Brainicane

A new trial will assess the impact of anti-depressant drug Lithium as a treatment for motor neurone disease.

Posted on November 2nd, 2008 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

Photo: Orca Yapı Sistemleri
In Turkish, the word for a slum is gecekondu, meaning “settled overnight.” A prefabricated house doesn’t go up quite that quickly, but mass production can make homes–of both the conventional and ecofriendly type–available to more people at varying income levels.
The Turkish construction company Orca Yapı Sistemleri claims to have designed the country’s […]

Posted on November 2nd, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

A recent Business Week article points out that “Next year the volume of e-waste will probably surge. In February, U.S. consumers must switch from analog to digital television service, a move that is expected to result in the mass junking of analog TVs.” What makes this mass dumping of “analog” TVs a particularly […]

Posted on November 2nd, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

You can’t do much with a jack’o lantern after Halloween; some people try to cook the pumpkin but they are really bred for size rather than flavour. In Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood they have a tradition: bring them to Sorauren Park and have a pumpkin party.
Photographer/blogger Joseph writes in BlogTO:
The sheer volume and diversity or […]

Posted on November 2nd, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

Bloomberg Makes News–Again
New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who earlier this year deemed the threat of global warming as serious as terrorism, has been making lots of headlines lately on both the environmental and political fronts. Aside from exploring a third mayoral term, Bloo…

Posted on November 2nd, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

Image courtesy of DSE
Prospective luxury boat owners now have a green(er) option: the DSE hybrid yacht. On a sunny day, this beauty can go 6 knots per hour without using a teaspoon of diesel. And when it’s foggy out (as it often tends to be out there at sea), well, not so much. But it’s […]

Posted on November 2nd, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

Photo by Phillip Ritz
A once in a lifetime event happened this past Thursday in Dallas, Texas. The 20,000th Smart Fortwo was delivered to customer Patrick Zipper. We always see those computer advertising gimmicks claiming that we were the 20,000 person to click on a site, but imagine what it would be like to actually be […]

Posted on November 2nd, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

A Greener Way to Vote
John Zimmer, founder and COO of Zimride, an online carpool community, has contacted us to let us know about their Facebook app called “Carpool to the Polls”. It allows U.S. voters to find rides on election day so they can go vote, and do while burning as little fuel as possible.
Check […]

Posted on November 2nd, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

Photo by Brian Solis, (www.briansolis.com and bub.blicio.us)
According to a tipster, who told another Tipster, who heard it from their cousin, who overheard it from their dentist, who has a patient who talked to the ghost of Elvis… Okay, truth be told, we heard it from Left Lane News who has their own source at Tesla, […]

Posted on November 2nd, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None