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Measuring What Matters
Confucius once said, “We are so busy doing the urgent that we don’t have time to do the important.” I haven’t been able to get that comment out of my mind as I watch the “Fiscal Cliff” shenanigans. Our faltering economy has been a central concern for the last several years. But the focus of […]
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Drinking a lot of diet soda is linked to depression
Here's another excuse to stay the hell away from diet soda.
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Who Should Pay the Costs of Climate Disasters?
By David Morris, Institute for Local Self-Reliance Who should pay the costs of climate disasters? In light of the current debate in the United States about federal assistance to Hurricane Sandy victims and the recent debate at the recent Doha Climate Conference about international assistance for climate change victims, that has become an increasingly pressing […]
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Chocolate syrup made by, from, and for assholes
Here, we present the only food product we have ever encountered that needs to just GET OVER itself
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This map of the London Tube is also a working radio
It's not a coincidence that this is possible. The guy who designed the original tube map had studied electronics engineering and purposely drew the map in the mode of a circuit board.
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This is what it looks like to get caught in a dolphin stampede
Are they having a race? Did they see a shark? Are they running away from Vogons?
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Who will serve on Obama’s second-term green team?
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire could head up EPA. L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa could become transportation secretary. Who else? Find out.
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U.S. coal continues its slow fade to black
Production is down 9 percent from 2011. And coal folks are not particularly optimistic about next year either.
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Oil spill art project makes oil seem to flow uphill
Matt Kenyon's art installation seems to defy gravity.
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Scientists make LEDs 55 percent more efficient by copying from fireflies
Turns out, fireflies and LEDs have to overcome a similar problem.
