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India takes Monsanto to court for biopiracy over development of GM eggplant

August 12, 2011

Biopiracy a Sensitive Issue in India.

Agri-giant Monsanto may be forced to take one on the chin in India: The nation’s first genetically modified food crop, a variety of eggplant known at Bt brinjal, has sucked its Big Ag developers into court. Monsanto, Mahyco, and “collaborators” have been accused of biopiracy by the National Biodiversity Authority of India.

NBA says the developers of Bt brinjal (the introduction of which was halted in 2010 by then environment minister Jairam Ramesh on the grounds that more tests were needed to prove its safety) used local varieties of eggplant in developing the GM crop “without prior approval of the competent authorities.”

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Architecture, Photo Perspectives

Chop Stick: Giant swing set and concession stand made from 100 foot poplar tree

August 12, 2011

Chop Stick

Architects Anders Berensson and Ulf Mejergren of VisionDivision from Sweden have been commissioned to design Chop Stick, a concession stand for 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. They “sacrificed” a beautiful 100 foot poplar, to demonstrate how to make something new efficiently and respectfully. (Pics)

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Great New Product, Great Videos, Health & Fitness, Science & Technology News

Hi-tech tattoo will monitor patients’ vital signs

August 12, 2011

The sensor is so thin it can be worn comfortably on the skin without the patient noticing it.

Monitoring a patient’s vital signs could soon be a simple as sticking on a tiny, wireless patch similar to a temporary tattoo. (Pic and video)

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News, Video Games

Video game sales drops 20% in July

August 12, 2011

Total video game sales fell 20% from $855.3 million in July 2010 to $687 million last month.

Video game sales have been dropping monthly. But, between June 2010 and June 2011 the drop in video game sales has been really big.

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Analysis, Business, Globalism, Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

China becomes No. 2 ad market in the world

August 12, 2011

China will surpass Japan in total media spending this year.

Advertising in China, still developing compared to countries like the US and Japan, is beginning to catch up to the demand of consumer-facing companies looking to expand their reach among the world’s largest population and its growing buying power. eMarketer estimates that by the end of this year, ad spending in the China will increase enough to make the country the second-largest advertising market in the world.

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Analysis, Business, Education, Latest Trend, top 10

Top 10 high paying jobs that only require a high school degree

August 12, 2011

Smaller companies will hire a pilot without a college degree if they have enough logged flight time and aircraft knowledge.

Going to college used to be a nearly sure way of getting a steady job. A sure way of getting a steady job was getting a college degree. But many recent college graduates will tell you this is no longer the case.

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Culture, Current Events, Entertainment, Great New Product, Historical Perspectives

Crowdmug lets you pay strangers to be your social spies

August 11, 2011

It’s always a bummer when you decide to try something new, only to discover that it’s not your scene. Crowdmug for iOS helps you avoid these situations by harnessing the most effective crowd motivation tool of our time: money.

The premise is simple: offer cash for photos or videos of whatever place and people will answer…

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Analysis, Green Friendly, Health & Fitness, Historical Perspectives, Science & Technology News

Iowa: Now 20% wind-powered

August 12, 2011

Taking advantage of the wind in Iowa.

Iowa now gets a higher percentage of its power from wind than any other state in the nation. The Des Moines Register is reporting that Iowa’s wind generation hit the 20% mark last quarter, supplying the state with a full one fifth of its energy needs. That’s really good — like, Denmark good. Stats like this make it harder and harder for cleantech foes to deny that renewable power is fast becoming an integral part of the American energy mix…

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Historical Perspectives, Latest News, New Discoveries, New Viewpoints, Science & Technology News

Information could escape from Black Holes after all, study suggests

August 11, 2011

Do black holes NOT swallow everything?

New research by scientists at the University of York gives a fresh perspective on the physics of black holes. Black holes are objects in space that are so massive and compact they were described by Einstein as “bending” space. Conventional thinking asserts that black holes swallow everything that gets too close and that nothing can escape, but the study by Prof. Samuel Braunstein and Dr. Manas Patra suggests that information could escape from black holes after all…

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Alternative Transportation, Science & Technology News

DARPA launches hypersonic aircraft that goes 13,000 mph

August 11, 2011

Artist’s rendition showing the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2).

DARPA has launched an experimental unmanned hypersonic glider from an air base on the central California coast.

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facebook, government, Internet, Science & Technology News, Twitter

NYPD forms new unit to track troublemakers on social media sites

August 11, 2011

The NYPD has formed Facebook and Twitter units in order to track down and monitor criminals and criminal behavior on social media sites.

The New York Police Department has formed a new unit to track troublemakers who announce plans or brag about their crimes on Twitter, MySpace and Facebook.

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, Medical Breakthrough, Science & Technology News

New antiviral drug could destroy nearly any viral infection

August 11, 2011

Scientists have come up with a brand new drug called DRACO that seems to be able to hunt down and destroy any and all viruses.

Antibiotics, such as penicillin, can treat most bacterial infections. But when it comes to viral infections, including influenza, the common cold, and deadly hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola, antibiotics are useless.

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