Animals
Ape Apps: Orangutans Learn With iPads At Miami Zoo
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Science
Brent Ware, a member of the robotics team at Kansas State, stands next to a planting robot that won a national competition.
From Science Fiction To Fact, Robots Are Coming To A Farm Near You
()Farm robots are here, not just in Star Wars. Some dairies already use milking machines that clean udders and monitor cow health, plus do the milking, and a fully automated tractor is coming out this fall.
The Salt
Jet-Lagged By Your Social Calendar? Better Check Your Waistline()
May 15, 2012 The disconnect between our social calendars and our biological clocks is creating "social jet lag," according to key researchers. And that's taking a toll on our weight because the body stores fat when it's not getting enough sleep.
The Fracking Boom: Missing Answers
Sick From Fracking? Doctors, Patients Seek Answers()
May 15, 2012 Mysterious fumes wafting in from outside have repeatedly sickened several nurses at a rural Pennsylvania health clinic, forcing the clinic to temporarily relocate. Like many other people living near gas wells around the country, the clinic's staff wonder whether the industry in their backyard is making them sick.
The Salt
California's Genetically Engineered Food Label May Confuse More Than Inform()
May 14, 2012 A new analysis of the labeling initiative, which may go on the ballot in November, shows that it would create a complex and nuanced set of restrictions for food companies on what "natural" food is.
The Fracking Boom: Missing Answers
With Gas Boom, Pennsylvania Fears New Toxic Legacy()
May 14, 2012 Industry has ruined a lot of Pennsylvania's water. Coal mining companies hammered the state, leaving behind acidic water that turned thousands of miles of streams into dead zones. People in the state are looking for ways to make sure the fracking boom doesn't deal another blow to its water.
The Fracking Boom: Missing Answers
Science And The Fracking Boom: Missing Answers()
May 14, 2012 People living on the front step of the natural gas boom have the same questions: What kinds of pollutants are entering our water and air, and are those pollutants making us sick? Explore key components of the natural gas production process — and the questions scientists are asking.
Humans
Mayan Artwork Uncovered In A Guatemalan Forest()
May 13, 2012 Archaeologists have stumbled on a room full of wall paintings and numerical calculations in the buried ninth century city of Xultun. The room was apparently an astronomer's workshop, with calculations painted on the walls counting lunar cycles and predicting eclipses.
Krulwich Wonders...
120 Giants Found Living With 86-Year-Old Man()
May 11, 2012 What inspired 86-year-old Brendon Grimshaw to buy an island in the Indian Ocean, replant it with 16,000 trees, grasses and lure a bunch of giant tortoises to live with him?
Health
FDA Panel Recommends First HIV-Prevention Drug()
May 10, 2012 The endorsement clears the way for a landmark approval in the 30-year fight against the virus that causes AIDS. The daily pill, Truvada, is for healthy people who are at high risk of contracting HIV, including gay and bisexual men and heterosexual couples with one HIV-positive partner.
TED Radio Hour
Cary Fowler And Ann Cooper: Can We Protect Food's Future And Improve School Lunch?()
May 11, 2012 How will the varieties of food grown today survive climate change? A vast global seed bank under a frozen mountain in Norway may have answers. Also, what's in kid's lunches? There's a revolution coming in the way kids eat at school: local, sustainable, seasonal and even educational food.
TED Radio Hour
Dan Barber: Does Good Flavor Equal Sustainability?()
May 11, 2012 Chef Dan Barber chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love and the foodie honeymoon he's enjoyed since discovering an outrageously delicious fish raised using a revolutionary farming method in Spain.
