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Ocean pollution is making fish anxious

December 21, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design, Systems Science

Scientists Find That Polluted Oceans Could Make Fish Anxious
Svati Kirsten Narula, theatlantic.com

We’ve known for a while that the ocean is rapidly becoming too acidic for some forms of marine life to survive. We know that this is caused by continued rising emissions of carbon dioxide, which dissolves from the atmosphere into the oc…

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Reports: Highly significant quantity of fission products are flushed into environment by water used on Fukushima molten fuel, including plutonium and curium – Radioactivity to recirculate for many generations in ocean food chain, meat content will increas (enenews.com)
How plastic in the ocean harms fish, wildlife and us (mnn.com)
Ocean currents may solve eel mystery (bbc.co.uk)
Fukushima Aftermath? 98 Percent Of The Pacific Ocean Floor Covered By Dead Sea Creatures (stateofglobe.com)
Ocean acidification threatens survival rate of copepods in the Arctic, study (news-oceanacidification-icc.org)

Visualizing the wealth of America by zip code

December 7, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

Mapping The Wealth Of U.S. ZIP Codes Shows The Haves Hiding From The Have-Nots
fastcoexist.com

This interactive graphic, which lets you see the economic stats for every ZIP code in the country, shows the emergence of “Super ZIPs”—communities where nearly everyone is wealthy.

The Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel calls it the…

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Evolutionary medicine: cold temps increases cancer growth in mice

December 3, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

Chilly temperatures foster cancer growth in mice
Ars Staff, arstechnica.com

Flickr user Duncan HillAt low temperatures, the human body has a hard time. As the cold sets in, blood vessels constrict to maintain heat, and some body parts—like fingers and toes—begin to suffer. Metabolism ramps up to fight the cold and shiveri…

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Chilly temperatures help cancers grow (medicalxpress.com)
Chilly temperatures foster cancer growth in mice (arstechnica.com)

Nomadic camper van travel in Australia

December 2, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

King of the Road: A Guide to Buying your Own Wheels in Australia
admin, bootsnall.com

Australia: Vast expanses of red earth, broken and furrowed by the constant hammering of an unforgiving sun. Images of engulfing waves that funnel around tall blokes bent over multi-colored surfboards. A dense tropical rain forest populated by stra…

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New Yorkers sleep in RVs to avoid high rents

December 1, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Sustainable Design

People in New York are living in RVs to get around astronomical rents
slaskow, grist.org

In New York City, car owners complain all the time about parking. (Like, bike lanes are making for less of it, boo hoo!) And while there is a fair bit of competition for these public and often free resources, it can’t be that bad, because there ar…

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People in New York are living in RVs to get around astronomical rents (grist.org)
End of a lovely ride? (economist.com)

Turn your wifi laptop, iPad or iPod into a GPS with Bad Elf

December 1, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

(via Bad Elf GPS for Lightning Connector brings precise location to devices without GPS | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Bad Elf Dongle Adds GPS to Your Wi-Fi iOS Device (iClarified.com)
EU Could Force Apple To Alter Its Lightning Connector For iDevices (appadvice.com)
Reversible connectors for all; next-gen USB to get all Lightning-like (pocketnow.com)

Big data can now tell how badly you drive, and if you ride

December 1, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Sustainable Design

New algorithms can tell if you ride the bus, and how bad you drive
Derrick Harris, gigaom.com

Researchers from the University of Helsinki in Finland have developed algorithms they say are the best yet for determining how mobile phone users are getting around town — walking, driving, taking the subway or otherwise — by…

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This is big: Amazon’s cloud goes to China (gigaom.com)

Mygola startup improves travel planning

October 19, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

Mygola could (at last) be the startup to make your travel planning dreams come true
Rebecca Grant, venturebeat.com

Tickets On Sale Now

We wait all year to take a vacation and jet off someplace exotic for a week or two of glorious relaxation and adventure.

Unfortunately the process of planning a trip sucks.

Travel startup Mygola has raised…

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Mygola could (at last) be the startup to make your travel planning dreams come true (venturebeat.com)
Mygola wants to bring back the travel agent, grabs $1M in funding (venturebeat.com)

Places with the most lethal air quality

October 11, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

Here’s where you’re most likely to die from air pollution
John Metcalfe, grist.org

Click to embiggen.Where on Earth are you most likely to die early from air pollution? NASA provides the answer with this mortally serious view of the planet, and it is: lots of places.Like tar stains on a healthy lung, the sickly yellow and…

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China’s Pollution Is So Bad It Can Now Be Seen from Outer Space! (inhabitat.com)
How Does Exposure to Air Pollution Affect Deaths from Pneumonia? (pollutionfree.wordpress.com)

Google street view shows dead people

October 11, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

You can use Google Street View to see the dead
Jess Zimmerman, grist.org

Wow, is there nothing Google can’t do? Street View can take you under the ocean, to the surface of Mars, around the South Pole, inside an abandoned Fukushima town, and up some difficult hiking trails. And now, one Oregon man’s experience suggests…

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20 Surreal Images From Google Street View (embargozone.com)
The 34 Most Beautiful Google Street View Sightings (mashable.com)
Build Your Own Google Street View Using An Android Phone Or DSLR Camera (makeuseof.com)
Now Everyone Can Contribute to Google Street View (gizmodo.com)

New Yorkers exposed to more pesticides than rural residents

October 11, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design, Systems Science

New Yorkers exposed to more pesticides than rural residents
John Upton, grist.org

ShutterstockNew Yorkers can eat all the organics that they want — but that won’t be enough to protect them from the Big Apple’s stubborn pesticide problem.Despite living in a dense city with only tiny patches of agriculture (much of it organic,…

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Pesticide makers have found a new way to kill bees (grist.org)
12 Most Pesticide-Laden Fruit and Vegetables: The Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen, Updated (naturalsociety.com)

Modern VW bus campers

October 10, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

The fast and the furnished: A tour of modern Volkswagen bus campers
C.C. Weiss, gizmag.com

With the original Volkswagen T2 Microbus set for extinction, the days of VW bread loaf camper conversions appear numbered unless something like the Bulli concept comes to fruition. As Gizmag learned at the Dusseldorf Caravan Salon, however, the VW…

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End of road for VW’s iconic camper vans (news.yahoo.com)
2014 Volkswagen Microbus (topismagnetblog.wordpress.com)
Rolling Shelter: Gizmag’s favorite campers of 2013 (gizmag.com)
Seeya, VW Microbus (aarp.org)

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