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Scientists say they have found a drug that can trick the body into burning off fat even when continuing on a high-fat diet.

Posted on November 4th, 2008 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

Parisian designer Paul Coudamy thinks outside the box with this interior for advertising agency Beast, made almost entirely out of 40 mm (1-1/2″) thick honeycomb cardboard. …

Posted on November 4th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

Greg at Workalicious is looking for a wall mounted desk and has found a few, including this sixty buck IKEA number. They can be useful if you don’t need a lot of space, and this one even has a key and enough room to store your laptop in it….

Posted on November 4th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

all photos Emma Alter
While testing a Ford Hybrid I packed up the family for a trip to bucolic Prince Edward County to check out Fifth Town Artisan Cheese and its LEED Platinum certified factory designed by Francis Lapointe. But not only was the building as green as it gets, so is the cheese.
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Posted on November 4th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

TreeHugger has shown all kinds of generators for bicycles, but here is a novel approach that would do well where I ride. Industrial designer Deco Goodman takes advantage of our crumbling infrastructure and pothole-filled roads by installing a piezo-electric generator in a shock absorber built into the seat post. Every tooth-jarring bump now is a […]

Posted on November 4th, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

Wow. Take a deep breath. New car sales in Japan has dropped 13.1 percent to the lowest level for October, 2008 in 40 years. The Japan Automobile Dealers Association says 233,922 vehicles other than mini-cars were sold in October, a decline for the third straight month.
Oh? So the good news is, Kei cars, the […]

Posted on November 4th, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

Antarctica photo: Mike Martoccia
A quick one here: In case you had any doubts about that human activities are responsible for the rise in temperatures at both of the Earth’s poles, new work published in the journal Nature Geoscience (and reported on by the BBC) confirms that we are to blame for polar global warming:…

Posted on November 4th, 2008 under Science and Technology. Comments: None

photo: SolFocus
Though it won’t be completed until 2010, and its overall capacity will be divided across several sites, SolFocus has announced that it has signed a deal with EMPE Solar worth 3 million that will install over 10 megawatts of CPV power at sites in southern Spain. SolFocus says that the project will create enough […]

Posted on November 4th, 2008 under Science and Technology. Comments: None

photo: Storm Crypt
A few quick wind power predictions to file away: One of the most interesting statistics coming out of the Global Wind Power conference in Beijing (the news of which comes via Cleantech) is that not only does China have the fattest growing wind power market, it is also expected to be the […]

Posted on November 4th, 2008 under Science and Technology. Comments: None