published August 12, 2010 and has No Comments
Disaster strikes as massive quantities of oil reach their intended destination. The Onion Yes, the Onion, America's finest news source, is consistently hilarious. But even it is rarely this biting, this trenchant -- and this right on. Check out its lead story today , about the massive disaster that occurred when a huge oil tanker didn 't crash, and ...
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published August 7, 2010 and has No Comments
Image via: Richard Perry/ The New York Times People think to do yoga you have to be flexible. But the flexibility is not in the body. It's in the mind. That's why anyone can do it. Amen! As an expert stepping ever more deeply into the often misrepresented world of yoga (what? you can't wrap your ankle around your ...
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published July 6, 2010 and has No Comments
There will certainly be no more of this -- A journalist diving into the Gulf spill. Photo via AL There's been much discussion over how BP has been obstructing media coverage of the Gulf spill, and rightly so. Thus far, impediments to coverage have involved the Coast Guard cooperating with BP to turn reporters away, and simply barring journalists' ...
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published May 6, 2010 and has No Comments
Image from Policy Diffusion Today is Election Day in the U.K. and the race is on. Betting on the election is legal here and the bookies are giving the best odds on the Conservatives winning. No one else is sure what is happening; it will be a dash to the finish, with the great undecided voters making the difference. ...
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published May 5, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via the Age Yesterday, Tom Zeller Jr. and John Broder wrote a piece of news analysis that ran on the front page of the New York Times, suggesting that many of the fears surrounding the gulf oil crisis were overblown . The article aggravated many in the conservation community, because it was hung up on questions of just ...
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published May 5, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via the Age Yesterday, Tom Zeller Jr. and John Broder wrote a piece of news analysis that ran on the front page of the New York Times, suggesting that many of the fears surrounding the gulf oil crisis were overblown . The article aggravated many in the conservation community, because it was hung up on questions of just ...
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published March 25, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via Infrogmation Magazines and newspapers have been in their death throes for years now , and it seems like the iPad is not only the final stake in their heart, but also the very thing giving them the launch they need to rise from the dead in a new digital body. However, the pricing of the new format ...
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published March 15, 2010 and has No Comments
Image via NBC And Really Cover It? Over the last few years, the mainstream media seemed to tire of covering advances in climate science in any real depth. Instead, it turned to the admittedly more dramatic non-scandals du jour, easily debunked memes (the snow-in-winter-so-climate-change-is-false being particularly eye roll-worthy), and interviewing climate skeptics. It all seemed to serve to craft ...
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published February 9, 2010 and has No Comments
Image via Climate Progress I think for the most part, the New York Times is still the most reliable source for breaking news and good information out there. But they have been seeming to slip in their coverage of climate change--for instance, they ran a story on the front page today crying U.N. Climate Panel and Chief Face Credibility ...
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published November 5, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via Business Week The green blogosphere has been alight with the startling news of the latest hit job on Al Gore. Startling news of a hit job on Al Gore? What is this, 1999? Gore, and the many people who appreciate the good work he's done have gotten used to deflecting baseless attacks from political opponents, the fossil ...
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