Image via WikipediaDrive with care over those 151,394 obsolete, unsafe bridges
Each day that I drive the 11 miles from my house to the university, I cross nine of America’s 601,396 bridges (as of 2008). Those nine are not likely to collapse. I have seen each replaced or rehabilitated in the last 10 years. America will have no unsafe or obsolete bridges in only 153 years.
A hidden world, growing beyond control
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control
The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.
Life on Planet Crazy
http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/life-on-planet-crazy/#comments
Come take a look at life on the newly discovered planet Crazy. Inhabitants there look exactly like us and live in an advanced technological society, but the big difference is a strange time warp effect that greatly shapes their lives. Actions these beings take produce effects that are delayed by rather long times.
The Crazies simply are incapable of accurately predicting or forecasting exactly what and when harmful effects of their actions will actually occur. All they can do is focus on the immediate utility and benefits, whatever they are, from the action or behavior and blindly accept the worst outcomes whenever they occur.
Fertilizer from the sea
An agricultural scientist unlocks the secrets to seaweed’s nourishing qualities
http://www.innovationcanada.ca/en/articles/fertilizer-from-the-sea
Terrestrial plants treated with seaweed compounds grow faster than control plants. One compound from the seaweed Ascophyllum nodosum actually increased its nutritional value. “The antioxidant contents were higher in the leaves after we added the compound and the flavonoids in the spinach increased by between 15 and 50 percent.”
This summer, Prithiviraj and his team of graduate students are testing sample plants from a number of locations around the United States — high-value crop plants such as strawberries, lettuce, broccoli and fruit trees — to see how seaweed compounds interact with the plants.
Prithiviraj’s work is partly supported by Acadian Seaplants Limited
( This sign near North Head brings back memories of trips to grandmother's house in Seal Cove every summer when I was a boy. Last time down East - wow, it's been years again - I found my cousins busy with Atlantic Mariculture Ltd.
http://mari-biotech.nstl.gov.cn/MirrorResources/5669/index.html
You've never eaten Dulse ? Heh. There's often a lot of hasty spitting out of the salty kelp if you've never had it. As kids we were introduced by toasting it in an iron skillet - dry - until it quickly changed colour and flavour.
Heaven knows what the price is. It was $7/lb years back[ C$15.40 kg ] and can fetch $1/oz in 2 oz. packages in the stores where it is sold in cellophane. That's something we never used. Paper only, it has to breathe, and keep it dry.
Of course, the odour takes over the world. Definitely a porch or garage stash. )
Battery-powered house debuts with smog-eating roofhttp://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/07/battery-powered-house-debuts-with-pollution-eating-roof/1
Roof tiles, manufactured by MonierLifetile, have an embedded catalyst that when exposed to sunlight, speeds up oxidation and reduces the nitrogen oxide pollution that creates smog.
First Amendment Under Attack — Feds Shut Down 73,000 Blogs - Comments Page 2http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/first-amendment-under-attack-feds-shut/comments-page-2/#comments
The comments thread is at first outraged then comes up with more info.
Meet the ideaLab
http://jxpaton.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/meet-the-idealab-2/#comment-1713
Gravel Batteries Offer a Solution for Renewable Energy Storage
http://www.ecogeek.org/power-storage/3171
The latest development comes from researchers at Isentropic in Cambridge, England who propose giant batteries filled with gravel and argon gas. According to the company, the system's "round trip efficiency is 72% - 80%."This is comparable to the efficiency of pumped storage hydro, which has an efficiency of 70 - 85%. But gravel batteries are much more compact,using far less land (1/300th) than that required for a pumped hydro lake. via: Worldchanging
Oyster Offshore Wave Generator Is 2.5x Better Than Predecessor
http://www.ecogeek.org/tidal-and-wave-power/3170 20-05-10 via:Inhabitat
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http://www.pelamiswave.com/news
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CBO report shows the folly of corn ethanol tax credit
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/ngreene/cbo_report_shows_the_folly_of.html
( I've been wondering what GM corn was good for. )
UPDATE: AIR SHOW: Irish Lessor Avolon Orders 12 Boeing 737-800s
07/20/2010 8:20AM - Dow Jones Business
Britain's Got Talent: Janey Cutler - Britain's Got Talent 2010 - Auditions Week 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAwOZvvGsRs&NR=1
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