An article from The Atlantic focuses on the value of trees: I was approached by someone from an initiative called San Diego County Trees…(a project) extolling the benefits of urban trees. I just spent time on the website, where the coolest feature is an interactive map of the whole county showing very specific tree locations and information, …
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It cost just $1.36 to charge an iPad for a year – iPhone $0.38
That coffee you’re drinking while gazing at your iPad? It cost more than all the electricity needed to run those games, emails, videos and news stories for a year. The annual cost to charge an iPad is just $1.36, according to the Electric Power Research Institute, a non-profit research and development group funded by electric …
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Where are you on global pay scale?
Do you earn more or less than the world’s average wage? World average monthly wage: $1,480 Luxembourg – $4,089 United States – $3,263 Canada – $2,724 Germany – $2,720 China – $656 The average wage, calculated by the International Labour Organization, is published here for the first time. It’s a rough figure based on data …
A different kind gold rush – scientists pay for meteorites, $1,000 a gram
In the Gold Rush town of Rescue, Brenda Salveson, a wife and mother of two, read a local news article about the meteorites. The area scattered with them, about three miles wide and 10 miles long, included Henningsen Lotus Park, where she walks her dog every morning. She noted what to look for: a rock …
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Venture capitalists invested $5.8 billion in the first quarter of 2012
Venture capitalists invested $5.8 billion in 758 deals in the first quarter of 2012. The report shows that after a strong fourth quarter 2011, VC investment activity for the quarter fell 19 percent in terms of dollars and 15 percent in the number of deals compared to the fourth quarter of 2011 when $7.1 billion …
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Google challenges any hacker to take down Chrome – “I am the king of the world!”
Google Will Offer $1 Million In Rewards For Hacking Chrome For the last three years, Google’s Chrome browser has left the world’s premiere hacking competition unscathed, even as Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari have all been taken down. Google announced Monday evening that it’s offering up to a million dollars in rewards at the annual …
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Google challenges any hacker to take down Chrome – "I am the king of the world!"
Google Will Offer $1 Million In Rewards For Hacking Chrome For the last three years, Google’s Chrome browser has left the world’s premiere hacking competition unscathed, even as Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari have all been taken down. Google announced Monday evening that it’s offering up to a million dollars in rewards at the annual …
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