Acting for turning the best vision into the wisest action The future is born following the game played between man and nature. It is a ”20/80” game. Man decides 20% of  the rules ...  

  Researchers with Microsoft and the University of Washington in Seattle have created a program that lets people turn almost any computer, including laptops, into a gesture-controlled machine. Though many gesture-controlled programs now use Microsoft's Kinect system to detect motions, this new program, called SoundWave, has a more unusual method of figuring out what's going on around it. It works a little bit like a dolphin.Read article >>>

Recovering from the crisis is about returning to economic growth that can sustainably deliver...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, May 18, 2012 (Reuters) -- An Obama administration plan to cut...

You don’t want to know what they do with the bottles Today’s post is from...

Nearly 8000 mortgage products were aimed at people with “impaired credit histories” in the...

KANARRAVILLE, Utah, May 20, 2012 (Reuters) -- The sun and moon will align over the earth in a rare astronomical event on Sunday - an annular eclipse that will dim the skies over parts of Asia and North America, briefly turning the sun into a blazing ring of fire. ... > read full story

SALT LAKE CITY, May 18, 2012 (Reuters) -- Scientists have discovered fossilized bones near Utah's iconic Arches National Park representing a new species of raptor dinosaur that was about the size of a coyote, the state's top paleontologist announced on Friday. ... > read full story

Recovering from the crisis is about returning to economic growth that can sustainably deliver better lives in all senses of the word – jobs for today and the education and skills for the jobs of tomorrow, healthy environment, and equal opportunities. Economic growth is the foundation stone, but the crisis taught us that it has to be the right kind of growth. In many countries, people are rising up – indignant about inequalities and what they see as a lack of transparency and accountability from their governments and institutions. They are calling for new approaches that focus on growth, fairness and...

In the first study of its kind in Australasia, scientists have used 27 natural climate records to create the first large-scale temperature reconstruction for the region over the last 1,000 years.

Returning extra medicine to the pharmacy for disposal might not be worth the extra time, money or greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study that is the first to look at the net effects of so-called take-back programs.

You don’t want to know what they do with the bottles Today’s post is from Liisa-Maija Harju, Environmental Coordinator in the OECD Operations Service Each year OECD countries generate over four billion tonnes of waste. By 2020, we could be generating 45% more waste than we did in 1995. OECD’s work on waste management focuses on promoting sustainable materials management in order to limit waste generation in the first place. According to the recent report Greenhouse gas emissions and the potential for mitigation from materials management within OECD countries, in most OECD countries, at least 4 percent of current annual GHG emissions could...

The fastest growing jobs are also the least glamorous. The United States will add 1.3 million health and personal care aides by 2020, according to Labor Dept. projections released this month. That represents a 70 percent jump, greater than any other occupation. Such workers make about $20,000 per year. If these are the jobs of the future, who are the employers? They're overwhelmingly small businesses. There are about 22,000 home health care establishments, and the largest control less than 5 percent of the market, according to an analysis of the industry to be released Wednesday by FranData. The Arlington, Va., company...

Turns out customizing video game controllers for gaming addicts who want to shoot faster can be a decent business. Tim Erven says his five-year-old venture, Custom Gaming in Whippany, New Jersey, has been profitable since he started it, with revenue around $300,000 in 2011, and some 250 orders a week now, mostly through its Amazon storefront. To keep up with demand, the 22-year-old has been trying to get banks to lend him as little as $10,000 to improve his website and rent a warehouse near his home. The six banks he's approached have rejected his applications because of his age...