Author: Daniela
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Pliosaurus Kevani
It’s the most fearsome creature that ever lived and could have devoured a Tyranosaurus-Rex for breakfast… and it is called Kevan. The Pliosaurus kevani, to give it its proper name, ruled the oceans 150million years ago. Equipped with a massive jaw studded with 12in teeth, the ‘sea rex’ had the biggest bite in history. The…
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Agroecology – A Potentially World-Saving Concept
In his recent article “How to Feed the World” on the World Policy Blog, Alvaro Rodriguez notes that our current industrial food system is failing to feed the world. Today roughly 15 percent of the world’s population, some 1 billion people, goes hungry. At the same time, fertilizer overuse remains a major cause of environmental…
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Honoring Abdullah Comert
Abdullah Comert is now the second confirmed casualty of the uprising in Turkey. The 22 year-old was pronounced dead last night from wounds to the head sustained by “unidentified gunmen,” but eyewitness accounts are placing the blame on police, whose brutal tactics have been well-documented by protesters. His final Facebook post is up on reddit. If you want to…
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Literary Quote for the Day
“The great artist looks beneath the flux of everyday reality and sees eternal, unchanging symbols…he takes ephemeral events and relocates them in an undying atmosphere…This is why not only the sculptors but all the great artists of classical Greece, wishing to ensure the perpetuation of every contemporary memorial to victory, relocated history in the elevated…
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Attack Of The Patent Trolls
Originally posted on The Dish: Litigation by patent trolls, often called Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), has exploded in recent years: Felix Salmon explains why this is a major problem: Go to any technology conference these days, and you’re likely to find VCs who say that there are entire sectors they refuse to invest in, just because the waters…
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The Show-Stopping Fashion of Namibia’s Herero Tribe
I just love how the boys are imitating the stiffness of the Germans. I also love that they have appropriated this dress and made it their own. The two-pronged hats represent the horns of the Herero’s cows. The women even adopt the loose gait of the cows as they walk. Even in a continent rich…
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19th Century Technology Fuels 21st Century Sustainability Project
By: Chris Vedelago It’s a bold 21st century sustainability project that will be fueled, ironically, by 19th century technology. Excess energy from the powerful boilers that run the CUB Brewery in Abbotsford are being retasked to meet the energy needs of a nearby office building, turning it into a hub of environmental sustainability and design. ”We…
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Connecticut Passes First State GMO Labeling Legislation in US
It turns out CT is a still a revolutionary state on a number of fronts. That includes passage of the first state legislation in the county to require labeling genetically modified organisms (GMO) as ingredients, a monumental victory for the organic and pure food community. The bill, passed by the Senate on Saturday and Monday…
