as they fall on cars, houses, and people. In the long term, their disappearance means parks and neighborhoods,
trees remove nitrogen dioxide to an extent equivalent to taking 274,000 cars off the traffic-packed beltway, saving an estimated $51 million in annual pollution-related health care costs.
He predicts that by 2030 we can expect to see the average farmer owning#1. More than 1 drone 2. Driverless tractors, trucks,
Sure we have heard all of connected cars, wearable devices, and appliances with sensors, but what has not been marketed enough is the real business value that thesethings create.
Connected cars is another hot topic. Again, many people see this as a luxury but when you connect smart cars to smart cities you can start to see the value.
Big cities tend to have many traffic bottlenecks. Long commutes impact the quality of life and can have a negative impact on commerce.
Some cities are embedding sensors in parking lots so that commuters with an app on their phone can be notified of where an available parking space is,
allowing drivers to save time and create more efficient roadways. These smart cities are utilizing sensors to save money
and optimize processes in many ways. Here are just a few: -Smart Lighting optimize use of street
and analyzing traffic patterns to reroute drivers-Waste management optimizing waste pickup by measuring container levels-Security & emergency detection detecting radiation, gases,
have your car schedule an oil change, or have your refrigerator order your milk. Once the general public starts getting exposure to use cases like the ones
8. Driverless cars How long will it be before we see the first highway in the U s. to be designated as adriverless-cars only highway?
Ultra High Speed Transportation system Today s high speed trains max out around 300 mph. However, vacuum tube transportation systems,
Who are some of todays best-known celebrities that would likely show up as downloadable personalities for your computer, car, or robot?
Invisible fences, invisible screens, invisible cars and windmills will all be possible. What kind of market will there be for invisible netting like this?
and I became a hazard to myself, other pedestrians, and drivers. I want the world.
you get lost in the activity of adding those tinkling gadgets to your bike spokes for almost an hour.
What used to be a thrilling experience (like riding the subway for the first time) is now mundane.
#Solar Forest provides a charging station for electric cars Solar Forest We aren t out of the woods yet
while providing a shady spot for cars to park as they charge. Each of the trees in Neville Mars s solar forest is composed of a set of photovoltaic leaves mounted on an elegantly branching poll.
The solar forest is certainly an aesthetic step up from your standard sunbaked concrete parking lot, and serves as great inspiration for integrating solar technology with natural forms.
and Alexandria, Va.,places designed before automobiles arrived. Several of the most popular cities have become an important part of New Urbanism,
not for automobiles, says University of Nevada-Las vegas demographer Robert Lang. And the 20-somethings love the people, not the automobile.
Using recent U s. Census data, USA TODAY has identified 289 cities that have more 20-somethings than teens in the case of Charleston and about a dozen other cities, it s 2-to-1 or higher.
859 164 Costa Mesa, Calif. 110,322 160 Denton, Texas 115,098 160 Killeen, Texas 127,995 160 Lincoln, Neb. 259,218 156 Lubbock
Now he gets so much business most nights he s got to lease 85 parking spaces from The (Charleston) Post and Courier across the street.
a young developer who is working with the city to build acreative corridor on Meeting Street, an industrial thoroughfare once dominated by car dealerships.
in the middle of one workspace, a gleaming red Ducati 1199 Panigale motorcycle. Speaking of design, Charleston may bethe single most important city of inspiration to the New Urbanists who have pushed to redesign cities around more densely populated,
then deliver them to customers by bicycle. Instacart has raised more than $11 million in venture financing.
the electric car company, is slowly reshaping how people think about driving. Following the same pattern can help any social entrepreneur get people excited about world-changing products.
ELECTRIC CARS AND THE DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS THEORY Elon musk is the man behind Paypal Spacex, and Tesla Motors.
to build a market for electric cars, beginning with luxury cars, and then expanding over time to reach a broader consumer base.
that is, it wasn t simply about building an amazing electric car, it was also about creating an environment in
and he understood what it would take to get that group behind the wheel of an electric car.
He would need to design a car that could be compelling enough to act as a status symbol for young professionals in the insular community of Silicon valley.
He knew his audience would be highly technologically literate and very social in both how they bought the car
He needed a luxury car that would be theit car in Silicon valley. But perhaps as importantly, he would need to find a solution for the incredibly expensive battery technology needed for the car to work.
Just the battery for an electric car costs more than double the price of an entry-level car in the market.
For this reason alone, Tesla would have to focus on the luxury end of the market.
Tesla s cars are designed and built for the Google or Apple executive. The Apple headquarters boast more Teslas than a Tesla showroom.
Five years after the introduction of its Model S car Tesla was reporting a profit,
and the Model S had become the third best-selling luxury car, behind only the Mercedes E Class and BMW 5 Series.
ensuring the car is safe before it gets on the road, and in turn bringing along the more risk-averse parts of the population.
Tesla is building a network of car superchargers so that owners can drive coast-to-coast without range anxiety.
The next segment it needs to reach is the early majoritywho can move the company from a niche car manufacturer into a global powerhouse.
he needs to invest in the electric car market, and not just his cars. Tesla won t succeed just by selling electric cars.
They need to grow the overall electric vehicle market. They need to remove barriers for their competitors so they can join them in moving away from gas-fueled cars.
To this end, Tesla now sells their patented powertrain components to competitors. They are concerned less about the competition taking up market share than building the market
and creating scale that will bring the prices down enough to be viable options for the average car buyer.
By selling luxury electric cars first Musk and his team at Tesla have accelerated actually the development of technology for the market.
Tesla s success has created further hope for electric cars and spurred investment in research and development. Musk s initial customers were largely in Silicon valley
and connected to venture funding, a proximity that ultimately increased investment in batteries and renewable energy.
and ultimately it will need to be easier than owning a gas fueled car. In order for the laggardsthe most risk-averse group of allto come along,
or simply no more gas stations left to fuel their antique cars. But if Musk sluxury cars for the tech-elite strategy works, it will ultimately allow Musk to sell electric-powered sedans and minivans to families in Ohio.
It sounds intuitive, maybe even obvious, but most entrepreneurs (particularly those working on social issues) don t follow this model.
why Elon musk first entered the electric car market by focusing on luxury cars, and other social changes like sustainability, same-sex marriage, andin my casepro bono services.
The small plot of land has a waiting list for commuters keen to have some time in the garden
We started this vegetable garden business out of a desire to contribute to the environmental maintenance and the revitalization of the area along the train line.
has positioned itself to sell drones in much the same way as General motors works with its dealers to peddle cars.
They operate above the fray, independent of the frenetic energy of today s highways, airports, train, and bus depots.
Cleanup Teams Drivers need not apply! Driverless Everything Driverless technology will initially require a driver, but it will quickly creep into everyday use
much as airbags did. First as an expensive option for luxury cars, but eventually it will become a safety feature stipulated by the government.
Over the next 10 years we will see the first wave of autonomous vehicles hit the roads,
Robotic Earthworm Drivers The most valuable land on the planet will soon be the landfills
including intentions to blast a fifth rover onto the planet s surface by 2020 and send a manned mission by 2030.
or to property although occasionally a car parked under a cicada-infested tree could get covered in small droppings.
their calls can reach to 100 decibels about the same noise intensity as a nearby motorcycle.
Who cares that we might try to sleepwalkâ our way behind the wheel of a car?
In these instances Van Horn recommended choosing a salad or plain hamburger without the bun or condiments.
and buying better cars like hybrids or electric vehicles powered by renewable sources. You can also do simple things like turning off lights
ve cleaned your choppers gently brush the surface of your tongue from back to front.
See Images of the Buggy Treats Healthy option Insects are chock-full of protein and nutrients such as iron and magnesium and unlike beef or pork most bugs require little energy water or space to raise.
Those who are interested in making their own buggy treats at home can take a look at the museum's brochures which list suppliers for the insects
and potentially endangered species are found Johan van de Gronden director of the World Wildlife Fund Netherlands said in a statement.
and in it stands a great and well-covered couch and a golden table nearby. But no image has been set up in the shrine nor does any human creature lie there for the night except one native woman chosen from all women by the god as the Chaldaeans say who are priests of this god.
It only makes sense that behavior is a powerful driver of evolution and that by taking the behavioral step to eat grass it imposes the selection pressure for the right kind of teeth Lister told Livescience.
and peahens ogether known as peafowls are world famous for the peacock's enormous flashy train
At this time the male already has his train up and is casually moving around in his display area Yorzinski told Livescience.
Recently Yorzinski and her colleagues discovered that peahens ignore most of a peacock's display train
and instead keep their gaze focused on only the lower portion of the train. They also appear to look back
and forth across this area of the train potentially as a way to gauge its width
The upper portion of the train on the other hand may help peahens spot peacocks across large distances or over dense foliage.
We're pretty sure the most important driver is warm ocean water but this is still an open question Hillenbrand said.
and more dark trees the Earth gets warmer just like a dark car gets hotter in a warm parking lot than a light car does told Beck Livescience.
New roads guns and cars also enable people to hunt gorillas and bring carcasses to city markets where they fetch a handsome sum Olsson said.
and automobile collisions involving deer. That's why The HSUS urges all Michiganders to support two referenda one to nullify the wolf trophy hunting season set to start in November
And of course some homes can't be retrofitted mobile homes for example have no slab to fasten a shelter to.
In-ground shelters can be equally as elusive in mobile home parks. The landowner is typically not the homeowner
so who is going to make the investment to make a shelter in the mobile home park?
said study researcher E. Fuller Torrey a psychiatrist at Johns hopkins university Medical center in Chevy Chase Md.
Manufacturing industries and Beijing's 5 million-plus cars all contribute to the city's crippling air pollution
and area residents were forced to rely on fire trucks to deliver safe drinking water. More than half of China's surface water is polluted
While items like red meat liquor and automobiles were considered once forbidden luxuries more and more families are driving their car to a market to buy tenderloin beef 120-proof baijiu liquor and other consumer goods.
and its dependence on coal-burning are significant drivers of climate change Scientific American reports.
Because stimuli throughout the day such as car headlights will set off a rooster's crow at any time it was also possible that increasing light was the trigger for the cock's crows.
Costa rica is also implementing a number of strategies to reduce emissions including converting solid waste to energy switching to cleaner fuels in cars trucks
and buses and promoting the use of biodigesters on thousands of small farms to generate energy from agricultural waste.
></p><p>NASA's newest rover won't be exploring another planet but will take a look at part of our own.
Named Grover (short for Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research) the rover will explore Greenland's ice sheets to better understand how they form
<a href=http://www. livescience. com/29259-nasa-rover-explores-greenland. html target=blank>NASA Rover to Explore...
</p><p>Archaeologists announced today (Feb 4) that bones excavated from underneath a parking lot in Leicester beyond reasonable doubt belong to the medieval king.
A group of researchers has put a silkmoth in the driver's seat of a small two-wheeled robot to study how the insect tracks down smells.</
</p><p>A sample of Mars drilled from a rock by NASA's Curiosity rover and then studied by onboard instruments shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes NASA officials announced today (March 12) in a statement and press conference.</
<a href=http://www. livescience. com/27841-ancient-mars-microbes-curiosity-rover. html target=blank>Wow!
and skeleton have been found underneath a parking lot in Scotland and researchers believe they might belong to a knight.</
<a href=http://www. livescience. com/27914-medieval-knight-tomb-found-in-parking-lot. html target=blank>Medieval Knight's Tomb Found Beneath Parking lot</a p><p></p
Because of this the patterns are noticed usually within a day or two of their creation by passing motorists.
The safety of the animal is important as well as the safety of our research teams said Frank van Manen a researcher with the USGS who leads the interagency team.
van Manen said naming one question the scientists are asking. This occurs when the growth of the population itself regulates its own size.
Van Manen's team completed surveys of the whitebark pine population finding a marked decrease (74 percent) in the number of trees in the past few years.
and more severe outbreaks van Manen said. It's unclear how greatly this is affecting the grizzly bears though.
or find other plants as a substitution van Manen said. The researcher's team has submitted a paper examining the body composition
While van Manen declined to give specifics about the results until they are published he said there are no major indications that body fat as a percentage of bear weight is declining This could with further study suggest that the food source isn't the explanation.
and gardening activities such as home repairs mowing/cutting the lawn and hedges car maintenance and gathering mushrooms or berries.
At Subway there are several low-fat cholesterol-free sandwiches now. But Agarwal added that sometimes
You could be hit by a bus struck by lightning or end up in the path of a rockslide.
If they make it past their younger years they're likely to keep trucking until as old as 80 years of age.
What we're interested in is trying to understand what the climate might be in relation to a fire event Phil van Mantgem a research ecologist with the U s. Geological Survey who led the research told Livescience.
but they were focused on the physical aspects Van Mantgem said. We were interested more in the biological context of this.
Van Mantgem's team studied the effects of controlled fires on trees because the information about these forests before and after these events is entered into an ecological database called FFI (FEAT/FIREMON Integrated).
 Jan Willem van Groenigen of Wageningen University in The netherlands and lead author on the Nature Climate Change article doesn't advocate exterminating earthworms. oeyou cannot say earthworms are good or bad.
Van Groenigen and other researchers from the first report have completed just a 750-day study
when they were moved said Jo Anne Van Tilburg the director of the Easter Island Statues Project
In 1998 Van Tilburg and others from the Easter Island Statues Project used a similar replica to show that moving the statues horizontally along parallel logs could work as well.
I don't think you have to invent a very awkward difficult transport method Van Tilburg told Livescience.
Panicked the goat ran through the neighborhood banging his head against doors in an effort to evade the cops scrambling after it according to the Daily mail. The police chased the goat into a parking lot across from Interfaith Medical center where the animal encountered Seydou Ndiaye a parking lot attendant and as luck would have it a former goat herder
and the males'horns used in traditional medicines was the main driver. Numbers are now back up to 160000 in five separate
and creates holes in roads that serve as hazards for cars and tractors. Â $1 million hunt But the state of New mexico isn't letting the pigs get away with those antics.
It freaks everybody out to train wild animals to do what you want but it surprised the heck out of all of us how much more feasible it was thought than we Bensen said.
'In the film's trailer where some disturbing images are matched to beautiful prose Mcarthur says she feels like a war photographer
#Forest Snow Can Melt Faster Than Flakes In Open Fields (ISNS)--As fresh snow turns us into grumbling commuters
and they can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph (97 kph) in three seconds faster than most cars.
and long sharp claws that help them climb tree trucks. Koalas'have five fingers one of which is an opposable thumb
and trained to pull carts for the circus. Zebras in a herd might all look alike
He took his lessons to former slaves turned sharecroppers by inventing the Jessup Wagon a horse-drawn classroom
In his words oeit is not the style of clothes one wears neither the kind of automobile one drives nor the amount of money one has in the bank that counts.
For example the 2011 report decried one project as researching whether girls like dolls and boys like trucks.
Translation by Gloria Ferrari from Alcman and the Cosmos of Sparta University of Chicago Press 2008) A key event on Sparta s road to becoming a more militaristic society was its conquest of the land of Messenia
The South took its time jumping on the Thanksgiving bandwagon as the holiday was seen as a Yankee invention.
Boats and cars were tossed around like toys roofs were torn off houses and glass shattered everywhere;
The Scientist Who Helped Save New york's Subway from Sandy It's important for people to know that they have each other's back Kosty said.
Produits de Sud works with village leaders to train unemployed youth creating an entirely new stream of income for rural Malians to supplement subsistence millet farming
Strongest Case Yet for Human-Caused Global Warming Produit du Sud's farmers have been stunned to realize the seemingly ordinary trees of the Sahel are drivers of economic growth.
There are races for off-road vehicles Formula 1 race cars and snowmobiles. There is a competition for high-mileage vehicles
and race are variations on the familiar bicycle. Most are recumbent with riders sitting down in a more aerodynamic position than they would on standard bicycles.
Most also have aerodynamic fairings to increase speed. Some have three or even four wheels.
 In developed countries those types of vehicles along with more conventional bicycles can be used to relieve traffic congestion improve public health reduce airâ pollutionâ and significantly lower transportation costs.
They are faster and more comfortable than standard bicycles and many offer protection from foul weather.
Consider a new college graduate who purchases a human-powered vehicle rather than an automobile.
If 5 percent of the U s. population were to switch from automobiles to human-powered vehicles for most of their trips the aggregate difference would be a reduction of 31 million tons (28 million metric tons) of greenhouse
 Studies have shown that people who commute by bicycle live longer and have improved cardiovascular health compared to automobile commuters.
Additionally in many parts of the world human-powered vehicles are used to meet basic transportation needs.
A lack of infrastructure and prohibitive cost often make the automobile a nonviable choice and transit systems may not exist.
The reports will help countries improve their greenhouse gas emissions inventories Jean-Pascal van Ypersele vice chair of the IPCC said today (Oct 18) at a news conference announcing the final reports.
and also how natural systems absorb some of them Van Ypersele said. Under the Kyoto Protocol developed countries report their greenhouse emissions
It was seven months before the team could get to the site with a truck and trailer because the nearby Redwillow River was so high.
But in 2011 the researchers drove a truck across the river winched the boulder onto a trailer
and brought it out of the field. While Bell was preparing the fossil he discovered something even more amazing than skin impressions.
therefore become a major driver of global greenhouse-gas emissions. For example Goldman sachs recently acknowledged that without Keystone XL lower prices for tar sands
when defending their hive and minor disturbances like a lawn mower or a moving car even as far away as 100 feet (30 meters) can trigger an attack.
In the event of a bee attack victims are advised to run as fast as they can toward an enclosed area like a car or building;
Someone gets into the car to go to the grocery store and suddenly can't remember how to get there.
</p><p>The mansion which is being excavated by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the Givati Parking lot is located in
</a p><p></p><p>How can you make roads safer for drivers? One company known as Pro-Teq is testing glow-in-the-dark material that can be sprayed onto roadways to help illuminate the way for night drivers.</
</p><p>The U k.-based company developed a waterproof photoluminescent coating called Starpath which absorbs light during the day
Ash clogged sewage systems damaged cars and buildings and temporarily shut down air traffic over the Northwest.
and truckers to work hauling wood to the manufacturing plants which would help our critical forest products industry much
According to a study published in October in the journal Epidemiologic Reviews marijuana use increases the risk of car crashes.
People who took to the road within three hours of smoking pot as well as those who tested positive for the drug were more than twice as likely as other drivers to be<a href=http://www. myhealthnewsdaily. com/1771-smoking-pot-raises
-risk-of-car-crashes. -html>involved in a car crash</a >.And that risk increased for those who smoked more frequently and those showing a higher level of the drug in their urine.</
</p><p>Sorry but that double cheeseburger is still not your friend. Scientists found that eating lots of saturated fat-filled red meat
Taking a cab or driving one's own car was slower than an ambulance ride
and delayed crucial treatment the study found.</</p><p>If you haven't heard by
and theatrical courtship displays peahens almost always gazed at the lower part of the peacock's train of feathers particularly below the neck.
or the length of a male's train influenced a female's mating decisions. Others thought peahens were drawn likely to the distinctive eyespots on a peacock's display of feathers.
Peahen gaze Yorzinski is unsure why peahens focus primarily on the lower part of a peacock's train.
She suggests the peacock's upper train may help females spot males across long distances since in India where peacocks are typically found thick vegetation could obscure everything except the top part of the males'display of feathers.
when they're far away females use the upper train to find the males and then as they get closer they start directing their eyes to the lower part of the train Yorzinski said.
She also noticed that females seem to look back and forth across the lower part of the train which could indicate that they are assessing its width she added.
The width of the male's train could reveal some information about his age since a young male won't have as big a train as a more mature one Yorzinski explained.
A symmetrical train could also give indications about a male's quality such as his immune function
or some other aspects of him that may be indicators to females that he might provide healthy offspring.
Yorzinski intends to follow up this study by manipulating some of the male peacock's traits
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