Science
Turks turn tires into ‘stardust’
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If successful, the process could prove instrumental in the vexing environmental challenge of dealing with landfill-hogging tires. In Europe alone, 325,000 tons of tires are buried in landfills each year.
Culture
There’s wind in their (renewable) sales
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Zotos International, Inc., of Geneva, N.Y., a company begun years ago as a maker of hair dyes, in July announced plans for a $7 million, 3.3 MW on-site wind power project, 30 percent of which is to be funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Democracy
Wisconsin chancellor takes on Nike and wins big in Honduras
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“It might seem unlikely that the actions we take here in Madison can have a major impact on a multibillion-dollar industry and corporate powerhouses such as Nike.”
Science
The world of food … on a chart
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Graphic artists at ShiftN.com. have attempted to visualize the human food system, creating a chart—or map—of the myriad factors that make up the whole process.
Science
Big whales appear in great numbers in Northern California
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An influx of huge krill swarms has drawn an unprecedented number of blue whales to the Monterey, Calif. coast, delighting boatloads of whale watchers.
Culture
Saudis raise the ante in mobile desalination
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Saudi Arabia has pushed forward in its efforts to turn seawater into drinkable water, re-launching the world’s largest floating desalination plant.
Culture
The retrofitting of suburbia
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“We tend to think that downtowns should be dynamic, and we expect that. But we seem to have an expectation that the suburbs should somehow remain frozen in whatever adolescent form they were first given birth to. It’s time to let them grow up.”
Culture
Bol’s fatal skin disease baffling, excrutiating
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Former NBA star Manute Bol, the 7-foot-7 Sudanese tribesman who died at 47 on June 19, succumbed to kidney failure and a baffling, deadly skin disease called Stevens-Johnson syndrome.
World
Manute Bol, freedom fighter, is dead at 47
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Manute Bol is dead, and the world has lost one of the most iconoclastic freedom fighters in modern times.
Environment
Alaska on fire while Lower 48 girds for summer wildfires
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Fairbanks is smoky. Anchorage is smoky. To be in Alaska this early June is to see skies of haze, mixed with the scent of burning forests.