However, traditional computers retain the lion's share of the industry's patent volume, with 71 percent.
If everyone reading this article right now remembers to unplug their phone chargers from the wall
Preserving heritage and nature in Hong kong s urban jungle is not new even fruit bats might escape habitat destruction after conservationist lobbying.
They're building a computer model that unlike other AI projects does not mimic the brains of human, monkeys or mice.
Another group tried deer hunting, and in one of the rare organizational slips of the week, forgot about chef Eric Werner and left him alone in the woods for half of the day.
Barns, Pocantico Hills, USA Sean Brock Mccrady's, Husk, Charleston, South carolina Jeremy Charles Raymonds, St john's, Newfoundland, Canada Andrã Â Chiang Restaurant
the bird cherry ermine moth (Yponomeuta evonymella) and the orchard ermine moth (Yponomeuta padella. In the wild, females emit these pheromones to attract male suitors,
the lion's share of water use comes from two places: irrigation and power generation.
what would become an early Apple computer mouse, they cobbled together a roller ball (from a bottle of Ban deodorant) and a butter dish.
a hack of the traditional Port-a-Potty but one that could address the need for more public urination facilities
In October, five of the teams from the Summer of Smart conference will present their hacks to nine mayoral candidates
which can nose out bed bugs with 98%accuracy--sniffs the air much the way dogs do.
Ambient sounds in the Algonquin National park in Ontario, Canada, are replaced quickly by the howls of gray wolves:
Nighttime recording of forest elephants trumpeting around a bai: This is taken at the middle of the night.
You have a salt marsh where the elephants come and use it as part of their diet.
The structure of the landscape and the unique resource being used by the elephants create a one-of-a-kind soundscape.
We need to think about how to preserve the landscape around the elephant so the sounds can be propagated in a way that helps promote the animal.
 If a game park was short of food for elephants, you wouldn t introduce more elephants,
so why should we take this approach with bees?  The researchers calculate that to sufficiently meet the needs of every new hive, about one hectare (or about 2. 5 acres) of  borage,
Wild monkeys with radiation collars to help Fukushima researchersresearchers from Fukushima University are planning to equip local,
wild monkeys with special collars to help track contamination levels in places that are hard for us to reach.
The monkeys will wearing radiation-measuring collars as they go deep into forests oe an area that has only been studied from the air via helicopters
The collars worn by the monkey assistants will be equipped with: a dosimeter, a small radiation-measuring instrument GPS tracking a device that detects the monkey s distance from the ground as the radiation level is measured.
As the radiation moves from the forest to the ocean, it is important to set a baseline of knowledge to see how it affects humans and animals in the long run,
As many as 14 groups of monkeys are residing in those forests. As early as February
2 or 3 monkeys will be tracked for a month or two, after which the collars will detach (via remote control)
TV spots starring Roscoe the bed bug sniffing dog, mattress encasement ads on the subway, commercials with people freezing bugs,
They'll mix that in with  horse manure, old hay, wood chips. Do you bring the compost back once it's ready to use  in the roof garden?
Meats that are considered pre-Hispanic include venison, duck, boar, armadillo or a squirrel-like rodent called tepezcuintle.
The big gorilla on the map is our new red line light rail that will connect East Baltimore to West Baltimore
We talked about mice and spiders in space and why she wouldnt be a good candidate for space flight.
Our workhorse hardware is like a smart incubator, called a CGBA (commercial generic bioprocessing apparatus). We have two on the International Space station and two units on the shuttle, each about the size of a mid-deck locker.
There is an Amgen bone-loss experiment with a mouse; There is a microbe experiment; One is looking at virulents of salmonella to develop a salmonella vaccine;
Great Britainin the UK, architect Charles Barclay built a custom bat barn that provides easy entry
Because of the declining bat population, British legislation protects bats and their roosts. Fungal disease and habitat destruction have endangered the bats and modern buildings pose new problems for bats pushed out of rural habitats to urban areas because of development.
The concern is so great that the Royal Institute of British Architects is offering a course, in conjunction with the Bat Conservation Trust, on designing bat roosts.
featuring an Aussie outback adventurer called  Les Hiddins (a Macgyver meets Bear Grylls character) who impressed us with his passionate knowledge of Indigenous foods.
bush tucker has enjoyed something of a niche market, with lemon myrtle and warrigal greens the most well known of Indigenous foods.
Of course, there are native animals that are edible too (such as kangaroos, crocodiles and emus), but Weatherhead prefers to educate us on the wonders of Australias native flora world.
Warrigal Greens (tetragonia tetragonoides
Bye-bye barf: whale vomit no longer necessary to make perfumesambergris-the technical term for hunks of sperm whale vomit-has long been a component in high end perfumes.
The whales eat all kinds of things, including shells, bones and other hard or sharp objects that it can't digest.
Instead of trying to pass the spiky bits, the whales coat them in this sticky substance and cough them back up like cats cough up hairballs.
When that hunk-o-junk meets the seawater, a chemical reaction happens that turns the slimy mass into a little rock-like object that can be collected from the beaches.
It might seem like an unlikely candidate for perfumes since the stuff apparently smells about as gross as it sounds.
Ambergris critics argue that it endangers the already vulnerable sperm whale from which it comes. Others dislike the use of animal products in their cosmetics in general.
So now, rather than crawling the beaches for little hunks of whale vomit, researchers could manufacture a similar compound in the lab. Ambergris in a bowl Before you go check your perfume bottles,
It's also worth noting that no one has seen ever actually a sperm whale vomit up ambergris. Some think it might come out the other end.
Sperm whale by Archibald Thorburn, Wikimedia Commons Ambergris by Peter Kaminski, Wikimedia Commons
California company offers sustainable packaging for meat, fishit may be an obscure biblical reference, but I have to admit that the first thing
aquaponic food won't be allowed to carry either the German or the European union's organic seal on supermarket shelves.
(which include foxes and porcupines) to pass through the community, and a rooftop pool. And again, the designers propose a mix of live-work spaces.
or dust mulch, that seals in the moisture against evaporation. Crops planted in the water-saving soil live off this reserved moisture instead of irrigation.
Changing elephant poo to green paperjaipur/DELHI--The elephant ride up the stone pathway of the medieval Amber fort outside Jaipur is designed to make tourists feel like Rajput warriors returning from battle-or something on those fantastical lines.
stared at the mounds of dung plopping out at regular intervals as the elephants ambled up to the sandstone and marble palace.
 Much to the horror of his family, Shekhawat returned home with sacks of elephant poo to experiment
 The poo source Thrice a month, the two brothers set out on a motorbike to collect 1000kgs of dung from the elephant quarters behind the Amber fort.
Abdul Lateef, owner of four elephants rebuffed concerns that it is cruel to have chained elephants in small quarters
and then paraded out on stones that heat up in the sun. Å I treat them like my children,
Two female elephants stand in a shed surrounded by fodder and cocky monkeys. Despite being chained at the foot,
One elephant poops about 12 times everyday, which is around 180 kgs of dung that can produce 265 sheets of paper (an average size of 30x25 inches).
which begins in the elephant sheds behind the Rajput fort, leads to an ethnic market called Dilli Haat, a hugely popular hangout in the capital city.
But one sign catches the eyes a big elephant bottom with a cute curly tail that reads Å made using only the finest dung available in India.
 The shop contains various elephant poo products like paper, notepads, handicrafts, photoalbums and clocks.
elephant poo is like the cow dung, which is worshipped by millions of Indians. Even his elderly mother has made peace with the poo.
The company has taken pains to make sure its materials are sourced from places in China where harvesting the bamboo won't be harmful to panda habitats,
of course--but the major environmental pollution problem at the turn of the century was the millions of pounds of manure in city streets produced by horses used for transport.
It may not be quite as visible or an assault on our senses as horse manure but it's just as significant.
Scientific efforts to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species through cloning technology point toward a cheaper solution,
Joseph Wolf (1898), via Wikimedia) But returning to the merits of Mulligan's proposal, remember that resurrecting dead
Russian and Japanese scientists announced early in December that they hoped to clone a mammoth within five years,
So we're using cellulosic biomass waste streams--corn cobs, treetops and limbs, dead pine trees from pine beetles.
The emerging trends are corn cobs--that's what Dupont, Denisco and Verenium are using.
Corn cobs are easy to break down into sugar. But that's not a solution to the cellulosic fuel problem.
Practical application in Corporate Water Stewardship, drills down more deeply into three specific examples of how Coca-cola is working on this problem.
Dissolving fruit stickerstraditional fruit stickers seem destined to go the way of the mouse pad.
Drugs-on-the-cob: growing new meds in cornscientists have found a way to use maize to produce an expensive drug.
whose San diego lab scientists are genetically engineering zebra fish to try out other alterations in commercial seafood,
says Patty Lovera, assistant director of the consumer watchdog group Food and Water Watch, just one of the 300 groups that oppose the fish.
An electric airplane for only $34, 000 Flyboard jetpack lets you perform dolphin aerial tricks video Futuristic motor home is ultra luxurious,
Fruit-bat colony forces architects to change building designa v-shaped walkway was designed around the trees housing rare bats HONG KONG
A group of endangered fruit bats had taken up residency in the trees where the designers wanted to build a covered bridge to connect two of the buildings.
I call it the million-dollar fruit bat, he said, referring to the added cost of the new bridge design to accommodate the critters.
When asked about his thoughts on having to keep the fruit bats happy, Williams pointed out that there were also activists who demanded that most of the trees be preserved, all of
That s what the UK-based Energy Saving Trust concludes in its freshly minted report, The Elephant in the Living room:
Even if British utilities were to hit a 2020 goal of generating more electricity from renewable sources, consumers compulsion to view screens, click mice,
notebooks, tablets, smartphones, e-readers may mean more energy used by chargers. Not all sectors of domestic use are rising.
They have the lion's share of water rights. With low-flow irrigation and other off-the-shelf devices, we're reducing it by 50 to 70 percent.
reflecting not only the alarming numbers of elephants slaughtered but also the great demand in Asia that still fuels the international trade after it was outlawed in 1989.
since 2008--a massive stack belonging to about 1, 800 elephants and worth around US$90 million, based on recent valuations.
says Tim Fox, IME's head of energy and environment. This is food that could be used to feed the world's growing population-as well as those in hunger today.
Fox says. Consider IME's report as food for thought the next time you reject a crooked carrot or a lumpy apple.
Still, rats can be a menace. So why go through all this trouble? For Mathur, it s been a lifelong dream to spend her time growing flowers and vegetables.
Chan says, a source of enjoyment for the three guard dogs. Electrified wires one foot off the ground ward off the countryside s main intruders at night.
it has serrated a proboscis. Pennsylvania isn t really misspelled on the Liberty bell(#300) because Pensylvania was accepted an spelling in the 18th century.
Elephants actually sleep three to seven hours a night, not two(#35. The Statue of liberty wasn't the first electric lighthouse(#179.
and stops it from moving beyond the rumen-the chamber in a cow or sheep's stomach where much of the gas production occurs.
or cardigan ensemble, doff the bold rings adorning her expressive fingers, toss back her signature blonde blowout and commune with the plants.
With Studio Visualizer, the 3-D bottle is turned from side to side and upside down with the move of a computer mouse.
We just opened a polar bear and grizzly bear habitat. The water for the polar bears is 54 degrees
they have salinated water with fish, and it s a good place for them to dive deep.
The grizzlies have a tide pool that goes up and down and a stream stocked with trout. You ve said that Baby boomers are the worst culprits in terms of animal conservation.
they re calling giraffes camels and camels giraffes. You can t blame them for that.
and see the elephant and then grow up loving elephants and understand what s going on with elephants,
which are the largest land mammal on earth. When people go to the zoo, they learn things like the giraffe has the same number of vertebrae as a human being.
Zoos will play a major role in conserving the earth s wildlife
Japan to grow human organs inside pigsâ Japanese researchers are seeking less conventional methods to ensure transplant waiting list patients can receive the organs they need--by growing them inside pigs.
As reported by the BBC, Professor Nagashima has been conducting experiments on pigs. Female pigs have been injected with embryos containing genetic material from two different species,
in order for the piglets to grow into chimeric animals. The animals have been modified genetically to switch off natural genes with instructions to create particular organs.
the scientists has managed to successfully utilise IPS cells to grow a brown rat's pancreas inside of a white mouse,
The early ancestors to humans were more modern than today's apes and chimps. Ardi represents a middle ground in human evolution and bumps Lucy, the fabled 3. 2 million year old fossil, out of science's limelight.
and chimpanzees is thought to have lived six million or more years ago. Though Ardipithecus is not itself this last common ancestor,
shared with its predecessors, the primates of the Miocene epoch, and derived traits, which it shares exclusively with later hominids.
which isn't chimp, but isn't human either. Simply put, Ardi is a bit of an evolutionary tweener.
that our closest living relatives are chimpanzees-African apes that live today in west Africa.
Now that doesn't get us far enough back to reach that last common ancestor that we shared with chimpanzees.
the lines leading to modern chimps and gorillas are represented not even in the fossil record.
So we have virtually no fossil record for these modern apes. But we have a really good one for fossil humans.
people have assumed sort of that modern chimpanzees haven't evolved very much, that the last common ancestor was more or less like a chimpanzee
and that it's been the hominid branch of the family tree, the human lineage, if you want,
This Intelligence Squared debate, co-hosted by the Wheeler Centre and the St james Ethics Centre was executed in the traditional style of Cambridge and Oxford Union debates.
Please watch the Wheeler Centre s video (approx. 1. 50 mins) for the full debate.
a dog is a pig is a bear is a boy. Meat today is the new asbestos, more murderous than tobacco,
Join the debate According to the Wheeler Centre, 65%of the Melbourne audience supported the proposition,
Wheeler Centre
Melbourne designer's vision for a water-smart citymelbourne--Rapid climate change and an increasing need for water conservation has compelled a Melbourne designer to create'Equilibrium,
and mice for the purpose of adding bite marks to pieces. Instead of relying on a quick dirt rub for faked pottery,
Intricate designs and seals (red marks made with printing stamps which appraisers have placed traditionally great importance on as a way to authenticate objects) can be copied by lasers with great precision.
like a beehive project or even a donkey for children to ride. She wanted to bring people to the Paris Archives,
While looking for the bees and donkeys, Masson eventually received a photograph from the Ferme de Paris of four black sheep,
and that the city will crack down on people who have a horse or a pig as a pet.
Horses and pigs are considered not pets under the city code. Under the new rules, a person with under 3 acres must seek special permission to have either animal.
and license its cellulosic ethanol made from corn cob and crop residue. Â The joint venture, called POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels LLC, is scheduled to start production in the second half of 2013.
The new venture will convert corn cobs and crop residue into ethanol in a multistep process.
Animals, especially dogs and cats, are part of the family. The relationship toward the wild is important in American culture:
How would my child know what a gorilla was if my child couldn't see it?
So why would my child want to save a gorilla in the wild if they don't know what it is?
What kind of monkeys are those that don't know how to peel a banana? There are strong emotions on both sides.
All the gorillas are managed as if they are one community. They are one Zooland, which is why I chose that title for the book.
They decide together  which gorilla will mate with which gorilla. They decide which one will transfer
and how many new gorillas they want to have. Which gorillas are the most important to us for genetic reasons?
 They have to calculate in complex computer programs the genetics of each animal and get them together.
The standards include everything from the temperature of the gorilla enclosure, how a transfer container needs to be built,
Zoo professionals are in communication with people in the field about how to manage rhinos that are becoming extinct.
Maybe in several generations our children will not know lions and gorillas and rhinos. Prominent leaders in the zoo world are trying to see how they can move zoos to take a larger part in this movement of survival of both animals and habitats.
An elephant eating breakfast at the Safari Zoo in Ramat Gan, Israel/By Irus Braverman
if you want to look up a Jaguar car, there no barcode to scan. But that data we have
'The buffalo in the prairies are our brothers and the same thing for the deer.
There are specific mutations in its genome that we associate with an increased ability to grow in mammals.
Well, we know that there are genetic elements of a virus associated with growth in mammals.
if we lost the diversity of life, the monkeys, jaguars, whales for instance. They are all in trouble too.
Big cats--the lion, jaguar, snow leopard--are endangered on the species list at some level. There are others we don't have a lot of information about.
and beetles and big cats--are layered on top. That will give us a view of where we are with our knowledge of the tree of life.
Caffeine boosts memoryâ They say an elephant never forgets. This one is eating a coffee tree.
Photo above of elephant by Michael Allen Smith. Both via Flickr
Restaurant business innovation: Marijuana sauceyou're not in Indiana. Amsterdam's Manneken Pis chip shop, named after Brussels'famous pissing boy statue,
to know you â â¢re helping the deer, quail, turkey. We even have black bears.
What your playing schedule when you â â¢re not on tour? The Stones haven toured since August â â¢07.
The mtor inhibition has extended mouse mean lifespan by 33%.%In traditional Chinese medicine astragalus is considered a true tonic that can strengthen debilitated patients and increase resistance to disease in general.
promote peripheral nerve regeneration in rats, and inhibit mtor (a major longevity gene shown by extensive government studies to extend lifespan in mice).
In looking for the best herb in the Indian Ayurvedic medicinal tradition, I soon focused on the potent antidiabetic herb, Pterocarpus marsupium.
Theanine may also have positive effects on serotonin levels to promote restful Sleep in rats, theanine is neuroprotective.
Like humans and other mammals (e g. mice), it is quite difficult to increase their lifespan significantly.
oebig Dog Robot, The Stanley self-driving car (originally covered in THE FUTURIST in May-June 2006.
says Paul Shapiro, head of the society farm-animal program. Uniform rules To her surprise, Benson finds herself on the same side as the humane society."
or taking an elephant's trunk, hooking it up to a heart/lung machine and then hooking the other end to a machine that induced the trunk to grow by applying tension.
and passed through an oven to produce a continuous stream of fresh, delicious elephant trunk pie.
"We could make panda meat, I'm sure we could, "Post said. He believes it will be a relatively simple matter to scale up the operation,
'hack'has been given a more positive connotation by Gensler: to change or improve an office building. In Gensler concept, a hackable building is oean existing structure that has been adapted beyond recognition quickly incorporating a diverse mix of multiple uses within a one.
Hacks range from tenant-driven changes to investments made by owners to reposition their asset.
Large-scale hacks can create spaces beyond standard amenities like cafes and fitness centers to oeattractors-or unique building amenities-like fabrication labs,
and the public. oethe building owner can perform hacks as incentives for existing tenants to remain,
Building hacks vary from low-cost additions and renovations to larger, strategic investments in the existing structure. oethe rapid influence of technology on how everyday work tasks are completed has decentralized many of the office-centric activities that governed North american office building design,
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