Melting polar ice cap viewable on Google Earth

September 22, 2008

Google Earth has proven to be a helpful tool for those interested in monitoring climate change and its effect on the planet. They’ve had add-ons to their free program that show the harmful devastation to Earth in real instance, such as deforestation, climate change, air pollution and now the melting of the polar ice caps.

This downloadable software add-on shows sea ice trends, floating buoy tracks, snow cover, brightness, infrared, win, temperature, atmospheric pressure, iceberg tracks an…

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Volt video: Proof that GM’s electric car actually works

September 22, 2008

Considering GM’s track record, I definitely had reservations that the most anticipated EV would somehow dissolve and never find its way to consumers — like the EV1, ahem. And while it’s still not at the local dealership, GM pulled back the curtain last week and let the media take a good distant gander at the struggling automaker’s hope for the next century. By most accounts, things are looking pretty positive for 2010.

This week, not only do we get pictures of what the Volt will look lik…

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Rubber ducky you’re the one - to track glacial melt

September 22, 2008

As that year’s extreme Arctic ice melt puts doomsayers on high heads up, NASA scientists are resorting to some highly unorthodox methods to attempt to determine what’s going on in some of Greenland’s largest ice flows — including the rubber ducky method. Sure, rubber ducky makes bath duration lots of fun, but now he’s back and it’s not to help Sesame Street instill the virtues of personal hygiene into young children — he’s involved in some serious scientific research.

Scientists studyin…

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Safe sex toys revisited

September 8, 2008

A while back we posted about sex toys that could be cancerous. And soon after, considering we saw that you seemed to be interested in that subject, we posted about toys that were safe and where you could get them.

Like most things there is always more to learn about the safety of your sex toys, both in terms of chemicals and handling. Violet Blue is a sex columnist, blogger, author and podcaster of all things sex. (A note to parents, her site does contain some nudity, you must be 18 to en…

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A different type of ability plant

September 4, 2008

As solar technology continues to form gains in efficiency and affordability, designers are starting to take on the next challenge in the evolution of solar technology: how to invent it aesthetic, or at least inconspicuous. While many are solving that problem by integrating solar panels into poolside furniture and ladies undergarments, a consortium of designers in Japan are taking a more functional approach: solar leaves.

While they don’t seem to have the art of camouflage perfected quite …

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Technology helps turtles escape

September 3, 2008

All too often turtles are the accidental victims of commercial fishing. They get caught in the hooks, and even whether the fishermen try to release them, the traditional J-hooks do too much damage, causing internal bleeding and suffocation. The turtles just can’t survive that.

To try to help the turtles, the World Wildlife Fund is sponsoring a trial of a new kind of hook, and they are aly seeing a 90% success rate. The turtles can be safely released, and the fishermen are still able to ma…

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Catching leaks may conserve water in the lengthy run

September 2, 2008

One of the biggest challenges for water conservation is finding and repairing leaks. While a small leak may only lose a little water, by day those drips add up. And when you multiply that volume of water by the number of small leaks, you can see that we are potentially losing a huge amount of water through our water mains, even before a significant break occurs.

The city of Berkeley is taking a proactive approach with a pilot program to conserve water by identifying leaks before they surf…

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