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How Can Insurance Companies Help Halt Climate Change?

Image credit: Forum for the Future Insurance isn’t the first industry people think about when talking about business and climate change. Yet from moving to pay-as-you-drive car insurance , to discounting LEED-certified buildings , we have already seen a number of ways that insurance companies can reward sustainable practices. Given the likelihood of

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Quantum Dot Displays May Trump OLEDs for Most Awesome TV Screens

Image via Engadget Everyone talks about OLED displays as one day being the thing to beat for TVs, since OLED technology offers incredibly vivid colors with increasingly less electricity consumption. LG has already utilized the display technology in a couple television models , though they cost and arm and a leg. Now the company has moved on to explore another option – QLEDs. They could be even more crisp with even lower energy requirements. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Architects Building Small Refuges in Small Spaces

Images by B. Alter: Studio Mumbai Architects, In-Between Architecture Architects love models and floor plans and drawings of their buildings, but most members of the public do not. They are too hard for the average person to visualize. In a delightful switch, the Victoria & Albert Museum invited seven architects to construct small buildings amidst the displays in the museum. The V&A is a wonderful old Victorian museum with treasures in every nook and cranny. Called 1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces , the architects have squeezed their little buildings in amon… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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SAGpocalypse Now: All Hope is Lost [Hollywood Strikewatch]

Let’s hope James Cameron’s Thespbot 2000 technology works, because from the looks of how things are progressing on the SAG deal front, the sun could be setting on the Age of the Human Hollywood Actor. More

‘Project Runway’ Displays Anticipated Final Looks By Quiet Waif, The Villain, And Fab Gay [Project Runway]

Though the new season of Project Runway hasn’t aired yet ( thanks, Weinsteins! ), the show was forced to present its mysterious final collections today at Fashion Week, regardless. What kind of catchphrase-spouting designers should we expect? More

Eerie Brittany Murphy DVD Cover Nixed

In an ironic and tragic example of life imitating art, the late Brittany Murphy’s character in the horror film Deadline appears lying lifeless in her bathtub. The actress’ sudden death on Sunday, when she was found in the bathroom and could not be revived, sent the DVD rental company Redbox scrambling

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Golf, in a Bra

This Japanese bra-bustier thing unfurls into a golfing mat and comes with an attached golf ball so you can play golf anytime, anywhere! If you're going to wear something uncomfortable, may as well make it double as something useful. Click through to see more double-tasking bras. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment