whereas we have no such awareness of the dangers of raw greens and are most likely to eat them raw?
The benefits of the fiber & nutrition they provide far outweigh the risk for most people!
The fight as always is to keep technology in line with human needs. Luke Mitchell covers constraint and creativity each month.
#How To Save The Electrical Gridthe explosion lit up the Manhattan skyline. A sudden boom a one-two punch of yellow light then everything went black.
Such infrastructure would be more resilient to both storms and terrorist attacks which the National Research Council warned in November could cripple entire regions of the country for months.
or other agencies deemed essential I put emergency power generators on the roof of buildings with the means to run power on its own circuit.
and Animal Sanctuary where they are doing wonderfully. Apparently these foxes were kept in dog kennels
An expert will probably tell you there's dangers trying to tame or domesticate possums and
and yet current modern human culture is in denial about the document written history given to them from the (beings that come down from above) who created humans to serve the GODS via the Sumerian tablet history.
The GODS need to domesticate the local primates enable their communication skies instill them a high desire to gather greed with the imagination and intelligence to do so.
Once Mortal enemy Now Immortal Friend at www. indefenseofcats. com/cat-book. html#Belovedcatpoemam I really the ONLY reader who was reminded of Kevin & Kell (a web comic) while reading this article?!?
Before you let your self righteous fingers type out another defense for a POPSCI article
To Fummfur and Trooper Briyou have a problem if you require a coffin that large. love those 5th element apart style sign me in---Type 0. 72)= We are still just cleaver monkeys!
and market forces at work making residing in an urban center difficult for poor people and these issues need to be addressed head-on. ignoring them is not the same as admitting reality.
In your defense you must be a good electrician to only pay about $220 in power utilities in a house that big.
As a followup here's a nice visual representation of all the threats facing cattle in the United states
. I'd like to see these percentages redone drawing data from only states where wolves are indeed a threat.
and bring us regular stories about the good work done by these gun-happy folks.
and feet than rifles (including the dreaded assault variety). www. fbi. gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u s/2011/crime-in-the-u s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-11thumbs downi want to thank the commenters for stepping in to correct the misleading
infographic you guys help me see through the fogi live in eastern Montana my family is mostly full of current
in this case you Mr. Nosowitz are willfully misleading to support your agenda of protecting an endangered species. It is not honest to imply that your infographic supports the claim that wolves are not a threat to livestock in any one state
If a thief points a gun at you and only steals $10 out of your wallet loaded with a thousand dollars is that acceptable to you?
We Will Respond To The Threat Of Climate Change""President Obama vowed to tackle climate change in his second inaugural address today.
We will respond to the threat of climate change knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children
Instead of seeing a savings on their bills each month charge them the same average price until those vouchers were paid off.
Unlike normal state expenditures like military and bridges etc a massive nuclear build has a immediate direct return to the economy using $2500b in mass produced nuclear to replace the $800b in annual fossil fuel cost and at least $100m
Finally A pointless war where no soldiers and children have to die! Yaay Obama! Ah Kehvan...
Climate change is of great concern to the Pentagon and the military. It ranks among our threats to national security.
Yes CO2 is needed for plant growth. Our rainforests are being cleared out in great numbers. That's reducing the Earth's ability to take in all of the carbon we're putting into the atmosphere.
What you do is engage in a litany of ad hominem attacks on those who don't agree.
You think you find some smoking gun that says climate change is caused by something else
#A Huge Burst Of Gamma rays Hit Earth--And No one Noticedlast year Japanese scientists found evidence that in 775 AD Earth was hit with a sudden blast of high-intensity radiation--a blast
carrying about 10000 times the energy of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Clearly something catastrophic had occurred in Earth's cosmic neighborhood
The radiation either came from an especially intense solar flare or the explosion of a nearby star.
In all of these colonize Mars discussions of late nobody brings up radiation protection. Mars has no magnetic field so that means no protection from solar radiation.
This article seems to make support for Spacex or some other private company to establish humanity on Mars by illustrating cost.
Defence Budget? No one should want to live on mars. At least not until they discover water in other locations than the ice caps.
i propose temporary housing units that can move on six to eight legs. 6-10 of lead in the walls for protection from radiation.
The real danger is of course that it indicates lack of regulation and suggests that it could get much worse in the future.
Atkins diet is a weight loss diet where you follow measurements and a regiment in the hopes of reaching ketosis.
In the story orphaned James seeks refuge with a bunch of anthropomorphized insects inside a huge stone fruit which is toted then across the Atlantic ocean by a flock of seagulls.
Performing several other calculations they determine it would require 4890579 newtons of force to lift it.
These curved shapes create the force known as lift. A common gull can provide 2. 02 N of lift the students write.
By tracking the bats with thermal surveillance cameras near-infrared video acoustic detectors and radar the researchers discovered that bats tend to approach turbines from downwind particularly
Although Cryan and his colleagues did not undertake a formal prescription in the published paper he recommends further study of the cut-in threshold strategy for protecting tree-roosting bats.
I had a call from another fellow in California just recently who's just terrified of the fire risk Berner says.
Knowing the Americans would be interested they mailed a sample to the Agricultural research service's Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit in Fort Detrick Maryland.
Those tests were performed in a biosafety level 3 greenhouse a precaution that was meant to protect not the human researchers who aren't susceptible to the diseases studied in the greenhouse but all of the plants outside of it.
Now that same force is trying to solve it. 6: 15 p m.:On communicating the science of global warming:
The next and final panel Voices From the Climate Frontlines is underway. I first met and interviewed panelist Christina Ora a Solomon islands activist in 2009.
Our old cultures and traditions are also in danger. Our basic understanding of the universe is changing.
and our responsibility to combat it says Obama. But every other nation must join in--he calls out the richest emerging economies like India and China
The alarm bells keep ringing. Our citizens keep marching. We cannot pretend we do not hear them says the president.
Even Rajendra Pachauri the head of the U n.'s top climate science body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has to go through security to get into the building. 11:52 a m.:
while sitting on the floor near a security point in the Secretariat Building. His diction is excellent.
We're in an ongoing struggle to redirect the energies and strategies of the business world answers Kell.
Lately some in the business community are getting more vocal that this measure--derided by opponents in the United states as a carbon taxis essential to cutting their financial exposure to risks of climate change like increasing drought storm damage strained fresh water supplies and such.
Almost through security at long last. 8: 10 a m.:Here's a map of the frozen zone around the United nations (note:
I'm in line to go through security. We're told the wait is 40-60 minutes. At least it's nice outside
which aren treated t with chemicals and other additives for protection. AST has been nominated (along with 16 other contestants) for a Securing Water for Food award by the U s. Agency for International Development.
or twice in a millennium but the changing climate has made the danger much more imminent.
and even Las vegas. There is some uncertainty as to the relationship between the region s current struggles
Ault says he hopes his findings will encourage state and local water conservation groups to deal with the danger of water scarcity becoming the norm.
With that milestone looming organizations like the U n. the Natural resources Defense Council and Food Tank are working on ways to make food systems more efficient.
#Abrasive Organic Herbicide Method Blasts Weeds To Deathone U s. Department of agriculture researcher is experimenting with a sandblasting-style method of killing weeds that could be certified organic Minneapolis'Star Tribune reports.
Working with engineers at South dakota State university Forcella has developed even a tractor-mounted nozzle system that blasts out organic grit using air pressurized to 100 pounds per square inch.
What's the optimal time to blast weeds? Can we blast weeds more cheaply? Here's one tantalizing possibility:
Instead of using inert materials such as corncobs Forcella has tried blasting crops with corn gluten meal which is gritty
According to the Wall street journal in addition to the drought the conflict between Ukraine and Russia (both wheat producers) could cause prices to rise even more as future sanctions could target Russia s wheat
and violence could disrupt Ukrainian production. Breakfast prognosis: Prices of flour are still in flux
and Pacific oceans transforming trade transportation and even wartime strategy. France began construction on the canal in the 1880s
It is the greatest assault ever made upon nature; but the white man brushing aside all obstacles
and scorning danger will soon have finished this greatest of all monuments of marching civilization.
in the systematic and effectual supervision of the material the supplies and the work and in the general progress that has been made.
It is a mistake to think this has been done under military power. It has been accomplished by the forceful and efficient efforts of a corps of intelligent sanitarians who have proven themselves master pioneers in the prevention of tropical diseases
In comparison with similar expenditures in American cities it should not be forgotten that practically nine-tenths of the cost of sanitation in the Zone is in mosquito fighting and quarantine.
The unconquerable Gorgas with a good force of physicians surgeons nurses expert sanitarians skilled engineers and helpers with ample supplies of disinfectants were put in the lead.
and regulations put in force for the protection of the public health. A number of living stations for employees were arranged along the railroad
Now the real war against diseases was begun lakes and swamps that had never been drained since nature made them poured out their accumulated filth to the sea;
a large force of men were kept busy oiling three or four times a month all lakes puddles sluggish streams
and capital will throw every protection around employees for selfish reasons. Great commercial agricultural and industrial development immediately follows new and important lines of transportation;
As Commins and Platts-Mills struggle to understand the mechanisms behind this allergy the number of cases they re seeing is trending upward nd the allergy is confined no longer to the south.
or he could have another attack. Even foods like JELL-O are off the table because they contain gelatin
or grubs in a field is always an arms race against evolution. That evolution happens whether you use genetic engineering or plain old spraying.
or their protections are enforced not well. Protections are often inadequate or are violated flagrantly usually without any consequences the environmental group WWF noted.
Illegal logging has also become a way of life and source of income for many communities they added.
The scientist's arrest is just the latest in a series of indictments against six other people linked to a Beijing seed-development company called Dabeinong Technology Group Co. The FBI alleges the Dabeinong staff were part of
Instead the FBI alleges Debeinong staff tried to steal the seeds and seedlings of the parent plants that companies crossbreed to create the seeds they sell to farmers.
Although it will probably be another two years before the non-browning fruits appears in stores at least one producer is already scrambling to label its apples GMO-free.
The looming apple campaign is just the latest salvo in the ongoing war over genetically modified organisms (GMOS) ne that's grown increasingly contentious.
Over the past decade the controversy surrounding GMOS has sparked worldwide riots and the vandalism of crops in Oregon the United kingdom Australia and the Philippines.
They do this by either using bacteria to deliver the new genetic material or by shooting tiny DNA-coated metal pellets into plant cells with a gene gun.
According to Wayne Parrott a crop geneticist at the University of Georgia the risk for neighboring farms is relatively low.
Today's most common GMO technology RECOMBINANT DNA inserts genes into a plant's cells via bacteria or specialized delivery tools but it involves some trial and error.
and individuality in this era of disrupted climate--an invisible force that is demonstrably wiping out some of our long-held agricultural certainties e
#Breeding Bald Poultry To Withstand Global Warmingrising global temperatures pose a major risk to world food supplies.
although not from all other species that have ivory nor from tusks removed from mammoths being extinct they cannot be provided any legal protection.
Based on intelligence from seized shipments ivory is exported from Africa to countries such as Malaysia the Philippines Thailand
To get here you have to fly through Lima to Puerto Maldonado a rambling mining town through
Our working hypothesis which we plan on testing is that the Cyclosa makes a decoy spider that is larger than the size of spiders Pseudostigmatids will take thereby gaining some protection from being eaten by these spider specialists says Ola Fincke a collaborating researcher at the University of Oklahoma
and Pomerantz place a couple in two newly-devised observation boxes that force the spiders to build webs parallel to the clear plastic sides perfect for viewing by humans.
Spanning nearly 24 feet in diameter its rock-gnawing face is alive with the movement of 44 disc cutters and 23 knives.
It basically drought-proofs our existing intakes says Erika Moonin the project s manager and a 17-year veteran of the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
If climate change continues to dry out the region Barnett found in a 2009 study Colorado river water deliveries could fall short 60 to 90 percent of the time by midcentury.
In 2012 a 44-year-old construction worker was killed and another injured by a high-pressure stream of mortar
Further north citizens have engaged in a heated debate over an estimated $15 billion project to dig two tunnels under the Sacramento an Joaquin Delta plan that would improve delivery of river water fed by Sierra nevada snowpack
The claim accomplishes the twofold goal of being both demonstrably false and wildly offensive to scientists the IQ of consumers and likely people working for Chobani.
Mccarthy emphasized that the new rule confronts well-known threats to both public health and the economy which are tied to power plant CO2 emissions
and sulfur dioxide putting our families at even more risk. This is not just about disappearing polar bears or melting ice caps.
This is about protecting local economies and jobs Mccarthy said and then added off-script Although
Time after time when science pointed to health risks special interests cried wolf said Mccarthy. And time after time we followed the science protected the American people
was a threat to public health and welfare. EPA made just such an endangerment finding in 2009
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They had to sprint through battle scenes lugging 72 to 132 extra pounds. These things were incredibly hard work
(along with The Avengers) most of its larger-than-life characters aren t superhumans but humanoid aliens. Sci-fi Debut:
With more data at their disposal animators can imbue the entire supporting cast of 3-D odeled primates with the same uncanny flicker of intelligence that made Caesar an instant CG star.
in order to study how viruses jump between species. Last year neuroscientists at Stanford university boosted the intelligence of mice with human brain cells.
(and it absolutely is) the brute-force approach could easily backfire: The body s immune system typically attacks alien tissue.
When an unassuming janitor is targeted for assassination a part-human part-canine mercenary comes to her rescue.
The fourth installment in the Transformers series continues the story of a race of robots at war with itself.
Joining the battle this go-round is the species most exotic specimens yet the Dinobots.
Sometimes it s the work of external forces as with the atomic testing that gave rise to Godzilla in the original 1954 film and the glowing ooze that turned garden-variety turtles into man-size martial artists.
Godzilla clashes with even more malevolent titans the Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles fight crime in (and under) New york city and the X-men send Wolverine back in time to prevent a robot uprising.
What sort of high-tech weapons would a desperate human race rush out of the lab and into battle?
and materials scientist at the U s army Research Office what we could plausibly throw at such a doomsday scenario.
Combat exoskeletons like the ones in Edge of Tomorrow could enable infantry to carry increased firepower Mathau dhu says.
Guns that would normally generate too much recoil for the human body could instead be mounted on the suit distributing that force throughout the frame.
Today s exosuits are too power-hungry to be fielded effectively but the use of titanium magnesium and other ultrastrong ultralight alloys could reduce their energy consumption.
If the common cold can repel Martian occupiers in The War of the Worlds why not hurl even more virulent weapon ized bugs at the enemy?
If we were forced into some sort of Apollo moment by a massive war the majority of the efforts would go toward unmanned ground vehicles
A robot army might be less versatile than a living one but the bots would excel as cannon fodder during the early stages of conflict providing intel on alien weapons
and tactics before being blown to bits. The hesitation to put a soldier in the field against an unknown threat would be countered by robotic technology Mathaudhu says.
Who needs nerves of steel when your soldiers are made of it? This article originally appeared in the July 2014 issue of Popular Science l
#John Steinbeck On Why'Camping Is For The Birds'Earlier this month we published John Steinbeck's 1966 letter to the editor of Popular Science in
and no conception of the misery the discomfort and the danger that were man's constant neighbors.
and inner security once found in church are sought now out and found under the dryer
A week or so of this may mend your defenses and send you back into the fight refreshed
and rearmed r it may bore the hell out of you. But don't believe in ads.
and triumph over the forces of nature is curiosity. But while the lifeless rubbled surface of the inconstant moon becomes increasingly littered with the burnt-out bones of vehicles the bathyscaphe has visited the deep and unknown places of the earth only a few times.
the excitement and danger of exploration...It is a pitiful few thousand years that have passed
Without the pressure of cold hunger disease danger from outside and even greater danger from the quarrelsome combativeness in his own heart it is probable that he would still be living in trees
War has spawned not only weaponry but a knowledge of mechanics in all directions. General Hap Arnold once remarked that without war we would probably never have developed the airplane
and between wars development just about ceased. We have wiped out the animal predators that once decimated embattled families.
We are by way of defeating the micro-enemies which secretly invaded our bodies to strike from within.
At the same time we have invented the cold war a continuing state of hostility between wars
and we can easily justify it as a means of defense. But it is possible that we may be driven back to our mother the sea
There is something for everyone in the sea ncredible beauty for the artist the excitement and danger of exploration for the brave and restless an open door for the ingenuity and inventiveness of the clever a new world for the bored food for the hungry and incalculable material
So he obtained a bacillus culture from the army that had originally been taken from a soldier's infected wound.
It was called the Silverman strain probably after the soldier or his doctor. And Koser made bread with these wound bacteria.
Just five years ago Chiquita s Aguirre told the Cincinnati Enquirer We believe that Panama Disease is limited a very threat
and that Panama Disease represents a long-term danger to the industry. The disease has also recently been identified in the middle East with crops stricken in both Jordan and Oman.
As its monoculture spreads the threat to both livelihoods and lives grows. There is some good news for subsistence crops:
There was a blockbuster New york times report about neurotoxins in the cigarettes which are now for sale by the vial the gallon and even the barrel.
With a soaring multi-billion dollar business on the line we could have a fight unfolding soon h
#Scientists Rank World's Most'Evolutionarily Distinct'Birdsis a bird more worth saving from extinction if it is evolutionarily unique as well as physically rare?
when trying to figure out how to allocate resources to saving endangered bird species. The team has created also a compound metric that sets a bird's evolutionary uniqueness against how widely it can be found in the world.
The project has already put the research to work with its list of Top 100 EDGE Birds that are at risk of extinction.
#Missiles And Rockets Might Soon Smell Like Pine Treesin an effort to launch things skyward in a more sustainable way researchers have coaxed bacteria to produce a highly combustible compound called pinene.
Pinene*also happens to rival the properties of JP-10--a liquid rocket fuel that's widely used for commercial and military launches.
So pretty soon a rocket or missile flying overhead might spew exhaust that smells like pine trees.
That's when the Navy discovered chemicals that link together or dimerize two molecules of pinene into a fuel with properties similar to JP-10.
The new research effort--a joint venture by Georgia Tech and the Department of energy's Joint Bioenergy Institute--builds on the work of the Navy by offloading pinene synthesis to bacteria.
With the brewing of pinene complete they used the Navy-discovered chemicals to dimerize pinene molecules into rocket-ready fuel.*
For now the team is trying both methods in hopes of making a drop in biofuel that's cheaper and more sustainable option for launching rockets or missiles without changing engines or existing infrastructure.*
The Navy research introduced the technique for dimerizing pinene but the research team did proceed not to dimerize pinene in their experiments
What's most at risk as we debate the role of wolves in the ecosystem seems to be our hope for a really straightforward story that explains
No one wore protective clothing. In a village dedicated to plastics recycling Puckett found young women sitting on a concrete floor bashing computer housing to pieces with hatchets.
In the soil the level of chromium was 1338 times higher than the EPA s environmental risk standard.
The first pile consists of fist-size chunks of steel uniformly gray all smoking-hot from the recent violence.
I see an aboveground mine. Three hours north of London in the former boom-bust coal-mining town of Worksop MBA s 200000-square-foot recycling facility rises like a giant blue barn.
As in mining the major challenge in plastics recycling is separating the target material from the many nontarget ones.
because we re using processes from so many other industries says Biddle who has poached separation techniques from mining metal recycling
Those are sliced into mustard seed ize pellets the product MBA sells to its customers. That s all Biddle will tell me.
I see an aboveground mine. Everyone mentions that line from The Graduate where Dustin hoffman receives one word of advice:
and after multiple investigations a pitched legal battle a temporary restraining order and a standoff with the Mexican Navy the garbage was incinerated finally back in New york. The other event involved Berkeley California
which became the first community in the country to ban Styrofoam containers. Dow made the polystyrene foam that went into those containers and that bothered Biddle.
That constitutes a very real threat to Biddle and what he s trying to accomplish.
The more stuff that s mine the better. And of course it s your stuff f it s broken.
Eddy Current Separator An electromagnet inside a rotating drum creates a force field at the end of a conveyor belt.
The detector signals an air gun which blasts any non-blue particles with air knocking them out of the waste stream.
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