Yearly Archives: 2013

Water and Waukesha, Wisconsin – A Symptom and Freshwater Challenge

Waukesha, Wisconsin is a suburban community west of Milwaukee (see map below). In 2012 the population was 70,920. Waukesha is a relatively prosperous town...

Final Stage Testing for Gene Therapies – A Revolution in Biomedicine

What does final-stage testing mean when talking about gene therapies? It means advanced human trials are on the go and governments shortly will begin...

Biomedicine Update: The Human Brain Project is All Systems Go

The 21st century is the century of the brain according to scientists and researchers from 135 institutions around the globe who have launched the...

Water – A Graphical Representation of the Resource

I credit Rashid Faridi, another Wordpress blogger for alerting me to the video graphic of All the Water on Earth. The video is only...

Did You Know that Food Wastage is the 3rd Largest Greenhouse Gas Contributor on the Planet?

We humans are careless with food. Every year as much as a third of what we produce goes to waste. So says the FAO,...

Headlines: New Smart Road Comes to the United Kingdom

October 3, 2013 - Imagine a smart highway loaded with sensors that communicate with you as you drive letting you know about traffic patterns...

Headlines: Palo Alto is the First U.S. City to Require New Homes to be Pre-wired for EVs

October 3, 2013 - Last week the City Council of Palo Alto, California passed a change to the building code requiring all new home...

Climate Change and Its Impact on our World’s Major Rivers – Part 3b: The Rivers of North America

In this second part of our look at the impact of climate change on North America's rivers we will focus on the following major...

Gizmos & Gadgets: New Plastic Stent is Bioresorbable

Stents are marvelous inventions. Resembling the little spring you find in a ballpoint pen they are made from a mesh of metal that looks...

Headlines: Orbital Science Joins SpaceX in Supplying the International Space Station

October 1, 2013 - If you missed it this last week the commercial space race is now officially "on." The Cygnus, a capsule similar...

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