Gleanings of the Week Ending October 20, 2012
/The items below were ‘the cream’ of the articles I read this past week. Click on the light green text to look at the article:
5 Remarkable Recycled Homes - creative use of a grain silo, shipping container, an old church, bottles, etc.
Demystifying the ENERGY STAR Rating
A false colored scanning electron micrograph of caffeine crystals
Technology Trends - a list from a tech trends debate reported by Richard Watson. The panelists were challenged to come up with trends that were not obvious today and would create explosive growth in about 5 years time.
Mammogram humor from Marlo Thomas
Gabon Expedition: Oil Rigs Are a Haven for Marine Life - a win-win for conservation
Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week #24 - Which one is your favorite? Mine is the first - the rainbow lorikeet
The Best of the 2012 Labbies - The Scientist’s annual multimedia awards. I like the luna moth antennae taken by a high school teacher from Rochester, New York
Good Milk/Bad Milk - a video about why milk is popular and healthy for some people…and makes others sick. This was one of the Honorable Mention Labbies.
Super-cheap health tests, a blood test made of paper - And why are we not seeing these being rolled out in the US and not just targeted to poor countries of the world?
