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So there's a problem, what are the solutions?
Tue Sep 13, 2011
- Speaking about the absence of workable solutions, I have to agree. In fact I can't even imagine how the current global culture can peacefully divert from it's present course to a path that is both economically and environmentally sustainable.
Iran's nuclear setbacks: More than just bad luck?
Sat Sep 24, 2011
- "We've been in a contest with the Iranians now for 30 years....."
Ahmadinejad: It's not too late to fix US ties
Thu Sep 22, 2011
- "Common sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring." Thoreau
Hunter dies trying save man from wounded grizzly
Sat Sep 17, 2011
- Insert... your posts are consistently petty, conceited , inflammatory and, as your latest clearly displays, irrelevant.
Hunter dies trying save man from wounded grizzly
Sat Sep 17, 2011
- Hopefully, brad, you know at least a little more about handling your weapon than you know about the hunting tactics of wolves and lions.
Americans are pissed off. It's time we help them be pissed off at the right people.
Tue Sep 20, 2011
- Thank you, Khalifa, for that outline. It provides a more plausible basis for Obama's moral crusade than anything else I've seen.
Hunter dies trying save man from wounded grizzly
Sat Sep 17, 2011
- Selfish, arrogant thinking is the sole province of neither hunters nor anti-hunters.
Americans are pissed off. It's time we help them be pissed off at the right people.
Tue Sep 20, 2011
- Oh yeah, I neglected to ask, "What was that I said about 'fair'? I can't remember."
Americans are pissed off. It's time we help them be pissed off at the right people.
Tue Sep 20, 2011
- Hiya Matt, about that ignorance of the electorate, I'd say that the nature of mainstream media and it's near total corporate domination have more than just a little to do with that. A misinformed or misdirected electorate is easily jerked around (without interruption, apparently).
Americans are pissed off. It's time we help them be pissed off at the right people.
Tue Sep 20, 2011
- Matt in MN I'm curious as to what it might be that you believe our country was founded upon.

Could World Social Unrest Come To America's Streets?

Seeded on Tue Sep 20, 2011 3:19 AM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)

Despite crippling rates of unemployment, increasing poverty, and a growing lack of confidence in their government the American people remain curiously complacent.

politics, protest, civil-unrest

Made in China: The monster dust cloud that completed a full circle of the g

Seeded on Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:02 AM EDT (the Mail online)

Scientists follow the movement of an unusually discrete dust-cloud, formed in a N China desert storm, as it circles the globe.

science, dust, gaia, meteorology

Mystery of the Missing Sunspots, Solved?

Seeded on Sun Jun 21, 2009 2:46 AM EDT (NASA - Science@NASA)

Scientists have deeper insight into the mechanics behind the current lack of sunspot activity and dismiss concerns of a prolonged solar minimum

global-warming, science, climate-change, space-research, sun-spots, solar-minimum, exogeololy

Old Japanese maps on Google Earth unveil secrets

Seeded on Tue May 5, 2009 1:06 PM EDT (USA Today)

Google pulls out some old maps, inadvertently revealing some of Japan's 'dirty linen' and catches flak for it.

history, japan, maps, pc, secrecy, social-fashion

Meet the Ancestors: DNA study pinpoints Namibia as home to worlds most ancient race

Seeded on Mon May 4, 2009 11:25 PM EDT (the Mail online)

DNA-hounds on the trail of humanity locate world's most ancient population, the San people, aboriginal hunters and gatherers living in Namibia (the home of man)

science, dna, human-origins, oldest-population

British explorers discover the light at the end of the tunnel...in the world's largest cave

Seeded on Mon May 4, 2009 10:39 PM EDT (the Mail online)

British caving team enters unexplored cave system in Vietnam----awesome pics

exploration, home-garden, caving, hidden-treasures, guardian-spirits

Swine flu? It's just like a cold,says girl, 12, who was one of six hit at same public school

Seeded on Mon May 4, 2009 10:04 PM EDT (Mail Online)

Adolescent Brit flies swine-flu home and closes down school. One victim sald it was just like a cold .

health, epidemiology, swine-fku

Is the Earth's 6th Great Extinction in Progress?

Seeded on Mon May 4, 2009 8:50 PM EDT (The Daily Galaxy)

Edmund O.

health, environment, sustainability, extinction, biodiversity

Grazing Threatens US Wildlife Habitat

Seeded on Mon May 4, 2009 6:44 PM EDT (USA Today)

Conservation group, WildEarth Guardians announces study results claiming that grazing has an increasingly destructive impact on shrinking wildlife habitat.

environment, land-use, sustainability, ranching, home-garden, wildlife-habitat

Ice Bridge holding Antarctic ice-shelf cracks up.

Seeded on Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:12 AM EDT (Reuters)

An isthmus of ice 100km wide in 1950 finally gives way at 1/2 km, exposing more ice to the effects of ocean currents.

environment, world-news, antarctic, polar-ice-loss

French Internet Piracy Law Defeated

Seeded on Mon Apr 13, 2009 1:59 AM EDT (Reuters)

French Parliament rejects music industry pressure to ban music-sharers from the internet.

religion, internet, censorship, music-industry, ex-communication

Despite Official Ban, Spyware is a Hot Seller in China

Seeded on Sat Mar 7, 2009 1:06 PM EST (USA Today)

Small, portable surveillance devices, despite an official ban, are popular items in China

security, politics, spying, law, ethics, surveillance, trust

Top 10 Most Economical Cars

Seeded on Sat Mar 7, 2009 2:47 AM EST (HubPages)

A list of the 10 most fuel economical cars---neither the Toyota Prius nor the Honda Insight are members

odd-news, fuel-efficiency, automotive-design

Enter your ATM backwards to summon police---fiction!

Seeded on Tue Mar 3, 2009 6:14 PM EST (truthorfiction.com)

What sounds like a very workable plan to foil forced ATM robberies turns out to be untrue

safety, odd-news, robbery, atm, 911

Face Recognition: Clever or just plain creepy?

Seeded on Sun Mar 1, 2009 5:02 PM EST (Technology Review)

The evolving ability of computers to screen the 'masses' on the basis of specific characteristics and to identify specific individuals, as well.

odd-news, software, surveillance, control, photo-identification, lawn-forcement

Viruses the Unsung Heroes of Evolution

Seeded on Sun Mar 1, 2009 12:37 AM EST (New Scientist)

A radical new look into the forces driving the evolutionary process.

evolution, odd-news, viruses

Biological Machines

Seeded on Sun Mar 1, 2009 12:23 AM EST (Technology Review)

Build your own cyborg beetle, all you need is about $5.00 in electro-mechanical components and a beetle. Implanted in the larval stage, the mechanical to living nervous system interface is internalized and not visible when the insect matures.

odd-news, cyborgs

Exposed: the great GM crops myth

Seeded on Sat Feb 28, 2009 12:26 AM EST (Independent.co.uk)

Despite Monsanto's assurances to the contrary, university studies consistantly show lower yields in GM crops in comparison with non-GM crops

technology, monsanto, crop-yields, gm-farming

Hacking the Planet: The Only Climate Solution Left?

Seeded on Fri Feb 27, 2009 11:57 PM EST (The New Scientist)

With a growing sense of alarm, scientists start to consider drastic measures to ameliorate the impact of global warming

technology, climate-change, global-politics, weather-modification, terra-forming

Scientists discover cloud-thickening chemicals in trees

Seeded on Mon Nov 3, 2008 4:44 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

Yet another good thing that trees do for the environment. Not only are these dudes some hard workers, they talk to one another as well.

home-garden

Chemical released by trees can help cool planet, scientists find

Seeded on Mon Nov 3, 2008 4:29 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

Still another positive thing which trees do for the environment. Not only are those dudes are some hard workers, they talk to one another. Sounds kinda Entish to me.

climate, trees, home-garden, environmental-feedback

Otto the Octopus Wreaks Havoc

Seeded on Sat Nov 1, 2008 2:38 AM EDT (Telegraph)

Another startling display of alien intelligence.

evolution, intelligence, environment, odd-news, torture, animal-rights

How to Train Your Rat Neuron-Controlled Robot

Seeded on Sat Aug 16, 2008 11:36 AM EDT (Wired News)

Researchers utilized rat-derived neural circuitry to build an programmable elementary organic control module for a simple robot.

science, ethics, obsession

Cops Enforcing Immigration Laws Bust County Budgets

Seeded on Sat Aug 16, 2008 8:05 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)

Local law enforcement efforts to control illegal immigration are not only bankrupting their local community bugetary resources but impair federal efforts to effectively address this problem.

law-enforcement, us-news, illegal-immigration, media-deception-and-propaganda