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During social play with their unlikely friend, the juvenile capuchins actually adjusted the force of their movements to account for the puny marmoset's size and strength.

artificially increasing the force of gravity is relatively easy. You simply attach the apparatus to the arm of a rapidly spinning centrifuge.

the bubbles are so small that they get stuck to the potato by capillary forces, and so further increases in gravity make little difference.

and in fact some disadvantages, from centrifuging to a force greater than 3g. This could be worth knowing for the food industry,

Pushed into coastal waters in wartime during the Tang Dynasty, these boat dwellers weren't allowed to set foot on land until the second half of the 20th century.

and conflict, pitting nation against  nation, and neighbour against neighbour.  It doesn't have to be this way.

when the Prussian Surgeon general Friedrich Von Esmarch recommended in his influential 19th century handbook on battlefield medicine that burnt surfaces should be covered with an oil, grease or butter.

The loose skin on its large frame whips around its body with enough force to shed the water quite easily.

it needs to shake proportionally faster to generate the same forces to break the surface tension of water on its fur oe up to 33 times per second,

pulling forces of up to 70g. All of which suggests that animals tune the frequency of their shakes to maximise the efficiency of getting dry.

The driving force behind these initiatives the Transition Towns movement oe encourages communities to build local resilience to outside economic and environmental forces.

but so did wars. In some countries witch hunts rooting out the unknown cause of the plague resulted in minority groups being massacred,

Peasants benefited from the scarcity of labour to gain better wages (often through revolt), and their crops and cattle spread into unoccupied land giving most people a richer diet.

which was more than the guns of World war i. The impacts of this pandemic should have been especially severe because unusually,

or deaths among the workforce melded into the dramatic effects of the war. The HIV/Aids epidemic,

but it forces one to assume that salt, chalk and quartz all somehow got into the kiln along with the copper scale.

self-styled"guerilla gardeners  are planting flowers and trees in plots among the tarmac and traffic of London's highways,

the immune system launches an attack, while at the same time issuing a chain of anti-inflammatory orders to ensure the response does not get out of hand.

As a result of conflicts like this, Kenya has been losing on average 100 lions a year, and there are now just 2, 000 remaining in the country.

by reducing the number of attacks on livestock in areas with the lights, he says.

or elephants trampling crops-via SMS, allowing agencies to track hotspots of conflict or poaching.

the resulting TX1 was not a revolutionary design, but a self-conscious reworking of a format

 In fact, between now and 2030, the number of passengers and number of fights is likely to more than double

 Welcome to the first TED event at Sana'a, capital of Yemen, the poorest country in the middle East and a nation at the heart of the covert US war on Al Qaeda.

the poorest country in the middle East and a nation at the heart of the covert US war on Al Qaeda.

and for the 2011 protests-inspired by the Arab spring uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt oe that led to the overthrow of its leader.

though the prospects for success might seem remote-Mareb has been the site of continuing violence between military forces

Â"Water is becoming so scarce in certain areas that gun battles erupt, Â said Alamarie,

 Deaths from battles over land and water rights, he said,"results in the deaths of some 4, 000 people each year, probably more than the violence in the south, the armed rebellion in the north,

The country is still struggling in the aftermath of last year's anti-government demonstrations that pushed the country to the  of civil war before a political deal led to 33 year President Ali Abdullah Saleh stepping down

this treacherous bit of sea is known as the triangle of death for good reason oe the considerable threat of great white sharks is increased by the conspicuous absence of kelp that otters normally use to hide.

-and-ambush strategy oe gazelle do not follow hyena, despite the fact that more gazelle die from predation by hyenas than by cheetahs or lions.

An assessment of this and other stressed communities which had all been subject to elephant culling showed that male-male aggression accounted for almost ninety out of every hundred male deaths

older males may delay the onset of musth in younger males. The orphans of Pilanesberg did not have this safety net.

we are the biggest force in moving the planet's rocks and sediments around. Our global extractions are environmentally damaging

But what's the reason for this apparently endless series of patent battles involving smartphone and tablet firms?

Of course this strategy inevitably leads to patent disputes, but many technology companies end up resolving them by coming to some cross-licensing agreement with the other party-just this month Apple

and Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC halted their hostilities this way. But, before this happens, companies often spend considerable sums buying up patent portfolios that they can use as bargaining chips during negotiations.

resulting in the loss of many species. Dominant force Humans have been orchestrating tectonic-scale species migrations of their own,

Since we have become such a dominant force on our planet, we have to decide how best to manage the situation we're creating.

though their aggression did not escalate beyond posturing. Like the African elephants, the attending dolphins nudged

sometimes showing signs of aggression to those who tried. In each case the attending dolphins deviated from their typical routines.

The hi-tech fight against fake foodinvestigations in New york's Chinatown are a regular occurrence, but Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis'mission was purely scientific.

it's the biggest threat to the sustainable management of fish stocks. Using DNA barcoding,

and the War of the Pacific kicked off between the guano-and saltpetre-rich nations of Peru, Bolivia and Chile.

though, the need for guano was replaced by a revolutionary idea. The German chemist Fritz Haber invented a way of converting the nitrogen in air into liquid ammonia (NH3.

environmentalists and demographers predicting humanity's collapse through famine, wars and epidemics, if we don't check our population.

but because of wars, or crops already hit by climate change, or being too poor to afford food

and see a riot of depth, every tree standing out from all the others, Â he says.

Beating our consumption habitno period in history compares to the Great Acceleration after WORLD WAR II, a rapid increase in human activity driven by population expansion, globalisation, technological and communications improvement, improved farming methods and medical advances.

In many cases the upstream-downstream demands straddle national borders leading to conflict over precious water,

disputes have been ongoing between India and Pakistan, and Turkey, Syria and Iraq, for example. Dams don't just block water flow.

 It helps he was a leading figure in the WORLD WAR II code-breaking work at Bletchley Park:

that after the war this"bachelor  who"lived alone  oe which many Daily mail readers of the time would have taken correctly to imply he was homosexual oe was subjected to persecution,

Societies have adapted successfully to environmental threats in the past.""Planetary boundaries are not a useful concept for society,

the combined forces of thousands of ordinary connected volunteers can help collect or crunch overwhelming masses of data."

because years of insurgency in Nepal have made it difficult to carry out surveys. However, with tiger parts attracting a high price on the Asian health potions market,

Or the Barbary lion, the biggest and heaviest lion that was used by the Romans to fight gladiators,

the life force or germs now found in the heart of the corn, in the kernel of wheat,

Combined with the arrival of TV DINNERS and Cold war fears over food security depictions of future food also enjoyed a revival.

because we have become the dominant geological force on our planet. We have changed the composition of the atmosphere oe

and find out what we are doing to solve the crisis. Welcome to the frontline of the Anthropocene.

Kotex arose when World war i Red cross nurses discerned that a cellulose wadding product meant for wound dressing also worked well as a sanitary pad.

During the Cold war, the CIA was busy hacking away at the human brain, implanting electrodes with the aim of creating robotlike killers.

which allows them to plan attacks without revelealing any identifying information. Chris Poole, who founded

By this time, Anonymous began to see themselves as a group of internet vigilantes fighting for assorted noble causes, rather than a band of merry pranksters.

The current attacks related to Wikileaks are performed under the same banner. What do Anonymous want now?

Ultimately most members of Anonymous seek to fight internet censorship. They generally cant do much other than harass

but their ability to spread awareness through word of mouth as well as press coverage is much more powerful than their occasional DDOS attacks.

#Colorado Struggles to Create First Pot Regulations Samples of marijuana are tested in an oven at Full Spectrum Laboratories in Denver.

When Michelle Obama implored restaurateurs in September to help fight obesity, she cited the proliferation of cheeseburgers

and records, provide a stark example of inherent conflicts in the Agriculture departments historical roles as both marketer of agriculture products and Americas nutrition police.

The Revolutionary Diet Discovery That Will Help You Lose weight Faster. Precisely how dairy facilitates weight loss is unclear,

Up to now, most climate models incorporating known forces such as changes in the sun and atmosphere have predicted that volcanic explosions would disrupt the monsoon by bringing less rain to southeast Asiaut the researchers found the opposite.

its obvious theres a lot of work to be done to understand how all these different forces interact.

and manmade forces might act together to in the future to shift weather patterns a vital question for all areas of the world. more via sciencedaily. com Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati R

WORLD WAR II, perhaps the most profound example, ended in an atomic strike on Japan in 1945 largely on the shoulders of scientist-soldiers in the Manhattan project.

what sort of threat they face. The system searches out the unique proteins in a sample, then identifies a virus

They said that combination attacks in nature, like the virus and fungus involved in bee deaths,

That battle can be expensive. After a recall makes headlines, it is not unusual for consumers to flock to higher-priced organic and locally grown meats,

and crocodiles and could eventually pose a major threat to children, pets and livestock. Rounding out the bottom five are killer bees, starlings, mountain pine beetles, brown tree snakes and Asian mongooses.

#Black Rice is the New Cancer-Fighting Superfood Black rice is low in sugar but packed with healthy fiber

and plant compounds that combat heart disease and cancer. Black rice revered in ancient China but overlooked in the West could be the greatest superfoods,

and plant compounds that combat heart disease and cancer, say experts. Scientists from Louisiana State university analysed samples of bran from black rice grown in the southern U s. They found boosted levels of water-soluble anthocyanin antioxidants.

#Top 10 Health Threats To Children#1 health concern is childhood obesity. Adults see obesity as the top health threat to children in their communitiesut not necessarily their own kidsnd many believe the problem is getting worse,

according to a new poll that asked respondents to rank 20 different health concerns. For the third year in a row, childhood obesity topped the list with nearly 40 percent of the 2,

black adults rated smoking as the top health threat to children, followed by teen pregnancy and obesity.

This could also be a huge win in the fight against GMO foods as U s.-grown corn,

though, the success of bees in the city also serves to further highlight their struggles in the countryside,

and face the same threat. The authors include Moshe Gish, Amots Dafni, Moshe Inbar, at University of Haifa

or value-added tax. oethe smuggled iphone will be a real threat to the real iphone sold in China,

and policymakers are worried increasingly that the slowdown is not just a symptom of the nations economic struggles

interstate migration has reached its lowest point since WORLD WAR II, Frey said. In Palm Coast, civil engineer James Tiffany took a job in 2006

More than 550 years after Johannes Gutenberg printed 180 copies of the Bible on paper and vellum, new technologies as revolutionary as the printing press are changing the concept of a book and

that writing about conflict can unsettle his younger readers. oewhen two characters in my book have an argument,

so I use it only when there is a real need in the story for conflict. Now that anyone with an Internet connection or even a cellphone effectively owns a digital printing press,

resulted in a global food crisis and riots in Haiti, Bangladesh and Egypt. Oxfam said an extra 119 million people were pushed into hunger.

near the Antietam Civil war battlefield. Like neighboring farmers, Stoner sells some cattle to bulk slaughterhouses in the West.

near the Antietam Civil war battlefield. Like neighboring farmers, Stoner sells some cattle to bulk slaughterhouses in the West.

Bad temper donkey did not want to work with the bull, such uncoordinated working force. This is the first time I saw such kind of farming method

This time Saadi Gadhafi, the son of the revolutionary leader Moammar Gadhafi and a football player himself, was sitting in the stands.

Mbvoumin faces an uphill battle. About one in two sub-Saharan Africans lives on less than $1 a day,

While initially seen as a major boon for the fight to control climate change, many have come to believe that growing these crops serves no net climate benefit.

and force land reclamation for food in other countries instead, have been shown by the new study to be false. oeaccording to our results,

in his second term as President, a major rebellion based on untaxed moonshine tested the new nations mettle.

and if its illegality adds a frisson of rebellion to the pleasure of making something good all by yourself, then so much the better.

As the world struggles to recover from economic recession, India has the second fastest-booming economy after China.

The collapse in the global honeybee population is a major threat to crops. It is estimated that a third of everything we eat depends upon honeybee pollination,

#Round up Resistant Weeds Pose a Threat to Farmers A certified crop adviser and agronomist looks for weeds resistant to glyphosate.

lower crop yields, rising farm costs and more pollution of land and water. oeit is the single largest threat to production agriculture that we have seen ever,

The first resistant species to pose a serious threat to agriculture was spotted in a Delaware soybean field in 2000.

With law and order coming to force, the Bishnois are not sparing any threat to the environment.

They have been fighting court cases, poachers, and any threat to the environment they cherish. If not for the Bishnois, the Black buck and Chinkara,

which come under Section 9 of the Wildlife Protection Act, supposedly getting the highest degree of protection by the state,

#Monsanto Takes Fight To Control Your Food To Supreme court The battle over the non-regulated status of genetically modified crops has reached the US Supreme court. Monsanto has appealed,

More on Monsanto at Treehugger. comstudy Finds Monsantos GMO Corn Causes Organ Damage in Rodentsthe Fight Over the Future of Food:

but its actually a fungus that attacks corn. U s. farmers call it oecorn smut and have spent millions to eradicate it.

In a back room, they found the perp, angry and ready to fight, but a little on the smallish side.

The birds have spurs on their feet, wings sharpened like razors from dragging on the ground and a willingness to fight.

California, has set alarm bells ringing with an intrigue worthy of the Cold war. For a website is claiming that the forgotten phone wasnt just any old mobile.

what we in terms of technology and equipment to fight forest fires, he said. Fires in Kenya last year destroyed 11,370 hectares of bush and forest land.

Biotech on the Rampage! Robert Kremer, a U s. government microbiologist who studies Midwestern farm soil,

as well as insults and death threats. oewe know where you live, his detractors taunt. Jones is finished:

A religious war is raging between alarmists and skeptics, and it threatens to consume levelheaded climatologists.

But it is a critical conflict because it revolves around something as massive as the total restructuring of industrial society,

head of the German Research center for Geosciences in Potsdam near Berlin and the president of the German Academy of Science and Engineering, believes that basic values are now under threat. oescientists should never be wedded as to their theories that they are no longer capable of refuting them in the light of new findings,

A Climate Rebel Takes on the Establishment One man notes with particular satisfaction how Phil Jones

Under the pressure of Mcintyres attacks, Jones had to admit something incredible: He had deleted his notes on how he performed the homogenization.

and are more resistant to microbial attack, Spokas said. Lab research, done by him and others, suggests that these bonds have the potential to hold fast for anywhere between hundreds to hundreds of thousands of years.

You dont realize that it is involved in a historic battle with plants for access to its life blood.

This is the kind of revolutionary fervor that Paypal was intended always to foment. Peter Thiel, Paypals cofounder and a die-hard libertarian, launched the company as a means of creating a stateless monetary system,

according to the book The Paypal Wars. oeit will be nearly impossible for corrupt governments to steal wealth from their people.

there were some hints of Paypals revolutionary capabilities. Unlike credit card companies, Paypal had need no to build

Paypal moved even further away from its revolutionary roots in 2002, when it was purchased by ebay for $1. 5 billion.

and his voice rises until its echoing off the stark white walls. oethis is the main battleground of capitalism!

Paypal has shied away from using revolutionary rhetoric. In discussing its role, company executives sound less like Thiel,

But environmentalists say that the clouded leopard faces the threat of poaching while rapid deforestation and the creation of rubber and oil-palm plantations in Borneo is destroying its natural habitat.

however, has the general public been made aware of the threats posed by third-hand smoke.

%The effort to ignite a revolt in the Golden state comes as years of industry-backed campaigns have sown doubts about the scientific consensus behind global warming

environmentalists worry that money from around the country will pour into the effort. oepeople see California as ground zero in this fight,

The authors also conclude that proposed oil development projects represent the greatest threat to Yasunã

The Ecuadorian government is promoting a revolutionary plan, known as the Yasunã-ITT Initiative, which would leave the parks largest oil reserves in the ITT block permanently under the ground.

We want to know what forces maintain this 80-million-year-old arrangement between figs and their wasp pollinators. said lead author, Charlotte Jandr, graduate student in Cornell Universitys Department of Neurobiology and Behavior,

it seems like sanctions were only present where needed. oesanctions seem to be a necessary force in keeping this,

That organizational mania paid off richly in the frantic opening days of WORLD WAR II, when new military facilities and war plants had to be built yesterday.

WORLD WAR II made Webb rich. Having seen his father lose everything in construction, Webb put some eggs in other baskets.

It was in that mood that Webb struck what he would call oethe best deal I ever made.

That organizational mania paid off richly in the frantic opening days of WORLD WAR II, when new military facilities and war plants had to be built yesterday.

Article continues below WORLD WAR II made Webb rich. Having seen his father lose everything in construction,

Webb put some eggs in other baskets. It was in that mood that Webb struck what he would call oethe best deal I ever made.

#Stingless Bees Mumify Attackers That Cant Be stung Stingless bee Scientists have discovered that bees use more than their stingers to defeat potential attackers.

New Scientist reports that researchers from The swiss Bee Research Centre in Bern have discovered a species of bee an Australian stingless bee called Trigona Carbonaria that has developed a previously unseen way to ward off attackers.

or professions ravaged by the same forces that have enriched the plutocratic elite. The result of these divergent trends is a jaw-dropping surge in U s. income inequality.

and leading them in discussion of matters ranging from global financial imbalances to the war in Afghanistan.

In a study of British and American CEOS, for example, Elisabeth Marx, of the headhunting firm Heidrick & Struggles,

#or the insistence by several top bankers after the immediate threat of the financial crisis receded that their institutions could have survived without TARP funding

The drive to make all food supplies local has touched off a number of battles to rewrite municipal codes to accommodate everything from rooftop gardens, to backyard cows and chickens

Full-time aerial drone pilots needed to help manager our growing fleet of surveillance, delivery, and communication drones.

The Coming Transparency Wars Can you feel the layers being lifted? Transparency is entering our lives in unusual ways

This will continue to be a volatile battleground for many years to come. More details here and here. 24.

Bees help in the battle against tuberculosis (Image: Honeybee on Snakeroot, a Creative Commons Attribution (2. 0) image from dendroica s photostream) Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati e

The fight against childhood obesity has been dealt a blow. The U s. House of Representatuves passed a bill that abandons proposals that threatened to end the reign of pizza and French fries on federally funded school lunch menus.

and climatology to one where the true power-brokers will wield the forces of nature. 47.

The battle has begun. For 50 years, farmers, scientists, and homeowners have looked for a way to get rid of kudzu.

#Yuleahoop a revolutionary new way to decorate your Christmas tree Featured invention at the Davinci Inventor Showcase 2011 The Yuleahoopis a small round ring with gripping slots that slips over the top branch

Yuleahoop is a revolutionary new way to decorate your tree. How Does the Yuleahoopwork? Set the Yuleahoop over the very top of the tree.

No one disputes that oral intake of food to get your vitamins and minerals is the way to go,

With its up and down-down fortunes and constant threat of being outflanked by the next ipad-delivered Internet service the media business can be very nerve-wracking.

When the Tomato Wars come to your town, the best people to have on your side are the ones who don t mind getting a little dirty...

but now other traditional entertainment providers are facing the same threat. Comcast, Time warner and others are responding by transforming themselves into software companies with efforts such as TV Everywhere,

The modern combat soldier is embedded in a web of software that provides intelligence, communications, logistics and weapons guidance.

Over the next 10 years, the battles between incumbents and software-powered insurgents will be epic. Joseph Schumpeter, the economist who coined the term creative destruction,

Battlefield State Historic Park Santa cruz Mission State Historic Park Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park Shasta State Historic Park South Yuba River State Park

#WORLD WAR II State Park Beach Pond State Recreational Area Texas Austin Postcard#via Flickr While the Lone Star state hasnt closed any of its 94 parks,

#Honey could help fight MRSA and other Superbugs Even more health benefits from honey are being identified.

Blasts of mist keep the room humid, and the temperature is similar to the plants native South america.

Combat the social isolation that too easily sneaks up on older adults and it has a huge impact not just on how many years they will live,

which was created by Congress in 1994 to raise the awareness of the health threats uniquely facing men.

which came into force in 2005 and obliges them to take steps over time to cut smoking rates,

and is described by THE WHO as one of the biggest public health threats the world has faced ever#.

Worlds Most Dangerous Animals After doing some research, Ive assembled a list of the top eight animals that pose the greatest threat to humankind.

Weak Van der waals forces can also play a role in a crystal structure; for example, this type of bonding loosely holds together the hexagonal-patterned sheets in graphite.

This forces Toucan Sam to be associated with healthier products.##The guidelines, released by the Federal trade commission, encompass a broad range of marketing efforts,

They exert a powerful force on the world around us. Leonardo Davinci dedicated over 500 drawings and 35

turning the notion that humans could fly into an inevitable force of nature#an attractor.

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