(Reuters) - Environmental groups filed suit on Thursday seeking federal regulation of lead in ammunition, claiming exposure to the toxic metal from spent bullets fired into the environment by hunters kills millions of birds and poses a risk to human health. The Center for Biological Diversity was among 100 organizations that this year unsuccessfully petitioned the U.S
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With Amtrak on pace to set another ridership record this year, it appears millions of Americans are reserving seats on the nation’s rolling stock. Some are going a step further and reserving entire cars.
Read More »Every Innovative Dream Team Needs These
The three types of people that are necessary for any team tasked with innovation. Bloomberg recently profiled an entrepreneurial luminary, Steve Blank, who teamed up with the National Science Foundation to teach classes for the newly formed NSF Innovation Corps. The NSF I-Corps, as it's called, seeks to commercialize new products out of U.S
Read More »Cheap Fracked Gas Could Help Americans Keep on Truckin’
A different kind of truck stop is coming soon to Atlanta. Greg Roche, vice president for infrastructure at Clean Energy Fuels , is presently scouting locations to build one of the California-based company's natural gas fueling stations for long-haul trucks by the end of this year
Read More »When DIY is Just Wrong
When cash is tight, our tendency is to try to do everything ourselves. Even when we have no idea what we're doing
Read More »Spring Arrives with Equinox Tuesday, Earliest in More Than a Century
Across much of the United States, this has been an unusually mild winter, especially for those living east of the Mississippi. Not a few people have noted that spring seems to have come early this year. Of course, in a meteorological sense that could be true, but in 2012 it will also be true in an astronomical sense as well, because this year spring will make its earliest arrival since the late 19th century: 1896, to be exact
Read More »Dell Is Your Unlikely Tablets-Over-PCs Champion
Dell's chief commercial officer Steve Felice thinks that his company can leverage its way into the tablet market because it's wide open. Speaking to Reuters , Felice said that Dell tablets powered by Windows 8 would arrive later in 2012, and they'd offer something no one else has: Dell's "coveted brand." The optimism didn't end there.
Read More »Advocacy group claims hot dogs cause "butt cancer" on Chicago billboard
Billboard in Chicago is telling residents that hot dogs cause colorectal cancer, which will kill almost 52,000 people this year
Read More »Avoid These 3 Common Tax Mistakes
A new survey asks accountants to name the most common errors small business owners make when filing taxes. Here's what you need to know this tax season. April 15th is looming.
Read More »China’s Budget Backs Science
By Jane Qiu of Nature magazine The Chinese government's promise last week that researchers will enjoy another year of increased funding was not unexpected, given the country's relatively buoyant economy and high regard for science.
Read More »Kony 2012: Making Video Go Viral
Almost overnight, millions of people watched and shared this 30-minute video.
Read More »2 Start-ups at SXSW Trying to Disrupt the Economy
Location-based apps are this year's SXSW GroupMe and Twitter. Zaarly and LocalMind are two to put on your radar
Read More »Unlimited Vacation Doesn’t Create Slackers–It Ensures Productivity
By tossing the two-week standard in favor of an honor system with unlimited time off, some companies are seeing an exponential rise in productivity. Now, they just have to be mindful of staff burnout
Read More »Knight News Challenge Gives Away $5 Million On Tumblr
The 2012 Knight News Challenge is looking for a few good journalism projects to receive $5 million in funding... but applicants share their ideas with Tumblr's user base
Read More »And the Winner for Best Crowd-Sourced Funding Is…
With Incident in New Baghdad, its second Oscar nominee in two years, Kickstarter is on its way to becoming a democratizing force in film In the old clich
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