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Baby girls of larger than average length and weight at birth are at increased risk of breast cancer, analysis suggests.

Posted on September 29th, 2008 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

Researchers decode the DNA sequence of the fungus which produces penicillin, ahead of the 80th anniversary of its discovery.

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Black men living in England have a three times higher risk of prostate cancer than white men, figures show.

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LEDs used to be rare and noteworthy; now they are just expensive. There were a couple of rows of LED vendors on display at IIDEX, most clunky and inelegant, still put together by engineers instead of designers. A rare exception was MP Lighting from Vancouver, Canada. They had a booth full of LED eye candy […]

Posted on September 29th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

Integrity Block may be a brand new company, and Green Design Systems might be struggling to find funding to launch their Straw Wall, but the concept behind their products is as old as the human desire to build shelters.
Shown off at West Coast Green 2008, the compacted earth blocks of Integrity Block, and the […]

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Solaleya makes highly efficient homes. They showed off their designs at West Coast Green last week. The thing is, they look a bit like landed UFOs. Not that dome houses are exactly new, but they also aren’t the most common of house forms.
Even so, I have to admit I totally wanted to live […]

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When you hear that our Go Green Initiative School of the Week is located in Groton, NY and has a terrific lunch scrap recycling program called Rot-N-Groton, you know they’ve got both a sense of humor and a knack for getting students involved in cool ways recycling and putting together a greener campus.
Of course, their […]

Posted on September 29th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

Leather is a very contentious material. Certainly whenever we mention it here, we are inundated with emotional responses from readers. Leather has been a integral element of human history from at least 2,000 BC. But, even setting aside issues of animal welfare, it has not been the greenest of industries, as this report on the […]

Posted on September 29th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

Jimmy Stamp at Life Without Buildings compares current shipping container architecture proposals from LOT-EK, Adam Kalkin and others to Icelandic designer “B. Börkur Eiríksson’s dark vision of a smoggy dystopic future where we’re all crammed into mile-high towers by colossal mobile crane systems.”
Extraordinary image follows:…

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