NOTCOT.ORG. Voronoi Bookshelf Prototype, an experiment in interactive, generative design. Origin of Modern Cows Traced to Single Herd. By Duncan Geere, Wired UK A genetic study of cattle has claimed that all modern domesticated bovines are descended from a single herd of wild ox, which lived 10,500 years ago.
[partner id="wireduk"]A team of geneticists from the National Museum of Natural History in France, the University of Mainz in Germany, and UCL in the UK excavated the bones of domestic cattle on archaeological sites in Iran, and then compared those to modern cows. From Crowdfunded to Financially Sustainable? The Post-Kickstarter Marketplace - Business. A Mouse Made Just For You Will Be Your Medical Avatar. When you check in to a hospital in the future, along with checking your vitals and ordering a blood panel, your doctors may assign you a personal mouse.
The immune-deficient creature will receive a transplant of your tissue, which will allow it to mimic your immune system, or maybe your specific type of cancer. The Rise and Fall of Online Empires. Photos of an Elite Russian Military School for Young Girls. Toril Johannessen : Words And Years. Seeking Ways to Make Computer Passwords Unnecessary. That’s a vision that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, part of the Defense Department, wants to turn into a reality.
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Must-listen radio: "Nuclear Power After Fukushima," documentary from BURN: An Energy Journal. Rob Mulholland: Vestige Installation « 19 Mar Click to enlarge.
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The last few years may have been a rude awakening, but we're surviving. Here's how. A new proposed bill in California mandates that food trucks be barred from parking within 1,500 feet of public schools. Given the sheer number of schools in California, the law amounts to one of most dramatic food-truck crackdowns in a while, but it's hardly the first. In recent years, food trucks have been battling city and state governments across the country, from Boston to the Twin Cities to my hometown of New York City. Essentient Wants To Feed The World Without Farmland. It’s not easy to feed a rapidly growing planet, and our appetite for meat and biofuels that take up farmland doesn’t help.
If only we could create nutrients at will without arable land, skipping all those intermediate steps of actually growing food and feeding animals. 'The Rot Riders' Bike for Compost - Environment. On Sunday afternoons, a handful of trailer-towing bike riders pedal through the neighborhoods of Kirksville, Missouri, stopping at select lawns and porches to collect buckets brimming with food waste.
The unwanted contents are raw material for compost piles, which any green thumb in the community can use to nourish her garden. The environmentally-minded two-wheeler crew called “The Rot Riders” has made weekly rounds since spring 2010, collecting from more than 40 houses and apartments within striking distance of downtown Kirksville. The number of food waste donors is growing fast, and the program is earning more recognition—it finished as the runner-up in GOOD Maker's recent GOOD Citizenship challenge. Crew member Kyle LaVelle says getting involved in Rot Riders is easy—all that's needed is an ice cream bucket or other container to hold the organic waste. Magazine > Takanori Aiba. Top image: Bonsia-B © Tokyo Good Idea Development Institute Co.
Ltd. Thought you knew bonsai art? Sex-starved fruit flies turn to drink. 15 March 2012Last updated at 18:32 GMT By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News Male fruit flies that have been rejected by females drink significantly more alcohol than those that have mated freely, scientists say.
In an article in Science, researchers suggest that alcohol stimulates the flies' brains as a "reward" in a similar way to sexual conquest. The work points to a brain chemical called neuropeptide F, which seems to be regulated by the flies' behaviour. Human brains have a similar chemical, which may react in a similar way. The connection between alcohol and this chemical, which in humans is known as neuropeptide Y, has already been noted in studies involving hard-drinking mice.
The new work explores the link between such reward-seeking and the study of social interactions, said the lead author of the report Galit Shohat-Ophir, now of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia, US. 'Control system' Robot Begs to be Allowed to Live – Don’t Miss The Impressive “Kara” Video Demo from Quantic Dream. Archetype Futuristic Viral Video to Become Feature Film. Aaron Sims Uses Youtube, Web to Conquer Hollywood.
Gritty psychological confrontations and robots form the backbone of Archetype, now set to become a feature film. Sometimes dreams do come true, just ask special effects guru and burgeoning director Aaron Sims. His short film, Archetype, looks like a blockbuster Hollywood movie, and now it has a chance to become one. Weeks after Archetype went viral on YouTube (spawning many mirrored copies in several different languages), producer John Davis has bought the rights to turn it into a full length film. The Crowd-Funding Phenomenon Continues – Comic Raises $1.2M on Kickstarter (+Q&A with Creator Rich Burlew)! Monument to Civilization: Vertical Landfill for Metropolises. Third Place 2012 Skyscraper Competition. Japan's obsession with perfect fruit. 15 March 2012Last updated at 13:27 ET By Roland Buerk BBC News, Tokyo and Shizuoka Senbikiya sells only perfect fruit - with a price tag to match Giving fruit as a gift is a common custom in Japan.