Bold Predictions: Good times from Boise to 'Bama to Lincoln
Posted by: Administrator in Sports |Let's just start the season by throwing caution to the wind with our Ten Bold Predictions for 2010:
Gas mileage could triple with 'evolution'
Posted by: Administrator in Science & Technology |As federal regulators prepare the next round of fuel economy mandates, John DeCicco of the University of Michigan and the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute says the most cost-effective answer is steady progress in advanced combustion engines and hybrid drive, an institute release said Tuesday.
DeCicco says the solution is a "revolution by evolution" rather than politically trendy breakthrough technologies that will remain too expensive for most consumers.
"If we really prioritize efficiency, we can get just as far with less sticker shock," he said. "Evolutionary change can be of profound consequence for cutting oil use and greenhouse gas emissions, and do so with manageable costs and minimal risks for automakers."
"Choreplay" the New Foreplay? View Clip
Posted by: Administrator in Style & Trends |http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/31/earlyshow/main6822427.shtml
New Theory Says That Women Are More Likely to Want to Have Sex When Their Male Partner Helps Out Around the House. Need to reignite that spark in your marriage? Well there's hope and believe it or not -- it comes from household chores.
New water filter may help developing world
Posted by: Administrator in Environment |U.S. researchers using nanotechnology say they've created a high-speed, low-cost filter that could be used to purify drinking water the in developing world.
Scientists at Stanford University dipped plain cotton cloth in a high-tech solution of silver nanowires and carbon nanotubes to create a filter that kills rather than traps harmful pathogens, a university release says.
Removing Ovaries and Breasts to Cut Cancer Risk. Watch
Posted by: Administrator in Entertainment |Some doctors advise the radical procedure to women with genes that increase risk.
Billboards seen as a potential revenue stream. Listen
Posted by: Administrator in Business & Economy |Huge billboards on the sides of buildings and bridges may just be part of living in a market-driven society, but in these uncertain economic times, some cities see super-sized billboards as a way to help fill budget gaps.
Cloudy Future for Digital Property. The Paradise of Infinite Storage- Listen
Posted by: Administrator in Science & Technology |http://futuretense.publicradio.org/episode/index.php?id=1041697927
Could Apple move iTunes into the cloud? It probably won’t happen tomorrow at Apple’s iTunes event – but in the long run it seems inevitable. Cloud computing is slowly taking over – it’s already changing the way we work and live. Corporations’ appetite to increase data storage is driving HP and Dell in their bidding war for the data storage company 3Par. Seems like time to ask what’s ours in a cloud-computed world? If you are uploading all your photos to Flickr, who owns them? What about the love letters sent to your husband or wife? Do you own those words if they are stored in-box on Yahoo instead of a in a shoebox in your closet?
Leading indicators
Posted by: Administrator in Politics |http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/08/leading_indicators.html
I know I'm a broken record about this stuff but, well, here's Joe Klein:
If Obama is not reelected, it will be because he comes across as disdaining what he does for a living. I don't think he thinks of it that way, but you watch someone with a real love of the game -- Pennsylvania's Ed Rendell, Mississippi's Haley Barbour (and, of course, William Jefferson Clinton) -- and you can tell the difference immediately. The most important leading indicator of a one-term presidency in my lifetime has been indifference on the stump. George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter were fine men, but diffident, tone-deaf pols. (Bush managed to get elected only because Michael Dukakis was even worse at it than he was; ditto for Carter and Gerald Ford.)
More than a third now watching TV online
Posted by: Administrator in International |http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7971549/More-than-a-third-now-watching-TV-online.html
The term couch potato could soon become obsolete as Britons switch to watching television at their desks and even on the move.
Research published today has discovered that a third of television viewers now watch their favorite programs online, on computers and mobile phones.
Glowing praise in the dark for digital books
Posted by: Administrator in Science & Technology |The newest technology has revived old habits of reading. Just switch the lights off late at night and turn the virtual pages of a spooky gothic tale for an illuminating experience.
