Brainicane

Physically “acting out” your dreams when asleep could mean a higher risk of dementia or Parkinson’s disease.

Posted on December 24th, 2008 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

Photo Via: Darrell Sapp/Post-Gazette
If you’re looking for a more eco-friendly way to create a festival of holiday lights in the future, consider what Pennsylvania homeowner Jim Berroth has taken on as a more environmentally friendly approach to dealing with holiday decorations that’s stopping traffic in his neck of the woods. It’s a unique twist on […]

Posted on December 24th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: 2

image: Goddard Space Flight Center
You may find this hard to believe considering the wintry weather across much of the US, but the long term trend is still for warmer ice-free summers in Arctic. In fact we have probably already passed a tipping point and are 20 years ahead of schedule on the melting front, according […]

Posted on December 24th, 2008 under Science and Technology. Comments: None

Photo: Stefan
I’m not sure if its naming is brilliant (it does roll off the tongue) or pathetic (what’s next ‘genius bombs’?) but Optimal Technologies International, who develops electric grid technologies, is advocating not for a ‘smart grid’ but a ‘genius grid’ as an integral component of any transition towards greater renewable energy in the United […]

Posted on December 24th, 2008 under Science and Technology. Comments: None

Photo Via: East Tennessee Clean Fuels
When you think of success in any endeavor the simple truth is that a grade of “C” is rarely considered top-notch. Mediocre is perhaps more like it, but that’s just what Coca-Cola, called the top U.S. beverage maker, received when As You Sow, a corporate watchdog group, released their findings […]

Posted on December 24th, 2008 under Science and Technology. Comments: None

Image Credit: Yves Roumazeilles
Josh Donlan wants conservation biology to have teeth. He’s at the forefront of a hot new discipline called REWILDING. If he has his way, the bump in the night might be a lion or cheetah stalking you for dinner, and deer crossing signs will needed to be replaced with African Elephant caution […]

Posted on December 24th, 2008 under Science and Technology. Comments: None

Photo: Bicing bike sharing in Barcelona, by emprul.
When a project to build a bike sharing system in Buenos Aires was approved last year, locals thought it was going to be another idea that would end in nothing. But it was recently announced that a network of bike lanes has been put to tender by […]

Posted on December 24th, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

Image credit: Car Talk Holiday Card
NPR’s Motoring Gurus Get Political
I’d love to see greener cars, but I must admit I am no great petrolhead, and rarely follow the motoring media. But I consider NPR’s Car Talk an exception to that rule – not only does it deliver useful, practical advice for the regular motorist, it […]

Posted on December 24th, 2008 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

Wind turbines on a ridge near Centralia, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, “a town that lived and died by coal production.” Image: Reading Eagle.
The best coal mine is a closed coal mine. And a closed coal mine is a great mine if there are trees and a wind farm up top. A State that makes it’s […]

Posted on December 24th, 2008 under Science and Technology. Comments: None