Ready to Swim 103 Miles With the Sharks
From the article...
"She will swim about 60 hours in the churning sea, 103 miles across the Straits of Florida from Cuba to Key West. Every hour and a half, she will stop to tread water for a few minutes as she swallows a liquid mixture of predigested protein and eats an occasional bit of banana or dollop of peanut butter. She will most likely hallucinate and endure the stings of countless jellyfish. Along the way, sea salt will swell her tongue to cartoonish proportions and rub her skin raw."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/health/nutrition/19swim.html?_r=2
Italians Vote To Abandon Nuclear Energy
I doubt America will ever do something like this with our extreme level of energy dependency and political corruption surrounding such. Good new none the less. It might be good for the planet that we are falling soo far behind.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303714704576383452729642270.html
Exponentially Cheaper Vaccine Saves Thousands
Regarding Meningitis A. From the article...
"MenAfriVac is much cheaper than existing meningitis A vaccines, at 50¢ compared with $120 per dose. It is also more potent. Unlike conventional vaccines, which are based on sugars resembling those on the surface of Neisseria meningitides, a bacterium that causes meningitis, the new vaccine splices the sugars to a carrier protein that is better at stirring up the body's immune system. "It makes the immune response much more vigorous," says Marc LaForce, director of the global Meningitis Vaccine Project, which developed MenAfriVac."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20568-cheap-vaccine-eradicates-new-cases-of-meningitis-a.html
$780 Million Solar Energy Plant - Nevada
From the article...
"SolarReserve literally was founded by rocket scientists from United Technologies’ Rocketdyne division in 2007 and licenses its molten salt technology.
Like rival BrightSource Energy, SolarReserve will deploy massive arrays of mirrors called heliostats around a very tall tower – in this case, one that tops 640 feet – with a boiler attached. BrightSource’s heliostats focus the sun on a water-filled boiler to create steam that drives an electricity-generating turbine.
SolarReserve fills its boiler with millions of gallons of molten salt. Some 17,500 heliostats heat the salt to 1,050 degrees Fahrenheit. The liquefied salt then generates steam to drive the turbine before returning to the receiver. The salt retains heat that can be released at night or when the sun is not shining to continously to produce power."
http://blogs.forbes.com/toddwoody/2011/05/19/obama-administration-grants-737-million-for-a-247-solar-power-plant/
Yale Digital Images Available Online..
From the article...
New Haven, Conn. — Scholars, artists and other individuals around the world will enjoy free access to online images of millions of objects housed in Yale's museums, archives, and libraries thanks to a new "Open Access" policy that the University announced today. Yale is the first Ivy League university to make its collections accessible in this fashion, and already more than 250,000 images are available through a newly developed collective catalog.
http://opac.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=8544
Yosemite Sending
Fun project we've been working on. Stop on by and check it out if you get a chance!
ysend.blogspot.com
50 Industrial Machines for Civilization
Wonderful application of scientific knowledge. I admire this group for their work. Image of a machine that extracts aluminum from clay
From the article...
"But it's the machines that developing nations need, more than the food. On a visit to Ethiopia in 2009, I talked to more than one citizen there who said that the arability of the land wasn't so much the problem as not having the machines to farm the land productively. My neighbor, an immigrant from Nigeria, has bought and fixed up a truck and is raising money with the help of his church to ship the thing back to his homeland.
Marcin Jakubowski, a Polish expatriate living in Missouri, may have a workable solution to this problem: open source hardware."
Article Link: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/156785/open-sourcing-civilization
Link to Site: http://opensourceecology.org.nyud.net/gvcs.php
All San Francisco Venues to Require Photo and ID Collection
From the EFF...
"The city of San Francisco has a long history of political activism and cultural diversity, which could be in danger if the San Francisco Entertainment Commission has their way. The Electronic Frontier Foundation joined civil liberties and privacy groups in criticizing a proposal from the San Francisco Entertainment Commission that would require all venues with an occupancy of over 100 people to record the faces of all patrons and employees and scan their ID’s for storage in a database which they must hand over to law enforcement on request. If adopted, these rules would pose a grave threat to the rights of freedom of association, due process, and privacy in San Francisco."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/eff-san-francisco-entertainment-commission-don-t
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