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Polly Want a Chainsaw? Lyrebird Imitates Jackhammer, Drill, Other Tools
By Matthew Hall - AOL NewsBird keepers at the Adelaide Zoo in Australia are eagerly awaiting breeding season to hear what new calls the zoo's resident lyrebird has learned. Known as Chook, the zoo's lyrebird is an expert mimic and has previously heard and copied construction sounds, including hammers, drills, two-way radios and chainsaws, as well as traffic noises and the clicks of tourist cameras. In an amazing video, Chook is seen expertly mimicking the kookaburra, an Australian bird known for its laughing call, adding to a repertoire that he hopes will attract a mate. "Chook is going well and is just starting ...
From Houses on Sticks to Cabins on Wheels: The Wide World of Tiny Living
By Dave Thier - AOL NewsForget walk-in closets, indoor pools and multiple dens. In the world of the great recession, it's the little things that are making the biggest splash in the housing market. Tiny housing is going through a renaissance, and for many architectural experimenters, whether it's a 65-square-foot cabin loaded onto a trailer, an ultra-efficient cube or a repurposed shipping container, small is beautiful. Many tiny living units are simple, practical attempts at maximizing efficiency in housing, from small cabins in the country to city apartments that do their best not to feel cramped. Other projects ...
Halliburton Defends Its Cement Job on BP's Well
By Laura Parker - AOL News
(Oct. 29) -- Halliburton Co. conceded today it did not test the stability of the final cement mixture used to seal BP's Macondo well, but it disputed an assertion by the presidential commission that the cement gave way and set off a sequence of events that caused the catastrophic blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. "Halliburton does not believe that the foam cement design used on the Macondo well was the cause of the incident," the company said in a four-page statement. Win McNamee, Getty Images Steven Newman, president and CEO of Transocean, left; Lamar McKay, president and chairman of BP ...
Caterpillar Delays Bulldozer Shipments to Israel During Rachel Corrie Trial
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 26) -- Caterpillar, the Illinois-headquartered construction and farming equipment company, has said it will delay shipments of D9 bulldozers to Israel during the Rachel Corrie trial. Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist from Washington state, was killed by an Israeli Defense Forces soldier who ran over her while driving a D9 to demolish a Palestinian home in Gaza in 2003. Her family is suing Israel, and Corrie has become an iconic figure in pro-Palestinian circles. (One of the boats in the aid flotilla bound for Gaza that Israeli troops stormed this summer, killing nine, was named for ...
Opinion: White House Goes Solar; What About the Rest of Us?
By not in system - AOL News(Oct. 11) -- The commitment from the White House to go solar by the spring of 2011 is a significant statement that is fueling conversation around a much larger problem. Beyond the soon-to-be-installed solar panels at the White House -- which will heat water and provide electricity to the executive mansion -- lies a planet of aging commercial buildings. These buildings could form the vanguard of a sustainable, greener way of life if their owners took similar incremental approaches. The HVAC system, the lights, the water, the elevators, the power and cooling for technology, the heating and ...
Obama's Economic Message: We Can't Hear You
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyOn Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released September's Employment Situation Summary -- the latest stats on American employment (and unemployment), and the last such data before the November elections. The results? Unemployment is stuck at 9.6 percent and the country lost 95,000 jobs. In what has become a monthly exercise in seeing the glass half full or half empty, the White House will defend its steps to rescue the economy and create jobs, while the GOP will use the very same figures to show just how far the country has been run off course. In the days before last month's jobs stats ...
Study: Americans Think Small for Energy Savings
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Aug. 17) -- As "going green" has shifted from being an obscure term to a mainstream concept, more and more Americans are becoming concerned about saving energy. But according to a recent survey, many of them have no idea how to go about it in the best way. A survey conducted by Columbia University and published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that more than 40 percent of Americans think the best way to save energy is through small behavioral changes -- turning out lights, raising the thermostat on the AC and driving less. But while small changes do ...
Construction Spending Shows Biggest Jump in a Decade
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyTwo reports released Tuesday brought good news for the U.S. economy, as construction spending saw the biggest jump in nearly a decade and the manufacturing sector grew for the tenth straight month. The Commerce Department said industry spending across all sectors of construction increased 2.7 percent in April, the largest increase in almost ten years, The Associated Press reported. Residential construction saw a 4.4 percent surge, thanks mostly to the federal home-buyer tax credit that expired at the end of April. Also Tuesday, a major trade group of purchasing executives said its ...
New Home Construction Surge in April Linked to Tax Credit
By David Sessions - Politics DailyNew home construction rose significantly last month, increasing 40.9 percent from April 2009, CNN Money reports. According to seasonally adjusted numbers from the Commerce Department, housing starts increased to an annual rate of 672,000 homes in April -- nearly 20,000 more than economists had predicted. Construction of single-family homes, a key sector of the housing market, rose 10.2 percent over the month to an annual rate of 593,000. Economists said the upswing was likely a response to a tax credit for first-time home buyers that expired April 30. Congress had extended the $8,000 credit ...
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