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Live Science.com
Jeanna Bryner
Senior Writer
May 19, 2008
The dire situations in cyclone-battered Myanmar and quake-tossed southwestern China and the impulse of many to offer relief have a lot to do with human nature. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors likely did it, and non-human primates do it.
MAY 2008
Silicon Valley Watcher
Tom Foremski
May 19, 2008
Monday morning I was down in Mountain View at the Googleplex, GOOG's HQ for a briefing on new search initiatives and to find out about Google Health - a potentially wonderful and problematic service.
...GOOG is very excited by image search because there are about 100 billion photos taken every year and Google loves new content (after all why go back to the Internet if there is nothing new?)
TimesOnline
David Charter, Europe Correspondent
May 24, 2008
Tourists heading to the tropics were warned yesterday that their suntan lotion can kill off one of the main attractions of their holiday - the colourful corals that thrive in warmer waters. Residues from sunscreens that wash off in the sea were shown by researchers to cause coral bleaching, a condition that leads to the death of the organism and the collapse of delicate ocean eco-systems.
"There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record."
- Vannevar BushReuters
May 25, 2008
Ten U.S. states, from California in the West to New Jersey and Pennsylvania on the eastern seaboard, offer incentives including grants and tax credits for solar panel installation under policies seeking a shift to renewable energies.
Power utilities such as Arizona Public Service, the principal subsidiary of Pinnacle West Capital Corp, is among utilities in several U.S. states that offer subsidies to consumers planning to meet their own power needs, so as to ease demand for a growing on-grid customer base.
Competing search engines offer different takes on U.S. holiday
World Net Daily
Joe Kovacs
May 26, 2008
Internet giant Google is again coming under fire for its apparent snub of Memorial Day, but the company's biggest competition, Yahoo, displayed a holiday-oriented logo featuring military dog tags and a purple heart.
"It's Memorial Day, the day Americans honor those who have served and given their lives in defense of our freedom.
AP - The Tampa Tribune online - www.TBO.com
Judith Kohler
AP - The Tampa Tribune online (www.TBO.com)
May 27, 2008
Climate change is increasing the risk of U.S. crop failures, depleting the nation's water resources and contributing to outbreaks of invasive species and insects, according to a federal report released Tuesday.
Those and other problems for the U.S. livestock and forestry industries will persist for at least the next 25 years, said the report compiled by 38 scientists for use by water and land managers.
Live Coverage of All Things Digital 6
Valleywag.com
Owen Thomas
May 28, 2008
...Yet Murdoch argued that he bought the Wall Street Journal because he was attached to news, not newspapers, and talked of delivering customized wireless alerts — just the sort of thing a mogul says at these conferences to seem passably clever, but he pulled it off.
What he is not attached to is journalism as it is practiced today. Today's reporters have brains overflowing with rules and rubrics, archaic practices that isolate them from the notion of writing interesting stories. Write for readers, not the Pulitzer Prize committee, Murdoch said.
New York AG Says Company Profited From Individuals That May Have Been Tortured or Executed in China
ABC News
By RICHARD ESPOSITO and ANNA SCHECTER
May 29, 2008
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says the company that has made millions of dollars with U.S. exhibitions of plasticized human bodies used "the remains of individuals that may have been tortured and executed in China."
In announcing what he called the "grim reality" of an official investigation triggered by an ABC News "20/20" report, Cuomo said the company, Premier Exhibitions, "despite repeated denials...had no way of knowing the true source of their human exhibits and no meaningful documentation to support their claims that the bodies had been donated for such a use."
Treasury chief also says no 'quick fix' on oil prices; courts Arab wealth funds
By Lisa Twaronite
MarketWatch
June 1, 2008
Leaders of Gulf oil producing states told U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson that abandoning their currency pegs to the U.S. dollar will not solve their inflation problems, according to published reports Sunday.
Speaking in Qatar on a trip to that nation, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Paulson said leaders in the region have "quite an awareness that the peg does not influence inflation to a significant degree," according to Reuters.
"They recognize that inflation is the overriding issue ... Ending the peg is not the solution to the inflation problem," the Treasury Secretary was quoted as saying.
Beginning JUNE 2008
Last hairs can be duplicated many times over
The Times Online
By David Rose
June 2, 2008
Millions of men and women who suffer from premature baldness or hair loss could soon be able to regain their original lustrous locks - by cloning their remaining hair in the laboratory, research suggests.
The new technique, known as “follicular cell implantation”, has already shown positive results in continuing clinical trials on human beings. The work, being carried out by a British team, is being hailed as a major advance in hair restoration and is backed by a £1.9 million government grant.
NY Times
By MIGUEL HELFT
June 2, 2008
If Google were the United States government, the data that streams onto Nicholas Fox’s laptop every day would be classified as top secret.
Mr. Fox is among a small group of Google employees who keep a watchful eye on the vital signs of one of the most successful and profitable businesses on the Internet. The number of searches and clicks, the rate at which users click on ads, the revenue this generates — everything is tracked hour by hour, compared with the data from a week earlier and charted.
“You can see very, very quickly if anything is amiss,” said Mr. Fox, director of business product management at Google.
Mr. Fox and his “ads quality” team can also quickly see whether something is working particularly well. His group’s mission, to constantly fine-tune Google’s ad delivery system, has one overriding objective: show users only the ads they are most likely to be interested in and click on.
A ranking of the top 50 innovators leading Hollywood's march online
By Andrew Wallenstein and Matthew Belloni
The Hollywood Reporter
June 3, 2008
...The Hollywood Reporter's first Digital Power issue highlights the individuals and companies plotting the course for content on emerging digital platforms. We've profiled the gatekeepers at the Web portals, the top execs reshaping the online distribution landscape and the stewards reinventing brands we already know -- and creating new ones for the digital era.
Think of this as an informed snapshot of the people and businesses shepherding this nascent corner of entertainment, based on interviews with dozens of industry insiders and THR research. We've broken down the issue into the Digital Power list, which profiles the 50 people most influencing the creation and distribution of content online, as well as a series of digital showcases -- a quick reference guide of leading companies in a handful of digital media categories.
"Digital" gets thrown around a lot these days. But for this issue, the word means online content, not DVD or mobile technology or marketing or ad sales, all of which merit lists of their own. Same goes for music and console video games...
Click here to go straight to the rankings.
Resveratrol, substance found in red wine, benefits health
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By DAVID HO
June 3, 2008
Is 90 the new 50?
Not yet, aging researchers say, but medical breakthroughs to significantly extend life and ease the ailments of getting older are closer than many people think.
"The general public has no idea what's coming," said David Sinclair, a Harvard Medical School professor who has made headlines with research into the health benefits of a substance found in red wine called resveratrol.
Speaking on a panel of aging experts, Sinclair had the boldest predictions. He said scientists can greatly increase longevity and improve health in lab animals like mice, and that drugs to benefit people are on the way...
A catastrophic water shortage could prove an even bigger threat to mankind this century than soaring food prices and the relentless exhaustion of energy reserves, according to a panel of global experts at the Goldman Sachs "Top Five Risks" conference...
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Telegraph.co.uk
June 6, 2008
Nicholas (Lord) Stern, author of the Government's Stern Review on the economics of climate change, warned that underground aquifers could run dry at the same time as melting glaciers play havoc with fresh supplies of usable water...
FDA, ADA Conspiracy to Poison Children with Toxic Mercury Fillings Exposed in Groundbreaking Lawsuit
NaturalNews.com
By Mike Adams
June 5, 2008
The FDA has, for decades, ridiculously insisted that mercury fillings pose no health threat whatsoever to children. While dismissing hundreds of studies showing a clear link between mercury amalgam fillings ("silver fillings") and disastrous neurological effects in the human body, the FDA denied the truth about mercury and effectively protected the mercury filling racket that has brought so much harm to so many people.
For over a hundred years, a cabal of "mercury mongers" made up of the American Dental Association, mercury filling manufacturers and indignant dentists have reaped windfall profits by implanting toxic fillings into the mouths of children, all while insisting that mercury -- one of the most toxic heavy metals known to modern science -- posed no health threat whatsoever.
Today, that reign of toxicity is about to end...
NaturalNews.com
by: David Gutierrez
June 7, 2008
A new combination of nano and solar technology has made it possible for solar electric generation to be cheaper than burning coal. Nanosolar, Inc. has developed a way to produce a type of ink that absorbs solar radiation and converts into electric current. Photovoltaic (PV) sheets are produced by a machine similar to a printing press, which rolls out the PV ink onto sheets approximately the width of aluminum foil. These PV sheets can be produced at a rate of hundreds of feet per minute.
"It's 100 times thinner than existing solar panels, and we can deposit the semiconductors 100 times faster," said Nanosolar's cofounder and chief executive officer, R. Martin Roscheisen. "It's a combination that drives down costs dramatically."...
The Wall Street Journal
Business Techology
June 10, 2008
The behind-the-scenes workings of the Internet rarely get much attention. But as the maps show, it’s basically one big construction project. The telecommunications companies and other organizations that operate the insides of the Internet have added so much equipment that there are now five times as many roads and ramps as there were a decade ago.
The behind-the-scenes workings of the Internet rarely get much attention. But as the maps show, it’s basically one big construction project. The telecommunications companies and other organizations that operate the insides of the Internet have added so much equipment that there are now five times as many roads and ramps as there were a decade ago...
