Visualizing the level of wifi and cellular radiation we bathe in each day

Images Show How Much Cell Phone Radiation We Bathe in Every Day
Ross Brooks, inhabitat.com

Nickolay Lamm has already made the invisible visible with a project that showed what Wi-Fi would look like if we could see it, but for his latest series of images, the artist has turned his attention to cell phones. Cell phone networks across the…

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Clean tech approaches to ship biofilms

“Twitching” Material Dislodges Bacteria From Ship Hulls
By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com

Surface changes in the paint-like material can reduce biofilm buildup.

When a horse is dis­lodg­ing a pesky fly, it twitch­es a small por­tion of its skin to shake off the unwel­come vis­i­tor. Researchers from Duke Uni­ver­si­ty have devel­oped…

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How Washington, DC became the capital of bike-sharing in the US

How Washington, DC became the capital of bike-sharing in the US
By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com

Wash­in­ton, DC was never known for being bike-friendly — but over the last decade, the city is home to the largest and most suc­cess­ful bike-sharing pro­gram in the coun­try. Slate tracks its rise, pin­ning much of the suc­cess on for­mer…

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A Disappointing Presidential Debate For Energy And Climate

A Disappointing Presidential Debate For Energy And Climate
By Climate Guest Blogger on Oct 5, 2012 at 10:30 am, thinkprogress.org

by Bill Beck­er

If Mitt Rom­ney and Barack Obama had been able to look through the tele­vi­sion cam­eras at who was watch­ing their first debate, it undoubt­ed­ly would have been more inter­est­ing than the debate itself.

Rush Lim­baugh…

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Thomas Lovejoy featured at Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts & Sciences ceremonies

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English: Gilman Hall, Johns Hopkins University Campus (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Introduced by noted anthropologist and dean Katherine Newman the graduation ceremony for JHU Krieger School of Arts and Sciences featured Thomas Lovejoy, founder of Nature series on PBS  and the Biodiversity Chair at the Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment based in Washington, DC. Lovejoy noted that “human creativity is without limits” and critical to solving the world’s major social problems.

Johns Hopkins University: Graduate Studies in Arts and Sciences and Engineering.

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