Best selling BlackBerry software whats your choice for Christmas?
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From Sewing Machine to Scroll Saw, a Christmas tale
Posted by bongodrummer on 19 December, 2009
Let’s transform an old and unused sewing machine into a scroll saw so we
can make some wooden decorations (and a load of other cool jazz).
If, like me, you had an old sewing machine (I tend to collect these
things when they are getting thrown out by people) knocking about, then
you could try a conv…
By: bongodrummer
Huge wooden digital clock runs manually using people power
Posted by Michael Trei on 19 December, 2009
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Every train station has a clock, but only in Rotterdam will you find a huge digital clock being operated by a 70-person team. Named Standard Time and created as an art installation by Mark Formanek, every minute the team will manually change the planks that form the display, a total of 1,611 changes in the 24-hour period of the event. What this is meant to symbolize isn’t exactly clear, but you’ve got to admit, it’s a good conversation starter.
In 100 Heartbeats Jeff Corwin tackles causes and costs of species extinctions
Posted by Scientific American - Energy & Sustainability on 19 December, 2009
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Conservationist Jeff Corwin is known for often bringing a goofy passion to his television projects for Animal Planet and other networks. His latest effort displays no less passion, but switches out most of the jokes for gravitas. [More]
Accord of Sorts in Copenhagen
Posted by Scientific American - Energy & Sustainability on 19 December, 2009
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An accord, of sorts, in Copenhagen. UNESCO’s Christina Reed:
“So it got really tense, [Danish prime minister Lars Loekke] Rasmussen had the gavel in the air and said, ‘It looks like we don’t have a consensus, I hate to do this but,’ and as he was about to pound, the U.K.’s Ed Miliband, negotiator, said, ‘I call for an adjournment,’ and so they adjourned, and everyone broke and they adjourned. This short adjournment lasted about two hours, they met off the floor to discuss this a little bit more in person. It was face-to-face arm wringing, it was ‘let’s get this done, let’s move this ahead.’ Ultimately it was Ban Ki-moon of the United Nations working very diligently.”
U.S., China, India and Other Nations Arrive at Nonbinding Agreement at U.N. Climate Summit
Posted by Scientific American - Energy & Sustainability on 19 December, 2009
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Editor’s note: After this story was posted, delegates at the U.N. Climate Summit resumed negotiations into the early hours of Saturday morning and the body eventually came to a consensus to recognize the deal outlined in the story below.
COPENHAGEN–The U.S., China, India and South Africa form the core of a growing group of nations that have agreed upon a commitment to combat climate change , concluding a grueling two weeks of negotiations in the Danish capital here as part of the United Nations’ climate summit. The so-called "Copenhagen Accord" will not be legally binding but will list in annexed documents, for the first time, commitments from both developed and developing countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases . [More]
Draft text of new “Copenhagen Accord”
Posted by Scientific American - Energy & Sustainability on 19 December, 2009
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Here is the latest draft text of the " Copenhagen Accord " put forward on December 18 by the U.S., China, India and South Africa, among other countries, at the climate summit in the Danish capital.
Copenhagen Accord [More]
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