ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Lessons from cockroaches could inform robotics

Jay OwenTV Series

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Lessons from cockroaches could inform robotics Forecast is for more snow in polar regions, less for the rest of us The lifetime journeys of manure-based microbes Stash of stem cells found in a human parasite Has evolution given humans unique brain structures? Vibrant mix of marine …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Pine beetle outbreak buffers watersheds from nitrate pollution

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Pine beetle outbreak buffers watersheds from nitrate pollution Surprising twist to protein misfolding discovered 4,000-year-old shaman’s stones discovered near Boquete, Panama Salmon runs boom, go bust over centuries ‘Bipolar’ marine bacteria discovered: Refutes ‘everything is everywhere’ idea Potential harvest of most fish stocks largely unrelated to …

How, in the animal world, a daughter avoids mating with her father: Paternal ‘voice’ recognition

Ethical MarketsEarth Systems Science

How, in the animal world, a daughter avoids mating with her father: Paternal ‘voice’ recognition Posted: 29 Nov 2012 08:26 PM PST Paternal recognition – being able to identify males from your father’s line – is important for the avoidance of inbreeding, and one way that mammals can do this …

Grant for Innovative Socio-economic Models 2011

kristyReforming Global Finance, Trendspotting, Beyond GDP

Grant for Innovative Socio-economic Models 2011 International open call for proposals Given the dramatic failure of social, economic and political models in the twentieth century, we need to aim at surpassing these models, with the objective of ensuring that the entire world population is able to cover their basic needs …