Lake McDonald wallpaper
An Early Environmentalist, Embracing New ‘Heresies’
Stewart Brand has become a heretic to environmentalism, a movement he helped found, but he doesn’t plan to be isolated for long. He expects that environmentalists will soon share his affection for nuclear power. They’ll lose their fear of population growth and start appreciating sprawling megacities. They’ll stop [...]
Archive for February, 2007
Lake McDonald wallpaper, Nuclear power debate heats up
Posted in Environment-Energy, News, Society & Culture on February 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Harp seal wallpaper, Food inspections drop as tainted food increases
Posted in Environment-wildlife, Health on February 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Harp seal pup wallpaper size
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Phocidae
Genus: Phoca
Species: P. groenlandica
They’re not known as picky eaters as they’ve been found to consume [...]
Red and green leaves wallpaper, Robot communications “evolve”, Iran facing an energy crunch
Posted in Environment-Energy, News, Science, Society & Culture, Tech on February 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Red and green leaves wallpaper
It wasn’t my plan for the week, but another nanotech-biology oriented story caught my eye, Robot swarms ‘evolve’ effective communication
Robots that artificially evolve ways to communicate with one another have been demonstrated by Swiss researchers. The experiments suggest that simulated evolution could be a useful tool for those designing of swarms [...]
Using DNA for data storage, Skull supports out-of-Africa theory
Posted in News, Science, Tech on February 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Storing Digital Data In Living Organisms
In a report scheduled for the April 9 issue of ACS’ Biotechnology Progress, a bi-monthly journal, Masaru Tomita and colleagues in Japan point out that DNA has been attracting attention as perhaps the ultimate in permanent data storage.
Data encoded in an organism’s DNA, and inherited by each new generation, could [...]
4000 year old palace discovered, Amber frog could be 25million years old
Posted in News, Science on February 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A little western snow wallpaper
4,000-Year-Old Palace Discovered In Bahrain
A Danish team of archeologists discovered in Bahrain a 4,000-year-old palace from the Dilmun period, the Bahraini Gulf Daily News reported.
The 2,033-square-yard (1,700-square-meter) palace consists of two large halls surrounded by smaller rooms. It was discovered by two archeologists from the Moesguard Museum in Denmark – Steffen [...]
