space station s streaming webcam to let users spy on earthlings More interactive maps and graphics:
Evolutionary not revolutionary. Indeed, the  CNET review of the 64 GB model described the ipad as an Ipod Touch with a glandular problem.
The ipad also does not allow saving of PDFS and it's not Flash-friendly as one blogger writes.
and the security of patient records. And the ipad doesn't fit in the pocket of a standard white lab coat.
Apple employee Afshad Mistri is the company's secret weapon in a stealth campaign to get the ipad into the hands of doctors.
The Veterans Administration started soliciting bids from contractors to help them manage as many as 100
but the savings can be substantial. via MIT Colab Radio Photo: Simply CVR
Is Milwaukee growing the next urban farming trend? Can Milwaukee foster a new trend in urban farming,
and toppling like bowling pins with too much force. Competing products are shuffled into the nearby virtual shelves,
Guilds, or groups of species, have evolved to share a resource without conflict. For example, bees, birds and some bats might all visit the same flower for nectar,
and it is adopting new technology for its delivery fleet. These and other measures are helping improve the company's standing and reputation in its Northern New england customer service area,
or so through a new hybrid delivery truck that will be used to deliver products in a 70-mile radius from Oakhurst's headquarters in Portland.
Nature Conservancy share watershed lessons Alliance to share water risk data; the value of wastewater Greenpeace challenges apparel industry to come clean Pushing for more disclosure Smarter home irrigation technologies Smart grid gains ground with water managers 3 water
management tips from Intel Pepsico grant supports clean water in rural China Many businesses blind to water risks
this doesn't have to become a conflict. It's a challenge for food science to mass produce healthier meals in ways that can be loaded on trucks
but this is not going to turn into a war between fast food and health. The company that can deliver a healthy fast food meal is going to make a lot of money
the Maverick Sport is powered officially a parachute. The Sport Pilot license required to fly it is much easier to obtain than a standard pilot's license.
and sees the Maverick's potential uses as extremely diverse, from security to recreation to search and rescue.
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.
of Open Food Foundation have launched recently their flagship project, Open Food Network, an online marketplace connecting consumers to local producers and food hubs.
and offer home deliveries. As a nonprofit organization, Open Food Foundation supports free software for community-focused small businesses working in the food industry.
among other environmental risks. Some Roundup Ready seeds had already been planted before the ban was enacted.
Now familiar with the war over GM food? Here's a quick primer: 2005: The U s. Department of agriculture (USDA) approves the sale of GM alfalfa seeds. 2005 onward:
the U s. District court for the Northern District of California bans the sale of GM alfalfa seeds on the grounds that the USDA violated federal law by not reviewing the seeds'environmental risk.
What kind of environmental risk, you ask? Andrew Pollack explains in The New york times: The crops contain a bacterial gene that allows them to withstand spraying with Roundup or its generic equivalents, known as glyphosate.
and chemical companies starting to sell old chemical compounds that posed more environmental risks than Roundup
Our Fort Smith, Ark. plant is doing things like steam treating, which cleans the nuts with just steam,
Our water consumption at Fort Smith decreased 40 percent. We installed a railroad at our plant to transport nuts from the farm,
higher risk of developing anemia, which is linked to adverse mental, motor and psychosocial problems more food allergies and a higher risk of developing celiac disease But it also notes that babies in western countries who were exclusively breastfed for 6 months were apparently less likely to succumb to infections, such as pneumonia,
than those fed for less than 6 months. While mothers and mothers-to-be were still wading through the conflicting information,
To date, zero gallons of qualifying cellulosic ethanol has been produced, according to R-squared blogger Robert Rapier. Next-gen biofuels have struggled in part
Within a 1994 unscripted interview by the Silicon valley Historical Association, Jobs discusses risk, failure, his own experiences,
New battleground in beverage wars: sustainable packagingnot to be outdone by its arch-rival, The Coca-cola Co,
Then, they need to replicate the wear that comes with people sitting down with different amounts of force over a long period of time and the effects of exposure to light over several hundred years.
The authenticators are also harnessing high-tech tools in their fight against fakes. Â Some use radiocarbon, thermoluminescence and other techniques to accurately date the antiques.
I predict we're about to see an interesting  publicity war over the continued need for the real thing.
The cars belong to the Green league  an organic food delivery firm set up by a band of local mothers.
as well as a nearby kindergarten, buy food from the League,  receiving  deliveries twice a week.
But these parents are worried about the threat pollution poses to their quality of life. We have a lot of nice things in Huilongguan, Â Meng Yu,
 Green league staff prepare produce for delivery. Yujing and the other mothers (the founders were all female),
orange juice for our Tropicana brand and oats for Quaker oats. There has been a risk assessment at a high level
this industrial stronghold allows farm stands, beehives, barns, rain barrels, composting, greenhouses, coops and damn near everything you need to grow a green thumb.
or whether they might be from an area of conflict in the Ivory coast. Even though the bar codes on shipments may be correct,
and more on common sense as the number of stranded motorists needing rescue climbs higher. Down Under, motorists in Victoria, Australia, have been warned by police to be careful
The force has asked Apple to fix the issue, but in the meantime, perhaps rival firm Google's mapping service or a traditional A to Z would be a better option.
app FTC creates guidelines for facial recognition technology use The spy-free app you can use to stop surveillance
Lush Walls Rise to Fight a Blanket of Pollution New york times Photo:
Potato blight and flu have much in commonin 1846 the first of my ancestors arrived in America.
bottle and coke-can missiles, the occasional building on fire and riot police come to mind. In Brussels, there is a new weapon of choice--milk.
Screenshot/BBC footage The BBC's Anna Holligan recently visited Brussels, where hordes of angry farmers, dismayed at current dairy prices,
took to the streets in protest. The BBC reports that milk is currently being sold for less than it costs to produce,
How the FBI can read your emails Will coffee soon be a thing of the past
It addresses land use conflicts, between residential and industrial, in one part of the neighborhood. In many cases, the residences not well-kept and are blighting influences.
I think if I'd have known how big of a war it is between pro-zoo and anti-zoo people,
I was tired of wars. I was writing about the Israeli-Palestinian  conflict for so long.
At the zoo I was going into a different war. As an outsider, I was able to say,
I'm not taking a side here. I'm not an animal-rights activist. But on the other hand,
Did a gaggle of impoverished children mine the gold it made with? I love that cereal!
because you have the gun and we won't survive that. But you don't understand anything about the environment and nature.'
when it comes to return on investment we are hands down the greatest savings. Our products never break.
A significant cost (and hassle) savings. SP: What about snow and ice? In what ways are Rubbersidewalks â â¢products different
Paul Polak, author of Out of Povertymultinational companies are--at their own peril--ignoring a major market, according to Paul Polak.
Richard Webby, health expert, on the new deadly flu strainlast spring, on April 9, 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) raised its Emergency Operations center to Level II
Was there any overt indication that this strain of flu was more of a risk?
In your blog you mentioned that there is little reliable data in the field of nutrition science where you found that poor stats conflict with other studies.
and the tech that might save humanshumans are considered now to be the greatest force impacting the geology of Earth.
and our fellow animals and plants, who are at risk of dying out. are worried we enough about saving human civilization to make this time scale, the Anthropocene, more than a mere speck in the geologic time scale?
To understand the role of innovation and technology in saving ourselves, Smartplanet turned to David Biello who has been writing about the environment and energy for nearly 15 years, most recently for Scientific American.
and other radioactive elements not commonly found in nature thanks to our nuclear weapons testing. And we have created some new compounds that will be in the geologic record for a long time to come, the most ubiquitous
the mad-science arm of the U s. defense department? DB: They are not as crazy as DARPA.
The military doesn care what it spends on an application. ARPA-E has a different customer, us.
There's certainly a lot of conflict. We're showing what is possible now. We want to get the community involved to continue making refinements and improvements of the tree,
Handling conflict in the tree of life is something that not only are we facing now,
they may conflict. We want to show that, but it's unclear what's the best way to do that.
Businesses join the fight Behind the scenes, businesses are playing a growing role in the healthy school food movement,
especially since the new standards, said Lawrence Soler, president and chief executive of the Partnership for a Healthier America, a nonprofit working with the private sector in the childhood obesity fight.
â Â Matts said. â Å It been institutionalized for so many years. â Â Obstacles outside school walls might pose the biggest threat to the school food movement.
Scheidel of Iowa said the childhood obesity fight needs to move into homes and communities. â Å When
Key uranium supply to U s.,from Russian weapons, ends. Time for thorium? Conventional nuclear giant Areva strikes thorium dealhans Blix:
Nuclear must use thorium to reduce weapons risknobel physicist: Thorium trumps all fuels as energy sourcenovel reactors atop MIT energy contest finalistsook who's talking:
although the U s. Space Surveillance Network is supposed to be watching for debris. A second generation ICESAT won't be launched before 2015.
using octopi as a standard misrepresents localized risk. No one was fooled, further eroding trust. So, the fear of Fukushima's food persists.
â Å Both the World health organization and the United nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation agree that the biggest threat to health post Fukushima is the fear of radiation, not the radiation itself.
and you can capture that intelligence, spotting early warning signs that the animal isn't feeling so well.
The Wall street journal reports that firms across the region are adding  beehives  to their headquarters
000 bees and the four hives at Google's headquarters. In addition to pollinating flowers on their grounds and throughout the region,
Small sensors can detect traces of explosives, using bee venomscientist have tried previously to engineer plants to detect bombs
and environmental contaminants and have created even a better artificial nose to sniff out explosives, but it looks like researchers are finally zeroing in on the smallest possible detection system ever:
identifying if a single molecule of explosive is present. MIT researchers created a carbon nanotube with a bee venom-based sensor,
designed to detect traces of explosives. If commercialized, it could one day improve the security at airports
and other checkpoint areas or be used to monitor the environment. Scientists showed for the first time that these peptides can react to explosives
when the bee venom peptides target molecules found in explosives. Since the proteins reacted differently,
depending on the types of molecules found in explosives, the scientists identified a finger print that is unique for each of the explosive chemicals they exposed it to,
including pesticides. MIT professor Michael Strano said in a statement: â Å Compounds such as TNT decompose in the environment,
creating other molecule types, and those derivatives could also be identified with this type of sensor.
Because molecules in the environment are constantly changing into other chemicals, we need sensor platforms that can detect the entire network and classes of chemicals, instead of just one type.
they would be more sensitive than the spectrometry-based systems that are used currently to detect explosives in the air.
In the future, let's hope a single-molecule sensor can stop someone like Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab A k a. the underwear bomber from slipping through security.
New remote sensing can detect explosives and drugs Engineered plants detect bombs and environmental contaminants Chemists create a better artificial nose to sniff out explosives
and sour milk German airports use honeybees to sniff out air quality Breath test can detect cancer New remote sensing system can detect explosives
and drugs A cheap landmine detector made from ebay parts Sensor robots sense out environmental changes
Smart move: Shoppers buy real Xmas trees to save doughhome Depot and Lowe's are reportedly stocking fewer fake Christmas trees this year as consumers look to save money.
Shoppers seem ready to trade the long-term benefit of a reusable fake tree for the short-term savings of a cut tree,
and conventional crop protection products applied to flowers to protect against infection. ADAS and East Malling Research have been using bumble bee pollinator hives
or community land that is under threat,"said Michael Taylor from the International Land Coalition.""If it is grazing land or land that local people use,
they don't have any legal protection. It is on this land that we see the gravest of threats,
"he said. The database now uses a wide number of data sources to help increase both accuracy and transparency.
Robotics engineers are buzzing about a machine with potentially transformative implications for agriculture, surveillance, and mapping:
can take water dirtied by heavy metals from mining operations or other activities and turn it to clean drinking water.
The research arm of a Chocolate Factory War! Scientists say they have determined the complete DNA sequence of the tree that produces cocoa beans,
what some might consider the research arm of a chocolate factory war. The candy maker Mars is expected to announce on Wednesday that a project it financed has completed essentially the raw sequence of the genome of the cacao tree,
That battle was declared officially a tie. Still, scientists in both groups say that cocoa farmers,
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.
4-D, a component of Agent orange, the defoliant used in the Vietnam war. Still, scientists and farmers say that glyphosate is a once-in-a-century discovery,
and Mr. Perry said the pest could pose as big a threat to cotton farming in the South as the beetle that devastated the industry in the early 20th century.
Beddington has increased called for production to counter a"perfect storm"of food shortages that could become a global threat by 2030.
Exponents say the idea is symbolic of the local determination to highlight the risk of food shortages and climate change.
Vegetable beds, herb gardens and orchards have sprung up on sites as varied and previously urban as the railway station forecourt and an elderly people's home, under the aegis of the Incredible Edible Todmorden campaign.
and notified the Federal bureau of investigation (FBI), which brought in the Department of Homeland Security and charged him with bioterrorism.
The authorities claimed the body of his wife, who had died of congenital heart failure, for examination.
The motives of the FBI which has experts capable of examining Mr Kurtz's art scientifically,
But the FBI may genuinely be wary of biohackers; rumour suggests it has followed up the case by discreetly instructing reagent suppliers not to sell to individuals,
But a strict government policy regulating the chemical components of biohacking might have much the same effect as laws banning gun ownership ordinary citizens will be discouraged,
"It's been a real struggle in the past few years with the decline in bees generally.
"He says the culprits would need protective gear to avoid getting stung and would also need to know how to handle
Thus, according to Medawar hypothesis, aging is caused indirectly by the declining forces of natural selection to select the best fitness genes for the aged animal as reproductive capacity declines.
In summary, we age because of the declining force of natural selection in adult life, which leads to unfit gene expression with age.
I wanted an herbal compound that provided neural protection in the brain. L-theanine (also known as gamma-glutamylethylamide,
The same drone technology that the U s. military is using in Afghanistan could be put to use in the United states to transport goods between locations safer and faster than human drivers.
The U s. military hopes to soon use drones for cargo transportation and refueling. This is certainly a realistic hope according to Missy Cummings, director of the Humans and Automation Lab at MIT.
soldiers guarding borders may see an army of remotely controlled robots rushing toward them. Cummings reports that oeseveral U s. government agencies are seriously considering how to use unmanned vehicles in first strike or initial invasion settings.
so that Marines could go in. If a robot can launch an invasion, how long before they re delivering our goods and services automatically?
like gas-powered engines, the trick is to produce force on turbines, but to do so without creating emissions.
The Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) is willing to bet it is wrote Marvin Cetron in the September-October 2008 issue of THE FUTURST. oein early 2008,
With sections focusing on food, water, shelter, health and sanitation, energy and transportation, and education, oedesign for the Other 90%focused on problem solving for the vast majority of the world people who survive under the poverty level
says Okamura. oeyou can have force-sensors and other ways of examining force, and then you re acquiring data at the same time that you re doing the procedure,
so you can be getting even more information that can be used for diagnosis or in scheduling postop appointments.
With the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 requiring an almost fivefold increase in ethanol production to 36 billion gallons annually by 2022,
'"said Nathanael Greene, a senior energy-policy analyst at the Natural resources Defense Council.""The approach is interesting
Those cost savings allow it to turn, say, two bales of hay into five gallons of ethanol for less than $1 a gallon,
The advertising war was fierce. Farm-group ads said the law would raise food prices,
increase the risk of diseases and put farmers out of business. The humane society ads disagreed,
Egg farmers worried they would lose those battles, says Gene Gregory, president of United Egg Producers (UEP),
and see if we can t resolve this conflict,""Gregory says.""And surprisingly, we were able to do this.
and I think that we're at a point where it will be very good to see how these resource-conserving technologies can perform to help solve food insecurity issues."
The U n. Convention to Combat Desertification has submitted a proposal for the United nations to adopt a Sustainable Development Goal of zero net land degradation by 2030
More than a decade after publishing a study in Science and selling a promising idea for an inhaled drug delivery system, Edwards,
With billions of people at risk of hunger, the current food crisis is certainly massive and destructive.
and multinational corporations very rich even as they devastate the poor and put the rest of the planet at severe environmental and economic risk.
since stories in the popular press talked about the chicken heart as being a large mass of flesh that grew so much that it was forever in danger of bursting from its container
and is serviced by butchers who trim off steaks from it with great flensing knives like those used by whalers.
Meanwhile, on a more practical tack, food scientists in the wake of the food shortages after the Second world war often speculated on the possibility of manufacturing meat
Low-cost sensors, clever software and advancing computer firepower are opening the door to new uses in energy conservation, transportation, health care and food distribution.
Across many industries, products and practices are being transformed by communicating sensors and computing intelligence. The smart industrial gear includes jet engines,
Computer vision software can analyze facial expressions for signs of severe pain, the onset of delirium or other hints of distress,
using computing intelligence to create more efficient systems for utility grids, traffic management, food distribution, water conservation and health care.
To meet increasing demand from customers in North america they ve built a US headquarters in Pella,
His concerns regarding food delivery are shared well. A 2010 symposium hosted by the Global Harvest Initiative in Washington
In other animal-risk situations, such as abattoirs, government inspectors are present: the same should be true on live export boats.
A Revolutionary Vision for Modern Farmingwhat they re doing on Marsden Farm isn t organic.
the threat of catastrophic disease outbreaks in monocultures, an insatiable demand for nitrogen fertilizer, pesticide-resistant bugs and herbicide-resistant superweeds,
The office building of the futuresocial forces and advances in communications technology are driving changes in how and where people work.
Originally a term meaning to break into a computer security system, 'hack'has been given a more positive connotation by Gensler:
and institutions encourage employees to supplement their office space with work locations not paid for by the company-home offices, neighborhood coffee shops and communal spaces, such as parks and museums in the public domain of the city.
Protecting water pays dividendsas soaring temperatures and rapid urbanization threaten water security, countries are beginning to invest in the protection and preservation of their water sources,
a new report reveals. The efforts-such as planting trees along the shorelines of rivers to prevent soil erosion-are also creating jobs, the report,
Protecting watershed services Countries are seeking to protect watershed services-the benefits, like clean water, obtained from healthy watershed ecosystems-by incentivizing the maintenance and improvement of watershed areas.
Eating plenty of fruit appears to be protective, Thorax journal reports. Fast food often contains high levels of saturated-and trans-fatty acids
or more weekly servings of fast food had increased a 39 risk of severe asthma. Six-and seven-year-olds had increased a 27 risk.
Eating three or more portions of fruit a week cut the risk of severe asthma, eczema and rhinoconjunctivitis by between 11%and 14%.
%The study authors, Prof Innes Asher, from the University of Auckland in New zealand, and Prof Hywel Williams, from the University of Nottingham in the UK, said:"
Malayka Rahman of Asthma UK, said research suggests that a person's diet may contribute to their risk of developing asthma
and it is also one of the sectors most at risk from climate change, as recent changes in rainfall patterns have made evident.
thus increasing the price of the savings. Given the subsidy of £45 per MWH, says Mr Vetter, it costs £225 to save one tonne of CO2 by switching from gas to wood.
engineered crops, pest control, fertilizers, etc. â environmental protection and remediation: restoration, monitoring, detection, etc. â consumer products:
can be paraphrased as oegarage biology is good and necessary for the future physical and economic security of the United states. This position acknowledges the historical analysis that
and children, will give us an explosion of diversity of new living creatures, rather than the monoculture crops that the big corporations prefer.
How will a balance be struck between private risk and gain versus public benefit and safety?
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