NY Times turns a leaf on social media

From the Poynter Institute, regarding the change at NYT -

"...social media needs to be — and is already — a shared responsibility."

Great 2 of the big sites online are easily hacked

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From Farm to Fridge to Garbage Can

The New York Times: Health

A quarter to half of food produced in the United States goes uneaten, a lot of it thrown out or forgotten until it spoils.

Read Tara Parker-Pope's blog about this problem, and discussion with the author of the new book, “American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food”.

Recycled Denim Challenge Finalists From Ecouterre And Gap (PHOTOS)

Check out these desgins by some fashion-foward, eco-friendly people.

From The Huffington Post
November 1, 2010

Don't waste that Pumpkin! [INFOGRAPHIC]

Don’t throw away your pumpkins right after Halloween! How to effectively use all parts of your pumpkin.

From Pure Organic
October 28, 2010

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Scientists use Stem Cells to Grow Miniature Liver

Scientists have managed to produce a small-scale version of a human liver in the laboratory using stem cells.

The success increases hope that new transplant livers could be manufactured, although experts say that this is still many years away.

The team from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center presented its findings at at conference in Boston.

UK experts said it was an "exciting development" but it is not yet certain a fully-functioning liver is possible.The demand for transplant livers far exceeds the number of available organs, and in recent years, research has focused on ways to use cell technology to support failing organs in the body, or even one day replace them.

Their building block is the stem cell, a "master cell" which can, in certain conditions, can divide to produce different types of body tissue.

However, constructing a three-dimensional organ from stem cells is a difficult task. Click here to read the rest of the article from the BBC...