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"San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom today announced that Nissan would be bringing its all-electric LEAF, to the Bay Area market in 2010. Speaking on behalf of the Bay Area Electric Vehicle (EV) Corridor program, Newsom said Nissan will work with San Francisco and the Bay Area to promote and build-out an EV charging infrastructure, including development of a streamlined process for customer installation of charging equipment in their homes." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"The push to make the Bay Area EV-ready puts the west coast well on its way to developing an EV infrastructure that could one day support a Los Angeles to Seattle journey in an electric car." - ~C4Chaos

"Four and a half decades later, much of the original optimism is back, driven by rapid progress in artificial intelligence technologies, and that sense was tangible last month when more than 200 of the original SAIL scientists assembled at the William Gates Computer Science Building here for a two-day reunion." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"'We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure, disinterested altruism - something that has no place in nature, something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators." - Richard Dawkins 'The Selfish Gene'" - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"In entries like Making New Connections, The Stream, Computers and Consciousness, Suffering in the Multiverse, and Jumping Jesus, we've talked about Ray Kurzweil, his concept of the approaching Singularity, and the transhuman movement. Now check out this charmingly strange video:" - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"This week, we're joined by trained Neuropsychologist and Theravada Buddhist teacher, Rick Hanson, to explore what he calls "applied Neurodharma." We begin by exploring the 1st noble truth of suffering, but from the perspective of evolutionary neurobiology. In other words, why does it appear that we're hard-wired to suffer, and what are the mechanisms behind it?" - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"We're joined again by Neuropsychologist and Theravada teacher, Rick Hanson. This time we explore the Buddhist proposition of anatta, or selflessness, from the point of view of neuroscience and the brain. Rick explores whether a self actually exists using the following 4 core attributes of how a self is often defined:" - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"Welcome! It’s not too late to get up to speed on the climate-change jamboree that begins Dec. 7. Here’s a short primer. What is this Copenhagen thing? It’s a gathering of negotiators from every United Nations member country who will try to come up with a plan to protect the world from catastrophic climate change. Two weeks to save the world!" - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"With the second wave of H1N1 infections having crested in the United States, leading epidemiologists are predicting that the pandemic could end up ranking as the mildest since modern medicine began documenting influenza outbreaks." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"All Filipinos of all colors are invited to gather in a tribute for CNN Hero Efren Penaflorida on Dec 11, 2009. 3:30PM Assembly at the Ninoy Aquino Statue at the corner of Ayala and Paseo De Roxas. Enfren, followed by the people, will push his Kariton on Ayala Ave and will lead us to the concert venue on Makati Ave between Landmark and Greenbelt 4. This event will also be the venue for our outrage over the Maguindanao Massacre, GMA's candidacy, and Martial Law in Maguindao." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"You know the Catch-22: "You can't get a job without experience, and you can't get experience without a job." Young job seekers have always faced this dilemma. In today's shrinking job market, people with years of experience also struggle with it. Whether they face the reality of a layoff, or merely the threat of one, many older workers are trying to reinvent themselves in order to become marketable in a changed economy." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"Regular workouts are protective against ischemic stroke, say researchers. They suggest that the intensity of the activity is important and the effect is independent of the improvement exercise has on hypertension, diabetes, or dyslipidemia." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"By next year, one-third of the United States population will be over 50 years old. That graying demographic is expected to outspend younger adults by $1 trillion in 2010. And among other things, the over-50 crowd shows the highest intent to purchase consumer electronics of any age group." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"James Hansen is a great climate scientist. He was the first to warn about the climate crisis; I take what he says about coal, in particular, very seriously. Unfortunately, while I defer to him on all matters climate, today’s op-ed article suggests that he really hasn’t made any effort to understand the economics of emissions control." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"NOT long ago, the news was full of reports about two male Humboldt penguins at a zoo in Germany that adopted an egg, hatched it and reared the chick together. It seems like every time you turn around, the media spotlight has fallen on another example of same-sex liaisons in the animal kingdom." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"Video didn't kill the radio star, and the Internet won't destroy news organizations. It will foster a new, digital business model." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"A visual map of the arguments for and against human-caused global climate change." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"Christina Chang and her colleagues at the University of Houston, Texas, are working on a design to incorporate heating elements into the asphalt and concrete roads to reduce the use of plowing. It’s a little weird that a Texas school is pursuing research for a problem they don’t have, but any idea that would get plow trucks off the roads is good to me." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"A video opposing health care reform that came out last month is causing a stir on the Internet today. The spot features Americans staring at directly at the camera and saying something you don't much hear in polite company: "I guess I'm racist." The reason? They oppose President Obama's health care reform efforts. Watch at left." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"Links to everything about Climategate here. Relevant links posted in comments will be added." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"Iconic film director David Lynch discusses his craft, his career and his life with the Hudson Union Society." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"This past May, we reported that IBM broke ground on what was supposed to be the world's most efficient data center--a $12.4 million, 6,000-square-foot facility at Syracuse University that uses 50% less energy than typical data centers. And now, six months later, the data center is ready for action--just as the company also announced a new chip that will help power its Blue Waters supercomputer next year. It could become the world's fastest and would be housed in what will likely be a considerably less green building at the University of Illinois." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"About 3,500 New York sex offenders have been kicked off Facebook and MySpace after identifying their accounts under a new state law. And, go figure, like 80 percent of them were on Facebook. Even sex fiends are ditching MySpace." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"Facebook's press release this morning sounds pretty humdrum on the face of it--"Facebook to Enhance User Safety Through Formation of Global Advisory Board" isn't much of an eye-grabber. But it's actually really, good news. Mostly." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"John Mackey, the Libertarian CEO of Whole Foods, says not to worry: Capitalism and the invisible hand will cure the world's ills. But isn't it a little late to start believing in magic?" - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"I keep getting requests to comment on the recent GRL paper by Lindzen and Choi (2009), who computed how satellite-measured net (solar + infrared) radiation in the tropics varied with surface temperature changes over the 15 year period of record of the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS, 1985-1999)." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"Laird and his wife Gabrielle Reece on conquering fear. (4/29/09)" - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"Have you ever seen a real brain? I remember the first time I saw one, in a neuropsych class: the instructor put on rubber gloves to protect against the formaldehyde preservative, popped the lid off of a lab bucket, and then pulled out a brain." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"Mothers today juggle more tasks, work longer hours, and sleep less than their own mothers did. Yet the self-healing revolution has overlooked the most significant issue in the lives of some twenty million women: how to cope with the relentless stresses of raising young children in the twenty-first century. As well, fathers, children, and marriages are also impacted by the intensity of modern life, and by the grand and historically unprecedented experiment our society is undertaking with its most precious resource: the next generation. My wife, Jan Hanson, M.S., L.Ac., and I have written many columns about making a family, with topics ranging from how to stay intimate friends with your partner while raising children to raising adolescents. They’re posted on our website, www.NurtureMom.com, and you can see the range of them below." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"Close followers of the Climategate controversy know that much of the mêlée surrounds an e-mail in which Climate Research Unit (CRU) chief Phil Jones wrote about using “Mike’s Nature Trick” (MNT) to “hide the decline.” And yet, seventeen days and thousands of almost exclusively on-line op-eds into this scandal, it still seems that very few understand exactly which “decline” was being hidden, what “trick” was used to do so, and why Jones’s words have become the slogan for the greatest scientific fraud in history." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"Who needs the space shuttle? Take a tour inside the private space industry and its innovative, efficient plans to get astronauts into space when NASA retires its old ride" - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet