Soon, wearable energy T-shirts could charge your phones

Source: Zee News

Washington: Using a simple process, engineers have baked a cotton T-shirt into activated carbon, and by adding a thin conductive metal layer, they have created a stable, high performing super capacitor. The engineers from the ...
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New media deployed in battle to preserve history

Source: France 24

AFP - It started with an inflatable pig. Jeffrey Shaw has always been fascinated by interactivity, having in the 1960s created art he hoped would narrow the gap between viewer and image. His pig starred on the co ...
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The Ancestor Allure: Exploring Why We Look Back

Source: Big Think

On Thanksgiving Day in 1896, while families across the forty-five states basted turkeys and mashed potatoes, Jerry Holly’s great-great-grandfather lay on the shore of Lake Michigan. He had drowned the day b ...
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Patrick Durkin: Wisconsin deer hunters carrying Texas-sized expectations

Source: Madison.com

Professor James Kroll displayed his Texas-sized ego, charm and flamboyance during April’s six-city Deer Trustee tour as he asked hunters to help solve problems with the state Department of Natural Resources’ deer program. Unfortunately, few of the 1,050 ...
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The triumph of English: Never before has a language had more people learning it than it has native speakers

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

May 27, 2012 12:12 am Share with others: By Gwynne Dyer The second president of the United States, John Adams, predicted in 1780 that "English will be the most respectable language in the world and the most universal ...
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Pitt cuts medical research incentive

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

May 27, 2012 12:06 am Share with others: By Steve Twedt / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The life of a medical researcher can be both rewarding and solitary, with the rewards often coming in breakthrough scientific discoveries made after long hours alone in ...
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Environmental protection urged amid economic slowdown

Source: China Daily

BEIJING - Governments and enterprises should hold on to emission reduction efforts despite cooling economy and resist the temptation of spurring economy through energy-inefficient industrial projects, officials and expert ...
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High costs of medical care put NH patients on alert

Source: The Union Leader

Robert Tarr believes his wife, Pauline, would be alive today if she hadn’t regularly skipped days taking medication to treat her hyper-thyroid condition because she couldn’t afford her pills. Her death in Januar ...
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We get the scoop from ice cream mogul on how startups can cream in the big dough

Source: Independent.ie

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