#Transgenics next wave of genetically modified crops could ease concerns over Frankenfoods Transgenic canola When the first genetically modified (GM) organisms were being developed for the farm,
including Monsanto s Bt cotton: a plant modified to produce a bacterial toxin that discourages destructive bollworms and cuts down on the need for pesticides.
Farmers will continue to be a core market for the coming generation of GM organisms.
At Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, UK, for example, scientists are working on GM plants that will need even less pesticide than Bt cotton,
Unlike Bt cotton and other existing GM organisms, such a crop would need no insect-killing chemical for protection from pests.
#Manufacturers to reveal first bendable gadgets that will never break A prototype Samsung Windows smartphone.
We have gotten already a glimpse of the technology from manufacturers with Samsung showing off a foldable phone.
could soon be seen in everything from Apple s much-rumured iwatch to larger tablets. The touted arrival this year of wearable gadgets such as computer displays strapped to wrists
and in wrap-around glasses is just a step towards a bigger revolution in screens#those that can be bent,
with screens that can be attached rolled out to uneven surfaces, or even stretched. But there s still some way to go.
according to Displaysearch#is still dominated by liquid crystal displays (LCDS), which require a backlight and sit between two sheets of glass,
making the screen a major contributor to the weight of a device, from laptops to tablets.
Most of the weight in a tablet is the glass structure in the display and the support structure around it to prevent it from cracking,
said Kevin Morishige, a former engineer at Cisco, Hewlett-packard and Palm. LCD s dominance is already under threat from lighter Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDS) that don t need backlighting,
are brighter, offer a wider viewing angle and better color contrast #and can be printed onto a few layers.
Corning, whose toughened Gorilla glass became the screen of choice for many smartphones, will provide phones with curved glass edges as soon as this year.
It is also now promoting Willow Glass which can be as thin as a sheet of paper
screens that users can bend, fold and roll will likely be plastic. But plastic is not as robust as glass.
A Samsung concept shows off a tablet-sized screen that can be rolled up Even after the success of Gorilla Glass,
popularized by the iphone, Corning is having to work hard to prepare customers for Willow displays.
He sees demand, particularly from video gamers, for Willow-based curved screens, but remains less convinced about rollable or foldable screens.
Conformable is in the near future. As far as flexible, bendable, fold-upable goes, I see that further out and I m not even sure that s a viable product,
while Samsung may introduce#oeunbreakable#screens this year, it didn t expect to see flexible displays in Samsung devices until 2014-15.
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#China s dead pig dumping scandal Over 16,000 dead pigs have been found in China s rivers.
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#Are meal delivery services the future of groceries? Would you ever use a meal delivery service?
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#Tribine agriculture s latest breakthrough innovation Tribine Grain harvesters have been called combines since the 1930#s. They were called combines
The Tribine takes it one step further as it combines the two historic harvest functions with a third the grain cart, according to Ben Dillon, the developer of the machine.
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#Japanese scientists create 581 clones from the same mouse Scientists clone 581 mice from one mouse.
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#Whole milk linked to slimmer kids: Study Kids drinking low-fat milk tended to be heavier. Parenting toddlers is not an easy job.
Dr. Mark Deboer told me in an email. He and his co-author, Dr. Rebecca Scharf,
#In other words, if whole-fat milk saves a kid from eating an extra cookie or a second serving of mashed potatoes,
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#How the language we speak affects how healthy and rich we will be: Study A new study suggests languages shape how we think about the future,
researchers recently presented people with renderings of their future selves made using age-progression algorithms that forecast how physical appearances would change over time.
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#New protein discovery could change biotech forever The quest started with trying to make better yogurt.
and NIH director Francis Collins wrote in a blog post that they are#oerevealing tantalizing new possibilities for treating human diseases#in a blog post.
The result is not so much like using a word processor as a biology lab version of what movie editors had to do back
Recently, there was a bit of an internet uproar when some outlets took an interview Church gave a German newspaper out of context
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#Should We Revive Extinct Species? Futurist Thomas Frey: Like many others, I m a fan of TED Talks and a Feb 2013 talk by Stuart Brand titled#oethe dawn of de-extinction.
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#Four-fifths of all antibiotics are consumed by the meat industry Livestock consumption of antibiotics reached a record nearly 29.9 billion pounds in 2011.
In an email, a Pew spokesperson added that while the American Meat Institute reported a 0. 2 percent increase in total meat
Here a a few highlights pointed to by Pew in an email:#¢#¢Of the Salmonella on ground turkey, about 78%were resistant to at least one antibiotic
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#Virtual fencing promises radical transformation by removing the mile upon mile of barbed wire stretched across the landscape.
and often unquestioned network of wire that somehow defines the#oeland of the free#while also restricting movement within it.
a soft-spoken federal research scientist who admits to taping a paper list of telephone numbers on the back of his decidedly unsmart phone,
in this case, apportioning) digital information under the influence of the various media technologies#satellite imagery, RFID tags, algorithmic glitches, and so on#through
you can get on your laptop, right then and there, and program the polygon that contains your cows to move spatially and temporally over the landscape to this#oebetter location.#
If people decouple the best computer that we have at this point, which is our brain, with sufficient experience,
Algorithms then combine that data to determine which side of the animal s to cue,
With the computer technology we have today, everything we do can be stored in memory, so you can learn about each animal,
There is no reason at all that we cannot design the algorithms and gather data that, over time, will make the whole process optimized for each animal,
or a telephone pole, or a stream, and they have had electrical stimulation there before, do they associate that rock or whatever with a limit boundary?
Why not mesh management routines with their innate behaviors instead? For example, my song could maybe be matched to correspond to a general time of day
#A new Pew Internet reporttakes a close look not only at how Americans are using public libraries,
but also what sort of services and programming they think libraries should offer #and what they say they would use in the future.
including online#oeask a librarian#-type research service, mobile library apps, library kiosks in the community,
and community members a chance to have hands-on interaction with a variety of tablets and e-readers.
Customers have access to computers with editing software, cameras, camcorders, microphones, and musical keyboards. Additionally, the Skokie media lab has a green screen wall for video projects.#
#Technology help According to the American Library Association, 35%of U s. public libraries offer one-on-one technology and/or research help with library staff.
in beginning computer tasks. And the George W. Covington Memorial Library in Mississippi offers#oeone-On-One Basic Computer Training For Visually impaired (& Sighted) Individuals.##
##oeredbox#-style library kiosks and outreach services#oein 2008, the Contra Costa County Library in California launched Library-a-Go-Go,
which can be browsed from a touch screen. The book dispensaries at available 24/7 and operate like ATM machines with a swipe of a library card to dispense books.
#The Carson city Library Branch Anywhere in Nevada#oeprovides patrons at the Boys and girls Clubs of Western Nevada with access to current library materials, digital tools and librarian-educator programming.
#The Free Library of Philadelphia has library#oehot Spots#that#oebring computer access, classes, and the internet to neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia.
Hot spots can be found in Philadelphia churches, schools and nonprofit organizations. Each Hot spot includes computers, a printer,
and all necessary broadband equipment, as well as a reference collection of Free Library materials.##Mobile Apps and Websites The Goethe-Institut New york Library s Mobile Augmented Reality App#oeallows learners to explore German cultural heritage in New york city using archival documents, photographs,
and multimedia narratives to bring to life United states history. Using this technology, users are able to hold up their mobile phones
and see archival photos layered on top of the images visible through the camera s Phone in 2012,
#The Cuyahoga County Public library of Parma, Ohio#oecreated CCPL Mobile, an exciting new mobile app that enhances the library patron experience by giving patrons access to the unprecedented convenience of checking out
items using their smart phones. The free CCPL Mobile smartphone app features a Digital Books
& Media channel that makes finding and downloading e-books and e-audiobooks from the library s collection.
In addition to using the app to renew and reserve items, patrons can also use the tool to find library branches and hours of operation.
& Go#project that allows users with mobile phone to access various library services via scanned QR codes.#
Codes on signs at the information desk open up a text message to a text-a-librarian number;
Usage of the library s mobile website is up 16 percent since the program was implemented.
##oeto help students keep pace with the fast-moving trend in e-books, online databases,
and other digital learning tools, Boston College High school adopted a cell phone policy at the start of the school year
Additionally, the school provides ipads for all faculty, as well as for students in grades 7-10.
#Customized reading recommendations The Scottsdale Public library in Arizona s#oegimme Engine#mobile website#oehelps customers find a great book to read based on a library staffer s recommendation and review.
and provide high-quality, authoritative web sites and online database resources via web addresses within the chat.#
via phone, chat, email, and text. Every day, except Sundays and holidays, anyone, of any age, from anywhere in the world can reach the library via various methods,
including by phone, text message, and online chat.##Libraries as incubators and creation spaces The Library as Incubator Project#oehighlights the ways that libraries
#Website: http://www. lopezlibrary. org/music. html Libraryfarm#orthern Onondaga (N y.)Public library#oethe Libraryfarm is an organic community garden on one-half acre of land owned by Northern
#Website: http://www. nopl. org/library-farm Santa Suits#atrons start reserving them in September at the Bolivar County Library System in Mississippi.#
#Telescopes Other services Health and Government Assistance In Florida,#oethe Orange county Library System developed Right Service at the Right Time, a sophisticated database-driven web
#And in Arizona,#oethe Pima County Public library offers on-site expert medical help, making the library the first in the nation to employ a public health nurse on site.
#The library also has large type telephones; a machine that can enlarge newspaper print to 4 inches;
The Temecula Public library in California#oehas developed new programming and created a resource center specifically for families with children on the autism spectrum by offering a new, monthly story time especially for two-to five-year-olds
#Createit and itnation programs give teens experience using various digital media software and allow them to teach introductory digital media classes to others.
#Library Nurse Program Mangamania!!##The library s annual manga, anime, and graphic novels convention for teens#oecombines hands-on workshops, cultural demonstrations, gaming (open play and tournaments),
#Seed Library STEM Programs for Youth include Science Saturdays, astronomy programs, and LEGO Robotics programs for youth.
California alt+library:##oeour programming initiative designed for (but by no means limited to) people in their 20s and 30s.
Early literacy programming for participants children. Best of the Best Seminar Series with college professors giving lectures Magic#The Gathering Teen Tournaments.
Seed lending library Reading camp for struggling first grade readers ipad and e-Reader/Kindle classes Civil war re-enactment bivouac on back lawn, Dessert contest, scarecrow
We don t require a card, just something of value like a backpack, instrument, cell phone, laptop.
Additionally, MT FWP staff works with libraries across the state to provide programming in libraries on MT animals.#
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#Ending the global food crisis we just need to make use of what we have We could double our food supply just by making farming, shipping,
and stored under unsuitable farm site conditions or in inadequate local facilities,#says the study.#
the project s website says. Harvard s Kevin Ma spoke to Business Insider about the team s progress in building the bee-size robot since publishing its Science paper last year.
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#8 big changes coming to agriculture by 2030 Farmers will own more than 1 drone by 2030.
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#The future impact of the Internet of things can t be underestimated Internet of things The Internet of things (Iot) is a hot new buzzword.
and Fitbit devices or from the location based technologies installed on our phones, tablets and GPS devices.
Some of the most common categories are supply chain management, location tracking, real time financial analysis, remote monitoring and maintenance, energy efficiency, business process automation,
I have arrived in town through the Marriott iphone app with location aware technology. I get a pop up reminder to check in
Some websites even have the intelligence to counsel the patient and make recommendation with diets,
By now we have heard all about GE s smart jet engines that transmit over one terabyte of sensor data per flight.
so that commuters with an app on their phone can be notified of where an available parking space is,
you should analyze this space closely because the next Google, Facebook, or Amazon might be born in the Internet of things.
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#New LED light technology sheds light on the future of food LED growing lights, delivering sunlight whatever the weather.
so here are some examples of starting points designed to begin the conversational thread of situational futuring. 1. 3d Ice Printers A 3d printer designed to work exclusively with ice could be used to make ice sculptures, ice containers, ice cubes with your favorite liquor inside
and even our brain as these tools evolve into hyper-analytical portals into our own metabolism. 5. Wireless Power Will having users linked to wireless power networks in the future be similar to linking to Wi-fi networks today?
Billion-Cam Video Project What kind of business will be needed to connect 1 billion live video cameras to the Internet?
What can a billion-cam network do that a million-cam network can t? 11. Centralized Law Project Very few countries have posted their laws in a central repository.
if all laws were required to be posted on one central online website? 12. Dream Recorder It s easy to forget our dreams,
they completed 10 houses in a single day using a massive printer that was 490 feet long, 33 feet wide,
Downloadable Personalities If you had the ability to create a newpersonality for your conversational computer, with some new personality-builder software,
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?
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#This is your brain on a smartphone A mobile junkie. When is the last time you powered your smartphone all the way down?
Try turning it all the way off now. Take your phone out and turn it off (note:
this is not advised if you are reading this on your mobile. In this case you are probably too far gone.
I was focused so on eternalizing the moment through my phone, that I hadn taken t the time to eternalize it in my brain.
So my telling you to put your phone down is a little bit like a girl scout telling you only to buy 2 boxes.
We (as app makers) want them to be addicting. Like a potato chip manufacturer, we try to put just the right crunch
Thousands of great apps have enriched and enhanced every aspect of our lives. As a human being, many of these triumphs are trumped by the overwhelming anxiety phones have instilled in us.
We ve trained ourselves to constantly seek refuge from boring, everyday life through our phones.
We ve grown so accustomed to this behavior that we can t shut it out, even during truly exciting or beautiful times in our lives.
I had to hit rock bottom to realize I didn t want to spend 95%of my life glued to a screen.
I couldn t have one conversation without checking my phone. I needed it.****inner-dialogue intensifies
Did that dude from work ever email me back? How is the INTU stock doing today?
I wasn t tinkering on my phone, I was thinking about it. I bet if you start paying closer attention to your mobile habits,
My phone just made it too convenient to be active. If I was walking, my phone was in my face,
and I became a hazard to myself, other pedestrians, and drivers. I want the world.
My brother and I would spend entire afternoons having intense debates about the most Google-able, answerable topics.
Today that intense argument would have fizzled out in 2 minutes with Google having the final say.
What I haven t accepted is after receiving an email at 10pm I m expected to respond within 10 minutes.
Constant push notifications, emails, and messages meant I could never shut down andturn off. Appointments are moving targets.
Phones have turned us into inconsiderate and tardy buttholes. I lost respect for my friend s time
whilst staring at a screen. Also#taking a picture of a beautiful moment still doesn t count
and when I used my phone. I became very meticulous about when I could and could not use my phone.
I went as far as making it inconvenient to use apps I DIDN NEED t actually.
In addition to this change, I started noticing more and more opportunities to cut the mobile ties. I ve summarized these tricks into a program
It s rare that you need to use your phone (or genitals for that matter) when in a social setting.
when they pull out their phones unnecessarily (Oh hey Hollywood!).To get started with this one, I instructed my friends to punch my arm if
I no longer relied on my phone to solve any anxiety or unnecessary emptiness. I was human again.
and paper) to jot it down so worst case you can Google it later. Hide and delete.
You don t need 200 apps. Uninstall the ones you no longer use and tuck the nonessentials into folders a few swipes from your main screen
so it s inconvenient to access them. You ll soon realize how little you actually need them.
Set your phone to silent (not VIBRATE. Don t even allow yourself the temptation to swipe
Another 50 points if you don t need Google maps to get there. Buy a watch. I would often catch myself pulling out my phone to merely check the time
(and then check the time again since I never actually remembered it the first time). This frequent time check reenforced the habit of constantly pulling out my phone
and undoubtedly led to unnecessary browsing if a waiting notification piqued my interest. Buy a watch.
No phones in the bedroom or bathroom. Let s focus on the bathroom first and how much time you save without your phone (see below for a nonscientific study of time spent on the toilet with and without a phone each day).
Also the risk of accidentally dropping your iphone in the toilet shoots dangerously close to zero
if toilet tapping isn t allowed. Now for the bedroom. It s proven that looking at bright screens just before bed increases the time it takes to fall asleep.
Step 1 ABSOLUTELY applies in the bedroom. Imagine two star-crossed lovers staring deeply into eachothers phablets.
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#Solar Forest provides a charging station for electric cars Solar Forest We aren t out of the woods yet
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#Why pet owners are skipping the pet food aisle in favor of homemade pet food Veterinarians say these pet food home chefs do it for different reasons.
Delaney founded Balanceit, a website with tips on preparing pet food and other finer points of pet nutrition, in 2005.
but with less grains, Fox writes on his website, where he offers the dog food recipe, plus organic and GMO-free prepared pet food products.
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#Prescriptive planting technology is set to disrupt the farming industry Tractor-mounted computers help farmers make decisions about planting crops.
The word innovation usually brings to mind small startups doing clever things with cutting-edge technology.
Set up by two former Google employees, it used remote sensing and other cartographic techniques to map every field in America (all 25m of them) and superimpose on that all the climate information that it could find.
By 2010 its database contained 150 billion soil observations and 10 trillion weather-simulation points.
and terabytes of data on their yields. By adding these to the Climate Corporation s soil-and-weather database,
it produced a map of America which says which seed grows best in which field, under what conditions.
it reduces the role of discretion and skill in farmingtheir core competence. However, the bigger problem is that farmers distrust the companies peddling this new method.
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#Toshiba s new vegetable factory to bring perfect produce to Japan Toshiba plant factory When you hear the name Toshiba,
you probably think about electronics products like televisions and computers. Thanks to its CT and other diagnostic imaging machines and technology, Toshiba has made a name for itself in the healthcare industry, too.
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#Nasa tests growing lettuce in space A plant growth chamber designed to make gardens thrive in weightlessness.
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#Top 15 emerging agriculture technologies that will change the world Automation will help agriculture via large-scale robotic and microrobots.
Below are 15 emerging technologies related to agricultural and natural manufacturing under four key areas of accelerating change:
Sensors, Food, Automation and Engineering. Sensors help agriculture by enabling real-time traceability and diagnosis of crop, livestock and farm machine states.
and potentially from producing meat directly in a lab. Automation will help agriculture via large-scale robotic
when each technology will be scientifically viable (the kind of stuff that Google, governments and universities develop),
Coupled with an intelligent network, such sensors could feed crucial information back to maintenance crews or robots.
Automation Variable rate swath control: Building on existing geolocation technologies, future swath control could save on seed, minerals, fertilizer and herbicides by reducing overlapping inputs.
By pre-computing the shape of the field where the inputs are to be used, and by understanding the relative productivity of different areas of the field,
Synthetic biology is about programming biology using standardized parts as one programs computers using standardized libraries today.
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#Post college towns teem with college-educated young adults, jobs Young adults spend leisurely time at Marion Square in Charleston, SC.
and she s editorial director at Bibliolabs, a small tech start-up that designs easy-to-navigate e-book lending websites for public libraries.
founded eight years ago, employs 30 people, many of them software engineers. The median age hovers in the mid-20s,
WHERE THERE ARE JOBS#Alex Summer, a software developer from Newberry, S. C.,bought a three-bedroom house in suburban Mount Pleasant in 2009,
Eric Bowman, founder of local software start-up Sparc, says that among his 140 developers, the median age is about 28.
And most of them know more than he ever did at that age about software. These 25-,27-,28-year-olds are just blowing me away.
Every one of our developers can get a job in five days he says, so you have to treat your team members fairly.
and over the next three years it plans to hire about 600 more information technology employees, bringing its total number of workers in the region to about 8, 000.
watched live golf on big-screen TVS and played retro coin-operated video games. They re in Charleston to live in Charleston
a young developer who is working with the city to build acreative corridor on Meeting Street, an industrial thoroughfare once dominated by car dealerships.
All 15 are software engineers. She calls themour secret weapon and says she can hire good engineers here for about half the cost of comparable workers in Silicon valley.
Much of the region s development owes its success to both public and private investment and upgrades in infrastructure.
develops software that helps employees manage workplace health and life insurance benefits. It has estimated an 20 million users.
Hoping to inspire his Web developers to design beautiful stuff, Jenkins has peppered the offices with handsome objects,
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