#Spherical Cows Help to Dump Metabolism Law According to a new mathematical analysis, the mysterious oe3/4 law of metabolism proposed by Max Kleiber in 1932 and later described as oeextended to all
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#Forests Are Growing Faster, Ecologists Discover; Climate Change Appears to Be accelerated Driving Growth Forest in Maryland.
He specializes in the data-analysis side of forest ecology. oewalking in the woods helps but so does looking at the numbers,
Parker thinks there is every reason to believe his study sites are representative of the Eastern deciduous forest,
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Two of the varieties contained genes for the Bt protein which protects the plant against the corn borer pest,
and crunch numbers on your computer without fear the only thing you might double is your dipping,
NBCS, NTTS and FECS (respectively No Broken Clutch System, No Touch Table System and Finger Easy Cleaning System.
NTTS refers to the design that keeps the fingers from touching the table or desktop. last and not least,
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#Scientists Identify Ecuadors Yasuni National park as One of Most Biodiverse Places On earth Crowned like a king, the spike-headed katydid,
in the core of the Ecuadorian Amazon, shatters world records for a wide array of plant and animal groups, from amphibians to trees to insects.
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#10 Aphrodisiacs Around the World Aphrodisiacs Whats in your wallet? Humans have had a long-running affair with foods believed to entice
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into a mesh bag containing an unpollinated The wasps entered the figs to lay their eggs.
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and oil, said Tom Clemente, Professor, Center for Biotechnology, Center for Plant science Innovation at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. oewith the combination of informatics,
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#Can a Drop of Water Cause Sunburn or Fire? Leaves of Certain Plants Are Susceptible to Leaf Burn from Too much Sun Ginkgo leaves in sunshine To the gardening world it may have always been considered a fact,
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real estate developer and sports-team owner who is significant for founding and developing the retirement community of Sun City, Arizona.
The 4treehouse by Lukasz Kos floats like a oejapanese lantern on stilts and is situated to accommodate four existing trees on the site.
As with the best tree house designs, this project successfully worked around the existing natural site conditions.
The three-story house itself rents suspended from these four primary site trees. Le Lit Perch:
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along with plans by processors to increase the amount paid to farmers meant that retail prices would rise in the next several weeks by as much as 10 percent.
#The alliance sent a letter to major milk processors like Organic Valley and Horizon this month,
processors would have to increase the amount paid to farmers by $5 for every 100 pounds of milk.
Scott Mcginty, president of Aurora Organic Dairy, another large processor, estimated that there is a 20 percent shortfall in organic milk nationwide.
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#Today s super-rich are different from yesterday s: more hardworking and meritocratic, but less connected to the nations that granted them opportunity.
The wondrous inventions of the modern economy#oogle, Amazon, the iphone#roadly improved the lives of middle-class consumers,
the revolution in information technology and the liberalization of global trade. Individual nations have offered their own contributions to income inequality#inancial deregulation
is already challenging Google, itself hardly an old-school corporation. But the biggest winners have been individuals, not institutions.
But then you had the Internet age, and then globalization, and you had people in their 30s,
We are mesmerized by such extravagances as Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen s 414-foot yacht, the Octopus,
Among these is Google s Zeitgeist conference, where I have moderated discussions for several years. One of the most recent gatherings was held last May at the Grove Hotel, a former provincial estate in The english countryside,
Google flew in overnight Internet sensations from around the world. Yet for all its luxury, the mood of the Zeitgeist conference is hardly sybaritic.
and during coffee breaks the lawns are crowded with executives checking their Blackberrys and ipads. Last year s lineup of Zeitgeist speakers included such notables as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, London Mayor Boris Johnson,
and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz (not to mention, of course, Google s own CEO, Eric Schmidt). But the most potent currency at this and comparable gatherings is neither fame nor money.
or algorithm or technology with the potential to change the world, however briefly. Hence the presence last year of three Nobel laureates, including Daniel Kahneman, a pioneer in behavioral economics.
which Google showcased some of its new inventions, including the Nexus phone. This geeky enthusiasm for innovation and ideas is evident at more-intimate gatherings of the global elite as well.
Take the elegant Manhattan dinner parties hosted by Marie-Josã e Kravis, the economist wife of the private-equity billionaire Henry, in their elegant Upper East side apartment.
Indeed, in this age of elites who delight in such phrases as outside the box and killer app,
and immediately became Europe s most highly valued Internet company#et none is focused primarily on the United states. A similar harbinger of the intra-emerging-market economy was the acquisition by Bharti Enterprises,
the Indian telecom giant, of the African properties of the Kuwait-based telecom firm Zain.
They know how to provide mobile phones so much more cheaply than we Do in a place like Africa,
I heard a similar sentiment from the Taiwanese-born, 30-something CFO of a U s. Internet company.
Exploding Smartphone Industry With a global population exceeding 7 billion people, we have seen the mobile phone industry mushroom to include over 5 billion members.
Smartphones remain a small subset, owned by around 10%of all those with mobile phones. But not for much longer.
We are about to see virtually all communication devices replaced with smartphones over the coming decade.
Leading the charge is Google with over 700,000 Android devices being activated daily. Over the past year, Google activated more than 255 million devices compared to 105 million Apple activations.
Admittedly this isn t a true apples-to-apples comparison (no pun intended) because Google doesn t make their own phones
and Apple does. As smartphones and other devices evolve in this exploding market, look for a near-term push into near-field communications, 4g,
and flexible bendable devices. Critical to the growth of this mobile device market is the global supply of rare earth metals,
which China currently controls 95%of known reserves. Looking out for its own self-interests, Chinas has been ratcheting down exports of these metals by 12%per year for the past 5 years.
Their reluctance to export enough to meet global demand has touched off a worldwide hunt for new sources with promising finds being uncovered in Canada, Argentina, South korea, and California.
Look for several new mines to come online in coming years and China s stranglehold on the industry to plummet. 16.)
Hyper-Local Urban Farming Going Underground A few years ago, a study by the Leopold Center for Sustainable agriculture at Iowa State university reported that between 1980 and 2001,
Many limit their thinking about gamification to mobile apps but it has far broader implications.
People who visit the site, enter details of their running times and the routes they were on,
it will be the year that major players like Google and Mastercard roll out their cashless initiatives around the world.
In October 2011, the Google Wallet, a free, NFC-enabled mobile payment system became operational at select retailers across the US.
shoppers simply tap their mobile device on special terminals at points-of-sale to pay instantly.
In June 2011, Paypal demonstrated its own mobile payment app for Android devices. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey s latest venture, Square, is an electronic payments service
which enables users to accept credit card payments by using a portable card-reader device that plugs in to iphone, ipad or Android devices.
Both the Square card-reader and app are free although there is a 2. 75%charge for each payment made.
The izettle app works with iphones and ipads. Bills can also be paid or money transferred using this service.
Google CEO Larry page sees himself as the next great visionary, following in the footsteps of Steve jobs, Nikola Tesla,
Google s self-driving car project has racked already up over 150 000 driverless miles on highways.
and for Google to make a play to design an Android-like operating system for all driverless cars. 22.)
With basic drone hardware being matched up with smartphones, and the bottom-up design capabilities of app developers around the world, drones will quickly move from the realm of personal toys to functional necessities that we interact with on a daily basis. For those of you looking to switch careers,
the drone marketplace will create one of the hot new industries of the future. More details here. 23.
For this reason, Los angeles-based QLESS Inc. has devised a text messaging service to help eliminate the wait.
using keyboards and computer screens, the time-to-answer process can easily be reduced to as little as 10 minutes.
Emergence of Food Printers-3d printing is a form of object creation technology where the shape of the objects are formed through a process of building up layers of material until all of the details are in place a relatively slow process often requiring hours to complete.
Three-dimensional printing makes it as cheap to create single items as it is to produce thousands of items
Look for continuing progress in the area of 3d food printers, even though the Jetson s style food synthesizers may still be a few years off.
Apple s App store currently offers 9, 000 mobile health apps, along with 1, 500 cardio fitness apps, over 1, 300 diet apps, more than 1, 000 stress and relaxation apps,
and over 650 women s health apps. But apps are only part of the equation. Peripheral devices are setting the stage for the true self-revolution:
All Apples stores now carry the Withings Blood pressure monitor, a peripheral device that plugs into the ipad,
iphone or ipod Touch and takes the user s blood pressure. Data can be sent directly to a doctor or saved (confidentially) to the cloud.
Lifelens has created a smartphone app to diagnose malaria. The app can magnify a drop of blood (captured via a simple finger prick)
and identify whether malarial parasites are present. In October 2011, Ford demonstrated three SYNC apps offering in-car health monitoring for drivers to track chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma and hay fever.
Also in October 2011 AT&T announced it will begin selling clothes embedded with health monitors,
able to track the wearer s vital signs heart rate and body temperature and upload them to a dedicated website.
The X Prize Foundation is cosponsoring a $10 million prize for the best mobile device allowing consumers to diagnose their own diseases.
Every new peripheral device will create a market for hundreds of new apps, and we haven t even scratched the surface of
what will seem like a massive influx of brilliant new peripherals over the coming months.
Healthcare industry execs should be nervous. Final Thoughts I will end with a few comments about the new systems that will be needed to tie all of these trends together.
We are currently out of balance between backward-looking problem-solving and forward-looking accomplishments. Forward accomplishments help erase past problems.
They solve problems in a different way. We need more forward-looking accomplishments, and our greatest undertakings in the future will come in this area.
This need for future accomplishments will also dictate a need for new and better systems to regulate,
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#Apple Picks Instagram as the iphone App Of The Year#Instagram is the year end winner.
Apple released its itunes Rewind 2011 and App store Rewind 2011 today, the company s annual lists detailing of the top selling apps, music, TV SHOWS, movies and podcasts for the year.
This year, the biggest winner on the apps front was Angry Birds, which ran away with the number one spot on the iphone and ipad-in all categories except top free iphone app,
which was awarded to Facebook. Apple also selects its own favorite applications, and one of our preferred apps,
Instagram, won the honor of being Apple s iphone App of the Year.##Angry Birds,
which is available on ios as both a paid and free application, not only dominated the year-end lists as the number one download in several cases,
it also occupied additional slots on multiple lists for its spinoffs, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio.
Several other games also appeared on the year-end listings, including Fruit Ninja, Cut the Rope,
Tiny Wings, Doodle Jump, Plants vs. Zombies and more. In terms of non-games, consumer-friendly brands like Netflix, Facebook,
Skype, Kindle, Pandora, CNN and Twitter, plus Apple s own Pages and Garageband, made the list.
As for Apple s editorial picks, it was Instagram as the favorite for iphone, and photo app Snapseed for the ipad.
Runners up for the app of the year#title included Vidrhythm (iphone), Band of the Day (iphone), djay (ipad) and Jamie s Recipes.
ipad) Game of the year went to Tiny Tower (iphone) and Dead Space for ipad.
All the runners-up and top 30 lists can all be viewed here in itunes, where you can also find the results for the non-app categories.
That s not our thing. But congrats, Adele. The complete top 10 lists are below:
Top Paid iphone Apps: 1. Angry Birds 2. Fruit Ninja 3. Angry Birds Seasons 4. Cut the Rope 5. Tiny Wings 6. Angry Birds Rio
7. Words With Friends 8. Camera+9. Doodle Jump 10. Plants vs. Zombies Top Free iphone Apps:
1. Facebook 2. Pandora Radio 3. Words with Friends Free 4. Angry Birds Free 5. Skype 6. Netflix 7. Angry Birds Rio
Free 8. Groupon 9. Fruit Ninja Lite 10. Twitter ipad Apps Top Paid ipad Apps:
1. Angry Birds HD 2. Pages 3. Angry Birds Seasons 4. Garageband 5. Angry Birds Rio HD 6. Penultimate 7
. Fruit Ninja HD 8. Cut the Rope HD 9. SCRABBLE for ipad 10. Keynote Top Free ipad Apps 1. Angry Birds HD Free 2. The Weather Channel for ipad 3. Netflix 4. CNN App for ipad 5
. Angry Birds Rio HD Free 6. Kindle 7. Skype for ipad 8. Calculator for ipad Free 9. Pandora Radio 10.
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#Top 10 food trends for 2012 Artisanal#foods are springing up everywhere. If you are in the restaurant,
foodservice or food manufacturing business you know that no matter how tough the economy is need, people still to Eat in the past few years foodservice entrepreneurs have shown a lot of creativity.
You could almost say the recession has sparked a renaissance of restaurant industry creativity. Beyond food trucks, burgers and beer, here are some of the hot food trends for 2012.
Here are 10 of the most promising trends I vthat are featured on the food trends site,
Smallbiztrendcast. Artisanal everything: Not new, but still going strong, artisanal#originally referred to handcrafted foods
#icam turns iphone 5 into a point and shoot camera icam Apple has revolutionized monumentally major industries like music and computing,
In fact, madr studios recently drew up the concept pictures for the icam an accessory that would transform the upcoming iphone 5 into a point and shoot camera.
Aluminum Unibody Interchangeable Apple-Lens Lenses, with imount mounting system Front touch screen for self-portraits and for micro-app LED Flash Front pico-projector
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#Turkey researchers working hard to build a better bird Eastern wild turkeys have that classic turkey look,
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#Congress makes pizza a vegetable on school lunch menus Pizza a vegetable in schools. The fight against childhood obesity has been dealt a blow.
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#55 Jobs of the Future There is no future in any job. The future lies in the person who holds the job.#
and computer system analysts, they are all jobs that currently exist today. Yes, many of these jobs will still exist in the future,
and change as technology and communication systems make their impact. As an example, technology research firm IDC predicts the amount of data businesses will have access to will grow 50-fold over the next decade.
Avatar Designers Next generation avatars will become indistinguishable from humans on a two-dimensional screen. However, avatars will only live in the computer world for a short time longer.
It is only a matter of time before they emerge from the computer and appear as visual beings,
walking around among us. Once an avatar goes through the radical metamorphosis from an image that we see on a screen to a three dimensional being that joins us for dinner,
carries on conversations with our friends, and serves as a stand-in for us at meetings,
and the demand for printer-produced products will skyrocket. The trend will be for these worker-less workshops to enter virtually every field of manufacturing,
and maintain the next wave of this technology. 13. 3d Food-Printer Engineers Pushing the envelope for 3d printer technology even further,
will be the coming age of food printers. Converting 3d printers to work with cartridges containing food-stocks will prove difficult and demanding on a number of levels.
Book-to-App Converters Over the coming months we will begin to see a form of competition brewing between books and apps.
we will begin to see a large scale effort to convert existing books and literature into an interactive app, similar to the current effort to convert popular literature from print to audiobooks.
Smart Dust Programmers In it s simplest form, smart dust consists of a sensor combined with a wireless transmitter and some kind of power source.
Personality Services Talking back and forth to a computer that has a machinelike voice is boring. But being able to download specific personality packages#will add an entirely new level of engagement for basement-dwellers everywhere.
The hottest personalities to download will be offshoots of existing characters or celebrities such as being able to download a David Letterman personality, a Homer Simpson personality,
Smart Contact Developers The idea of smart#contact lenses the kind that can superimpose information on the wearer s field of view has been around for a while.
and cargo transport system designed around a network of vacuum tubes with maglev tracks. Operating at less than 2%of the cost of today s car, truck, jet, ship,
Mass Energy Storage Developers As a society, we have become very good at generating electricity,
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I recently stumbled across this site called drinkify. It recommends beverages to compliment your favorite music.
So here s what I ve been hearing in my drinks#The site conjures forth the drink
and get around the need to screen for diseases such as HIV and hepatitis. Currently in the UK around 1. 6 million pints of blood are needed every year
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#Invasive bugs eat invasive plant Invasive plants VS Invader bugs. The battle has begun. For 50 years, farmers, scientists,
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#The roots of perennial wheat Is this be the future of wheat? This is not the best photo,
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#Genetically modified pigs could provide human organs by 2013 GM pigs could provide human organs for transplant.
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#6 major brands that have been resurrected from the dead The LEGO Group has been around since 1932.
AAPL) was a premiere personal computer manufacturer in the late 1980s. In 1985, Steve jobs left his position after being marginalized by the board and new CEO, John Scully.
the company received a $150 million investment from Microsoft. In 1998, the company released the imac,
and spurred its rise as a competitive consumer electronics company. Since then its top position has been cemented by the wildly popular iphone and ipad.
Apple is now one of the world s most loved and followed brands. 5. Nintendo In the late 1980s through the 1990s,
The Nintendo Gamecube sold less than Microsoft s Xbox and was blown out of the water by the Playstation 2. In 2006,
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#The Coming Food Printer Revolution Futurist Thomas Frey: Would you buy a product that was advertised as Naturally grown, completely organic, printed food?#
#Anyone who has an apple tree growing in their yard knows how difficult it is to grow one that is worthy of eating straight off the tree.
This is the promise of food printer technology as we move from simply printing ink on paper
to 3d printing of parts and objects, to next generation food printers. These aren t the artificial food devices that science fiction movies have been promising.
Stereolithographic printers remain one of the most accurate types of hardware for fabricating 3d objects.
Three-dimensional printing makes it as cheap to create single items as it is to produce thousands of items
It s difficult to build those vascular networks, but now a team from Germany s Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB has developed a way to print capillaries with a 3-D printer.
Printed artificial bones The Open3dp team at the University of Washington has managed to accomplish something extraordinary.
The Digital Fabricator Next Generation Food Printers Food is a basic building block of life. We have a hard time going longer than a day without it.
have created a very visual way for us to imagine next generation food that will come from printers.
Cornucopia printer Cornucopias printing process begins with an array of food canisters filled with the cook s#foods of choice.
After a meal selection has been made using the device s multi-touch translucent screen, users are able to see their meal being assembled
Philips food printer Philips Food Creation#device has been inspired by the so-called molecular gastronomists. These are chefs who deconstruct food
The food printer works with various edible ingredients and then combine and print them in the desired shape and consistency.
Yanko Design s prototype for the Electrolux Molã culaire food printer The brilliant thinkers at Yanko Design have developed a new device called the Electrolux Molã culaire,
a 3d molecular food printer that relies on the experimental molecular cooking technology. New designs for printed food The Molã culaire is based on the same layer-by-layer printing technique that arranges small particles from a set of ingredients.
Within minutes, it prints out three-dimensional desserts, complex structures, shapes for molecular dishes, and patterns for decorating a meal.
Users can also create their own recipes with special software and their own ingredients. Ambitious users can download recipes and share them with other users in an online community.#
Food printer technology is clearly a quantum leap forward. In the future, we will only be consuming food that our body has a positive reaction to.
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