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- Akamai: How batteries could cut datacenter power billsAn approach being researched by the content delivery network provider helps reduce the grid-connected load during peak demand periods, when electricity is most expensive.
- Mall pilots fast electric vehicle charger powered by solar panelsThe installation at Simon Property Group's site in Carmel, Indiana, also includes an integrated battery for storing the electricity.
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- Cell Phones for Seniors: Stay Independent, Stay SafeGPS is a must in any cell phone for seniors. It’ll help them get their bearings when they’re lost via GPS navigation and maps and it’ll help you (or emergency services). Cell Phones for Seniors
- HTC One Review: Top Of The Premium Pops?UPDATE: After spending an extensive amount of time with the HTC One we have added our thoughts regarding the handset’s battery life. Click here to find out what we reckon. The HTC One is the latest Android handset from the Taiwanese manufacturer and is aimed firmly at the flagship end of the market, featuring a … Continue reading HTC One Review: Top Of The P […]
- Motorola Moto G Complete GuideGot a Motorola Moto G but not sure how to do something on it? Not to worry as we’ve come up with a comprehensive guide for all the things your handset is capable of doing. Navigate using the links below or download the full guide by clicking on the PDF logo. If you can’t find … Continue reading Motorola Moto G Complete Guide →
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- Sony Xperia Z1 Compact Complete GuideHave you got yourself a Sony Xperia Z1 Compact but not sure how to do something on it? Don’t worry, we’ve come up with a comprehensive guide for all the things your handset is capable of. Navigate the various sections using the links below. If you can’t find what you’re looking for just leave a … Continue reading Sony Xperia Z1 Compact Complete Guide → […]
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- ‘Younger’ Is the Perfect Show to Usher Us Out of TV’s Horrible Pandemic EraNicole Rivelli/2021 ViacomCBS, IncThis is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here.This week:Have we maybe, finally, reached a time when our favorite TV series don’t feel the social responsibility to aw […]
- Just Getting Into College Is Almost a Full-Time JobPhoto Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photo via GettyIn “Breaking Home Ties,” the cover that he painted for the Sept. 25, 1954 Saturday Evening Post, Norman Rockwell went out of his way to capture the anxiety that a family experienced when a son or daughter gained admission to college. “Breaking Home Ties” shows a son and father, along with the family dog, […]
- ‘In the Earth’ Is the First Must-See COVID Horror MovieNeonNature can be neither opposed nor fled in In the Earth, which—following last year’s misbegotten Rebecca, that never fit his gonzo sensibilities—returns writer/director Ben Wheatley to the hallucinatory strobe-lit horror insanity of his 2014 gem A Field in England. A stripped-down genre affair shot during quarantine and infused with deeply rooted pandemic […]
- Pierre A. Bernard Was Yoga’s First Star Guru. Then a Sex Scandal Led to Jail.Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos Public DomainThe NYPD was shocked by several things they saw during their morning raid on the building on W. 74th St., but one thing particularly scandalized them: the women inside were wearing tights. The police captain confirmed the sighting to the New-York Tribune, which said that “two of his men saw the tigh […]
- Joaquin Phoenix Really Wants You to Watch This Documentary About a Lovable PigNEONLifelong vegetarian Viktor Kossakovsky has harbored a sincere curiosity with all living beings in his proximity. The established Russian documentarian fondly remembers a childhood outdoors in touch with local fauna.“I started to take photos of animals in the forest when I was a kid: birds, dogs, cats, flies, and even ants,” he tells The Daily Beast via v […]
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- What the Hell Is [Redacted] Doing in a Marvel Show?This week’s surprise The Falcon and the Winter Soldier cameo, explained.
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- Biden Stalls About Removing One of Trump’s Cruelest PoliciesThe president broke a campaign promise to admit more refugees—then immediately tried to walk it back.
- The Hard-Fought Award for the Most Irresponsible Vaccine Coverage Goes To …Just impressively terrible.
- The Political Media Is Having a “Gotta Hear Both Sides” RelapseThe Beltway hive mind's worst pre-Trump habits have already reappeared, some critics say.
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- Family-sized Solar Car to Race in World Solar ChallengeBattery Technology | Electric Cars | Solar Power | TransportationSolar Team Great Britain has started a kickstarter page to help fund their design for entry in the 2017 World Solar Challenge. Founder Steven Heape leads a team of volunteers from many different disciplines, companies and universities working on a family-sized solar car to compete in the cruise […]
- The Spherical Sun Power GeneratorEnergy Inventions | Future Technology | Solar PowerGerman Architect Andre Broessel believes he has a solution that can “squeeze more juice out of the sun”, even during the night hours and in low-light regions. His company Rawlemon has created a spherical sun power generator prototype called the beta.ray. His technology will combine spherical geometry princip […]
- Hydrogen-Powered Tram Developed in ChinaFuel Cells | Hydrogen Fuel | Public Transit | TransportationIn an effort to reduce China’s harmful and plentiful greenhouse gas emissions, Chinese company Sifang (a subsidiary of China South Rail Corporation) has developed the world’s first hydrogen powered tram. The tram took two years of research and development to complete, and will be powered entirely by […]
- The WaterNest: An Eco-Friendly Floating HouseEnvironment and Sustainability | Photovoltaic Cells | Solar PowerDesigned by renowned Italian architect Giancarlo Zema and produced by EcoFloLife, the WaterNest 100 is an eco-friendly floating housing unit. The 100 square meter residential units are made of up to 98% recycled materials; including the laminate timber and aluminum hull. Skylights, balconies an […]
- Floating Solar Panels: A Viable Solution?Hydro Power | Photovoltaic Cells | Solar PowerSince 2011, French Company Ciel & Terre has been developing large-scale floating solar solutions. Their innovative Hydrelio Floating PV system allows standard PV panels to be installed on large bodies of water such as: drinking water reservoirs, quarry lakes, irrigation canals, remediation and tailing ponds, […]
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- How to take care of your hair this winterDuring cold weather, doing less to your hair will benefit it more.
- Swedish fitness trend of 'plogging' is amazingly awesomeLeave it to the Swedes to combine physical fitness with PICKING UP LITTER!
- Urbanists call for a non-aggression pact among cities competing for Amazon's HQ2They say that cities should compete on the basis of the underlying strength of their communities, not handouts.
- Marine biologist wants to make plastic straws extinct on the Great Barrier ReefNicole Nash's campaign urges tour operators and coastal resorts to ban straws completely in an effort to reduce plastic pollution.
- Building science expert says we should prepare for the coming Stucco-PocalypseWhy does anyone actually build with this stuff?
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- Unconventional takes on pandemics and nuclear defense could protect humanity from catastrophic failureFrom engineered pandemics to city-toppling cyber attacks to nuclear annihilation, life on Earth could radically change, and soon.
- Tarantula's ubiquity traced back to the cretaceousTarantulas are among the most notorious spiders, due in part to their size, vibrant colors and prevalence throughout the world. But one thing most people don't know is that tarantulas are homebodies. Females and their young rarely leave their burrows and only mature males will wander to seek out a mate. How then did such a sedentary spider come to inhab […]
- Hidden magma pools pose eruption risks that we can't yet detectVolcanologists' ability to estimate eruption risks is largely reliant on knowing where pools of magma are stored, deep in the Earth's crust. But what happens if the magma can't be spotted?
- A rich marine algal ecosystem 600 million years earlier than previously thoughtThe first photosynthetic oxygen-producing organisms on Earth were cyanobacteria. Their evolution dramatically changed the Earth allowing oxygen to accumulate into the atmosphere for the first time and further allowing the evolution of oxygen-utilizing organisms including eukaryotes. Eukaryotes include animals, but also algae, a broad group of photosynthetic […]
- Long-term consequences of CO2 emissionsAccording to a new study, the oxygen content in the oceans will continue to decrease for centuries even if all CO2 emissions would be stopped immediately. The slowdown of ocean circulation and the progressive warming of deeper water layers are responsible for this process.
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- Reclaimed timber makes up this tranquil nature retreat in VietnamVietnamese architecture firm SILAA has recently completed the Hachi Lily House, a nature-inspired retreat tucked into a pomelo tree-filled village near the city of Hue. The clients are a family who, after leaving the hustle and bustle of city living in search of a more peaceful lifestyle, asked the architects to design the home as the "base" for a […]
- The Netherlands to ban carbon-emitting delivery vehiclesThe Netherlands has launched a plan that will ban all carbon-emitting delivery vehicles in urban areas. The country has started by allowing only zero-emission delivery vehicles in 14 cities so far and has authorized all cities in the country to come up with zero-emission zones and logistics plans. The full ban is expected to go into effect by 2025.[...]
- Living near Superfund sites could shorten life expectancy by 1 yearMillions of Americans are exposed to toxic waste by living close to Superfund sites. There are more than 1,300 Superfund sites in the U.S., and a new study published in the journal Nature Communications has identified that these sites pose serious health impacts to citizens. The health risks include the potential to shorten life expectancy by one year.[...]
- How to get involved in virtual and local Earth Day eventsThe truth is we can all take steps every day to protect, honor and serve the planet. However, Earth Day, recognized this year on April 22, 2021, presents a plethora of focused ways to engage with fellow activists, environmentalists and scientists. The Earth Day Initiative in partnership with March For Science NYC consolidates your options in one online locat […]
- Noa* tucks a 3-star hotel beneath a refurbished barn in ItalyWhen Network of Architecture (noa*) was asked to expand the traditional South Tyrolean restaurant Schönblick with a new hotel, the firm knew that preserving the site’s spectacular views would be a key design objective. As a result, the architects opted against adding a new level in favor of embedding the hospitality spaces into an existing hill — a solution […]
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- Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?In 2020, the date of formation of every named storm, from Tropical Storm Arthur to Hurricane Iota was substantially earlier than normal. What is the evidence for a trend towards earlier and longer hurricane seasons? The post Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened? first appeared on RealClimate.
- Unforced Variations: Apr 2021This month’s open thread for climate science discussions. Be nice, it’s Earth month. The post Unforced Variations: Apr 2021 first appeared on RealClimate.
- A potential rule of thumb for hourly rainfall?Future global warming will be accompanied by more intense rainfall and flash floods due to increased evaporation, as a consequence of higher surface temperatures which also lead to a higher turn-around rate for the global hydrological cycle. In other words, we will see changing rainfall patterns. And if the global area of rainfall also shrinks, […] The post […]
- The Rise and Fall of the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation”Two decades ago, in an interview with science journalist Richard Kerr for the journal Science, I coined the term the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation” (AMO) to describe an internal oscillation in the climate system resulting from interactions between North Atlantic ocean currents and wind patterns. These interactions were thought to lead to alternating dec […]
- Looking for help with an electricity tax-swap ideaGuest commentary from Yoram Bauman Everyone from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to Elon Musk thinks that putting a price on carbon is an important step in tackling climate change. Politically, however, carbon taxes and cap-and-trade systems face an uphill battle, in part because they could drive up the prices of household basics like gasoline and […] The po […]
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- The Why of Value Stream ManagementIf you’re like me and have been around the block in tech more than once, you’ve seen three-letter acronyms come and go.
- Tough Threat Landscape Demands Better Data Protection for Hybrid CloudThe number of businesses migrating to the cloud is constantly growing. Hybrid cloud is now considered a standard approach by organizations of
- Secure Insight: GigaOm Partners with the CISO SeriesDon’t look now, but GigaOm, the analyst firm that enables smart businesses to future-proof their decisions, is forging new partnerships to extend
- The Time is Now for Edge ExperimentationWhat is an edge platform? In a recent report, GigaOm Radar for Edge Platforms, Analyst Chris Grundemann says the term itself remains
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- Sump Pump ProblemsThe importance of having a sump pump in the basement cannot be underestimated as it is responsible for keeping the home flood free. However, there are many sump pump problems that can occur, leaving the system vulnerable and opened to the possibility of not operating correctly. Some Common Sump Pump Problems One of the most common sump pump problems has to d […]
- Sump Pump PitDue to the fact that flooding occurs occasionally due to bad weather and natural disasters, having a good sump pump drainage system in the basement has now become a necessity. With a reliable drainage system in place, you can avoid the occurrence of flooding which usually cause unnecessary financial expenses and mental anguish to everyone in the family. A su […]
- Wayne Sump PumpsWayne sump pumps have been serving customers in the drainage system industry over the past 70 odd years. These sump pumps are durable and they protect many homes from the damage caused by flooding. There is a long line in the variety of Wayne sump pumps; from thermoplastic and cast iron to pedestal, backup and primary pump sumps to a combination of both. A W […]
- Sump Pump DrainageIf you have spoken to homeowners who have had trouble with flooding and dampness in their basement, or mildew and rot in their home, they would tell you that so many costly messes could have been avoided by having a sump pump installed in the basement. The cost of sump pump drainage system is definitely cheaper than cleaning up after water and moisture has d […]
- Zoeller Sump PumpsZoeller sump pumps is a well known brand of pumps designed to keep your property dry and protect it from water damage. When the rain pours heavily, are you one of those people who rush to the basement, worried that you would find it flooded? This is a common problem among many homeowners especially those living in flat terrains where water has nowhere else t […]
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Man Picks Up And Hurls Away Rabid Bobcat In Wild Viral Footage
The animal attacked a woman on a suburban street, prompting the man's swift action.
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Deb Haaland Scraps A Slew Of Fossil Fuel-Friendly Trump Orders
The Interior Secretary also signed an order to establish a climate task force to coordinate climate action across the massive federal agency.
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Notre Dame, Tree Killer: Centuries-Old Oaks Felled To Replace Gothic Spire
Some 40,000 people signed a petition condemning the removal of 1,000 historic oaks as “eco-cide.”
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For 25 Years, Taxpayers Picked Up Polluters’ Superfund Bill. That May Finally Change.
Fees on oil producers and petrochemical companies once funded toxic waste cleanups. Republicans let them expire in 1995. Democrats want them back.
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Killing A Cat In A Hit-And-Run Could Become Illegal In New Hampshire
“It’s a cataclysmic bill. To not pass this would be catastrophic,” one state senator told his colleagues on Tuesday.
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Man Picks Up And Hurls Away Rabid Bobcat In Wild Viral Footage
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- Sweden recycles so well it needs more trashWhen it comes to recycling, Sweden is incredibly successful. Just four percent of household waste in Sweden goes into landfills. The rest winds up either recycled or used as fuel in waste-to-energy power plants. Burning the garbage in the incinerators generates 20 percent of Sweden’s district heating, a system of distributing heat by pumping heated water int […]
- IPCC 5 in Haiku.Amazing what the bout of the flu can do. International climate scientist Gregory Johnson, who co-authored the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 5th report, which came out in September, has simplified the 2000 page preview report into 19 illustrated haiku. I feel I understand it better now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0McGUF9hc0
- Russian parliament gives amnesty to 'Arctic 30'The Greenpeace activists who spent two months in jail after a peaceful protest in the Arctic have expressed relief after the Russian parliament voted to grant them amnesty. But they also declared: “There is no amnesty for the Arctic.” The Duma today voted for an amendment that extends an amnesty decree to defendants who have been charged with hooliganism. It […]
- Increased energy efficiency in China could “strand” Australian mining projectsThe Chinese government is pushing manufacturers, and in particular, steelmakers, to be more energy efficient, reducing demand for Australian coal. Image: Johannes 'volty' Hemmerlein Rapid increases in energy efficiency in Chinese manufacturing, especially in the steel production sector, will temper demand for Australian coal exports and put billion […]
- China roars ahead with renewablesDespite being the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter, China is increasing its renewable sources of energy- Image: Fernando Tomás China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) has just released some remarkable data on the addition of new electric generating capacity in 2013. China’s electric power system has been growing at a tremendous rate to keep up wit […]
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- NASA chooses SpaceX to take humans back to MoonNASA has selected SpaceX to land the first astronauts on the surface of the Moon since 1972, the agency said Friday, in a huge victory for Elon Musk's company.
- SpaceX's next crew arrives in Florida for Earth Day launchSpaceX's most international crew of astronauts yet arrived at their launch site Friday.
- On the pulse of pulsars and polar lightFaced with the tragic loss of the Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico and the often prohibitive cost of satellite missions, astronomers are searching for savvy alternatives to continue answering fundamental questions in physics.
- A new super-Earth detected orbiting a red dwarf starIn recent years there has been an exhaustive study of red dwarf stars to find exoplanets in orbit around them. These stars have effective surface temperatures between 2400 and 3700 K (over 2000 degrees cooler than the Sun), and masses between 0.08 and 0.45 solar masses. In this context, a team of researchers led by Borja Toledo Padrón, a Severo Ochoa-La Caix […]
- Fast radio bursts shown to include lower frequency radio waves than previously detectedSince fast radio bursts (FRBs) were first discovered over a decade ago, scientists have puzzled over what could be generating these intense flashes of radio waves from outside of our galaxy. In a gradual process of elimination, the field of possible explanations has narrowed as new pieces of information are gathered about FRBs—how long they last, the frequen […]
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- Cattle-driven clearing continues in Brazil’s Triunfo do Xingu protected areaForest loss in Brazil’s lush Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area marches on, driven largely by a hunger for beef, emboldened land grabbers, and a lack of law enforcement. Triunfo do Xingu lies in the ecologically rich Xingu Basin in the Brazilian Amazon and spans some 1.7 million hectares (4.2 million acres) — an area […]
- Indigenous peoples are being shortchanged as forest guardians: ReportIndigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) play an important role in preserving the environment and ecosystems worldwide, especially forests in tropical countries, but don’t receive enough funding to carry out this work successfully, research shows. IPLCs in tropical forest countries are also receiving less in the way of financial resources from the OE […]
- Peru to establish rainforest reserve for isolated Indigenous peoplesAfter nearly twenty years of discussion, the Peruvian government has moved to establish a new Indigenous reserve for “uncontacted peoples” deep in the Amazon rainforest. Yavarí Tapiche Indigenous Reserve, which covers 1.1 million hectares (2.7 million acres) in the department of Loreto on the Peru-Brazil border, is home to Matsés, Remo, and Marubo peoples, a […]
- Brazilian Cerrado savanna: Wildcat miners descend on Indigenous reserveAn invasion of up to 5,000 illegal miners is underway in the Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Reserve in Brazil’s Roraima state, Indigenous leaders estimate. Analysts say Jair Bolsonaro’s rhetoric has emboldened the miners.
- Sharks on a knife’s edge as Maldives mulls lifting 10-year fishing banIt’s not easy to find sharks these days. Just ask Demian Chapman, a marine scientist who leads Global FinPrint, a project that assesses shark populations on reefs worldwide. But he says there is a spot where they’re often found: the Maldives, a tiny nation of islands speckled in the Indian Ocean. “The Maldives is a […]
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