Consider how this approach might leverage local resources and advance smart regional development. Using real values of course.

“The forests of the Pacific Northwest hold significant potential to increase carbon storage and help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in coming years, a recent study concludes, if they are managed primarily for that purpose through timber harvest reductions and increased rotation ages.

In the complete absence of stand-replacing disturbances – via fire or timber harvest – forests of Oregon and Northern California could theoretically almost double their carbon storage.

Although it isn’t realistic to expect an absence of disturbance, the estimates were based on average conditions up until now that include variation in forest biomass, age, climate, disturbances and soil fertility….” Full Slice

“…There is something cynical, and certainly calculating in a bottom-line way, about city governments that ask all of us to be more involved with one another, our garbage, our plot of dirt, our newly demolished, formerly blighted communities, and then turn a cold eye to us.

My city has just joined others in unleashing software-and-camera laden vehicles that will prowl the streets, taking pictures of license plates and tire position to catch those who dare try to get another 15 minutes out of a parking meter. This is City Hall without a face. Lovely Rita, Meter Maid – I miss you….” Full Slice

“Some food groups in the Mediterranean diet are more important than others in promoting health and longer life according to new research…Eating more vegetables, fruits, nuts, pulses and olive oil, and drinking moderate amounts of alcohol, while not consuming a lot of meat or excessive amounts of alcohol is linked to people living longer.

However, the study also claims, that following a Mediterranean diet high in fish, seafood and cereals and low in dairy products were not indicators of longevity….” Full Slice

“Some of the substances that are helping to avert the destruction of the ozone layer could increasingly contribute to climate warming, according to scientists…HFCs—especially from developing countries—will become an increasingly larger factor in future climate warming.

“HFCs are good for protecting the ozone layer, but they are not climate friendly,”…Though the HFCs do not deplete the ozone layer, they are potent greenhouse gases. Molecule for molecule, all HFCs are more potent warming agents than CO2 and some are thousands of times more effective….” Full Slice

“…a protein dimer made up of two identical parts can actually twist itself so that one copy of the protein is turned upside down if its environment is only slightly altered…”We were able to easily switch A2L2 from an inactive state to one that could bind RNA, and it takes only quite mild changes in conditions to make this change. These direct observations show that this protein dimer has two native structures available to it, and that minor perturbations can cause this balance to be altered,”…” Full Slice

“…I remind all officials and security and military personnel that they should preserve their religion and not sell it out for the sake of others, and be aware that the excuse that they have been ordered [to act unlawfully] will never be accepted by the great God. They should consider people’s protesting children like their own, and avoid any irresponsible and inhumane confrontation [with them], and by learning from the past be aware that sooner or later those who commit unjust acts against people will be punished both in this world and the next. It is not possible in this era to hide the truth from the people by censorship and cutting off telecommunication communications between them.” - Full Slice written by Hossein Ali Montazeri

From what I can get out of this, if you take a 10-layer thick piece of graphene layers, it spontaneously rearranges itself into a ramified thing with a fractal feel to it.

“…Insulin and many other drugs have long been used to control blood sugar, but [researcher] – in an earlier project with scientists…– found that cells have a “memory” that causes damage to continue even when blood sugar is controlled. By adding antioxidants like Vitamin C, [researcher] found that cell “memory” disappeared and cell function and oxidation stress were normalized….” Full Slice

“…A series of experiments demonstrated that worms with increased longevity induced by mutations in the insulin-like signaling pathway did exhibit somatic cell expression of genes usually active only in germline cells. The mutant worms also were protected from stresses that damaged the DNA of non-mutant worms. The researchers also found that inactivating germline-expressed genes in the mutant worms eliminated the increased lifespan and that longevity-associated mutations in two genes from a different metabolic pathway – one involved with detoxification and stress response – also increased the expression of germline markers.

“The idea that somatic cells can reacquire genetic pathways usually restricted to germline cells is fascinating, and since germline protection is seen across species, the activity of these genes may play a role in controlling mammalian lifespan…Understanding the mechanisms involved in this transformation could help us develop new ways to repair and even regenerate key cells and tissues.”…” Full Slice

Bad start Microsoft.  This comparison of Bing and Google searching “news” for “steve jobs” (without quotes) shows that both search products have a long ways to go to return useful information to even common queries, but wow Bing, how can you show such an embarassingly old article as your number one return.

“Physicists…have demonstrated entanglement—a phenomenon peculiar to the atomic-scale quantum world—in a mechanical system similar to those in the macroscopic everyday world. The work extends the boundaries of the arena where quantum behavior can be observed and shows how laboratory technology might be scaled up to build a functional quantum computer….” Full Slice

“…Biologists have suspected for years that some kind of epigenetic inheritance occurs at the cellular level…Only recently, however, have researchers begun to find molecular evidence of non-DNA inheritance between organisms as well as between cells…[authors] article outlines inherited epigenetic variation in bacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals.

These findings “represent the tip of a very large iceberg,”…There are four known mechanisms for epigenetic inheritance…”Incorporating epigenetic inheritance into evolutionary theory extends the scope of evolutionary thinking and leads to notions of heredity and evolution that incorporate development,”…This is a vindication of sorts for 18th century naturalist Jean Baptiste Lamarck….” Full Slice

And the abstract

“An unmapped reservoir of briny liquid chemically similar to sea water, but buried under an inland Antarctic glacier, appears to support unusual microbial life in a place where cold, darkness and lack of oxygen would previously have led scientists to believe nothing could survive…”When I started running the chemical analysis on it, there was no oxygen…it was a real ‘eureka’ moment.”…. Full Slice

“…picoeukaryotes such as Micromonas comprised, on average, only a quarter of the picophytoplankton cells in a Pacific Ocean sampling, but were responsible for three-quarters of the net carbon production. They were also shown to be subject to heavy grazing pressure; their lack of a cell wall may make them more digestible as prey. In this case carbon may be efficiently sequestered by the “biological pump,” the suite of processes that enable the algae to capture atmospheric carbon and transport it from the ocean surface zones to the depths below.

This research serves as a complement to field studies seeking to confirm emerging key players in global carbon fixation….” Full Slice

From Cheap Talk:

Of course there are many illegal markets that would generate stimulus were they to be legalized. Here are some of the big ones.

1. Drugs
2. Guns
3. Prostitution (except in Nevada)
4. Gay prostitution (even in Nevada)
5. Gambling
6. Trade with Cuba
7. Liberalized immigration