Brainicane

Children from the most deprived homes are more likely to need intensive care than their wealthier counterparts, say researchers.

Posted on December 22nd, 2008 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

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As Mike wrote a while back, even the Prius can’t save Toyota. On Monday the world’s biggest car-maker announced that, in contrast to 2007‘s 2.3 trillion yen operating profit, for the past year the company made an operating loss of 150 billion yen.
Furthermore Toyota confirmed they are freezing the scheduled opening of their […]

Posted on December 22nd, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

As the Consumer Marketing Manager of Sub-Zero and Wolf, Christopher Parr knows what people want in their kitchens, and knows what it takes for a fridge to be green. We had a chance to chat with him about Sub-Zero’s idea of green, the green kitchen inspiration video series — we recently interviewed architect Michael McDonough […]

Posted on December 22nd, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

Nicolai Ouroussoff writes about architecture in the New York Times that “It Was Fun Till the Money Ran Out“-that before the financial cataclysm,

the profession seemed to be in the midst of a major renaissance. Architects like Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, and Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, once deemed too radical for […]

Posted on December 22nd, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

Jaymi’s recent post on the green-ness of a Roomba versus an upright vacuum did not mention the option of a broom; perhaps it is ingrained in us to look for the high-tech solution. Back in 1959, the Sarnoff Labs of RCA predicted a Roomba-like “Mechanical Maid” and a few other wonderful labour-saving devices, all sucking […]

Posted on December 22nd, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

TreeHugger readers don’t appear to share my fascination with mass customization, the idea that you can order exactly what YOU want, made to your specifications, instead of having to take what Mr. Big Box offers. One recent extreme example was [me]&gogi cereal, which most commenters considered un-TreeHugger. They might say the same about M-Shape’s custom […]

Posted on December 22nd, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

Posted on December 22nd, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

Mmmm, Delicious Garlic Slush!
Parents will have more trouble keeping their small children from eating snow in the Des Moines suburb of Ankeny. The city is using garlic salt to de-ice its road, thanks to a generous donation by Tone Brothers Inc., a spice producer headquartered in Ankeny. Read on for more details….

Posted on December 22nd, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

Not So Secret Anymore
EEStor has been playing the reverse psychology trick on most of us; the less they tell us about their supposedly revolutionary EESU (electrical energy storage unit) based on ultracapacitors, the more we want to know about it. But recently, part of the veil has been lifted when the company was granted a […]

Posted on December 22nd, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None