Diet Soft Drinks Linked to Risk of Heart Disease - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/health/research/diet-soft-drinks-linked-to-risk-of-heart-disease.html


-Tom.

Voice algorithms spot Parkinson's | Digg Topnews

http://m.digg.com/newsbar/topnews/voice_algorithms_spot_parkinson_s_1


-Tom.

All-Carbon Solar Cell Harnesses Infrared Light | CleanTechnicaCleanTechnica

http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/22/all-carbon-solar-cell-harnesses-infrared-light/


-Tom.

Wheat vs corn in a global warming future

"Wheat production generates less than half the fossil-fuel emissions of corn and returns 63 percent more protein."

""The digestibility of unprocessed corn to humans isn't very high," says Jerry Hatfield, a plant physiologist with the USDA. "We have to put it through processing of some sort, whether that happens in a factory or an animal." Set those problems aside, and a deal-breaker remains:modern corn is more sensitive to heat than any other major crop, and attempts to create drought- and heat-resistant corn through genetic modification are still unproven."

"Jones searches for drought-, disease- and flood-tolerant wheat strains that were grown in Washington a century ago (and which fell out of favor because they didn't consistently produce large yields) and breeds them with modern, high-yield varieties. Farmers sow the resulting seeds and, at the end of the season, collect the seeds from the best-performing plants to use for next year's crop. In as little as eight years, this process creates new wheat strains. And in a 2010 test in Washington's Douglas County, one of these new wheat strains outperformed all 59 competitors, including entries from genetic-engineering giants Monsanto and Syngenta"

http://m.popsci.com/science/article/2012-06/adapting-three-top-crops-hotter-planet

Self-cooling soda can

http://westcoastchill.com/


-Tom.

Who's making plug-in electric vehicles - up-to-date list

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_production_plug-in_electric_vehicles

And the timeline for hybrid vehicles:
http://www.hybridcenter.org/hybrid-timeline.html
-Tom.

The 6 Creepiest Lies the Food Industry is Feeding You | Cracked.com

http://www.cracked.com/article_19896_the-6-creepiest-lies-food-industry-feeding-you.html


-Tom.

The Earth Harp

A giant harp with strings dozens of yards long. He barely touches the strings so the sounds must be highly amplified.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ-hukZW8Sk&feature=youtube_gdata_player


-Tom.