(No)where (Now)here | Interactive Dresses

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(No)where (Now)here | Interactive Dresses

Ying Gao U sing eye tracking technology imbedded in the dresses, fashion designer Ying Gao’s “(no)where (now)here” interactive dresses move ...

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The Microscopic World of Corals

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/CSCUKSVBhSo?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/UnderH2Oshow?feature=watch" target="blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">PBS Digital Studios</span></b></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">C</span><b>orals are beautiful when seen through your own eyes in sunlight, but for scientists at the University of Hawaii, seeing corals in this manner is not enough. They are using a revolutionary new tool called a laser scanning <a href="http://www.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=4324" target="_blank">confocal microscope</a> to take photographs of corals that are one part art and one part science.</b></div>

The Microscopic World of Corals

PBS Digital Studios C orals are beautiful when seen through your own eyes in sunlight, but for scientists at the University of Hawaii, seein...

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Aquarium Fence in Turkey

<script type='text/javascript' src='http://pshared.5min.com/Scripts/PlayerSeed.js?sid=281&width=853&height=480&playList=517865816'></script><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.marasgundem.com/akvaryum-kosk-ziyaretci-akinina-ugruyor-240371h.htm" target="blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Maras Gundem</span></b></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">M</span><b>ehmet Ali Gökçeoğlu built a 165 foot long aquarium fence—filled with hundreds of fish and octopuses from the Aegean Sea—in front of his seaside villa in Çeşme, Turkey.</b></div>

Aquarium Fence in Turkey

Maras Gundem M ehmet Ali Gökçeoğlu built a 165 foot long aquarium fence—filled with hundreds of fish and octopuses from the Aegean Sea—in fr...

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Drinking Sewage | Endless Supply & It’s Local

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVaXW8bnmsu7gJ4FXW-yWGHJShG89o_1CopRVW59E1Pir_0QZ0MB-LD-7tgEEad8ojg7JhFnur1pxQ-aq5R4LcCLOrC-RgpLiD_b3freSQZFnLVGzfJ_pVseCVpiI3j-N-bOXHUPeiJ_Y/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVaXW8bnmsu7gJ4FXW-yWGHJShG89o_1CopRVW59E1Pir_0QZ0MB-LD-7tgEEad8ojg7JhFnur1pxQ-aq5R4LcCLOrC-RgpLiD_b3freSQZFnLVGzfJ_pVseCVpiI3j-N-bOXHUPeiJ_Y/s1600/1.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A water fountain at San Francisco’s Exploratorium challenges people’s assumptions about where their water comes from.<br />Photo: Windell Oskay</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">iON</span> <b>has long advocated drinking sewage. Some communites in California already drink recycled sewage and one of the USA’s most prosperous areas, Silicon Valley, is planning to.</b> <br /><br />Video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bk6PEz2QF8" target="_blank">California plant turning raw sewage into drinking water </a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/toilet-to-tap/" target="blank">KQED</a></b></span> <br /><br />This fall, Santa Clara county residents will get a new source of water. This water is local and pristine. In fact, it’s cleaner than almost anything coming out of taps today. There’s also an endless supply. But – for now at least – no one will drink it.<br /><br /><embed allowfullscreen="false" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="&bandwidth=7078&dock=false&file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kqed.org%2F.stream%2Fanon%2Fradio%2Fscience%2F2013%2F07%2F2013-07-22-science.mp3&gapro.accountid=UA-1538528-1&gapro.height=26&gapro.pluginmode=FLASH&gapro.trackpercentage=true&gapro.trackstarts=true&gapro.tracktime=true&gapro.visible=true&gapro.width=639&gapro.x=0&gapro.y=0&icons=false&plugins=gapro-1h%2Cviral-h&skin=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.kqed.org%2Fquest%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fquest%2Fglow.zip&stretching=none&viral.allowmenu=false&viral.bgcolor=0x333333&viral.fgcolor=0xffffff&viral.functions=embed&viral.matchplayercolors=true&viral.oncomplete=false&viral.onpause=false&viral.pluginmode=FLASH" height="26" src="http://science.kqed.org/quest/files/jw-player-plugin-for-wordpress/player/player.swf" width="539"></embed><br /><br />Instead, water from the $68 million <a href="http://www.valleywater.org/SVAWPC.aspx" target="_blank">Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center</a> will flow into segregated, purple pipes to irrigate lawns and cool power plants.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxUorkTHxQHdYluQY6hxP9AO3qfdGCmZZomGOolTh42aTOJWUfcUON-ydlQou7L14tuWzxXGK8eCe4kturvsys3BMZxmvThqhGTEXYYjwl2vi_t4LQlsFeVy2ox9VD64SnOxic9cm4RFI/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxUorkTHxQHdYluQY6hxP9AO3qfdGCmZZomGOolTh42aTOJWUfcUON-ydlQou7L14tuWzxXGK8eCe4kturvsys3BMZxmvThqhGTEXYYjwl2vi_t4LQlsFeVy2ox9VD64SnOxic9cm4RFI/s320/2.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />That’s because the water is recycled from wastewater – sewage – from a wastewater treatment plant across the street. Engineers say it's possible to purify sewage water until it’s cleaner than much of what residents drink today. The bigger challenge, they say, is convincing people to drink it.<br /><br />A few years ago Brent Haddad, an environmental engineer at UC Santa Cruz, noticed that he kept finding himself at industry meetings listening to water managers complaining about an “irrational” public unwilling to accept perfectly clean, recycled water.<br /><br />“It is quite difficult to get the cognitive sewage out of the water, even after the real sewage is gone,” says psychologist Carol Nemeroff.<br /><br />For now at least, you definitely do not want to use the phrase ‘Toilet to Tap.’<br /><br /><br />Audio below: <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17354825" target="_blank">‘Toilet to Tap’ Planned for Orange County Water</a>, National Public Radio<br /><br /><embed allowfullscreen="false" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="&bandwidth=7078&dock=false&file=http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/day/2007/12/20071218_day_07.mp3&gapro.accountid=UA-1538528-1&gapro.height=26&gapro.pluginmode=FLASH&gapro.trackpercentage=true&gapro.trackstarts=true&gapro.tracktime=true&gapro.visible=true&gapro.width=639&gapro.x=0&gapro.y=0&icons=false&plugins=gapro-1h%2Cviral-h&skin=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.kqed.org%2Fquest%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fquest%2Fglow.zip&stretching=none&viral.allowmenu=false&viral.bgcolor=0x333333&viral.fgcolor=0xffffff&viral.functions=embed&viral.matchplayercolors=true&viral.oncomplete=false&viral.onpause=false&viral.pluginmode=FLASH" height="26" src="http://science.kqed.org/quest/files/jw-player-plugin-for-wordpress/player/player.swf" width="539"></embed><br /><br /><br />Audio below: <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/08/16/139642271/why-cleaned-wastewater-stays-dirty-in-our-minds" target="_blank">Why Cleaned Wastewater Stays Dirty In Our Minds</a>, National Public Radio<br /><br /><embed allowfullscreen="false" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="&bandwidth=7078&dock=false&file=http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2011/08/20110816_me_17.mp3&gapro.accountid=UA-1538528-1&gapro.height=26&gapro.pluginmode=FLASH&gapro.trackpercentage=true&gapro.trackstarts=true&gapro.tracktime=true&gapro.visible=true&gapro.width=639&gapro.x=0&gapro.y=0&icons=false&plugins=gapro-1h%2Cviral-h&skin=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.kqed.org%2Fquest%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fquest%2Fglow.zip&stretching=none&viral.allowmenu=false&viral.bgcolor=0x333333&viral.fgcolor=0xffffff&viral.functions=embed&viral.matchplayercolors=true&viral.oncomplete=false&viral.onpause=false&viral.pluginmode=FLASH" height="26" src="http://science.kqed.org/quest/files/jw-player-plugin-for-wordpress/player/player.swf" width="539"></embed><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmNl_d-yNSMBl14F_vniEFmPTpCe4MCeHJoG2_RwSmUHP8czg1-dcomYcozKaIZHQX6Au0lJiNgJXCjM1wO_sg1M0Z917hkCGJlVbyVAkPazG8iW2rjbY4OScp6zI4m0gMDr3SB0u6obA/s1600/recycled_water.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="853" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmNl_d-yNSMBl14F_vniEFmPTpCe4MCeHJoG2_RwSmUHP8czg1-dcomYcozKaIZHQX6Au0lJiNgJXCjM1wO_sg1M0Z917hkCGJlVbyVAkPazG8iW2rjbY4OScp6zI4m0gMDr3SB0u6obA/s1600/recycled_water.jpg" width="709" /></a></div>

Drinking Sewage | Endless Supply & It’s Local

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iON | Vestal Goodman

<div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://achieveradio.com/payday/" target="blank">Payday</a></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">B</span><b>ob Dobbs’ private session 239, 21 January 2010.</b><br /><br /><object data="http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/player.swf" height="24" id="audioplayer570" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="290"> <param name="movie" value="http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/player.swf"><param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=audioplayer570&soundFile=http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/ion_vestal_goodman2.mp3"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="menu" value="false"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></object> <div><a href="http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/ion_vestal_goodman2.mp3" target="blank">download mp3</a> </div><p></p>Video below: A Tribute to Howard and Vestal Goodman. </div><p></p><iframe width="853" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLJ829gfJZMkGmbbXK2GWwN0_8yxSo31NA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

iON | Vestal Goodman

Payday B ob Dobbs’ private session 239, 21 January 2010. download mp3 Video below: A Tribute to Howard and V...

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