http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/09/03/Farmland-comes-at-expense-of-forests/UPI-45821283554981/

Deforestation is one the biggest contributors to a warming planet.

More than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics since 1980 has come from felling forests, which drives global warming, researchers say.

http://marketplace.publicradio.org//display/web/2010/09/03/pm-fashion-may-be-going-hightech/

 Ball gowns that literally make you glow, a chic mini dress that doubles as phone -- these aren't ideas from the future, but ideas that are already available on the market.

http://marketplace.publicradio.org//display/web/2010/09/03/pm-recession-changing-the-way-we-live/

We're starting to realize just how deeply and broadly this Great Recession has bitten into the way we live. Births in America were down 2.5 percent and marriages down 3.5 percent. Something called "new household formation," basically it has flattened out. Usually, we're adding like a million households a year, just from kids growing up and moving out, people getting married. All of this really suggests that people are just putting their lives on hold. They're deciding not to start families, not to leave home after high school or college. Demographers told me that a lot of this is really just about lack of jobs, lack of job opportunity.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/gloomy-experts-see-signs-of-double-dip/article1695203/

Most upbeat prediction at the Ambrosetti Forum on the global economy is mere ‘subpar growth’.

Is the global economy out of the woods? Two years after near-meltdown, with the U.S. looking sluggish, equity markets groggy and Europeans fighting a debt crisis, experts gathered in Italy offered a generally gloomy outlook — especially for the United States and much of the industrialized world.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/driving-a-message-home-with-an-optical-illusion/article1693547/

3D image of little girl being used to enhance traffic safety.

3D image of a young girl who leaps into traffic in a school zone.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/03/3001731.htm

The Camel Industry Association is working on a plan to make camel meat a regular addition to the Australian dinner table.

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/09/02/Computers-predicted-Gulf-oil-movement/UPI-95271283473724/

Scientists in California say they were successful in predicting the spread of oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill and when and where it would wash ashore.

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, used computer models to describe how slicks of oil tend to be stretched into filaments by motion at the sea surface, a university release said.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/hair-may-signal-pending-heart-attack/article1694502/

In the not too distant future, your family doctor may pluck a hair from your head to see if you’re in imminent danger of a heart attack.

That’s because your hair contains an accurate record of your body’s production of cortisol – a hormone that surges through your body when you’re under stress. And stress can be the trigger for a potentially deadly cardiac event.

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/09/02/pm-a-lot-of-firing-not-enough-hiring/

New York Times columnist David Leonhardt says that the lack of hiring is the bigger problem in today's economy, more so than the number of layoffs.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34276015/vp/38981689#38981689

This is truly Mind Over Matter: The patients are distracted virtually using both video and audio. The treatment has been especially effective for people with burns and for soldiers suffering from PTSD.