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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Screen capture via YouTube Potholes are ugly, irksome, and often dangerous, but sometimes it seems that no amount complaining ever really helps to get them filled. So, with that in mind, a group of forward thinking Brazilians have decided to make lemonade with all those lemons -- by gathering up their woods and irons to play a bit of ...
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Photo Credit: Emma Alter I've made a lot of biscuits in my time, and I think this is the nicest recipe I've used. The biscuits rose beautifully, were light and fluffy and had a terrific flavour. They were very easy to make. It all went into the mixer, a little bit of kneading, cutting them out and into the ...
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This video put a big fat smile on my face--pun fully intended. As part of First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign , Beyonce busted a move with students at a New York City public school, surprising them during their dance routine to the saucy singer's song "Move Your Body," a reworking of her hit "Get Me Bodied."... Read ...
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Photo: Mike Baird via Flickr /CC BY I reported yesterday that there's a major push from the GOP to vastly expand offshore drilling and to loosen regulations to boot -- they have, evidently learned zilch from last year's catastrophic disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. But they're persisting -- they falsely claim that rising gas prices could be alleviated ...
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Photo credit: World Economic Forum via Flickr /CC BY-SA Bill Gates is keen on the notion that we can invent our way out of climate change . This isn't such a terrible thing, and there are many others who more or less push for this approach -- that is, focusing on dumping huge sums of cash into research and ...
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Photo: Andy M¢ / cc In the forests of Italy's Abruzzo National Park live one of the rarest creatures on Earth: the Marsican brown bear. For the last several decades the species has been on the brink of extinction -- with current estimates putting their population at less than 50 individuals, down from over 100 in the early 1980s. ...
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Excerpt from portrait of Donald Trump speaking at CPAC in Washington D.C. on February 10, 2011. Image credit, Wikipedia , George Skidmore Republican political strategy. bypassing the the failed 'birther' tactic, is likely to move to ' what you going to do about high gas prices? '. That, naturally, involves attacking EPA generally, resurgent "drill baby drill" chants, demanding ...
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Asian carp, meet your worst nightmare. Not poison. Not an electric barrier, or a predator from your native land. No, this is good ol' American ingenuity. With a touch of Ted Nugent , or maybe Chuck Norris . People dressed in spiked body armor with Wolverine -style claws and samurai swords are taking to the Illinois River to battle Asian ...
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photo: escher_47 / Creative Commons There's been a lot written lately about more and more people in high places recognizing peak oil isn't just something cranky ex-petroleum geologists and environmentalists reading too much Jared Diamond go on about. In fact both those groups have probably been right all along about peak oil, and it increasingly looks like we are ...
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Dave Roberts writes over at Grist : "We are not going to solve climate change. That's not pessimism -- it's just not the kind of thing that can be "solved." It's already underway." So, he suggests we figure out how to 'manage it' -- via a combination of mitigation, adaptation, and suffering. And then he puts together a pretty ...
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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 ...
