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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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- Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Dunks Come Naturally; the Mean-Mugging Requires PracticeThe Milwaukee Bucks had a mixed afternoon. They built a 20-point lead against the Boston Celtics, only to see it slip away late in the fourth quarter. Game 4 had all the makings of a disappointing loss for the Bucks, but it also had Giannis Antetokounmpo, who wasn’t about to let any Milwaukee hearts go home broken. Thanks to his big plays down the stretch, t […]
- Watch Kellyanne Conway Slam CNN Anchor for Asking About Husband’s TweetsCNN anchor Dana Bash seems to have been caught off-guard when Kellyanne Conway began aggressively pushing back against what the journalist said was supposed to be a “lighthearted question.” At the end of a long interview on State of the Union, Bash asked Conway about her husband’s seeming predilection to criticize President Trump on Twitter. Specifically Bas […]
- Trump Mistakenly Claims North Korea Has Agreed to “Denuclearization”President Donald Trump took yet another shot at the media on Sunday, this time aiming his fire toward “sleepy eyes” Chuck Todd from NBC. A day after he criticized the New York Times and the Washington Post, the president was mad Sunday morning after Todd said, according to Trump, “we have given up so much in our negotiations with North Korea, and they have g […]
- Seminude Gunman Kills Four, Injures Two at Waffle House in TennesseeA Waffle House in suburban Nashville was the scene of chaos and mayhem early Sunday morning when a seminude gunman opened fire and killed four people. Two others suffered gunshot wounds in the Antioch shooting that took place at around 3:25 a.m. while another two suffered minor injuries. Police are on the hunt for the suspect who was wearing only a green jac […]
- ISIS Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 50 Outside Afghanistan Voter Registration CenterA suicide bomber struck a voter registration center in the Afghanistan capital on Sunday and killed at least 52 people. More than 100 were injured in the attack that targeted people who were waiting outside the center in Kabul. ISIS immediately claimed responsibility for what was the deadliest attack yet that seemed to specifically target preparations for th […]
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- Plants love carbon dioxide, but too much could be bad for themMost plants were expected to grow more as CO2 levels rise, but a 20-year experiment suggests that the extra CO2 is somehow stunting plant growth, which could make climate change worse
- Why climate engineers are targeting Earth’s last pristine spotsSome of the last great wildernesses are being considered as likely candidates for geoengineering. It's a sad reflection of climate failings, says Olive Heffernan
- Most UK plants will flower at once in short ‘condensed spring’Plants in the UK are set to blaze into flower virtually simultaneously, because flowering has been delayed two weeks by the unusually cold weather
- World’s biggest bird feeder will use 500 tonnes of shellfishA crucial feeding ground for migrating birds has been almost destroyed by pollution and a bad winter, but help is at hand in the form of an all-you-can-eat buffet
- A melting ice shelf can cause rapid ice loss 900 kilometres awayIf one part of an ice shelf starts to thin, it can trigger rapid ice losses in other regions as much as 900 kilometres away – contributing to sea level rise
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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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- Tiny microenvironments in the ocean hold clues to global nitrogen cycleA new study shows that nitrogen-feeding organisms exist all over the deep ocean, and not just in large oxygen-depleted 'dead zones,' changing the way we think about the delicate nitrogen cycle.
- Grassland plants react unexpectedly to high levels of carbon dioxidePlants are responding in unexpected ways to increased carbon dioxide in the air, according to a 20-year study.
- Rare earth magnet recycling is a grind -- this new process takes a simpler approachA new recycling process turns discarded hard disk drive magnets into new magnet material in a few steps, and tackles both the economic and environmental issues typically associated with mining e-waste for valuable materials.
- Soil metals linked with cancer mortalityEpidemiologists and geologists have found associations between esophageal cancer and soils where lead is abundant, lung cancer and terrains with increased copper content, brain tumor with areas rich in arsenic, and bladder cancer with high cadmium levels. These statistical links do not indicate that there is a cause-effect relationship between soil type and […]
- New DNA screening reveals whose blood the vampire bat is drinkingThe vampire bat prefers to feed on domestic animals such as cows and pigs. When it does so, there is a risk of transmission of pathogens. Now, a new study describes a new DNA method to efficiently screen many vampire bat blood meal and fecal samples with a high success rate and thereby determine which animals the vampire bats have fed on blood from.
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- The Cornelia tiny house is a peaceful writer's studio built with reclaimed woodOne of the best things to come from the tiny home trend is the peace of living in a quiet atmosphere - which is especially important for writers. At the request of renowned children's author Cornelia Funke, New Frontier Tiny Homes created The Cornelia — which is just 24 feet in length and 8.5 feet wide. Funke's tiny house is a serene three-in-one s […]
- The Ocean Cleanup is about to send a giant plastic collector to the Great Pacific Garbage PatchThe Great Pacific Garbage Patch is growing at an alarming rate — and it's already three times the size of France. Fortunately, help is on the way: new images show that The Ocean Cleanup is building an innovative plastic-scooping system in Alameda, CA, and they're planning to launch it as early as this summer.[...]
- This new 3D-printed house was built by a portable robot in just 48 hoursThere are a lot of 3D-printed houses popping up these days, but this is the first time an architect with the renown of Massimiliano Locatelli of CLS Architetti and Arup has tackled one. Built out of a special quick-drying mortar, the 1,076-square-foot house was constructed in just 48 hours. Locatelli envisions 3D printing as the housing of the future - and t […]
- Evaporative off-grid toilets don't need plumbing, water or electricity2.6 billion people around the planet don't have access to safe toilets. Not only does this impact health, but empowerment as well: women and girls "face high rates of violence when they don't have access to safe and dignified sanitation," according to protein biochemist and entrepreneur Diana Yousef, CEO of change:WATER Labs. She's w […]
- Bottlenose dolphins spotted in Canadian Pacific waters for the first timeBottlenose dolphins typically reside in tropical or warm-temperate waters around the world — but researchers recently glimpsed a group of around 200 of the dolphins and around 70 false killer whales off northern Vancouver Island's west coast in Canada. They said this sighting is "the only occurrence of common bottlenose dolphins recorded in Canadia […]
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- When Boycotts Work: A Guide To The Facebook/Cambridge Analytica ScandalIf Mark Zuckerberg wants to salvage Facebook's reputation, he should probably start at the top: Trump, Russia, the 2016 elections and Cambridge Analytica all intersect with Facebook board member Peter Thiel.
- Harnessing Innovation in the World’s Startup NationA country with a population of less than 9 million people and a land mass smaller than the U.S. state of Vermont, Israel has become the go-to place for disruptive technology that can answer some of the world’s biggest social and environmental challenges.
- Has Deregulation Allowed Texas to Be More Sustainable?Deregulating the energy market has also been a huge factor in motivating energy companies to develop newer and more affordable forms of energy.
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of CSR"CSR 2020: Experts Look Ahead" collates insights from thought leaders on topics such as employee engagement, human social responsibility, shared value, impact measurement, and the SDGs.
- DOE’s Rick Perry is White House’s Unlikely Advocate for Clean Energy IncubatorARPA-E is the U.S. Energy Department's flagship incubator for cutting-edge answers to big technological problems. It also seems to be continuously on President Trump's chopping block. But the program has an odd advocate for its survival: Rick Perry, who was appointed as Energy Department chief after he admitted that he would kill the program if he […]
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- The Silurian HypothesisOne of the benefits of working for NASA is that the enormous range of science the agency covers – from satellite records for the present day, to exoplanet climates, from early Mars and deep time on Earth to the far future – and the opportunity to think ‘big’. This week sees the publication of a […]
- Stronger evidence for a weaker Atlantic overturning circulationThrough two new studies in Nature, the weakening of the Gulf Stream System is back in the scientific headlines. But even before that, interesting new papers have been published – high time for an update on this topic. Let’s start with tomorrow’s issue of Nature, which besides the two new studies (one of which I […]
- Harde TimesReaders may recall a post a year ago about a nonsense paper by that appeared in Global and Planetary Change. We reported too on the crowd-sourced rebuttal led by that was published last October. Now comes by three members of the Editorial Board (Martin Grosjean, Joel Guiot and Zicheng Yu) reporting on what the circumstances […]
- Unforced Variations: Apr 2018This month’s open thread for general climate science discussions.
- Alsup asks for answersSome of you might have read about the lawsuit by a number of municipalities (including San Francisco and Oakland) against the major oil companies for damages (related primarily to sea level rise) caused by anthropogenic climate change. The legal details on standing, jurisdiction, etc. are all very interesting (follow @ColumbiaClimate for those details), but […]
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- When is a startup pitch not a pitch? Retrospective thoughts on TechPitch 4.5This week I was lucky enough to be a judge at the most recent TechPitch 4.5 event in London. I say lucky…
- Voices in AI – Episode 42: A Conversation with Jem DaviesIn this episode, Byron and Jem discuss machine learning, privacy, ethics, and Moore’s law. Byron Reese: Hello, this is “Voices in AI,”…
- Voices in AI – Episode 41: A Conversation with Rand HindiIn this episode, Byron and Rand discuss intelligence, AGI, consciousness and more. Byron Reese: This is “Voices in AI” brought to you…
- Voices in AI – Episode 40: A Conversation with Dennis LaudickIn this episode Byron and Dennis discuss machine learning. Byron Reese: This is “Voices in AI,” brought to you by GigaOm. I’m…
- Voices in AI – Episode 39: A Conversation with David BrinIn this episode Byron and David discuss intelligence, consciousness, Moore’s Law, and an AI crisis. Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI…
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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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- US Army has focused effort to replace Abrams and Bradley with tests by 2019 and deployments by 2025
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- Trump Celebrates Earth Day By Praising Rollback Of Environmental ProtectionsThe president's dubious logic on conservation is being called out on Twitter.
- This Year, Earth Day Is On Nov. 6Those of us who care about the environment need to get to the polls.
- Apocalypse How? What Novels Screw Up About Climate ChangeWe're obsessed with grim environmental tales, but most of them miss the point.
- Michael Bloomberg Accuses Scott Pruitt Of Abandoning The Environment '100 Percent'"To debunk science and walk away from it is ridiculous," the former mayor said.
- How To Raise Kids Who Care About The EnvironmentIn honor of Earth Day, we asked parents and conservationists for their advice.
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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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- Open destruction in the Colombian Amazon after FARC’s exitCAQUETÁ DEPARTMENT, Colombia — The Amazon is one of the first victims of peace with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). As predicted, the process of disarmament has caused the disappearance of hundreds of hectares of forest in the area where the anti-government guerrilla group historically practiced environmental “authority.” In La Novia, a to […]
- Save intact forests for humanity’s sake, urge expertsThe world’s largest forests can help solve some of the biggest problems facing humanity, but only if we move to safeguard them, argue two experts in a New York Times op-ed published ahead of Earth Day. Tom Lovejoy, a distinguished Amazon rainforest researcher who serves as Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation, and John […]
- Fish tales: Six amazing journeys to celebrate World Fish Migration DayTomorrow, April 21, marks World Fish Migration Day. Many animal species make lengthy migrations as one-time or annual portions of their life cycle. Whereas journeys by birds between North and South America and large mammals across Africa’s Serengeti are highly visible, the migrations of countless fish, often over great distances and across disparate habitats […]
- Scientists discover carbon ‘fingerprint’ in tree ringsAs they grow, trees and other plants take carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere and, through photosynthesis, use it to build their tissues by converting it to a type of sugar called glucose. This process plays a critical role in our planet’s food systems and, increasingly, in international plans to stymie climate change such […]
- Bid to protect indigenous Indonesians hit by ministry’s doubts over rights billJAKARTA — The Indonesian government looks poised to derail a long-awaited bill on the rights of the country’s indigenous groups, calling it “not a necessity” and saying it will only trigger new problems. The bill, a perennial priority for legislation for several years, is meant to be the follow-up to a landmark constitutional ruling in […]
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