By TODD WOODY | The New York Times | May 7, 2010 AMID the $6 million homes perched on a beachfront cliff in this conservative Southern California enclave, the seven-year-old Honda Civic hybrid with the Obama bumper sticker is the giveaway. It’s not the usual drive of choice for wealthy former hedge fund managers like [...]
Posted by Lindsay Brooke-Nottingham | FUTURITY | Friday, April 23, 2010 16:12 U. NOTTINGHAM (UK)—Scientists have discovered the gene that enables an extraordinary worm to regrow its whole head and brain—and other body parts—after amputation. The finding is another step forward in efforts to explore how humans might one day regenerate damaged organs and tissue. [...]
By Daniel Roth | Wired May 2010 | April 19, 2010 | 12:00 pm It’s late November 2009, and US energy secretary Steven Chu is leaning against a fake sink in a fake kitchen. Chu is 62 years old and athletically trim with graying black hair. He’s wearing a rumpled pin-striped suit, argyle socks, and [...]
By PAUL KRUGMAN | The New York Times Magazine | April 05, 2010 If you listen to climate scientists — and despite the relentless campaign to discredit their work, you should — it is long past time to do something about emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. If we continue with business as [...]
By DANIEL GOLEMAN and GREGORY NORRIS | Opinion – The New York Times | April 04, 2010 With e-readers like Apple’s new iPad and Amazon’s Kindle touting their vast libraries of digital titles, some bookworms are bound to wonder if tomes-on-paper will one day become quaint relics. But the question also arises, which is more [...]
Biologists study whether sea creatures could be used to counteract damage to ecosystems By Randy Shore | Vancouver Sun | March 24, 2010 New designs for fish farms could keep them in the ocean and help restore damaged marine environments at the same time, says a biologist working on a five-year nationwide aquaculture project. Marine [...]
Regulated or Not, Nano-Foods Coming to a Store Near You Second in a Three-Part Series By Andrew Schneider | AOL Special Report | March 24, 2010 (March 24) — For centuries, it was the cook and the heat of the fire that cajoled taste, texture, flavor and aroma from the pot. Today, that culinary voodoo [...]
Series By Alan During | Sightline Daily | March 15-19, 2010 Imagine an electric bike. Zipping through the city. Surging up hills without gasping for breath. Riding in business dress and arriving fresh and dry. Healthy, moderate exercise. No traffic jams. Free parking. Huge load-hauling potential. Near-free fueling. Zero emissions. Breeze in your face. Appealing! [...]
By Greg Lindsay | FAST COMPANY | February 1, 2010 The world is bracing for an influx of billions of new urbanites in the coming decades, and tech companies are rushing to build new green cities to house them. Are these companies creating a smarter metropolis — or just making money? Stan Gale is exultant. [...]
But DSCOVR remains grounded. That fact is key to interpreting the so-called ‘climategate’ emails. by Mitchell Anderson | TheTyee.ca | January 20, 2010 The media missed the real story about the so-called “climategate” scandal. After thousands of emails were mysteriously stolen from the University of East Anglia and distributed just before the climate conference in Copenhagen, many [...]