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- BPA health scare gets more serious
- Higher levels of BPA in your urine indicate an increased risk of heart attack, stroke, or diabetes. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Bottle, Health Care, Chemical, BPA, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- The hits keep coming against plastic bottles with bisphenol-A
- Tests of BPA done with doses now present in your body show reduction in brain function from this chemical. Not just in babies, but in adult primates. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Bottle, Health Care, Chemical, BPA, National Toxicology Program, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Is your Nalgene bottle safe?
- Rather than argue directly with Canada, the FDA review ruled only that the quantities in which it occurs mean it's not dangerous. This may overturn a San Francisco ban on the substance. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Bottle, Chemical, Baby Bottle, Myers, Federal Government, Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Will mushrooms replace eggs in vaccine production?
- You can't make a vaccine today without breaking a few eggs. But what about that other ingredient in any good omelot, the mushroom? Peter Romaine at Penn State says simple button mushrooms can replace eggs in the production of many vaccines, and can replace chemical processes in...
- Tags: Vaccine, Idea, Mushroom, Chemical, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- Apple's Jobs throws HP and Dell under the Prius
- Apple has taken its share of environmental hits and CEO Steve Jobs has had enough. And hes willing to throw HP and Dell under the Prius while hes at it. In a blog post dubbed "A Greener Apple" Jobs outlines...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard, Hardware Infrastructure, Green Tech, General, Dell, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Environmentally responsible hi-tech companies - and those that aren't!
- Greenpeace has updated their "Green Electronics Guide", a list which Who knows, maybe a year from now the companies that are at the bottom of the list will change their ways and be at the topranks the major mobile and PC manufacturers on how well they take care of this...
- Tags: Greenpeace
- Blog posts 2006-08-30
- Conversations Within Cells
- An interdisciplinary team of biochemists and computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego UCSD, has developed a specialized software to explain how some proteins can play different roles in a wide range of cellular processes. This software approach was previously seen as unable to reveal these hidden conversations...
- Tags: cell, protein
- Blog posts 2005-09-17
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- Toxic Mac Pro's emitting benzene?
- Toxic Mac Pro's emitting benzene?So what is the source of the issue?It's one thing to make such a spectacular claim it's another to provide some real evidence. Why would they be emitting a toxic smell? Might this be the case with other computers too?No wonder MBP fans love...
- Tags: benzene, MAC Pro, Apple Inc., toxin
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- New nanotechnology to speed up computers
- University of California at Santa Barbara UCSB researchers have developed new nanoscale structures that will help to speed up computers. This research project was funded by IBM, Intel and other partners including the U.S. National Science Foundation. This new manufacturing process is called block co-polymer lithography or BCP. The scientists...
- Tags: Pattern, Salad, Lithography, Computer, BCP, Semiconductors, Nanotechnology, Productivity, Manufacturing, Hardware, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Ant Planet (dmg)
- Somewhere in the South Pacific, in a rare natural event, a shower of blue crystalline meteors landed on several uninhabited islands. The shower lasted days and nights, and from a safe distance on their home islands, entire tribes of primitive peoples watched the sky with fear and awe, hoping that...
- Tags: Ant, Island, Shower, Reliabit
- Software downloads 2008-09-23
- Video: The week in Green tech
- At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson describes the acceleration of computer and genetic technology through Moore's law, and then outlines nature-inspired methods for building nanotech. He also explains why decoding DNA from the ocean is important to green tech's future. ...
- Tags: Biofuel, Green Technology, Video, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Lenovo slashes monitor energy consumption by up to 60 percent
- What with all the financial market doom and gloom this week, I clear forgot there were at least two fairly sizable trade shows going on in computer-dom. China's Lenovo used one of them to introduce a series of six ThinkVision monitors that boast various green tech credentials. ...
- Tags: Monitor, Lenovo Group Ltd., IBM ThinkVision, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Biotech for food, fuel
- At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., J. Craig Venter says going from food to fuel--corn to ethanol--is taking resources in the wrong direction. He discusses oil palm and the jatropha genome as future fuel possibilities, and talks about algae as a way to convert carbon back into a...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Biotechnology, Manufacturing, green, bioengineering, oil, food, algae, carbon, energy, crops, chemicals
- Videos 2008-09-18
- Drill, baby, drill--revisited
- Despite the House having approved a new bill on ofshore oil drilling, it now appears unlikely there will be a change in the law. That means the current offshore moratorium on driling expires at the end of this month. Then it is presumed the government will...
- Tags: Offshore, Oil, Petroleum, Telecom & Utilities, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- What are we breathing now? Let me guess...
- What are we breathing now? Let me guess...AIRSO!please stop using my AIR hold your breath so we can get clean air. you are messing it all up for usGET A REAL JOBBreathing deeplyconfident in the fact that the human system is excellent at filtering out all manner of substances...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, political establishment, Dude
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
- Logitech Pure-Fi Dream
- Ever since iHome put out its popular--and growing--line of affordable iPod clock radios, other companies have followed suit and introduced their own competing models. Logitech has been a little slow in bringing out its take on this emerging category, but the wait is mostly worth it. The Pure-Fi Dream is...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, sleep timer, iPod Dock, Apple iPod, Logitech, radio
- Product reviews 2008-09-09
- How pot may win the war against super-bacteria
- How pot may win the war against super-bacteriaWell, this would be great news for...Lays potato chips!This explains alot!!I think we finally see why Mr. Blankenhorn's writing has been of such "quality"...seems to have an affinity towards the poor, oppressed illegal users of "medical marijuana". Oh...maybe he's got a headache...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Pot
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- Chemspread PRO (exe)
- Free Java Applet is a chemistry spreadsheet calculator - balances virtually any chemical equation and follows up with stoichiometry calculations as well as equillibruim calculations. Percentage mass, titrations, ideal and non-ideal gases. Knows the periodic table and computes molecular weight of all entries. Partial pressures and Van der Waal equation....
- Tags: Equation, Spreadsheet, ChemistryCalculator.com, Productivity, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-09-02
- Reconstructing Chemical Reaction Networks: Data Mining Meets System Identification
- This paper presents an approach to reconstructing chemical reaction networks from time series measurements of the concentrations of the molecules involved. The solution strategy combines techniques from numerical sensitivity analysis and probabilistic graphical models. By modeling a chemical re-action system as a Markov network undirected graphical model, the paper shows...
- Tags: Network, Topology, Data Mining, Association For Computing Machinery, Networking
- White papers 2008-08-27
- Are we seeing a serious greening of Colorado? Sure seems that way.
- Are we seeing a serious greening of Colorado? Sure seems that way.Yep, going green allrightIt's called moss growing over all the abandoned homes and industry as Colorado slips into economic depression.The question now becomes how much misery will Americans allow greens to foist upon us until we've finally had...
- Tags: serious greening, Microsoft Excel
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
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