and trial process before it can be granted patent protection, according to Hussein Said of Kenyas National Council for Science and Technology.
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.
whereas reading the same email online could require using power sourced from mountaintop-removal coal-mining.
Biotech on the Rampage! Robert Kremer, a U s. government microbiologist who studies Midwestern farm soil,
who expressed alarm that regulators were not paying enough attention to the potential risks from biotechnology on the farm,
and protective in extreme elements. The idea of growing rocks sounds farfetched at first, but apparently the idea is solid.
The scheme has been designed as a hedge of greenhouses providing a windbreak and shelter for the outdoor planting.
The 300,000 number that Apple touted included deliveries of pre-ordered ipads, sales at Apples retail stores and shipments to its partners,
and key to its plan to ultimately integrate the home office and the living room. Apples online store continues to show a ship date for the Wifi-only ipad of April 12,
The 300,000 number that Apple touted included deliveries of pre-ordered ipads, sales at Apples retail stores and shipments to its partners,
and key to its plan to ultimately integrate the home office and the living room. Apples online store continues to show a ship date for the Wifi-only ipad of April 12
#A Crisis for Global Warming Research The Maldives cabinet holds an underwater meeting in a bid to draw attention to the dangers of global warming for the island nation.
as well as insults and death threats. oewe know where you live, his detractors taunt. Jones is finished:
and is intent on protecting it from the critical eyes of his detractors. An Entire Branch of Science in Crisis The Climategate affair is grist for the mills of skeptics,
as the personification of the worlds conscience, accepted the award on behalf of his organization. oeclimate change poses novel risks,
saying that the decision to award the prize to the IPCC was oea clarion call for the protection of the earth as it faces the widespread impacts of climate change He also warned of the risk of not taking action:
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
Hitting Pay dirt Mcintyre normally works in the investment field, specializing in major mining projects. He has always been good at math. oei won mathematics prizes in school,
The Smoking Gun of Climatology Most of all, however, Jones controlled the oesmoking gun of climatology:
the Earths temperature curve. The temperature records dating back to the beginning of industrialization are intended to prove that the average global temperature has increased already by almost one Degree celsius since 1850.
Under the pressure of Mcintyres attacks, Jones had to admit something incredible: He had deleted his notes on how he performed the homogenization.
because each time you increase the salary youre actually making it more unaffordable for everybody in the rural space. oeweve found that with the mining industry.
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.
Tree house Lodge The Tree house Lodge, built on the same land as the Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge in Punta Uva, Costa rica, offers four types of rooms;
which shares its location with a wildlife sanctuary, promises all-natural sheets and towels and biodegradable detergent,
Theres a big explosion. Maybe angiosperms were in that fuse state, said Donoghue. oebut its hard to imagine flowering plants would have had a big impact on the origin of major insect groups
the risk for obesity and diabetes in a community goes down as the price for fast food
000 participants followed for 20 years in the Coronary artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study.
Starting at 8 a m. in her Yucaipa, Calif.,home office and ending as late as 10:30 p m.,she struggled to keep all her mini-shifts straight.
Fueling the mini-shift trend is an explosion in Web sites for freelancers, which enable skilled workers in a wide range of fields to sell their services easily in part-time chunks.
Her day starts and ends in her home office, often encompassing five mini-shifts of work lasting one to three hours.
Another risk is reduced output. oealmost any time we switch between doing different tasks, we will be less efficient than
To guard against inefficiency Peggy Duncan, an Atlanta personal productivity consultant, advises setting quantitative objectives for your work
You dont realize that it is involved in a historic battle with plants for access to its life blood.
seeking out ways small and large to tear down the stronghold the banks and credit card companies have built.
About 20 percent of all online transactions now take place over so-called alternative payment systems, according to consulting firm Javelin Strategy and Research.
and risk-management issues to Paypal. oei can focus on the social side of the business and not on touching money,
And so, an army of engineers and entrepreneurs is rushing in, hoping to do to the payment world what has already been done to the music,
Mitchell Wolfe, an ecommerce veteran who ran Compaqs Canadian Internet sales team before moving on to a series of startups,
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.
Paypal acted more as an enabler a way of extending the credit card model of payment into the online realm than as a bomb-thrower.
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.
In April 2008, Bedier led a meeting at ebays North First street headquarters, where he presented his idea to CEO John Donahoe and his lieutenants.
When Bedier was finished, he was stunned to get applause. oeit was like a lightbulb clicked on,
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,
seeking out ways small and large to tear down the stronghold the banks and credit card companies have built.
About 20 percent of all online transactions now take place over so-called alternative payment systems, according to consulting firm Javelin Strategy and Research.
and risk-management issues to Paypal. oei can focus on the social side of the business and not on touching money,
-and-mortar banks to make deposits, withdrawals, payments, etc. Smart cards: The general term for any card with a specialized computer chip embedded,
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.
The research is published in the journal Nature. oeenergy security looms as one of the most important scientific challenges of this century
The biggest risk is to young children. Dermal uptake of the nicotine through a childs skin is likely to occur
The dangers of mainstream and secondhand tobacco smoke have been documented well as a cause of cancer
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,
California advocacy director for the Natural resources Defense Council. oepolluters will do anything to defeat climate legislation in Washington, D c,
Other colors Benjamin Moore will be presenting under its oealternative View palette include Midnight Navy, Opaline and Claret Rose.
And like the chocolatier from Roald Dahls hit childrens book, Larry is very protective of the secret process behind making insect candy. oethe owner does not divulge exactly what the process is before they are cooked
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,
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also happens to be the largest plant thats ever been sequenced by the whole genome shotgun strategy where we break it apart
Most construction companies banged together job-site shacks of unfinished framing lumber but Webb used portable offices identical in color, furniture and what went on inside.
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.
Most construction companies banged together job-site shacks of unfinished framing lumber but Webb used portable offices identical in color, furniture and what went on inside.
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.
and women who could afford to burn 100 shotgun shells every outing also might throw dollars at a hardway eight.
and women who could afford to burn 100 shotgun shells every outing also might throw dollars at a hardway eight.
#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.
It has a restaurant that seats 120 people as well as classrooms, cafes, turrets, wobbly bridges, and imported wood from all over the world.
For us to provide ourselves with enough security and enough milk we re going to ship it across the country,
And the less-wondrous inventions#articularly the explosion of subprime credit#elped mask the rise of income inequality for many of those
found their savings, employers, 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.
It s true that few of today s plutocrats were born into the sort of abject poverty that can close off opportunity altogether#a strong early education is pretty much a precondition#ut the bulk of their wealth is generally the fruit of hustle and intelligence (with, presumably,
and leading them in discussion of matters ranging from global financial imbalances to the war in Afghanistan.
Alfred Nobel ensured that he would be remembered for something other than the invention of dynamite. What is notable about today s plutocrats is that they tend to bestow their fortunes in much the same way they made them:
In a study of British and American CEOS, for example, Elisabeth Marx, of the headhunting firm Heidrick & Struggles,
there is a growing sense that American businesses that don t internationalize aggressively risk being left behind.
#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
Look for several new mines to come online in coming years and China s stranglehold on the industry to plummet. 16.)
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.
#In 2010 the U s. Military spent $4. 5 billion on drones, increasing to $4. 8 billion in 2011.
But as a technology, future drones will go well beyond military uses. The stage is being set for thousands of everyday uses in business and industry all over the world.
The Coming Transparency Wars Can you feel the layers being lifted? Transparency is entering our lives in unusual ways
The greatest danger of too much transparency is that we will become consumed by watching each other,
This will continue to be a volatile battleground for many years to come. More details here and here. 24.
Let s hope they never have to test out their precautions. With nine different television broadcasters and three FM transmitters, the Sky Tree s main purpose is to enable terrestrial broadcasting to the city again,
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while others are put at risk. Even though these bees were described only recently, we can go back to the collections by digitizing records,
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.
if our reality hasn t been augmented in some way. 2. Alternative Currency Bankers According to Javelin Strategies, 20%of all online trades are already being done with alternative currencies.
In the future, robotic earthworms will be used to silently mine the landfills and replace whatever is extracted with high-grade soil. 39.
and climatology to one where the true power-brokers will wield the forces of nature. 47.
Nano-Weapons Specialists Many of the weapons of the future will be too small to be seen by the human eye.
and alarm at combining human genes with those from other species. Dr Yang said, however, that the protein produced by the genetically modified rice was identical to Human Serum albumin found naturally in Blood tests on rats also showed it did not produce any adverse reactions.
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.
People who are physically inactive are twice as likely to be at risk for heart disease
High blood cholesterol can lead to the build up of fatty deposits in your arteries increasing your risk for heart disease
you can cut your risk of stroke by up to 40 per cent and the risk of heart attack by up to 25 per cent. 5. ACHIEVE
AND MAINTAIN A HEALTHY WEIGHT: Almost two thirds of Britons are either overweight or obese major risk factors for heart disease and stroke.
Diabetes increases the risk of high blood pressure, atherosclerosis (narrowing of the arteries), coronary artery disease, and stroke, particularly if your blood sugar levels are controlled poorly. 7. BE TOBACCO FREE:
your risk of heart disease and stroke begins to decrease. After 15 years, your risk will be nearly that of a nonsmoker.
Dr Yancy is a professor of medicine and chief cardiologist at the Northwestern University s Feinberg School of medicine in Chicago.
The risks of all these could be reduced by controlling high blood pressure, which is known as the silent killer
Study The study found a small increase in the risk of death among older women who took dietary supplements.
They found a small increase in the risk of death among older women who took dietary supplements compared with those who didn t, according to the study, released Monday in the Archives of Internal medicine.
They were associated with a slightly decreased risk of premature death. Based on existing evidence, we see little justification for the general and widespread use of dietary supplements,
Among the several vitamins and minerals studied, researchers said the strongest association for an increased risk of death came with iron,
Women in the study who took iron supplements were 3. 9%more likely to die than those who didn t. The risk of dying early was 2. 4%higher among women who took a multivitamin compared with women who didn t. Miriam Pappo, director of clinical
No one disputes that oral intake of food to get your vitamins and minerals is the way to go,
The nutrient folic acid, A b vitamin, has been shown to reduce the risk of birth defects. And doctors recommend that many older women take calcium
000 postmenopausal women participating in the federally funded Women s Health Initiative found that multivitamin use didn t cut the risk of cancer, cardiovascular problems or the overall death rate.
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...
and delivered as online services#rom movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading
How Netflix eviscerated Blockbuster is an old story, 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,
Even national defense is based increasingly software. The modern combat soldier is embedded in a web of software that provides intelligence, communications, logistics and weapons guidance.
Software-powered drones launch airstrikes without putting human pilots at risk. Intelligence agencies do large-scale data mining with software to uncover
and track potential terrorist plots. Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.
This includes even industries that are based software today. Great incumbent software companies like Oracle and Microsoft are threatened increasingly with irrelevance by new software offerings like Salesforce. com
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,
Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant some 50 km away suffered a series of core meltdowns and explosions after the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems,
hydrogen explosions and overheating fuel rods #and have no idea when, if ever, they can return to homes that have been in their families for generations.
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Coast redwoods State Park Fort Humboldt State Historic Park Fort Tejon State Historic Park Garrapata State Park George J. Hatfield State
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,
His decision to wear scuba gear rather than a parachute was one he would soon regret...
The windshield decided to make his dream come true...A train without a track is like hope without a wallet...
#Honey could help fight MRSA and other Superbugs Even more health benefits from honey are being identified.
Armed with $5, 000 in savings, Blakely researched and wrote her patent for footless pantyhose
It could be in a New york high-rise, a Siberian bunker, or a sprawling complex in the Saudi desert.
Blasts of mist keep the room humid, and the temperature is similar to the plants native South america.
because they offer deliveries, have public bathrooms#a rarity in the city#and sell single portions of fresh meat, poultry or fish,
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,
Other 2010 nominees#including Blockbuster#bit the dust, while companies, such as Dollar Thrifty are on the road to oblivion.
Blockbuster filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In April of this year, Dish Network acquired the company for $320 million.
Blockbuster is in the process of dismantling, after it once controlled the VHS and DVD markets. House & Garden folded after 106 years.
s flagship KFC had 5, 055 stories in the U s. and 11,798 overseas. Two massive global fast food chains are even larger.
the flagship of which was the 900 series, released in 1978. About one million of these would eventually be sold.
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#Swedenâ##s hotel of treehouses Tree Hotel in Sweden Swedens unusual Tree Hotel does standardized away with rooms
which was created by Congress in 1994 to raise the awareness of the health threats uniquely facing men.
your lifestyle or genetic profile puts you at risk for at least one of them. But, as Jeff Hale learned, our fates are sealed not.
If you understand your risks, and learn how to negate them, you can outrun the reaper.
5. STROKE Why youre at risk: Each year, nearly 50,000 American men die of a stroke, according to the American Heart Association.
Every 20-point increase in systolic BP (the top number) or every 10-point rise in diastolic BP doubles your risk of dying of a stroke,
Simple lifestyle changes can dramatically reduce your risk. 4. CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASEWHY youre at risk:
Going cold turkey is one of the least successful ways of quitting. 3. ACCIDENTS Why youre at risk:
In fact, texting increases your risk of a crash by 23 times (versus 11 times for driving under the influence), according to a Virginia Tech study. 2. CANCER Why youre at risk:
but the risk factors for prostate cancer are less well known. Yet, its one of the most common#in 6 men will get prostate cancer in their lifetimes#nd least understood killers of men.
If youre at high risk, put certain staples of the Mediterranean diet on your plate.
Other studies have linked the lycopene in cooked tomato products to lower prostate cancer risk; aim for at least two servings a week.
Harvard researchers found that drinking 6 cups a day reduces your risk of developing advanced prostate cancer by 59 percent. 1. HEART DISEASE Why youre at risk:
If youre overweight, dropping 10 to 20 pounds lowers your risk of dying from a heart attack.
President Obama is committed to protecting our nations children and the American people from the dangers of tobacco use.
honest and powerful depictions of the health risks of smoking and they will help, #U s. Health and human services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a news release.
the military, defense contracting, and real estate, resulting in a practically nonexistent unemployment rate, the lowest property taxes on our list,
while carrying little risk of negative reactions. The breakthrough could speed the day when doctors use psilocybin#ong viewed skeptically for its association with 1960s countercultural thrill-seekers#or a range of valuable clinical functions,
Over evolutionary time there would have been huge energy savings in making the brain smaller but more efficient#as we see today with computer processors.
#Steve jobs Reveals Plans for the New Hi-tech Apple Headquarters Apples new high-tech headquarters. Steve jobs, Apple CEO, made an unannounced visit to the June 7 City council meeting in Cupertino, home of the computer giant,
to reveal plans for a new, state-of-the-art Apple headquarters, reports the Cupertino Courier. Video and pics) The stunning design resembles a spaceship;#
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