Could your car seats become large, comfortable batteries? If experiments by scientists at Fudan University in Shanghai, China become reality, perhaps they could, as the group has developed battery technology that can be woven into fabrics. According to Phys.org, researcher Wei Weng and his colleagues have designed and fabricated carbon nanotube composite yarns, wound around... Continue Reading →
From a sleeping bag that charges your gadgets to entire buildings warmed by body heat, scientists are harvesting the heat emitted by humans as a source of renewable energy. But the latest development in thermoelectric energy generation doesn’t come from a high-tech lab at MIT; it comes from Ann Makosinski, a 15-year-old Canadian girl who... Continue Reading →
It’s not the overdone media coverage, or that you’ve read too many columns by MarketWatch’s Paul Farrell, who says: “We live in a noisy, new world filled with rage.” There actually is increasing unrest worldwide, according to a new report by Citi’s chief global political analyst, Tina M. Fordham, and Willem Buiter, the bank’s chief... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwMJCAZUyGc Like the Tin Man in The Wizard Of Oz, the robot community has finally found its heart. This time around it's not made of sawdust-stuffed silk. Better -- sensors, cameras, microphones and proprietary algorithms that calculate human emotion according to vocal intonation and facial expressions. And soon it could be ambling around your home,... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYFw3O--2R0 Capitalism Is The Crisis: Radical Politics in the Age of Austerity is a film featuring a diverse array of thinkers offering common sense analysis of the trappings of modern life and critical perspectives on basic assumptions of capitalism and democracy. The film presents original interviews, including Chris Hedges, David Graeber, Derrick Jensen, Michael Hardt,... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lUtPgtP168 A fake press release claimed Oregon's Reed College announced that it was going to divest its holdings of fossil fuel stocks. Both the Portland Tribune and KBOO were duped by the hoax, which was orchestrated by the pranking group The Yes Men's Igor Vamos and the Fossil Free Reed Campaign. Vamos was the guest... Continue Reading →
http://youtu.be/9v7ijbXs5BU Just a week before the World Cup, around 12,000 protesters marched on Sao Paulo’s football stadium demanding low-income housing. At the same time the city’s Metro workers declared an indefinite strike, bringing Brazil’s largest city to a grinding halt. Thousands of members of the Homeless Workers Movement marched on Sao Paulo’s Corinthians stadium on... Continue Reading →
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VHFlwJQIkE The tangled highway of blood vessels that twists and turns inside our bodies, delivering essential nutrients and disposing of hazardous waste to keep our organs working properly has been a conundrum for scientists trying to make artificial vessels from scratch. Now a team from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) has made headway in fabricating... Continue Reading →
http://vimeo.com/37584656 He was told by three engineers such a feat would be impossible, but after his wife persuaded him, designer Giora Kariv got to work on a bicycle made out of cardboard that costs just $9 to manufacture. Kariv got inspired by the man who made a canoe out of cardboard, and combined his own... Continue Reading →
http://youtu.be/qNPRMb_rgw0 With freshwater declining throughout the globe, desalination looks increasingly attractive, but current technologies are expensive, demand far too much energy and are prone to contamination. Now researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Marburg in Germany have developed a “water chip” that creates a small electrical field that separates... Continue Reading →
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