30+ Must-Have Updated Firefox 3 Extensions

We’ve put together a list of 30+ must-have Firefox 3 extensions that we know you’ll enjoy, whether you’ve upgraded to Firefox 3 and are looking for something new to add to your browser, or have yet to make the upgrade and are looking for a reason.

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Geek? Required Reading in Social Media

Social news sites like Digg and Mixx could then be grouped with social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn. In any case, it is a simple term to group “social” sites together. So, without further ado, here is the required reading list for people interested in social media:

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Can Weeds Help Solve the Climate Crisis?

Coexistence with mankind has given rise to the sort of tough plants that flourish despite the worst we can do — hoeing, pulling, burning and, more recently, spraying the fields with herbicidal chemicals. Weeds have adapted to every means we used to exterminate them, even turning the treatments to their own advantage.

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10 Things You Didn't Know About You

Think you know everything about you?Think again.

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NASA: Cimate Time Machine [flash Interactive]

Travel through Earth's recent historyTracking Changes in Global Conditions over Time"Ice Meltt / Sea Level / CO2 Emissons / Average Gloval Temperature

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Quantum computing breakthrough arises from unknown molecule

"This development may not bring us a quantum computer 10 years faster, but our dreams about these machines are now more realistic."

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Mini-Laptops look like the Next Big Electronics Change

Will Mini Laptops push Dell and HP to the brink if the become the acceptable home and/or office computer?

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Time-lapse video of Aurora Australis: The Southern Lights

This is the Southern Hemisphere equivalent of the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. Filmed during the Antarctic winter in the general vicinity of McMurdo Station and Scott Base, where the sun is below the horizon for 4 months of the year by Anthony Powell, a photographer based in Antarctica.

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The End of Theory: The Scientific Method is Obsolete

"All models are wrong, but some are useful."

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Amazing Image Identification Demonstration

Watch as the demo shows matched images that were identified using the TinEye image recognition software. Given an image to search for, TinEye tells you where and how that image appears all over the web—even if it has been modified. Very cool stuff.

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Will a Computer be Implanted in Future Human Brains?

Will future humans have computers implanted in their brains? Researchers are developing a neural implant that can think independently—just like the human brain does. Creepy? Yeah. Cool? Definitely. Scientists at the University of Florida aren’t just creating a neural implant that can translate human brain signals....

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What is a Dimension Anyway?

FTA: "In...life the number of dimensions refers to the minimum number of measurements required to specify the position of an object, such as latitude, longitude and altitude. Implicit in this definition is that space is smooth and obeys the laws of classical physics. But what if space is not so well behaved? What if its shape is determined by..."

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Technology: It's Where the Jobs Are

Here's a hint for high school graduates or college students still majoring in indecision: Put down that guitar or book of poetry and pick up a laptop. Study computer science or engineering, and plan to move to a big city. Technology is where it's at!

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How Do Biological Patterns Emerge?

A zebra’s stripes, a seashell’s spirals, a butterfly’s wings: these are all examples of patterns in nature. The formation of patterns is a puzzle for mathematicians and biologists alike. How does the delicate design of a butterfly’s wings come from a single fertilized egg? How does pattern emerge out of no pattern?

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NASA Climatologist: "Almost Too Late to Stop Global Warming"

On Monday, NASA climatologist Dr.James Hansen will testify at a House committee hearing that it is almost, but not quite, too late to start defusing what he calls the “global warming time bomb.” He will offer a plan for cuts in emissions and also a warning about the risks of further inaction.

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Top Scientist: Put Oil Firm Chiefs on Trial for High Crimes

James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

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Ice on Mars an important breakthrough

The prospect that life did once exist, still exists and could be sustained in the future on Mars has taken a huge step forward with the confirmation that water ice has been found on the planet.

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Images of Earth from Planetary Spacecraft

After the Apollo program's widely publicized images of Earth revolutionized public perception of our fragile planet, spacecraft began to launch on journeys to more distant planets, never to return, and their mission controllers often commanded them to take departing views of Earth.

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HubbleSite - Image: Hubble's Top Ten Gravitational Lenses

Hubble's Top Ten Gravitational Lenses

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Cognition and Memory Tests: How Smart Are You?

The words come in a rapid, random progression on the computer screen: "POET," "BEACH," "ATTENDANT," "JURY," "CAVE" … there are 15 in all. I’m watching them tick by one by one, slightly panicked that I am going to forget them.

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17 Reasons Bicycles Are Most Popular Vehicle in the World

This week, EcoWorldly authors from six continents contributed articles on bicycling in their country. With exerpts from those articles and others in the blogosphere, here are seventeen very good reasons to bicycle no matter where you live. Click the headings as you go to read more.

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Regenerating Lost Cartilage

The key to coaxing cells to regenerate might be to make things a little rough for them. Thomas Webster, a bioengineer at Brown University, has been developing implantable materials with nanoscale textures to mimic the roughness of living tissues.

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NASA : The Story of a Dying Star

Three thousand light-years away, the Cat's Eye Nebula, a dying star throws off shells of glowing gas. This image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the nebula to be one of the most complex planetary nebulae known.

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Scientists Discover Nano-Scale Bacteria that Eat Plastic

Professor made a startling discovery while inspecting geologic samples from deep beneath the earth's crust. Nanoscopic structures that look like bacteria, are self replicating, and even appear to have RNA and DNA. Skeptics argue that the size makes these creatures impossible, the same argument used against similar Mars Meteor structures that are st

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Harvard Team Creates the World's 1st Synthesized Cells

A single cell is the most awesomely sophisticated molecular machine yet produced. A self-directing, self-replicating micro-factory capable of complex constructions, automated repair and even (like all good sci-fi-sounding devices) self-destruct. The first cells, however, were much less "complex mechanisms" and significantly more "Shake and Bake"

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Using Brainwaves To Chat And Stroll Through Second Life

On 7th June 2008, Keio University succeeded in the world’s first demonstration experiment with the help of a disabled person to use brainwave to chat and stroll through the virtual world.

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Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol

Silicon Valley is experimenting with bacteria that have been genetically altered to provide renewable petroleum. ..the genetic alteration of bugs – very, very small ones – so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil. Using genetically modified bugs for

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New Material Absorbs Light Completely And Generates Electric

A partnership between Duke University and Boston College turned out to be very beneficial for the science world, as they obtained a metamaterial that absorbs all the light it gets (yes, it becomes invisible) and that is supposed to generate energy more efficiently than the solar cells.

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How to Read Mayan Hieroglyphs [flash]

Fun interactive exercise in reading a passage of glyphs carved into an ancient Mayan stela.

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How to Live With Just 100 Things

Excess consumption is practically an American religion. But as anyone with a filled-to-the-gills closet knows, the things we accumulate can become oppressive. Which is why people are so intrigued by the 100 Thing Challenge, a grass-roots movement in which otherwise seemingly normal folks are pledging to whittle down their possessions to 100 thiongs

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Map of the World's Religions

Here is an interesting map of the world’s religions.

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Can Technology Improve Your Memory?

Technology provides us with answers to almost any question instantly. If we need reminders, we can program devices to prompt us to remember our appointments and to-do list. Yet, we continue to forget things. While technology saves us the burden of remembering endless details, it can also add to our memory problems. Here's Why.

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The Upside to Natural Disasters

three ideas about what might be some positive consequences of natural disasters.

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Solar Power's New Style - TIME

Mike Gering, CEO of the start-up Global Solar, picks his way along his factory floor, tracing the convoluted path that his thin-film solar panels follow from birth to shipping truck. The raw materials the workers carry are ultra-thin sheets of flexible plastic, which are then coated with a series of chemicals...

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Amazing plant life - ancient seed sprouts after 2,000 years

Forget cryopreservation – hot and dry conditions might be all you need to awake far into the future. A date palm seed some 2000 years old – preserved by nothing more than storage in hot and dry conditions – has germinated, making it the oldest seed in the world to do so.

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60 Minutes goes on tour inside the "Doomsday Seed Vault"

It's located some 700 miles from the North Pole, buried hundreds of feet deep in rock and ice, safe and secure from intruders, natural disasters and even military attack What's inside? Hundreds of millions of seeds from more than 100 countries, all assembled and kept safe to protect the world's fragile food supply. 60 minutes takes a tour.

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'Electron turbine' could print designer molecules

A carbon nanotube that spins in a current of electrons, like a wind turbine in a breeze, could become the world's smallest printer or shrink computer memory, UK researchers say.

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The Drying Of The West (U.S.). Beautiful, Disturbing Pics

Interesting mix of pics reflecting growing drought conditions, also examples of human actions draining water supply. (Accompanying feature article gives context, background, if interested.)

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Bruce Lee’s 7 Fundamentals for Getting Your Life in Shape

And you know his Kung Fu is way strong!

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15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages

If you’re concerned about your web pages’ speed or want to make sure you’re in tip-top shape before starting or launching a project, here’s a few useful, free tools to help you create and sustain high-performance web applications.

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Curious 'Quasiparticles' Baffle Physicists

Israeli physicists have discovered bizarre 'quasiparticles' which have one quarter the charge of an electron, and may be useful in quantum computing.

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Sunshine may be nature's disease fighter

Medical researchers are homing in on a wonder drug that may significantly reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and many other diseases -- sunshine.The findings join a growing body of evidence indicating that an adequate level of the vitamin, which many people can get from 20 minutes in the sun, is crucial to maintaining good health.

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Melting Arctic ice could spur inland warming

If Arctic sea ice starts melting fast, polar bears and ring seals wouldn't be the only creatures to feel it: A study released on Tuesday suggests it could spur warmer temperatures hundreds of miles (km) inland. That means a possible thaw in the long-frozen soil known as permafrost, which in turn could have severe effects on ecosystems and human...

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How To Run your Car on Free Vegetable Oil in 8 Easy Steps

Converting your vehicle to run on veggie oil is a good move economically and environmentally. And here’s what BP and Exxon don’t want you to know: it’s not hard to do.

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World's First Renewable Gasoline

California-based company, has been working away to create actual gasoline from a renewable, carbon neutral source: algae.

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Gorgeous Images of the Sky, From 200+ Miles Above it [PICS]

The Space Shuttle Discovery successfully launched last week, becoming the 154th manned US space mission. One of the best features of the space program has always been astronaut photography, and I will take this opportunity to share some of the best photographs of Earth's skies, taken from above - way above

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Teen figures out how to decompose plastic bags in 3 months

Ontario high school junior Daniel Burd wanted to try to figure out if there was a way to get plastic bags to decompose faster. As it stands, it takes thousands of years for the wasteful objects to disintegrate. But by using bacteria, he figured out how to make it happen in a mere three months.

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The Universe From The Big Bang

A diagram explaining the expansion of the universe since the Big Bang.

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10 Deepest Lakes on Earth [PICS]

As with any lake, depths fluctuate with climate and in particular rainfall. Notwithstanding this, today we’ll explore the top ten deepest lakes in the world and the stories and legends behind them.

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A Stunning Sunset on Mars [PIC]

As part of their Image of the Day series, NASA posted a beautiful image of a sunset on Mars sent by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on May 19, 2005

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Exponential Technology: We're on the verge of great things

Exponential upward curves can be deceptively gradual in the beginning. But when things start happening, they happen fast. Here are a selection of future “miracles” based on where science is at in the present.

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Something's Shaking in Antarctica

Team discovers twice-daily, magnitude-7 ice quakes on the frozen continent.

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Sting Ray Migration - Key West Florida (Pic)

Sting Ray Migration in Key West Florida (Image)

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