Laurus nobilisConnor Fitzpatrick continues his work on this series
The second of four entries featuring underutilized species from the Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized species is Laurus nobilis. Thanks Hannes and Paul
Laurel is an extremely resilient evergreen forest tree that grows in all Mediterranean areas. In Syria, laurel grows wild above 200 meters over sea level along the coastal area. It is resistant to extreme temperatures and to........Go to the Botany-blog (Added on 3/30/2008 6:48:18 PM)
Wear your resume on your backWith all the job-hunting tools available on the Web, you may still find that your resume goes unnoticed after you click that send button on your computer. Maybe it makes more sense to wear your resume so that anyone who sees you on the street has the opportunity to make you an offer. That''s the idea behind Blackbird Tees'' custom Resume Tees. When ordering, you choose an intro or teaser line for the front of your t-shirt (for instance, "My........Go to the Jobs-blog (Added on 3/30/2008 6:30:14 PM)
Is it a Recession?It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. - Harry S. Truma
Well it may soon be official. Today the Commerce Department confirmed Gross Domestic Product grew at only 0.6% for the last quarter of 2007. In April, the report for the first quarter of 2008 will be out and it is expected to show negative growth. For those of you keeping score, if we get two quarters of negative growth, then it........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 3/30/2008 6:29:44 PM)
Come Blow Your HornI''ve been a little lax keeping up with paleontology these days, despite my daughter''s frequent reminder that I''ve yet to make the hadrosaur T-shirts she''s been asking for. Last month A Hadrosuarian dinosaur was found in the Coahuila desert of Mexico:You can learn more about theVelafrons coahuilensis HERE and HERE.Now this month they''ve uncovered another skull in that same area, this of a creature similar to triceratops. The expectation........Go to the Archeology-blog (Added on 3/30/2008 3:23:33 PM)
Americans living longer, enjoying greater healthAverage life expectancy continues to increase, and todays older Americans enjoy better health and financial security than any prior generation. However, rates of gain are inconsistent between the genders and across age brackets, income levels and racial and ethnic groups. Some critical disparities also exist between older Americans and older people in other industrialized countries. These and other trends are reported in Older Americans 2008:........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 3/27/2008 9:44:15 PM)
Retired NFL players at increased risk for heart problemsScreening for cardiovascular problems in elite-level football players should begin in high school and continue throughout the lives of college and professional players. Mayo Clinic physicians based that conclusion on the results of their new study of the cardiovascular health of 233 retired National Football League (NFL) players.
The Mayo data showed that 82 percent of NFL players under age 50 had abnormal narrowing and blockages in........Go to the Sports-blog (Added on 3/27/2008 8:57:32 PM)
Why don't kids walk to school anymore?Maybe when we were their age, we walked five miles to school, rain or shine. So why don't most children today walk or bike to school?.
It's not necessarily because they're spoiled, lazy or over scheduled. As per a University of Michigan researcher, concerns about safety are the main reason that less than 13 percent of U.S. children walked or biked to school in 2004, in comparison to more than 50 percent who did so in 1969.
"These concerns........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 3/26/2008 10:03:55 PM)
Antarctic ice shelf disintegratingSatellite imagery from the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center shows a portion of Antarctica's massive Wilkins Ice Shelf has begun to collapse because of rapid climate change in a fast-warming region of the continent.
While the area of collapse involves 160 square miles at present, a large part of the 5,000-square-mile Wilkins Ice Shelf is now supported only by a narrow strip of ice between two islands, said........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 3/25/2008 8:10:34 PM)
New findings from Tibetan Plateau suggest uplift occurred in stagesThe vast Tibetan Plateau--the world's highest and largest plateau, bordered by the world's highest mountains--has long challenged geologists trying to understand how and when the region rose to such spectacular heights. New evidence from an eight-year study by U.S. and Chinese scientists indicates that the plateau rose in stages, with uplift occurring first in the central plateau and later in regions to the north and south.
"The middle part........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 3/24/2008 8:32:10 PM)
Jeremiah Wright's God Damn Americahings take a different perspective when you see things in context.
See this youtube video.
Anderson Cooper, CNN
The Roland Report........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 3/21/2008 8:30:22 PM)
Rev. Jeremiah Wright's 9/11 sermon in contexthings take a different perspective when you see things in context.
See this youtube video.
Related sites:
Anderson Cooper, CNN
The Roland Report........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 3/21/2008 8:02:37 PM)
Pastor's rhetoric is just as bitter as U.S. race historyAnd there it is. ... The 800-pound gorilla that is racial strife finally slings its poo against the political wall. Let me just say this: To me, the comments made by Sen. Barack Obama's spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, are pretty innocuous. I say that knowing that they are offensive to white people, but the question has to be raised — why?
Wright said that Sen. Hillary Clinton does not know what it is like to be a black man in an........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 3/21/2008 10:50:03 AM)
New York exhibits showcase MIT's arts cloutMIT artists, designers and architects are filling some of New York's most prominent and competitive exhibition spaces this year with works that disrupt traditional distinctions among art, technology and performance.
Right now, four groups of MIT designers have works on exhibit at the prestigious Museum of Modern Art. A fifth will exhibit there this summer. The Whitney Biennial, renowned for distilling the best of the global cutting-edge best........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 3/20/2008 7:40:19 PM)
Tiny TorrentsEngineers harnessing the same physical property that drives silent household air purifiers have created a miniaturized device that is now ready for testing as a silent, ultra-thin, low-power and low maintenance cooling system for laptop computers and other electronic devices.
The compact, solid-state fan, developed with support from NSF's Small Business Innovation Research program, is the most powerful and energy efficient fan of its size.........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 3/18/2008 8:44:47 PM)
A Dubious World Recordhe demo drive is an essential step along the Road to the Sale for automobile salespeople, but as test-drives go, this one was a marathon.
A Honda dealership in Melbourne, Australia, was the victim. A new Honda Accord was driven from the dealership and ended up in the middle of central Australia a week later with nearly 4,000 miles added to the odometer
Police say they were stunned when they pulled over a driver for failing to pay for........Go to the Auto-blog (Added on 3/18/2008 7:54:10 PM)
Peter Paul Hillary Clinton ConnectionPeter F. Paul (born September 2, 1948) has been a lawyer, entrepreneur, former partner of Spider-Man creator Stan Lee in Stan Lee Media, and convicted felon. In 2000, he became central to a campaign fund-raising scandal involving Senator Hillary Clinton.
Paul emerged in 2000 as the largest contributor to Senatorial candidate Hillary Clinton. Paul and his attorneys have at various times offered two explanations for this. First, that he was........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 3/17/2008 9:20:03 PM)
Who won the democratic primary in Texas?Hillary Clinton camp and the main media says Hillary Clinton won the state of Texas. Let's see what's the truth. Hillary Clinton has won the democratic primary ballot in Texas but Barack Obama has won the democratic caucus in the state of Texas. No one would argue that both of these methods are democratically accepted methods for selecting presidential candidates. The very first primary election in the nation, which very often sets the trend........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 3/12/2008 5:49:23 PM)
Spam Over IM Hits SkypeDameon over at the VOIP blog has an interesting post about spam via IM on Skype. Users receive an IM from some with a sexy name and picture asks to be added to your contact list. Of course it isn't really a beautiful woman or handsome man wanting to get to know you-it's a spammer, or more likely a spam bot, and if you comply, you're in for a barrage of spam, porn or worse. Protecting yourself is easy-block messages from anyone who........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 3/12/2008 4:52:58 PM)
Online Dating StalkersStalker is a serious word and it's meant to imply something serious. Unfortunately, we often toss the word about in casual conversation. People say "stalker" when they mean someone who is being annoyingly persistent. That's not what this is about. This is about what to do when someone continues harassing you through an online dating site to the point that you're starting to be afraid for your own personal safety
First........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 3/12/2008 4:52:43 PM)
China's Carbon Dioxide EmissionsThe growth in China's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is far outpacing prior estimates, making the goal of stabilizing atmospheric greenhouse gases much more difficult, as per a new analysis by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, and UC San Diego.
Prior estimates, including those used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, say the region that includes China will see a 2.5 to 5 percent annual increase in CO2........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 3/11/2008 5:34:59 AM)
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First 'active matrix' display using nanowiresEngineers have created the first "active matrix" display using a new class of transparent transistors and circuits, a step toward realizing applications such as e-paper, flexible color monitors and "heads-up" displays in car windshields.
The transistors are made of "nanowires," tiny cylindrical structures that are assembled on glass or thin films of flexible plastic. The scientists used nanowires as small as 20 nanometers - a thousand times........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 3/31/2008 8:12:54 PM)
Carbon principlesEarlier this month, I did a blog entry looking at the massive impact that climate change will have on the financial services sector, particularly the banks.Now, global law firm Winston & Strawn has put out a briefing paper on the carbon principles being championed by Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley working in conjunction with various power companies. According to the principles, the aim is to encourage companies to invest in........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 3/30/2008 6:40:05 PM)
Eyebeam's Feedback ShowCurrently ongoing at digital art institution Eyebeam is Feedback, which is a collection of experimental green design. As compact fluorescent light bulbs and solar powered patio lights continue to become more mainstream, Feedback reminds us that there are still boundaries to be pushed in green design. The show explores issues concerning topics such as natural resources, ecology, energy use and climate change. The forms of work run the gambit........Go to the Entertainment-blog (Added on 3/30/2008 6:30:00 PM)
Just ask Carla Bruni-SarkozyCarla Bruni-Sarkozy may have given her first real speech yesterday, since touching down in the U.K on Wednesday, but it''s her outfits that have had the first and last diplomatic word.........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 3/30/2008 4:40:36 PM)
Something big is in the horizonSomething big is happening in the presidential primary on the democratic side. Just before the Wright controversy Obama was leading Clinton in almost all the national polls. Then the Wright controversy frenzy hit the media and Obama's rating went down and Clinton became the more favorite choice of the democrats. Now the trend is changing.
Obama was gaining momentum in the last few days and is emerging as the more favorable candidate over........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 3/29/2008 12:25:42 PM)
Dramatic developments at Kilauea VolcanoExplosive eruptions and noxious gas emissions at Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii this week have prompted researchers to work around the clock to understand what will happen next and how to keep the public out of harms way.
Researchers are monitoring gas emissions and seismic activity at Kilauea, which on March 19 experienced its first explosive eruption since 1924. The volcano is also emitting sulfur dioxide at toxic levels.
The National Park........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 3/27/2008 9:14:11 PM)
New Organic Molecule in SpaceThe « Large Molecule Heimat » is a very dense, hot gas clump within the star forming region Sagittarius B2. In this source of only 0,3 light-year diameter, which is heated by a deeply embedded newly formed star, most of the interstellar molecules known to date have been found, including the most complex ones such as ethyl alcohol, formaldehyde, formic acid, acetic acid, glycol aldehyde (a basic sugar), and ethylene glycol.
Starting from........Go to the Chemistry-blog (Added on 3/26/2008 10:10:49 PM)
Twinkle Start 2 Melt DressNow that it''s officially Spring - even though the weather isn''t quite there yet - it''s time to start replenishing our wardrobes with fun pieces that make us smile. This aptly named "Start 2 Melt" dress by Twinkle is adorable and is definitely a piece your girlfriends will fawn over........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 3/26/2008 7:12:47 PM)
Students making the grade online, in classThe lives of todays college students have always included computers and the Internet. That technology now has moved from the ether into instruction.
A technical report from a University of Houston Department of Health and Human Performance researcher finds that students in a hybrid class that incorporated instructional technology with in-class lectures scored a letter-grade higher on average than their counterparts who took the same class........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 3/24/2008 8:04:47 PM)
Extra-curricular activities to prevent juvenile delinquency?The study, conducted by Northeastern University researchers, looked separately at delinquency and risky behaviors for both young men and young women in a suburban high school and how involvement in outside activities influenced those behaviors. The findings provided interesting, and, in some cases, surprising results.
While they found that involvement in extra-curricular activities definitely seemed to minimize the risky behaviors, there........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 3/21/2008 8:52:32 PM)
Get the full picture: Rev. Jeremiah Wright's 9-11 sermonYou must have seen the video clips of Rev. Jeremiah Wright several times. But it is now time to listen the full sermon and the comments in the right context and decide. Listen to the full sermon at Roland's website.........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 3/21/2008 4:07:12 PM)
Domestication of the donkeyAn international group of researchers, led by Fiona Marshall, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has found evidence for the earliest transport use of the donkey and the early phases of donkey domestication, suggesting the process of domestication may have been slower and less linear than previously thought.
Based on a study of 10 donkey skeletons from three graves dedicated to donkeys in the funerary complex of one of the........Go to the Archeology-blog (Added on 3/20/2008 8:16:53 PM)
Elevated CO2 From Manmade EmissionsUsing data from the SCIAMACHY instrument aboard ESA's Envisat environmental satellite, researchers have for the first time detected regionally elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide - the most important greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming - originating from manmade emissions.
More than 30 billion tonnes of extra carbon dioxide (CO2) is released into the atmosphere annually by human activities, mainly through the burning of fossil........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 3/18/2008 8:47:53 PM)
Arctic sea ice still at risk despite cold winterUsing the latest satellite observations, NASA scientists and others report that the Arctic is still on thin ice when it comes to the condition of sea ice cover in the region. A colder-than-average winter in some regions of the Arctic this year has yielded an increase in the area of new sea ice, while the older sea ice that lasts for several years has continued to decline.
On March 18 the researchers said they think that the increased area of........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 3/18/2008 8:23:21 PM)
Guizotia abyssinicaFifth in a series celebrating UBC Research Week, again organized by Connor Fitzpatrick:
Scott Black, a Dept. of Botany M.Sc. student supervised by Dr. Gary Bradfield, and Hannes Dempewolf, a Ph.D. student co-supervised by Dr. Quentin Cronk and Dr. Loren Rieseberg, are researching the crop species noug, Guizotia abyssinica. Scott provided the photograph and Hannes adapted the write-up from this brochure on noug (PDF) that he co-authored........Go to the Science-blog (Added on 3/18/2008 7:54:18 PM)
Boten Anna By BasshunterBasshunter is a Swedish producer, a cyber geek who wrote a song about an experience with meeting a girl on the internet. The girl was called Anna, and the song ''Boten Anna''.The song ended up in the hands of a local radio DJ who played it out on air. After its first airing the station was inundated with phone calls to play it again. The whole of Sweden got caught up in the story and when it was released in Scandinavia it became the fastest........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 3/18/2008 7:44:56 PM)
Eremostachys laciniataThe first photograph for today''s entry is courtesy of Amir A. from Israel (thank you for another contribution!). The remaining photographs, as well as the write-up, are thanks to UBC Botanical Garden horticulturist Jackie Chambers. Much appreciated once again! Jackie writes
The upright stems of this perennial can reach 100-150cm high, but the most striking feature has to be the wooly texture - it''s nearly impossible to look at this plant........Go to the Botany-blog (Added on 3/12/2008 8:58:12 PM)
Face In HoleWouldn''t it be great if you could be a different person everyday? Many of us have tried to manipulate pictures in order to try something different or just to have fun. But not only it takes loads of hard work but also the results aren''t usually all that great.With Face In Hole you can easily create a totally ''new look'' for you and your friends. You just have to select a scenario, upload and adjust a photo (or use your webcam) and there you........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 3/12/2008 4:52:47 PM)
Climate change and transportationWhile every mode of transportation in the U.S. will be affected as the climate changes, potentially the greatest impact on transportation systems will be flooding of roads, railways, transit systems, and airport runways in coastal areas because of rising sea levels and surges brought on by more intense storms, says a new report from the National Research Council. Though the impacts of climate change will vary by region, it is certain they will........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 3/11/2008 10:54:10 PM)
Red-light cameras increase crashesRather than improving motorist safety, red-light cameras significantly increase crashes and are a ticket to higher auto insurance premiums, scientists at the University of South Florida College of Public Health conclude. The effective remedy to red-light running uses engineering solutions to improve intersection safety, which is especially important to Florida's elderly drivers, the scientists recommend.
The report was published this month........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 3/11/2008 10:08:36 PM)
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