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Joel Kahn, M.D.: Moving From Ambulances To Fences For Strokes  
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Congress Subpoenas Climate Scientists In Effort To Hamper ExxonMobil Fraud Investigation  

ExxonMobil executives may have intentionally misled the public about climate change for decades. And the House Science Committee just hampered legal efforts to learn more about ExxonMobil's actions by subpoenaing the nonprofit scientists who sought to find out what the fossil fuel giant knew and when.

For 40 years, tobacco companies intentionally misled consumers to believe that smoking wasn't harmful. Now it appears that many in the fossil fuel industry may have applied similarly deceptive tactics and for just as long to confuse the public about the dangers of climate change.

Investigative research by nonprofit groups like InsideClimate News and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) have turned up evidence that ExxonMobil may have known about the hazards of fossil-fuel driven climate change back in the 1970s. However, rather than informing the public or taking steps to reduce such risks, documents indicate that ExxonMobil leadership chose to cover up their findings and instead convince the public that climate science couldn't be trusted.

As a result of these findings, the Attorneys General (AGs) from New York and Massachusetts launched a legal investigation to determine if ExxonMobile committed fraud, including subpoenaing the company for more information. That's when the House Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith stepped in.

Chairman Smith, under powerful new House rules, unilaterally subpoenaed not just the AGs, but also many of the nonprofits involved in the ExxonMobile investigation, including groups like the UCS. Smith and other House representatives argue that they're merely supporting ExxonMobile's rights to free speech and to form opinions based on scientific research.

However, no one is targeting ExxonMobile for expressing an opinion. The Attorneys General and the nonprofits are investigating what may have been intentional fraud.

In a public statement, Ken Kimmell, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists said:

We do not accept Chairman Smith's premise that fraud, if committed by ExxonMobil, is protected by the First Amendment. It's beyond ironic for Chairman Smith to violate our actual free speech rights in the name of protecting ExxonMobil's supposed right to misrepresent the work of its own scientists and deceive shareholders and the public. […]

Smith is misusing the House Science Committee's subpoena power in a way that should concern everyone across the political spectrum. Today, the target is UCS and others concerned about climate change. But if these kinds of subpoenas are allowed, who will be next and on what basis?

In fact, Chairman Smith also subpoenaed climate scientists at the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the fall of 2015 and again earlier this year. UCS representatives are referring to this as a blatant “abuse of power” on the part of the government and ExxonMobil.

Gretchen Goldman, a lead analyst for UCS, wrote: “Abuse of power is when a company exploits its vast political network to squash policies that would address climate change.”

The complete list of nonprofits subpoenaed by Chairman Smith includes: 350.org, the Climate Accountability Institute, the Climate Reality Project, Greenpeace, Pawa Law Group PC, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Rockefeller Family Fund, and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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Inishturk, Ireland, has a population of 58 and its people—according to a widely circulated Internet rumor—have offered refuge to any Americans who want to flee from a Donald Trump presidency. This charming documentary by MEL Films, Make Inishturk Great Again, takes us to the sparsely inhabited island to get the locals' perspectives on America, the presidential election, and what Trump has said about Ireland. The film has an obvious perspective on Trump that is far from impartial, but it's entertaining and adventurous nonetheless. To see more films from MEL, visit their website and Vimeo page.

 
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The Jwaneng Diamond Mine in Botswana is the richest diamond mine in the world with an annual output of as much as 15.6 million carats (2006). Mine richness takes into account the rate of diamond extraction combined with quality of the diamonds that are mined (sale price per weight). To extract the diamonds, the facility produces 9.3 million tons of ore and an additional 37 million tons of waste rock per year. /// Source imagery: @digitalglobe (at Jwaneng Mine)

 
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What Debt In Chicken Farming Says About American Agriculture  

History has proven many times that carrying large amounts of debt in a fluctuating market creates a dangerous situation. But the production contract model used that is spreading globally in chicken and livestock farming is a sign that agriculture itself is changing, shifting farmers into an increasingly debt-dependent scenario.

We're all familiar with the term "debt crisis." It reminds us of mortgages going underwater as property values crashed, and it rocked the world economy only a few years ago. Fewer people know about the similar farm debt crisis of the 1980s. Farmers were encouraged to maximize their loan capacity to get the newest equipment and seize momentary high prices for agricultural products. The profitability in the markets didn't last, and debt in agriculture reached an all time high of over $350 billion in 1981. Thousands of farmers found themselves underwater on their loans, in debt beyond the value of their assets. In just five years, between 1981 and 1986, more than 60,000 U.S. farmers lost their farm and were left homeless.

What many people might not realize is that many of these farmers that had never missed a single payment on their loans when they found themselves facing foreclosure, which was due to the fact that the value of their assets had dropped below the amount they owed on their loan, a situation called "non-monetary default." The loan did not change, but the market and the value of their assets did.

Today, there are worrying signs that we may be headed for more trouble. According to the USDA, total U.S. farm debt surpassed $365 billion in 2016, beating the 1980s peak in terms of sheer volume. At the same time, the U.S. farming sector is in the third year of an economic downturn as a result of an over-supply of grain globally.

There are some reasons why the record debt has not caused a replay of the 1980s crisis yet. Interest rates have been low, and farm assets are on average valued significantly higher today than they were in the 1980s. The USDA assess farm debt "health" by looking at farmers' capacity to repay the debts they have, a measurement called their Debt Repayment Capacity Utilization (DRCU). DRCU compares average farm debt levels to the theoretical amount of debt that farms could borrow and pay back, based on key factors such as their net income and current interest rates. So with low interest rates and higher value of farm assets than before, the assumption is that farmers have not yet maxed out at the "peak" amount of debt they could carry, at least in theory.

But, at the farm level, the current combination of piled up debt with decreasing income and cash-flow means farmers are facing a familiar squeeze, and that should raise serious red flags about the health and sustainability of our agricultural system.

Chicken farmers at the heart of the debt dependency in U.S. farming

Poultry (chicken and turkey) farmers are a major contributor to the statistics on rising debt levels in American farming. The contracts they have with Big Chicken companies are also the premiere model for production contract agriculture, which is spreading across agricultural industries. In this model, a company (like Tyson or Perdue) owns the chickens and independent farmers own the debt for the chicken houses and equipment required to raise them. This displaces the burden and risk of the debt related to production onto the farmer. This contract model has been praised by economists, including Tom Vukina of North Carolina State University, as being "brilliant" for solving problems of efficiency for big companies. Similar agreements are showing up in hog contracts, cattle, and even seeds. As other agricultural industries move in this direction, they are systematically exposing more farmers to higher stakes in debt related risks.

Poultry farming is "capital intensive." An average new chicken house costs $300,000 to build, and the average chicken farm today has at least 4 houses, though the current trend is to build new farms with many more. That means in order to get into the business, a farmer has to invest over $1 million just to get setup -- a lot of debt to carry when you're paid on average between $0.05 cents and $0.06 cents per pound of chicken produced.

Farmers take on huge personal risk to get this size of a loan, by putting their own assets on the line as collateral, often their family home or farmland. Many banks will not grant these large poultry loans unless they are guaranteed by the federal government; in many cases, the Farm Service Agency (FSA) and the Small Business Agency (SBA) offer guarantees to banks of up to 95% of the value of the loan if the farmer defaults. This kind of taxpayer support for farmers has a lot of positive impacts. For example, guaranteed loans ensure that many farmers have access to credit when they most need it. But in the case of poultry loans, with the lion's share of the bank's risk passed on to the taxpayers, there is concern that these guarantees reduce the bank's incentive to scrutinize the viability of the loan.

Poultry farmers are over-leveraged on average compared to other farmers. In 2007, poultry farmers had the highest DRCU of any sector in agriculture, at nearly 70%. This means that poultry farmers are have already leveraged nearly 70% of their capacity to pay back debt, just to keep the business running. This calculation does not include their livelihood: feeding their family, paying for their own home, etc. Close followers in high DRCU were hog and dairy farmers, industries that are increasingly adopting contract models similar to poultry. In the same year, according to research by USDA's Economic Research Service, the poultry sector also had a larger than proportional amount of insolvent farms, compared to other sectors.

In other words: debt dependency is business as usual in the poultry industry, and it poses a serious risk for farmers.

The Debt Treadmill

When a chicken farmer gets a loan and signs a contract, they start a cycle of debt that for some is literally never-ending. (See our infographic above for more on this topic). This same cycle happens time and again to chicken farmers in different states, with different companies; it is an industry-wide problem. Their experiences can be described in four steps:

1) An initial payout period for their loan may be 15 to 30 years long, in stark contrast with their contract. Contract lengths generally range from between 1 flock to 10 years, but a 2016 National Chicken Council study showed that over 50% of contract poultry farmers have been offered a flock-to-flock or less than 1-year contract by their company.

In the same study, the author acknowledges that even multi-year contracts lack enforceability for farmers: "In reality, a multi-year contract offers little additional assurance over a flock-to-flock contract" he states. There are several clauses in a chicken contract that will allow a company to back-out, slow down the placement of chicks, place less chicks, change the type of chicken the farmer is raising - and other decisions that can drastically affect a farmer's ability to manage debt payback.

2) Once they're in the business, farmers struggle to find stability under tournament payment systems. The means for calculating farmer payment is not straightforward. Their pay is based on how their efficiency ranks in a pool of farmers whose chickens are harvested at around the same time. But their efficiency rating also includes company decisions and actions - like the quality of the chicks and feed they get, diseases coming from the hatchery, the day their chickens are picked up and issues in transportation. These can have a significant impact on the farmer's performance and lower their rank in the tournament, which directly corresponds to lowering their paycheck. As a result, farmers paychecks vary by thousands of dollars from flock to flock. This exposes them to increased risks of short-term cash flow problems, like feeding their family and dealing with late payments and lower credit scores.

3) As farmers begin to make progress toward their loan payments, the risk of unexpected upgrades becomes a significant threat to their financial stability. Once a short-term contract has expired, farmers may be asked to upgrade their housing, even though they were told when they signed up that it would be "good" for 10-15 years. These unexpected expenses can amount to tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, and force farmers into a dilemma: skip the upgrade and risk losing the contract (and thus losing the farm or home as collateral for the loan), or burn up the equity they have built up to get a new loan, and extend their debt even farther into the future.

Required upgrades are unpredictable, expensive, and common. According to USDA data, between 2004 and 2006 chicken farmers spent over $650 million on upgrades to their chicken farms, an average of $38,000 per farm. In a different survey, ARMS found that over a three year period from 2009 - 2011 50% of contract poultry growers reported making an upgrade, and the majority of those (29% overall) were required to do so by their integrator.

4) The final step is starting over. Farmers refinance, and hope for the best, and the light at the end of the tunnel gets farther away. For many farmers, this treadmill means they will carry a risky loan for decades, with their personal assets tied up in it and no alternative way to service the debt.

This is not the model for agriculture that we should promote if we want to avoid another farm debt crisis.

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Pride in Our Prides Saving Lions with Livestock Kraals  

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Lions and people live a tenuous coexistence. Where their activities overlap problems are inevitable. The consequence often is fatal; sometimes for the people involved, more frequently so for the lions. In retaliation of attacks on humans or livestock, people resort to drastic measures including poisoning. Along the northern edge of Botswana's Okavango Delta poisoning killed up to 60% of the known lion population in 2013. In response, we started Pride in Our Prides to alleviate the tensions between rural communities and the lions that leave the safety of the Delta.

In December 2015 villagers in Teekae, one cattle post along the Delta's edge, were up in arms again to get rid of two male lions which had attacked their livestock for four consecutive nights.

Luckily, the hunting party could be calmed at last minute see previous blog: http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/28/into-the-lions-den-diffusing-a-lion-hunting-party/ Pride in Our Prides then pledged to return and help people prevent further attacks on livestock. Thanks to continued funding from National Geographic's Big Cats Initiative, Pride in Our Prides now lives up to its promise and started constructing a new lion-proof livestock enclosure in Teekae. This enclosure (or kraal) will protect livestock from lions at night, the time that domestic animals are usually left unguarded and become most vulnerable to predators.

Looking at the final result one may think that kraal building is a pretty straight-forward thing to do. It neither looks fancy nor very complicated. A closer look at a kraal's evolution, however, shows it's quite a formidable task!

First, during a meeting with the entire community (kgotla) a decision is made to determine who will own and use the next kraal. With multiple families facing lion conflicts, it can be a heated discussion and take several hours. Once agreed, a suitable site is found. Next you meet with the new kraal owner to decide on the dimensions and measure the plot. When all the ‘admin' eventually is finished, the kraal team pitches camp near the site, far away from their families and homes. Here they will stay for 3-4 weeks, the time it takes to complete a single lion-proof kraal.

The team then sets out to chop large amounts of mopane wood we use this abundant hardwood for its sturdiness and so that kraal owners can maintain the kraal without running short of the necessary material. For the Teekae kraal alone, the team chopped logs, support poles, and weaving branches worth 9 truck loads in total.

The logs often weigh in excess of 70 kg (or 150 pounds) and they are manoeuvred by hand!

Adding to this back-breaking work during the day, elephants visit Teekae each night. The jumbos need to be chased from the kraal site or otherwise they may simply eat up our stash of branches for weaving.

Once all the materials are on-site the team digs holes and plants the heavy logs that are connected with horizontal support poles. The smaller branches are woven into flexible, yet sturdy, panels which make up the walls of the kraal. Weaving is a common traditional skill throughout our project area but try weaving hardwood branches and for a kraal circumference of no less than 56 meters (or 61 yards)!

Finally, all sections are secured with strong wire, the only artificial material used on the kraal. When a kraal is finished we hand it over to the owner and community in a celebratory ceremony. Pride in Our Prides also continually monitors kraal use and efficiency so that we can keep refining the design. Not one of the current owners has suffered losses in any of these kraals which are hugely appreciated!

The new kraal at Teekae is the 9th that Pride in Our Prides has built in the area. And we have more work cut out for us; the next 5 kraals have been allocated to specific cattle posts already and additional requests reach us every week. We will continue to build more kraals along the northern edge of the Okavango Delta to give villagers a simple but cost-effective means to reduce their livestock losses to lions. By doing so, we aim to increase local tolerance for lions that stray out of the protected area and enter a more and more human-dominated landscape.

We thank Nat Geo's Big Cats Initiative for providing much needed kraal building funds. We also thank our fantastic kraal team who never seem to tire. Despite the hard labour these guys are always good natured, crack joke after joke, and just get on with it!

Leading his community by example, Pro adjusted PiOP's cattle kraal design and built his own private goat kraal.

And we see first successes as others follow Pro villagers regularly come to our kraals and take note of the design. An old man simply replicated one of the kraals we had built nearby. His new structure measures 20 meters x 24 meters (22 yards by 26 yards) and he constructed it all by himself!

 

 
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Studying impacts of climate change on ecosystem function  

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Early morning at the Tutakoke River field camp in the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Researchers from Utah State University are studying how the phenology of sub-Arctic tundra plants and the seasonal arrival of migratory Pacific black brants affects ecosystem functioning at the field site. This photo was taken by Ryan Choi, a Ph.D. candidate of wildlife ecology and a member of a National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported Arctic research project led by Karen Beard of Utah State University. The project is studying how a warming Arctic is affecting the relationships between migratory animals -- in this case Pacific black brants (Branta bernicla nigricans), a species of wild geese -- and the annual cycle of the forage they rely on for energy, nutrition and rearing of young. The study site is located in the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

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I last photographed Butler's Wharf, the beautiful area south-east of Tower Bridge, at sunrise more than two years ago. Since then, I've frequently thought about revisiting the spot to reshoot it for a cleaner and sharper finish, and earlier in the morning to capture the transition from blue hour to golden hour.

This part of the Thames Path is invariably very busy in the evenings because of the stunning view from its bars and restaurants, yet eerily quiet at dawn, especially during the early light in the summer months, when boat activity along the Thames is at a minimum until around 5am and the reflections in the river remain undisturbed. With all of this in mind, I kept this shoot on hold until a calm morning at the end of May, when wind speeds were low and the skies were clear.

The base exposure for this image was my final shot of the morning, lasting six-and-a-half minutes and perfectly exposing for the pink tones emerging on the horizon, as well as revealing a hint of sunlight along the edge of the Cheesegrater, Heron Tower and the Gherkin. On top of this exposure, I blended in exposures from the start of my shoot, which had begun in darkness, incorporating the night lights along Tower Bridge and inside the neighbouring buildings. Using a combination of the Pen Tool and the Channels panel in Photoshop, I then created selections of the sky, the river and the cityscape, as well as the Thames Path, its lampposts and its railing leading into the distance. This allowed me to selectively focus on each area's tonal contrast, colour balance and exposure, editing a soft and dreamy sky without affecting the high-contrast portions of the cityscape.

Having removed a couple of cranes and an Alcohol Control Area sign attached to one of the lampposts, the final adjustments I made were a mixture of low-opacity Colour Lookups, Gradient Maps and Selective Colour adjustments in Photoshop alongside selective Tonal Contrast adjustments in Colour Efex Pro. This was the most extensive part of the post-processing stage, largely because each individual portion of the image was edited one at a time, but each adjustment was incremental. I wanted to bring out the chilly early-morning tones in the shadows as they were gradually suffused with golden-hour warmth, but at the same time it was important to me to retain the original exposure's clean vibrance and energy, and hopefully to capture the mood and atmosphere while standing there, watching the early-morning light spread across the cityscape.

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Got Dense Breasts? That Can Depend On Who Is Reading The Mammogram  

A big study suggests that radiologists vary widely in their assessment of density, a risk factor for breast cancer. And density is just one component of breast cancer risk, the researchers underscore.

 
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'Zero Days' Documentary Exposes A Looming Threat Of The Digital Age  

Filmmaker Alex Gibney's new documentary focuses on the large-scale implications of computer malware. Critic John Powers calls Zero Days an important — and chilling — film.

 
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Rise And Fall Of Theranos In A Biotech Cartoon  

Hollywood has already cast Jennifer Lawrence to star in a movie about the embattled biotech firm. How did founder Elizabeth Holmes go from self-made billionaire to an estimated worth of $0? Read on.

 
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The Wild Ones: The Trainer  
In an Arizona prison, a man and a bunch of wild horses changed an inmate's life.  
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Wider view of a similar recent image, shot with a 50mm F1.4 which i do think is sharper than the 70-200 F4L IS at smaller apertures (previous shot). Couldn't decide which one i preferred so both went up. Thanks for viewing :-)

3 shot HDR image

 
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The Dwindling Facial Tattoo Tradition of Myanmar's Lai Tu Chin Tribe  
While the practice continued to a much lesser extent after it was outlawed, young Chin women today no longer receive the tattoos. The women who carry them now are likely the last of their kind.  
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Burned naphthalene hosts room-temperature qubits

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Millwall Outer Dock Golden Hour  

JB_1984 posted a photo:

Image of Millwall Outer Dock during Monday evening's golden hour.

This has become one of my favourite spots for photography in all of London since I first visited it in 2014. The Baltimore Tower is a new edition to the scene since that first visit.

 
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Big Ben and Westminster Bridge at dusk, London, UK

 
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Big Ben and Westminster Bridge at dusk, London, UK

 
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Big Ben and Westminster Bridge at dusk, London, UK

 
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The 10 Most Sustainable Restaurants in America  
While taste is obviously huge when it comes to food, we are approaching an age where making food more sustainable is taking a front seat. If you were one of the millions of people that were sobbing hysterically when Leonardo DiCaprio won his well-deserved Academy Award, you got to hear him speak about how passionate he is about helping to save our Earth.



Sustainability is all about moving in an eco-friendly direction by reducing waste, composting, recycling, and focusing on conservation. Many restaurants throughout the U.S. have been trying to become more sustainable and are now serving more organic food than ever before. Here are a few restaurant chains across the country that have been practicing sustainability and making food without harmful add-ons.

1. Mixt Greens

With two locations in Los Angeles and six in San Francisco, Mixt Greens offers healthy options like salads and sandwiches that are made only with organic ingredients. They also use compostable packaging, which is eco-friendly, while using recycled and energy-efficient equipment in the restaurant. Offering tasty food while being earth-conscious, Mixt Greens is definitely a place worth checking out.

2. Bareburger

Bareburger offers you a wide variety of delicious burgers, America's favorite food. With over 20 locations throughout the country including New York, Philadelphia, and New Jersey, Bareburger is not only known for offering high-quality burgers, but they're also famous for making their burgers without the use of GMOs and pesticides. The franchise keeps growing and it must be because of how tasty their natural burgers are.

3. The Plant Cafe Organic

The Plant Cafe's goal is to serve you delicious food that is 100% organic. All of the produce used in this café are grown on local farms and picked just days before served. They are so keen on being fresh that their poultry is sustainably raised, and everything else is made from scratch. The Plant offers every meal of the day at their several locations while giving you the freshest food possible.

4. Busboys and Poets

In addition to using locally sourced meats, Busboy and Poets uses sustainable seafood, brews fair trade coffees and teas, uses recycled paper products, and uses renewable energy in their restaurants based in Washington D.C. This chain sees themselves more than just a restaurant. They call themselves a "community gathering place" that is open to thinkers, writers, artists, and dreamers. They offer meals that not only taste great but are all-natural. What else could you ask for?

5. Soupergirl

Soup is one of the most comforting foods in the world. But sometimes we want more from our typical soup in a can, and thus we come to the creation of Soupergirl. With soup made from scratch using organic ingredients, this restaurant was made for those cold rainy days. All of the kitchen scraps are composted, making an eco-friendly and natural restaurant for everyone to enjoy.

6. Root Down

Root Down is located in an old 1950s gas station-turned-restaurant in Denver, CO. Besides their tasty food, this restaurant is very sustainable. Get this: They operate powered by wind and only wind, they use herbs and vegetables that they grow and harvest on their rooftop and patios whenever they can, and the inside is made up of recycled materials. How much more sustainable can a restaurant get?

7. Founding Farmers

With three locations on the East Coast, this farmer owned restaurant does all they can to be eco-friendly. From using recycled paper-composite countertops to using recycled paper menus with soy-based inks, Founding Farmers gets an A+ for all that they do to help Mother Earth. They don't use fume paints and most of their food comes from local farms. They even have a whole page on their website dedicated to explaining their sustainability.

8. Red Stag Supperclub

Red Stag Supperclub wanted to go an extra mile past serving local and organic food, so they became the first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design registered restaurant in the whole country to use only LED energy-efficient lights. By doing so, the restaurant managed to cut their energy usage in half, which is pretty dang amazing if I say so myself.

9. Tilth

Tilth is one of the several restaurants owned by Maria Hines, who is passionate about fine dining and sustainability. At her restaurant, she tries her best to be as eco-friendly as possible. She goes as far as providing organic feminine products in the bathroom and giving soy crayons to children. Almost all of the food she serves is farmed organically, and if she can't find an item to be organic, she will make it in her own house. Even the wine is organic.

10. Woodberry Kitchen

Located in Maryland, Woodberry Kitchen is yet another restaurant that serves food that has been locally grown in farms. They grind and extract the waste from vegetables, which makes it lighter and more efficient to manage. What's also really neat about Woodberry Kitchen is that the shells of the oysters are salvaged and returned to Chesapeake Bay to help regenerate oyster beds.

Nowadays, it's really important for us to try to do our part for the Earth as much as we can. These restaurants are few of many that have been doing their part in using their utilities and positions to help the earth be more eco-friendly for all. As a college student, it might seem a bit too difficult to eat sustainable with our busy schedules, but even the laziest college student can eat sustainably.

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Proposed Kidney Disease XPRIZE Announced at White House Organ Summit  

By American Society of Nephrology President Raymond C. Harris, MD, FASN and XPRIZE CEO, Marcus Shingles

Kidney transplantation is the optimal form of therapy for the nearly half million Americans and millions of people around the world suffering from kidney failure. However, the kidney transplant waitlist--approximately 100,000 Americans--is growing, and the average wait time for a transplant is five years. Most will die before their name is ever called.

About 450,000 Americans have failed kidneys and - in the absence of transplant options -- depend on dialysis to live. Dialysis keeps them alive but their quality of life is often dismal, and their life expectancy is often short. At a cost of nearly $35 billion annually--more than the entire budget for the National Institutes of Health--Medicare pays for dialysis for every citizen with kidney failure regardless of age. Despite this remarkable commitment, investment in innovations for kidney treatments has been inadequate for decades.

Unlike kidney transplants, dialysis is not a cure and does not return patients to full health or a normal lifestyle. Patients receiving dialysis endure three to four hour treatment three or more times a week. Their blood is removed, filtered through a machine that clears toxins and waste the kidneys would normally remove, and returned. The process is emotionally exhausting and physically debilitating. Only 1 in 5 patients of working age who are on dialysis have jobs. Approximately half of the dialysis population dies within three years.

Kidney diseases disproportionately affect minority populations. African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans are up to four times more likely to develop kidney failure than Caucasians. African Americans in low income neighborhoods are also 57 percent less likely to make the transplant list than others.

Recognizing that this kidney transplant crisis is largely due to organ shortages, the Obama Administration recently convened the White House Organ Summit. At the Summit, the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) announced its pledge of the first $7 million dollars toward a global prize competition to develop a novel wearable or implantable device that replaces kidney function and improves patient quality of life, in partnership with the XPRIZE Foundation.

ASN and XPRIZE believe we must do better for the millions of people with kidney failure. XPRIZE designs and implements innovative competition models that utilize the unique combination of gamification, crowd-sourcing, incentive prize theory, and exponential technologies to solve the world's grandest challenges.   We believe that a global competition will help create a fundamental shift in the way we treat kidney failure by incentivizing the development of a better alternative to dialysis, improving patients' health and the quality of their lives. Research in bioengineering, matrix technology, and cell biology is poised to ignite revolutionary changes in the options clinicians can offer people with kidney diseases.  A global prize competition would bring together scientists and innovators to catalyze transformative innovation. 

We commend the White House for putting a spotlight on this critical issue, and we call on others to join us in this serious and time-sensitive initiative to help finalize, fund, and execute this competition that can ultimately improve treatment options for kidney failure patients and the clinicians who treat them. Learn more at http://www.xprize.org/prizes/future-prizes/kidney-disease and http://www.asn-online.org/news/2016/0613-organ-summit.aspx.

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State Needs More Than Just Cap And Trade  
In California, we're up close and personal with the effects of climate change. Between the worst drought in California's history, fires across the state, 26 million dead trees in the Sierra Nevada, massive heat waves, and rising sea levels, there's no doubt that climate change is real -- and California is ground zero.

This week, the California Air Resources Board released new regulations to extend the Cap and Trade program that began in 2006 -- a move that will help bolster the governor's plan to keep California on a path toward clean energy and climate leadership. It's an important step, but the Cap and Trade program alone will not solve our climate problem -- we need to ban on oil drilling and fracking in our state.

It's common knowledge that when the bathtub is overflowing, the first thing to do is turn off the water. Our state is trying to sop up the water on the floor but isn't turning off the tap.

The tap in our case? Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The source of these greenhouse gas emissions? Oil and gas. One key solution is to turn off the tap in California is to radically reduce the amount of gas and oil we are pulling from our ground to both use in our state and sell to the rest of the world.

A recent inventory of greenhouse gases released by the state shows we're making progress on reducing emissions, but we still have a long way to go. In 2014 California had already reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by almost 10 percent compared to 2004. However, we are still releasing 441.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gases each year -- placing California in the top 10 when states are ranked by highest emission level. (I did not know this fact -- i assume you have a source? Should we cite it?)

And that number is just what's released in our state. It doesn't account for the dirty oil that is extracted from California and burned in other parts of the world.

Our state is doing great with solar energy and clean cars, but it has to get real about our outsized carbon footprint and commit to a steady decrease in oil drilling and fracking, first targeting drilling near homes and schools, as well as cutting back on drilling for fuels that emit particularly high levels of carbon dioxide. These are urgent first steps needed to protect our children and families. We can also start by retraining our workers for jobs in fields that bolster California's economy without destroying our climate. By 2030, we can phase out all oil drilling and fracking.

It's an ambitious plan, but there isn't an alternative if we want to protect our state. Californians are no strangers to climate leadership, and we can get the job done.

To be clear: a ban on oil drilling and fracking requires action from the governor. But in the meantime, there are steps we can all take. Trucks and cars are responsible for most of California's greenhouse gas emissions. Buying an electric car, choosing public transit, and contacting legislators to demand increased funding for mass transit are ways we can all move this process along. Governor Brown can also release funds collected from the oil industry to fund programs that help low-income Californians get cleaner cars.

Another important piece of this puzzle is solar power, which can heat our water, power our computers, and keep our air conditioners running. Solar power works -- and it works best when we need it the most. We can all urge utility companies to invest in clean energy and offer more options for Californians to invest in solar power.

Already, California stands out as a leader in solar power and clean cars, with over 200,000 electric cars in our state. By limiting the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that businesses are allowed to release or requiring them to pay for credits when they exceed that limit, Governor Brown's efforts to extend cap and trade may help too.

But these steps alone don't get to the root of the problem. The next job for Governor Brown is to find ways to contain carbon and keep it in the ground. If our state is serious about leading the battle for our climate, we need to phase out oil drilling and fracking.

Dan Jacobson is the Legislative Director of Environment California and is on the steering committee of Californians Against Fracking, a coalition working to win a statewide ban on fracking and other dangerous oil and gas extraction activities in California.

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On the 200-year birthday of Frankenstein is it time to worry about the story becoming real?  
It was a dark and stormy night two hundred years ago this June when Frankenstein was first animated in a Swiss chateau by the 18 year old Mary Shelly. She created the legendary monster after a challenge by Lord Byron who had invited a group of young British literary types to spend the summer on the shores of Lake Geneva. Climate change caused by a volcano in Indonesia created endless rainy weather that meant they spent a lot of time indoors pursuing their respective writing efforts.
After some evenings recounting German ghost stories while drinking local wine and consuming opium Byron challenged the assembled writers to each create their own similar tale.
Shelly was feeling pressured, being asked every morning if she had succeeded. Finally several days later during a night where she couldn't sleep she wrote her 'waking dream' around 2am about a doctor in nearby Geneva who animated a creature made of scavenged body parts.
(The mood must have been conducive to scary stories as another member of the group, John Polidori, wrote a short story that eventually became The Vampyre; the first vampire story in English with the theme later being amplified in Bram Stoker's Dracula.)

At that time, Galvanism was the newest scientific research being conducted in Europe where electricity was used to animate dead tissue, giving thought to the possibility of reanimating dead bodies. Shelly had seen demonstrations of scientific experiments at the Royal Institute in London, and knew how electricity could be used to recreate movement in dead muscles. "Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated", Shelly noted, "galvanism had given token of such things". This is probably why she used electricity as the source of life for the creature built out of body parts from dead people.

In her introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein Shelley said, 'I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.'

Exactly two hundred years later a New York Times headline announced in June: 'Project aims to synthesize entirety of Human DNA. Ethical issues include the possibility of babies with no biological parents'.
So if Boris Karloff scared you in the original 1931 Frankenstein movie (or soon Javier Bardem who is being tipped to be the new monster in an upcoming remake) you should be really afraid now. One of the points in Shelly's book was that the good doctor was trying to play god and it had disastrous results after a potentially promising start. Are we now also at the same crossroads?

In April 2015, researchers from Sun Yat-sen University in China used gene-editing techniques to alter human embryos for the first time in history. And a U.S. federal biosafety and ethics panel recently gave a university the go-ahead to conduct research on genetically modifying humans. While it could mean future generation have inherited diseases like cancers removed from their genes there are more questions than answers

If scientists can create life to their own specifications is it not pure ego to think humans are better able to do this than letting nature find it's own way? And what kind of manipulations and interests will guide such efforts leading to potential misuse of the knowledge. We live in a world that today sadly has very low moral standards and people of immense wealth and power who do as they please. Will countries create super beings to go to war on their behalf or else try to create perfect societies with individuals having Einstein IQ's and movie star looks?

In Europe, the organizations questioning the safety of genetically modified foods call these staples 'Frankenfoods' as a nod to scientists trying to be superior to nature. I don't know enough details about the young science and the jury is still out on the subject regarding potential long-term health issues and benefits but when it comes to custom made humans perhaps a little more research should be done. And also ethical considerations need to get taken into account before a new monster is unleashed.

Shelly's Frankenstein didn't start out as a bad creature but after being rejected by it's creator and society it turned evil. Perhaps scientists should first focus on solving a few of the worlds existing problems before creating more potential issues. Maybe going forwards is really going backwards in disguise?

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Duplin County: Life Under the Waste Sprayer  

Duplin County, North Carolina is the epicenter for industrial swine production in the United States. Housing an estimated 2.2 million hogs, this dot on the map shoulders more than its fair share of the world's swine production load. I showed up last summer to film the stories of those trying to protect the water, land, and air that these hog farms influence so profoundly.

First, what's the problem? Everyone loves pig right? Vitamin B (bacon) is certainly a staple of my brunch diet. In short, the sheer number of hog farms that have slid into this predominantly minority, low-income community has stressed its environment to the max. A pig produces about ten times as much waste as a human does, yet has almost none of the regulations on how it's disposed.

In North Carolina, contract farmers working under the umbrella of a far away corporation have few choices on how to handle the hog waste from the scores of animals they are forced to grow to stay profitable. This waste typically flushes into “lagoons” then when the that fills up, farmers spray the tepid liquid waste filled with the most unimaginable grossness on to fields as fertilizer. This works in many cases, but all too often overstressed farmers (no one has it easy here) over-apply and allow runoff into local streams, all the while pumping the air full of toxic stench. The standard industry response that “it's not that bad” doesn't cut it for some.

Enter René (family name withheld.) She lives in the same neighborhood she grew up in, a house handed down from her mother. In the late 1990s an industrial swine “farmer” set up a spray field across the street from her house. Several times every week, the “farmer” pumps this grotesque cocktail of pig excrement into the air 20 yards from her front door. René has developed respiratory issues, and can't go outside without quickly becoming hoarse. She no longer can hang clothes to dry or work in her garden, lingering outside just long enough to get to her car to go to and from work.

Despite these hardships René still manages to smile and get along with her life. Although she has much to be afraid of, she carries no fear, no hatred, and says she'll speak out until her last breath. Her story is not unique, but her courage is.

Numerous groups are taking on the science behind what's happening to the air and water around these “farms.” Devon Hall, co-founder of Rural Empowerment Association for Community Health (REACH) is spreading the scientific gospel as a way to empower these communities to speak up about these injustices. The Waterkeeper Alliance also leads countless research efforts to document, in clear black and white, what these polluters are doing. Merely imagining breathing in pig excrement and drinking tainted water supplies doesn't do much to convince an industry-owned government of anything. Duplin County is finding science as savior and rising up to prove, in no uncertain terms, it is that bad

The Water Is for Fighting project documents the challenges facing our nations freshwater resources. Corey Robinson is a filmmaker and Young Explorer Grantee collecting these stories through film, still pictures and words.

Follow along with @coreyrobinson #w4f2015

“Whisky is for drinking, water is for fighting.”

 
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Greater Good Science Center: Why Your Office Needs More Nature  
He notes that most companies and interior designers pay scant attention to nature and sunlight exposure, or neglect them in order to keep costs down. But, he suggests, if we want to improve well-being at work, we may want to look at environmental factors more closely.

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Cyber Security Attacks = Need to get trained.  
Every day another hack. Another breach. Someone's data getting exfiltrated, dumped and sold. Is it you today? Your company? Your organization?



How often do you hear about someone you know dealing with either identity theft, compromised banking or social media credentials or their information out on the web being sold? Medical, Identity, Financial, Legal, Political, Business. All for sale. It used to be that this information was dumped out onto the "dark web" and then sold to hackers or crooks.

Now the information is freely being sold on the open, non dark web as well. Money buys access to credentials, to personal information, to embarrassing information, to information you long thought was not ever going to be seen by others.

Has your company provided real life cyber security training? Have you been run through a test or role playing? No? The average company, government agency, non profits and other employers simply have not yet stepped up to the need to fund and execute on cyber security training. True for not just the most senior tech executives, but for everyone from the CEO and Board to the average employee. We should all be able to teach our kids the basics on how to be safe from cyber attacks.

There is a new digital divide. It is about those who have been trained to deal with cyber threats, whether personal or business; and those who have not. The need for State and Local authorities to partner with the private sector to offer real life, and timely cyber security training and role playing is growing every week. Private sector companies and training organizations can only do so much on their own. The initiative has to be larger than that as the problem transcends any one of us by ourselves.

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Sexting Might Actually Be A Sign Of A Committed Relationship  
By Rob Weisskirch, California State University, Monterey Bay

Why do people sext? Why do they send racy or naked photos or videos and sexually loaded texts?

For a short-term hookup, sexting might seem like a direct way to get what you want - or at least try to. But according to my research, sexting is actually most likely to occur within a committed relationship. Some research suggests that people often engage in sexting after being coerced by romantic partners or to avoid an argument with their romantic partner. So perhaps anxiety and concern about what your romantic partner thinks about you promote behaviors like sexting.

As a human development researcher who studies how technology influences relationships, I wanted to understand if people who are anxious about dating or about what their partner thinks of them are more likely to sext.

So where does this relationship anxiety come from?

One of the major theories regarding relationships is called attachment theory. It suggests that the way you related to your caregiver as an infant (and vice versa) shapes how you come to view relationships later in life.

If your caregiver was attuned to your needs and responsive, you will develop a secure attachment. That means you are comfortable with close relationships because your experience paid off - Mom or Dad was there when you were distressed or hungry or cold. From that experience, you learned that relationships are safe and reciprocal, and your attachment anxiety is low.

But if your caregiver was not so attuned to your needs, was intrusive or inattentive, you might develop what is called an insecure attachment. If something you wanted emotionally or physically (like comfort) went unfulfilled, you might end up anxious about relationships as an adult. You might realize that relationships may not be trustworthy, not invest in close relationships, and avoid intimacy all together.

Do people sext because of relational anxiety?

My colleagues, Michelle Drouin and Rakel Delevi, and I hypothesized that people who were afraid of being single or had dating anxiety and who were, at the same time, anxious or insecure in their attachment style would be more likely to sext. We also thought these singles would be more likely to sext their romantic partners, even when their relationship wasn't very committed.

We gave 459 unmarried, heterosexual, undergraduate students an online questionnaire to learn more about how relational anxiety influences sexting behavior. It covered questions measuring their sexting behaviors, relationship commitment needed to engage in sexting, their fear of being single, their dating anxiety and their attachment style (secure or insecure). Half of the people who took the survey were single, and about 71 percent were female.

We found that people in romantic relationships -- whether of long or short duration - were more likely to have sexted than those who did not have romantic partners. There were no gender differences for engaging in sexting, except that males were more likely than females to have sent a text propositioning sexual activity.

We also found that, generally, dating anxiety from fear of negative evaluation from the romantic partner (basically, worrying about what your partner thinks of you) and having a more secure attachment style (i.e., comfort with intimacy and close relationships) predicted if someone had sent a sexually suggestive photo or video, a picture in underwear or lingerie, a nude photo or a sexually suggestive text.

We expected to find that anxiety would prompt people to sext but were surprised that comfort with intimacy related to sexting behaviors. We also expected to find that sexting would occur in relationships without a lot of commitment, meaning that we thought that sexting would be part of the wooing.

But it turns out that people who are comfortable with close relationships (a secure attachment style) and also worry about what their partner might think of them are more likely to engage in sexting, but only if there some level of commitment in the relationship.

So our hypothesis was only partially confirmed.

What's dating anxiety got to do with it?

What this tells us is that people may be concerned with pleasing their partner's desire -- or perceived desire -- to engage in sexting and that it is the comfort with intimacy in relationships that may allow sexting to occur. And, when there is greater relationship commitment, this continues to be the case.

It appears that there is less stigma and greater comfort with sexting, provided that one perceives that his or her partner wants to sext and if there is a degree of relationship commitment.

So, a little sexting within a relationship might not be too bad.

Rob Weisskirch, Professor of Human Development, California State University, Monterey Bay

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Reports Say Fox News CEO Roger Ailes Is Out  
Roger Ailes's tenure as the head of Fox News may be coming to an end. Rupert Murdoch and sons Lachlan and James — co-chairmen and CEO, respectively, of parent company 21st Century Fox — have settled on removing the 76-year-old executive, say two sources briefed on a sexual harassment investigation of Ailes being conducted by New York law firm Paul, Weiss.  
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Cenote Angelita by Tom George  

Cenote Angelita by Tom George

Cenote Angelita (Angelita means little angel) is a deep water sinkhole and dive site. There is a cloud of hydrogen sulfide at around 30m formed by the decomposition of organic matter in the absence of oxygen. The cloud combined with the debris mound from the collapse of the sinkhole roof gives the surreal illusion of an underwater lake and island.

Tom George: Photos

 
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Golden Path by Magnus Svensson  

Golden Path by Magnus Svensson

This picture was taken an early summer morning, my friend and I had been up since the middle of the night and waited in the sun's first rays. We had just come from our hiding place after being photographed red deer and wild boar, and we were on our way to the car when I saw these amazing rays of the sun, I asked my friend to go ahead on the road to try to catch him in the right position. And it succeeded. I took this photo a few years ago, I published it in two other social networks, and it has unfortunately been stolen several hundred times... and I have also found the image on book covers... But I've never gave my permission.....but why complain....this image must have appealed to many. It is one of the few pictures I have taken I am satisfied with.

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*** by Andrey Brandis

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Mars Express spies a nameless and ancient impact crater  

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Space Science image of the week is this striking perspective view from ESA's Mars Express. It shows an unnamed but eye-catching impact crater on Mars. This region sits south-west of a dark plain named Mare Serpentis (literally ‘the sea of serpents'), which in turn is located in Noachis Terra (literally ‘the land of Noah').

Noachis Terra is one of the oldest known regions on the Red Planet, dating back at least 3.9 billion years— in fact, the earliest martian era, the Noachian epoch, is named after it. Noachis Terra is representative of ancient Mars' surface, which is characteristically peppered with craters that have been preserved for billions of years, although many have degraded over time.

The crater visible on the top right of this image is around 4 km deep and 50 km in diameter. At its very centre is a small depression known as a central pit. These are common in craters on rocky worlds throughout the Solar System, especially on Mars, and are thought to form as icy material explosively vaporises and turns to gas in the heat of the initial crater-forming collision.

The outer walls around the crater are slightly raised above its surroundings. These stacked deposits may have formed during the impact that carved out the crater itself. As a rocky impactor slammed into the surface of Mars it likely compacted the loose and powdery material — small-grained dust and soil dubbed ‘regolith' — to form a small plateau that has stood the test of time.

Just within the crater walls are channels and valleys threading and weaving down the inner slope — these are thought to have been carved and sculpted by running water. This water, locked up within the soil as groundwater and ice, would have melted as the Sun illuminated the crater walls, driving fluvial erosion processes and sketching thin lines down towards the centre of the crater.

This image was created using data from the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera's stereo channels (resulting in this oblique perspective) as well as its colour and nadir channels (creating the colour). The data were obtained on 29 July 2015 during orbit 14680. The resolution is approximately 14 m per pixel and the image is centred at 37° East and 35° South.

The image is a perspective view from a series that includes a colour nadir view, a colour-coded digital terrain model and a 3d anaglyph.

Credit:ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

 
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Hubble Spots a Secluded Starburst Galaxy  

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This image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and shows a starburst galaxy named MCG+07-33-027. This galaxy lies some 300 million light-years away from us, and is currently experiencing an extraordinarily high rate of star formation — a starburst.

Normal galaxies produce only a couple of new stars per year, but starburst galaxies can produce a hundred times more than that. As MCG+07-33-027 is seen face-on, the galaxy's spiral arms and the bright star-forming regions within them are clearly visible and easy for astronomers to study.

In order to form newborn stars, the parent galaxy has to hold a large reservoir of gas, which is slowly depleted to spawn stars over time. For galaxies in a state of starburst, this intense period of star formation has to be triggered somehow — often this happens due to a collision with another galaxy. MCG+07-33-027, however, is special; while many galaxies are located within a large cluster of galaxies, MCG+07-33-027 is a field galaxy, which means it is rather isolated. Thus, the triggering of the starburst was most likely not due to a collision with a neighboring or passing galaxy and astronomers are still speculating about the cause. The bright object to the right of the galaxy is a foreground star in our own galaxy.

Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA and N. Grogin (STScI)

 
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Dawn in Richmond Park, Greater London

 
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Dawn in Richmond Park, Greater London

 
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Dawn in Richmond Park, Greater London

 
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Starving bald eagle chicks hint at ecosystem collapse in Florida  
Florida Bay eagles feed their chicks much less food than birds in other regions, nest cameras reveal, suggesting the ecosystem doesn't have enough of their prey  
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James Clear: Motivation is Overvalued. Environment Often Matters More.  
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D&T Association launches D&T Heroes campaign  

The D&T Association has launched its D&T Heroes campaign, which it says looks to “promote and celebrate the value of design”.

The social campaign has been introduced in response to a parliamentary debate about the English Baccalaureate a GCSE qualification that excludes art and design earlier this month. The debate was triggered by a petition called “Include expressive arts subjects in the EBacc”.

Running for at least six months, D&T Heroes encourages anyone to submit their favourite designer, product or object spanning everything from industrial to technology design to its various social media sites.

Delivered to the Department of Education and Department for Business Innovation and Skills

The responses will be then collated into a book featuring the best British and international design heroes, complete with comments from design experts, before being signed by organisation partners and supporters and delivered to the Department of Education and the Department for Business Innovation and Skills.

Organisations that have signed up in support of the campaign so far include the RSA; Crafts Council; Creative & Cultural Skills; Design Museum; V&A; The Institution of Civil Engineers and The Institution of Engineering and Technology.

The campaign and the forthcoming book are intended to act as “a powerful statement about the importance and relevance of design and technology in education, industry and society”, according to the D&T Association.

Introduced into D&T curriculum in schools

From September, the campaign will also be launched in schools as a teaching resource that supports the D&T curriculum at several Key Stage levels.

The planned introduction of the book into school curriculum is designed to inspire pupils, teachers and parents to participate in the campaign, but will also act as “visual history” of design and technology that could be used as the basis for activities such as homework assignments, Design Week understands.

Submissions can be uploaded to Facebook, Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #DandTHeroes

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Designers share projects from their student days  

“If the past is another country, the language they speak there is very exotic. Let these words instantly transport you back to 1992: Safmat, Omnicrom, Syquest, Zip, Jaz, Quark, Bromide and (whisper it) SCSI Probe. My time at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle was filled with such linguistic delights (as well as Viz and massive Stottie cakes). It's difficult to name a single stand-out project, as everything felt like such a revelation: using prehistoric Macs for the first time, the squeegee-powered joy of screenprinting, setting metal type, messing around with Hasselblads and Super-8s… all new, all amazing. But the project where it all came together was the final year D&AD student brief set by Pat Baglee, then of the charity Scope. Through that project, I understood the full range of skills required of me as a designer: listener, thinker, planner, writer, conceptualiser, typographer, photographer, art-worker. Design, I then realised, was brilliant. And flipping hard work.”

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“Well, I did a packaging project for The Science Museum. Each item became a practical scientific experiment. Who knew that you can boil water in a paper bag or look over walls with a poster tube? (Other items included a hot air balloon bag and something fun with postcards, etc.) Yes, the type was lousy (it was hand spaced!), the logo went too far. Would I do it differently now? Sure, but the concept of encouraging you to think about the science that is around us every day is spot on. In fact, it's more relevant to the museum now than when I did it. Maybe they should call me?”

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“My time at university was at the beginning of the digital revolution as we know it now. A lot of time was invested in the learning of applications such as Macromedia Director and After Effects without any guidance from tutors who were oblivious to the power of these programs. As a result, my learning was at times chaotic and not the best use of my precious college time. It was against this backdrop of banging my head against a wall that I decided to stop my projects being driven by the software and let the ideas come first. I created a rather ropey identity for an internet radio station named ibiza.fm, an innovation idea where DJs would broadcast sets direct to listeners all over the world, without a Radio1-like partner in-between. In 2000, this was still ahead of the times and it reflects many of the services that exist today sixteen years later. It was my first step towards learning the best brands use great ideas delivered with great technology. Without that combination, you're a step behind.”

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What was your best or favourite project you produced as a design student? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Sula Riedlinger posted a photo:

Dawn in Richmond Park, Greater London

 
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The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today  

“The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today” exhibition is on view at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery from March 12, 2016 January 8, 2017.

The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition invited artists from across the country to submit their best works in the art of portrayal. The dazzling variety of media and diverse approaches to the exploration of “self” and “other” challenge preconceived notions of portraiture and expand visitors' imaginations.

This competition and resulting exhibition “The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today” showcases excellence and innovation with a strong focus on the variety of portrait media used by artists today. The juried competition results in an exhibition of about 50 finalists, with the prizewinners announced at the opening.

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