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,
notebooks, tablets, smartphones, e-readers may mean more energy used by chargers. Not all sectors of domestic use are rising.
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.
Join the debate According to the Wheeler Centre, 65%of the Melbourne audience supported the proposition,
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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,
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.
'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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