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New composting facility dedicated to dirty diapers

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Compostable diapers would save mountains from landfills.

Articles have been written before about composting dirty diapers, and we got very excited about the news that mushrooms could break down diapers in 2 months, but given that end-of-life disposal options remain limited, and cloth diapers are yet to become the norm, what to do about the mountains of diaper waste created each year? One New Zealand community is looking at opening a dedicated diaper-composting facility to deal with the problem…

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Analysis, Culture, facebook, Historical Perspectives, Human Behavior, Internet, New Discoveries, New Viewpoints

Will you flunk your social media background check?

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Will your social media habits impact future employment?

Your next job application could require a social media background check. Odds are, you have no clue what that means. Nobody does. It’s new and scary and probably scours the Web for pictures of you puking on the beach.

But screw speculation. We wanted to know. So Gizmodo ran background checks on six of their employees.

Here’s what they found, and why you should both freak out about and embrace it…

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

New nicotine inhaler: Is it a safer alternative to cigarettes?

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Alex Hearn’s nicotine inhaler

There are thousands of ex-smokers who haven given up their habit, only to feel the yearning for the euphoric effects of nicotine. And there are the smokers who refuse to listen to reason and continue the habit saying, “Death is inevitable -whether by cigarette or a car-it make no difference.” Continue reading… “New nicotine inhaler: Is it a safer alternative to cigarettes?”

Analysis, government, Science & Technology News

Ban on the incandescent light bulb would save consumers $12.5 billion by 2020

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The average household’s energy costs would be cut by 7% or $85 every year.

Making it’s way through the U.S. Congress is a bill that would block certain provisions from a 2007 energy law signed by George W. Bush that “effectively bans the 100-watt incandescent bulb next year and other versions subsequently”. The law simply mandates that bulbs need to be 30% more energy efficient, an improvement that could have great economic and environmental benefits.

 

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, Latest Trend

American cities built for the young strained by aging boomers

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Atlanta Regional Commission project constructed the new ramp to accomodate the aging population in Atlanta.

People are getting old, fast, and they’re doing it in cities designed for the young.  Cities in American are grappling with that fact as work on getting the communities ready for an older population has gotten a late start considering demographers have warned for a long time that the population is about to get older.

 

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Analysis, Art, Crazy Stuff, Culture, Current Events, Education, Historical Perspectives, Human Behavior

The Connected States of America

When you think of a map of the US, you probably break it down by state or quadrants or party affiliation. But MIT, IBM and AT&T’s research teams decided to look at who was talking to whom, and the resulting map is pretty captivating.

The researchers organized anonymous data from AT&T mobile phones into interactive maps illustrating which areas place the most calls and texts, and who they’re communicating with. The colors represent areas that areas that communicate heavily locally, while the lines are for areas of the country that are in heavy contact remotely, like San Francisco and New York…

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Analysis, Global Warming, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Melting ice at the North and South Poles is adding to the Earth’s girth

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The Earth had been ‘slimming down’ by just under a millimetre a year following the Ice Age, but global warming is reversing this process.

Is global warming to blame for the Earth putting on ‘weight’ around its ‘midriff’?  According to scientists, melting ice in Antarctica and Greenland due to global warming is adding volume to the oceans and this extra water is being pulled towards the Equator, adding to the girth at the widest part of our planet.

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Analysis, Human Behavior, Latest Trend, top 10

Top 10 ticketed cars in America

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Does what we drive affect how we drive?

Quality Planning , an analytics company that works with auto insurers asked the question: Does what we drive affect how we drive?  They ranked vehicles most likely to get a ticket based on the number of moving violations issued for each 100,000 miles driven.  There are a few predictable entries in the top 10 list but the list is not totally comprised of  flashy red sports cars.

 
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