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Schoolkids Write Book About Orphaned Orangutan  
Writing in "first person orangutan" isn't easy. Just ask 10-year-old Caroline Mulcahy, a fifth grader at P.S. 107 John W. Kimball Learning Center in Brooklyn, New York. She and her classmates spent months during lunch and recess writing and illustrating a book, One Special Orangutan: The Story of Budi, about the plight of orangutans in Borneo.

The story is told through the eyes of a baby orangutan, Budi, who was rescued in December 2014 by International Animal Rescue, an NGO with a rehabilitation facility in Ketapang, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. For the first 10 months of his life, Budi was kept as a pet in a tiny chicken cage and fed only condensed milk--never solid food. "There was little space to move, and only a blanket and squeaky toy," Budi recounts in the book.


First time Budi holds a bottle. Photo courtesy of International Animal Rescue.

"The personal story of this one particular animal helped the kids identify with his situation and build their empathy," says Julie Fissinger, Mulcahy's mother and one of the parent volunteers who helped the students.

Budi's story is not unique. Since the early 1970s, 40 percent of Borneo's forest cover has disappeared, much of it stripped for oil palm plantations, and that trend will likely continue. In Kalimantan, for instance, 80 percent of the orangutan's range isn't protected, and clearing for oil palm plantations is pushing the apes into ever smaller forest fragments.

Searching for food, they venture onto the plantations where agricultural workers, who consider them pests, may kill them. Hunters also target orangutans for meat or the pet trade. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species notes that 2,000 to 3,000 orangutans have been killed in Borneo every year for the past 40 years, representing a loss of more than 50 percent of the original population. The World Wildlife Fund estimates today's population of Bornean orangutans at between 45,000 and 69,000. (Scientists also say there are roughly 14,600 orangutans in Sumatra.)

The killings leave a lot of orphans, like Budi. When Budi was rescued, the one-year-old was in bad shape. His body was swollen from malnutrition. He cried at even the softest touch. He couldn't sit up or walk, and he was too weak to hold his own bottle. It took intensive effort by the team at International Animal Rescue to nurse the young ape back to health.


Budi at baby school. Photo courtesy of International Animal Rescue.

Today he's a very different orangutan. He spends his days at "nursery school," where he climbs, eats, and hangs out with Jemmi, another orphan. "He's making a lot of progress, but being brought up by another species, I don't imagine it'd be easy," says fifth grader Sarah Millward, who helped write and illustrate the book.

The student authors are proud that they can help Budi, and other orangutans, by telling his story and by donating the proceeds of sales of the book to International Animal Rescue.

"It was born out of a love for animals," says Katherine Eban, a founding member of the Parent-Teacher Association's "Beast Relief" Committee, which runs the book project. Parent volunteers from the committee lead writing and illustration workshops for the students, and they organize the children's work into the final book.

A Growing Body of Work

This is the third time that fifth graders at the school have created a book to highlight and benefit an endangered species. The first was One Special Rhino: The Story of Andatu, which tells about the first Sumatran rhino born in captivity in Indonesia. The second was One Special Elephant: The Story of Penelope Petunia, which tells of a baby forest elephant in Dzanga Bai, in central Africa, who is threatened by poachers. (Jane Goodall wrote forewords to both.)


Henry Kurzawa and Maeve Igoe, PS 107 5th graders, celebrate the successful rescue of orphaned orangutan Budi while reading their newly published book. Photo courtesy of Ericka Novotny.

"The book project has become a rite of passage for the school's fifth graders," Eban says.

But its impact spreads beyond the page. For instance, Mulcahy and her mother now volunteer at the local animal shelter. And together with her friends Mulcahy raises money for the shelter with a lemonade stand. "It's simple," she says. "Drink lemonade and help animals."

The work has also affected many of the students' buying choices. "Now before I eat or drink anything, I always read the label and make sure there's no palm oil," Millward says. "It's not okay to be using it when we don't really need it, and it's more helpful for the orangutans to keep the forest whole."

Mulcahy too has stopped eating many things that contain palm oil to help orangutans. But, she admits, "giving up some foods, like Oreos, is hard."

Alan Knight, chief executive officer of International Animal Rescue, is encouraged by the students' efforts. "The fact that Budi's story has inspired the creation of such a wonderful book gives me real confidence for the future," he writes in the afterword.

Indeed, today's students are tomorrow's conservationists, with the P.S. 107 fifth graders a shining example. That alone inspires hope.




Laurel Neme is a freelance writer and author of Animal Investigators: How the World's First Wildlife Forensics Lab is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species and Orangutan Houdini. Follow her on Twitter and Facebook.

This article was originally published on National Geographic under the title "Schoolkids Write Adorable Book About Orphaned Orangutan" It is republished here with permission. For full article, please click here.

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Scenes From the Democratic National Convention (26 photos)  

This week, an estimated 50,000 people have gathered in Philadelphia for the four-day Democratic National Convention. As the delegate votes were tallied, Hillary Clinton made history as the first woman to ever become the official nominee of a major party. Supporters of former candidate Bernie Sanders came as well, making their voices heard and protesting the way the Democratic party has handled the election so far. Gathered here are images of some of the speakers and attendees at this year's DNC.

 
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Cultured Diamonds: A Socially Conscious Girl's Best Friend  


As a lover of jewelry, I've always found anything that sparkles alluring, and diamonds have always had a particular appeal. So, you can just imagine how exciting it was to interview the Director of Pure Grown Diamonds, Suraj Mehta, to learn more about cultured diamonds and how they are taking the diamond industry by storm.

Modern technology has come a long way and actually made it possible to replicate the exact conditions needed to grow diamond crystals in a laboratory. Pure Grown Diamond places a small diamond seed into a tightly controlled environment, where the diamond grows and is able to recreate the natural process above ground; the results are absolutely stunning!



Millennials are currently some of the biggest fans of these pure grown diamonds, with a significant percentage saying they would totally consider buying a cultured diamond as a center stone for their engagement ring. Not only are these lab grown diamonds economically more affordable [30% cheaper than mined diamonds], but they're also the go to choice for the environmentally and socially conscious jewelry connoisseur. Perhaps this is why Pure Grown Diamonds was trending on Hollywood's red carpet this year. Here's more from my enlightening conversation with the Director of Pure Grown Diamonds, Siraj Mehta.

What is a synthetic diamond and how long have these kinds of diamonds been around for?

Let me start by saying that the term "synthetic" is not a term we consider fitting when describing Pure Grown Diamonds, as people often associate this word with "fake" or "inauthentic." We feel that terms such as "cultured," and "lab-grown" are more suitable descriptors. The most accurate though is "Pure Grown Diamond".

A Pure Grown Diamond is a genuine diamond with a different point of origin. Instead of coming from a mine, a Pure Grown Diamond is grown through a proprietary process that has unlocked nature's secret recipe for growing diamonds.

This process is akin to growing exotic flowers in a greenhouse: We create the necessary conditions to grow a diamond atom-by-atom from a carbon seed, and the result is a diamond that is cut, polished, and certified just like a mined diamond. The race to grow diamonds started just over 200 years ago when Antoine Lavoisier discovered that diamonds were made of pure carbon. After a couple of centuries of failed attempts by scientists around the world and a decade of research on the growth side, Pure Grown diamonds, was the first to the consumer with these gorgeous diamonds just over 2 years ago.

How are Pure Grown Diamonds different from natural diamonds?

Pure Grown Diamonds are chemically, physically, and optically identical to mined diamonds. To a consumer as well as a gemologist or a jeweler, the only difference is its point of origin.

Just like a mined diamond, every Pure Grown Diamond is unique. Even though two diamonds might grow together in the same laboratory, they will definitely not be identical. This is because diamonds are grown as a result of a natural crystallization process. The only human intervention is to start the growth, after this nature takes over. They are genuine diamonds with the only difference being their origin.

Would anyone be able to tell the difference between A Pure Grown diamond and the natural diamond with the naked eye?

It is virtually impossible, with the naked eye, to tell the difference between a Pure Grown and a mined diamond, since both are diamonds.

Pure Grown Diamonds, though, can often be recognized by the fact that they are rare Type IIa diamonds. Type IIa diamonds are only 2% of the world's supply, extremely rare and famous for their unmatched brilliance, scintillation and fire. You do however need specialized equipment to find this rare characteristic. Some famous Type IIa diamonds are the famous Koh-i-Noor diamond or the Elizabeth
Taylor diamond (formerly known as the Krupp Diamond).

They could also be recognized by the certificate number that is inscribed on the girdle of every Pure Grown Diamond over 0.30 carat in weight. These certificates are issued by third party, highly reputable labs like the International Gemological Institute (IGI) and Gem Certification & Assurance Lab (GCAL).

Pure Grown diamonds have been referred to as the socially and environmentally conscious diamond, can you tell me more about this?

A Pure Grown Diamond is by far a more sustainable and eco-conscious choice when compared to that of mined diamonds. In an environmental impact assessment report conducted by Frost & Sullivan in 2014, it was determined that that the environmental impact of growing diamonds is seven times lower than diamond mining.

Land Disturbed
Frost & Sullivan report noted that because next to no soil is displaced or disturbed in growing diamonds. The environmental impact on land is Nil compared to mined diamonds where open pit, coastal, and seabed mining is estimated to disturb nearly 1300 times more soil per carat than lab-grown diamonds.

Carbon Emissions
Even more drastic is the difference in carbon, nitrous oxide (NOx) and sulfur oxide (SOx) emissions between lab grown and mined diamonds. According to Frost & Sullivan, mined diamonds emit a staggering 1.5 billion times more carbon, NOx, and SOx per carat production than that of lab-grown diamonds, which result in little to no emissions of significance.

Water Impact
Frost and Sullivan report also notes that there is "no detrimental impact associated with water usage such as the discharge of waste water or pollutants in water bodies" in the production of lab-grown diamonds. Mined diamonds, however, have had a much greater impact on introducing pollutants into water bodies, though the industry has aimed to reduce this over time.

Overall, Pure Grown Diamonds emerge as a more sustainable choice allowing humans and nature to work harmoniously so that resources can be preserved now while ensuring that future generations will be supported.

Whose primarily buying Pure Grown diamonds right now?

Several consumer studies show that demand for lab-grown diamonds has grown significantly in a short period of time. According to a study done by NPD Group Diamond Tracker, which collected sales data from 3,950 specialty retail jewelers in America from January 2015 - January 2016, it was found that sales of lab grown diamonds tripled within a year's time, with 1-carat round diamonds being the most popular selection.



Regarding consumers of lab-grown diamonds, it has been found that millennial audiences in particular have shown a strong, growing interest in the lab-grown diamond category. According to a study conducted by MVI Marketing surveying men and women aged 21-35 years, 55% reported that they would consider buying a lab-grown diamond as the center stone for an engagement ring, with 65% agreeing that they should be referred to as diamonds because they are made of the same chemicals as mined diamonds.

Moreover, nearly half of those surveyed referenced eco-conscious and human rights motives as to why they would choose lab-grown, while 18% said because Pure Grown Diamonds are more affordable than mined diamonds (nearly 30% more affordable).

Like the natural diamond, are there different qualities with the Pure Grown diamond, as well? If so, what should potential buyers look for?

Yes there are different qualities and consumers should look for exactly what they would were they buying any diamond: The 4C's - Cut, Color, Clarity and Carat weight, as defined in a Gemological certificate from well-known independent labs like the International Gemological Institute and the Gem Certification & Assurance Lab (GCAL).

Lab-grown diamonds are subject to the same variables affecting its quality as mined diamonds, as these diamonds are grown in a process that recreates a natural growing environment. Therefore, it is important that buyers consider the diamonds four C's - cut, carat, color, and clarity - when selecting a lab grown diamond, just as they would when choosing a mined diamond. Because of this, it is important to understand that once the conditions are made and the diamond is in the process of growing, we have no control over how the specifications of the diamond when it is finished, so a diamond cannot be grown to fit a customer's specific needs.

Why do you think these cultured diamonds are not given the same status as natural diamonds yet? What do you think would need to shift in order to change this perception around?

We feel that with a reported 55% of consumers already favoring lab-grown diamonds over mined, according to MVI's study, lab grown diamonds have in fact garnered the same status as mined diamonds, and this perception will only grow over time. It is an astounding achievement that in just a few years, lab-grown diamonds have already appealed to more than half of consumers in such a short amount of time. With today's consumers growing more and more socially and environmentally conscious, we feel that Pure Grown Diamonds values of sustainability and eco-consciousness align perfectly with that of the consumer's mindset. This alignment of values has allowed the status of Pure Grown Diamonds to flourish and solidify, and it will continue to do so over time.

Pure Grown Diamond's mission is to continue to provide beautiful, quality diamonds that are affordable and conflict free for their loyal customers. To find out more about Pure Grown Diamonds you can go to their website: www.PureGrownDiamonds.com

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Pending Deal on Montreal Protocol Amendment Second Only to Paris Agreement  
World climate leaders meeting in Vienna have laid the foundation for an amendment to the 1987 Montreal Protocol, the global treaty that phased out ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). The amendment would address climate-damaging hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), the refrigerant chemicals that replaced CFCs but that can trap heat in the atmosphere at levels a thousand times higher than carbon dioxide and that can "undo much of our progress in reducing other carbon emissions under the Paris Climate Agreement," said Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy in a blog post.

Under the current draft of the agreement, expected to be concluded in October in Kigali, Rawanda, more affluent nations would virtually eliminate HFCs by the 2030s, whereas poorer nations would do so about a decade later.

McCarthy told Bloomberg BNA that the seriousness with which countries are taking the amendment owes in part to regulatory actions that the United States has taken under its Significant New Alternatives Policy program to drive the market for HFC alternatives.

"That's what the SNAP program does," McCarthy said. "So it has effectively driven domestic action that is putting the U.S. in a leadership position. We fully expect that with the actions we've already taken, that we'll be able to meet the reductions that the international community will be embracing [under a Montreal Protocol amendment]."

An agreement to reduce HFC use would be the biggest single measure to curb climate change since governments adopted the Paris Agreement, thereby pledging to keep global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit that increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The HFC amendment can help avoid 0.5 degrees Celsius of warming by century's end compared with business-as-usual growth, reports Climate Change News.

Speaking Friday at the conference of parties to the 1987 Montreal Protocol, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that the conference was as important a gathering as another he hosted on combatting the Islamic State. "What you are doing here right now," he said, "is of equal importance, because it has the ability literally to save life on this planet."

Climate Change and the U.S. Presidential Election

Last week, delegates to the Republican National Convention approved a party platform that downplayed use of renewable energy and rejected the Paris Agreement, a carbon tax, and other action on climate change. This week, delegates to the Democratic National Convention addressed climate change as a "real and urgent threat."

In their party platform, Democrats described climate change as "too important to wait for climate deniers and defeatists in Congress to start listening to science" and said government officials must take any steps they can to reduce pollution.

"We believe the United States must lead in forging a robust global solution to the climate crisis," the party platform states. "We are committed to a national mobilization, and to leading a global effort to mobilize nations to address this threat on a scale not seen since World War II. In the first 100 days of the next administration, the President will convene a summit of the world's best engineers, climate scientists, policy experts, activists, and indigenous communities to chart a course to solve the climate crisis."

In addition to calling for a tax code that creates incentives for renewable energy, the platform aims to generate half the country's electricity from clean sources in the next decade.

Inside Climate News presents a chart illustrating just how differently the two parties view climate and energy issues.

Emissions from Commercial Jets Next Up for Regulation

The EPA on Monday proposed an "endangerment finding" under the Clean Air Act for greenhouse gas emissions from certain types of airplane engines.

The proposal--which finds that airplane engines contribute to pollution that endangers public health and contributes to climate change--parallels the 2009 endangerment finding for motor vehicles under another section of the Clean Air Act and follows on the heels of the International Civil Aviation Organization's proposed regulations to cut carbon from aircraft.

"Addressing pollution from aircraft is an important element of U.S. efforts to address climate change," said EPA Acting Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation Janet McCabe, noting that aircraft are the third-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector.

No timetable was set for release of a rule regulating emissions from aircraft, but The New York Times reports that it could come in early January.

The Climate Post offers a rundown of the week in climate and energy news. It is produced each Thursday by Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.

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Debunked: Eight Myths About Carbon Offsetting  
By Will Tucker
This story first appeared on our Viewpoints blog and Ecosystem Marketplace

Let's preface this post with an indisputable fact: buying carbon offsets isn't going to solve climate change. No one (outside of the climate denial camp) disputes that avoiding climate catastrophe will require a deep decoupling of the economy and greenhouse gas emissions. But when Forest Trends' Ecosystem Marketplace (EM) surveyed companies that buy carbon offsets, it found that they're using carbon markets to accelerate this deep transformation, rather than to create a green-tinted perpetuation of the status quo.

So, keeping that in mind - and parking our prejudices at the door - it's time to take a fresh look at offsetting and how it can strengthen corporate strategies to reduce carbon emissions. Where better to start than with these eight oft-recycled misconceptions about the practice:

Myth 1: Companies that buy offsets are just buying their way out of their obligations

We hear this one all the time, but our research shows something completely different: namely, that those companies that do buy offsets are doing so as part of an overall carbon-management strategy, and they're mostly using offsets to either tackle emissions they can't eliminate internally or to create an internal “price on carbon" that focuses attention on emissions and accelerates reductions. Among businesses tracked in EM's newest report, 88% of voluntary offset buyers and 92% of compliance buyers have formally adopted emissions reduction targets. In 2014, the 314 businesses that engage in offsetting invested more than US$42 billion in emissions reduction activities, surpassing the combined investment of the 1,522 companies who did not engage in offsetting (US$41 billion). In fact, companies that included offsetting in their carbon management strategy typically spend about 10 times more than the typical company that didn't offset. Contrary to the "greenwashing" narrative, it appears as though using offsets is increasingly the hallmark of a company that's leading on climate action rather than bringing up the rear.

Myth 2: Offsetting is niche or arcane

Actually, a lot of prominent consumer-facing brands use offsetting, including household names like General Motors, Delta Air Lines, and Microsoft, all of whom were among the top five buyers on the voluntary market in 2014. They're hardly alone: of the nearly 2,000 companies who publicly disclosed data to CDP last year, 248 (17%) invested in projects to reduce carbon emissions outside of their immediate operations, purchasing the equivalent of 39.8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (MtCO2e) in 2014. (See the list of top-20 buyers from 2012-2014 here.)

Myth 3: Offsetting is expensive

Ultimately, offsets should be expensive to reflect the true cost of climate change, and companies that internally price carbon often do set their internal prices high to focus attention on the issue, but the average offset on the voluntary market sold for just $3.3/tonne of CO₂ equivalent last year. Even when the average price was more than double that value, it still fell significantly under the internal per-tonne price on carbon adopted by many companies: 120 of these businesses reported a median internal price of $18/tonne to CDP last year. Over time, the price of offsets should rise to reflect the cost of dealing with carbon emissions, but that's not an added cost imposed on us randomly; it's an existing cost being properly reflected. For now, however, offsets are cheap - too cheap.

Myth 4: Offsetting is too cheap to incentivize real change

This is true for now, but that's a question of policy, and not of product. So far, nearly all governments introduce caps on overall greenhouse gas emissions, and as those caps lower in accordance with the Paris Agreement, the price of allowances (issued by governments to permit emissions up to the level of the national cap) and offsets (created by entities that actively reduce emissions) should rise - unless, of course, emissions drop so far and fast that the problem is resolved.

Myth 5: Offsets come from a land faraway, from nebulous projects

Legitimate carbon offsets come from projects and are rigorously verified by third parties in accordance with recognized carbon standards, and many companies choose to buy from offset-generating projects close to home. Among voluntary offset transactions reported with geographical details in 2014, about a quarter involved a buyer purchasing offsets from the same location as its corporate headquarters. This practice is especially prevalent in North America, exemplified by the purchasing habits of companies like TD Bank and Waste Management Inc. The EM report speculates that brands buy offsets close to home in order to demonstrate impact to their consumers and bolster their "social license to operate" in a country or region.

Myth 6: Offsetting does not directly address emissions

Unlike the allowances used in cap-and-trade markets, offsets always represent real removals of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or avoided emissions somewhere in the world, and carbon standards require that developers demonstrate "additionality," which means they have to show that the emission reduction wouldn't have happened without the project. What's more, EM's newest report found that 79 companies are generating offsets within their own operations or supply chains by reducing emissions above and beyond regulatory requirement and economic incentives. L'Oreal, for example, distributes efficient, cleaner-burning stoves to women in Burkina Faso who boil the shea nuts used in its cosmetics products. Those stoves reduce emissions by reducing the need to chop trees, thereby saving forests, and they also reduce the health hazards of indoor smoke.

Myth 7: Offsetting barely makes a dent

Well, this one might be sort of true, but that's partly because global emission reduction agreements have yet to take effect, and also because offsets are designed to be part of an overall reduction strategy and not a substitute for one. Companies surveyed in the report typically offset less than 2% of their total emissions, usually because they're using offsets to compensate for just one segment of that total, like employee travel or the carbon footprint of a single product. Even the small percentage, however, represents a tangible impact on the climate - the over 140 MtCO₂e in offsets reported to CDP in 2014 had the equivalent impact of taking 30 million cars off the road for a year. As more companies sign on to the Science Based Targets Initiative, the percentage of emissions they address may go up.

Myth 8: Offsetting isn't scalable because there simply isn't enough demand

So far, the vast majority of companies that offset do so voluntarily, because there's no law telling them they have to. That's already changed in places like California, where companies are using offsets to help meet up to 8% of their emissions reduction obligation under the state's cap-and-trade system, and it will continue to change around the world as emissions trading ramps up under the Paris Agreement. Buyers in these nascent compliance markets disclosing to CDP reported purchasing nearly 27 MtCO2e in offsets in 2014. As industrial emissions drop, project developers are waiting with bated breath to see how things shake out in the aviation sector, where the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is determining rules for a Market-Based Mechanism (MBM) to help airlines achieve carbon-neutral growth starting in 2020.

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Conservation scientists help fish catch a break in Pohnpei  
Underneath the waves of Palikir Pass, one of the world's top surf breaks in the Pacific Ocean, lies a new safe zone which aims to ensure the survival of local fisheries and the species that are caught in Pohnpei, Micronesia. It's all thanks to a group of scientists from Australia and Micronesia who have found by measuring how far fish travel, habitats can be better protected.  
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Mysterious New Whale Species Discovered In Alaska  
Scientists say a dead whale on a desolate beach and a skeleton hanging in a high school gym are a new species . Yet experts have never seen one alive.  
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Bernie or Bargain  

Are die-hard Bernie Sanders supporters willing to compromise and vote for Hillary Clinton? The Atlantic's Alex Wagner toured the Democratic National Convention to find out.

 
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China: The People's Fury  
It is clear that neither China's leadership nor the censorship apparatus have shown much interest in allowing an honest accounting of the South China Sea case. China may be too locked into a nationalism of grievance and its cult of national humiliation to allow for any public compromise, and this would make any settlement of the disputes that bedevil the country's relations with its neighbors and with the United States all the more difficult.  
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Did Wallace Stevens Convert?  
To the Editors: One thing a biographer is obligated to do is try to evaluate the reliability of the sources one has at hand, both textual and oral. And in her review of The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens, Helen Vendler rightly demands this of my biography as well.  
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To the Editors: I am grateful for David Cole's thoughtful review of my book Guns Across America, but I would take issue with his assertion regarding “stand your ground” (or SYG) laws that “there is little evidence that they have resulted in vigilantism.”  
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To the Editors: I'm grateful for Hilton Als's attention to my biography of Agnes Martin, although I'm not sure why he feels I missed an opportunity by declining to make things up.  
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The French Anti-Stalinists  
To the Editors: Michael Scammell notes that the French translation of Darkness At Noon sold four hundred thousand copies in immediate postwar France. He declares that the book was widely credited with contributing to the defeat of an attempt by the French Communist Party to amend the constitution in 1946. The influence of the Koestler text is undeniable. However, France had a deeply rooted anti-Stalinist culture of the left and authors like Victor Serge and Boris Souveraine, with their firsthand descriptions of the deformations of the Soviet Revolution, were widely read.  
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The NRA Didn't Help  
To the Editors: I have only now become aware of a stunningly misleading sentence in Jeremy Waldron's review of David Cole's excellent book Engines of Liberty, regarding Cole's explanation for the triumph of the “individualist” interpretation of the Second Amendment in the US Supreme Court.  
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‘Blooming' Neurosurgery  
To the Editors: In his very timely essay “Neuroscience and the Law: Don't Rush In,” Judge Jed S. Rakoff states that “most nations banned lobotomies altogether; but they are still legal in the US in limited circumstances.” I am not aware that this procedure is still practiced anywhere in the world.  
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US one sheet for THE LONG GOODBYE (Robert Altman, USA, 1973)

Artist: Jack Davis (1924-2016)

Poster source: Heritage Auctions

R.I.P. Jack Davis. Read about how Davis's poster was created to revive Altman's film after a lackluster opening in L.A. 

 
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Operations image of the week:

Following a lengthy firing of its powerful engine, ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is on track to arrive at the Red Planet in October.

Today's deep-space manoeuvre began automatically at 09:30 GMT (11:30 CEST), after commands to orient itself and ignite the 424 N main engine were uploaded on Tuesday.

The manoeuvre was closely monitored by ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, who followed the craft's signals via the highly sensitive radio dish at New Norcia, Australia.

“The engine provides about the same force as that needed to lift a 45 kg weight in a fitness studio, and it ran for about 52 minutes, so that's quite a significant push,” says Silvia Sangiorgi, deputy spacecraft operations manager, seen at centre in the photo.

Today's burn was extremely accurate, and resulted in an extremely slight under performance of 0.01%. The next firing is set for 11 August.

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Exotic Binary White Dwarf-Red Dwarf Star System Discovered --"Its True Nature Was Not Suspected"  
 
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"Similar Event Within 100 Light Years of Earth Would Be Catastrophic" --Astronomers Observe Explosion 20 Times Brighter Than All the Stars in the Milky Way  
 
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California pear sawfly larva (Pristiphora abbreviata) collected in Rouge National Urban Park, Ontario, Canada, and photographed at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (sample ID: BIOUG20257-H01; specimen record: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Public_RecordView?processid=SSROC6799-15; BIN: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Public_BarcodeCluster?clusteruri=BOLD:ACV9937)

 
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The Wood Awards 2016 Shortlist has been revealed   

The Wood Awards 2016 Shortlist has been revealed 

 
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Chandigarh's Capitol Complex joins the UNESCO World Heritage list

 
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Reaching for Leaves  

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A young red deer stag reaching up to eat fresh willow leaves. It was shortly after sunrise and there was a heavy mist resulting in beautiful light which was perfect for near silhouette shots. The dawn sun is just hidden behind the canopy of the tree.

 
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5 important things that happened in design this week  

Moleskine opened a café

Designer stationery brand Moleskine branched into food and drink this week, opening up a café in Italy, which doubles up as a store, exhibition and work space.

The Moleskine Café is based in Milan, and has been conceptualised and designed by global consultancy Interbrand along with Moleskine's in-house creative team.

Split across two levels, the ground floor is centred around a coffee and food counter, with product displays that visitors can interact with and exhibition spaces around the peripheries.

There are also shared seating areas, where people are encouraged to chat and share ideas, while the mezzanine floor has quieter rest spaces where people can have a more “reflective and intimate experience”, says Manfredi Ricca, chief strategy officer at Interbrand Europe.

The store concept is based on rebranding Moleskine from a high-end stationery brand into a whole creative experience, which allows people to peruse artwork and design-led products, while allowing time to sit, reflect and use their own imagination too.

The Moleskine Café concept will roll out worldwide, though the company has not announced in which cities yet.

Selfridges unveiled its new Designer Studio

Selfridges' flagship store opened its redesigned Designer Studio this week, which showcases the work of established and up-and-coming fashion designers.

The interiors of the London Oxford Street store have been designed by studio Campaign, with installations created by artists including Patternity and Anna Lomax.

The space also includes an art gallery, and a book shop selling photography, fashion and art books, magazines, annuals and collectible editions.

We explored the design of the Stanley Kubrick exhibition at Somerset House

From rooms filled with blaring transistor radios to rooms as hot as a furnace, Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick is an attack on the senses, leaving its visitors feeling disconcerted, uncomfortable and overwhelmed.

The show, which is open at London's Somerset House until 24 August, includes 45 commissions from different artists, which interpret Kubrick's films, with a heavy favouritism towards his well-loved classics A Clockwork Orange, The Shining and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Although there isn't much exploration of his lesser known films, the unnerving exhibition uses multimedia forms to address Kubrick's wider themes of dark humour, sex, violence, horror and dystopia, which find their way into the majority of his movies.

This week, we spoke to co-curator James Putnam, who explains why the show had to be “different from a conventional art exhibition”.

Design business owners learnt what they need to do following Brexit

This week, design business advisor Shan Preddy shared insight on how design company owners can succeed following the EU referendum.

Industry experts have noted that leaving the European Union could cause problems for design businesses, which include restricted movement of talent and goods, change to copyright laws and loss of access to EU funding.

Others also noted however that leaving could give UK businesses more freedom and autonomy over their spending and resources.

Either way, now's the time to think about how your business need to change following the vote. In an exclusive piece for Design Week, Preddy advises that some of the things business owners should be focusing on are maintaining client relationships, investing in marketing and valuing all team members, no matter what level they are.

To read her in-depth advice piece, head here.

Penguin revealed the covers of its new Essentials collection

Designers have transformed the design of classic book covers from the last 100 years this week, including titles such as Barry Hines' A Kestrel for a Knave, Kathryn Stockett's The Help and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the time of Cholera.

The commissioned designers span professions from illustrators to tattoo artists, and were sourced by Penguin via blogs, exhibitions and tattoo shops.

Picking from a multi-disciplinary range of professions means some of the artists won't have worked on a book cover before, which produces “original and fresh” designs, says Penguin designer Gill Heeley.

The Penguin Essentials series will be published on 6 August in paperback and each book costs £8.99.

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Seymourpowell designs new paint recycling technology  

Seymourpowell has developed technology to recycle paint more cost-effectively and on a mass scale for the first time.

Working with Dulux-owner AkzoNobel and Newlife Paints, the consultancy's technology, based on the concept of a vacuum cleaner, mechanises the process of decanting unused paint from tins, which if used commercially would help both to save resources and reduce landfill.

AkzoNobel initially teamed up with paint chemist Keith Harrison to tackle the problem of huge amounts of paint being wasted each year. Over 400 million litres of paint is sold annually in the UK but 13% of it remains unused, amounting to 55 million litres wasted in total, according to Seymourpowell.

Scaling up existing technology

Harrison had already developed a technique of re-engineering used paint into a recycled paint product. Seymourpowell's brief was then to create machinery and technology that would allow a technically and commercially viable way of scaling up Harrison's recycling process.

“One of the major technical problems with recycling paint is that it's very difficult to decant from tins,” says Chris Sherwin, sustainability consultant at Seymourpowell.

“The process is labour-intensive and expensive because it all has to be done by hand. Our first challenge was to discover the very best way of harvesting all of the unused paint in the most cost-effective way.”

The consultancy experimented with different technologies, including high-pressure air jets, vibrations, crushing and squeezing the paint tins, and a large “worm-screw” device that crushed tins and drained paint at the same time.

Industrial vacuum cleaner

An industrial vacuum cleaner, however, proved to be the quickest and most efficient means of extracting unused paint. Seymourpowell developed and adapted the suction technology and created a large prototype that could be used on an industrial scale.

The concept was then trialed with waste management company Veolia and proved to allow paint to be recycled four times faster and at one-seventh of the cost of previous methods.

It also leaves tins clean enough to be recycled straight away and is cost-effective to scale up.

Seymourpowell plans to develop the technology further alongside AkzoNobel and Newlife Paints, as well as a smaller paint suction prototype for smaller scale paint recycling operations.

The consultancy has not yet confirmed how the collection process for used tins would work.

More details about the technology are expected to be revealed later this year.

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A Bond-style bar in Lanzarote? Get groovy at the Mirador del Río  

Indulge your spy-film fantasies at this cool clifftop hangout a design classic by iconic architect César Manrique

Technically, the Mirador del Río is a cafe and bar, but the reason people come here is to live out their 1960s spy-film fantasies. Created in 1974 by visionary architect and artist César Manrique, it is a perfect example of his impeccable grooviness, as well as his affinity for the otherworldly beauty of his beloved island. Carved into the summit of a 474-metre-high cliff on Lanzarote's northern tip, the Mirador is almost invisible from the outside. But step inside and a winding corridor leads you up through lava rock into two cave-like rooms, with vast panoramic windows overlooking the “Rio”, a strait between Lanzarote and the tiny island of La Graciosa.

All of Manrique's constructions are works of art but the Mirador is the one you can imagine as your own apartment

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Review: Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick at Somerset House  

Stanley Kubrick's disconcerting and uncomfortable cinematic style is tricky to replicate in an exhibition space. But Somerset House's latest show successfully transports its visitors from gallery to film set with its array of multimedia installations inspired by the likes of A Clockwork Orange, The Shining and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

As visitors snake their way around the West Wing at Somerset House, their senses are attacked by the sound of 114 broken radio transistors, the warmth of a roaring electric fireplace, the sight of a giant penis sculpture and the all-round immersion of a virtual reality space scene.

Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick sees 45 artists spanning fields from graphic design and sculpture to filmmaking and object curation recreate scenes from the movies, or interpret Kubrick's more overarching themes of sex, violence, dystopia and the unknown.

By removing text from the walls of the exhibition space and placing it in a succinct booklet instead, Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick provides no distractions for its visitors, holding them captive in rooms with nothing but multi-sensory installations, and breaking down boundaries between curator and visitor.

The exhibition was conceptualised and curated by filmmaker and musician James Lavelle, who began working on the project five years ago, alongside freelancer James Putnam, who came in halfway.

“Lavelle is a DJ, whereas I'm a straightforward art curator,” says Putnam. “I brought in heavy-weight artists while he brought in film-makers and musicians. His skill of mixing music worked well in curation, and meant we came up with something quite progressive.”

Exhibition design was completed by Richard Greenwood, Miska Lovegrove and Mathilde Bretillot, and graphic design by Studio Barnbrook.

While Somerset House's usual photography and graphic design exhibitions are characterised by framed wall pieces alongside descriptions, Putnam explains that this show needed to stand out. It has no text on the walls at all, and instead replaces this with a booklet offering a little explanation on each installation.

“We wanted to make it very different from a conventional art exhibition,” Putnam says. “It had to be an arresting, visceral experience. We were very careful not to make it too interpretative with labels, as we didn't want people stopping and trying to read them under dim, flickering or strobe lighting.”

This lack of explanation is meant to leave as much to the viewer's imagination as possible, sometimes to the point of confusion. “There's this ambiguity to Kubrick's films, this feeling of a dissatisfactory ending, and never quite knowing what message he's trying to get across,” says Putnam. “So the show had to be thought-provoking.”

The exhibition makes good use of the museum's West Wing, assigning some more immersive installations an entire room, whereas others are placed several within the same room but separated by maze-like wall structures within it, adding to the feeling of the unexpected as visitors turn corners.

“We had to think about how we would get 45 artists into that confined space,” says Putnam. “We wanted to make it like a film itself, so that visitors would experience the thrill of a Kubrick film that disquieting, edgy atmosphere.”

Some of the more arresting installations include Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard's dimly lit room filled with 114 crackling analogue radio sets, with old VHS recorders and torn up cassettes added for effect. The individual noises from the radios join together in harmony to produce one voice singing Dies Irae the eerie Roman Catholic hymn used by Kubrick in the soundtrack of The Shining and A Clockwork Orange. The atmospheres leaves the viewer with an unnerving feeling of nostalgia mingled with dread and anticipation, while Stuart Haygarth's tower of electric fires sets its room ablaze with heat and gives off a supernatural red glow.

Doug Foster's visual display replicates a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey, mesmerising viewers as they watch patterns emerge and change from a central point on the screen, accompanied by a foreboding soundtrack by composer Phillip Shepherd. Chris Levine's LED light display projects a quickly vanishing portrait of Kubrick himself as the viewer looks from side to side, while Sarah Lucas' concrete penis sculpture lying on top of a crushed car is a cheeky nod to Kubrick's interpretation of sex and violence bleak and sordid, yet laced with dark humour, much like the films themselves.

While the installations take centre stage at the show, Studio Barnbrook's graphic design elements were well-considered with a “simple, direct” approach that purposely did not take away from the effect of the pieces, says Putnam.

The studio created flat, two-dimensional icons which communicate some of the more iconic characters in Kubrick's films a winking eye, symbolising Alex from A Clockwork Orange, and a heart to mark Lolita's heart-shaped sunglasses which are then used in various formations across advertising posters.

A bright orange colour is used throughout the print and exhibition graphics, and plastered all over the walls, creating a symbolic blank canvas while also drumming home this association with one of Kubrick's best-known films. Complemented by a navy blue, the graphic identity had to be “strong visually”, accompanied by “brief and clear” wayfinding information, says Putnam.

Creating such an immersive experience within a building like Somerset House could not have been an easy task. As a listed site, some installations a transcript from The Shining which adorns the walls of the building's historic Nelson staircase had to be carefully considered, while others Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin's carpet design taken from The Shining were installed just 10 days before the exhibition opening. But working across disciplines and at times spontaneously, the curators and design teams have put together a fitting show for Kubrick's filmic style an erratic, perplexing and captivating visitor journey which turns an exhibition into theatre.

Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick will run at West Wing, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA until 24 August. Tickets are £12.50, or £9.50 for concessions.

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New images have been released showing what the cultural district rising like a brick phoenix from the 2012 London Olympics site will look like.

The London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) published the computer-generated images on Wednesday at a conference called Rising in the East to mark the four-year anniversary of the Olympic opening ceremony.

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ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter blasts itself closer to the Red Planet  

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FERCenomics  


by guest blogger Maya K. van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper

In March, a jury awarded $4.3 million to two Pennsylvania families that drank well water contaminated by methane. Gas wells drilled by an oil corporation leaked the methane into the water. As a result, the families suffered vomiting, dizziness and skin rashes. In April, a man in Salem, Pennsylvania, was burned in his home when a nearby natural gas pipeline exploded, destroying his house and sending him to the hospital.

What do these incidents have in common? Gas fracked from shale. And they are just a few of the many examples of people suffering at the hands of the industries drilling and transporting fracked shale gas.

From source to end use, fracked shale is harming communities. Research shows overwhelmingly that fracking contaminates our air and water. In Pennsylvania alone, there have already been more than 200 confirmed cases of drinking water contamination caused by natural gas drilling. Problems from contamination last for generations. For instance, children of mothers living within 10 miles of gas wells are 30 percent percent more likely to be born with congenital heart disease and twice as likely to have a neural tube defect.

In a rush to get this deadly gas to market, companies are scrambling to build more pipelines, which inflict a new set of harms and scars on humans and our environments. In fact, all across the country, the fracking industry is rushing to build ever-more dangerous pipelines, cutting through private property and public lands in the process. Not only do these pipeline developments encourage increased greenhouse-gas emissions, threatening the future of our planet, but they also create tangibly hazardous threats to human health and safety.

Much of this is approved by a federal agency known as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). While FERC is tasked with reviewing and approving fracked gas pipelines to ensure orderly development that complies with the law, the agency has a long history of responding only to the needs of the fracking industry, failing to protect communities or natural resources that are fundamental to sustaining life.

FERC has used its authority to encourage and support the rapid proliferation of pipelines, compressors, and liquified natural gas facilities that export U.S. natural gas to other nations. FERC has used its legal authority to help the pipeline industry strip people of their property rights, forcing them to become unwilling hosts to dangerous pipelines that damage their property and limit their ability to use their own property. FERC has supported pipelines passing through farmland and business properties, even though some businesses have been forced to shut down and farmers have had reduced crop yields, damaging their ability to earn a living from the land, which threatens an occupation that has been a mainstay of American life. Communities that have purchased and protected public parks and forests for their enjoyment and environmental benefit have been forced to stand by as FERC-approved pipelines cut down trees and ram through creeks.

By exposing communities to dangerous chemicals, fracking endangers our homes and schools. And by continuing to expand the use of fossil fuels and fracking infrastructure, as a society, we are telling affected communities they are less important than industry goals. We are prioritizing the business profits of the fracked-gas industries ahead of the safety of us all.

But the cost of continued dependence on fossil fuels is far too great to support any longer.

Earlier this year, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network (DRN) filed multiple lawsuits against FERC, highlighting its bias, calling for change in its funding structure, and demanding accountability and responsibility in regulation. Congress is not holding FERC accountable for its abuses of law and power, so the people must--and we are seeking to do so through both our advocacy and the enforcement of the law in the courts. Hopefully, some day soon, some real congressional champions who want to advance, protect, and reform will step forward and fight with us for meangingful protection and change.

From PennEast to Atlantic Sunrise, Constitution to Leidy Southeast, new and costly pipelines are snaking through the Delaware River Basin and through our nation at large. However, we have the opportunity to stop this dangerous pattern. By demanding that our government uphold its obligations to protect the people first, enforce the environmental regulations already on the books, and stop the careless ruin of our communities and future. It's time for FERC to get the message.

Communities that want to learn more and want to reach out to their legislators to advance reform can do so at bit.ly/FERCNeedsInvestigation.

Maya K. van Rossum is the Delaware Riverkeeper, and has led the Delaware Riverkeeper Network (DRN) since 1994. The DRN is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization that monitors the river and all of its tributaries for threats and challenges, and that advocates, educates, and litigates for protection, restoration, and change.


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Inside the 'Intentional Lifestyle' of Communal Living  

The group-housing industry is growing in American cities. One Brooklyn company, Pure House, prides itself on providing not just group housing, but “an intentional way of living” amid the isolation of modern urban life. In this episode of If Our Bodies Could Talk, the residents of Pure House invite James Hamblin to learn more about the trend, complete with dinner and meditation.

 
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Sleeping Giant of Climate Change (Hint: It's Before Your Eyes)  


One-third or more of all the global food produced never makes it from the farm to our fork. In fact, if measured as a country, food waste would be the third largest for greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization which revised upward its estimated carbon footprint of food waste to a staggering 3.6 gigatons of CO2.

With nations around the world starting to design programs to meet COP21 climate commitments, now is the time to address food waste as the sleeping climate giant surprisingly hidden before our eyes.

The Model for Success may be the Age of Energy Efficiency
As we tackle food waste, we can learn lessons from the energy conservation movement. The last 20 years was the Age of Energy Efficiency. Technology allowed the increasingly more efficient use of electricity distributed to more people and more buildings without new power plants and the resulting climate emissions. Since 1990, the 29 member countries of the International Energy Agency saved enough electricity through energy efficiency investments to avoid the equivalent emissions of 14,500 coal-fired power plants for one year. How did we do that? Energy efficiency rebates, education programs and regulatory signals for energy efficient technology development all played a role.

Age of Food Efficiency
Now, we need an Age of Food Efficiency. We already grow and produce enough food to feed 10 billion people, yet sadly on a planet of 7 billion people, nearly 1 billion people go to bed hungry every night.

Like energy, we need to efficiently spread the food we already grow and produce across more people without increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Why shouldn't food conservation be every bit as important as energy conservation?

Like energy, we need the same prompts in rebates, education and technology development to lower food waste. We need a new paradigm. We need the Age of Food Efficiency where we waste less to feed more with big dividends to the environment.

Consumers are Part of the Problem and the Solution
The issue of food waste is not about despair or guilt. Rather, I see it as an opportunity for everyone to get involved - we can all do our own part. One-third of all food wasted globally happens at the consumer level. In the U.S., food is becoming the top item in many landfills. Let's buy just what we need so we don't throw so much away. Let's have a plan for every item placed in our grocery carts.

Here's Where the Rot Really Stinks
The other two-thirds of all food wasted globally happens at the production and distribution level, mostly in emerging economies where food often never makes it from the field from harvest, or frequently spoils in poor distribution systems or open-air markets. Access to capital, technologies and best educational practices would go a long way to make a difference - and all this could be prompted by emerging economies developing food waste reduction strategies to meet their COP21 climate commitments.

Why?

For two reasons. First, when food waste is managed as a climate issue, it will unlock new policies and new resources to do something about it.

Second, lowering food waste is the only climate policy that simultaneously reduces greenhouse gasses, feeds more people, saves water and promotes national security. No other policy can do the same.

I'm working with NGOs, policy makers, and colleagues in the food refrigeration industry to think about these issues every day. I want to hear what you think. Tweet me @JohnMandyck to continue the conversation.

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This video shows why we must stop TPP to keep fossil fuels in the ground  
The climate movement has achieved critical wins recently. Protecting the Atlantic coast from offshore drilling, stopping fracking in New York, and defeating the Keystone XL pipeline to name a few. Yet, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), if approved by Congress, could undermine these and other critical climate victories. And the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) isn't looking much better. We can't let corporate trade deals hamper climate progress; we must defeat the TPP.

That's the message of a new video released by the Sierra Club today.

The video comes at a key moment in history. The TPP, a deal that was negotiated in secret with hundreds of corporate advisors and that grants broad new rights to multinational corporations, is facing immense opposition from over a thousand civil society organizations (including hundreds of environmental organizations), millions of members of the public, over a hundred city councils, economists, actors like Mark Ruffalo and Evangeline Lilly, musicians, and both presidential candidates.

And yet, TPP backers--mostly the same multinational corporations who helped craft the deal and will benefit from it--are eager for Congress to pass the agreement during the "lame duck" session in Congress late this year.

As our narrator Evangeline Lilly explains in the video, we can't let that happen, for the sake of our climate. Check it out:



It has never been more critical to take the bold action necessary to tackle climate disruption. The last thing we need is corporate-driven and polluter-friendly trade deals to get in the way. Please watch and share this video and, most importantly, call on your Member of Congress to oppose this corporate giveaway.

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Trump Now Blames Scientists For Global Warming 'Hoax'  
Donald Trump offered a new explanation this week on why he believes climate change is a hoax. Past explanations have included blaming China for making up climate change for their benefit. But that was before being nominated for President. So what's his position today?

Speaking with Bill O'Reilly on Fox News, Trump gave an updated account of why he thinks global warming is a hoax.

O'REILLY: Did you ever call climate change a hoax?

TRUMP: Well, I might have because when I look at some of the things that are going on, in fact if you look at Europe where they had their big summit a couple of years ago, where people were sending out emails, scientists practically calling it a hoax and they were laughing at it. So, yeah, I probably did. I see what's going on and you see what's going on.

The Discredited ClimateGate Conspiracy Theory

Trump appears to be referring here to the illegal hacking of scientists' emails in 2009, which climate skeptics gleefully dubbed "ClimateGate." These conspiracy theories have been thoroughly debunked (see for example FactCheck.org , Union of Concerned Scientists, and Politifact). After the emails were released, every investigative report -- from the National Science Foundation Inspector General, NOAA's Inspector General, Penn State University, University of East Anglica, and the UK Parliament -- reached the same conclusion: nothing in the emails in any way altered the overwhelming scientific evidence that the world is warming due to increased levels of pollution.

Illegal Hacking Timed to Disrupt Climate Talks

Despite the thorough debunking of these attacks on scientists, the conspiracy theories gained traction in the media and, as Trump demonstrates, remain a convenient go-to point for skeptics today. The hacked emails were mysteriously dumped in 2009 on a server in Russia at an optimally timed moment as President Obama and world leaders were preparing to head to Copenhagen forge a new global climate agreement. The scientific community was instantly judged guilty in kangaroo courts led by Fox News and other media outlets who chased the story before investigating the facts. Fox News' Sean Hannity helped lead the charge, declaring:

HANNITY (2009): "it is safe to say that ClimateGate has revealed that global warming and that movement is run by hacks and frauds."

Fast forward to 2016

Today, NASA says there is a 99 percent chance that 2016 will be the hottest year on record, following the previous record set just last year. Three-quarters of Americans understand that the world is warming, which is creating a tough challenge for thoughtful Republicans who are caught between voters and a nominee who denies the problem.

Given his past statements, nobody should be surprised that Trump is dismissive of climate change. But endorsing the ClimateGate conspiracy theory years after it has been discredited should be alarming not only for the scientists he is ridiculing, but also for anyone who wants to make sure we leave a healthy planet for future generations.

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The Switch by Chris Goodall solar power is finally taking over  
The transition to solar is happening faster than predicted, and now power can be stored when the sun isn't shining. This book is a guide to the latest exciting developments

A sense of drift and apathy has pervaded the global warming and renewable energy debate for too long. The fossil fuel companies continue to dig coal and pump oil and gas; herbivorous idealists, scientists and ecowarriors emit their ritual opposition. The carbon load forced into the atmosphere continues to rise, and the general public seems resigned.

But 2016 is the year this will really begin to change. Chris Goodall's book is wonderfully up to date but, thanks to the pace of change, even he couldn't keep up with the avalanche of news and initiatives conspiring to justify his subtitle. In May, Shell announced a major move into renewables; on 15 May Germany received almost all its electricity from renewables; for four days from 7 to 10 May Portugal did the same. Goodall, who is an economist rather than a technologist or ecowarrior, explains why the change is happening now: the cost of solar electricity is falling much faster than anyone predicted. Solar power is approaching parity with fossil fuels and can only become cheaper as time goes by.

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Geek's Guide to Britain There are several fine examples of Victorian engineering still working in Blighty. Tower Bridge in London is one of my personal favourites. I was surprised to discover that another was on my doorstep. Well, 4.34km (2.7 miles) from my doorstep to be more accurate.…

 
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Jacques Piccard Scientist of the Day

Jacques Piccard, a Swiss engineer and oceanographer, was born July 28, 1922.  

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Trump Now Blames Scientists For Global Warming 'Hoax'  
Donald Trump offered a new explanation this week on why he believes climate change is a hoax. Past explanations have included blaming China for making up climate change for their benefit. But that was before being nominated for President. So what's his position today?

Speaking with Bill O'Reilly on Fox News, Trump gave an updated account of why he thinks global warming is a hoax.

O'REILLY: Did you ever call climate change a hoax?

TRUMP: Well, I might have because when I look at some of the things that are going on, in fact if you look at Europe where they had their big summit a couple of years ago, where people were sending out emails, scientists practically calling it a hoax and they were laughing at it. So, yeah, I probably did. I see what's going on and you see what's going on.

The Discredited ClimateGate Conspiracy Theory

Trump appears to be referring here to the illegal hacking of scientists' emails in 2009, which climate skeptics gleefully dubbed "ClimateGate." These conspiracy theories have been thoroughly debunked (see for example FactCheck.org , Union of Concerned Scientists, and Politifact). After the emails were released, every investigative report -- from the National Science Foundation Inspector General, NOAA's Inspector General, Penn State University, University of East Anglica, and the UK Parliament -- reached the same conclusion: nothing in the emails in any way altered the overwhelming scientific evidence that the world is warming due to increased levels of pollution.

Illegal Hacking Timed to Disrupt Climate Talks

Despite the thorough debunking of these attacks on scientists, the conspiracy theories gained traction in the media and, as Trump demonstrates, remain a convenient go-to point for skeptics today. The hacked emails were mysteriously dumped in 2009 on a server in Russia at an optimally timed moment as President Obama and world leaders were preparing to head to Copenhagen forge a new global climate agreement. The scientific community was instantly judged guilty in kangaroo courts led by Fox News and other media outlets who chased the story before investigating the facts. Fox News' Sean Hannity helped lead the charge, declaring:

HANNITY (2009): "it is safe to say that ClimateGate has revealed that global warming and that movement is run by hacks and frauds."

Fast forward to 2016

Today, NASA says there is a 99 percent chance that 2016 will be the hottest year on record, following the previous record set just last year. Three-quarters of Americans understand that the world is warming, which is creating a tough challenge for thoughtful Republicans who are caught between voters and a nominee who denies the problem.

Given his past statements, nobody should be surprised that Trump is dismissive of climate change. But endorsing the ClimateGate conspiracy theory years after it has been discredited should be alarming not only for the scientists he is ridiculing, but also for anyone who wants to make sure we leave a healthy planet for future generations.

-- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.

 
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r0B0t: This Giant Brick-Laying Robot Can Build An Entire House In Just Two Days  

Robots are great aren't they. When they're not making cocktails on cruise ships they're picking up boxes or (trying) to save lives.

Well now you can add another skill to their repertoire as this rather astonishing robot can build an entire house, and it can do it in just two days.

Meet Hadrian X - a lorry-mounted robot that with clinical precision can lay all the bricks needed to build a house in a fraction of the time it would take us puny humans to do it.

Hadrian was created by an Australian firm, Hadrian X uses advanced 3D mapping and a laser guidance system to make sure that each brick is perfectly laid on top of the other.

Of course the real benefit of Hadrian X isn't the precision it's the fact that it can work solidly, 24 hours a day and seven days a week.

Capable of laying a 1000 bricks per hour and cutting each individual brick to size, Fastbrick Robotics believes that their new robot could revolutionise the construction industry.

Instead of traditional cement, Hadrian X uses a special construction glue.

‘By utilising a construction adhesive rather that traditional mortar, the Hadrian X will maximise the speed of the build and strength and thermal effeciency of the final structure,' explains the company.

 
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A newly translated memoir has Richard McCray reflecting on the legacy of a renowned Chinese astrophysicist whose "addiction to trouble" saw him oscillate between lecturing and doing forced labour  
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Fang Lizhi, physicist and dissident  
A newly translated memoir has Richard McCray reflecting on the legacy of a renowned Chinese astrophysicist whose "addiction to trouble" saw him oscillate between lecturing and doing forced labour  
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Between the lines  
A book on debunking scientific misinformation and a guide to scientific writing, reviewed by Margaret Harris  
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Vast undersea eruption revealed by wiring up a sea-floor volcano  
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Early morning light showers 28 July 2016  

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Early morning light showers 28 July 2016  

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Oyster Archaeology: Ancient Trash Holds Clues To Sustainable Harvesting  

Modern-day oyster populations in the Chesapeake are dwindling, but a multi-millennia archaeological survey shows that wasn't always the case. Native Americans harvested the shellfish sustainably.

 
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Its time to end the farming of endangered species #cites #Vietnam #animalwelfare https://t.co/Vv04NT1dLb 
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Fab News: More Comic-Con Goodness and Disney Adventures MiceChat (blog) The incredible panelists included Jeff Russo (Fargo, The Night Of, Power, Legion), Mac Quayle (Mr. Robot, American Horror Story, Scream Queens, The People v. O.J. Simpson), Tyler Bates (Guardians of the Galaxy, Salem, Kingdom), Mike Suby (The ...

 
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r0B0t: 'Mr. Robot' Season 2, Episode 4 Recap: Game of Chess - Hidden Remote  

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CITES is an abbreviation for: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species - fauna and flora. https://t.co/vKsNa05nAY 
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Methane basics  
What do you, cows, digesters and landfills all have in common? You all/ we all make methane gas. The methane in landfill is the same as 'clean fuel' natural gas. It is the same as the gas in anaerobic digesters. It is the same stuff that cows and people produce in their farts. So why is some of this good and some of this bad? First it is good to understand where methane comes from. Methane is a by- product of eating in an environment with little to no oxygen. Here I don't mean holding your nose when you have to eat something really disgusting. I mean eating in a place where people can't breath- your intestines for example. In your intestines- which is your own personal Air BNB for microbes, those microbes are feasting on food that you haven't fully consumed and on the wastes from the foods that you have eaten. There is very little oxygen (we put our electrons from eating onto oxygen and make CO2) and so in order to release the energy from the food that they eat, they have to shove electrons onto something. The compound of last resort is carbon and in the process methane is formed. Realize that these microbes are good for you and that you should nourish them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probiotic).

The microbes that do this are in the Archaea family. These microbes are ubiquitous- in soils, oceans, landfills and us. Here is what they look like- in water, us and in wastewater.




Making methane is a relatively complicated process. First you have to go through hydrolysis, then fermentation and then finally methanogenesis. Conditions have to be just right- not too acid or too basic. You need plenty of water as well. A good warm, temperature helps. You have to have the right supply of nutrients around- why shouldn't those archaea also have a balanced diet? In other words while methane is produced under a wide range of conditions and in a wide range of environments, if you want to make a lot of methane and collect all of it, it is much better to do it in an environment that you can closely control and in a place where you can collect all of the stuff you make.

One of the biggest sources of uncontrolled methane release is from enteric fermentation aka cow farts. This is very difficult to control (https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg3/ar4-wg3-chapter8.pdf). We can best control it by eating less beef so that there are fewer cows. Capturing it is also difficult- just try to picture it. Though it may not always seem that way, humans make relatively inconsequential amounts.

The way we can really control how much methane is generated and whether that is used or emitted is by where we put our food scraps. In a controlled, dedicated anaerobic digester conditions are set to maximize methane production. That means that you get the most gas out of your feedstocks in the least amount of time. Plus you can capture it and use it for energy. The most common place to find these digesters are wastewater treatment plants.



When these plants treat your wastewater they can also capture the methane and make electricity. Here is a short video from the plant where my wastewater goes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4GYHZ0b7og

Compare that with the landfill-



Try controlling temperature, pH, nutrients and water content in this. So while landfills make and emit methane, they likely make only a fraction that could be made with the food waste they have and they collect even a smaller fraction of that.

We are starting to see more wastewater plants use their digesters to make energy from food waste. East Bay MUD in Oakland, CA is one great example: https://www3.epa.gov/region9/waste/features/foodtoenergy/

This is the way to go.

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@FedEx continues to ship #Shark fin & violate law on @CITES international level & US Endangered Species Act! ? https://t.co/A7hxvg9bUy 
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A volume phase holographic grism, a combination of a diffraction grating and a prism. This grism combines a grating from Kaiser Optical Systems Inc. with prism wedges from Janos Technology Inc. and was assembled at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) by Al Camacho and Heidi Yarborough. It is used in the new Multi-Aperture Red Spectrometer (MARS, which is CryoCam resurrected).

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Hydrodynamic propulsion of water striders  

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A freshwater spider (Dolomedes) runs along the water's surface, leaving vortices behind its four pairs of stroking legs. In this National Science Foundation-supported project, dye studies were performed in order to determine what the propulsion mechanism is of the water strider (Gerris remigis), a common water-walking insect, approximately 1 centimeter long that resides on the surface of ponds, rivers and the open ocean.

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r0B0t: PSA, Y'all: “Y'all” is Second Person Plural  

Headlander, the newest game from Double Fine and Adult Swim Games, is a charming mix of '70s sci-fi themes, Metroid-style gameplay, and the kind of weirdness that has always characterized games from both companies. It also has a character named Earl who completely kills any suspension of disbelief in the very first seconds of the game, which you can watch above. Here's his dialogue:

And I'm through. Y'all should be hearing my on your helmet radio now. I know y'all got a lot of questions, but there ain't no point in trying to talk, because you ain't got no lungs. Y'all just come out of stasis, so you don't likely remember much. This is gonna be a hard pill to swallow, but—hells bells! Shepherds again! Y'all gonna need yourself a body.  Welcome to the future! Ain't much sure why, but Methuselah wants a hold of you. We gotta get y'all off this ship.

For a large proportion of Headlander's audience—and Double Fine's entire staff, apparently—there's nothing about that dialogue that sounds wrong. But for anyone who's spent any time in the South, it's nails on a blackboard. In five out of ten sentences, Earl uses “y'all” to address a single person. Not even a person, actually, but a severed head, making it even less likely Earl is somehow referring to the main character and her family or some other implied collective group: she's literally just a head. This is more wrong than waking up as a lungless head in a space helmet, more terrifying than rogue artificial intelligences or killer robots or any futuristic horrors Double Fine could ever dream up. Maybe it's part of the game—maybe Earl is a bad simulation of a Southerner. Or maybe the simplest rule in southern dialect has somehow been botched once again. I'll never know, because I couldn't get past the beginning out of fear of how Earl might mangle the language next.

In fairness to video game writers, it's not always a hard-and-fast rule. Arika Okrent took a look at the issue for Slate back in 2014, and concluded that the singular “y'all” was occasionally used, in a few special situations: particularly when Southerners exaggerated their speech to get better customer service from Northerners. (I've never heard that, but I've heard the possessive use, as in her example of “How're y'all's grits?”) But even in those rare cases, no one uses “y'all” exclusively instead of “you,” the way Earl does, even in the far distant future. And the one thing everyone agrees on is that Southerners, who actually use the word, are the ones who are most likely to insist it's plural only. So if your character's from the South, odds are he or she is not going to use it as a singular. (If your character's a Northerner who is misusing the word out of ignorance or spite, you're probably doing something too complicated for a video game.) So a good rule of thumb for non-Southerners: just use it as the plural. They still teach Latin at Andover or wherever, right? Or Spanish, at least? Would you use vosotros or ustedes or voi or whatever second person plural you're familiar with? Use “y'all.” Otherwise, just play it safe and stick to “you.” If foreign languages make you uneasy, memorize this handy mnemonic:

If you're speaking to one person,
Using “y'all” will make things worsen.
But if “all of you” would work,
Then it's time for “y'all,” you jerk!

Don't get fancy and don't showboat. You're probably already naming a character “Earl” or something, so you're on thin ice to begin with. So let me address all of you, as in more than one of you, as in plural: Y'all have made sure that anyone who's ever had the slightest hint of a southern accent is an expert in what it's like to have people think you're dumb because of the way you talk, so trust us on this one: Y'all have gotta stop screwing this up, 'cause it's making y'all sound stupid.

 
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Just hours after declaring this wasn't the end of leaks that could impact the presidential election — or at least the democratic party, it seems — Julian Assange and WikiLeaks followed through on his statement by publishing hacked voicemails of top democratic officials. The leaked recordings, 29 of them in total, are identified by phone number and total approximately 14 minutes (combined). RELEASE: The DNC recordings https://t.co/OIv1xjpp6c #DNCLeak #DNCinPHL Recordings: https://t.co/TTyre5UIOD — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 27, 2016 The latest release came in the middle of the Democratic National Convention, just 24 hours after Clinton officially became the nation's first female nominee from a…

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Michigan State University engineers tried 3-D-printed fingertips and special conductive replicas of the victim's fingerprints to crack the biometric lock on his Samsung Galaxy phone.

 
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WikiLeaks, last week, published a cache of nearly 20,000 emails from top Democratic National Convention (DNC) officials, a move that led to the resignation of DNC charwoman Debbie Waserman Schultz. The hack that led to the dump was believed to have been carried out by government-sponsored hackers the FBI believes to be from Russia. While the case remains unsolved, it is under active investigation. Presidential nominee Donald Trump had this to say about the hack, and Russia's alleged involvement: “Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Trump said today. “I think you will…

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Penguin works with international artists on new Essentials collection  

Penguin has worked with designers on the republishing of classic book titles from the last 100 years, which the publisher is hoping to bring to a new audience.

The Penguin Essentials is a growing collection, which is released in different series and sees a single artist or designer work on each cover concept.

Editors from Penguin selected the titles before art director John Hamilton and his team set about commissioning artists they felt could capture the spirit of each book in a cover design.

Penguin designer Gill Heeley, who has worked on the project, says: “It's a great series to work on as ultimately we get a lot of freedom and control over who we commission and the direction each cover will take.”

“Diverse and international”

The artists and designers were as “diverse and international” as possible according to Heeley, who says in this case the Penguin team has scoured blogs, exhibitions and tattoo shops to find the right people.

“Often the artists won't have worked on a book cover before, which means they produce something really original and fresh,” says Heeley.

The artists involved in the project have very diverse skills, which is reflected in their approach to the covers, but Heeley says that their work is still managed in a way that means the covers work together as a set.

Despite this the artists were given quite a loose brief so they were free to explore their own direction.

“This can sometimes make the design process a tricky and uncertain one but can result in something really unusual and unexpected,” says Heeley.

What a Carve Up, by Jonathan Co was illustrated by UNGA, who is part of the artist collective Broken Fingaz.

Heeley says UNGA's work has a strong visual aesthetic that draws on the group's Israeli homeland.

“As is often the case with many of the artists involved, he was at times hard to pin down, especially as he is based in Israel and always on the move,”  says Heeley.

The artist who worked on A Kestrel for a Knave, by Barry Hines, was Kyler Martz, a tattoo artist and illustrator based in Seattle.

“It was so interesting to see a tattoo artist from Seattle's response to this very English book, which turned out to be a contemporary and striking take on a classic,” says Heeley.

For The Help, written by Kathryn Stockett, Alex May Hughes was chosen as the artist.

“She works with precious metals on glass, painstakingly applying each layer by hand. The bold glossy colours and metals of her work mirror the period the book is set in so well,” says Heeley.

According to Hughes herself the work is “celebratory and positive” and the materials and finish are “luxurious and rich and uplifting”.

The word Help is “a sort of a desperate cry, or at least by definition associated with struggle, which juxtaposes nicely with the medium,” Hughes adds.

The Penguin Essentials series is published on 6 August in paperback and each book costs £8.99.

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Moves & Changes  

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Jennie Child has joined AKQA's London office as international director of talent acquisition. Before joining the consultancy, she held a senior talent acquisition position, leading teams on both agency and recruitment consultancy sides.

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Landor has appointed Andrew Welch as managing director at its London office. Welch previously worked at Landor as executive director for its EMEA region, before his appointment as chief executive of Y&R South Africa in 2011.

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WPP's Brand Union has appointed Alex Clegg as the new UK chief executive, based in the London office. He will work to evolve the company structure and deliver a new strategy for growth in London.

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Bluemarlin has named Sally O'Rourke as its chief executive. She first joined the consultancy in August 2015 as global chief operating officer and US president. O'Rourke replaces founder Andrew Eyles, who has now become chairman of Bluemarlin Group.

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Paul Richards, former creative director for Global Brands at Mattel, has relocated from the US to join Blue Kangaroo's team in the UK as its director of creative strategy.

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Brand Union has announced the appointment of John Shaw to the role of chief product officer. The newly created role will see John responsible for overseeing the agency's product, from strategy and creative to design and technology.

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Gpstudio has hired Jenny White to head up its new digital arm, in the role of director of digital. White joins the consultancy from marketing and communications company, Black Sun, where she was digital creative director.

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Creative business school, Hyper Island, has announced the appointment of its new chief executive, Sofia Wingren. She has previously worked at educational organisations including EF Education First.

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Lambie-Nairn has appointed former FutureBrand senior brand strategist, Sheila Morrison, as its strategy director.

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Industry has appointed Nada El Barshoumi as lead brand consultant for the Middle East and North Africa Region, based in Bahrain. She was formerly a partner at Bahrain-based PR and design agency, Obai & Hill

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Design and motion studio ManvsMachine has opened a US office in Los Angeles. Partnering with Landor, which owns a majority stake in ManvsMachine, the studio has plans to expand with new assignments throughout North America.

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Where do you work best? Designers reveal what spaces stimulate their creativity  

“I've always found the studio environment a creative one there's something about the white noise of shared spaces that allows your mind to disengage and approach a problem from the side.

Then again I've never liked working entirely alone the ebb and flow of conversation, and the ever-changing soundtrack make for an energetic workplace.

But it's variety of space that's important for productivity. Our studio sits across three floors with an intensity that increases as you climb. The calm of the ground gives way to the cathedral-like top and lets your mind reach for ideas that didn't seem possible lower down.”

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“I have worked in a few studios in my time and learnt what I liked and didn't. The space you are in can really influence how your brain works. I am lucky as I have a space to myself and I have everything at hand if I want to paint or make a model I have it all here. It's a large workshop, so I don't feel restricted about being stuck at a desk in front of a computer.

The huge thing that helps me work is I have a glazed ceiling and natural light all year round and when you spend long hours working it really helps to understand what the weather is like outside it is uplifting.

I have Radio 4 or music on all the time…I love just having the sound as background noise rather than having it penetrating into my head through headphones. But one of the most important things is that my dog Lemmy moves freely through the space and makes my days a joy.”

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“There is no one-size-fits-all environment for being productive and creative. You can try to boil it down to a formula but, in the end, people make up their own rules. At our studio, we don't obsess about where people are or the hours they put in, but about the quality of what they do.

Great work can come from individual focus, uninterrupted flow and distraction-free environments. But it also comes from team interaction, collaboration and side-by-side decision making. Ultimately, it's about finding a balance that works for you and your team, in a workspace that offers flexibility and encourages people to do their best work.”

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“I work best when on the go and am adverse to sitting at a desk trying to come up with ideas. I actively encourage my designers to get outside and do the same.

Through tracking my walking I've noticed that when I average 20,000 to 30,000 steps a day I'm at my most productive. Something about the constant motion and seeing a changing environment seems to allow the brain to free up and increase lateral thinking.”

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“I work best with a lot of activity around me, visual stimulation and people. Maybe there's a connection being able to design in an environment of chaos and order makes it easier to come up with solutions that have to be seen and communicate out in the street; an environment of people, chaos and order.”

“I'm writing this standing up on a packed, hot, frequently stopping Piccadilly line tube on my way to work, wobbling all over the place, wishing the old lady in front of me would offer me her seat….

My mind is always working and wandering off and I'm still trying to learn how to capture those subconscious thoughts. It doesn't matter if I'm in our lovely NB studio scribbling with our designers or wobbling about on a boiling hot tube carriage.

…she didn't offer me her seat.”

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“I'm at my most productive and creative surrounded by other creatives. My studio is large enough for six people to have their own defined spaces, a common area to keep as flexible as possible (right now it's an ad hoc stockroom/photo studio), and a quiet, calm, informal meeting room.

We're based in a 1970s brutalist office block in the centre of Edinburgh on a floor with 20 other independent creatives spanning architecture, graphics, interiors, PR and production. I can ask advice, get shortcuts to the best suppliers and collaborate. Ten years ago I found collaborating frightening — now I wouldn't have it any other way.”

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“I spend a good deal of time tearing through the archives of the London Library. There's a great wealth of forgotten knowledge that can be used to re-enchant what people put in their mouths. Every so often we'll run to ground an obscure menu, ancient food treaties or most recently a Memoir of a Stomach that will serve as inspiration for a future project.

At the London Library the stacks of books are arrayed alphabetically with strange shelf marks. When I go to research drinks I drift into the adjacent sections, duelling, death, dress which provides wholly unexpected answers to the original research question. The library space is also a little erotic.”

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A look at the Natural History Museum's colourful new exhibition  

Nissen Richards Studio has designed both the 3D elements and graphics for a new Natural History Museum exhibition, called Colour and Vision: Through the Eyes of Nature.

Based on the use of colour in the natural world over the last 565 million years, the exhibition explores how without vision evolution wouldn't have happened in the way that it did, according to exhibition designer at Nissen Richards Studio, Sophie Mitchell.

“The Cambrian explosion was when the eye evolved, which then led to huge diversity in the natural world,” says Mitchell. “Our brief was how to get that across as an immersive experience.”

“Journey of discovery”

Nissen Richards Studio designed the exhibition around the concept of a “journey of discovery”, Mitchell says, starting out in a dark room with out-of-focus surroundings that reflect a lack of vision, before moving through into much brighter zones in order to reflect this transition.

Using more than 350 specimens from the museum's collection ranging from brightly coloured birds to fossils of the first organisms with eyes the exhibition shows how the use of colour in the animal kingdom became the difference between life and death.

Four main zones included in the exhibition cover subjects such as sexual attraction, warning, deception and camouflage. Highlights include a light installation created in collaboration with British artist Liz West, which uses dichroic glass, and a Victorian-style tower filled with brightly coloured taxidermy.

Outdoor, press and digital campaign

“Our approach was to use a white-on-white, or black-on-black backdrop so that all of the colour in the exhibition was just coming from the specimens themselves,” says Mitchell.

Details such as the wing of a Blue Morpho Butterfly which reflects light in a particularly way so that it shimmers are carried through the rest of the exhibition itself, for instance in graphic lettering and on physical panels.

Another consultancy, Krow has created an outdoor, press and digital marketing campaign to run alongside the exhibition. Representing a chromatic explosion, the campaign is made up of an array of colourful specimens arranged into the shape of an eye, to create a visual representation of the showcases.

Colour and Vision: Through the Eyes of Nature runs from 15 July 6 November 2016 at the Natural History Museum.

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Selfridges reveals interiors of its new Designer Studio  

Campaign has created the interiors for Selfridges' new Designer Studio, featuring installations by artist collaborators Gary Card, Patternity and Anna Lomax.

The 1580m2 retail space, situated on the third floor of the department store, is designed to showcase established and emerging fashion designers, including Acne and Kenzo.

First commissioned to work on the project in May 2015, Campaign has based the Designer Studio's installations or follies around the concept of a “theatre of forces”, working closely with each of the artists, according to lead designer Jenny Ford.

“Adaptable, versatile, exciting and durable”

“These installations both large and small scale, [are] adaptable, versatile, exciting and durable, and provide a platform for brands to artistically express their seasonal vision and line,” Ford says.

“Each folly helps to anchor key areas in the designer studio, and together they cohesively work to create a theatre of forces in the gallery-inspired architecture.”

Other key design features include an art gallery with works that are selected by Selfridges and its Design Studio partners and collaborators each season, and a book shop selling a mixture of photography, fashion and art books, magazines, annuals and collectible editions.

Exposed concrete columns and natural light

The changing rooms are designed to be “Instagram-worthy”, according to Selfridges, featuring mid-century furniture, patterned curtains and music playlists curated by the designers.

Meanwhile, the rest of the interiors strike a balance between “new and old, clean and raw”. The space includes coffered ceilings and exposed concrete columns, while six previously blocked off windows have also been opened up to make use of the natural light.

“The palette sits comfortably and modestly together, and enhances the design,” says Ford, “allowing the follies to be the show stoppers.”

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Moleskine opens concept café in Milan  

Designer stationery brand Moleskine has opened its first ever café, which looks to create an environment that encourages creativity.

The Moleskine Café is in Milan, Italy and is based on the concept of the Parisian “café littéraire” (literary café). The brand's new retail format aims to acts as a café, art gallery, store and library hybrid, with spaces dedicated to studying, eating and drinking, exhibiting and displaying products.

The interiors have been designed by global consultancy Interbrand's Italy office alongside Moleskine's own creative team. They have been based on the style of the classic Moleskine notebook “clean aesthetics” with a “contemporary palette of neutral colours”, says the studio, to replicate the ivory colour of the notebook's pages.

Conversation spaces and quiet spaces

The space is split across a ground floor and a mezzanine level. The ground floor aims to be a space for conversation, while the mezzanine is a quieter, more reflective space, says Interbrand.

At the centre of the ground floor is a food and coffee counter, surrounded by various displays and seating areas. This layout is “intuitive” for the customer, says Manfredi Ricca, chief strategy officer at Interbrand EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and LATAM (Latin America), with “non-obtrusive” product displays resigned to the sides and the coffee and food offering as the “central element of attraction”.

The right of the store sees a product display alongside an “experience table”, which allows customers to feel different paper grades, look at page layouts and try out Moleskine+ smart notebooks, pens, pencils and bags.

Exhibition space

The left side of the store sees a space dedicated to exhibitions and events, focusing mainly on the early stages of creative processes, such as sketches, notes and doodles from architects, designers, illustrators and film directors. Exhibitions on illustrator John Alcorn and architect Kengo Kuma are due to take place this year.

There are also shared tables and seating areas on the ground floor, which aim to encourage people to chat and share ideas.

The mezzanine level sees more private, separate seating, alongside a sofa space intended as a quiet area for reading, working and relaxing. This floor aims to be a more “reflective and intimate experience”, says Ricca.

Café is 3D version of Moleskine notebook

Ricca says the concept café will be a space where people can think and create. “Think about the product that made Moleskine known to the world in the first place the notebook,” he says. “Its ultimate aim is to provide a blank bi-dimensional space which encourages people's ideas and identity to find an expression.

“So a café from the same brand should provide the same, but in the third dimension,” he says.

The Moleskine Café concept has taken roughly a year and a half to create, and will be rolled out as a wider concept in other major cities around the world. Moleskine has not yet revealed where these will be.

All photos © Michele Morosi

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r0B0t: DMDII Seeks Proposals for Advanced Manufacturing R&amp;D Projects - IndustryWeek  

DMDII Seeks Proposals for Advanced Manufacturing R&D Projects IndustryWeek Low-Cost Robotics and Automation: This seeks robotics and automation solutions that are affordable, reconfigurable, and adaptable, and that exhibit the precision, repeatability, and productivity of conventional automated solutions. They must also ...

 
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r0B0t: Meet Spider, the tiny robot doctor for blimps  

From Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works team — the same folks that brought you the strategic recon aircrafts U-2 Dragon Lady and SR-71 Blackbird as well as the stealth fighter jet F-117 Nighthawk — now comes Spider (not to be confused with this one), a device to repair blimps more efficiently than ever.  

As Skunk Works explains, old methods to repair blimps are time-consuming. One has to deflate the blimp (which can take hours), and walk around with a bright, handheld light, looking very carefully for rips and tears.

By contrast, the Spider (short for Self-Propelled Instrument for Damage Evaluation and Repair), however, uses two magnetic halves, one to shine a bright LED light outside the blimp, and one that senses this light from the inside, thus exposing holes and problem areas. It can then move its patching mechanism over said hole, repair it, and then snap before and after pics of the fix, allowing a pair of human eyes to inspect it later. Read more...

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Mysterious And Known As The 'Raven': Scientists Identify New Whale Species  

"There have been a lot of people out there surveying whales for a long time, and never come across this," a researcher says. But Japanese fishermen have told stories about this dark whale for years.

 
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Forests, species on four continents threatened by palm oil expansion  
As palm oil production expands from Southeast Asia into the Americas and Africa, vulnerable tropical forests and species on four continents face increased risk of loss, a new study finds. The largest areas of vulnerable forest are in Africa and South America. But because forests in all 20 countries studied contain high concentrations of different mammal and bird species at risk of extinction, conservation efforts need to incorporate localized solutions tailored to each region.  
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Warnings of imminent extinction crisis for largest wild animal species  
A team of conservation biologists is calling for a worldwide strategy to prevent the unthinkable: the extinction of the world's largest mammal species.  
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Americans Are Afraid of Biohacking, Even When It's Good For You  

Biohacking technology like CRISPR, smart-retinas, and drug delivering nanoparticles could help people live longer and become stronger. But most Americans want “human enhancement” to remain firmly in science fiction, and out of the real world.

A new public survey conducted by Pew Research Center revealed the majority of Americans are more worried than excited about biomedical technology. The nationally representative study polled more than 4,700 adults about three specific biohacking concepts: gene editing, brain chip implants, and synthetic blood. Even when these innovations were described as beneficial to human health, more than half of respondents expressed distrust and wariness toward their potential use.

As biomedical technologies become more sophisticated, people are spending more time debating how they should be used, said lead author Cary Funk, an associate director of research at Pew Research Center, in a statement.

“This study suggests Americans are largely cautious about using emerging technologies in ways that push human capacities beyond what's been possible before.”

When it came to gene editing that would reduce the risk of disease in babies, 68 percent of Americans said they were “very” or “somewhat” concerned about the technology's implementation. Brain chips that might improve concentration or cognitive abilities garnered a negative response from 69 percent of those surveyed. And synthetic blood, which could one day make humans stronger and faster through increased oxygen levels, was disliked by 63 percent of study participants.

The survey was aimed at measuring public perception of technology that's still nascent, or used only for therapeutic purposes, such as injury recovery. Right now, according to the study, none of the three examples are commercially available for human enhancement. When people were asked if they believed these developments would be prematurely released, 73 percent responded “yes,” with regard to gene editing and synthetic blood, while 74 percent felt the same about brain chip implants.

“I think a lot of the fear about genetic engineering stems from what people have previously heard, and whatever incomplete understanding they have, about genetically modified organisms,” Dr. Patrick Blackburn, a geneticist who specializes in rare disease research, told me.

“I feel like a lot of these new technologies get lumped together, and the mindset is, ‘GMOs are bad,' rather than, ‘what can these technologies and do for me, and for the betterment of humanity?'”

That perception can depend on a person's worldview. One of the most striking trends the survey revealed was the relationship between religious commitment and the willingness to embrace biomedical technology. The more religious a person was, the more they perceived human enhancement as meddling with nature. Approximately 64 percent of respondents believed that gene editing, for the express purpose of delivering healthier babies, crosses a moral and ethical line.

Other trends, however, underscored more concrete concerns about biohacking and inequality. For example, 73 percent of Americans anticipate that brains chips—which might only be accessible to those who can afford them—will increase the divide between the wealthy and the poor, elite and underprivileged. And 63 percent of people felt that recipients of synthetic blood will deem themselves superior to others. People are concerned that genetic modification, and the way it's accessed, could widen the gap between the haves and have-nots.

Right now, these concerns are mostly speculative, and it would be a mistake to let them impede scientific progress. If anything, studies like this can help steer human enhancement away from the fears of a dystopian future, and toward something more evidence-based.

“Public perception can definitely affect the type of research that we can do, in the form of federal regulation—think about what happened with stem cells under President George W. Bush—but, so far, there has been very little federal regulation of these new genome engineering technologies in the research lab,” Dr. Blackburn added.

“I don't think many people realize there has been such a sea change in our understanding and ability to edit the genomes of humans, and pretty much anything else that has DNA.”

 
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r0B0t: Versailles recap: episode eight from la petite mort to une grande mort  

Mon dieu! What with tout le torture, les plotteurs and les attempted meurtres, Versailles is now about as sexy as Robot Wars

Not-So-Bad Philippe is sulking in front of the fire because his frere, le roi, has not unreasonably locked up the Mauvais Philippe for plotting against him. Louis barges in and tells Not-So-Bad Philippe to cheer up and come for a gallop for old times' sake. Not-So-Bad Philippe agrees but is still sulking.

Cue the title music, and much excitement. Because the BBC used exactly the same music during its coverage of the London Anniversary athletics at the weekend, prompting hopes/fears that they might be planning to roll it out for the Rio Olympics in just over a week's time. Who knew this piece of sub early-70s Genesis was the Nessun Dorma de nos jours? Perhaps the BBC thought Versailles = Sexy, Rio = Sexy, so wanted to find a way of combining the two. Only Versailles is now about as sexy as Robot Wars. Having spent the first episode ripping their kit off at any opportunity, the court of Versailles has taken an oath of chastity.

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Till the Next Weekend... II  

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Videos reveal birds, bats and bugs near Ivanpah solar project power towers  
Video surveillance is the most effective method for detecting animals flying around solar power towers, according to a new study.  
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Should the gray wolf keep its endangered species protection?  
A decision by the US Fish and Wildlife Service to remove the gray wolf from protection under the US Endangered Species Act may be made as early as this fall. Research presents strong evidence that the scientific reason advanced by the service for delisting the gray wolf is incorrect.  
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Dragon ants are coming: New 'Game of Thrones' species identified  
The dragons from 'Game of Thrones' have come to life in insect form. New ant species that appear dragon-like due to their large and distinctive spines were recently found in the tropical rainforests of Papua New Guinea. Although they lack fire-breathing capabilities, the unique, spiny characteristics of the ants reminded the scientists who discovered them of the mythical dragons from the fantasy series and inspired them to name the ants after the 'Game of Thrones' dragons.  
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Frog reproduction in created ponds may be affected by disease and food availability  
Food availability and disease in created habitats may affect the reproductive output of reintroduced frogs, according to a new study.  
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Morphology suggests an endangered goby in southern California is a new species  
An endangered fish along the coast of California -- the tidewater goby -- may actually be two species rather than one, according a new study.  
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