Bulgaria Allows Bear Hunting, Armenia Takes Gentler Approach to Ursine Raids on Fields and Orchards
November 19, 2010 No Comment
A Eurasian brown bear at a zoo in England. Photo: Scott Baverstock / Creative Commons . With hungry brown bears posing a nuisance to farmers in Armenia and Bulgaria , the two countries have taken dramatically opposing measures to solve the problem, with one legalizing hunting and the other organizing “night patrols” to protect both animals and crops…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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At this point we’re completely amused that the Droid 2 Global has managed to leak out , get advertised , go on sale , and even arrive in customers’ hands without so much as a PR peep from Verizon, so we leapt at the chance to get a quick hands-on with it last night here in NYC. Nothing here you wouldn’t really expect, and we weren’t able to run any performance tests on the speedbumped 1.2GHz processor, but we were able to solve the mystery of that camera bulge : turns out the Droid 2 Global is a hair thinner than the standard Droid 2, and the bulge pops out just enough to make up the difference. It’s not dramatic, by any means — if we hadn’t been looking, we probably wouldn’t have noticed. Oh, and it’s definitely running Blur on top of Android 2.2, so you know, that’s “awesome.” Anyway, at the rate we’re going we’ll have a full review up and this thing will be discontinued before Verizon ever formally acknowledges it, so hit the gallery for a quick hands-on with The Droid That Doesn’t… Exist. Gallery: Motorola Droid 2 Global hands-on Motorola Droid 2 Global hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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NATO member states are preparing to give the go-ahead this weekend to a revised missile shield to protect 900 million citizens. Leaders of the…
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Russell Brand won’t face charges in airport spat; Cher leaves hand and footprints outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre; Palin’s success raises tempers but boosts ratings. (Nov. 19)
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Image credit: Worm Power We all know that composting is a great way to reduce waste , and vermicomposting can be a particularly effective method on the household level . When I wrote about worm composting becoming big business , there was also a lot of interest in the supposed disease suppressing qualities of vermicompost. Now an article over at the Cornell… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: hellobo , used under Creative Commons license. We’ve seen before how few people will confront a bike thief , and we’ve also heard the advice of a former bike thief on how to keep your ride safe . (Let’s not forget Hal, the dreadlocked mechanic, and his grading of New Yorkers bike locking abilities either.) Now James Walsh over at The Guardian’… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Richard Drdul under a Creative Commons license New York was doing so well. The city has seen a steady rise in the number of cyclists and pedestrians over the past few years, and has made trend-setting efforts to make the streets safer for these new, car-rejecting commuters. But in a surprising step backwards, the NY Department of Transportation announce… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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An archaeological dig near a colorado resort town yielded more than 500 bones dating back 43000 years. the dig produced bones from mastodons, mammoths, bison and even deer. (Nov. 19)
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Ask any motorsport enthusiast and they’ll tell you that there’s just something about the way a carbon fiber weave ripples in the sunlight that makes them want to cover every surface of their vehicles with the stuff. It looks like Apple engineer Kevin M. Kenney shares a similar passion, applying for a patent called simply “Reinforced Device Housing” that describes a way for various weaves to be backed by carbon “spine” to provide greater torsional rigidity — to keep you from twisting it and cracking an LCD. It’s hard to deny the images attached to the application look an awful lot like an iPad , but the patent text is rather more broad: Embodiments may house any number of electronic components. For example, certain embodiments may be used to form the exterior surface of a mobile telephone, a laptop or notebook computer, a tablet computing device, a desktop computer, a television, a stereo receiver, or practically any other electronic device. Even sporks and shipping containers are mentioned! We’ve certainly seen the stuff in some pretty interesting places in the past, and now can’t wait to see where it shows up next. Gallery: Apple ‘Reinforced Device Housing’ patent Apple patent may mean future unibodies get woven from carbon fiber originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Officials say more than two dozen people are missing following an explosion at a mine in remote and rugged mountains on New Zealand’s South Island. Five other workers managed to make their way out. (Nov. 19)
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