Robert Cauthorn
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team renewable energy 81 weeks 3 days 13 hours 40 minutes ago
The U.S. has long been a leader in green technologies. It has also long been a leader in fumbling that lead. Here are five big reasons why.
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 192 weeks 2 days 12 hours 56 minutes ago
Researchers have discovered two planets in a solar system 5,000 light-years away that appears to be structured in significant ways like our own.
The planets are gas giants similar to but smaller than Jupiter and Saturn, and their relative sizes are also similar. In addition, they orbit...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Green Living 185 weeks 1 day 6 hours 56 minutes ago
SolarCity, California's No. 1 residential solar power company, today announced one of the nation's most affordable solar power financing options for San Francisco residents. SolarCity's SolarLease options incorporate incentives from San Francisco's groundbreaking GoSolarSF program, and can allow many San Francisco homeowners to use clean, renewable...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 195 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago
This is a big quake -- but what is striking to me is how long this quake lasts. The damage must be staggering..
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 195 weeks 2 days 5 hours 3 minutes ago
Zhang Yimou -- one of the world's greatest film directors ("Red Sorghum," "Raise the Red Lantern,") shot this short about the Chengdu, a city considered by many to be one of China's most beautiful.
Since Chengdu was near the epicenter of today's earthquake it's worth looking...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Batboy's revenge! 212 weeks 11 hours 8 minutes ago
The bio-modding continues. Exhibit #678 is this: scientists have manipulated mouse genes to give them proto-bat wings (mice and bats share a common ancestor).
Designer animals are here, they're queer (in the old sense of the word), get used to it.
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Green Living 188 weeks 3 days 12 hours 33 minutes ago
As forecasters take that possibility more seriously, they describe fundamental shifts in the way we work, where we live and how we spend our free time.
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Urban farming 86 weeks 4 days 11 hours 30 minutes ago
Now here's a twist -- a company in LA that delivers pre-planted boxes of veggies to your home. All you need to do is water and harvest.
When the harvest is done, they come and swap out the boxes for freshly planted ones.
Interesting concept, but kind...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 247 weeks 5 days 6 hours 21 minutes ago
AVALON, Calif. (AP) -- Water-dumping planes and helicopters helped beat back soaring flames that threatened this quaint Catalina Island town Friday, giving firefighters a victory that allowed nearly 4,000 evacuated residents to start coming home....
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 193 weeks 5 days 6 hours 40 minutes ago
Hillary Clinton today cited the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy during the 1968 presidential campaign to explain why she was remaining in the race despite long odds.
"We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California," Clinton told the editorial board of a South Dakota...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 218 weeks 4 hours 25 minutes ago
A gunman killed eight people at a mall in Omaha this afternoon and then killed himself, setting off bedlam and panic among holiday shoppers, the police said.
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 62 weeks 2 days 10 hours 35 minutes ago
Scientists claim to be a step closer to reversing the ageing process after rejuvenating worn out organs in elderly mice. The experimental treatment developed by researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, turned weak and feeble old mice into healthy animals by regenerating their...(more)
