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Photo credit: ACS Nano That’s the name researchers at the University of Notre Dame have given to their solar paint that uses nanoparticles to generate electricity. “We want to do something transformative, to move beyond current silicon-based solar technology,” says Prashant Kamat, John A. Zahm Professor of Science in Chemistry and Biochemistry and an [...] Earlier this year the foundation gave a group of young fellows $100k and two years of mentoring in exchange for quitting college. And they advise that maybe college isn’t the best of all choices as it could land you deep in debt with no real marketable skills either. I agree. I have a B.A. [...] AP now offers AP Styleguard, a Microsoft Word add-on that integrates their essential AP Stylebook, and offers corrections. This saves having to refer to the book. It’s about $50 a year. The vacuum cleaner was whirring madly. I discovered all these cat hair balls were clogged up in the flexible hose. Foreign policy wonk and fellow podcaster Keith Boyea just posted his anti-war playlist. Even though I indulge in it, the COINdanista vs. COINtra debate always depresses me because it fights over HOW the war should be fought instead of asking the far more important question: “Why should we fight?” I wish we’d have spent a [...] katu.com Sheriff Joe Arpaio recently faced withering criticism for ignoring over 400 cases of sex crimes against mostly Latino children. Last week, the US Department of Justice released a scathing report after a lengthy investigation into the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO). It concluded that Arpaio has overseen the worst pattern of racial profiling [...] Fifty-two million dollars. That’s what the expiration of the payroll tax cut will cost Bend (Oregon). (I’ll use round numbers, to make it easier for Tea Baggers and Republicans to understand) Assuming twenty-five thousand (25,000) families in Bend averaging fifty thousand (50,000) dollars a year earnings losing forty (40) dollars per week in income. Forty [...] Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy It’s a tradition at Navy homecomings that one sailor is chosen by raffle to be first off the ship to kiss a loved one. Wednesday, for the first [...] Policeman ca. 1920. Unidentified (Smithsonian American Art Museum) The various National Longitudinal Surveys done annually by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) have provided data for researchers for over 40 years. One of the groups tracked by the BLS is a cohort of young people; the most recent study is called the National Longitudinal Survey [...] Cost competitive biofuel from algae is one of the Holy Grails of renewable energy. If achieved, it would be a disruptive technology that changes energy forever. Australian company Algae.Tec says they may have a breakthrough. [their system] uses low maintenance technologies and an efficient solar system to produce algae in one tenth of the [...] |  | ||||
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