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DOE Launches "Energy Hog"Energy Efficiency Campaign
In March 2004 the DOE "launched a national public service advertising campaign designed to make children and their parents aware of energy efficient behavior. ... [The campaign] features a reprehensible new villain -- the energy-wasting Energy Hog. ... The centerpiece of the campaign is the new Energy Hog Web site, which is aimed at children."Includes a link to the Energy Hog site. From the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Wired Test 2007: Portable Media, Make Your iPod Roar with the Harman/K
Harman/Kardon is known for its kick-ass home theater receivers, so it's no surprise it can make an iPod roar. The system achieves ribcage-rattling volume without the distortion or the bass or treble bloat that mar its competitors. New Painkiller Was Born In Utah: Undergrad Discovered Natural Form In
The natural form of Prialt -- a new drug for severe pain approved this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration -- was discovered at the University of Utah in 1979 by an incoming freshman studying toxins produced by cone snails. Scientists Regenerate Wing In Chick Embryo
Chop off a salamander's leg and a brand new one will sprout in no time. But most animals have lost the ability to replace missing limbs. Now, a research team at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has been able to regenerate a wing in a chick embryo -- a species not known to be able to regrow limbs -- suggesting that the potential for such regeneration exists innately in all vertebrates, including humans. Humans Do Not Understand Mirror Reflections, Say Researchers
Psychologists at the University of Liverpool have found that people still find it difficult to understand how mirrors work. Vitamin E May Not Prevent Cancer Or Cardiovascular Events, But May Inc
Patients who took vitamin E supplements for about 7 years did not have their risk of cancer or cardiovascular events significantly reduced, and in fact some had an increased risk of heart failure, according to a study in the March 16 issue of JAMA. Putting Ecology Back Into River Restoration
An ambitious plan is under way in the ecological community to agree a set of standards for ecologically successful river restoration. The plan is being led by the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology, which this month is publishing a special profile on river restoration. Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford-Stuyvesant Hist
"Historic Weeksville was a nineteenth century community located in the Ninth Ward of Brooklyn, New York. It was named for James Weeks, an African American who purchased land there in 1838."It was "'rediscovered' in 1968 when its four remaining historic dwellings were spotted from the air."The site provides information about restoration efforts, historic images, and tour information. Your Brain Cells May 'Know' More Than You Let On By Your Behavior
We often make unwise choices although we should know better. Thunderstorm clouds ominously darken the horizon. We nonetheless go out without an umbrella because we are distracted and forget. But do we? Neurobiologists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies carried out experiments that prove for the first time that the brain remembers, even if we don't and the umbrella stays behind. They report their findings in the Oct. 20th issue of Neuron. 2008 Likely To Be One Of The Top-ten Warmest Years
2008 is set to be cooler globally than recent years say Met Office and University of East Anglia climate scientists, but is still forecast to be one of the top-ten warmest years. Each January the Met Office, in conjunction with the University of East Anglia, issues a forecast of the global surface temperature for the coming year. The forecast takes into account known contributing factors, such as El Niņo and La Niņa, increasing greenhouse gas concentrations, the cooling influences of industrial aerosol particles, solar effects and natural variations of the oceans.
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