the city shake, Reuters reported ... http://www.businessinsider.com/earthquake-in-tokyo-2013-
EARTH - Gravity variations much bigger than previously thought
A joint Australian-German research team led by Curtin University's Dr Christian Hirt has created the highest-resolution maps of Earth's gravity field to date—showing gravitational variations up to 40 percent larger than previously assumed ... http://phys.org/news/2013-09-gravity-variations-bigger-previ
ECONOMICS - BANK ECONOMISTS: Summers As Fed Chair Would Cost 0.5% Off GDP And 350,000 Jobs
Economists at BNP Paribas have issued a research note saying if President Obama picks Larry Summers as the next Federal Reserve Chairman, he will do serious harm to the U.S. economy ... 
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ECONOMICS - Best Banks To Work For
In the cutthroat world of finance, it's often not what you do, but who you work for that matters. Vault.com just released its annual ranking of the best banks to work for, looking at factors like culture, satisfaction, work/life balance, training, and compensation, and overall prestige ... http://www.businessinsider.com/best-banks-to-work-for-2013-
ECONOMICS - Charts How Households Have Changed
A fascinating report from the Census (via Heidi Moore and Marketing Charts) takes a look at how the structure and habitation of U.S. households has changed dramatically since 1970. The report is titled "America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012" and its findings include the following bullets. • Sixty-six percent of households in 2012 were family households, down from 81 percent in 1970. • Between 1970 and 2012, the share of house ... http://www.businessinsider.com/charts-how-households-have-ch
ECONOMICS - Life expectancy gap growing between rich/poor world women: WHO
Life expectancy for women at 50 has improved but the gap between poor and rich countries is growing and could worsen without better detection and treatment of cardiovascular disease and cancers, the World Health Organization (WHO) says in a new study ... http://www.nbcnews.com/health/life-expectancy-gap-growing-be
ECONOMICS - Mail Order Grooming Kits For Men
Subscription boxes are selling faster than BMG music-club memberships in 1996 (though whether anything beats the 12-for-1 CD deal is still up for debate). The concept—a custom package of lifestyle luxuries and necessities ranging from condoms to organic popcorn delivered to your door—has become a bankable model for the grooming industry ... 
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ECONOMICS - The Next Billion Dollar Mobile Startup
Some of venture capital executive Bubba Murarka's ideas: Tablet-first start-ups A hassle-free platform for mobile payment transactions More apps to help consumers create content on mobile (in the manner of what Vine did for video) Easy and intuitive systems on smartphones and tablets for mobile multi-tasking, analagous to the way PCs allow us to open and use multiple windows and apps at the same time True mobile-native ad units Subscription ... http://www.businessinsider.com/the-next-billion-dollar-mobil
ECONOMICS - Treasury TICS Report Problems - Business Insider
According to the Treasury Department's popular Treasury International Capital System (TICS) report, official foreign holdings of Treasury securities fell to $4.009 trillion in June from $4.072 trillion in May ... http://www.businessinsider.com/treasury-tics-report-problems
ECONOMICS - UBS Debunks That Popular Treasury List Of America's Big Creditors
According to the Treasury Department's popular Treasury International Capital System (TICS) ...
EDUCATION - 'I did it all on my own': Calif. undocumented students get first grants
At the beginning of 2013, the second part of the California Dream Act took effect, allowing undocumented students who qualify for in-state tuition to apply for state-funded financial aid. This fall, 7,218 undocumented students in California have received Cal Grants from the state totaling $31 million. NBC's Katy Tur Reports ... http://dailynightly.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/04/20262670-i-
EDUCATION - Most Expensive Private High Schools US
With the start of the new school year comes an inevitable rise in tuition —and we're not just talking about the price of college. This year, more than thirty private high schools in the U.S. are charging more than $40,000 in tuition, with the most expensive exceeding $46,000 — more expensive than many colleges ... http://www.businessinsider.com/most-expensive-private-high-s
EDUCATION - University Of Kentucky To Install 2,000 Security Cameras On Campus, Sparking Privacy Concerns
The University of Kentucky plans to put up 2,000 surveillance cameras on campus as part of a $5 million security overhaul, a move that has some civil liberties advocates concerned ... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/04/university-of-kentu
ENERGY - 14% Of Our Energy Was Clean In First Half Of 2013
Renewable energy provided over 14% of America’s electric power in the first half of 2013, according to the US Government. A total of 14.2% of US power was generated by non-hydro renewables during the first six months of the year, as revealed in the August issue of Electric Power Monthly, which is published by the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) ... http://www.earthtechling.com/2013/09/14-of-our-energy-was-cl
ENERGY - Half Of Venezuela Black Out
Yesterday almost half of Venezuela's states were in darkness when a transmission line on the the country's infamously sensitive power grid was tripped, the BBC reports.  ... http://www.businessinsider.com/half-of-venezuela-black-out-2
ENVIRONMENT - Carcinogenic Chemical Spreads beneath American Town
When state and federal environmental officials visited this tucked-away town 15 years ago, their presence surprised local residents. “My heart and most of my life has been spent here in Antrim County,” said Gary Knapp, a long-time resident. “And I knew nothing of its environmental problems. ... http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=carcinogeni
ENVIRONMENT - Fukushima Timeline
From Reuters, here's a disturbing timeline of the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, which was damaged in the 2011 earthquake, and is still not stable ... http://www.businessinsider.com/fukushima-timeline-2013-
ENVIRONMENT - Japan to Spend Almost $500 Million on Water Crisis at Fukushima Nuclear Plant
Japan pledged nearly $500 million to contain leaks and decontaminate radioactive water from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, stepping up government efforts to cope with the legacy of the worst atomic disaster in a quarter of a century ... http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=japan-to-sp
ENVIRONMENT - This little patch acts like an invisibility cloak to mosquitoes
For many of us, mosquitoes are merely an annoying part of summer, sending us inside in the evenings and sometimes leaving us with itchy little bites on exposed areas. However, in some parts of the world, getting a mosquito bite could be a life or death situation, because those little bloodsuckers can carry diseases such as malaria, West Nile Virus and Dengue Fever, and there may not be any "inside" to retreat to, safely away from reach ... http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/little-patch-acts
FASHION - How To Dress Like A Gentleman - Business Insider
For the finer things in life, everyone needs a sensei — a guide to teach them how to be their best selves. The art of dressing, especially for men, is no exception ... http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-dress-like-a-gentleman
HOMES - Calvin Klein Hamptons Mansion
After five years of construction, designer Calvin Klein's minimalist mansion in Southampton, NY is nearly complete ... http://www.businessinsider.com/7-crazy-facts-about-the-75-mi
HOMES - Temporary coating may help protect homes from wildfires
When a forest or brushland wildfire threatens to engulf nearby neighborhoods, some homeowners might opt to quickly spray the entire exterior of their house with a temporary fire-retardant coating. Now, a team of Agricultural Research Service scientists in California—one of America's most wildfire-prone states—has shown that an experimental fire-retardant gel made of sodium bentonite clay, cornstarch, and water may offer better, more affordable pr ... http://phys.org/news/2013-09-temporary-coating-homes-wildfir
HOMES - Tornado-Proof House Renderings
The first prototype of a tornado-proof house will be built in Utica, Kans., a very small town roughly 200 miles west of Wichita. Earlier this month, we wrote about this desig ..
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MOVIES - James Cameron: 'Gravity' Is 'The Best Space Film Ever Done'
Director James Cameron ("Avatar," "Titanic") has declared Alfonso Cuaron's upcoming film "Gravity" the "best space film ever done." The film starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as an astronaut and engineer getting lost in space opened the Venice Film Festival last week and has been receiving countless high praise.  ... http://www.businessinsider.com/james-cameron-gravity-is-the-
MOVIES - Under the Skin – Venice 2013: first look review
When a strange and unclassifiable beast walks into the world, the public has a tendency to split down the middle. One camp is beguiled and the other repulsed. Such is the experience of the vampiric space alien played by Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin, and so it is with the film itself. Jonathan Glazer's extraordinary piece of outsider art – the director's first feature since 2004's Birth – was greeted at Venice by an even split of cheering ... http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/03/under-the-skin-r
MUSIC - Biotech’s First Musical Instrument Plays Proteins Like Piano Keys
First comes a cacophony of gongs, then flutters of chimes, then a deep melodic whale call—these are the sounds of the first musical instrument powered by biotechnology. The music comes from a black box in the home lab of Josiah Zayner, a biophysicist at the University of Chicago. Inside the box blue lights pulse on vials of proteins, which in turn trigger the sounds. Zayner calls it the chromochord ... http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=biotechs-fi
MUSIC - Florencia Fabris Dead: Argentine Opera Singer Dies At 38 Of Stroke
A promising Argentine opera singer suffered a stroke on stage while singing Giuseppe Verdi's "Requiem" and died two days later. Florencia Fabris, 38, was buried Tuesday ... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/04/florenia-fabris-dea
MUSIC - How To Be A Beatles Fan, In One Chart - Business Insider
Paul McCartney has released a new song, and you need to listen to it ... http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-be-a-beatles-fan-in-on
PEOPLE - No. 1: Bill Gates - In Photos: The World's Richest In Tech Billionaires 2013 - Forbes
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PEOPLE - Wedding Crunchers New York Times Vows Section
The folks at Rap Genius have come up with an awesome way to explore The New York Times' Vows section. They just launched Wedding Crunchers, which lets users measure the frequency of specific phrases in the newspaper's wedding announcements since 1981. Rap Genius puts the site's mission perfectly: "What do the world’s most self-important people think is important?" ... http://www.businessinsider.com/wedding-crunchers-new-york-ti
PLANTS - Juniper essential oil characteristics determined
Scientists evaluated Rocky Mountain juniper trees for changes in year-round essential oil content and composition. They found that the concentration of essential oil in fresh leaves varied, and that oil content in the male tree was greater than that of the female tree at most sampling points, thus demonstrating that both content and composition of essential oil from Rocky Mountain juniper are subject to seasonal changes and also depend on the sex ... http://phys.org/news/2013-09-juniper-essential-oil-character
SCIENCE - How to Square Numbers Quickly
Scientific American presents Math Dude by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. After all of the fun we’ve had recounting the tales of Knot Dude, Papa Knot, seafaring pyramid builders, and the loads and loads of algebraic goodness they all used in their adventures, it’s time to shift our attention elsewhere for a while and talk about some practical and easy techniques that y ... http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-to-squa
SCIENCE - New groundbreaking research may expose new aspects of the universe
No one knows for sure, but it is not unlikely that the universe is constructed in a completely different way than the usual theories and models of today predict. The most widely used model today cannot explain everything in the universe, and therefore there is a need to explore the parts of nature which the model cannot explain. This research field is called new physics, and it turns our understanding of the universe upside down. New research now ... http://phys.org/news/2013-09-groundbreaking-expose-aspects-u
SCIENCE - New low-temperature chemical reaction explained
In all the centuries that humans have studied chemical reactions, just 36 basic types of reactions have been found. Now, thanks to the work of researchers at MIT and the University of Minnesota, a 37th type of reaction can be added to the list ... http://phys.org/news/2013-09-low-temperature-chemical-reacti
SPACE - Danish experiment suggests unexpected magic by cosmic rays in cloud formation
According to the theory, small clusters of molecules in the atmosphere have difficulty growing large enough to act as "cloud condensation nuclei" on which water droplets can gather to make our familiar low-altitude clouds. The SKY2 experiment shows that the growth of clusters is much more vigorous, provided ionizing rays—gamma rays in the experiment or cosmic rays in the atmosphere—are present to work their chemical magic. Details of th ... http://phys.org/news/2013-09-danish-unexpected-magic-cosmic-
SPACE - Home PCs Help Pinpoint Pulsars
It’s pretty rare to find a scientific study that acknowledges key contributions from individuals who go by names like “IG_the_cheetah” and “Revoluzzer.” But Ig and Rev were big helps in finding previously unknown pulsars in our own Milky Way galaxy—24 of them. The discovery is in the Astrophysical Journal. [Benjamin Knispel et al, Einstein@Home Discovery of 24 Pulsars in the Parkes Multi-beam Pulsar Survey ... http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=hom
SPACE - How Powerful Would A Laser Need To Be In Order To Send A Signal To Another Star System?
Theoretically, any laser could be used, because a single photon could travel the distance unimpeded. But a single photon is difficult to detect. So, the real limit is based on the sensitivity of the receiver in the other star system. For example, in just the human eye, 9 photons hitting a rod/cone cell in the retina in under 0.1 seconds is enough for the brain to take notice ... http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/09/04/how-powerful-wo
SPACE - NASA evaluates four candidate sites for 2016 Mars mission
NASA has narrowed to four the number of potential landing sites for the agency's next mission to the surface of Mars, a 2016 lander to study the planet's interior ... http://phys.org/news/2013-09-nasa-candidate-sites-mars-missi
URBAN - 'Gorgeous piece of public art': World's largest self-anchored suspension bridge opens in San Fran
A San Francisco Bay bridge that's the world's largest self-anchored suspension crossing was put to the test Tuesday, with thousands of commuters traversing its length after it opened six years behind schedule and five times over budget ... 
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URBAN - Concrete developed at EPFL to rescue Brittany's lighthouses
A lighthouse turret off the coast of Lorient in Brittany has been enhanced with technology developed at EPFL for bridges. This trial run will test the application of Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC) ... 
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-concrete-epfl-brittany-lighthou
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URBAN - Need To Pack Up Your House? Wash Your Clothes? There's An App For That
Technology has brought the world of convenience to our fingertips. With a few taps on our phones, we can hail cabs, book hotels, and make restaurant reservations. And yet, when it comes to certain industries, there is still room for improvement. Take, for example, the self-storage industry ... http://www.forbes.com/sites/ilyapozin/2013/09/04/need-to-pac
URBAN - Stair of the Week: A spiral in Copenhagen
In most office buildings, stairs are required fire exits and little more, often alarmed so that even if you want to use them, you can't. I have noted before that if stairs were designed with more care and flair, then people wouldn't take the elevators and escalators so much, saving energy and making people healthier. Mayor Bloomberg of New York has recently joined the party, with his Center for Active Design, promoting " greater physical mov ... http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/stair-week-spir
URBAN - Vascular Window Keeps Room Cooler
Windows can offer beautiful natural light. But on bright days, the sunlight can bake a room. That trapped heat drives up air conditioning use and energy costs ... http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=vas
WORK - Most Common Work Conversation
"How's work going?" "I'm completely swamped. I haven't made it to the gym in weeks." "Me, too. I feel like I'm living in the office." Almost everyone's had some version of this conversation. It's often followed by a promise to catch up over drinks or lunch, which neither party follows up on ... http://www.businessinsider.com/most-common-work-conversation
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