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Newcastle-upon-Tyne has been named the greenest city in the U.K. in a sustainability audit conducted by Forum for the Future. Photo by Draco2008 via Flickr.com.Shrouded in smoke and the center of ship building, Newcastle-upon-Tyne was once a major industrial center. But the city has been transformed into the greenest city i (Read More)
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Image from stephaniehern.wordpress.comThe good news is that women in industrialised countries are greener than men. A new study from the United Nations confirms that we have a lower carbon footprint and are better for the world's future health. Where to start, let me count the ways... Women drive and fly much less than m (Read More)
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Little Boy Who Cried Wolf. Image credit:Straightedge Marketing.Generations of English-speaking parents have recited fables to teach their children about life. I suppose there are equivalent fables in other languages. Ones I remember the most are "The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf" (apropos for today's journalists and bloggers (Read More)
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Images via Yanko DesignlThis new invention is fascinating on just about every level--it's an mp3 player for the deaf that translates musical notes into nuanced vibrations. Holding the pillow-sized stereo against your chest, one can feel the rhythms, beats, and melodies--allowing the hearing impaired to fully enjoy music for (Read More)
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Images via Yanko DesignThis new invention is fascinating on just about every level--it's an mp3 player for the deaf that translates musical notes into nuanced vibrations. Holding the pillow-sized stereo against your chest, one can feel the rhythms, beats, and melodies--allowing the hearing impaired to fully enjoy music for (Read More)
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I've just found a classic study online where psychologist Bertram Forer gave a personality test to his students and then asked each person to rate how the accuracy of their 'individual personality profile'. In reality, all the 'individual profiles' were identical but students tended to rate the descriptions as highly accura (Read More)
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Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is one Republican who is forcefully speaking out about the importance of climate and energy legislation. He's co-authored an op-ed with Sen. John Kerry, rebuked his fellow Republicans for not seeing that a clean energy future is upon us, and made the rounds on the...Read the full story (Read More)
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Photo: Device measuring outgassing of nitrogen from desert soil (Cornell University)You may have heard of nitrogen being lost through processes such as soil erosion, but according to a new study from Cornell University, warming climates are also causing soils to lose nitrogen as a gas. Arid soils are particularly affected - (Read More)
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I've just found a curious study on whether opera fans are more accepting of suicide in the case of dishonor to one's family in real life, in light of the fact that this is a common theme in several well known stage masterpieces.It turns out that they are, and the researchers label the phenomenon the 'Madame Butterfly effect (Read More)
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photo: Drewe Zanki via flickr.New figures from the Australian Koala Foundation paint a dark picture for the future of the iconic marsupial. Just completed research shows that the current koala population is somewhere between 43,000-80,000 individuals, a decline from an estimated 100,000 in 2003, and without better conservat (Read More)
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Image credit: Saint Julia of Corsica, found on DeaconLaz.org (artist unknown)When I posed the question of whether leading by green example can be passive aggressive preaching, I was surprised when commenter Joey claimed that I had eluded that I was a "member of a religion." To me environmentalism is anything but a matter of (Read More)
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The latest issue of Wired UK has a cover feature on breaking ideas for 2010. Mind and brain innovations feature strongly and several are freely available online.I might immodestly recommend the piece on 'neurosecurity' and how researchers are having harden neural implants against hackers, as it was written by me. Regular re (Read More)
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I've discovered that if you search for "says psychologist" on Google, you get a giant avalanche of wtf. I encourage you to try it for yourself, but here are a few of the highlights, all taken from headlines of news stories.Twitter makes you dumb, says psychologistBoys have it worse, says psychologistFaith schools breed terr (Read More)
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As part of his presentation at the Creative Places and Spaces conference, David Buckland showed this silent video prepared by global engineering firm Arup. Called Infrastructure in an Ecological Age, at 30 seconds into the video it shows the transformation of a typical city (Manchester in this...Read the full story on Tree (Read More)
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Photo via MichaelJackson.com Though the footage of Michael Jackson in rehearsals for his final tour was never meant for public release, director Kenny Ortega's This Is It--now in theaters for two weeks only--has been earning solid reviews from fans and critics. But while the behind-the-scenes angle gives fans a unique persp (Read More)
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