Heatwave transformed Australian marine life

post from New Scientist - Environment on 22 July 2012 01:00:00 PM. © New Scientist - Environment

Extreme weather events will become more common as the climate warms, so conservationists must devise ways to protect ecosystems

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TED: Vinay Venkatraman: Technology crafts for the
digitally underserved - Vinay Venkatraman (2012)

post from TEDTalks (video) on 22 July 2012 10:59:19 AM. © TEDTalks (video)

Two-thirds of the world may not have access to the latest smartphone, but local electronic shops are adept at fixing older tech using low-cost parts. Vinay Venkatraman explains his work in "technology crafts," through which a mobile phone, a lunchbox and a flashlight can become a digital projector for a village school, or an alarm clock and a mouse can be melded into a medical device for local triage.

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Carl Zimmer has fun with creationists

post from Top stories on 22 July 2012 10:58:51 AM. © Top stories

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Human beings have 23 pairs of chromosomes but our closest cousins the chimpanzees have 24 pairs.

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X-ray imaging observes running batteries in
action

post from Top stories on 22 July 2012 10:39:58 AM. © Top stories

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Many electric cars run on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, an expensive, inefficient technology that accounts for more than half of the vehicle's total cost and a whole lot of weight.

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Dark energy and fate of the Universe

post from Top stories on 22 July 2012 10:33:21 AM. © Top stories

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Dark energy makes up about 70 percent of the current content of the Universe and thus holds the ultimate fate of our Universe. Several possible scenarios are possible depending on the properties of dark energy; one is that the Universe will end in a so-called big rip.

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Raging clouds, near and very, very far

post from Bad Astronomy on 22 July 2012 08:30:37 AM. © Bad Astronomy

I follow quite a few photographers on Google+, Twitter, and other social media. Why? Because this:I know, right? This ridiculously amazing picture [click to embiggen, or see an even bigger version] was taken by Randy Halverson of DakotaLapse.com, whose[...]

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and so, after much internal deliberation

post from weird things on 22 July 2012 07:38:19 AM. © weird things

As said in an older post, the current formatting of this blog has locked me into a certain posting style that can be very difficult to maintain at times, and doesn’t give me the flexibility to do some of the posts I’d like because frankly,[...]

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