Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.
A Parisian bank paid it forward - quite literally - by canceling the debt of 3,500 of its clients this weekend. Credit Municipal de Paris (also known as the bank of the poor) gave clients with a debt of 150 euros or less a clean slate.
Romans used an artificial sweetener, Sugar of Lead, to sweeten and preserve their foods without taking on additional calories.
A promising new system can convert brown seaweed into biofuel, opening up a new possible source of energy that could help replace fossil fuels, like gasoline, scientists reported today (Jan. 19).
While we wouldn't say worthy devices at CES are rare, it's always welcome when we're dodging those middling tablets and iPhones cases scattered across Las Vega's premier tech event.
AT THE moment, there are two reliable ways to make electricity from sunlight. You can use a panel of solar cells to create the current directly, by liberating electrons from a semiconducting material such as silicon.
Scientists do love messing around with nature in the name of science. From glow-in-the-dark dogs and cats to cyborg rats, a great deal of scientific advances happen from seemingly bizarre experiments.
This isn't your normal sale. This is the ultimate sale, and it only happens in Japan.
At Zhannah's every ethnicity is welcome, and kids eat free. But no invizzies allowed!
Volcanic activity is causing the earth to rise in Oregon, scientists have found. Though whether such uplift is a sign of an imminent eruption remains uncertain.
As parts of Central America and the U.S. Southwest endure some of the worst droughts to hit those areas in decades, scientists have unearthed new evidence about ancient dry spells that suggest the future could bring even more serious water shortages.
A heap of dead bees was supposed to become food for a newly captured praying mantis. Instead, the pile ended up revealing a previously unrecognized suspect in colony collapse disorder a mysterious condition that for several years has been causing declines in U.S.
Researcher says he has created living cells made of metal instead of carbon — and they may be evolving.
Flooding, high tides and blasting winds worked together to land a massive drift log taller than a single-story house.
A Cambridge, Mass.-based architect devotes two years of his life to develop Compleat, a disposable coffee cup that doesn't require a plastic lid. Seasoned takeaway coffee drinkers, what do you think?
Jasha Lottin, Oregon Woman, Took Nude Photos Inside Horse Carcass
Anyone who's ever seen "Planet of the Apes" or the recent "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," knows this is exactly how it starts. And it's all downhill from here.
Throw away that shiny new atlas you got for Christmas - it's already out of date. Volcanic activity in the Red Sea is causing the formation of a new island in the Zubair archipelago as lava is cooled by the surrounding seawater and solidifies.
A global team of neuroscientists, led by researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida, has found the gene responsible for a brain disorder that may be much more common than once believed. In the Dec.
Cyanide fishing and rising water temperatures had decimated corals off Bali until a diver inspired by a German scientist's pioneering work on organic architecture helped develop a project now replicated worldwide.
Unless you are a health care wonk or a health care industry employee, you likely haven't given a ton of thought to the medical loss ratio.
Scientists have isolated a gene in mice that works to give them "super memories" and reverses the course of several degenerative mental illnesses like Alzheimer's.
Sam Schmid, an Arizona college student believed to be brain dead and poised to be an organ donor, miraculously recovered just hours before doctors were considering taking him off life support.
For a morning, the sky looked like a surfer's dream: A series of huge breaking waves lined the horizon in Birmingham, Ala., on Friday (Dec. 16), their crests surging forward in slow motion.
Acupuncture significantly reduces levels of a protein in rats linked to chronic stress, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have found.
A long line of cars and trucks collided one after another early Sunday on a dark Florida highway so shrouded in haze and smoke that drivers were instantly blinded.
Measuring blood pressure in both arms should be routine because the difference between left and right arm could indicate underlying health problems, says a study review. The Lancet research found that a large difference could mean an increased risk of vascular disease and deat …
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KABC) -- A man in Riverside was arrested Thursday after he allegedly killed a neighbor's dog with a golf club.
A woman in Hässelby in western Stockholm was dragged for nearly 10 metres under her own car after she managed run herself over on Friday morning in what police believe was a failed attempt to deal with some apparent engine trouble.
I didn't see your post in my seeded article until just now. Sorry about that, I'm usually more attentive to ongoing conversations. http://kchadroberts.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/06/7633478-cern-confirms-danish-theory-on-global-warming
Thanks McSpocky submitted a group request. I hope to read some more of your seeds in the future.
Great comments and seeds... Keep up the good work!
I started a new group I would like to invite you to join, if you are interested,
http://begreener.newsvine.com/
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