photo from Biking Toronto
I missed a remarkable and lengthy article on bike safety by Alan During in Grist, which had some very interesting statistics. As Carectomy notes, skydivers might look for a different form of commute, but bicyling is just about the safest activity you can do.
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If only Snookiepuss and Mrs. Fluffypants knew how to clean up after themselves. Keep pet-food areas neat and organized
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If things go well, we might finally see that Gphone by the middle of next year. Google is in heated talks with wireless carriers in the U.S., including Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile, (and Vodafone internationally) to carry the Gphone, reports the WSJ. Google already competes (and cooperates) with some of these carriers. [...]
It used to be that only people in the dry western part of our country had to worry about drought, and the rest of us could enjoy our lush lawns and long showers, believing that our water supply was endless.
Well, guess again. The extreme drought in the Southeast shows that no region of our country is immune to severe water shortages.
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Several things probably come to mind when you think about plants: green, life, oxygen, photosynthesis, trees – intelligence, more likely than not, is not one of them. Unless you’re Stefano Marcuso, a professor of horticulture at the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology (LINV). He runs the only lab in the world dedicated solely to showing that plants are, in fact, intelligent entities.
It all depends, of course, on your definition of intelligence. “If you define intelligence as the capacity to solve problems, plants have a lot to teach us. Not only are they ‘smart’ in how they grow, adapt and thrive, t…
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We hope that by posting on this seminal story, first encountered on the Cincinnati Enquirer, more teachers will investigate whether they, prospectively like members of the Texas Teacher’s Union, may be dependent in their old age on the perversity of pension funds invested in Chinese coal: mining, shipping, and utilities.
The thought of teacher pension funds going into Chinese coal plants is as bad, if not worse, than investing them in toys made with lead paint.
One can not possibly argue that the US should take a global lead in mitigating against climate change, regardless of what China does, and allow this situation to go without remedy.
We suppose that plenty of other climat…
Practice what you preach. That’s what Cook & Fox did when they renovated their offices in Chelsea. They went for LEED Platinum in their conversion of what once was a department store dining room. According to the New York Times:
“One of the first things visitors notice when they walk into Cook & Fox is how bright and spacious they feel. Both offices were designed with open architecture and low partitions, so almost all of the desks have window views.
These spaces do not have a new-office odor. Cook & Fox filters out 85 percent of the particulate matter, so the air is much healthier than what the employees would breathe walking down Broadway. The paint, carpet and office furniture are a…
Mobile media company 4INFO has taken funding from the NBC-GE joint venture Peacock Equity and a signed a provider deal with NBC.
4INFO is the sixth Peacock Equity investment since the $250 million fund was established in April.
Under the deal, 4INFO will become NBC Universal