"After controlling for year-to-year fluctuations in weather, they found that urbanisation was having a statistically significant impact on rainfall around the region's cities."
"And like so many Web 1.0 companies that came before them, MySpace is headed for a big, clumsy fall. Here’s why." David Louis Edelman predicts something I've been months longing for.
"Satellite navigation systems can stunt your brain, preventing it from developing, according to scientists. They have discovered that taxi drivers have actually grown more brain cells because of
"They like the free market, don’t they?" They sure do. Never thought I'd hear myself agreeing with economists, but there's a first time for everything.
"Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has called for better use of the 'space resource' to battle Earth's climate crisis, enlisting entrepreneurial muscle to help solve global issues that threaten
"Space Adventures of Arlington, Virginia, is opening its first office in Beijing to introduce space tourism to well-heeled space tourists in the biggest and fastest-growing economy on the planet.
Worldchanging reports on a rare and special soil from the Amazon basin. It stores two and a half times the carbon of regular soil, and it could revolutionise the way we grow crops for fuel.
David 'Technorati' Sifry reports - apparently the blogosphere is doubling in size every six months or so at the moment, but 70% of pings are spams - I can vouch for the latter statistic.
Madeleine Roberts at DeepGenre has a cheering and affirmational assessment on the value of story - a great antidote to those who tell you that reading fiction is a waste of time.