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China: biggest polluter or clean energy leader?
13 hours ago
by Suzanne Leung
I came across a cool photo slide show today in the NY Times featuring Applied Materials’ massive solar energy research lab in Xian, China. It’s fascinating to see how China’s full-throttle economy has simultaneously created staggering pollution problems as well as tremendous clean energy innovations ...
Absolutely Fobulous - absolutelyfobulous.com · Rank: 166,231 ·  11 references
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Top 5 Uses for Nuclear Energy That Would Be Awesome If They Were Real
17 hours ago
by Alex James
Yeah yeah, I know. Nuclear energy is way more complicated than Hollywood would have us believe. According to movies and the Department of Homeland Security, nuclear energy can be used to do just about anything, and your average ten year-old is fully capable of building one of those nifty Soviet-era ...
State of Affairs - state-of-affairs.com · 12 references
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"If I could put time in a bottle..."
19 hours ago
by Rob
Friday - 19 March 2010 It's my 9/80 Friday off. Amen. Last night, SaraRules and I watched Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. In it, former jewel thief John Robie is the prime suspect in a rash of high-dollar thefts. In order to clear his name, Robie has to figu ...
The Gospel According to ... - shadorunr.livejournal.com · 21 references
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“If I could save time in a bottle…”
19 hours ago
by Rob
Friday – 19 March 2010 It’s my 9/80 Friday off. Amen. Last night, SaraRules and I watched Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. In it, former jewel thief John Robie is the prime suspect in a rash of high-dollar thefts. In order to clear his name, Robie has to figu ...
Random Access - blog.echopulse.net · Rank: 76,775 · 4 references
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Rural Teledensity touches 21.19%
19 hours ago
by gscurrentaffairs
The Government has taken various measures to provide telecom facilities in rural areas of the country. As a result, the rural teledensity has become 21.19% as on December, 2009 against the target of 4% teledensity in rural areas by 2010. To spread the reach of telecom connectivity, more than 5.6 lak ...
Gs Current Affairs - gscurrentaffairs.com
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Orang-utans can swim – we’ve got pictures to prove it
19 hours ago
by Kent
Orang-utans normally steer clear of water. In the wild they rarely go near rivers and lakes, to avoid the crocodiles and snakes that lurk there. So it came as a surprise to conservationists when a group of orphaned orang-utans that had been relocated to Kaja Island in Borneo started getting wet for ...
OK4me2 - ok4me2.net · Rank: 51,146 · 11 references
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The Big Bang: Solid Theory, But Mysteries Remain
19 hours ago
by Kent
This graphic shows a timeline of the universe based on the Big Bang theory and inflation models. Credit: NASA/WMAP The Big Bang was the beginning of the universe as we know it, most scientists say. But was it the first beginning, and will it be the last? A popular picture of the early universe imagi ...
OK4me2 - ok4me2.net · Rank: 51,146 · 11 references
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