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Revealing China’s ancient past

By Guest PostJune 7, 20101 commentCulture, Scienceamerican association for the advancement of science, arts & sciences, China, environmental change, han dynasty, henan provincial institute of cultural relics and archa, mississippi river, mulberry leaves, pleistocene era, plow shares, rural life in china, sanyangzhuang, silk cultivation, silk road, society for american archeology, st. louis, t.r. kidder, washington university, western china, yellow river

An archeologist at Washington University in St. Louis is helping to reveal for the first time a snapshot of rural life in China during the Han Dynasty.

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Kentucky Department of Education Chooses Microsoft Live@edu

By Guest PostJune 4, 2010Technologychuck austin, cloud-based e-mail, kentucky department of education, microsoft exchange server, microsoft live@edu, office of education technology, sig Behrens, terry holliday, u.s. education

The Kentucky Department of Education has selected Microsoft Live@edu to bring 21st century communications and collaboration tools to more than 700,000 students, faculty and staff statewide.

The cloud-based service has already been rolled out to more than half a million people in one of the largest cloud deployments and fastest migrations of all time. The state expects to avoid $6.3 million in operational costs over four years by moving to the cloud with Live@edu.

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Office Web Apps Planner Brings Documents to the Cloud

By Guest PostJune 3, 2010Technologymicrosoft business division, microsoft office, office web apps, product planner

Lead Product Planner Jill Campbell talks about Office Web Apps, the free, lightweight, Web-based versions of Microsoft Office programs that will become available this month, enabling users to access their documents anytime, anywhere. (more…)

Living in a high-crime neighborhood may worsen children’s asthma

By Guest PostJune 3, 20101 commentHealthasthma, asthma in children, british columbia, canada, Chicago, chicago police department, childhood asthma, children's memorial hospital, elizabeth e. springston, exposure to violence, pas, pediatric academic societies, ruchi s. gupta, stress level, vancouver

Exposure to violent crime may exacerbate asthma in children, according to a study presented on Saturday, May 1 at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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The search for improved carbon sponges picks up speed

By Guest PostJune 2, 20105 commentsEnvironmentcarbon absorbing sponges, carbon capture, carbon sponges

Jeffrey Long’s lab will soon host a round-the-clock, robotically choreographed hunt for carbon-hungry materials. (more…)

Rise in Global Temperatures and Extinction of the Lizards

By Guest PostMay 29, 20101 commentEnvironmentaaas, andrew sugden, barry sinervo, brazil, carbon dioxide, carbon dioxide emissions, carlos frederico duarte rocha, chamaeleonidae, department of ecology and evolutionary biology, donald miles, extinction, fausto méndez-de-la-cruz, furcifer lateralis, global climate change, google earth, google scholar, ignacio de la riva, jack sites, lizards, Madagascar, Mexico, mexico climate-warming, santa cruz, sceloporus lizard, Science, united states, university of california

For many lizards, global climate change is a matter of life and death.

After decades of surveying Sceloporus lizard populations in Mexico, an international research team has found that rising temperatures have driven 12 percent of the country’s lizard populations to extinction.

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Fragmented forests result in more snakes, fewer birds

By Guest PostMay 25, 20102 commentsScienceagriculture, badgers, cache river state, circumstantial, coyotes, eastern north America, florida keys, forest edge, foxes, fragmented forest, gerardo carfagno, hawks, natural area, ornithologists, parental activity, patrick weatherhead, predator, prey, raccoons, rat snakes, southern Illinois, southern Ontario, texas, unfragmented forest, university of Illinois, video cameras, wooded or semi-wooded habitat

About half of all bird nests don’t survive due to predators, particularly in fragmented forest areas, but why?

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Bigger Wallets – Bigger Waistlines :-)

By Guest PostMay 17, 20101 commentHealthcanadian men, obese in canada, obesity levels, overweight, rich households, wealthy men

In Canada, in stark contrast with the rest of the world, wealthy men increase their likelihood of being overweight with every extra dollar they make. (more…)

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