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How do you learn about electricity... if there's no power?
FEEDSPORTAL Wed, 16 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT
There's an old joke about a university vice-chancellor bemoaning the cost of his physics department's expensive gear. "Why can't you be like the mathematicians?" he pleads. "All they need is pencils, paper and a wastepaper basket. And the philosophers don't even need the wastepaper basket."
WEDDINGS: James Palmenteri and Valerie Skinner
GOOGLE Tue, 15 May 2012 23:00:00 GMT
After two marriages to other people, James Palmenteri, 38, and Valerie Skinner, 35, have decided to waste their friends and family’s time, once again, this Saturday.
For Toyota, JPMorgan, And State Farm, Arizona Is The Silicon Valley Of Data Security
FASTCOMPANY Mon, 14 May 2012 20:24:09 EST
In the Phoenix metro area, sprawling data centers and fraud-prevention companies bloom like the cacti and agaves of a growing tech ecosphere. UNITED STATES OF INNOVATION New Ideas, New Markets, New Insights All around the country, Americans are dreaming big. Their boldest ideas are changing their communities--and having a ripple effect throughout the world. CLICK HERE to read about pockets of innovation in other U.S. cities. In the desert, only the hardiest plants and animals survive. They develop spines and foul smells to ward off water thieves, and poisons to cut down competition. They hunker down, specialize, and waste nothing. You could say the same about startups in Arizona. Here, thanks to some auspicious geography, sprawling data centers and fraud-prevention companies bloom like the cacti and agaves of a growing tech ecosphere. Phoenix’s tech scene in particular is beginning to coalesce. Household names like LifeLock, Go Daddy, and iCrossing (all........
Trashed - Trailer
APPLE Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 PST
Trashed - No Place For Waste looks at the risks to the food chain and the environment through pollution of our air, land and sea by waste. The film reveals surprising truths about very immediate and potent dangers to our health. It is a global conversation from Iceland to Indonesia between the film star Jeremy Irons and scientists, politicians and ordinary individuals whose health and livelihoods have been fundamentally affected by waste pollution. Visually and emotionally the film is both horrific and beautiful: an interplay of human interest and political wake-up call. But it ends on a message of hope: showing how the risks to our survival can easily be averted through sustainable approaches that provide far more employment than the current 'waste industry.'
Kickstarter for ambitious-looking République still $200,000 shy with two days left
APPOLICIOUS Wed, 09 May 2012 12:48:00 GMT
Crowd-sourced fundraising service Kickstarter has received a lot of attention from the video game world of late, after the huge success of a pair of notable game projects: Double Fine Adventure and Wasteland 2.
CORRECTED: EXCLUSIVE : U.S. shale causes rise in waste gas pollution
REUTERS Thu, 03 May 2012 17:15:33 GMT
LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. shale energy boom is fuelling a rise in the burning of waste gas after years of decline, a World Bank source told Reuters ahead of the release of new data, giving environmentalists more ammunition against the industry.
Heavy rains affecting water quality at UK beaches
GUARDIAN Thu, 03 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT
One-third of beaches fail water tests due to contamination from overflowing sewers and run-off from farms or city streets Heavy recent rains are flushing raw sewage into coastal waters, ruining the water quality at popular beaches around the UK just as the bathing season begins, according to the Marine Conservation Society (MCS). As it publishes its 2012 Good Beach Guide on Thursday, the MCS reveals that one-third of the 750 beaches it tested failed on water quality, due to contamination from overflowing sewers and run-off from farms or from streets, where dog waste presents a significant problem. Overall, the proportion of dirty beaches fell by 8%, which the MCS hailed as a "milestone". The south-west, north-east and Wales had the cleanest coasts, with 80% of beaches passing faecal bacteria tests, while Scotland (40%) and the north-west (20%) had the fewest clean bathing spots. The MCS warning that downpours are harming beaches comes as 13 flood warnings remain in place,.......
'Shameful' plastic waste to be tackled by government
GUARDIAN Thu, 03 May 2012 10:38:05 GMT
Lord Taylor reveals Defra is considering agreement with councils to drive plastic recycling The government will call on councils and businesses to beef up plastic recycling capacity and better realise the financial value arising from the hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste plastics discarded each year. In a speech to be delivered at the headquarters of Recoup, a charity that promotes and supports plastic recycling initiatives, Defra minister Lord Taylor of Holbeach will argue that waste plastics represent one of the easiest and most cost-effective areas for the UK to meet its binding recycling targets. Describing the continued disposal of plastic bottles and other plastic products to landfill as "shameful", Taylor will confirm that government figures show how last year around 240,000 tonnes of plastic bottles were sent to landfill by households with access to kerbside plastic recycling collection – equivalent to nearly half of all bottles used.  He will add that the........
Tech City Should be Shut Down Claims Maverick Critic
IBTIMES Wed, 02 May 2012 11:43:14 EDT
Outspoken technology commentator Milo Yiannopoulos claims Tech City is a waste of money and the government should shut it down.
Sensor tests fruit for ripeness, cuts waste
FUTUREOFTECH.MSNBC.MSN Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:06:19 GMT
To the chagrin of Dumpster divers everywhere, grocers may soon have sensors that accurately measure fruit ripeness, helping them reduce the amount of produce they throw away due spoilage on store shelves.
Shell, Iogen scrap plans for Canada biofuel plant
REUTERS Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:15:01 GMT
(Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Iogen Corp have scrapped plans for a commercial-scale biofuel plant in Manitoba, spelling the loss of 150 jobs and raising questions about widespread and near-term use of fuel made from agricultural waste in Canada.
Zerg Rush decimates Google search
BHASKAR Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:26:27 GMT
New Delhi: If you thought you were being far too productive at work, Google’s breakaway Easter egg game literally eats away at your search results, and the battle continues as you attempt to save the page from complete destruction. Google has installed a new Easter egg to waste millions of global productivity hours. The game involves a series of letters in the company’s name attacking en masse the search results. A green bar appears of the target the letters are attacking, and it is the users’ job to click rapidly on each attacking letter before the bar drops down to red. The faster you click, the less damage the search results take. Once you are done, you have the opportunity to post your score to Google+. The name stems from a “rush”, where forces suddenly attack an opponent in the hope of overrunning the player. The full name of the Easter egg is a hat-tip to the Zergs, an alien race in the strategy game Star Craft. But Google may have inadvertently advertised a rival........
Internet: a web for the world | Editorial
GUARDIAN Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:04:20 GMT
For now this must be a battle between philosophies. It must be a web not for the consumer, but for the citizen The chance to construct a new society is the stuff of dreamers and proselytisers. It is centuries since every readily habitable corner of the earth was populated, and constructing ideal communities has been limited to model towns and Utopian settlements. Until, that is, 30 years ago when Tim Berners-Lee's world wide web conjured up a truly virgin territory. A place of almost unimaginable opportunity, it used to seem beyond doubt the web would be ruled by a spirit of shared community, a source of individual empowerment against corporate and political might. But it has become increasingly apparent that this web is under threat, and the question of how it should be governed, in whose interests, and for what purposes has become a debate of overwhelming significance. That is why this week the Guardian has been debating how best to preserve its original spirit against both......
Careful toilet-flushing is a drop in the ocean
GUARDIAN Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:34:56 GMT
Germans are way ahead of Brits when it comes to saving water domestically. But politicians avoid the big issue: agricultural use While Britain frets about the drought, Germany can't get enough of saving water. Germans are good at saving water, so good in fact that they have created a problem for their canalisation system: many pipes are clogged with grease, excrement and leftovers because they aren't being flushed sufficiently with water. Especially in the summer, gutters in German cities can reek horribly. In some parts of the country, water suppliers even have to flush their pipes artificially with hundreds of thousands of litres of water. We Germans have always been keen to be best in class when it comes to saving water. Our toilets have a special water-saver button for flushing after you have a wee, we switch off the tap when we brush our teeth, we try hard not to splash too much when we wash our cars. Last year Germany only used 124 litres of water per head per day – down...
Mystery birds: pied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta, and common greenshank, Tringa nebularia | @GrrlScientist
GUARDIAN Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:09:36 GMT
These lovely Chinese mystery birds have recently been removed from a wastebasket taxon Pied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta (center), Linnaeus, 1758, also known as the black-capped avocet, Eurasian avocet or just as the avocet; and common greenshank, Tringa nebularia (left and right; synonyms, Glottis nebularia, Totanus nebularia, Totanus nebularius and Tringa nebularia; protonym, Scolopax nebularia), Gunnerus, 1767, also known as the Eurasian greenshank, greater greenshank, or as the greenshank, photographed in the Mai Po Wetlands in the northwestern corner of Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Image: Marie-Louise Ng, 24 March 2012 (with permission, for GrrlScientist/Guardian use only) [velociraptorise]. Nikon D7000 500 mm 1/1600 f/6.3 iso:200 Question: These lovely Chinese mystery birds have recently been removed from a wastebasket taxon. Why is this taxon referred to as a "wastebasket taxon"? How did these birds get there? Can...
5 Things That Waste Your Time at Work [INFOGRAPHIC]
YAHOO Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:03:43 GMT
Aside from the time you purposefully waste at work -- checking Facebook or playing Draw Something, as the kids do -- there's a lot of other stuff that can slow you down at the office. The productivity of a "knowledge worker" (read: non-farmer) hinges on communication and the ability to locate information quickly.
Where bicycles go to die – and be reborn
GUARDIAN Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:56:04 GMT
Discarded bikes are getting a second chance at life, thanks to recycling projects that refit bikes for sale or donation to Africa Like the myth of elephant graveyards, abandoned bicycles tend to congregate, and unless they are removed they are slowly cannibalised until there is nothing left but a bent, rusting skeleton. It is interesting to imagine what leads someone to park a bike and never come back for it. Were the keys for the lock lost, or was cycling an experiment the owner chose to conclude abruptly? I've also been wondering where abandoned bikes go once they are taken away, and whether more can be done to recycle them. When a bike is discarded, its legal status lies somewhere between abandoned waste and lost property. According to Simon Castle of the Metropolitan police, in many ways an abandoned bike is no different from a dropped wallet. If a bike is left for a period of weeks, is not roadworthy (because of missing wheels, etc) or is blocking a public highway, it can..
Games: A job recruiter's new best friend?
CNN Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:43:49 EDT
Businesses that at one time might have considered gaming a major waste of time are finding that game mechanics can identify talented candidates they often overlook.
Dave Pell's NextDraft: great daily e-newsletter
BOINGBOING Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:10:28 PDT
You're probably familiar with Dave Pell's excellent Tweetage Wasteland essays about online culture that appear with some frequency at Gizmodo, NPR, and his own site. Dave recently started a terrific daily email newsletter called NextDraft, a roundup of news links (far beyond just tech) that strike him as curious, important, or freaky. As a diehard [...]
DoubleTwist adds Google Music support, gets an alarm clock app
ENGADGET Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:00:00 EDT
DoubleTwist is certainly still one of the better music management options for Android, and it just keeps improving. Two days ago the player app got an update and now it can hook into Google Music, though, it only recognizes songs that you've checked for offline access from within the Google app. An unfortunate restriction, but at least your tracks don't disappear into the ether if you prefer to play back your tunes via DoubleTwist. There's also new functionality coming to what is now less an app than an ecosystem, thanks to the just released DoubleTwist Alarm Clock. The functionality is pretty much what you'd expect -- set a time and pick a song from your DoubleTwist library to gently rouse you from your slumber (or kick your butt out of bed). The Alarm Clock is just $0.99 in the Play Market right now for the first 10,000 customers. After that it'll go up to $1.99. So don't waste any time, go download it now. Gallery: DoubleTwist Alarm Clock DoubleTwist adds Google Music........
Poop-to-power tech begins to smell reasonable
FUTUREOFTECH.MSNBC.MSN Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:00:58 GMT
Researchers have created a microbial fuel cell that can convert about 13 percent of the energy in raw sewage into electricity as it helps clean up municipal wastewater.
Nuclear waste consultation closes
BBC Fri, 23 Mar 2012 02:19:26 GMT
The consultation on UK's high-level radioactive waste comes to an end, as Cumbrian councils say whether they want talks on a repository site to go ahead.
Who really killed Hilda Murrell? | Michael Mansfield
GUARDIAN Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:27:28 GMT
New evidence about the bizarre nature of her killing lends weight to her nephew's demands for the case to be reopened Hilda Murrell was murdered in March 1984. Who killed her - and why - has already been the subject of books, plays and films, and the conviction of a man for her abduction and murder in 2005 failed to answer many of the questions surrounding her death. The reasons for this enduring enquiry are exposed at length in A Thorn In Their Side, a book being launched this week to mark the 28th anniversary of her death. The author is Hilda's nephew, Robert Green, with whom she had a close relationship and who was a commander in naval intelligence during the Falklands war. He has followed and chronicled the case meticulously. Was this just a random, bungled burglary by a lone 16-year-old - as the police would have it - or was it an operation involving several individuals on behalf of a government agency, namely the security services? The book cannot definitively answer...
Deadlight - preview
GUARDIAN Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:58:00 GMT
First Blood meets The Walking Dead in this intriguingly grim zombie platformer The world is over, pretty much. It's 1986 and some sort of cataclysmic infection has wiped out most of North America. Now an everyman survivor must reach a safe house in a bleak, crumbling Seattle as zombie-like victims emerge from the rubble and armageddon looms. This is the grimly nihilistic pitch behind Deadlight, a scrolling 2D adventure that counts First Blood, The Road and The Walking Dead among its major influences. For Raul Rubio, the CEO and creative director at developer, Tequila Works, the premise is a simple one: "We wanted to ask ourselves, if I, a normal person, were to wake up tomorrow in the apocalypse, what would I do?" At the centre of it all is Randall Wayne, a fire warden from British Columbia. "Randall is not a hero or a solder," says Rubio. "This story is not about what happened, it's not about saving the world, it's not about conspiracies. It's about a regular guy who's trying...
When the going gets tough, Weird Science fakes its empathy
ARSTECHNICA Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:05:46 GMT
After several reader requests, we've decided to bring back a small dose of Weird Science every weekend. Enjoy! It pays to accentuate the negative (at least for guys): Alternately, appearances matter. This study looked at the role of empathy for couples in committed relationships. One of the things it found was it's more important to look like you care than to get things right. In research jargon, that's "The perception of empathic effort by one's partner was more strongly linked with both men's and women's relationship satisfaction than empathic accuracy." There was a difference between the sexes: men were happiest when they connected with their partner's positive emotions, but women had the most satisfaction in their relationship when the guys accurately recognized their negative emotions. Sounds like a recipe for disappointment. Daylight Savings wastes time: Lack of sleep is never good for productivity, but some researchers figured out a rather direct impact of........
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain – review
GUARDIAN Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:04:03 GMT
Susan Cain is worried that society is too keen to promote outgoing personalities. Our reviewers – one introvert, one extrovert – take issue with her new bookThe introvert: Sara Maitland This is a very odd book. Or perhaps it is a normal book about a culture that feels very odd to me. In the world that Quiet describes, more than 30 people who dislike "mandatory group activities" fly across a continent and spend a weekend in a group for those who define themselves as "highly sensitive". They all know their Myers-Briggs personality types and are happy to write them up on a flip chart. They share bedrooms with strangers; listen to lectures and have deep and meaningful conversations at a series of collective meals. It sounds like hell to me. Cain's argument is clear and interesting, though not original: over the past century the US has moved from a "culture of character" to a "culture of personality", as social admiration has shifted from ideals of private honour to public........
NYC BOOZERS: Let The City Pay For Your Cab Home This Month
GOOGLE Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:06:40 GMT
Coming off the success of its New Year's Eve campaign against drunk driving, the Dept. of Transportation has partnered with the biggest names in booze to offer free lifts home for all 21+ party animals.  The "Safe Rides Home" campaign–supported by Guinness, Baileys and Bushmills–kicks off most appropriately on St. Patrick's Day and will last through the end of March.  DOT reps will be handing out free, prepaid debit cards and pairs of single-ride MetroCards at select points throughout the city over the next three weekends. They've raised the limit from $15 to $18 this time around and the cards are good at just about any major public transportation hub, including MTA, PATH, and NJ Transit.  Here's where you can pick up yours:  Saturday, March 17th – Irish pubs and alumni bars throughout Manhattan Thursday, March 22nd – Alumni bars in the Bay Ridge and Astoria areas Saturday, March 31st – Alumni bars throughout Manhattan To get home safe year-round, download the DOT's..
Going after Anonymous for attacks against minister a waste of time, MPs told
NEWS.YAHOO Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:07:43 GMT
OTTAWA - House of Commons technicians went on alert after online threats were made against Public Safety Minister Vic Toews; they even checked to ensure the menacing videos weren't coming from Parliament Hill.
Green Blog: On Our Radar: The Dead Zone in the Gulf
NYTIMES Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:22:10 GMT
Environmental groups say they want tougher wastewater rules to combat practices that have turned the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico into a "sewer."
iPad recycling 'is multibillion-pound opportunity for UK firms'
GUARDIAN Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:05:59 GMT
Government announces support for recycling businesses as billions of pounds worth of rare metals go to waste in UK British businesses are failing to take advantage of the massive opportunity presented by taking apart iPads, smartphones and other consumer goods to recover and recycle rare metals. The value of the precious metals, such as gold and platinum, that are currently thrown away is estimated to run to billions of pounds a year in the UK alone. At present, much of the material leaves the country to be recycled overseas in countries such as China. The government said on Friday it would make new efforts to encourage UK entrepreneurs interested in recycling, with financial support of up to £200,000 available for local companies to come up with new ways of recycling precious metals such as gold, neodymium and iridium. At present, an estimated 75% of the gold that is used in the production of consumer goods each year is lost through traditional recycling........
Indonesia presses UK over waste
BBC Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:14:15 GMT
Indonesia has asked the UK to take back 1,800 tonnes of suspected contaminated waste, the Environment Agency reveals.
WOW sale 'a waste of time' say customers
COURIERMAIL Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:22:35 GMT
THERE were big crowds but the bargains were as scarce as car parks when troubled electronics retailer WOW threw open its doors for a closing down sale today.
Obama makes southern truck stop and pushes for $1bn green tax credits
GUARDIAN Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:22:11 GMT
President pushed a energy-efficient auto agenda in North Carolina truck factory – his third speech on cars in three weeks Another week, another car talk. Barack Obama stopped by a North Carolina truck factory on Wednesday to announce $1bn in tax credits and grants for alternative-energy cars and trucks. It was Obama's third speech on cars and fuel in an election battleground state in three weeks. The president has traveled from New Hampshire to Florida and now North Carolina to insulate himself from Republican attacks on rising gas prices and the on-again, off-again Keystone XL tar sand pipeline ahead of the general election. "We can't just keep on relying on the old ways of doing business. We can't just rely on fossil fuels from the last century. We've got to continually develop new sources of energy," Obama said in his speech at the Daimler truck plant in Mount Holly North Carolina. The White House, briefing reporters on the plane and through a factsheet emailed out before....
What's on David Cameron's iPad?
GUARDIAN Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:37:02 GMT
The prime minister's new, specially customised tablet computer reportedly cost £20,000 – what kind of apps do you get for that much money? David Cameron is about to take delivery of a specially programmed prime ministerial iPad, reportedly at a cost of £20,000 (3G contract not included). An iPad devotee already – he uses it to catch up on episodes of The Killing while travelling – Cameron will now be able to keep tabs on polling data, market fluctuations, unemployment figures, crime statistics and news feeds, all with the sweep of a finger across a special dashboard. Of course, much of this information is already available to any iPad owner with time on his or her hands, which is perhaps why the Taxpayers' Alliance described the new toy as "both a distraction and a waste of money". And while some of the software may eventually benefit other cabinet ministers, it's difficult to see how even the PM's particular requirements could stretch to £20,000 worth of apps. What could be on..
William Leith: 'Where did 2011 go? Why does time speed up?'
GUARDIAN Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:02:04 GMT
Time is the enemy, says the writer and journalist. You sense it slipping away just when you need it most … Read the interview with David Bainbridge The other day, I was having a conversation with another middle-aged man about something that had happened, in a pub, quite recently. Last spring, we thought. That sounded about right. It had been sunny. We'd been sitting at the bar. Then the thing had happened. But something was out of kilter. Things didn't quite fit. For a while, we weren't quite sure what it was. Perhaps it was the pub. But no, it wasn't the pub. Maybe the people. But it wasn't the people. We were sure about the people. So what was it? We backtracked. We searched our memories. We'd been watching a football match. We'd been discussing the prospects of various players in the World Cup. Would Fabregas make the Spanish team? Might there be a final chance for Michael Owen? That's the conversation we'd been having, before the thing happened. "So this was........
Electricity from wastewater gets a salty boost
FUTUREOFTECH.MSNBC.MSN Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:45:16 GMT
Microbes that digest wastewater in a fuel cell to produce electricity are getting a boost from a technology that could lead to wastewater treatment plants that generate electricity, instead of consuming it.
Polish report: shale gas extraction not harmful
YAHOO Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:43:58 GMT
A scientific study in Poland has found that shale gas extraction at one site produced some toxic refuse but that the waste was reused and didn't harm the environment.
Wrath of the Titans: crusading for the dreck dump
GUARDIAN Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:40:32 GMT
What better to lighten the post-Oscars gloom than a superfluous follow-up to 2010's 3D disaster Clash of the Titans? Awards season might be over for another year, but it has made way for my favourite segment of the movie calendar: the dreck dump. It's when all the films either not prestigious for the Oscars or spectacular enough to cut it among the summer blockbusters are quietly wheeled out to widespread sighs of disappointment. And nothing fits that category better than Wrath of the Titans, the unwanted sequel to an unnecessary remake remembered only for its poor 3D effects and abysmal tagline ("Titans Will Clash"). Wrath of the Titans is released next month, but what actually happens in it? Let's have a poke through its newest trailer to find out: Wrath of the Titans is set a decade after whatever was supposed to have happened in the first film, and that decade has not been a good one. Whatever fate has befallen the underworld, it's caused Sam Worthington's hair to form into..
Would an EU ban on fish discards be effective? | Leo Hickman
GUARDIAN Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:13:16 GMT
The EU is proposing a ban on fish discards, but a group of MPs says this is a 'knee-jerk reaction'. Leo Hickman, with your help, investigates. Get in touch below the line, email your views to leo.hickman@guardian.co.uk or tweet @leohickman 9.00am: A report published today by the House of Commons's Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee concludes that the European Commission's proposal for an out-right ban beginning in 2014 of "commercial" fish discards - the controversial practice of fishermen being forced to throw overboard any fish not permitted within their quota allowance - is a "knee-jerk reaction" to the problem. It argues: We strongly support the Commission's desire to minimise discarding rates. However, we are concerned that by deciding to implement a ban so swiftly and with so little scope for stakeholder engagement, the Commission risks creating a scheme that will be unworkable and will be flouted, or worse, will merely shift unwanted fish in the sea to unwanted..
Q&A with Naomi Wolf: America's nuclear future | Naomi Wolf
GUARDIAN Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:15:00 GMT
After the Fukushima disaster, Germany ditched nuclear power. So why has the US stopped worrying and learned to love nukes? This week, Naomi wrote about nuclear power, nuclear weapons and nuclear safety, as the Obama administration prepares to go ahead with a new expansion of both a civilian nuclear power program and nuclear weapons-producing facilities. Is America's nuclear industry unsafe at any size? How will the US meet emissions targets and move beyond a fossil-fuel energy economy without nuclear power, as some environmental activists have accepted is necessary? Naomi will be joining commenters for her weekly live webchat here in the discussion thread from 1pm till 2pm EST (6-7pm UK time). Commenting will be switched on then, and the thread will remain open afterwards. Nuclear power Nuclear waste Nuclear weapons United States Obama administration US politics Naomi Wolf guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights........
Scrutiny for fjord rock disposal
BBC Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:53:49 GMT
The practice of dumping millions of tonnes of waste rock from mining in deep Norwegian fjords is coming under close scrutiny from the country's scientists.
Ancient plant brought back to life after being buried by squirrels in Siberian permafrost 30,000 years ago
DAILYMAIL Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:14:52 GMT
The breakthrough means some long-gone early lifeforms could still be held in the frozen wastes - and dormant life found on planets like Mars could be revived.
Not wasteful, but unethical: why we hate crippled products
ARSTECHNICA Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:06:00 GMT
In the world of consumer electronics, it's common for companies to create a range of products that are all variations on a theme, containing slightly faster processors or a bit more memory. These products serve two important functions for their producers: they put the price of entry within reach of more consumers, and they induce those with a bit more cash to take steps up the product ladder and purchase a more expensive version. However, a study that has just been released by the Journal of Consumer Research suggests that the companies that take this tack have to be careful about how they go about things. Creating a product range by crippling an existing product can work against the company if word filters out. The study was motivated in part because of a classic example that backfired. IBM once produced a pair of laser printers that differed solely in terms of their rate of output. The lower page-per-minute version, however, actually required that IBM install a specialized.....
Could Spider-Man become a reality? Bizarre white cobweb found on nuclear waste that could have come from a 'mutant' spider
DAILYMAIL Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:05:01 GMT
In a freakish echo of the Spider-Man comic strip, workers at a U.S nuclear waste facility in South Carolina discovered the growth (pictured) on uranium last month.
RIM CEO eyes 'significant' plans for BlackBerry
IN Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:25:10 GMT
Research in Motion's Thorsten Heins plans to waste no time in his new job. The BlackBerry maker's chief executive said he will present the board with his plan for company's future in just a matter of weeks.
Nuclear Waste Panel Urges ‘Consent Based’ Approach
NYTIMES Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:20:10 GMT
With local cooperation, a commission on nuclear waste said, the government might avoid the kind of conflicts that led to the cancellation of plans to create a vast repository at Yucca Mountain.
Games review roundup: Dance Central 2, Cooking Mamas and more
GUARDIAN Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:44:49 GMT
Here's our weekly roundup of some of the games that may have slipped under your radar – such as Dance Central 2, a pair of Cooking Mamas and Hollywood Crimes 3DDance Central 2 ... Xbox Kinect; £39.99; cert 12+; Microsoft Dance Central 2 is a genuinely fun game once you manage to shed your inhibitions enough to properly get into the groove. There's an impressive array of songs to dance along to – including songs from the first game if you decide to port them over – and flash cards help you imitate the moves on screen and work out what's coming next. It's easy and fun to get into the rhythm of it, though the free style sections in which the Kinect mercilessly photographs you flailing around made me feel more than a little selfconscious. The choreography is fairly accessible and ramps up with a pleasantly challenging difficulty curve, and the training mode is excellent, letting you break down songs by individual moves to practise properly. The story mode is gloriously silly, and.....
The Global Fund - saved and wrapped in the US flag?
GUARDIAN Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:12:00 GMT
Bill Gates promises $750m for the troubled fund, its executive director quits, and a new general manager is about to arrive. The Global Fund may be revitalised, but it could look a little different Are we watching the rebirth of the troubled Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria, perhaps in a new, more US-flavoured guise? The Fund has been in the mire now for some time after revelations that some of its grants fell into corrupt hands, left short of money and unable to agree new grants to developing countries badly in need of disease-fighting programmes. There are real fears not only that countries like Zambia and Malawi will be unable to put more people on Aids drugs (which are now known also to prevent infections) but that they might even run short of cash to keep critical supplies going for those already on treatment. However, the dramatic events of the past few days suggest the Global Fund's fortunes might be on the turn as it hits its 10th anniversary. Much of this is..
Twitter is much more than social: Dorsey
IN Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:01:35 GMT
Twitter is much more than a social network and has no time to waste worrying about newcomers like Google+ as it becomes more important as an information service and builds its advertising business, co-founder Jack Dorsey said on Sunday.
NBA Junkies Rejoice! You Can Now See Box Scores For Every NBA Game Ever
GOOGLE Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:28:18 GMT
Prepare to waste hours and hours of your lives, NBA fans: you can now look out any box score from any game in NBA history on Basketball-Reference.com. The site scanned newspaper box scores from really old games, and entered other digitally. Justin Kubatko wrote a blog post about it for the site today today, and included some box scores from big games like Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game in 1962. We've been playing around with it all day, and found that it's really addicting to look up iconic games from your childhood to see what they're like in retrospect. For example, we looked up the box scores from the legendary (to us) 2001 playoff series between the Philadelphia 76ers and Toronto Raptors. We found Allen Iverson had one of the most insane stat lines you'll ever see in Game Seven of that series: 21 points on a dreadful 8/27 shooting, 16 ASSISTS, four turnovers, four rebounds, two steals, a block, and he played all 48 minutes! Try it for yourself here >> Please...
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A family's 'zero waste home'
CNN Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:57:13 GMT
Photojournalist Jeff King takes us to San Francisco to meet the Johnson family and sees their "zero waste home."
Issa: GSA waste shows bureaucratic flaws
CNN Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:48:09 GMT
House Oversight, Government Reform Committee Chair Darrell Issa reflects on the General Services Administration scandal.
Video: Cory Booker on saving neighbor from burning home
CBSNEWS Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:12:34 EDT
Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, N.J. didn't waste any time to save a woman trapped inside her burning home. Booker speaks to the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts about the incident.
Video mocks wasteful spending of tax $
CNN Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:54:39 GMT
Another video of government employees "laughing it up" on the taxpayers' dime surfaced Monday.
Government employee mocks spending
CNN Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:40:26 GMT
A video created by a government official mocks wasteful government spending at the taxpayers' expense.
Video: Report cites over-used medical tests
CBSNEWS Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:57:00 EDT
A new report says one-third of medical spending is wasted on unnecessary procedures. Dr. Jon LaPook reports on the overuse and misuse of health care.
Documentary exposes 'Government Waste'
CNN Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:40:45 GMT
Ellen Hubbard discusses "Museum of Government Waste," her documentary about the Congressional earmark process.
Turning garbage into gas puts waste to work
REUTERS Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:30:00 GMT
March 12 - An invention by Bulgarian scientists turns household rubbish into gas, potentially helping to solve the pressing environmental issue of waste processing. Jim Drury reports.
Video: Romney challenges Santorum’s debate answers
MSNBC.MSN Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:51:39 GMT
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney wasted no time today trying to capitalize on Rick Santorum’s performance in Wednesday’s debate. NBC’s Peter Alexander reports. (Nightly News)
'A vote for Santorum is a wasted one'
CNN Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:23:32 GMT
Fomrer Florida Atty. General Bill McCollum says Newt Gingrich would be leading in Florida if it weren't for Santorum.
Video: Herman Cain touts "the people" at Colbert event
CBSNEWS Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:17:40 EST
In his speech at the "Rock Me Like a Herman Cain South Cain-olina Primary Rally" at the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C., Herman Cain delivers touted his endorsement of "the people" and encourages the thousands of of young people on hand not to waste their votes.
Opting for overdraft?
CNN Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:12:47 GMT
HLN Money Expert Clark Howard explains why agreeing to your bank's overdraft charge is a waste!
Video: Fracking: Does it cause earthquakes?
CBSNEWS Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:39:42 EST
There may be a link between earthquakes and fracking due to the force of wastewater near a fault line. Debbye Turner Bell reports.
Waste site turned solar farm
CNN Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:25:37 GMT
In Hawaii, a former waste site has been turned into a solar farm. KHON reports.
'Angry Birds': Ultimate time waster?
CNN Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:19:39 GMT
CNN's Fareed Zakaria looks at how much time is spent by people playing the hit video game "Angry Birds."
Dealing with tourist waste
CNN Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:35:54 GMT
A village in Bali, Indonesia, turns tourist waste into jobs. CNN's Kristie Lu Stout reports.
South Africa's waste powers homes
REUTERS Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:11:00 GMT
Nov. 24 - Innovative project converting gas from household waste into energy gives Durban much needed electricity. Simon Hanna reports.
Video: Helping America clean up its act
MSNBC.MSN Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:18:06 GMT
Through their non-profit organization Pick Up America, Jeff Chen and Davey Rogner have been traveling across the country picking up litter and spreading a message of zero waste. NBC’s Kristen Dahlgren reports. (Nightly News)
Coal mine makes eco-friendly homes
CNN Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:45:47 GMT
Anglo American, the South African mining company, is turning its waste into homes by recycling waste gypsum into bricks.
Video: Air Force mortuary dumped remains in landfill
CBSNEWS Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:29:05 EST
News that Sgt. Scott Smith was disposed of as medical waste in a Virginia landfill is the latest startling revelation in an investigation of conduct at Dover Air Force Base's mortuary. David Martin reports.
Obama signs order to cut spending
CNN Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:45:08 GMT
President Obama signs an executive order to cut waste and promote efficient spending across the federal government.
Brockovich: Our unknown nuclear issues
CNN Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:38:44 GMT
Erin Brockovich talks about her book "Hot Water" addressing the unknown concerns of nuclear waste in the U.S.
Sen. Coburn: Tax reform needed
CNN Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:34:51 GMT
Senator Tom Coburn talks with Erin Burnett about reducing the deficit through eliminating waste and tax reform.
Plastic Bottles Get Stylish
ABCNEWS Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:52:54 GMT
Bionic Yarn turns plastic waste into reusable material.
E-Waste: Dumping on the Poor
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Asia Society's multimedia look at electronic waste shipped overseas and the toxic effect it has on places such as Guiyu, China--known as "trash town." With an interview with Michael Zhao of...

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