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The frequencies used are just above the audible range at about 22 kilohertz and when the two speakers are aligned they create two sets of sound waves, perfectly interfering with each other creating a phenomenon known as a standing wave. This allows the objects to levitate in areas within the waves known as nodes as the acoustic pressure is enough to cancel the force of gravity.
A new invasive outbreak of giant, disease-carrying snails is threatening Florida‘s crops, experts say.
The giant African land snail is finding itself right at home in the Sunshine State, whose hot and humid climate resembles the species’ tropical Nigerian habitat. (Related: “Giant Snails, Once a Delicacy, Overrun Brazil.”)
Now found throughout the world, including the contiguous United States andHawaii, these invasive plant-eaters pose a particular danger in Florida because of its vibrant agricultural industry.
“We’re producing food that the nation depends on … [and this snail] eats 500 different plants, including pretty much everything that grows in Florida,” said Mark Fagan, a spokesperson for the Florida Department of Agriculture.
“This is not something we can walk away from. These snails are a major threat to Florida’s agriculture.”
I am the left brain. I am a scientist. A mathematician. I love the familiar. I categorize. I am accurate. Linear. Analytical. Strategic. I am practical. Always in control. A master of words and language. Realistic. I calculate equations and play with numbers. I am order. I am logic. I know exactly who I am.
I am the right brain. I am creativity. A free spirit. I am passion. Yearning. Sensuality. I am the sound of roaring laughter. I am taste. I am the feeling of sand beneath bare feet. I am movement. Vivid colors. I am the urge to paint on an empty canvass. I am boundless imagination. Art. Poetry. I sense. I feel. I am everything I wanted to be.
Now this is #freshnergy, Caleb Charland doesn’t use an average lighting set up for his photographs. Instead, he harnesses the power within fruits, vegetables, and other foods.
His latest project was powered by a single orange, which used iron nails to conduct the electricity. The photo above required a 14 hour exposure.
The concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a record high in 2011, the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported Tuesday (Nov. 20).
Chief among these is heat-trapping gases is carbon dioxide (CO2), the biggest culprit behind global warming. Carbon dioxide levels reached about 390.9 parts per million last year, which is 140 percent of the pre-industrial level of 280 parts per million and nearly 2 parts per million higher than the 2010 carbon dioxide level, according to the WMO report.
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Instead of dwelling on the defeat of Prop. 37 in California, the measure to label genetically modified organisms in food, supporters of GMO labeling have a positive take on the 4 million people who voted yes on Prop. 37—a sure sign of a growing food movement.
Just after the announcement that Prop. 37 didn’t pass, California Right to Know, the grassroots campaign that supported the measure, called it a “narrow loss” and a “movement victory.”
The ‘movement’ refers to food finally entering politics. Michael Pollan recently delineated the difference between lifestyle choices and political choices when it comes to food in the New York Times Magazine. According to Pollan, participants in the food movement have done a better job of fostering alternatives to Big Food’s industrial agriculture than targeting them directly. As a result, local and organic food has become more popular through farmers markets, community-supported agriculture, and sustainable farming…
Clepsydra Urban Farming Concept. This tall all glass edifice will serve as a farm and either a residential or commercial building. Based on the concept of a greenhouse, the Clepsydra Urban Farming plan houses eco friendly features and can be erected alongside any building like a residential tower, school, shopping mall, office, etc. The construction will have 10 stories and will produce food equivalent to yields of about 6 acres of farms.
That’s not Photoshop. The Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde has developed a way to create a small, perfect white cloud in the middle of a room. It requires meticulous planning: the temperature, humidity and lighting all have to be just so. Once everything is ready, Smilde summons the cloud out of the air using a fog machine. It lasts only moments, but the effect is dramatic and strangely moving. It evokes both the surrealism of Magritte and the classical beauty of the old masters while reminding us of the ephemerality of art and nature.
Google recently opened the doors to one of it’s data centers. Check out the video and take a virtual tour via google map’s street view. Pretty cool stuff.
Watch the story of William Kamkwamba from Malawi who taught himself how to harness the power of wind to help his village… Be Inspired!!!
Big Food’s mobilization against California’s right-to-know law is making more green-minded consumers aware of the companies that own their favorite brands.
National brand-name conglomerates are in a bind over California’s Right to Know Genetically Modified Food Act, a measure known as Proposition 37. Actually, it’s a double bind.
First, these gigantic food companies are frantically scrambling to defeat this citizens initiative, which would establish a state right-to-know labeling requirement on any food made with genetically engineered ingredients…
Congratulations to Felix and the Red Bull Stratos team for a successful space jump. Felix Baumgartner jumped into space from 128,000 feet (24.24 miles) and reached a top speed of 833 miles per hour!
Yes, that’s a twinkie
Via: Thinkprogress.org
A new study out today may hurt efforts by America’s largest biotechnology company, Monsanto, to defeat a California ballot initiative that would require labels on genetically modified foods (GMOs). The French study found that rats who were either fed a lifetime diet of Monsanto’s genetically modified corn or exposed to the company’s popular herbicide, Roundup, developed tumors and organ damage. [Read more...]
Most Americans are probably enjoying their favorite snack at this very moment as major food companies fight to maintian complete disclosure of the GM (Genetically Modified) indredients used in those same products. Say hello to Prop 37; legislation that would require labels on ALL food identifying GM ingredients. GMO’s have been linked to cancer, diabetes and any other preventive disease imaginable.
The right to know what you’re consuming seems like a non issue, right? Apparently not to the 18 companies listed below as they’ve spared no expense in fighting the truth.
PepsiCo, Inc. – $590,220.06
Sunny Delight Beverage Company – $93,795.90
Mars, Inc – $100,242.69 [Read more...]
Bigfoot may still elude us, but its spider counterpart has turned up in a US cave. The creature is so unusual it could transform our understanding of arachnid evolution.
Arachnologists from the California Academy of Sciences, working with citizen scientists from the Western Cave Conservatory, came across the previously unknown spider in a cave in south-west Oregon – the stomping ground of the legendary bigfoot. The very real arachnid measures 4 centimetres across when its legs are extended. [Read more...]
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