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Abgeschmiert beim Palmöl-Test

By Guest PostNovember 12, 2013Environmentaldi nord, august storck, deutschland, edeka, haribo, landwirtschaft, martina fleckenstein, nachhaltiges palmoel, orang utan, palmoel, palmoel test, plantagen, rewe, rossmann, rspo, scorecards, tengelmann, tiger, tropischen regenwaldregionen, wwf

Nachhaltigkeit verzweifelt gesucht: Null Punkte für Tengelmann, Aldi Nord und Rossmann. / WWF: Regenwald steckt noch immer in Pizza und Lippenstift.

Über 60 Prozent des in Deutschland verwendeten Palmöls stammt aus Produktion, die nicht einmal den Minimalanforderungen an ökologischer und sozialer Nachhaltigkeit genügt. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt ein am Dienstag veröffentlichter WWF-Bericht. Insgesamt erreichten 72 von 157 befragten deutschen Unternehmen weniger als zwei Punkte und fanden sich damit am untersten Ende der Nachhaltigkeits-Skala wieder, darunter Aldi Nord, Tengelmann und Rossmann. Die vom WWF geforderten Zusatzkriterien, wie ein Umwandlungsverbot von kohlenstoffreichen Torfböden und ein Verzicht auf Pestizide, werden sogar nur von einer Handvoll Unternehmen nachgefragt. (more…)

IBM Launches Talent Assessment to Help Aspiring Data Crunchers and Academia Gauge and Enhance Skills

By Guest PostNovember 12, 2013Technologyanalytics careers, analytics talent assessment, big data, capital management strategy, chief data officers, fordham university, george washington university, ibm, ibm academic initiative, ibm data scientists, logical reasoning, mike rhodin, ohio state university, social assuredness, verbal reasoning

WASHINGTON – 12 Nov 2013: IBM today unveiled the IBM Analytics Talent Assessment, a first-of-its-kind online platform that provides university students with data-driven insights that aim to help narrow the Big Data and Analytics skills gap and foster talent for the next-generation workforce.

UsingIBM Analytics Talent Assessment, university students can gauge their readiness for public and private sector Big Data and analytics careers and gain guidance on ways to further develop and position themselves for these in-demand jobsthrough a simple online questionnaire. In addition to benefitting students and universities, talent assessments help organizations identify and hire the right candidate for the right job. They can also enable them to more accurately predict performance, thereby adding greater efficiencies to an organization’s human capital management strategy. (more…)

‘Freakish’ asteroid discovered, resembles rotating lawn sprinkler

By Guest PostNovember 12, 2013Scienceasteroid belt, asteroid rotation rate, astrophysical journal letters, comet like tails, common phenomenon, david jewitt, dust radiating, episodic eruptions, freakish asteroid, Germany, harold weaver, hubble, jessica agarwal, jupiter, lindau, mars, massive, max mutchler, max planck institute, nucleus, pan starrs, rotational breakup, solar system research, stephen larson, ucla

Astronomers have discovered a “weird and freakish object” resembling a rotating lawn sprinkler in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The find, reported online in the Nov. 7 issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters, has left them scratching their heads and searching for an explanation for the strange asteroid’s out-of-this-world appearance.

Normal asteroids appear simply as tiny points of light. This bizarre asteroid has six comet-like tails of dust radiating from it like spokes on a wheel. (more…)

New Research from Sociologists Finds the Racial and Educational Preferences of Internet Daters

By Guest PostNovember 12, 2013Culture, Technologyamherst, asian men, black dater, black women, college degree, cyberspace, demographic, educational preference, formation of relationships, internet dater, jennifer lundquist, ken hou lin, mate selection, new research, online dating, racial, sociologist, university of massachusetts, white dater

Study of nearly one million dating website users shows opportunities for white daters, hurdles for blacks

AMHERST, Mass. – New research from sociologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has found specific racial patterns in the outreach and response habits of heterosexual men and women using online dating sites.

In a study published in the upcoming issue of the American Journal of Sociology, vol. 119, no. 1, UMass Amherst doctoral recipient Ken-Hou Lin and associate professor Jennifer Lundquist tracked the racial and educational characteristics of almost one million online daters searching for relationships from the 20 largest cities in the U.S. They then analyzed the inquiries sent and received by each dater, in order to gain an understanding of how members of each race interact with one another in an online dating setting. (more…)

Spitzer and ALMA Reveal a Star’s Bubbly Birth

By Guest PostNovember 11, 2013Sciencealberto noriega crespo, alma, atacama large millimeter, bouncing baby, bubbly birth, Chile, hector arce, herbig haro, hh objects, NASA, spitzer, spitzer space telescope, star, star making, submillimeter array, yale university

It’s a bouncing baby . . . star! Combined observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the newly completed Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have revealed the throes of stellar birth as never before in the well-studied object known as HH 46/47.

Herbig-Haro (HH) objects form when jets shot out by newborn stars collide with surrounding material, producing small, bright, nebulous regions. To our eyes, the dynamics within many HH objects are obscured by enveloping gas and dust. But the infrared and submillimeter wavelengths of light seen by Spitzer and ALMA, respectively, pierce the dark cosmic cloud around HH 46/47 to let us in on the action. (more…)

Gas Injection Probably Triggered Small Earthquakes Near Snyder, Texas

By Guest PostNovember 11, 2013Environmentaustin, carbon capture, carbon dioxide, CCS, ccs project, cliff frohlich, co2 eor, cogdell field, earthscope, enhanced oil recovery, gas injection, magnitude 3, northwest texas, salt creek field, scurry area canyon, small earthquake, snyder, snyder earthquake, storage, texas, texas railroad commission, trigger, U.S. Geological Survey, underground, university of texas, usarray data, wei gan

AUSTIN, Texas — A new study correlates a series of small earthquakes near Snyder, Texas between 2006 and 2011 with the underground injection of large volumes of gas, primarily carbon dioxide (CO₂) — a finding that is relevant to the process of capturing and storing CO₂ underground.

Although the study suggests that underground injection of gas triggered the Snyder earthquakes, it also points out that similar rates of injections have not triggered comparable quakes in other fields, bolstering the idea that underground gas injection does not cause significant seismic events in many geologic settings. (more…)

„Wir haben keine Zeit mehr, nur zu reden“

By Guest PostNovember 11, 2013Environmentbundesregierung, China, cop 19, der co2 emission, der klimawandel, der weltklimarat, Greenpeace, indien, internationale klimakonferenz, ipcc, klimapolitik bei greenpeace, klimaschutz, martin kaiser, Paris, russland, sara westerhaus, spd, us dollar, us praesident obama, warschau

Die wichtigsten Fragen und Antworten zur COP 19

Heute beginnt in Warschau die internationale Klimakonferenz COP 19. Martin Kaiser, Leiter der internationalen Klimapolitik bei Greenpeace, ist selbst in Warschau dabei und beantwortet die wichtigsten Fragen.

Online-Redaktion: Klimakonferenzen scheinen meist das zu produzieren, was sie eigentlich verhindern sollen: heiße Luft. Warum ist Greenpeace trotzdem in Warschau? (more…)

Murder Has Always Been a Part of Children’s Books, Author Finds

By Guest PostNovember 10, 2013Literatureamerican books, books for children, graphic violence, juvenile fiction, level of violence, literary violence

Violence in ‘Hunger Games’ not unusual for children’s lit

COLUMBUS, Ohio – If you think the Hunger Games novels are too violent for their intended young readers, try re-reading classic children’s books from the past. (more…)

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