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Satellite images of Earth, city lights at night Posted By: Bryan Chan, latimes.com Photography NASA has released images of Earth at night from the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership satellite that is orbiting 512 miles above the Earth’s surface. The agency stitched some of these images together to create a… http://flip.it/qaOMz Related articles This gorgeous video…
Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net More than 100 biomedical and life science companies are clustered in Genome Valley, a research park in Hyderabad, India. (Via Joanne Manaster) Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley Related articles The Other Silicon Valley That The Tech Industry Is Leaving Behind [Video] (techcrunch.com) Silicon Valley to boost…
What birds are doing with your cigarette butts Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net Nicotine is one of nature’s bug zappers. Seriously. Lots of plants have evolved to produce bug-repelling chemicals as part of their defense mechanisms and tobacco happens to be one of those plants. So when city-dwelling birds use the… RT @BoingBoing: What birds are doing…
Chris Christie listened to Rupert Murdoch’s warning, re-backed Romney – Salon.com By David Daley, salon.com After the Fox News chief threatened the governor on Twitter, the two men quickly talked, and Christie got on board Rupert Murdoch’s warning tweet — telling Chris Christie in the midst of Hurricane Sandy cleanup that the New Jersey governo……
Listen up, Marco Rubio!: Science lessons for the tea party – Salon.com By William Bynum, salon.com Marco Rubio doesn’t know how old the Earth is. Maybe he and his GOP pals need this refresher on the Big Bang If a film of the history of the universe had been made, what would happen if you…
“Doomsday Preppers”: Living like you’re gonna die tomorrow – Salon.com By Roger Catlin, salon.com Forget “The Walking Dead” and “Revolution.” These National Geographic characters are truly ready for doomsday The envy was fairly palpable among the gathered “Doomsday Preppers” as the 25-ton, 10-foot-tall, 18-inch-thick doors swung open,… RT @NYTjamescobb: Doomsday preppers “imagine they’ll have the…
Sushi really does kill your brain – Salon.com By Paul Ames, GlobalPost, salon.com A new report warns that mercury contamination can cause restricted cerebral development and other health problems BRUSSELS, Belgium — Can eating too much sushi reduce your brain power? Mercury contamination in big fish such as sharks… RT @Salon: Put down that tuna…
My Traveling Tiny House Site by Sophic, tinyhouselistings.com Posted by Steven on November 26, 2012 // 34 Comments By Christy Dean Four months ago I moved out of my 2 bedroom home and into this tiny (mobile) house. I’m traveling the country in my little nest and I love it! It gets a lot of……
Seven Productivity Myths, Debunked by Science (and Common Sense) Alan Henry, lifehacker.com The end goal of “productivity” is to spend less time doing the things you have to do so you have more time for the things you want to do. Of course, if you follow every morsel of productivity advice out there, you probably…
Can I Leave My Gadgets In a Cold or Hot Car? Whitson Gordon, lifehacker.com Dear Lifehacker, I almost always have my laptop, iPod, and smartphone with me, but don’t always want to lug them around. Is it okay to leave them in my car if it’s particularly cold outside? What about in the summer heat?…
Get a Sustainable Night’s Sleep On an Ultra-Comfy, Uber-Cozy Coco-Mat Mattress | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Yuka Yoneda says:, inhabitat.com The average person sleeps around eight hours a night — which amounts to a third of your life spent in bed. But despite the amount of time that we find…
Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide inhabitat.com http://flip.it/M3Ixh Related articles Inhabitat’s Week in Green: stair-climbing vacuum cleaner, carbon dioxide diapers and a real 3D-printed face (engadget.com)
Mango, Esprit Pledge to Eliminate Toxic Chemicals From Supply Chains by 2020, Thanks to Greenpeace Campaign ecouterre.com Greenpeace’s “Detox” campaign is having a banner month. Not only did the environmental nonprofit convince Zara, the world’s No. 1 apparel retailer, to commit to eliminating hazardous chemicals from its supply chain by 2020, but… http://flip.it/L9zUA Related articles…
AP, huffingtonpost.com DOHA, Qatar — Hassan al-Kubaisi considers it a gift from above that drivers in oil- and gas-rich Qatar only have to pay $1 per gallon at the pump. “Thank God that our country is an oil producer and the price of gasoline is one of the… Fossil Fuel Subsidies In Focus At Doha…
SodaStream’s Banned Ad Helps Home Carbonation Company Hit It Big Rachel Tepper, huffingtonpost.com An ad for SodaStream, a home carbonation product, has been making the rounds worldwide. In it, bottles of soda seem to combust spontaneously every time someone uses the SodaStream elsewhere in the world. The takeaway: why pay for… http://flip.it/BgTFD Related articles 3…
Editorials, bloomberg.com After Hurricane Sandy, survivors needed, in addition to safety and power, the ability to communicate. Yet in parts of New York City, mobile communications services were knocked out for days. The problem? The companies that… http://flpbd.it/aV6Ma Why Cell Phones Went Dead After Hurricane Sandy Related articles Coldplay’s Chris Martin Supports Hurricane Sandy Relief…
By Osha Gray Davidson, bloomberg.com InsideClimateNews.org (Phoenix, Arizona) — From a block away, the house was hardly visible, hidden by a dense stand of native mesquite and palo verde trees and tall clumps of prickly pear cactus. Close up, you could see the concrete block… http://flpbd.it/wYLbh Can the U.S. Create Its Own German-Style Energy Revolution?…
By Eric Roston, bloomberg.com In the halting, measured language we’ve come to expect from his impromptu public remarks, President Obama posed a core dilemma of climate change yesterday at his first post-election press conference. Explaining the possible… Blame Wimpy for Slow U.S. Response to Climate Change Related articles Keystone XL will “lock in” more climate…
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