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Betting on a Metal-Air Battery Breakthrough
Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 3:30 PM EST (Technology Review)
A spinoff from Arizona State University says it can develop a metal-air battery that dramatically outperforms the best lithium-ion batteries on the market, and now it has the funding it needs to prove it.
Building With Whole Trees
Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 2:53 PM EST (The New York Times)
ROALD GUNDERSEN, an architect who may revolutionize the building industry, shinnied up a slender white ash near his house here on a recent afternoon, hoisting himself higher and higher until the limber trunk began to bend slowly toward the forest floor...
One in five mammals threatened with extinction
Seeded on Wed Nov 4, 2009 5:31 PM EST (The Times)
A fifth of the world's known mammals, a third of amphibians and reptiles and more than two thirds of plants are threatened with extinction, according to the latest "Red List" of endangered species.
Was Ronald Reagan an Even Worse President Than George W. Bush?
Seeded on Wed Nov 4, 2009 1:51 PM EST (AlterNet.org)
There's been talk that George W. Bush was so inept that he should trademark the phrase "Worst President Ever," though some historians would bestow that title on pre-Civil War President James Buchanan. Still, a case could be made for putting Ronald Reagan in the competition...
East Texas UFO (video)
Seeded on Tue Nov 3, 2009 10:23 PM EST (kltv.com)
HALLSVILLE, TX (KLTV) - An East Texas couple saw a mysterious object in the sky. So, they decided to catch it on tape. "Michelle Hampton" is still stunned by the video she and her husband took Saturday morning around 6:00 on their back porch.
Goldstone report Alleges Hamas and Israeli War Crimes - Denounced by USA
Seeded on Tue Nov 3, 2009 11:43 AM EST (Yahoo! News)
US Congress to denounce UN report demanding credible investigation of Gaza War Crimes or prosecution in the Hague:
Deforestation the Death of Nazca Civilization
Seeded on Tue Nov 3, 2009 1:52 AM EST (Allianz)
The mystery of the disappearance of the vanished Nazca people, the same ones who are known for the many fanciful designs etched into the desert plateau, may have been solved. Scientists found pollen from a vanished nitrogen-fixing tree, the huarango.
Comet Caesar - Dark Comet in 2012?
Seeded on Mon Nov 2, 2009 9:05 PM EST (survive2012.com)
When considering what might cause us grief in 2012, few if any researchers consider the start of the Mayan Long Count calendar to have any importance. This is surprising, because the reason for the calendar beginning on August 11 3114BC might contain clues about 2012 itself.
These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll...
Seeded on Mon Nov 2, 2009 8:19 PM EST (jajjajjajjajjajja.blogspot.com)
...a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young.
WindSentinel from Catch the Wind Could Cut the Cost of Siting New Offshore Wind Turbines
Seeded on Mon Nov 2, 2009 1:29 PM EST (cleantechnica.com)
Catch the Wind Ltd. of Virginia has just announced that its new Vindicator laser wind sensor has been deployed on a specialized buoy for a field test off Race Rocks Island in British Columbia.
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