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When we think of urban expansion in the 21st century, we often think of ‘sprawl’, a term that calls to mind low-density, car-oriented suburban growth, perhaps made up of single-family homes.

Past studies have suggested that historically, cities around the world are becoming less dense as they grow, which has prompted worries about the environmental impacts of excess land consumption and automobile dependency.

A widely cited rule of thumb is that as the population of a city doubles, its built area triples. But our new study on urban expansion in East Asia has yielded some surprising findings that are making us rethink this assumption of declining urban densities everywhere.

Read this interesting article from Sustainable Cities and link to the full report HERE

The microbiologists continuously exploring camel milk for its unique antimicrobial characteristics. They revealed that camel milk’s (CM) antimicrobial attributes are more important than other multi-dimensional benefits especially in scenario as scientists has warned about the future threat of superbug1.  Scientists and health officials have been warning us about antibiotic overuse and drug-resistant “superbugs” for a long time. Antibiotics kill bacteria that cause infection but in the process they can also kill good bacteria (the human body hosts about 100 trillion). This phenomenon is developing towards a complicated two pronged dilemma, i.e. resistance of harmful bacteria to antibiotics and vanishing the good bacteria. The scientists has warned that million of people will be killed by the superbug in the years to come.

Drug Resistant Bacteria Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

With courtesy of CNN

Camel milk fortified with natural antibiotics (lactoferrin, lactic acid bacteria and others)2 with symbiotic affect to the good bacteria…

Addenda:

Reader Amy wins the Geek Prize for taking a photo of the right time on Pi Day—to the second.  You won’t see this for another 100 years:

And Melissa Chen posted this highly creative Pi Day Act on Facebook:

Finally, a tw**t from Neil deGrasse Tyson:

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Pi Day means that today’s date (in American usage) is 3/14/15, which is pi to five digits. This won’t happen again for a century. Sadly, I missed by about 30 minutes putting up this post at a time with three more digits that are accurate:

3/14/15 9:26

I’m a bad person.

To make up for that, here’s a teenager reciting the first 100 digits of pi, balancing a book on her head, and solving a Rubik’s cube. This is what we call a “polymath”:

and here’s a 10-year-old reciting 370 digits of pi.

Be sure to mark the day this way (Make mine the Hoosier…