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| Should we spend stimulus money keeping Florida cool? With $5 billion in stimulus money going to weatherize homes, The New York Times is asking how much of that is pork. [More] rss.sciam.com |
May Cool Heads Prevail: How to Save on Air Conditioning Editor's Note: Scientific American's George Musser will be chronicling his experiences installing solar panels and taking other steps to save energy in 60-Second Solar. Read his introduction here and see all posts here.This year, I’ve been spared the annual ritual of lugging the window air conditioners out of the closet. Not only has it been one of the mildest summers on record in the New York area, but our house has a spiffy new cool white roof, so our attic is no longer the hothouse it once was. Reflective window blinds, compact fluorescent and LED bulbs, and an attic fan have also helped to keep the house cool. In past summers, there usually came some days in August where we vowed to upgrade to a whole-house air conditioning system, but so far we’ve just sweated them out. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Colony Collapse and Ruptured Ribosomes; Minding Darwin's Beeswax The transcript of this podcast wil be posted in two to three weeks. John Williams, the beekeeper at Down House in England, talks about Darwin's bees. And May Berenbaum, entomologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, talks about the latest publication related to colony collapse disorder and ribosome damage in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Web sites related to this episode include www.bee-craft.com [More] rss.sciam.com |
IUCN Red List update: 17,291 species are threatened with extinction The 2009 edition of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species was released today, and the news isn't good: 17,291 species out of 47,677 assessed species, or 36 percent, are threatened with extinction. [More] rss.sciam.com |
The Death of a Playground Legend Billy Harris, who died on Jan. 3 at age 58, was a local basketball hero in the days before media overexposure. nytimes.com |