P.Lavoie

This is just awesome!!   Imagine a water bottle that fills up using moisture from the air...  Now think about the fact that a beetle in the desert does this to survive.

I think it would be amazing for people around the world to have access to fresh "cloud" water because of this kind of technology!  Imagine having this in your car, no need to buy a bottle on a road trip! In your desert village, public beaches...  Its remarkable what science can accomplish.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20465982

P.Lavoie

They seem to have come up with some nifty fixes to the oil sands in Fort Mac!

Basically, they just forgot to implement them on a large scale...
Read up and let me know what you guys think!


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/they-could-fix-the-oil-sands/article5864012/

Philippe Lavoie and the E-car

The ELECTRIC car is back this year at the L.A auto show!   I've noticed some interesting things about them...

This article explains http://jalopnik.com/5964070/why-do-all-these-electric-cars-have-grilles and the next one is just a quick video about the show and E-cars this year:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/car-life/drive-video/video-auto-makers-show-off-electric-vehicles-in-la/article5789814/

Enjoy!

Philippe Lavoie says:

An interesting article about melting ice, heat and climate change in recorded history:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/29/science/earth/un-agency-says-2012-ranks-among-hottest-years.html?ref=science


Here are some of my findings too!

This graph sort of gives us a clue as to why this may be happening...

and... More recently;

Some good action should come of this! Right?!

NOPE!! Not in Canada anyway; http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-wont-budge-on-environment-minister-insists/article5872465/

Oh goodness! Well... Election time can't seem to come any sooner!

Interesting.

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/latest-news/biofluorescence-coral-reefs-ngoa/

"Glow in the Dark" Reefs Revealed

November 29, 2012—In the remote Pacific, two National Geographic explorers are using advanced technology to track down a rare bioluminescent protein that would boost human brain science.How interesting is this? Let me know what you think?
 Denisa Ollomani

A follow up of the previous post. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kLxAeyyom4
is a song that is very helpful and catchy to remind us that we should do and to motivate us to help out and make the earth look as "healthy as before".

Denisa Ollomani

Beetle Identification - Michael Stoody

Last month as I was leaving school I noticed a peculiar insect on the ground which I assumed to be a beetle but had no idea, so I took a picture of it.

 This is the blister beetle, specifically of the Genus Meloe. It was hard to identify and at times i believed it to be a large blue ant but I knew that couldn't be true.  Blister beetles, also called oil beetles, earned their name by the fact that they defend themselves by producing an oily, toxic substance called cantharidin. This substance remains stable even after the beetles are killed. It produces blisters on the skin if handled, and if ingested it causes inflammation of the stomach lining, small intestine and urinary tract.  I believe that the yellow substance behind the beetle is the previously mentioned defensive mechanism, although it was present when I found it originally so I didn't see it come to form.  One of the easiest to identify it is the fact that the wing tips do not cover the whole lower back and the abdominal sections are clearly visible.  Female members of the species will have a severely swollen abdomen when pregnant.