Brainicane

Diets and creams which claim their antioxidant properties could cheat the advances of time may be worthless, researchers suggest.

Posted on November 30th, 2008 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

Image: Michelin
The Holy Grail of Eco-transportation
Could this be the technology that revolutionizes transportation? Will the company that invented the air-pressure tire trump that achievement by making electric cars affordable and practical? Michelin’s Active Wheel system is the holy grail of wheel technology: a wheel with an integrated drive motor that has succeeded to meet unsprung […]

Posted on November 30th, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

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Performance modifying your green vehicle just might have been one of those things that made the C + C Music Factory exclaim, “hmmm” back in 1991.
You had to know it was coming… it was only a matter of time before the peppy and the frugal caught up with the Fast and the […]

Posted on November 30th, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

Once again, in America, gasoline is cheaper than bottled water. Is this good or bad?
Let’s start with the bad (5 reasons):

1) Thousands of more Americans will perish in car crashes. There is a direct, undisputed correlation between the price of gas and the number of deaths in car accidents each year. This […]

Posted on November 30th, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

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Climate change is making the impassable passable. The legendary and treacherous Northwest Passage, once believed to be unnavigable by larger ships, has been successfully traversed by a commercial cargo ship. Satellite photos had shown the passage to be open as early as 2007, but it wasn’t until a few days ago that the […]

Posted on November 30th, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: 1

The outcome of a case pitting an environmental charity organization against the British Virgin Islands (BVI) government and several developers could determine the future of the Caribbean environment and set the groundwork for the creation of an international environment court, writes The Independent’s Robert Verkaik. The Virgin Islands Environmental Council (VIEC), whose legal efforts are […]

Posted on November 30th, 2008 under Science and Technology. Comments: None

Scientists have halted the advance of heart disease in mice - and even reversed some of its effects.

Posted on November 30th, 2008 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

Doctors will decide next Tuesday whether to operate on two conjoined twins born in a London hospital last week.

Posted on November 30th, 2008 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

Pickens Meets Obama
Image credit:Cleveland, Real-Time News from Around the Nation
By: Jonathan G. Dorn, Staff Researcher at the Earth Policy Institute, where he works on energy issues.
With the dramatic increase in oil prices earlier this year translating into higher prices at the gas pump in the United States, concerns over U.S. dependence on foreign oil are […]

Posted on November 29th, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None