AIR - More Arctic Methane Bubbles into Atmosphere
Scientists are continually working to improve estimates of just how much methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is being emitted from the Arctic.http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=more-arctic
ANIMALS - Dog rescued from the world's largest man-made hole in South Africa.
Recently tourists who were visiting Kimberley's Big Hole in South Africa spotted a dog in distress who had fallen down into the hole. Kimberley's Big Hole is a no longer used diamond mine and is 42 acres in dimension and a cliff drop of 700 feet (200 meters), which is roughly the height of a 50 storey building. The tourist guides apparently called rescue organizations to let them know of the dog's plight.Kobus de Jonge posted on social media with
ANIMALS - Fun facts about the National Zoo’s animals
We know, we know: T he National Zoo has pandas. And even a new baby! No one’s more excited than we are here at KidsPost about mom Mei Xiang, dad Tian Tian and their soon-to-be-named cub. But the zoo is home to about 2,000 other animals: from the very big, such as 10,000-pound elephant Bozie, to the very small, such as the naked mole rats , which weigh less than a pound. And among all of those animals are millions of facts! There’s a lot to seehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/fun-facts-a
ANIMALS - How a Canadian town is teaching polar bears to fear humans in order to save them – video
Suzanne Goldenberg reports from Churchill where its bear alert programme uses guns, helicopters and a polar bear jail to manage the the creaturesLaurence TophamSuzanne Goldenberhttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2013/nov/25/pol
ANIMALS - Researchers in Spain to attempt to clone extinct mountain goat
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers in Spain, with the Centre for Research and Food Technology of Aragon, has signed an agreement with the Aragon Hunting Federation (which they announced to the press) to begin testing the possibility of cloning a mountain goat that went extinct back in 2000http://phys.org/news/2013-11-spain-clone-extinct-mountain-go
ANIMALS - TIL the density of the fur of an otter is incredible 50.000 hairs per square centimeter
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BOOKS - At Long Last, a Full-Length Novel from Award-Winning Writer Ken Liu
We've marveled at Ken Liu's short fiction — especially "Paper Menagerie," the story that won an astonishing three major awards. But also a number of other great tales. Now at last, he's sold a novel — the first in a brand new fantasy series featuring gods, politics and war. We've got the exclusive announcement
BOOKS - Book Excerpt: Pathways to Peace
A poem on bringing peace to a war-torn world through merging togetherhttp://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/books/excerpts.php?id
CLIMATE - Rain as acidic as lemon juice may have contributed to ancient mass extinction
Rain as acidic as undiluted lemon juice may have played a part in killing off plants and organisms around the world during the most severe mass extinction in Earth's historyhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131125125445.ht
CLIMATE - Southern Alps glaciers reducing rapidly
Historic records show Franz Josef Glacier retreated three kilometres in the last century and mathematical modeling indicates it is likely to retreat even more this century .http://phys.org/news/2013-11-southern-alps-glaciers-rapidly.
CLIMATE - The New York Times is dropping the ball on climate change
As a year that began with the Times' dismantling of its nine-person environment desk, closely followed by the shuttering of its Green blog, draws to a close, public editor Margaret Sullivan revisited allegations that the paper of record has been slacking on climate coverage.She confirmed, in a column published over the weekend, that there's been a drop in both the quantity and quality of climate change coverage over a six month period this year,http://www.salon.com/2013/11/25/the_new_york_times_is_droppi
EARTH - Ancient minerals: Which gave rise to life?
Life originated as a result of natural processes that exploited early Earth's raw materials. Scientific models of life's origins almost always look to minerals for such essential tasks as the synthesis of life's molecular building blocks or the supply of metabolic energy. But this assumes that the mineral species found on Earth today are much the same as they were during Earth's first 550 million years -- the Hadean Eon -- when life emerged.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131125164814.ht
EARTH - More gases erupt from rumbling Indonesian volcano
Powerful bursts of hot ash and gravel erupted from a rumbling volcano in western Indonesia early Monday, sending panicked villagers streaming down the sides of the mountain .http://phys.org/news/2013-11-gases-erupt-rumbling-indonesian
EARTH - Scientists Explore New Zealand s Deep Sea (Part I)
The Shinkai 6500, a submersible able to descend to 6.5km under the surface, and explore many of the deepest parts of the ocean. Image: JAMSTEC The JAMSTEC research vessel RV Yokosuka sailed from Nuku’alofa in Tonga this morning, heading towards New Zealand to explore the animal life on deep undersea mountains, or seamounts. A team of 14 scientists from Japan and New Zealand, 41 ships officers and crew are on board.http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/expeditions/2013/11/25/s
ENERGY - Drones to be power plants in the sky, beam energy back to earth
A company called New Wave Energy UK has an ambitious goal for harvesting solar, wind, and heat energy from 50,000 feet above the surface of the planet, and beaming it back down to earth ..
ENERGY - Schneider and Energy Pool to Help Japan Fill Its Energy Gap With Demand Response
The business of turning down big industrial and commercial power loads to match grid needs is mainly a U.S. activity. But in Europe and Asia, it’s starting to gain more traction -- and in Europe, most of that business belongs to Energy Pool. The French demand response aggregator, founded in 2008, is responsible for managing about 1,300 megawatts of demand response capacity, with about four-fifths of France’s market, and a growing presence in
ENERGY - The Future of Energy Storage Is Behind the Meter
Image Credit: Shutterstock.com Today, energy storage is often described as new, emerging or risky. But tomorrow, one word will suffice: mainstream. In California, we have a near perfect storm of market signals moving the entire energy storage industry forward. On the hardware side, OEMs (battery and inverter manufacturers) have significantly reduced costs, while forward-thinking policymakers and financiers are
ENERGY - The World's Biggest Oil Companies
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ENERGY - Unlocking 'stranded' oil and gas reserves
Engineers at The University of Western Australia are stepping up their efforts to improve the international competitiveness of the local energy and resources industry by undertaking research which could revolutionise the foundations of deep-sea oil and gas pipeline infrastructurehttp://phys.org/news/2013-11-stranded-oil-gas-reserves.htm
ENERGY - What The Nuclear Deal With Iran Means For Global Oil Markets
The preliminary nuclear deal between Iran and the U.S. and other allies opens the door for an easing of economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic, but it won't result in flooded global crude oil markets .. ...
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ENVIRONMENT - Human Health Depends on a Healthy Environment
What is the value of an intact rainforest ? From a people perspective, maybe it's more useful turned into lumber and cropland.http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=hum
ENVIRONMENT - Increasing cropping frequency offers opportunity to boost food supply
Harvesting existing cropland more frequently could substantially increase global food production without clearing more land for agriculture, according to a new study from the Institute on the Environment (IonE) at the University of Minnesotahttp://phys.org/news/2013-11-cropping-frequency-opportunity-
ENVIRONMENT - Methane emissions from industry soar past previous estimates, study says
Emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane from industrial activities in the United States are vastly higher than previous estimates, according to a new study ..http://www.nbcnews.com/science/methane-emissions-industry-so
HOMES - Tiny houses go modular and customizable
If you're going to live in a tiny space, says Jay Schafer, it's really important that the space is designed to meet your specific needs .. ...
MOVIES - Doctor Who villains echo concerns about technology
On the eve of Doctor Who's 50th anniversary, a bioethics researcher at the University of Leicester claims that one of the Doctor's most fearsome villains – the Cybermen – represent public concerns about the greater use of technology in medicine .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-doctor-villains-echo-technology
MOVIES - For Sale: One Maltese Falcon, Dreams Included
At an auction in New York, one of the two statues used in the 1941 movie will be up for bid. Sam Spade would say the falcon is much more than a bird: It's the "stuff that dreams are made of."http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/11/25/247162646/for
MOVIES - Movies That Will Make You Hungry, Just In Time For Thanksgiving
It's doubtful anyone needs help working up an appetite for Thanksgiving, but that doesn't mean a feast for the eyes is off the pre-holiday table. In fact, it may inspire a stomach rumble or two.In honor of Thanksgiving dinner, here 11 movies that will make you hungryhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/25/movies-that-make-yo
PEOPLE - TODAY's Takeaway: Samaritan empowers homeless man, Giada talks on-air slice
1. When software engineer Patrick McConlogue saw a homeless man on the street, he offered him a choice: $100 or lessons in writing computer code. Leo Grand chose the lessons, and his life immediately changed.“You give a man a fish, you feed him for a day,’’ McConlogue told Savannahhttp://www.today.com/news/todays-takeaway-samaritan-empowers
PLANTS - A plant which acclimatizes with no exterior influence
Plants have a love-hate relationship with sunlight. While some wavelengths are indispensable to them for performing photosynthesis, others, such as UV-B, are deleterious. Therefore, plants are equipped to detect these highly toxic rays and mount their defences. A team led by Roman Ulm, Professor at the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, has generated a transgenic plant which acclimatises constitutively, regardle ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-acclimatizes-exterior.htm
PLANTS - How scavenging fungi became a plant's best friend
Glomeromycota is an ancient lineage of fungi that has a symbiotic relationship with roots that goes back nearly 420 million years to the earliest plants. More than two thirds of the world's plants depend on this soil-dwelling symbiotic fungus to survive, including critical agricultural crops such as wheat, cassava, and rice. The analysis of the Rhizophagus irregularis genome has revealed that this asexual fungus doesn't shuffle its genes the wayhttp://phys.org/news/2013-11-scavenging-fungi-friend.html
PLANTS - TIL There’s a plant in Australia that can kill you if you touch it!
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SCIENCE - Creating Organs From Scratch: Scientists Say They Can Bioprint The First 3-D Heart In 10 Years
Dr. Stuart K. Williams and a team of cardiovascular scientists at the University of Louisville believe they can print a 3-dimensional, functional heart in just ten years using a patient’s own cells. Williams, who is the executive and scientific director at the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute at the university, claims that the heart should be the easiest organ to bioprint. “It’s just a pump with tubes you need to connect,”http://www.pakalertpress.com/2013/11/25/creating-organs-from
SCIENCE - Here are 20 fantastic tips that can help you interpret scientific claims.
Here are 20 fantastic tips that can help you interpret scientific claims. Science and scientific studies are becoming increasingly relevant to everyone's lives.http://io9.com/when-it-comes-to-issues-as-diverse-as-disappe
SCIENCE - Polymer gel, heal thyself: Team proposes new composites that can regenerate when damaged
(Phys.org) —When a chair leg breaks or a cell phone shatters, either must be repaired or replaced. But what if these materials could be programmed to regenerate-themselves, replenishing the damaged or missing components, and thereby extend their lifetime and reduce the need for costly repairshttp://phys.org/news/2013-11-polymer-gel-thyself-team-compos
SCIENCE - Ultra-sensitive force sensing with a levitating nanoparticle
A recent study led by researchers of the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) achieved the highest force sensitivity ever observed with a nano-mechanical resonator. The scientific results of this study have been published in Nature Physics .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-ultra-sensitive-levitating-nano
SPACE - An observer's guide for watching Comet ISON's light show in the sky
The incoming Comet ISON is now in the home stretch of its long-awaited hairpin loop around the sun on Thanksgiving Day, making it a great target for amateur astronomers and stargazers. But there are some tips and info you'll want to keep in mind before you go comet huntinghttp://www.nbcnews.com/science/observers-guide-watching-come
SPACE - Behold the recorded history of meteorites hitting Earth, all in one interactive graph
Thousands and thousands of meteorites have hit the Earth over human history (and millions upon millions before that)
SPACE - Could dying planets harbor life?
If life does exist anywhere else in the universe, it may only be fleeting. Now scientists are researching how signs of life might look on dying planetshttp://phys.org/news/2013-11-dying-planets-harbor-life.htm
SPACE - DNews: Meteorite Reveals Secrets of Mars' Past
A piece of rock found its way all the way from Mars to a desert in northwest Africa. And now it has the potential to tell us all kinds of things about the Red Planet. Trace explains what this one rock might help scientists uncoverhttp://news.discovery.com/space/videos/meteorite-reveals-sec
TREES - What the heck is this 'natural trampoline'?
Check out what a pair of hikers discovered in a forest near a little river in St. Jerome, Quebec, Canada. It almost looks like someone buried a trampoline under a layer of topsoil, but what you're seeing is completely natural — and probably not very safe. Read more..
URBAN - The world beneath the sidewalk
There's an entire world under your feet, saturated by colors out of space and patrolled by colonies of bandit animals. Once in a while, you are able to visit. Here is what it looks like.
URBAN - This prototype turns a pallet of water bottles into a disaster shelter
This innovative solution takes two common disaster relief items and upcycles them into a breathable, weather-resistant, shelter unit .. ...
WIND - Tomorrow's wind turbines could look like enormous owl wings
Engineers often take inspiration from animal designs because they're more efficient than machines are. In the case of owl wings, nature has a major advantage over human engineering: owl wings are uncannily quiet. Now, researchers are considering outfitting wind turbines with an upscaled equivalent – if they can figure out how to do it.Read more..
WIND - Wind Turbine Bird Deaths Cost Duke $1M
It’s a slow turn, but the Obama administration seems to be steering the wind power industry toward killing fewer birds. The latest sign: For the first time, a wind power company is paying for neglecting to do what it could to protect birds, including golden eagles.The company is Duke Energy Renewables, subsidiary of energy giant Duke Energy. The bird deaths – 14 golden eagles and 149 other protected birds, including hawks, blackbirds, larks,
WIND - Wind farm 'dropped by developer'
A huge wind farm off the North Devon coast will not go ahead, the BBC understands .http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-25095868#sa-ns_mc
WORK - Companies that screen social media accounts alienate job candidates
Research from North Carolina State University shows companies that screen the social media accounts of job applicants alienate potential employees – making it harder for them to attract top job candidates. In some cases, social media screening even increases the likelihood that job candidates may take legal action against the offending companyhttp://phys.org/news/2013-11-companies-screen-social-media-a
WORK - Women directors better at mergers and acquisitions
The more women there are on a corporate board the less a company pays for its acquisitions, according to a new study by researchers at UBC's Sauder School of Business .http://phys.org/news/2013-11-women-directors-mergers-acquisi
WRITE - NPR journalist talks about stories he found compelling
In a talk before a student-packed audience in the Davenport College master’s house, National Public Radio (NPR) correspondent and Yale alumnus Ari Shapiro described his first encounter with President Barack Obama as a “powerful” and poignant moment .. ...
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WRITE - Nicholson Baker’s best advice: Writers must write every day
One huge piece of advice came to me from Bill Wentworth, who was the editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and I was so in love with reading the Atlantic at the time. Once or twice I got a chance to work with Bill Wentworth on a piece or two – and I was just kind of struggling to support myself and, you know, life is busy and I wasn't writing that much. He just said very simply, "Are you writing every day?" and I said, "Ummmm," and I sort of mumbled behttp://www.salon.com/2013/11/25/nicholson_bakers_best_advice
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