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What Took So Long? 200 Activists Launch Themselves Off Mt. Kilimanjaro

What Took So Long? 200 Activists Launch Themselves Off Mt. Kilimanjaro

Apr 18 2012 | comment(s)

Don't get too excited but 200 activists are going to jump off Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

These aren't the usual pesky environmentalists, these are hang-gliding global activists, which really sounds like just an excuse to go hang-gliding but get permits to do it in cool places but it's still going to raise money for a worthy cause.

Trading Planets - How Space Is Like Baseball

Trading Planets - How Space Is Like Baseball

Apr 17 2012 | comment(s)

Billions of stars in our galaxy have acquired released planets that once roamed interstellar space. Those free agent worlds left the star systems in which they formed, and found a new home with a different sun.

If it sounds a lot like baseball, that's because it is, said Hagai Perets of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, making the most incongruent cosmological metaphor of April 17th, 2012.
Poison Becomes Food: Worm Lives On Carbon Monoxide And Sewer Gas

Poison Becomes Food: Worm Lives On Carbon Monoxide And Sewer Gas

Apr 17 2012 | comment(s)

A small marine worm, Olavius algarvensis, is faced with a scarce food supply in the sandy sediments it lives in off the coast of Elba, so it must deal with a highly poisonous menu: it lives on carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide.

O. algarvensis can thrive on these poisons thanks to millions of symbiotic bacteria that live under its skin. The bacteria use the energy from carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulphide to produce food for the worm, just like plants do by fixing carbon dioxide into carbohydrates - but instead of using light energy from the sun, the symbionts use the energy from chemical compounds like carbon monoxide.
Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Get A Nanotube Electrode Boost

Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Get A Nanotube Electrode Boost

Apr 17 2012 | comment(s)

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC) are easier to manufacture than silicon-based solid-state photovoltaic cells but not as efficient. Some new research may make carbon nanotubes a more efficient alternative for platinum electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells, making them more viable overall.
Up To 60 Percent Of Wikipedia Entries About Companies Incorrect

Up To 60 Percent Of Wikipedia Entries About Companies Incorrect

Apr 17 2012 | comment(s)

Wikipedia is crowdsourced knowledge and therefore discourages people from writing about themselves. As a result, 60 percent of Wikipedia articles about companies contain factual errors, according to research published in Public Relations Journal.

Marcia W. DiStaso, Ph.D., assistant professor of public relations at Penn State University, surveyed 1,284 public relations people from the Public Relations Society of America's (PRSA). Results of the survey indicate a gap exists between public relations companies and Wikipedia concerning the proper protocol for editing entries.
Prepper Advice: Sunlight And Lime Juice Makes Drinking Water Safer

Prepper Advice: Sunlight And Lime Juice Makes Drinking Water Safer

Apr 17 2012 | comment(s)

Whether you are concerned about Mayans, a worldwide infrastructure collapse or an exploding supervolcano, science has some good news for your doomsday preparation - sunlight and a twist of lime are an inexpensive and effective way to quickly improve the quality of your drinking water.

Researchers have found that adding lime juice to water while using a solar disinfection method removed detectable levels of harmful bacteria such as Escherichia coli (E. coli) significantly faster than solar disinfection alone.