Category: Sustainable Design
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Evolutionary medicine: cold temps increases cancer growth in mice
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… http://flip.it/Trhjf Related articles…
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Nomadic camper van travel in Australia
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… http://flip.it/I5ssX
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Turn your wifi laptop, iPad or iPod into a GPS with Bad Elf
(via Bad Elf GPS for Lightning Connector brings precise location to devices without GPS | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog) Related articles 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…
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Mygola startup improves travel planning
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…
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Places with the most lethal air quality
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…
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Google street view shows dead people
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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New Yorkers exposed to more pesticides than rural residents
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,… http://flip.it/inoiQ Related…
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Modern VW bus campers
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… http://flip.it/ylYYF…
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Action camper for Jeeps
The Action Camper makes your Jeep an all-terrain RV – Images gizmag.com http://flip.it/lCmOA
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Habitents Prius camper
Habitents: The Toyota Prius camper gizmag.com We’re used to seeing campers and trailers here at Gizmag. Typically, they’re made for big, gas-drunk trucks, SUVs and vans – vehicles with the size and hauling capacity to spend the night in … http://flip.it/Zv7AH Related articles Toyota Prius is Consumer Reports’ best new-car value (fox6now.com) Toyota Prius Best,…
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