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Richard Dawkins’ “The Magic of Reality” is an educational iPad app Richard Dawkins, a British evolutionary biologist and bestselling author of books like The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion, recently launched his latest book The Magic of Reality in the form of an interactive app for the iPad. Expertly illustrated by Dave McKean, the book presents the reader with 12 questions and their answers. It first goes through the answers provided for those questions in cultural and religious myths and traditions and then lays out the modern scientific explanations that we know now. The iPad app contains the full text of the book, coupled with over 250 illustrations and over 75 animations that guide the reader through the text. The gesture-based navigation is simple and intuitive, with a flick to the left or right moving you along one page at a time. As for the content, it’s as lucid and easy-to-understand as you’d expect from Dawkins.
NASA Targets ‘Climate Kids’ With New Global Warming Website NASA, the government agency that put a man on the moon and sent robots to Mars, is turning its focus around and working on spreading information among the public about the earth’s apparent impending doom. A new agency website dubbed “Climate Kids” has “NASA’s eyes on the earth.” The website specifically targets young kids with games, movies and other interactive tools that present debated theories as facts. For instance: Additionally, the website tells kids that dinosaurs are in their gas tanks and that polar bears are dying as a result. These are obviously two very contentious points with only one side presented. The planet is warming up fast–faster than at any time scientists know about from their studies of Earth’s entire history. This is flatly untrue. The site also tackles issues like the greenhouse effect, effects on wildlife (like the polar bear), ocean acidification, and offers kids advice to answer the question, “What can we do to help?” Good use of taxpayer dollars?
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A magical meter and friendly competition help one community dial back energy use The Island Energy Dashboard gives residents a real-time look at how much electricity they’re sucking from the grid. When Puget Sound Energy announced plans to build a new substation to meet rising electricity demand on Bainbridge Island, Wash., in 2009, it apparently didn’t know who it was dealing with. Bainbridge is a well-to-do suburb of Seattle (a 35-minute ferry ride will drop you right in downtown), and home to more than a few techies, computer programmers, and folks who have letterhead with lots of fancy degrees in front of their names. Eric Rehm, a software-engineer-turned-marine-biologist, says that “a mosh pit of community organizations” came out to community meetings to discuss the electric company’s proposal. “There were enough geeks there that we said, ‘Can we see the [electric grid] load data? Can we have that data in real time?’” Rather than cutting down a bunch of trees to enable the island to use more electricity, they wondered, “Can we just use less?”
Visually Beautiful Recipe Curation Site Gojee Adds Drinks To The Mix Foodie favorite Gojee, which curates recipes from food bloggers around the web in a visually beautiful way, is branching out today to beverages, and will offer drink recipes (including both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks). As we wrote in our earlier review of the site, Gojee lets you search for recipes by ingredient, either via ‘cravings’ or by one ingredient you have in your pantry. You can also input your dislikes or allergies and Gojee will make sure to surface recipes without these ingredients. If you has leftover beets in your pantry, you that query and Gojee will show youa ll the recipes that include that ingredient from the many food blogs it curates data from. The site presents a beautiful image of the food along with a list of what else is included in the dish, a short description of the dish, and a link to the full recipe on the food blog. Gojee recently raised $1.2 million in funding.
New UN iPhone Application Highlights Role of Ecosystems in Tackling Climate Change Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) / Nairobi, 13 December 2011 - How many mangroves does it take to offset a transatlantic flight? What consumer actions can we take to reduce damage to rainforests? Answers to these questions and many more are provided by a new iPhone application launched by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) at the Eye on Earth summit in Abu Dhabi today. The UNEP application draws attention to the critical role played by ecosystems such as salt marshes, mangroves, tropical forests and seagrasses in tackling climate change. Users of the application can calculate their personal carbon footprint for journeys taken by air, train or road. The free iPhone application, named Blue and REDD Carbon , is already available online in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. Blue and REDD Carbon Information on other key climate initiatives, such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is provided. Note to Editors:
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