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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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Virginia politician’s job isn’t to worry about Virginia’s future environment
"I can't ban something because of something that might happen 500 or 1,000 years from now," says dummy.
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America’s oil imports to hit 25-year low by 2014
Thanks to our domestic oil boom, "petroleum engineer" has become one of the hottest jobs in the country.
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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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It’s official: 2012 was the warmest year on record for the U.S.
Last year was a full degree warmer than the next-warmest year of 1998.
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Rupert Murdoch still stupid about climate, now thinks pollution is good for trees
Rupert Murdoch gets his climate change info from a dickhead and then tweets it like it's true.
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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?
