«Money can’t buy you love, happiness or even respect. Cash, however, might provide some relief from pain.

In a series of experiments, people who counted money felt less pain when their hands were dipped into scalding water. The soothing power of cash also helped them shrug off the emotional pain of social exclusion.»

Source: discovery.com

the world’s largest working hydro-electric wave energy device
«The world’s largest working hydro-electric wave energy device has been officially launched in Scotland. Known as Oyster, the device was installed this year and is, at present, the world’s only hydro-electric wave energy device which is producing power. Oyster produces

wind turbine kites to fly at 30,000 feet
Researchers at Stanford University are trying to design high-altitude wind turbine kites that fly so high that airliners would have to fly around them. Flying an expected 30,000 feet above the Earth, the tethered kites would be able to

Home Theater PC in Original Nintendo
« This is a custom modified original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) with a Home Theater PC (HTPC) installed inside. The guts of the original NES have been removed and an Intel ATOM based PC has been securely installed

Hawking says don’t f*** with aliens
«In a series for the Discovery Channel the renowned astrophysicist said it was “perfectly rational” to assume intelligent life exists elsewhere. But he warned that aliens might simply raid Earth for resources, then move on. » Source: BBC

JPMorgan’s War on Nature
«Oover the past 17 years, JPMorgan Chase has helped to underwrite nearly 20 bond or loan deals, worth a combined $8.5 trillion, for some of the biggest players in the MTR mining business, according to data from Bloomberg.» Full article at:

Are vertical farms the future of urban food?
«Financial and environmental pressures on modern agriculture have sparked new interest in vertical farming. With global population expected to exceed 9 billion by 2050, competition for land to grow both food and energy crops will become increasingly

Goldman Sachs, the bubble machine
«From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they’re about to do it again. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid

attentat à la miche
Le pain est à l’alimentation de l’européen moyen ce que la gelée de groseilles est au catch féminin (comment ça «ça veut rien dire» ?). Toujours est-il qu’il paraîtrait que bon nombre de nos voisins les grands-bretons souffriraient d’une

Tapped
«Tapped is a film that examines the role of the bottled water industry and its effects on our health, climate change, pollution, and our reliance on oil.» Source: YouTube - tappedfilm’s Channel Watch it: filestab.com: domino-tapped.avi Google it: Tapped.2009.DVDRip.XviD-DOMiNO Share a2a_config.linkname="Handling Money

La minute solaire
Savais-tu que 970 trillion de KiloWatts d’energie tombait du ciel chaque jour ? C’est en tout cas le message communiqué par ce petit clip video d’une asser bonne réalisation (attention la tête!) » Voir : pioneers-of-power.de Et pour rester dans le