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“Sportsuit Convertible comes to iPhone, iPod touch
Macworld, CA - By Peter Cohen
Marware has introduced its Sportsuit Convertible case for the iPhone and iPod touch. The case costs $34.99. The Sportsuit Convertible is a …

Zune vs. iPod: New ad campaign makes it personal
Baltimore Sun, United States -
The iPod, of course, dominates with over 70 percent. So on the cusp of the arrival of the new Zune models on Nov. 13 as well as the crucial holiday buying …

iPod in the neck: Invention offers alternative for securing gadget …
Gloucester Daily Times, USA -
Stopping, he pointed to the back of his neck, where an iPod Nano rested securely in his new invention, appropriately called ‘nekFit. …

Nike iPod sport kit
Consumer Online, New Zealand -
The Nike+ iPod sport kit wirelessly links your running shoes to your iPod Nano so you can keep track of your progress. We tried it out . …”

“Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters” interview - Boing Boing

Here an interview with Satoshi Kanazawa, one of the authors of Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters, an introduction to evolutionary psychology.

SK: In fact, we’re not playing catch up; we’re stuck. For any evolutionary change to take place, the environment has to remain more or less constant for many generations, so that evolution can select the traits that are adaptive and eliminate those that are not. When the environment undergoes rapid change within the space of a generation or two, as it has been for the last couple of millennia, if not more, then evolution can’t happen because nature can’t determine which traits to select and which to eliminate. So they remain at a standstill. Our brain (and the rest of our body) are essentially frozen in time — stuck in the Stone Age.

World of Renewables - News - Haiti’s Hopes for Biofuels Rest on Jatropha Plant

Haiti is looking to a small shrub called jatropha to fuel an alternative energy boom that may help cut the impoverished country’s reliance on oil and charcoal.

VOA’s Brian Wagner reports the efforts already are drawing the support of Brazil and the United States in developing clean and renewable fuel supplies.

The rising cost of foreign oil has governments and researchers around the world searching for cheaper and more sustainable forms of energy. In Haiti, the hope is centered on a native plant called jatropha curcas, which bears oily seeds that can be crushed and processed to produce diesel fuel for generators or vehicles.

Organisation such as Zanfan Tradisyon Ayisyen (ZANTRAY) is seeking ways to get involved in raising the jatropha trees in haiti on a big scale. As as today there are no large plantations of jatropha in haiti. It is indeed found, but no big plantations…