Photo via the New Republic It's a widely held notion that politicians have long been in the pocket of Big Oil. And there's good reason for that perception: oil companies' huge campaign donations, vast lobbying power, and close ties to politicians have ensured that their taxes remain low , that hidden subsidies are around to provide extra funding, and that they receive preferential treatment in US energy policy. But there could be a new, ... View original post here: The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
So there really isn't anything that deep to this image. It's just a (more or less) life-sized blue whale eye. And on the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society site you can educate yourself/be mesmerized/ waste some time for a while staring at it while the entire life-sized animal scrolls across your browser window. Believe me, it's way cooler than you might think:... Read more from the original source: Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
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Image via YouTube screenshot To keep animals entertained at zoos and wildlife parks (something very important for their mental health), zookeepers often come up with rather ingenious toys that entertain both the animals and people. That's what's happened here at Durrell Wildlife Park when zoo keepers combined a camera and a treat box and gave it to a large ...
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Image via Elephant Journal We've had an influx of iPhone apps based on the Gulf oil spill , and many of them also donate proceeds to helping clean-up efforts. So what makes Puff Puff: Gulf Spill any different? It's still an app about the life post oil disaster and it donates 30% of net proceeds to ecosystem restoration in ...
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Image from Ping! What a way to meet someone new, get a bit of exercise, or just a laugh. It's ping pong, that easy going (or not) sport that anyone can play. Now, and for the next month, one hundred ping pong tables will pop up across London: in squares, pubs, Tube stations, Terminal 3 at the airport and ...
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Want to play a very whimsical game on your iPhone and know that a real tree was planted not only when you bought it but also every time you get a high score? A new game in the iTunes store promises to plant a tree for each download, and even better, the developers are planting 10 trees a day ...
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Image via Intel Video Water Wars uses a gaming platform to conduct a study on how people respond to water shortages. Intel Labs developers have ventured into combining 3D gaming with scientific research. In Water Wars, they've modeled an area of the Rio Grande in New Mexico and have created a role playing game that allows residents of that ...
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If watching the World Cup isn't satisfying your love of sport, folks in Estonia have developed a game that may give you a new itch to scratch. Recently, thirty-seven brave participants gathered on a field in the city of Tartu to compete in a record-breaking mosquito-hunting c... Read the full story on TreeHugger Go here to see the original: 400+ Bugs ...
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If watching the World Cup isn't satisfying your love of sport, folks in Estonia have developed a game that may give you a new itch to scratch. Recently, thirty-seven brave participants gathered on a field in the city of Tartu to compete in a record-breaking mosquito-hunting c... Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original post here: 400+ Bugs Killed ...
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Joseph Ford and Antoine Mairot Photographer Joseph Ford and 3D Artist Antoine Mairot turn tech into buildings, dropping a PS3 into Berlin, a classic NES and our favourite: a solar powered, glass roofed Nintendo DS. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger See more here: How the World Might Look if Our Tech Writer Jaymi was an Architect
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Image from my game as Clubby, kicking some seal hunter a$$ So the iSealClub iPhone App didn't get very far, thank goodness. A St. John's Newfoundland software engineer wanted to bring the "excitement" of a seal hunt to anyone with an iPhone, but Apple rejected it. However, if you still want to take part in a seal hunt, Edmund ...
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Photo credit Jane Haley, University of Virginia How do you get kids to understand the complexities of saving a watershed - from the ecology to the politics - and actually enjoy figuring out how to save it? By turning it into a game of course! After a long time in development, University of Virginia released a detailed simulation of ...
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The office building, going for LEED Platinum, is built on top of a brick factory from another era. It rises to the challenge. Go here to read the rest: The Centre For Green Cities At Evergreen Brickworks Demonstrates How To ...
"The stakes are very high and scientists are not the best people to deal with the social, ethical or political issues that geoengineering raises." View original here: Geoengineering is a Technical Fix for a Political Problem
