Photo via the New Republic It's a widely held notion that politicians have long been in the pocket of Big Oil. And there's good reason for that perception: oil companies' huge campaign donations, vast lobbying power, and close ties to politicians have ensured that their taxes remain low , that hidden subsidies are around to provide extra funding, and that they receive preferential treatment in US energy policy. But there could be a new, ... View original post here: The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
So there really isn't anything that deep to this image. It's just a (more or less) life-sized blue whale eye. And on the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society site you can educate yourself/be mesmerized/ waste some time for a while staring at it while the entire life-sized animal scrolls across your browser window. Believe me, it's way cooler than you might think:... Read more from the original source: Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
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My mother is always telling me that she could be a vegetarian, because she doesn't much like meat and she hates handling in before she cooks it. But I know she could never do it, because it isn't the meat that really bothers her, it's food itself. She's a picky eater and won't touch stuff like lentils and chickpeas ...
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Photo: Consumer Energy Reports A new study from the RAND Corporation claims that the US military will see no direct benefits in adopting alternative fuels -- but that benefits will "accrue to the nation as a whole", according to Science Daily . The report looked primarily at jet fuel alternatives like algal and ethanol-based fuel -- and determined that ...
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Jules Clancy , author of the website Stonesoup , cooks all of her meals using only five ingredients, not counting salt, pepper and olive oil. The recipes are clever in their simplicity and every one I've tried has tasted great. She split this recipe into two, giving the spice mix a separate recipe and fulfilling her mandate, but I've ...
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photo: Michael Cannon / Creative Commons Let's take as given the fact that raising animals for meat and dairy is a major part of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions . A new study coming out of the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology outlines one way of reining those in: A direct tax on meat and dairy. One ...
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Photo via link2lando at flickr and Creative Commons license. They are getting older, drunker, and they are also getting fatter, as this nation now drinks 70 to 80 percent more beer and wine than they did twenty years ago and has far more sedentary-making computers at home. Fifty-three percent of the men are too fat, and 37 percent of ...
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Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/young-in-panama/119624720/"> Young in Panama The ACS' science journal Langmuir has published a paper describing a breakthrough in sonochemical coating of paper by microbiocidal silver nanoparticles . We picked up on the dramatic moniker "killer paper" over at The rest is here: Killer Paper Introduces Another Application for Silver Nanoparticles
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Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch Mike Benziger and his wife Mary first discovered what was originally the Glen Ellen estate at Sonoma Mountain back in 1980. Immediately, Mike had a premonition that this is where he and his family belonged. He notes feeling that "our family was going to be successful and happy here." While the original property was already ...
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Image: Elite Fitness Here's a frustrating bit of news for the day: losing weight could be driving the toxins from fat cells (where they're stored) into your bloodstream—and making you sick.... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more from the original source: Losing Weight = Toxic?
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Image: Peter Blanchard via flickr As part of a lawsuit settlement, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service announced last week it would stop (illegally) planting genetically engineered crops on all its refuges in 12 states in the northeast, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).... Read the full story on TreeHugger More: Fish & Wildlife Service Pulls GMO Crops ...
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Photo: Kelly Rossiter My husband has a standing lunch each Friday, and when he goes out I make myself something that I know he's not so crazy about. This week it was cabbage rolls. But rather than stuffing them with ground beef as is traditional, I stuffed them with the leftover lentils and rice that I had from my ...
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This hand operated gramophone is as simple as it gets. Original post: Minimalist Gramophone Makes Playing Music Super Simple
Contrary to previously held notions of how whale songs are shared between neighboring populations, a surprising study finds that whales living the same ocean basin are singing different songs. Read the original post: Study: Humpback Whales Living in Same Ocean ...
