Scientists in the Netherlands have discovered that insects produce significantly less greenhouse gas per kilogram of meat than cattle or pigs. Their study, published in the online journal PLoS One, suggests that a move towards insect farming could result in a more sustainable – and affordable – form of meat production — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Andrew Herschberger’s girlfriend lives in Delta, almost 25 miles across the gentle hills of the Susquehanna Valley. But as a member of the Amish community, he may not drive a car, ride a motorcycle or even hop on a bicycle to go there.
He travels using an increasingly popular mode of Amish transportation, in-line skates.
It’s faster than a horse, and it’s fun,
said Mr Herschberger, 20, who skates the 25 miles in two hours, almost twice as fast as an Amish buggy. You just feel free.
Mr Herschberger has abundant company on the roads of southeastern Pennsylvania. In the last few years, hundreds of Amish, most of them young, have taken up in-line skating to run errands, play hockey or just zigzag for pleasure.
Among the 150,000 or so Old Order Amish, who live in 230 settlements in 22 states and Canada, in-line skating is justified as an efficient, sensible means of locomotion, another example of how the modern can square with the traditional — via New York Times
A young gay man recounts his soul-crushing experience being rehabilitated
by the Christian Right — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Recycling a single story suburban house located on a busy corner site, the Jigsaw Residence introverts itself in a continuous spatial flow around an open air courtyard carved from the home’s remains. A matrix of spaces is linked by movement through them as storeys merge and spaces relate to each other as they rise and fall in a series of interlocked puzzle-like volumes giving a unique three dimensional framework to each space where plan and section respond to program simultaneously — via ArchDaily
Soap bars are more efficient than liquid soap dispensers but are also a messy pain in the ass. Enter design student Nathalie Stämpfli’s Soap Flakes. It works like a pump dispenser and grates a small amount of soap into your hand when you pump the handle — via kottke.org
Dick Clark Architecture have designed the Terrace Mountain House in Austin, Texas.
Located on a steep site in Westlake Hills, oriented towards a spectacular view of downtown Austin, this 4,700 square foot house merges traditional Texas forms and materials with unique contemporary details. The plan is simply arranged around an open living, dining, and kitchen space that accomodates the clients’ desire to entertain while providing a buffer between public and private use — via CONTEMPORIST
The Canadian maker of the Blackberry smartphone, Research In Motion (RIM), has agreed to make pornographic websites inaccessible to Indonesian users of the phone — via redwolf.newsvine.com
On Saturday morning, a gunman shot Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords while she was meeting with constituents outside a Safeway store in Tucson, Arizona, and then apparently kept on shooting, leaving six people (including a nine-year-old girl) dead and Rep. Giffords in critical condition.
While the rest of the world was wishing Gifford well, mourning the dead, and denouncing the vitriol that encourages such violence, Travis Corcoran, the president of online comics retailer Heavy Ink, put up a post on his personal blog titled 1 down, 534 to go
. Corcoran was, of course, referring to the 535 members of Congress — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Concerned by the wave of requests for customer data from law enforcement agencies, Google last year set up an online tool showing the frequency of these requests in various countries. In the first half of 2010, it counted more than 4,200 in the United States.
Google is not alone among Internet and telecommunications companies in feeling inundated with requests for information. Verizon told Congress in 2007 that it received some 90,000 such requests each year. And Facebook told Newsweek in 2009 that subpoenas and other orders were arriving at the company at a rate of 10 to 20 a day — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Mr Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old Facebook chief executive and co-founder, may be the man of the moment in the United States and much of the rest of the online world. But here in Japan, one of the globe’s most wired nations, few people have heard of him.
And relatively few Japanese use Facebook, the global social-networking phenomenon based in Palo Alto, Calif., that recently added its 583 millionth member worldwide.
Facebook users in Japan number fewer than two million, or less than 2 percent of the country’s online population. That is in sharp contrast to the United States, where 60 percent of Internet users are on Facebook, according to the analytics site Socialbakers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The popular Incursore collection from Glycine returns with a model II and model III. Relatively inexpensive, these watches comes with a few dial styles and with automatic or manually wound movements — via A Blog to Read
A woman from Chicago’s Northwest Side wanted to start the New Year with a marriage proposal, with help from police.
Ana Perez, 40, called 911 around 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, claiming her boyfriend was attacking her.
When police arrived, she changed her story, admitting she was trying to scare her boyfriend into marrying her — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There is a thriving houseboat community on Seattle’s Lake Union. It is almost a shanty town: a squeezed-in suburb of houseboats living cheek by jowl, all enjoying great water views. But the variety of houseboats is so great that there are true luxury houseboats in with the simplest shacks.
This one is for sale — via Home Design Find
Together with its recently released RM 010 Boutique Special timepiece, the Swiss watchmaker has also introduced a Richard Mille RM 010 Black Night limited edition watch.
Like its sibling, the RM 010 Black Night is powered by the RM 005-basd RM 010 automatic caliber that features their proprietary variable geometry winding rotor.
The only difference between the base movement and its more recent incarnation is that the RM 010 is meticulously skeletonized and looks quite good both through the sapphire display back and the transparent dial — via World Watch Review
Decoration in the foyer of the Empire State Building, NYC
With sweeping views of the Cascades, Lake Union and just blocks from the exciting and eclectic Fremont district, this project consists of seven private town homes with shared underground parking in a cornerstone location. Sustainable building practices were employed throughout the design process and the project is seeking LEED Platinum certification status. Johnston Architects decided that in order to achieve the LEED rating for this project it was imperative to embed sustainable principles into the process from the get-go encompassing both the natural and urban environments while utilizing unique green practices — via ArchDaily
An app a day: RunPee. What is it? Ever missed that crucial part in a movie because you simply had to, well, pee? Or worse, sat cross-legged in the cinema too afraid to leave in case you lost the plot?
Californian Dan Florio has. It was while watching the three-hour King Kong movie, which he uncomfortably endured despite an urgent need to go to the loo. In retrospect he realised he could have missed the boring bug scene and so created RunPee, a website, now an app, of a host of films and their missable parts. The app is available on iPhone, BlackBerry and Android platforms — via vanessa-wilson73.newsvine.com
The trial of six green campaigners has collapsed after an undercover policeman who had infiltrated their group offered to give evidence on their behalf — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Conservationists are using giant weather balloons to stalk Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google isn’t a web application company—they’re an advertising company. That’s what they do best, and that’s what drives their company. Of Google’s $23.6 billion of revenue in 2009, all but $760 million of it was derived from advertising, and nearly 70 percent of it was from Google’s own websites.
Everything Google does must be understood within this context. Google builds services like Google Maps, Gmail and Docs and gives them away for free not because they have a philosophical belief that web applications should be free, but rather because giving them away for free gives them a competitive advantage. Free services, running Google ads, are obviously advantageous because free means more people will use them than if they charged and thus they can realize greater advertising revenues — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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