L'ufficio verde è più produttivo
Secondo uno studio americano la presenza di piante negli uffici incrementa il benessere dei lavoratori e di conseguenza il rendimento. Anche la presenza di finestre aiuta a lavorare meglio, ma sembra che le piante diano più beneficio (e senza dubbio sono un elemento più semplice da aggiungere nella stanza)
http://www.livescience.com/environment/080521-green-office.html
http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200821/1047/Potted-plants-in-the-office-linked-to-job-satisfaction-study

Brazil Indians, Activists Protest Over Amazon Dam
BRASILIA - The construction of a proposed dam on Brazil's Xingu river will flood homes of 16,000 people, dry rivers and fuel logging, activists and tribal Indians warned on Wednesday as concern over Amazon destruction rises.
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/48444/story.htm

Senegalese Fisherman Save Dozens Of Stranded Whales
YOFF, Senegal - Senegalese fishermen dragged dozens of stranded pilot whales back out to sea on Wednesday but at least 20 more died on the beach after mysteriously coming ashore.
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/48443/story.htm

Queen Goes Green With World's Largest Wind Turbine
ABERDEEN, Scotland - Britain's Queen Elizabeth is going green by investing in the largest wind turbine in the world, her property company the Crown Estate said on Wednesday.
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/48460/story.htm

Scientists Discover 'Frogamander' Fossil
Scoperto fossile di ranamandra
CHICAGO - The discovery of a "frogamander," a 290 million-year-old fossil that links modern frogs and salamanders, may resolve a longstanding debate about amphibian ancestry, Canadian scientists said on Wednesday.
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/48454/story.htm

SCIENZA
Scoperto fossile di ranamandra
Un team di scienziati dell'Università di Calgary ha annunciato la scoperta in Texas del fossile di un antenato comune di rane e salamandre. Risale a 290 milioni di anni fa, è stato nominato Gerobatrachus hottoni e va a colmare la lacuna di conoscenze sull'evoluziona delle diverse specie anfibie a partire da un progenitore comune. La ranamandra era stata scoperta in texas nel '95 da un team dello Smithsonian Institution ma era rimasto non identificato per anni)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080521131541.htm
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/48454/story.htm
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Two boys in a Argentina Tortured infant to death
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-05-21-toddler-death_N.htm
Two brothers, age 7 and 9, told psychiatrists they slowly, coldly
tortured a 2-year-old girl to death, a revelation that has reopened a
debate in Argentina over how to punish juvenile delinquents

Witch hunt in Kenya
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-05-21-kenya_N.htm
Officials say a mob in western Kenya has burned to death 11 people
suspected of being witches and wizards.


Kids show makes spinach look cool
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1779487,00.html
Thanks to a man from Iceland, Magnus Scheving, creator of a hit
children's show Lazy Town, kids around the world are suddenly getting
active and eating their veggies.

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Schools and universities could soon be facing a different kind of drug problem: a rise in students taking brain-enhancing pills to boost their exam results.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/22/drugs.medicalresearch?gusrc=rss&feed=science

Amsterdam Weekly has launched a fundraising campaign in which they've taken their own editorial content hostage. Readers must collaborate and pay a ransom if they want the content to be printed or else, Amsterdam Weekly will consist of blank pages. The money collected will go to charity.
http://forsale.amsterdamweekly.nl/

An Italian website is giving out T-shirts with formulae and grammar rules to help wearers pass their exams.
http://zoomata.com/?p=1273