Determined to bring the spirit of “rugged individualism” back to Washington
With the fighting spirit demonstrated by many of her fellow Alaskans, Sarah Palin has entered the national political arena ready to take on anything her opponents can come up with. An instant lightning rod for media attention, Governor Palin has risen to the occasion, holding […]

High gas prices lead to more riders on public transportation
U.S. cities are racing to cope with ever-increasing demand on public transportation as gas prices remain at record levels.

 
 Mini-Windmills
They are small and look more like art than innovation. But the mini-windmills built by a British company could soon be on roofs across Europe and the US — if German energy giant RWE has its way.

In London, Ontario, a team from the University of Western Ontario is bringing a fairy tale to life at the Insurance Research Lab for Better Homes.

 
Lifelike graphics are breaking free of elite computer games and spreading throughout society in what industry insiders proclaim is the dawning of a “visual computing era”.

 
Giving up meat could drastically reduce your carbon footprint, with meat-eaters’ diets responsible for almost twice the emissions of those of vegetarians, a German study said on Tuesday.

HOUSTON - American natural gas production is rising at a clip not seen in half a century, pushing down prices of the fuel and reversing conventional wisdom that domestic gas fields were in irreversible decline.

 
Nearly 500,000 people in developing nations earn a wage making virtual goods in online games to sell to players, a study has found.

Besides earning less, women have less confidence about their stability
In a poll by the National Women’s Law Center, women were more likely than men to feel that they are falling behind economically. They worry more about their financial future. For many women, the concerns are not unfounded. More than 14 million women live in poverty. […]

 
Companies constantly try to woo urban youth, a segment admired by marketers for its substantial disposable income and trend setting tendencies. So given all this, when a raw concept like a youth centric store that’s likely to be developed by Columbus Ohio based Chute Gerderman, its bound to create some hype! The concept named ‘UnionJac’ […]

 
 Associate Professor Zhu Huai Yong, from Queensland University of Technology’s School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, said that church windows stained with gold paint purify the air when they are lit up by sunlight.
Scientists have discovered that, in medieval churches, stained glass windows painted with gold purify the air when heated by the sun. The […]

 
Tata electric cars will have a range of approx 130 miles
Tata Motors, which plans to deliver its first electric car by the end of this fiscal, has turned to its tried and tested Indica platform for the vehicle. According to industry sources, the company is currently working on five prototypes of electric vehicles on the […]

 Bumper crop of babies last year, even a few cute ones
Data released by the federal government shows a record numbers of infants born in the United States in 2007. The report was released last week by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. It shows 4,315,000 births in 2007, which some demographers say could […]

There’s more for these protesters to worry about than debt!

The International Monetary Fund could be bad for your health. The organisation loans money to countries with financial problems, and in return requires governments to undertake “structural adjustment” policies aimed at improving their financial management.

Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey, top, and Biz Stone pose on the roof of their San Francisco offices.
USA Today has a great article on the Twitter phenomenon. Micro-blogging at its finest, it is indeed much more than that.
Twitter has become so popular, so fast, that keeping up with its fast-growing user base is a […]

 
Investors take to the streets as they watch their money vanish
Pakistani investors rioted at the Karachi Stock Exchange on Thursday after they were prevented from selling their shares as markets fell. About 400 individual investors threw stones and damaged cars and office windows as they expressed their anger in the courtyard of the exchange.
 

 
Have you made your deposit into the gene bank?
U.S. scientists are developing a “Gene Wiki” with the aim of fostering a flexible, organic archive of human genetic information.
The project exists within Wikipedia, and is expected to speed up the process of deciphering genome sequences.
According to Andrew Su, whose report of the project appears this week […]

for cheapskates like me
The BlackBerry Kickstart is by far not RIM’s best looking phone. But it is a real live BlackBerry and it will run a mere 50 bucks when it launches on T-Mobile in September.

 
A Dying Breed?
As the birthrate in European countries drops well below the “replacement rate” of 2.1 children born to every woman, to somewhere between 1.1 and 1.4 children — the declining population will first be felt in the playgrounds.

 
Buying time with a rich guy just got more expensive
A Chinese investment fund manager won the chance to have lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett by bidding $2.1 million in the most expensive charity auction ever held on eBay.
Zhao Danyang of the Hong Kong-based Pureheart China Growth Investment Fund won the auction, which ended Friday evening […]

 
 Its only a matter of time before OPEC buys up all of our wind rights
GE Energy Financial Services has released a study estimating that the federal production tax credit (PTC) for wind power that is set to expire December 31, 2008 more than pays for itself through tax revenues from the projects’ income, vendors’ profits […]

 
Here’s a somewhat unsettling proposition: using your skin as an antenna for wireless devices or medical implants. Yes, your skin would be the conductor, sending signals along the outside of your body and saving energy by using the energy already in you. 
 

Sweet!
With the London Olympics a mere 4 years away, Brits are preparing for the huge influx of tourism and media attention that comes along with hosting the Olympic games. One of the things that they’re doing is setting up a fleet of hydrogen hybrid fuel cell taxis to tote the imminent hoards around their fair […]

putting it underground
Carnegie Mellon University Professor Edward S. Rubin is urging Congress to approve newly proposed legislation designed to fund pioneering technologies that can trap and store carbon dioxide emissions deep underground - a vital measure needed to control global climate change.
 

 
One year ago, we predicted that the infinite format war would rise from the ashes of the HD DVD/Blu-ray format war-that a million online services and set-top boxes would suddenly promise to deliver movies and video to your computer or TV. And that each one would essentially be their own format, since none of them […]