Posts Tagged ‘technology’
New Lunar Rover
Check out this photo gallery of the new NASA Lunar Rover!
Ozone, Lung Disease, and Houston’s Air Quality Ranking
Today on Discovery News I found this article: Ozone Linked to Deadly Lung Disease. The article was pretty interesting, explaining that long-term exposure to high ozone levels dramatically increases the risk for lung cancer and other respiratory diseases. On days when ozone levels are high, breathing can be difficult and exercising outdoors is usually discouraged. [...]
In other news…
I have two interests that I rarely write about. The first, sports, I don’t write about because as much as I like it I always find that my knowledge of sports pales in comparison to the real ‘die-hards’ out there, and also because it’s written into the ground already. The second, technology, I don’t write [...]
A better parking solution
What could be better than a big stack of Ferraris? How about being able to park loads of them in a tiny urban space? Roller coaster extraordinary Stan Checketts is now building automated parking and self-storage systems targeted at urban developers who are ever so crunched to find space for their cars. His company, Boomerang [...]
Falling behind
Great column on energy efficiency in other parts of the world today, courtesy Thomas Friedman. Here is the key quote: Unlike America, Denmark, which was so badly hammered by the 1973 Arab oil embargo that it banned all Sunday driving for a while, responded to that crisis in such a sustained, focused and systematic way [...]
Should oil be cheap?
Update: An alternative take on this issue, in light on the financial crisis now looming over our nation, appeared on CNN a few days ago. There was a great article on Business Week, published July 23. The article is called, “Should Oil Be Cheap?“. Basically, the article argues that there is a case to be [...]