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Gold Nanoparticles Could Transform Trees Into Street Lights
Glow-in-the-dark trees... sounds very cool. Someone I suspect that seeing these might at first cause people to reconsider whether or not they'd had a little too much to drink or had been smoking something "interesting" recently.
Goodbye, Duruka
The introduction to this story: "Dr. Anthony Bradley, speaking on issues of economic justice, once said in a lecture to the Marketplace One Institute that the job of nonprofits is to work themselves out of business. By that he meant that nonprofits are generally set up to address a social problem, and thus they need to solve it and move on. If they are in business serving the same need for generations, then they have failed in their goals." I agree, and I'm happy to see that WorldVision seems to be taking this to heart.
Streets named after Mario Bros
I'd be curious to see how they tiled Tetris Square (another of the places named after video games in this Spanish city)
Paper Probe Finds Lead in Reuseable Bags
I'm a little curious how the lead wound up there in the first place. It doesn't really sound like a key ingredient in the manufacture of bags.