An Old Idea,Revived: Starve Cancer to Death

In the early 20th century, the German biochemist Otto Warburg believed that tumors could be treated by disrupting their source of energy. His idea was dismissed for decades — until now.  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/magazine/warburg-effect-an-old-idea-revived-starve-cancer-to-death.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=sectionfront
Article courtesy of the New York Times by Sam Apple

Want to Buy a Self-Driving Car? Big-Rig Trucks May Come First

SAN FRANCISCO — Imagine you are driving on a highway late at night when a big-rig truck closes in behind you. You relax because it is keeping a safe distance and seems to be obeying the speed limit. Now imagine that truck is driving itself. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/technology/want-to-buy-a-self-driving-car-trucks-may-come-first.html?mabReward=A4&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=0
Article courtesy of The New York Times by John Markoff

Dr. Catlin Powers, Eco-Engineer

I went into the Himalayas as an undergraduate to study climate change. Local people asked why my team was in the region, so I struggled to find the words "climate change" in Tibetan. Finally, I came up with "we are studying smoke in the sky." Everyone burst out laughing: "What a ridiculous thing to do. The sky is blue, but there's all this smoke in our homes." They brought me inside, and the air was thick and yellow, just searing to breathe. The air-quality monitors attached to my jacket indicated that the air was 10 times worse than what I'd recently measured in Beijing.
http://sierraclub.org/sierra/2016-3-may-june/faces-clean-energy/dr-catlin-powers-eco-engineer?suppress=true&utm_source=greenlife&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
Article courtesy of Sierraclub.com by Erik Hoffner

Rare 2,000-Year-Old Coin Found by Hiker in Israel

A gold coin dating from the Roman Empire has been found at an archaeological site near the sea of Galilee.  http://www.nbcnews.com/video/rare-2-000-year-old-coin-found-by-hiker-in-israel-644794947868
Video courtesy of NBC News

Did climate change cause these ancient civilizations to collapse?

“Droughts didn't always impact societies in the past,” says archaeologist Kyle Bocinsky, one of the authors of the study. “There were plenty of times in which the Pueblo people did just fine in the face of pretty dramatic climate downturns. But we also found that a combination of social organization, inequality and climate change did prompt revolutions in Pueblo society, and not just once, but four times in the Pueblo past between 8500 and 1400.”  http://www.globalpost.com/article/6764863/2016/04/24/did-climate-change-cause-these-ancient-civilizations-collapse
Article courtesy of the Global Post by Elizabeth Stockman and Alexa Lim

Baltimore Student Leader Receives Goldman Environmental Prize

On Monday, Watford will receive the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her successful grassroots effort to stall the construction of what would have been the nation’s largest trash incinerator in the Curtis Bay neighborhood of southern Baltimore.

In 2012, the then-17-year-old Watson first learned that the developer Energy Answers had secured legal approval to build a solid-waste-to-energy power plant—PR speak for a trash incinerator—one mile from her high school. “When the incinerator was proposed, it was proposed as the solution to both the energy crisis and the waste crisis,” Watford told Sierra in a recent interview. “It sounded like a wonderful solution, but it's not—it was a false alternative.”  http://sierraclub.org/sierra/2016-2-march-april/green-life/baltimore-student-leader-receives-goldman-environmental-prize

Article courtesy of Sierraclub.org by Catherine Schuknecht

MassDOT announced the first activation of the Commonwealth’s Real-Time Traffic Information System (Go-Time) set to expand statewide by the end of the year.

Three new Real-Time Traffic displays were launched in the area of Rt. 140 in Taunton. These displays include travel times from Rt. 140 to Interstate 195, Rt. 140 to Interstate 195, and Rt. 140 to Rt. 6. The signs will provide drivers with information about how long their commute will be and will assist drivers in making informed travel decisions.  http://blog.mass.gov/transportation/massdot-highway/massdot-launches-go-time-real-time-traffic-information/
Article courtesy of MassDot by Klark Jessen