Truckers Looking For Environmental Choices

This year's biannual truck show at Tradex in Abbotsford, B.C. this week-end is highlighting  the environmental choices industry is having to make. Owner operators, managers, company service and maintenance personal will be converging onto TruxPo at TradeX for ideas,...

To Drill or Not To Drill? That is the Question!

With oil/gas and energy in general being such a high profile policy subject during the current US Presidential contest, the following pragmatic analysis of the strategic importance of the "To drill, or not to drill"...

Camp Moomba Yogathon

Camp Moomba raised almost $100,000 at this year's Yogathon Blisfest. One way to continue supporting this registered charity is by using it's Amsoil Fund Raiser A/C #1524878 at www.amsoil.comIt's a Win-Win with Amsoil...

How organic agriculture is creating new export opportunities for African farmers

"The staunchest supporters of each of the two sides in what I call Africa's 'agro-ideological debate' are unlikely to see eye to eye any time soon, so deep is their suspicion of each others' motives. To advocates of intensive 'green revolution' revolution methods, Africa's...

Spice and Herb Clothing: Indian Weavers Heal with Fashion

"Cashing in on Old Wisdom India's traditional weavers, heirs to a 2,000-year-old textile industry, are turning to the ancient practice of ayurvedic medicine to make their products more appealing and boost sales....

Soft, squishy, octopus like robots can change shape, size

Researchers are developing organic robots that will mimic the way octupuses move and use their bodies. They believe that within two years these organic machines will change robotics forever. This approach using...

Big Pharma pushes for patents of pot-based pills

I found this statistic surprising: in 1994 there were only two pot-based pharmaceutical drugs in development in the US, while in 2004 there were 27. That's a big leap, one that could potentially hold some clout in...

Bacteria to power laptops - can synthetic biology solve energy crisis?

Cutting edge thinking on harnessing the enzyme activity of bacteria to power appliances such as laptops. Some might begin to worry about the 'design' element when applied to bacteria or other living matter and the...

Money supply, oil prices and house price falls, and precious metals « Peter ...

"Let us dwell on three key US statistics, one of which is no longer published to cover the national embarrassment. The synthetic recreation of M3, the former lode star of monetary aggregates, shows a year-to-date increase of 16.7 per cent. That crudely means there are 16.7...

Money supply, oil prices and house price falls, and precious metals « Peter ...

"Let us dwell on three key US statistics, one of which is no longer published to cover the national embarrassment. The synthetic recreation of M3, the former lode star of monetary aggregates, shows a year-to-date increase of 16.7 per cent. That crudely means there are 16.7...

May 15th is nylon stockings day!

May 15th marks the 68th anniversary of the first sale of women’s nylons. Du Pont Corporation were the first to introduce them back on May 15th, 1940 and sold over 5 million pair on that day. Celebrate today by...

BREAKING NEWS: First Cars Run on Algae Biodiesel; Breakthrough Production Pos...

This is an amazing announcement if what they say is true. People have been trying to figure out algae biodiesel for years!"Just a few hours ago, the world’s first pair of cars to run on algae biodiesel were announced at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival [picture to be...

NASA Investigates Using MMORPG's To Teach

Well this would be an interesting twist for current Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games, better known as MMORPG's. NASA is looking into designing their own virtual environment to help simulate real NASA...

Scientist Creates Life!

In their biggest step to making a real life girlfriend, scientist Craig Venter of genome fame, has claimed to create the first artificial life source thereby becoming the first scientist to reproduce. Seriously,...

The Man Who is Creating Artificial Life

 Let us hope that these experiments do not create a synthetic Frankenstein"Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built a synthetic chromosome...

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