Animals
Ape Apps: Orangutans Learn With iPads At Miami Zoo
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Science
William Reigle has fibrosis, a disease that may be aggravated by nearby fracking. He's one of more than 2 million Pennsylvanians who get their health care from Geisinger Health System. The system wants to use its extensive database of patient records to study the health impact of natural gas production.
Medical Records Could Yield Answers On Fracking
()Is fracking making people sick? The question has ignited a national debate. A proposed study in northern Pennsylvania could help resolve the issue. By mining more than 10 years' worth of patient records, researchers hope to better understand the potential impact of hydraulic fracturing on health.
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.
Research News
Why Was A Huge 'Rogue Earthquake' Not Destructive?()
May 10, 2012 The massive magnitude 8.6 earthquake in April off the coast of Indonesia was felt from Bangladesh to Australia. But it caused little damage and no major tsunami. Seismologists studying the quake say it revealed some interesting features about how the Earth's tectonic plates move.
