the cracks on the back of the phone are shedding small shards of glass into my palm. 12:20:
American oak imparts the whisky with compounds such as esters lactones and phenols. One such compound known colloquially as whisky lactone produces a strong coconut flavor in the finished dram.
But because freshly charred oak has high levels of these aromatic compounds casks made from it can overpower the more delicate flavors of a Speyside malt.
and the physics of why you don't spill your coffee. So how did this year stack up?
Most trees have evolved to produce a different set of chemicals called anthocyanins when it s bright and cold in autumn.
Where chlorophyll and anthocyanins coexist the color of a leaf may run to bronze as in ash trees.
At high enough concentrations anthocyanins will make a leaf look almost purple as in Japanese maples.
Who thought it was acceptable to conduct this experiment under a tree limb
#Can Artificial Meat Save The World? On an ordinary spring morning in Columbia Missouri Ethan Brown stands in the middle of an ordinary kitchen tearing apart a chicken fajita strip.
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#Follow A Queen bee On Her Maiden Mating Flightqueen honeybees mate just once in their lives within weeks of emerging as an adult from the little honeycomb cells in
Who is this Upside-down Tree-Dweller? So here are the rules: To answer follow us on Twitter and tweet at us with the hashtag#mysteryanimal.
It's about the size of a big housecat and lives in the dense foliage of trees from rainforests to hardwood forests to eucalyptus forests.
It's not uncommon to see colobus monkeys leaping 20 feet from tree to tree. These aren't big monkeys;
The mantled guereza uses the tail we think for balance as it jumps back and forth amongst the trees.
think of the eucalyptus of Australia or the bamboo forests of China. The colobus monkeys eat this abundant food
The evolutionary theory is that the thumb was irrelevant to the semi-brachiation mode of transport (swinging through trees) that the colobus uses;
One year there was a kid who liked natural Christmas trees and his father was tired of cleaning up the needles that dropped off the pine trees.
The father was going to get an artificial tree. The kid went out and he got three different kinds of trees
and checked the water and counted basically how many pine needles fell off each tree. He counted thousands of needles.
He found one kind of tree doesn't shed a lot of needles. There was a personal reason he did the science to come up with an answer
and he gets his Christmas tree. Cindy Moss: We're looking for kids to come up with some kind of innovative solution to a problem in their life.
We really just look at: Does the kid have a basic understanding of what the problem is?
Is their idea something creative? We want these ideas to be something that matters to kid.
The least environmentally friendly part of the bookmaking process isn't necessarily the loss of trees.
The trees themselves aren't of one type; partly by virtue of paper's origin in castoffs and partly because it doesn't much matter
what kind of wood pulp you use paper is made from a mix of softwood and hardwood big trees and small trees all kinds of stuff.
Conservatree estimates that it takes about 24 trees to make one ton of non-recycled printing paper
It takes a lot of energy to cut down trees process them into pulp strain them press them heat them print them
The more wood products that are used the more trees that are planted. Companies that supply wood plant more than enough trees to cover very high future growth.
It takes so long for trees to mature they really don't have a choice. If something unexpected comes along
and causes an increased demand for wood they have to be able to meet that supply
So something like this that could cause an increase in demand for paper could mean a good deal more trees planted.
Trees which will pull out CO2 over decades before they are finally cut down themselves. Calculating just how many new trees are planted over
what might not have happened without the increased demand would be extremely difficult. Also some of those trees will be cut down sooner than others
so who knows how much CO2 they will actually pull out. Etc. etc. While I read online all the time
FYI'cause you don't get out of The City much paper is made from a renewable resource called trees.
It's hard to imagine anything more sustainable than the fast growing trees used to make paper. laurenra7
The architects used seven Series 1 3d printers to print out 585 plastic pieces then hauled them to the Redwood Forest
I don't know PLANT A TREE??I mean maybe the architects have some well thought out purpose for it
#Scan Reveals If Your Civet Poo Coffee Really Comes From Civet Poo When you pay $150 to $230 for a pound of exotic coffee you want to know it's the real deal.
Now a team of chemists say they've developed a way to verify that beans labeled as civet coffee are authentic.
What is civet coffee and what makes it so expensive? Normally coffee farmers and processors pick the berries from their coffee trees remove the fruits'flesh from their seeds ferment the seeds
and then wash dry and roast the seeds. For civet coffee a cute Southeast Asian forest creature called the Asian palm civet helps out with some of these steps.
Civets selectively eat the best ripe coffee berries and their digestive tracts strip the fruit from the beans.
The civets then excrete the beans which civet coffee farmers gather wash ferment and roast.
Regular little Santa's helpers civets are! So. Civet coffee also known by its Indonesian name Kopi Luwak needs to be gathered by hand from civet poop making it rare
and labor-intensive to produce. That explains its priceã¢Â# as well as some coffee sellers'inclination to try to market non-civet-processed coffee as Kopi Luwak
or to cut true Kopi Luwak with regular coffee. Those scams inspired a team of Japanese
and Indonesian researchers to come up with a way to chemically distinguish regular coffee from civet coffee.
The researchers analyzed Kopi Luwak that they produced (presumably with civets in lab) as well as commercially sold Kopi Luwak and commercially sold regular coffee beans from different regions in Indonesia.
They used gas chromatography and mass spectrometry both techniques that tell chemists what molecules appear in a sample to conduct a metabolomic analysis of the coffees.
The detectable differences were great enough that they could distinguish a 50-50 mix of Kopi Luwak and regular coffee from 100 percent Kopi Luwak the researchers report.
when distinguishing Kopi Luwak from regular coffee the researchers wrote. Their technique could work alone or in conjunction with the imperfect methods with
Oh thank you thank you thank you Popsci on explaining exactly what is civet coffee is so I will never buy it in the future!!!
No coffee is worth that price no matter how tasty -even if you were using pure feral cat cream
Oakspar77777 I like coffee and often try knew coffees. I never bought this in the past and with this new information have no intention either.
More importantly have milked you a feral cat yet? Once you do post picture of the bliss that follows aquiring such a delightful cream u
The good news is trees are a renewable resource and can be replanted. Better agricultural techniques that accompany rising wealth lead to better land management.
and grow trees fast enough to meet the paper demands of 10 billion person population. We are generating trash at a huge rate as well.
Coughlin and Tung 2004; Labitzke 2004; Crooks and Gray 2005) suggesting an overall warmer and moister troposphere during solar maximum.
The mangroves growing along the shore around Palau are so dense that aluminum wreckage from aircraft has been found sitting on top of the tree canopy about 30 feet up.
Bentprop calculates that eight American planes including A b-24 bomber remain hidden in Palau's western lagoon.
Though it isn't an American plane Scannon is pleased with the discovery. It's a very unusual aircraft one of the rarest archaeological planes you will find he says.
and Colombia--delightfully called cloud forests--and rarely comes down from the trees adept as it is at leaping around the branches.
In Scotland we predominately use two types of wood to mature whiskyã¢Â#Âmerican white oak (Quercus alba) and European oak (Quercus robur.
The inside of American oak barrels is charred usually. Charcoal with its billions of tiny pores is a great purifier.
So is the white oak whiskey sold under a different label than the european oak whiskey?
The new Coco Mat core which is used now in boards from Australian brand NSP is stronger than carbon fiber and more sustainable.
I work at a tree nursery which grows the evergreen seedlings tree planters put in the ground for reforestation.
Our growth medium is mostly peat moss with some ground and sterilized styrofoam (recycled from the old
The coco is the magic ingredient. Peat when wet will stay wet when watered but only at the surface.
The coco strands act like tiny wicks distributing water through the root plug meaning even water for root growth and less water used.
Coffee-sized machines 3d-print algae foodstuffs-precursor so we can handle the texture-hurdle. z=textstyle-frac {3}
Oak is right soil is made irregardless of the presents of worms. I haven't done enough research
Oak is right soil is made irregardless of the presents of worms. I haven't done enough research
Take your tree hugging anti-american bullshit and shove it up your asses. May the next nuke drone grey-goo whatever take you two first so
Go hug trees somewhere else until you acknowledge that the US didn't create the sins of man that cause war.
Thanks to good old Barry Bonds who used maple bats in his 2001 marathon home-run season players increasingly favor the lighter wood which according to one collector just has more pop than other bat
materials like ash. Unfortunately maple bats have a tendency to explode sending sharp fragments of wood shooting in all directions injuring fans and players alike.
More than half of all baseball bats sold to major-league teams last year were maple and the MLB wants to make sure every batter stepping up to the plate isn't wielding a ticking wooden time bomb
so they've teamed up with U s. Forest Service scientists to figure out how to make maple bats safer.
The scientists found that the more the cut of the wood strayed from the original grain the more likely the bat was to shatter The New york times reports.
laminated maple baseball bats. damn..off to the patent office; I don't think laminated would do it. Seems to me many shards are likely coming from the inside core of the bat (judging by the picture.
There are still places out there wherein the classes are held still in session under trees and thatched huts.
#Tiny Poisonous Trees Could Fight Climate Change In The Desertfive German scientists have proposed a new strategy for mitigating the effects of climate change:
Forests full of trees that consume carbon dioxide are a great bulwark against the gas most responsible for global climate change.
Short poisonous and hardy the Jatropha curcas tree can survive severe heat poor and alkaline soil and very low rainfall.
{4}+ i epsilonthe desalination plants to provide water for the trees need to be powered by solar or some other renewable energy source.
Otherwise they would just be producing more CO2 than the trees would be absorbing. Why am I considered unauthorized to view:'
One day he happened across a story about a little chicken who got hit on the head by an acorn falling from a tree
but he also noticed that there weren't many trees or wild animals and there were no fields or forests or streams.
For the trees. The waters rivers lakes. For the environment. For..the dodo. Does not have to memorable so stop waiting for the approval of your peers.
and containing lots of important vitamins the berries including serviceberry chokecherry buffaloberry twinberry huckleberry and others and make up a substantial portion of the grizzly's diet in the summertime.
The plant illness called citrus greening makes trees drop their leaves and stunts their fruit.
There's no known treatment for sick trees nor any pesticide that is able to kill sufficient numbers of the illness'carrier an insect called the Asian citrus psyllid to totally prevent the disease's spread.
Scientists have concluded gradually that the only way to combat citrus greening is by engineering a resistant tree The New york times reports.
You should all plant your own orange trees if you want healthy orange juice. Of course that would crash a huge juice industry wouldn't it?
And that is destroy all the orange trees and the disease will will die with them. Wait some years
Click here to enter the galleryhow about 3d coping a Tree.@@wishinglane; Would you like that 3-D printed tree to be made of say the pulp of one tree and some cellulose from a few more?
That would be awesome. We could make whole forests of them. To protect the forests for all time.@
#The Odd Way Beavers Impact Climate Changewhen the industrious beaver scurries around being its toothy self cutting down trees
I have a hard time believing that cutting down trees and burying them in water will have a net negative impact on the level of carbon in the area.
All vegetation (trees brush plants) are killed in this pond area created. Wildlife/insects in this newly created pond area move
Beavers continue to cut down trees and brush AFTER their dam and ponds are built-yes the destruction exceeds the pond area.
I am allergic to most raw fruits and vegetables most beans and all tree nuts.
If you put a steamy cup of coffee in the refrigerator it wouldn't immediately turn cold.
Large trees however could survive for several decades thanks to slow metabolism and substantial sugar stores.
and most everything else including big trees contrary to what the author of the article suggests âÂ#Âbecause of the below zero temps.
The Giant sequoia?<<B>Evolution favors life but this favoritism is certainly not species specific.</</B>All species will eventually become extinct this can not be compensated for through the discovery of âÂ#Âoelost knowledgeã¢Â# of some long dead tribe nor is there any evidence to suggest otherwise.
if access to trees and other green cover which keeps neighborhoods cool is correlated with race.
Having more trees and less asphalt in an area keeps reduces air conditioning bills and air pollution.
The researchers found that non-white Americans are more likely to live in census blocks that have little tree cover and more asphalt than white Americans.
To fix this cities could plan tree-planting initiatives the Berkeley researchers wrote in a paper they published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
and Chicago already have new-tree plans in place. The racial effect persisted even after the researchers controlled for home ownership and poverty.
Poorer neighborhoods all over the world tend to have less tree cover than richer neighborhoods. Controlling for population density did reduce the effect.
Other research groups have found the link between trees and race in individual cities. The Berkeley researchers used data from the U s. Census bureau and the U s. Department of agriculture to show that it's true all across the U s. Of course reducing the disparities in heat-related deaths in the U s. will require more than just trees.
Other researchers have found other reasons driving those racial differences including that some non-white groups are more likely to have diabetes and heart disease
Siberia heard an explosion that laid flat more than 800 square miles of the forest with all the trees pointing away from the center of the blast with most all the trees laying on their side.
Some trees that were right below the blast were still there looking like telephone poles with no bark
fir only from 2001 9-11. and for only willy brown got shell no pest strip's!@.
fir only from 2001 9-11. and for only willy brown got shell no pest strip's!@.
#Juniper Mold Threatens World Supplies Of Gina funguslike pathogen first discovered just five years ago now is wreaking havoc on juniper trees in the U k. This is the first time that this mold called Phytophthora
It threatens a tree that's native to the U k. and important to ecosystems there.
Junipers are known for the berries which give gin that piney flavor. Most gin companies don't get their juniper berries from the U k. nowadays ABC News reports
Other Phytophthora species are able to infect almost all of the fruit and nut trees people plant around the world.
Several U k. government agencies are working together to track infected junipers prevent infections from spreading and determine the origin of the illness.
and who knows other farm plants like this article juniper trees too...Filipino discovers cure for dreaded banana diseases...
This article is misleading some counties in southern England have lost 60-70%of their juniper trees
I drink a few cups of coffee in the morning for the past few years but still my main liquid intake consists of regular Cocacola
I also don't drink coffee tea milk or alcohol. I suspect my ridiculously good health is more good gene's
They're designed for life in the trees with super-sharp claws for climbing. The Association of Zoos and Aquariums notes that to prevent depression red pandas have to be given items to climb on.
He was found in a tree in a nearby patch of forest 60 feet above the ground four days after escaping.
and simply ran up a tree and hopped out of the pen. So the zoo stuck a lightly electrified fence over the top of the enclosure thinking that would do the trick.
Last year at the Dresden Zoo a red panda managed to get out of its pen and climb high up into a nearby tree.
Since red pandas escape so often zoos that house them typically have a procedure for getting them down from the trees they like to hide out in
Half a week's salary but Cassie will love it. After all what's money for?
#How To Detect Counterfeit Drugs Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s Muhammad Zaman and his family always knew which pharmacy to trust
but nobody ever does anything about it says Zaman now a biomedical engineer at Boston University.
Now new technology verification systems and researchers like Zaman are working to make sure that the drugs people take are
Zaman has made a cheap handheld scanner called Pharmacheck to quickly identify fake medicine in villages clinics and hospitals.
We can know what we're dealing with Zaman says. And how much is an important thing to find out.
Zaman's Pharmacheck prototype has already been successful in lab tests on oxytocin a lifesaving drug given to women after childbirth to prevent hemorrhaging.
Zaman and his collaborators are looking for a commercial partner to produce the devices in larger quantities
While not as sophisticated as Zaman's Pharmacheck CD-3 can't determine a pill's dose
Policymakers should reevaluate calls to boost the use of trees for biofuel the researchers recommend.
-Clarkewere trees replanted (like tree harvests for timber and paper here in the south) or was erected a development in its place?
what you burn there'd be an imbalance. plant 2 trees for everyone u burn problem solvedburning wood cleanly (syn-gas etc)
and sustainably probably still has more benefits as a whole than burning fossil fuelsancient trees being burned currently release ancient carbon.
New trees being burned release recent aquired carbon. The ancient tree buring do to the age adds to the carbon foot print of Earth.
The burning of recently planted trees just cycles the same carbon as long as new trees are being planted.
Leave the trees that are 300 or more years old alone. http://www. popsci. com/technology/article/2013-05/iran-unveils-new-stealth-drone-isnt#comment-301696 LIKE A 1970 MARVEL TOY THERMIC
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U f o)))when the tree rots release significant amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. that is what they not telling you. just replant all trees everything is good
. when the tree rots it will release significant amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. that is
what they not telling you. just replant all the trees everything is good y
#In Ancient Ice, Clues That Scientists Are Underestimating Future Sea Levelsthe skies do strange things at the NEEM camp a remote ice-drilling
and research facility on the northern Greenland ice sheet. Midnight sunshine. Low clouds of sparkling ice crystals known as diamond dust.
But when rain fell instead of snow last summer complete with a rainbow arcing over the camp the NEEM scientists couldn't believe it.
and to have it rain that far north that's a shock says James White a paleoclimatologist at the University of Colorado who led the American team working alongside those from 13 other countries at NEEM.
It's fitting that part of the NEEM study's fieldwork which retrieved a two -and-a-half-kilometer shaft of ice took place during one of the hottest Greenland summers on record.
The NEEM ice core has provided the first picture of the Greenland ice sheet during the entire Eemian interglacial period a 15000-year span of natural warming that occurred between the two most recent ice ages.
NEEM is a rough acronym for North Greenland Eemian ice drilling. During the Eemian natural variations in Earth's orbit brought the planet closer to the sun making global mean temperatures up to 2°C warmer than right before the industrial revolution (the Arctic regions were made even warmer between 3
The ice core pulled from the NEEM site has discrete often visible rings like a tree trunk each season's snowfall creates a new layer of fresh ice.
By studying the chemical makeup of the layers the NEEM scientists learned both the atmospheric temperature and the ice sheet's height over the years.
That meltwater would account for only about two meters of global sea rise according to Dorthe Dahl-Jensen a paleoclimate researcher at the University of Copenhagen who led the NEEM project.
I'm not arguing that we should probably slow down on the tree cutting. But to look at that infographic
and have your main point be that we should stop cutting down trees instead of reducing reliance on coal
but trees thenselves are carbon sinks. What's more we have huge swaths of desert land that can possibly be terriformed to lush greenland with smart engineering.
But in much of the western world America especially tree-cutting is now a sustainable and regulated industry under the Forrest Stewardship Council (FSC.
if we as a nation try to limit products produced from trees (including paper furniture building material etc) then we would effectively drive responsible tree-producing farmers out of business.
Simply cutting down trees does not increase greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. If you burn those trees then atmospheric CO2 increases.
However the entire forests of the upper midwest were cut down a century ago and that habitat destruction contributed nearly no increase in green house gases
because the trees are still in the houses that they build in Chicago Detroit and all the other cities surrounding the Great lakes.
If you cut down trees and sequester the wood (carbon) there will be NO release of CO2. I don't think anyone would argue that more trees is better than fewer trees
but we haven't seen ANY warming in the last 16 years. In the 1970's they were talking about the coming ice age.
You are right in that cutting down trees does not release CO2 (As long as you don't use a chainsaw
Trees don't sequester CO2 they BREATH it in as an indispensable component for photosynthesis . What they breath out is Oxygen.
So no cutting down a tree doesn't release CO2 but killing the tree stops it from scrubbing the CO2 out of the air
and replacing it with purified Oxygen. the implication they want you to take from this is that man made greenhouse gasses are the real problem.
That's not to say we should cut down every tree and strip mine every acre of land available but lets stop with the absurd allegations.
Most lumber related industries plant more trees than they cut down. That's not because of government regulations its just good business sense (greed)
If they don't plant more trees they won't have resources to exploit later. You want to see real greed?
But it clears the way for another tree to be planted in their place. The tree itself is sequestered the Carbon that it breaths in.
Move that CO2 pod out of the way to place a new sequestering machine to grow in its spot.
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