Synthetic Trees
Could we scrub CO2 out of the atmosphere with synthetic trees? I recently read about this invention. Essentially, it’s a box designed to capture carbon dioxide…
Read articleBrewing Bigger, Better Biofuels
(image source) I’ve never sat down and thought about ethanol as a viable fuel source for the future until recently. Most of what I’ve picked up…
Read articlePostively Peculiar Patents: Harnessing Ocean Power
I have just discovered Google Patents: As part of Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, we’re constantly working…
Read articleThat’s right people – we’ve got peer reviewed research on Santa Claus here (with abstracts!)
Check out this picture, and the blurb below: A 79-year-old man with mitral valve prolapse of both leaflets and consecutive severe symptomatic mitral regurgitation underwent central…
Read articleSustainable Design by Designers
Staying in line with the essence of my previous post on constructing sustainable buildings, I’ve been following this great blog lately: Inhabitat Inhabitat.com is a weblog…
Read articleConstructing Sustainable Buildings…or Laboratories…or Both
John Robinson’s seminar was awesome – I almost switched disciplines. He’s the project director behind the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS), a building set…
Read articleStem cell humour.
The petri plate is the work of Satan. How does God know what a petri plate is in this ancient time before the advent of scientific…
Read articleUnconventional Crude
A few weeks ago, the New Yorker ran an excellent piece called “Unconventional Crude” which focused on Canada’s tar sands. It was written by Elizabeth Kolbert,…
Read articleWikipedia: Do you use it? Do you cite it? And, is it a good thing?
So, I also went to the same Science Journalism conference that Dave S. spoke of in the previous post. One of the sessions, in particular, that…
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Takesies Backsies: Facebook Flouts User Privacy…Again
By Dave Semeniuk,
This whole Web 2.0 “revolution” seems to be sticking, so far. A personalized internet experience is what the internet-using masses want. For those of you unfamiliar…
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