Category: environment
Vitamin D Council 4/13/2010 Dear Dr. Cannell: My 71 year old mother is in the hospital diagnosed with Pseudomonas pneumonia. Because she also has COPD along with years of prednisone use, her doctors have given her only a 5% chance of survival. The hospital is against patients taking any supplements without doctors orders (they kind [...]
Don Blankenship’s – Massey Coal, subject of the book “Coal River”, is the operator of a “cut and fill” mining operation in West Virginia, where the Clean Water Act’s protections for “blue line” seasonal streams are ignored by mountaintop removal — with the debris and toxic waste dumped into valleys, blue line streams, and toxic [...]
Drinking a litre of cola a day could reduce male fertility Men who drink about a litre or more of cola every day could be causing harm to their sperm, a study claims. By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent
Published: 5:57PM BST 01 Apr 2010 On average, these men’s sperm counts were almost 30 per cent lower [...]
Richard Box, an artist-in-residence at Bristol University’s physics department, was one of the first people to discover the phenomenon. He describes it below: A fluorescent tube glows when an electrical voltage is set up across it. The electric field set up inside the tube excites atoms of mercury gas, making them emit ultraviolet light. This [...]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Blume writes in the Introduction to Alcohol Can Be a Gas!: “Various prospective publishers argued that putting all of this material into one large volume might scare off readers who just want a recipe book of how to make alcohol. They said, ‘All this history and politics is [...]
"the earth is a source of life that is to be protected…" Orville Looking Horse The New Green Economy Caroline welcomes Bob Gough, secretary for Inter-Tribal Coup, and lawyer for the Lakota Sioux, indefatigable agent of Red Green Power, the development of Wind Power, allying ancient infinite Power with reverently collaborative new technology on Native [...]
Solar Dynamics Observatory Launch, Feb 11, 2010 A sun dog is a prismatic bright spot in the sky caused by sun shining through ice crystals. The Atlas V rocket exceeded the speed of sound in this layer of ice crystals, making the shock wave visible from the ground. The announcer can be heard in the [...]
Crude the Movie, an amazing story about the petroleum industry lack of willingness to take any responsible actions.
The life story and work of Nikola Tesla. Here are Some of the Electromechanical devices and principles developed by Tesla: * various devices that use rotating magnetic fields (1882) * induction motor and high frequency alternator * means for increasing the intensity of electrical oscillations * alternating current long-distance electrical transmission system (1888) * Tesla [...]
[wpvideo HYSZpHh2] International Smile For No Reason Day is coming. This will make you smile. And that will make you feel Good! Music by General Fuzz from our friends at www.limitless-one.com more information here runtime about 9 minutes
[wpvideo zMQtUssW] This demo — from Pattie Maes’ lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry — was the buzz of TED. It’s a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine “Minority Report” and then some. Pattie Maes was the key architect behind what was once called [...]
LOS ANGELES — The 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI was named Green Car of the Year Thursday, the first time a diesel has won the award presented each year at the L.A. Auto Show. The 41-mpg TDI beat out a pair of hybrids, a sporty clean-diesel sedan, and the trendy little Smart ForTwo, to take top [...]
[wpvideo EJUorn1A] “We’ve got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that in 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still be a wild system and respect for what it takes to sustain us.” Sylvia Earle Legendary ocean researcher Sylvia Earle shares astonishing images of the ocean — and [...]
Charlie Rose: A discussion about theoretical physics with Harvard professor Lisa Randall. Her book is called “Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of The Universe’s Hidden Dimensions”. A short second segment: With Harvard biology professor Edward O. Wilson. His latest book is “The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth”. total run time 56 mins.
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