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Are instant insurance quotes as good as the ones you would get by sitting down in your neighborhood insurance agency? Yes, as long as you're truthful and accurate as you fill out your online application. If you lie about your tobacco use, hide that your hobby is hang gliding, or conceal a pre-existing illness, the insurance company may refuse to pay your claims. Insurance comparison websites work with many different insurance companies and they do not receive commissions for steering you toward one particular company or plan. So you can be assured that the quotes you receive are impartial and accurate................Go to healthQuotesSite

Demand for food, energy demand to outpace production

With the caloric needs of the planet expected to soar by 50 percent in the next 40 years, planning and investment in global agriculture will become critically important, according a new report released recently (June 25). The report, produced by Deutsche Bank, one of the world's leading global investment banks, in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, provides a framework for........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 6/25/2009 7:12:12 PM)

In a Geologic Instant

Modern glaciers, such as those making up the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, are capable of undergoing periods of rapid shrinkage or retreat, as per new findings by paleoclimatologists at the University at Buffalo. The paper, published on June 21 in Nature Geoscience, describes fieldwork demonstrating that a prehistoric glacier in the Canadian Arctic rapidly retreated in just a few hundred years. The proof of such rapid retreat of ice........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 6/21/2009 8:40:46 PM)

Extreme makeover chemistry style

In revisiting a chemical reaction that's been in the literature for several decades and adding a new wrinkle of their own, scientists with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have discovered a mild and relatively inexpensive procedure for removing oxygen from biomass. This procedure, if it can be effectively industrialized, could allow a number of of today's petrochemical products, including plastics, to instead be made........Go to the Chemistry-blog (Added on 6/16/2009 9:42:50 PM)

Positive ads aren't always the most effective

Ads that feature positive emotions, like happiness, are not always the best way to reach consumers, as per a newly released study in the Journal of Consumer Research Authors Loraine Lau-Gesk (University of California, Irvine) and Joan Meyers-Levy (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis) investigated consumer attitudes toward emotional ads. They discovered that people's responses are affected by factors such as the amount of mental energy or........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 6/16/2009 5:13:22 AM)

A new measure of global warming from carbon emissions

Damon Matthews, a professor in Concordia University's Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment has found a direct relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and global warming. Matthews, together with colleagues from Victoria and the U.K., used a combination of global climate models and historical climate data to show that there is a simple linear relationship between total cumulative emissions and global temperature change. ........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 6/10/2009 9:43:43 PM)

Maybe it's raining less than we thought

It's conventional wisdom in atmospheric science circles: large raindrops fall faster than smaller drops, because they're bigger and heavier. And no raindrop can fall faster than its "terminal speed"its speed when the downward force of gravity is exactly the same as the upward air resistance. Now two physicists from Michigan Technological University and his colleagues at the Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico (National University of........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 6/10/2009 8:42:03 PM)

Nanoscale zipper cavity

Physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a nanoscale device that can be used for force detection, optical communication, and more. The device exploits the mechanical properties of light to create an optomechanical cavity in which interactions between light and motion are greatly strengthened and enhanced. These interactions, notes Oskar Painter, associate professor of applied physics at Caltech, and the........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 6/5/2009 4:56:08 AM)

Glass Bottles for an Eco-Friendly Spa Table

Bring the spa look home with an eco-friendly spin. Crate and Barrel has some nifty Glass Beverage Bottles that are inspired by their plastic counterparts. Available in a small and large size, the clear glass bottles come with silicone stoppers........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 6/4/2009 8:51:01 PM)

A large red quart into a very pint pot

The Nimik 2CV is a Citroen 2CV van. With a Ferrari V8, 3.5 litre engine squeezed into the back seat. Boys will be boys….[Video........Go to the Auto-blog (Added on 6/4/2009 8:33:46 PM)

Memory with a twist

Electronic memory chips may soon gain the ability to bend and twist as a result of work by engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). As published in the July 2009 issue of IEEE Electron Device Letters,* the engineers have found a way to build a flexible memory component out of inexpensive, readily available materials. Though still not ready for the marketplace, the new device is promising not only because of its........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 6/3/2009 5:01:42 AM)

Nanosecond pressure jump

A new method to induce protein folding by taking the pressure off of proteins is up to 100 times faster than prior methods, and could help guide more accurate computer simulations for how complex proteins fold, as per research by a team of University of Illinois researchers accepted for publication in the journal Nature Methods and posted on the journal's Web site May 31. Martin Gruebele, the James R. Eiszner Professor of Chemistry at the U.........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 6/1/2009 6:56:40 PM)

Learning To Shave Your Lady Region

Tonight"s a brand spanking new edition of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, and hopefully, some sparks might start flying with these ladies. In the meantime, here"s a clip of resident battle ax Caroline forcing her daughter to learn the finer art of pubic waxing. After the jump, two bonus clips that I honestly haven"t seen (they weren"t working on the Bravo website, but hopefully they"ll embed fine here). I don"t really know what they"re........Go to the Entertainment-blog (Added on 6/1/2009 5:44:13 PM)

Who will pick up the bill?

Ocean acidification, a direct result of increased CO2 emission, is set to change the Earth's marine ecosystems forever and may have a direct impact on our economy, resulting in substantial revenue declines and job losses. Intensive fossil-fuel burning and deforestation over the last two centuries have increased atmospheric CO2 levels by almost 40%, which has in turn fundamentally altered ocean chemistry by acidifying surface waters. Fish........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 6/1/2009 4:57:05 AM)

When is it Safe To Hire Someone With a Criminal Record?

Carnegie Mellon University scientists have created a model for providing empirical evidence on when an ex-convict has been "clean" long enough to be considered "redeemed" for employment purposes. The newly released study, which appears in the current issue of Criminology, estimates that after five years of staying clean an individual with a criminal record is of no greater risk of committing another crime than other individuals of the same........Go to the Jobs-blog (Added on 5/28/2009 5:15:09 AM)

Ocean life in olden days

Before oil hunters in the early 1800s harpooned whales by the score, the ocean around New Zealand teemed with about 27,000 southern right whales - roughly 30 times as a number of as today - as per one of several astonishing reconstructions of ocean life in olden days to be presented at a Census of Marine Life conference May 26-28. At about the same time, UK scientists say large pods of blue whales and orcas, blue sharks and thresher sharks........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 5/24/2009 8:50:19 PM)

Hawaii Car Rentals

If you are on vacation to the Big Island, Hawaii car rentals is one of the best options you have to reach your favorite destinations. You can find affordable Hawaii car rentals that suit your needs, without much effort. Hawaii car rentals also offer several car classes, which include economy, compact, convertible, jeep wrangler, SUV, premium, luxury, 12 or 15 passenger van, pick up truck or cargo van. Also, if you have reserved a Hawaiian........Go to the Auto-blog (Added on 5/19/2009 8:18:33 PM)

Judges' backgrounds matter in high court selection

Some federal judges are tossing out civil cases based on their own opinions, a disturbing trend that makes background checks even more important in the search for a new associate justice for the U.S. Supreme Court, a University of Illinois legal expert says. A study by law professor Suja A. Thomas observed that judges improperly dismiss cases based on their own view of evidence because legal standards - which require them to gauge whether........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 5/19/2009 5:14:57 AM)

Detecting single atoms

Researchers have devised a new technique for real-time detection of freely moving individual neutral atoms that is more than 99.7% accurate and sensitive enough to discern the arrival of a single atom in less than one-millionth of a second, about 20 times faster than the best prior methods. The system, described in Advance Online Publication at the Nature Physics web site by scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) in College Park,........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 5/18/2009 5:38:51 AM)

Shift in Simulation Superiority

Science and engineering are advancing rapidly in part due to ever more powerful computer simulations, yet the most advanced supercomputers require programming skills that all too few U.S. scientists possess. At the same time, affordable computers and committed national programs outside the U.S. are eroding American competitiveness in number of simulation-driven fields. These are some of the key findings in the International Evaluation of........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 5/14/2009 9:36:43 PM)

Sediments that result from natural petroleum seeps

A newly released study by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is the first to quantify the amount of oil residue in seafloor sediments that result from natural petroleum seeps off Santa Barbara, California. The newly released study shows the oil content of sediments is highest closest to the seeps and tails off with distance, creating an oil fallout shadow. It........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 5/14/2009 5:25:01 AM)

Feeling cramped while shopping?

When consumers find themselves in stores with narrow aisles, they react in a surprising way: they seek variety. As per a newly released study in the Journal of Consumer Research, confined spaces might help people diversify their choices. Authors Jonathan Levav (Columbia University) and Rui (Juliet) Zhu (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) built on previous research on "psychological reactance," behaviors consumers employ to attempt to........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 5/13/2009 5:21:31 AM)

Green renovations in existing US schools

Going green with new construction is a good idea, but what about renovating existing structures? Like, say, the 20 billion square feet of existing U.S. public schools, 40 percent of which have 15 million students in poor environmental conditions? These are questions at the heart of research by Ihab M.K. Elzeyadi, a professor of architecture at the University of Oregon. Elzeyadi has completed the first stage of creating a Green Classroom........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 5/12/2009 5:26:00 AM)

West coast areas most affected by humans

Climate change, fishing, and commercial shipping top the list of threats to the ocean off the West Coast of the United States. "Every single spot of the ocean along the West Coast," said Ben Halpern, a marine ecologist at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, "is affected by 10 to 15 different human activities annually". In a two-year study to document the way........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 5/12/2009 5:22:43 AM)

Particles, molecules prefer not to mix

In the world of small things, shape, order and orientation are surprisingly important, as per findings from a newly released study by chemists at Washington University in St. Louis. Lev Gelb, WUSTL associate professor of chemistry, his graduate student Brian Barnes, and postdoctoral researcher Daniel Siderius, used computer simulations to study a very simple model of molecules on surfaces, which looks a lot like the computer game "Tetris."........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 5/5/2009 5:14:16 AM)

Nanotechnology holds promise

Yale scientists describe a breakthrough in safe and effective administration of potential antiviral drugs small interfering RNA (siRNA) molecules that silence genes the first step in development of a new kind of therapy for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The work is reported May 4 as an advance online publication of Nature Materials "RNA interference is a promising approach for prevention and therapy of human disease," said main........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 5/4/2009 5:16:49 AM)

Mysterious disappearance of explorer Everett Ruess

The mysterious disappearance of Everett Ruess, a 20-year-old artist, writer and footloose explorer who wandered the Southwest in the early 1930s on a burro and who has become a folk hero to a number of, has been solved with the help of University of Colorado at Boulder scientists and the National Geographic Society. The short, compelling life of Ruess, who went missing in 1934 after leaving the town of Escalante, Utah, has been the subject........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 4/30/2009 9:47:37 PM)

Mexicans more sociable than Americans

Stereotypes often paint a partial or false picture of an individual or group. But now scientists have found evidence that supports a stereotype held by a number of in the United States that Mexicans are more outgoing, talkative, sociable and extroverted. The finding also contradicts the way a number of Mexicans view themselves as being less extroverted than Americans. A team of social psychology experts from the two countries explored........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 4/30/2009 9:45:12 PM)

How to catch the lightwave?

New Haven, Conn. As scientists push towards detection of single molecules, single electron spins and the smallest amounts of mass and movement, Yale scientists have demonstrated silicon-based nanocantilevers, smaller than the wavelength of light, that operate on photonic principles eliminating the need for electric transducers and expensive laser setups. The work reported in an April 26 advance online publication of Nature Nanotechnology........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 4/27/2009 5:21:22 AM)

What makes a cow a cow?

Scientists report today in the journal Science that they have sequenced the bovine genome, for the first time revealing the genetic features that distinguish cattle from humans and other mammals. The six-year effort involved an international consortium of scientists and is the first full genome sequence of any ruminant species. Ruminants are distinctive in that they have a four-chambered stomach that with the aid of a multitude of resident........Go to the Biology-blog (Added on 4/24/2009 5:14:35 AM)

10 Top Photography Composition Rules

The only rule in photography is that there are no rules. However, there are many composition guidelines which can be applied in almost any situation, to enhance the impact of a scene. Here are ten of the most popular and most widely respected composition "rules".........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 4/23/2009 10:50:34 PM)

Financial Barriers to Attending College Affect Young Students

Most young students do not enjoy homework. However, after being told that good grades will help them get into college and lead to a better life, most students eventually buckle down and start studying. But what if college is not an option? If a student thinks they won't be able to afford a higher education - if the path towards college feels closed to them - they may conclude that studying and homework are a waste of time. Psychology experts........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 4/23/2009 5:20:34 AM)

Do good looks lead to higher grades in school?

Do personal traits predict success in school? If so, which dimension of one's outward appearance can tell the most about academic achievement? The answers to these questions are found in a newly released study by scientists from the University of Miami Health Economics Research Group. The study is the first to demonstrate that non-cognitive traits play an important role in the assignment of grades in high school. Economists have examined the........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 4/22/2009 10:19:24 PM)

Classic Motorcycles to Appear at Pebble Beach

This guy must have been nuts. Wearing only a bathing suit, Roland "Rollie" Free rode "Gunga Din," a Vincent HRD V-Twin, the ninth in the new Black Shadow series, to a smouldering 150.313 mph in 1947, smashing the previous American speed record and establishing a new world record for unstreamlined and unsupercharged bikes. The bike was subsequently called Black Lightning and a similarly named series of race bikes was........Go to the Auto-blog (Added on 4/22/2009 10:05:31 PM)

MIA DVDs 3-D

By Craig Phillip Yet another in my series of fully biased reports on movies that are frustratingly absent a current DVD release here in the United States (the other two lists are here, and here.) Here are ten more neglected films -- and this is one article I wouldn"t mind seeing become dated, when/if these films finally do arrive on disc The List of Adrian Messenger: I"ll confess that I haven"t seen this one since I was a pre-teen (on........Go to the Entertainment-blog (Added on 4/22/2009 10:05:22 PM)

New technique may lead to sharper images

When photographers zoom in on an object to see it better, they lose the wide-angle perspective -- they are forced to trade off "big picture" context for detail. But now an imaging method developed by Princeton scientists could lead to lenses that show all parts of the scene at once in the same high detail. The new method could help build more powerful microscopes and other optical devices. "It allows you to take a closer look at an object........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 4/22/2009 5:23:50 AM)

Calling Fairy Godmothers

Our friend Florence the Shoegoddess is not only into shoes, she"s really into supporting A Place Called Home- a haven within South Central Los Angeles dedicated to providing at-risk youth with a secure, positive family environment. Florence has been working with APCH for years now and spends time weekly down in South Central with her "kids" as she calls them. One of the events by APCH is "The Cinderella Project" -- a Los Angeles-based........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 4/21/2009 10:29:51 PM)

Nigel Nolan at Le Gallery

I didn"t really know what to expect when I made my way over to Nigel Nolan"s latest show, Amuse-Bouche, at Le Gallery on Dundas West. I realize this is something of a fluff statement - one that writers often use to break the ice and get a post underway. But let me assure you: in this case, my intrigue was palpable. The main reason for this was the fact that I had taken a peek at the webpage that Nolan put together in anticipation of the........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 4/21/2009 10:29:39 PM)

Cuts in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Would Save Arctic Ice

The threat of global warming can still be greatly diminished if nations cut emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases by 70 percent this century, as per a new analysis. While global temperatures would rise, the most dangerous potential aspects of climate change, including massive losses of Arctic sea ice and permafrost and significant sea level rise, could be partially avoided. The study, led by researchers at the National Center for........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 4/20/2009 9:51:19 PM)

College students better prepared

Freshmen entering California State University, Sacramento, are better prepared to tackle college-level work than they were in 2004, suggesting that a five-year-old statewide program to assess college readiness among high school juniors is paying off. Those are the conclusions of a newly released study of California's Early Evaluation Program by Michal Kurlaender, an assistant professor of education at UC Davis, and scientists at California........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 4/17/2009 5:13:42 AM)

Temple that sheds light on Dark Age

The discovery of a remarkably well-preserved monumental temple in Turkey - believed to be constructed during the time of King Solomon in the 10th/9th-centuries BC - sheds light on the so-called Dark Age. Uncovered by the University of Toronto's Tayinat Archaeological Project (TAP) in the summer of 2008, the discovery casts doubt upon the traditional view that the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age was violent, sudden........Go to the Archeology-blog (Added on 4/16/2009 5:16:04 AM)

SEO Services

Search Engine Optimization is a combined order of practices that yield advanced organic search engine positions. Search engines have become one of the major means through which all web users, like me, trace required information. These days it has become imperative for all kinds of business to make use of these mediums and make themselves more widespread through it. Nureach Global offers through its SEO Services a broad variety of services........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 4/30/2009 5:50:39 PM)

'Chevrons' are not evidence of megatsunamis

A persistent school of thought in recent years has held that so-called "chevrons," large U- or V-shaped formations found in some of the world's coastal areas, are evidence of megatsunamis caused by asteroids or comets slamming into the ocean. University of Washington geologist and tsunami expert Jody Bourgeois has a simple response: Nonsense. The term "chevron" was introduced to describe large dunes shaped something like the stripes you........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 4/29/2009 5:04:49 AM)

One course to help the struggling first-year students

A researcher at Ohio State University has developed a course on learning and motivation strategies that actually increases the odds that struggling first-year students will graduate. Students in academic difficulty who took the "Learning and Motivation Strategies" course in their first quarter at Ohio State were about 45 percent more likely to graduate within six years than similar students who didn't take the class. Average-ability........Go to the Science-blog (Added on 4/16/2009 5:03:31 AM)

Laser with controlled polarization

Applied researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in collaboration with scientists from Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, lasers in which the direction of oscillation of the emitted radiation, known as polarization, can be designed and controlled at will. The innovation opens the door to a wide range of applications in photonics and communications. Harvard........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 4/13/2009 1:19:48 PM)

Tax lobbying provides 22,000 percent return

Three professors at the University of Kansas have observed that a one-time tax break allowed multinational corporations to receive a 22,000 percent average return on lobbying expenditures. The study was conducted by Raquel Meyer Alexander, assistant professor of accounting; Stephen Mazza, associate dean of the School of Law; and Susan Scholz, associate professor of accounting and Harper Faculty Fellow. Mazza recently presented their findings........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 4/9/2009 4:42:32 AM)

Arctic literally on thin ice

The latest data from NASA and the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center show the continuation of a decade-long trend of shrinking sea ice extent in the Arctic, including new evidence for thinning ice as well. The researchers, who have been tracking Arctic sea ice cover with satellites since 1979, observed that the winter of 2008-09 was the fifth lowest maximum ice extent on record. The six lowest maximum........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 4/6/2009 10:12:54 PM)

Mistress of the Lionesses

The legend is that the great rulers of Canaan, the ancient land of Israel, were all men. But a recent dig by Tel Aviv University archaeologists at Tel Beth-Shemesh uncovered possible evidence of a mysterious female ruler. Tel Aviv University archaeologists Prof. Shlomo Bunimovitz and Dr. Zvi Lederman of the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations have uncovered an unusual ceramic plaque of a goddess in female dress,........Go to the Archeology-blog (Added on 4/6/2009 9:50:34 PM)

Effects of climate change on infectious diseases

Recent research has predicted that climate change may expand the scope of human infectious diseases. A new review, however, argues that climate change may have a negligible effect on pathogens or even reduce their ranges. The paper has sparked debate in the ecological community. In a forum in the recent issue of Ecology, Kevin Lafferty of the U.S. Geological Survey's Western Ecological Research Center suggests that instead of a net expansion........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 4/2/2009 5:23:57 AM)

15 Crazy Concept Bicycles

Since bicycles work pretty flawlessly as it is, you might wonder just why we need crazy modifications like spokeless wheels and the ability to ride sideways. Innovation never ceases, and as a result we"ve been treated to a wild assortment of ideas from giant amphibious contraptions to bikes that fold up into backpacks.Some of these 15 concept bikes address issues like cost, portability and adaptability and others are just plain strange.........Go to the Auto-blog (Added on 4/1/2009 10:13:05 PM)

La Roux!

La Roux is a buzzy British synth pop singer whose name means "the red-haired one" in French. With her windblown, Flock of Seagulls-style "do and Proenza Shouler-esque retro "80s sunglasses, she"s a European style icon in the making. Next week, she"ll arrive in North America to perform at a series of indie dance parties in Brooklyn, Toronto, Montreal and San Francisco. Could Karl Lagerfeld"s iPod(s) be far behind?........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 4/1/2009 10:12:41 PM)

Diversity increases sales revenue

Workplace diversity is among the most important predictors of a business' sales revenue, customer numbers and profitability, as per research to be reported in the recent issue of the American Sociological Review In one of only a few studies to empirically examine the implications of organizational diversity, sociologist Cedric Herring observed that a workforce comprised of employees of both genders and varying racial backgrounds resulted in........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 3/31/2009 4:13:06 PM)

Fei-Chang or Pepsi Cola?

Why do some consumers prefer local products and others gravitate toward global brands? A newly released study in the Journal of Consumer Research examines why some people might choose a local brand instead of a recognizable global brand like Coke or Pepsi. "Due to rapid globalization, local productsproducts with specifications and packaging tailored for local markets, such as Mecca Cola (France) and Fei-Chang Cola (China)and global products........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 3/31/2009 3:20:17 PM)

3-D printing hits rock-bottom prices

This story is, literally, stone age meets digital age: University of Washington scientists are combining the ancient art of ceramics and the new technology of 3-D printing. Along the way, they are making 3-D printing dramatically cheaper. About five years ago, Mark Ganter, a UW mechanical engineering professor and longtime practitioner of 3-D printing, became frustrated with the high cost of commercial materials and began experimenting with........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 3/31/2009 2:58:09 PM)

Ozone depletion from rocket launching

The global market for rocket launches may require more stringent regulation in order to prevent significant damage to Earth's stratospheric ozone layer in the decades to come, as per a newly released study by scientists in California and Colorado. Future ozone losses from unregulated rocket launches will eventually exceed ozone losses due to chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, which stimulated the 1987 Montreal Protocol banning ozone-depleting........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 3/31/2009 2:52:09 PM)

CT to reveal hidden face

Using CT imaging to study a priceless bust of Nefertiti, scientists have uncovered a delicately carved face in the limestone inner core and gained new insights into methods used to create the ancient masterpiece and information pertinent to its conservation, as per a research studyreported in the recent issue of Radiology "We acquired a lot of information on how the bust was manufactured more than 3,300 years ago by the royal sculptor," said........Go to the Archeology-blog (Added on 3/31/2009 5:06:20 AM)

Why those fishes went extinct 65 million years ago

Large size and a fast bite spelled doom for bony fishes during the last mass extinction 65 million years ago, as per a newly released study to be published March 31, 2009, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Today, those same features characterize large predatory bony fishes, such as tuna and billfishes, that are currently in decline and at risk of extinction themselves, said Matt Friedman, author of the study and a........Go to the Archeology-blog (Added on 3/26/2009 9:42:15 PM)

Key to understanding volcanic plumes

A 200-year-old report by a sea captain and photographs of the 2008 eruption of Mount Chaiten are helping researchers better understand strong volcanic plumes. In a paper published this week in the journal Nature, the researchers show that the spontaneous formation of a "volcanic mesocyclone"--a rotating, column-shaped vortex--causes the volcanic plume to rotate on its axis. The rotation, in turn, triggers a sheath of lightning and creates........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 3/25/2009 9:43:53 PM)

Web Snob 3-13-2009

All About the Pretty knows your hair will thank her for introducing you to John Frieda"s Hair Glaze. Allie is Wired has the video for Britney Spears"s controversial song "If U Seek Amy." Bag Snob is giving away the ultimate handbag: the iconic CHANEL classic flap! Beauty Snob splurges on luxe hand cream from Natura Bisse! Couture Snob - Pearls and Lace does a Lady Make Fab Sugar - Victoria Beckham is this weeks Fab........Go to the Entertainment-blog (Added on 3/22/2009 6:49:48 PM)

Tyson Beckford and Linda Evangelista

I don"t usually have much to say about male models but this eye wear ad from DSquared2 really demands some special attention doesn"t it?There"s been a lot written about the tendency of some in the industry to fetishize and glamourize violence against women in fashion. While it may be easier for some to write off ads that depict women fighting each other (as in DS2"s clothing ads with Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista,) adding a man to the........Go to the Entertainment-blog (Added on 3/22/2009 6:45:14 PM)

Poor nations pay the price for global warming

A rising tide is said to lift all boats. Rising global temperatures, however, may lead to increased disparities between rich and poor countries, as per a recent MIT economic analysis of the impact of climate change on growth. After examining worldwide climate and economic data from 1950 to 2003, Benjamin A. Olken, associate professor in the Department of Economics, concludes that a 1 degree Celsius rise in temperature in a given year reduces........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 3/16/2009 7:28:03 PM)

Tata Nano Europa bound for international distribution

There is something deeply ironic about a week in which General Motors, Ford and Toshiba announce a collectively catastrophic slump in sales (as much as 53%) while Indian manufacturer Tata announces the introduction of the Tata Nano Europa model for international distribution. Those of you who’ve been following events will know that the Nano is destined to retail for a paltry $2000 (£1423.00) when it goes on sale in India this month.........Go to the Auto-blog (Added on 3/4/2009 9:27:23 PM)

The first virtual reality experience

The first virtual reality headset that can stimulate all five senses will be unveiled at a major science event in London on March 4th. What was it really like to live in Ancient Egypt? What did the streets there actually look, sound and smell like? For decades, Virtual Reality has held out the hope that, one day, we might be able visit all kinds of places and periods as 'virtual' tourists. To date, though, Virtual Reality devices have not........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 3/4/2009 6:21:16 AM)

Biodegradable mulch films on the horizon

In 1999, more than 30 million acres of agricultural land worldwide were covered with plastic mulch, and those numbers have been increasing significantly since then. With the recent trend toward "going green", scientists are seeking environmentally friendlier alternatives to conventional plastic mulch. Plastic mulch can provide earlier crop maturity, higher yields, increased quality, improved disease and insect resistance, and more efficient........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 2/27/2009 6:14:23 AM)

Opt For Rented Cars

Are you planning a trip to Lihue? If you want travelling to be hassle-free then car rental is the best viable option for commuting. To pamper your traveling impulses just throw yourself in a car in which you can move around at your will and take in the awe-inspiring panoramic view of this holiday spot. Make your vacation at Lihue, a rich sight-seeing experience with facilities of car rental provided by top most auto agencies. Whatever kind of........Go to the Auto-blog (Added on 6/28/2009 6:18:51 PM)

A glimpse of things to come

Herschel opened its 'eyes' on 14 June and the Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer obtained images of M51, 'the whirlpool galaxy' for a first test observation. Researchers obtained images in three colours which clearly demonstrate the superiority of Herschel, the largest infrared space telescope ever flown. This image shows the famous 'whirlpool galaxy', first observed by Charles Messier in 1773, who provided the designation Messier........Go to the Astronomy-blog (Added on 6/21/2009 9:25:46 PM)

Dino-not-so-soaring

The largest animals ever to have walked the face of the earth may not have been as big as previously thought, reveals a paper published recently in the Zoological Society of London's Journal of Zoology Researchers have discovered that the original statistical model used to calculate dinosaur mass is flawed, suggesting dinosaurs have been oversized. Widely cited estimates for the mass of Apatosaurus louisae, one of the largest of the........Go to the Archeology-blog (Added on 6/21/2009 8:46:48 PM)

Climate change is already having an impact

Extreme weather, drought, heavy rainfall and increasing temperatures are a fact of life in a number of parts of the U.S. as a result of human-induced climate change, scientists report today in a new evaluation. These and other changes will continue and likely increase in intensity into the future, the researchers found. Scientists representing 13 U.S. government science agencies, major universities and research institutes produced the study,........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 6/16/2009 9:44:21 PM)

Magnetic Superatoms

A team of Virginia Commonwealth University researchers has discovered a 'magnetic superatom' - a stable cluster of atoms that can mimic different elements of the periodic table - that one day appears to be used to create molecular electronic devices for the next generation of faster computers with larger memory storage. The newly discovered cluster, consisting of one vanadium and eight cesium atoms, acts like a tiny magnet that can mimic a........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 6/16/2009 5:17:34 AM)

Sediment Yields Climate Record For Past Half-million Years

Scientists here have used sediment from the deep ocean bottom to reconstruct a record of ancient climate that dates back more than the last half-million years. The record, trapped within the top 20 meters (65.6 feet) of a 400-meter (1,312-foot) sediment core drilled in 2005 in the North Atlantic Ocean by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, gives new information about the four glacial cycles that occurred during that period. The new........Go to the Archeology-blog (Added on 6/16/2009 5:08:52 AM)

Graphene May Have Advantages Over Copper

The unique properties of thin layers of graphite-known as graphene-make the material attractive for a wide range of potential electronic devices. Scientists have now experimentally demonstrated the potential for another graphene application: replacing copper for interconnects in future generations of integrated circuits. In a paper reported in the June 2009 issue of the IEEE journal Electron Device Letters, scientists at the Georgia........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 6/5/2009 5:00:38 AM)

And Now An Important Message From Chris Brown

Chris Brown, perhaps the inspiration for "Boom Boom Pow," has resurfaced with two very important messages - in YouTube form, natch. Above, the singer clarifies any confusion about his reputation, noting that he is not, in fact, a monster. This is independently verified by Bow Wow, who has long stood as the preeminent character witness of the hip-hop, nay, artistic community After the jump, Chris"s second video, which, I tell you,........Go to the Entertainment-blog (Added on 6/4/2009 8:56:56 PM)

Greening Your Grocery Cart

When it comes to "being green" at the grocery store, it"s more than just buying organic items. Being environmentally conscience also extends to buying items that create less greenhouse gas to get the items from the water or ground to your shopping cart.In a recent issue of Self magazine, they shared some excellent tips to reduce your impact when shopping for groceries........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 6/4/2009 8:50:49 PM)

Wage gap linked to customer bias

Scientists have helped solve the mystery of why white men continue to earn 25 percent more than equally well-performing women and minorities. Managers and business owners must pay a premium for white male employees because customers prefer them, says David Hekman, assistant professor in the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee (UWM). The study would be reported in the Academy of Management Journal........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 6/4/2009 3:24:02 AM)

Control heat in large data centers

Approximately a third of the electricity consumed by large data centers doesn't power the computer servers that conduct online transactions, serve Web pages or store information. Instead, that electricity must be used for cooling the servers, a demand that continues to increase as computer processing power grows. And the trend toward cloud computing will expand the need for both servers and cooling. At the Georgia Institute of Technology,........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 6/3/2009 5:10:01 AM)

A First Taste of PowerPlay Golf

Courtesy: Copetown Woods Golf Clu I've been a proponent of PowerPlay Golf for quite some time now. And I've been a supporter based on the theory of this first new twist to the game in decades But I hadn't actually played the format until this week Canadian PPG representative, Barry Forth, general manager of Copetown Woods Golf Club outside Toronto, hosted a media day to formally introduce the concept to about 25 members........Go to the Sports-blog (Added on 6/1/2009 5:44:22 PM)

Population responses to climate change

Biologists have for several years modeled how different species are likely to respond to climate change. Most such studies ignore differences between populations within a species and the interactions between species, in the interest of simplicity. An article in the recent issue of BioScience, by Eric Post of Pennsylvania State University and five colleagues, shows how these limitations can be avoided. Their approach, which relies on multi-stage........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 6/1/2009 4:58:09 AM)

Sea-level rise may pose greatest threat

The melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet this century may drive more water than previously thought toward the already threatened coastlines of New York, Boston, Halifax and other cities in the northeastern United States and Canada, as per new research. Results of the study are being published this week in Geophysical Research Letters They suggest that moderate to high rates of ice melt from Greenland may shift ocean circulation by about 2100,........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 5/28/2009 5:19:26 AM)

Multiferroics

Multiferroics are materials in which unique combinations of electric and magnetic properties can simultaneously coexist. They are potential cornerstones in future magnetic data storage and spintronic devices provided a simple and fast way can be found to turn their electric and magnetic properties on and off. In a promising new development, scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 5/24/2009 8:57:16 PM)

Global warming could be double previous estimates

The most comprehensive modeling yet carried out on the likelihood of how much hotter the Earth's climate will get in this century shows that without rapid and massive action, the problem will be about twice as severe as previously estimated six years ago - and could be even worse than that. The study uses the MIT Integrated Global Systems Model, a detailed computer simulation of global economic activity and climate processes that has been........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 5/20/2009 5:12:46 AM)

People who can speak two languages

People who can speak two languages are more adept at learning a new foreign language than their monolingual counterparts, as per research conducted at Northwestern University. And their bilingual advantage persists even when the new language they study is completely different from the languages they already know. "It's often assumed that individuals who've learned multiple languages simply have a natural aptitude for learning languages,"........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 5/20/2009 5:07:36 AM)

Concrete's Carbon Footprint

A number of researchers currently think at least 5 percent of humanity's carbon footprint comes from the concrete industry, both from energy use and the carbon dioxide (CO2) byproduct from the production of cement, one of concrete's principal components. Yet several studies have shown that small quantities of CO2 later reabsorb into concrete, even decades after it is emplaced, when elements of the material combine with CO2 to form calcite. ........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 5/19/2009 5:28:11 AM)

Biological particles in high-altitude clouds

A team of atmospheric chemists has moved closer to what's considered the "holy grail" of climate change science: the first-ever direct detections of biological particles within ice clouds. The team, led by Kimberly Prather and Kerri Pratt of the University of California at San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, sampled water droplet and ice crystal residues at high speeds while flying through clouds in the skies over Wyoming. ........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 5/18/2009 5:27:22 AM)

Climate Change And Lake Baikal's Unique Biota

Siberia's Lake Baikal, the world's largest and most biologically diverse lake, faces the prospect of severe ecological disruption as a result of climate change, as per an analysis by a joint US-Russian team in the recent issue of BioScience. The lake is considered a treasure trove for biologists and was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO because a high proportion of its rich fauna and flora are found nowhere else. Perhaps the most........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 5/14/2009 9:48:23 PM)

What Caused Earth's Earliest Ice Age?

An international team of geologists may have uncovered the answer to an age-old question - an ice-age-old question, that is. It appears that Earth's earliest ice age may have been due to the rise of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere, which consumed atmospheric greenhouse gases and chilled the earth. Researchers from the University of Maryland, including post-doctoral fellows Boswell Wing and Sang-Tae Kim, graduate student Margaret Baker, and........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 5/14/2009 9:32:17 PM)

Global warming driving Michigan mammals north

Some Michigan mammal species are rapidly expanding their ranges northward, apparently in response to climate change, a new study shows. In the process, these historically southern species are replacing their northern counterparts. The finding, by researchers at the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Ohio's Miami University, appears in the recent issue of the journal Global Change Biology. "When you read about changes in........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 5/12/2009 10:12:21 PM)

Cutting cattle methane

Beef farmers can breathe easier thanks to University of Alberta scientists who have developed a formula to reduce methane gas in cattle. By developing equations that balance starch, sugar, cellulose, ash, fat and other elements of feed, a Canada-wide team of researchers has given beef producers the tools to lessen the methane gas their cattle produce by as much as 25 per cent. "That's good news for the environment," said Stephen Moore, a........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 5/7/2009 10:16:05 PM)

Clues for self-cleaning materials

Self-cleaning walls, counter tops, fabrics, even micro-robots that can walk on water -- all those things and more could be closer to reality because of research recently completed by researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and at Japan's RIKEN institute. Humans have marveled for millennia at how water beads up and rolls off flowers, caterpillars and some insects, and how insects like water striders are able to walk effortlessly on........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 5/5/2009 5:17:00 AM)

Buy email list

When looking to buy email lists, many customers are unsure of what to look for to ensure they receive a quality product they can trust. At Data Depot, we offer the most information for the best value. Our professionals have established a proven track record of excellence through our expertise in marketing strategies and optimization efforts. If you’re interested to buy email list that produce effective and reliable results, then Data Depot........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 5/13/2009 5:19:29 PM)

More job cuts ahead: Bain

There are forecasts that even if markets start growing again, unemployment will continue to escalate.That's borne out in the latest Bain executive survey, published in the Harvard Business review blog which found that companies are still planning big cuts.According to Bain, seven out of 10 executives say they are worried about how they'll meet their growth targets in 2009, and six out of 10 are planning for a downturn that they expect........Go to the Jobs-blog (Added on 5/2/2009 9:17:26 AM)

Glacial Advances

The vast majority of the world's glaciers are retreating as the planet gets warmer. But a few, including glaciers south of the equator in South America and New Zealand, are inching forward. A paper in this week's issue of the journal Science puts this enigma in perspective; for the last 7,000 years, New Zealand's largest glaciers have often moved out of step with glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere, pointing to strong regional variations in........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 5/1/2009 5:22:02 AM)

Calibrate your thermometer

Don’t you hate it when you find out that because you weren’t properly informed you wasted money? I’ve long been a fan of metal probe-style instant read thermometers. As I’ve written before, they help you to cook meat not only safely but also to the perfect level of doneness. I knew these thermometers need to be tested frequently (especially after being dropped) but whenever I found one to be on the fritz, displaying a........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 4/30/2009 8:22:17 PM)

Match between molecular, fossil data

During a seminar at another institution several years ago, University of Chicago paleontologist David Jablonski fielded a hostile question: Why bother classifying organisms as per their physical appearance, let alone analyze their evolutionary dynamics, when molecular techniques had already invalidated that approach? With more than a few heads in the audience nodding their agreement, Jablonski, the William Kenan Jr. Professor in Geophysical........Go to the Archeology-blog (Added on 4/29/2009 5:16:03 AM)

Discovery of early African mammal fossils

A limestone countertop, a practiced eye and Google Earth all played roles in the discovery of a trove of fossils that may shed light on the origins of African wildlife. The circuitous and serendipitous story, featuring University of Michigan paleontologists Philip Gingerich, Gregg Gunnell and Bill Sanders, is the subject of a segment on the award-winning television series "Wild Chronicles," currently airing on public television stations........Go to the Archeology-blog (Added on 4/29/2009 5:13:58 AM)

Did dinosaurs die from an asteroid hit?

The enduringly popular theory that the Chicxulub crater holds the clue to the demise of the dinosaurs, along with some 65 percent of all species 65 million years ago, is challenged in a paper to be reported in the Journal of the Geological Society on April 27, 2009. The crater, discovered in 1978 in northern Yucutan and measuring about 180 kilometers (112 miles) in diameter, records a massive extra-terrestrial impact. When spherules from........Go to the Archeology-blog (Added on 4/27/2009 5:13:36 AM)

Forest fires and global warming

Fire's potent and pervasive effects on ecosystems and on a number of Earth processes, including climate change, have been underestimated, as per a new report. "We've estimated that deforestation due to burning by humans is contributing about one-fifth of the human-caused greenhouse effect -- and that percentage could become larger," said co-author Thomas W. Swetnam of The University of Arizona in Tucson. "It's very clear that fire is a........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 4/24/2009 5:10:47 AM)

"Congestion pricing" could solve the problem of airport delays

In London, motorists pay a fee to drive into certain parts of the city during peak traffic hours, and the idea has been considered for implementation in New York as well. Now Dr. Itai Ater, an economist from Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Management, is suggesting that introducing "congestion pricing" at airports could save travellers time and airlines money. "What I propose is a policy to reduce the amount of delays in the airline........Go to the Auto-blog (Added on 4/23/2009 5:27:32 AM)

Self-healing concrete for safer infrastructure

A concrete material developed at the University of Michigan can heal itself when it cracks. No human intervention is necessary-just water and carbon dioxide. A handful of drizzly days would be enough to mend a damaged bridge made of the new substance. Self-healing is possible because the material is designed to bend and crack in narrow hairlines rather than break and split in wide gaps, as traditional concrete behaves. "It's like if you........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 4/23/2009 5:09:15 AM)

Plants could override climate change effects on wildfires

Scientists predict that global climate change will make many regions around the world warmer and drier, a factor which, taken by itself, would seem to increase the risk of wildfires. But a new study led by a Montana State University researcher shows that changes in the types of vegetation covering an area play a major role in determining how often that area is burned by fires and could even counteract the effects of changes in temperature........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 4/22/2009 10:13:30 PM)

4.18.2009

The coincidental sequence repeated itself! After we had crossed the dam (see yesterday’s post), we continued hiking around the lake. I steered my feet deeper into the forest though. I was hoping to see anything that might be blooming. On the drive down we passed many trees with white flowers on them — serviceberry perhaps? — and I wondered if there might be some in my forest. There weren’t that we found, but there was a........Go to the Biology-blog (Added on 4/22/2009 10:05:51 PM)

Lots of Vacancies at Yellowstone

One of the best vacations I ever took was a visit to Yellowstone National Park. Now National Parks Traveler is saying that the recession has created a lot of lodging vacancies in and around the busy park. And that's probably good for your budget.Yellowstone's lodging concessionaire, Xanterra Parks & Resorts, reports that there is more vacancy for the summer at this time of year than they typically encounter. As a result, if........Go to the Jobs-blog (Added on 4/22/2009 9:27:11 PM)

House of Dereon - Really?

Beyonce gets so much venom spewed at her on blogs that I feel I have to preface this post by stating for the record that I think she is a beautiful and talented young woman. Any negativity in this post is NOT directed at her but more at the design team that brought up this particular ensemble.When I saw this HoD ad in Lucky magazine, it definitely caught my eye. First, because of the aforementioned loveliness of the model and luminous quality........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 4/21/2009 10:30:12 PM)

Anna Sui for Firefox

(screen capture from www.getpersonas.com/demo_install)If you are an Anna Sui fan and a Firefox user, you might want to know that you can dress up your browser by downloading "personas" (developed by Mozilla Labs), which include the one you see above by Anna Sui. (There is another one here.)........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 4/21/2009 10:30:02 PM)

Consumers flock together, but don't necessarily buy

Consumers are attracted to crowds in stores, but they are not likely to buy something from a crowded location, as per a newly released study in the Journal of Consumer Research Authors Sam K. Hui (New York University), Eric T. Bradlow, and Peter S. Fader (both University of Pennsylvania) analyzed tracking data from an electronic system called Pathtracker, a device attached to the bottom of a shopping cart that emits a signal every five........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 4/21/2009 5:25:33 AM)

Is it going to rain today?

If Mark Twain were alive today he might rephrase his frequently cited observation about everyone talking about the weather but not doing anything about it to say, "Everyone reads or watches weather forecasts, but a number of people don't understand them." He'd do that because new research indicates that only about half the population knows what a forecast means when it predicts a 20 percent chance of rain, as per scientists at the University........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 4/20/2009 9:59:12 PM)

West African Droughts are the Norm

Listen to an audio file of Timothy Shanahan, Jonathan Overpeck and Paul Filmer discussing the findings with reporters. A newly released study of lake sediments in Ghana suggests that severe droughts lasting several decades, even centuries, were the norm in West Africa over the past 3,000 years. The earlier dry spells dwarfed the well-documented drought that plagued West Africa in the late-20th century, and as the planet warms, the study's........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 4/20/2009 9:40:02 PM)

Chemists synthesize herbal alkaloid

The club moss Lycopodium serratum is a creeping, flowerless plant used in homeopathic medicine to treat a wide variety of ailments. It contains a potent brew of alkaloids that have attracted considerable scientific and medical interest. However, the plant makes a number of of these compounds in extremely low amounts, hindering efforts to test their therapeutic value. That is no longer a problem for what is arguably the most complex of these........Go to the Chemistry-blog (Added on 4/16/2009 5:05:52 AM)

People Drive The Speed They Are Comfortable With

Kansas gravel roads have varying speed limits, but a study by Kansas State University scientists shows that instead of abiding by those limits, people are more likely to use their own judgment to gauge how fast they should drive on the roads. K-State scientists Sunanda Dissanayake, associate professor of civil engineering, and Litao Liu, graduate student in civil engineering, have studied the actual speeds on Kansas gravel roads and the........Go to the Auto-blog (Added on 4/13/2009 2:13:06 PM)

Mathematics of climate change

University of Utah mathematician Ken Golden went to the Eastern Weddell Sea for the Antarctic Zone Flux Experiment. The sea's surface is normally covered with sea ice, the complex composite material that results when sea water is frozen. During a powerful winter storm, Golden observed liquid sea water welling up and flooding the sea ice surface, producing a slushy mixture of sea water and snow that freezes into snow-ice. With his........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 4/13/2009 1:34:42 PM)

How do they spread?

Propagation of earthquake waves within the Earth is not uniform. Experiments indicate that the velocity of shear waves (s-waves) in Earth's lower mantle between 660 and 2900 km depth is strongly dependent on the orientation of ferropericlase. In the latest issue of "Science" (Vol. 325, 10.04.2009), scientists from the German Research Center for Geosciences GFZ, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the University of Bayreuth, and Arizona State........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 4/12/2009 7:16:44 AM)

States that vote early can reap big bucks

The 2008 presidential campaign season had the earliest statewide primaries and caucuses in memory, starting with the Iowa Caucus on Jan. 3. Now research from North Carolina State University shows that states may have good reason to push for an early contest. States that hold early presidential primaries or caucuses get a larger share of per capita federal procurement spending in comparison to other states, the newly released study says. But........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 4/6/2009 10:19:33 PM)

Hydrogen cars closer to reality

Scientists have developed a critical part of a hydrogen storage system for cars that makes it possible to fill up a vehicle's fuel tank within five minutes with enough hydrogen to drive 300 miles. The system uses a fine powder called metal hydride to absorb hydrogen gas. The scientists have created the system's heat exchanger, which circulates coolant through tubes and uses fins to remove heat generated as the hydrogen is absorbed by the........Go to the Auto-blog (Added on 4/2/2009 10:21:10 PM)

Ice-Free Arctic Summers

Summers in the Arctic appears to be ice-free in as few as 30 years, not at the end of the century as previously expected. The updated forecast is the result of a new analysis of computer models coupled with the most recent summer ice measurements. "The Arctic is changing faster than anticipated," said James Overland, an oceanographer at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and co-author of the study, which will appear April 3 in........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 4/2/2009 10:17:57 PM)

Building An Airbus A340 In 346 Seconds

A fast-forwarded footage of an Airbus A340-600 craft being built at the Toulouse facility.(thanks Cora)........Go to the Auto-blog (Added on 4/1/2009 10:12:51 PM)

Go Green with Lucky Magazine and Almay

Our friends at Lucky Magazine have a wonderful offer for you which ALSO helps the environment (win-win!). Please visit http://www.luckylookout.com/almay to learn more about Almay"s new Almay pure blends products - and for your chance to win a Lucky reusable tote. Almay and Lucky Magazine will plant a tree in your honor for visiting too!........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 4/1/2009 9:33:58 PM)

Mapping the mammalian brain circuits

Thirty-seven researchers from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and 20 other major research institutions in the U.S. and Europe have issued a major challenge to the neuroscience community. At long last, the time has come, they argue in a just-published paper, to assemble a comprehensive map of the major neural circuits in the mammalian brain. In an age in which the genomes of a number of organisms, including that of humans, have been........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 3/31/2009 3:55:35 PM)

Tactics for the green marketers

TexasCompanies offering "green" products and services can improve sales by making simple shifts in marketing language, new research from The University of Texas at Austin and the University of South Carolina has demonstrated. The key findings, to be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Marketing Research, hinge on an aspect of consumer decision-making which might seem trivial at first. Suppose you were narrowing down a list........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 3/31/2009 3:51:20 PM)

World's First Nanofluidic Device with Complex 3-D Surfaces

Scientists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have capitalized on a process for manufacturing integrated circuits at the nanometer (billionth of a meter) level and used it to develop a method for engineering the first-ever nanoscale fluidic (nanofluidic) device with complex three-dimensional surfaces. As described in a paper published online today in the journal........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 3/31/2009 2:54:56 PM)

Heat Transport In The Earth's Crust

Putting a new spin on an old technique, Anne M. Hofmeister, Ph.D., research professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has revolutionized scientists' understanding of heat transport in the Earth's crust, the outermost solid shell of our planet. Temperature is an important driver of a number of geological processes, including the generation of magmas (molten rocks) in the deepest parts........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 3/31/2009 5:20:04 AM)

Action video games improve vision

Video games that involve high levels of action, such as first-person-shooter games, increase a player's real-world vision, according to research in today's Nature Neuroscience The ability to discern slight differences in shades of gray has long been thought to be an attribute of the human visual system that cannot be improved. But Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester, has discovered that........Go to the Entertainment-blog (Added on 3/30/2009 5:13:14 AM)

Hire a Dwight Schrute for a better-performing team

Adding a socially unique outsider increases both group discomfort and quality of results. Nobody wants to share a cubicle with a new hire like Dwight Schrute. The beet-farming volunteer sheriff's deputy/paper salesman creates a number of awkward moments because of his differences with co-workers on NBC's "The Office". But as per new research co-authored by a Brigham Young University business professor, better decisions come from teams........Go to the Jobs-blog (Added on 3/30/2009 4:57:30 AM)

Was Triceratops a social animal?

Until now, Triceratops was believed to be unusual among its ceratopsid relatives. While a number of ceratopsidsa common group of herbivorous dinosaurs that lived toward the end of the Cretaceoushave been found in enormous bonebed deposits of multiple individuals, all known Triceratops (over 50 in total) fossils have been solitary individuals. But a new discovery of a jumble of at least three juveniles the badlands of the north-central United........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 3/24/2009 6:15:25 AM)

Language of music really is universal

Native African people who have never even listened to the radio before can nonetheless pick up on happy, sad, and fearful emotions in Western music, as per a new report published online on March 19th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. The result shows that the expression of those three basic emotions in music can be universally recognized, the scientists said. "These findings could explain why Western music has been so successful........Go to the Entertainment-blog (Added on 3/22/2009 9:59:34 PM)

Spreading high-speed Internet to rural areas

To cut the cost of bringing high-speed Internet to rural areas, Dr. Ka Lun Lee and his colleagues at the University of Melbourne and NEC Australia in the state of Victoria are experimenting with a way to boost the reach of existing technology. Their results, which show a new way to cheaply cover 99 percent of those living in this province, will be presented during the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optic........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 3/16/2009 8:29:07 PM)

Magnetic properties of iron-based superconductors

Researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have proposed theoretical models to explain the normal magnetic properties in iron-based superconductors. This research was reported in the December 21, 2008 issue of Nature Physics Their research builds on earlier research they conducted proposing a theoretical model for superconductivity in newly discovered iron-based superconductors. That earlier research was published in Physical Review........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 3/16/2009 8:15:36 PM)

Buckyballs could keep water systems clear

Microscopic particles of carbon known as buckyballs appears to be able to keep the nation's water pipes clear in the same way clot-busting drugs prevent arteries from clogging up. Engineers at Duke University have observed that buckyballs hinder the ability of bacteria and other microorganisms to accumulate on the membranes used to filter water in therapy plants. This attribute leads the scientists to think that coating pipes and membranes........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 3/5/2009 6:20:01 AM)

Lliving room computer gets the retro VCR treatment

This Barebone Media PC comes with an Intel motherboard, 7.1 surround sound, digital TV card, WiFi card and 1GB of RAM in a box which looks almost, but not quite, like a JVC VHS cassette recorder of 1978 vintage. For this reason, I am going to tag it as retro, even though the manufacturer clearly believes it is the height of modern fashionista drooliness. Just add your choice of hard drive and DVD burner for a full-on PVR experience.........Go to the Entertainment-blog (Added on 3/4/2009 9:26:14 PM)

Anti-immigrant sentiment greater in California

California and Texas have the largest populations of Mexican immigrants in all of the United States. A recent study, published by SAGE in the January/recent issue of the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences explored what life and jobs are like for those immigrants and whether one state has higher levels of anti-immigrant sentiment than the other. The study, led by Isao Takei of the University of Texas at Austin, examined the earnings by........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 3/3/2009 6:18:36 AM)

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