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May 11, 2017
Hands-free farming: Autonomous tractors and drones grow cereal crops
Posted by Carse Peel in categories: drones, engineering, food, robotics/AI
Future of farming? Driverless tractors and drones attempt to grow crops without humans setting foot on the land in a world first…
Drones are also being used to monitor the crops so agronomists don’t have to enter the field to carry out their observations.
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May 10, 2017
The UN Could Help 80 Million People Each Year With Blockchain
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: bitcoin, computing, cryptocurrencies, food, transportation
- The UN will be using the blockchain Ethereum to distribute funds from the World Food Program to more than 10,000 people in Jordan this summer.
- The computer network is making humanitarian giving simpler and more secure than ever.
Technology has the power to improve people’s lives — and not just by supplying flying cars to millionaires. The computer networks that brought us Bitcoins are advancing in ways that will make humanitarian giving simpler and more secure than ever.
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May 8, 2017
New artificial photosynthesis process converts CO2 in air to fuel
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: energy, food, sustainability
A win win, assuming it can be manufactured en mass and at a reasonable price.
Professor Fernando Uribe-Romo and his team of students created a way to use LED light and a porous synthetic metal-organic frameworks (MOF) material to break down carbon dioxide into fuel. (credit: Bernard Wilchusky/UCF)
A University of Central Florida (UCF) chemistry professor has invented a revolutionary way to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from air by triggering artificial photosynthesis in a synthetic material — breaking down carbon dioxide while also producing fuel for energy.
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May 5, 2017
Eating bogies is good for teeth and overall health, scientists conclude
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: food, health
Vomit.
It might be wise to look away now if you are eating or have a weak stomach, but scientists have discovered that ingesting bogies is good for teeth, and overall health.
Scientists at a number of universities including Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say parents should not discourage their children from picking their noses because they contain ‘a rich reservoir of good bacteria.’
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May 4, 2017
Food substitute Soylent raises $50 million amid recalls
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: food
May 3, 2017
Google is betting this robot that sucks apples off trees will replace human workers
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: food, robotics/AI, sustainability
Apr 29, 2017
Ontario to roll out basic income in three cities
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: economics, food, government, habitats
Ontario will provide residents in Hamilton, Thunder Bay and Lindsay with free income, part of the government’s plan to test whether the extra funds will help improve their job prospects and quality of life.
The idea is to give the province’s working poor, unemployed and homeless residents an income to pay for their basic needs of food and housing.
About 4,000 recipients will be randomly chosen from the three regions. One group will start receiving the so-called basic income as soon as this summer, and the remainder will be part of the control group, which will not receive any payments, according to a provincial spokesman. A single person could receive up to $16,989 per year. A couple could get up to $24,027 annually.
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Apr 29, 2017
Parkinson’s linked to gut bacteria
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, food, health, neuroscience
For the first time, researchers have found a functional link between the bacteria in the gut and the onset of Parkinson’s disease, one of the world’s most common debilitating brain disorders.
A team of scientists from several institutions in the United States and Europe showed how changing the bacteria in the guts of mice affected the manifestation of Parkinson’s symptoms — even including bacteria taken from the guts of humans with the disease.
The findings suggest a new way of treating the disease: The best target for treatment may be the gut, rather than the brain. The researchers hope the new information can be used to develop “next generation” probiotics, more sophisticated than the sort of probiotics found on the shelves of health food stores today.
Apr 28, 2017
This Skyscraper Concept Would Heal Icebergs and Eat Carbon Dioxide
Posted by Brett Gallie II in categories: climatology, food, sustainability
The “reverse climate change machine” is an honorable mention in the Evolo Skyscraper Design Competition.
A one-stop skyscraping shop for urbane living and fighting climate change called the HEAL-BERG is among the selected entries in eVolo’s annual Skyscraper Competition, which invites the world’s designers to “challenge the way we understand vertical architecture.” The mammoth pearlescent structure would simultaneously cool Antarctic ocean water, scrub carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and generate electricity with saltwater and wind turbines, creating what the designers call, a “reverse climate change machine.”
Luca Beltrame and Saba Nabavi Tafreshi created HEAL-BERG as a response to a potential future in which, “climate was changing at a rate exceeding most scientific forecasts; oceans warming, air pollution and climate change were caught in a discernible self-boosting loop. In the speculative world they’ve created, it’s 2039, 21.5 million people are being displaced annually due to climate change and, “the complex patterns representing the world were doomed to collapse.”
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