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It may bring a telegram from the Queen but reaching 100 is no guarantee of happy old age, US research suggests.

Posted on November 23rd, 2008 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

More Down’s syndrome babies are born in the UK than before the widespread introduction of pre-natal screening, figures show.

Posted on November 23rd, 2008 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

Here is an equation we like:

Waste by-product + modern technology + socially responsible labor = Engineered Timber Resources Products
A great example of what they do is with Mulberry. This tree has been cultivated for thousands of years for silk production, and needs pruning to flourish. the branches are then stripped of their bark for medicinal […]

Posted on November 23rd, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

Credit: Pelli Clarke Pelli
In a blog post on design applications of water resource management, New York Times design blogger Allison Arrieff included a photograph of a glass office building currently under construction in San Francisco with veritable living walls. Intrigued, we decided to research the project at 110 Embarcadero, and learned it belongs to the […]

Posted on November 23rd, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

Photo Credits to New Belgium Brewing)
It is not a natural relationship, beer and bikes, but New Belgium, a beer brewing company located in Fort Collins, CO, has made it one. New Belgium’s Tour de Fat announced this week that they reached a million dollar milestone this year in money raised for 24 non-profit organizations.
It has […]

Posted on November 23rd, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

Boston’s Big Dig–the most expensive highway project ever completed in the U.S., which gave Boston “a gleaming new highway system that has made zipping beneath Boston and Boston Harbor much easier”–has had a very ironic and unintended consequence: more traffic. This, of course, is on top of the other unintended consequences of the Big […]

Posted on November 23rd, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

Goodmorning got an honorable mention for a bike share program it designed for Brookyn for the Forum for Urban Design.
In New York City only 1% of the city’s commuter trips are estimated to be by bicycle. But overall ridership in NYC has increased 344% since 1980.
In order to increase ridership, better bike lanes are already […]

Posted on November 23rd, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

coal-fired plants are producing more mercury pollution than in 2006, according to a report by the Environmental Integrity Project. Twenty tons of mercury, a neurotoxin that affects brain development in fetuses, were released into our air by the these top fifty offenders. Although some of these plants have made strides towards producing cleaner-burning energy, most […]

Posted on November 23rd, 2008 under Science and Technology. Comments: None

Image from LHOON
As I’ve argued many times in the past, climate models may not be foolproof but, with the right data and assumptions, they can serve an invaluable function in helping scientists and policymakers devise effective mitigation strategies. I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I’ve seen my fair share of problematic models in […]

Posted on November 23rd, 2008 under Science and Technology. Comments: None