- Yellow Pixels Being Added to TVs to make them better -LiveScience
Instead of the typical red, green, and blue that can reproduce billions of color, this yellow pixel will raise "the number of reproducible colors into the trillions." It would also require less intensive lighting, and therefore be more environmentally-friendly. - RIT gets federal grant for "Library Research" - RBJ
RIT’s Image Permanence Institute is to search for ways to lower energy consumption in the preservation of stacks, special collection, and exhibition spaces. They received $580,174. - Pizza and soda tax - ABCNews
Both Pennyslvania and New York are looking into a 10% increase in price to act as a tax and incentive to eat better foods. - Papaya to fight cancer - Yahoo!
Papaya has an anticancer effect against tumors of the cervix, breast, liver, lung and pancreas. It seems it slows the growth of tumors. - U.S. Postal Service to be "saved" - NYTimes
After losing 1.4 billion dollars last year and an estimated 7 billion dollars this year, a plan is being drawn to reorganize the postal service. This includes cutting more post offices (and placing them in supermarkets?...well should the government be supporting corporations....NO) and possibly cutting Saturday post.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Yellow and Papayas May Save the World, But the U.S. Postal Service Needs the Saving
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