Posted in News, Politics, Tech on August 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Railway Yard wallpaper
With tropical storm Ernesto hopping and skipping up the southeast coast it reminds me of the two and half days that I spent a couple years ago sitting in the candle light listening to a battery powered radio as a storm raged outside. Not the worst days of my life, but the lack [...]
Posted in Environment-Energy, New Media on August 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
almost time for harvest
Zimbio is a nicely designed wiki styled research portal featuring topics from the arts to games to religion and science. It’s community driven so if you’re really into a topic you can show off you’re expertise. You don’t have to have a Ph.D to contribute something onEnergy and the Environment
Farmers to harvest [...]
Posted in Environment-Energy, Tech on August 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
LEAF LED Lamp by Herman Miller
Ht to September 2006 issue of Wired lamp featured on the NextFest page 129. I would like to do more posts on environmental-tech stuff but by and large the regular gadget sites with their inside track get to them first so I’d just be an echo. In this case while [...]
Posted in News, Science on August 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Vista Forest Road wallpaper
Just three interesting science stories that I found on the net today.
Elephants teach robots to walkÂ
While Hutchinson’s immediate goal is a better understanding of elephant locomotion, learning more about their joints and coordination should help roboticists design more agile walking robots capable of carrying large loads.
Elephants wouldn’t be great examples for ballet [...]
Posted in Environment-wildlife, Uncategorized on August 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Wolf and Snow
Petition to enforce the Federal Airborne Hunting Act
Alaska’s majestic gray wolves are in grave danger. Marksmen use low-flying planes to chase the wolves, run them to exhaustion and shoot them to death at point-blank range. More than 150 wolves have already been killed this year!
Help us Save America’s Wolves! Sign the petition below [...]
