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Why don't we "fix" things anymore?
Sat Sep 25, 2010 2:36 PM EDT
America is a wasteful country. There is no doubt about it. Though I try to do my best to help the environment, I must admit to being guilty of throwing away things which not too many years ago, we would have just fixed.
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FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S.510)
Seeded on Mon Sep 6, 2010 12:07 AM EDT (OpenCongress.org)
Proposed Senate bill S.510, known as the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act is definitely for real. Forward news about this P.O.S. far and wide. Hell, scream it from the rooftops.
School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home
Seeded on Thu Feb 18, 2010 5:12 AM EST (Boing Boing)
According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools' administrators, who have used this facility to spy on stu …
The Arts Are Global XII-From Seattle, The Continuing Perils & Adventures of Abney Park, Post-Apocalyptic Nostalgic Steam-Punk Band.
Sun Jan 31, 2010 7:41 PM EST
The Band I'm introducing this week is Abney Park.
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Womens groups urge CBS to drop divisive Super Bowl ad
Seeded on Tue Jan 26, 2010 8:20 PM EST (Fox Sports)
A national coalition of women's groups called on CBS on Monday to scrap its plan to broadcast an ad during the Super Bowl featuring college football star Tim Tebow and his mother, which critics say is likely to convey an anti-abortion message
Females may harbor biological "inner male"
Seeded on Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:17 PM EST (World Science)
In adult female mice, switching off one gene seems to start turning the ovaries into testicles and triggers the production of male hormones at normal male levels, scientists say.
The Physics of Space Battles
Seeded on Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:19 AM EST (The New York Times)
For the same reason that we have Space Shuttle launch delays, we'll be able to tell exactly what trajectories our enemies could take between planets: the launch window.
A Traditional Christmas Tradition (The Seventh Funny Day Of Christmas)
Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:50 PM EST
So it used to be that every year I published a Christmas Booze Advisory and then the opportunity came up to write for the Funny Days of Christmas series and I thought I could knock out an article much in the same style as last year.
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Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures
Seeded on Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:31 AM EST (myfoxdc.com)
CHARLESTON, WV - A freelance photographer is outraged after being arrested for taking pictures.
Scientists Discover Fossils of Feathered Dinosaur with Four Wings
Seeded on Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:23 PM EDT (io9)
A dinosaur that lived between 160 and 151 million years ago could be the missing link between birds and dinosaurs. Scientists in Beijing announced yesterday that a four-winged creature called Anchiornis huxleyi could finally prove birds are descended from dinosaurs.
Is the Internet melting our brains?
Seeded on Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:26 PM EDT (Salon.com)
By now the arguments are familiar: Facebook is ruining our social relationships; Google is making us dumber; texting is destroying the English language as we know it.
Got a dream but no cash? The Internet can help | Reuters
Seeded on Sun Sep 6, 2009 11:16 PM EDT (Reuters)
Chris Waddell wants to climb Kilimanjaro in a wheelchair; George Del Barrio wants to make a film in Cambodia; Jeff Edwards wants to write a book about a science fiction writer: they want you to fund their dreams.
I Am A Self-Reliant American Conservative
Sat Aug 15, 2009 2:39 PM EDT
Note: This is a variation on a piece that has been passed around the internet in a variety of forms, most recently at DailyKos.com.
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20,000 Nations Above the Sea: Is floating the last, best hope for liberty?
Seeded on Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:21 PM EDT (Reason Magazine)
What if you could just move—not just you, but everything you own, including your home, and, if your neighbors agreed with you, your whole community? What if you could move all of it where no government would bother you at all, and you could make a new, better society?
Seven Deadly Wine Glasses
Seeded on Sat Aug 1, 2009 6:50 AM EDT (Toxel.com)
Kacper Hamilton has designed a series of seven wine glasses inspired by the seven deadly sins.
Harvard Physicist Turns Light Into Matter.... And Back Into Light
Seeded on Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:16 AM EDT (news.harvard.edu)
Now Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics, Hau has done it again. She and her team made a light pulse disappear from one cold cloud then retrieved it from another cloud nearby. In the process, light was converted into matter then back into light.
Does Social Networking Breed Social Division?
Seeded on Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:56 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Is the social media revolution bringing us together? Or is it perpetuating divisions by race and class?
Forget about whether the new Disney princess is black or white. The problem is with princesses. Period.
Seeded on Mon Jun 8, 2009 10:53 AM EDT (theroot.com)
Tiana's creation has been lauded as a milestone. She is a first in a long succession of Disney princesses, which began more than 70 years ago. The toys she inspires will acknowledge the beauty of young black women as children of all colors identify with Tiana.
A Proper Coffee Cup
Tue Jun 2, 2009 3:59 AM EDT
There's something rather sacred about a coffee cup, its loyal, it's low maintenance and it holds coffee. It takes a long time to find the right cup for you, holding enough for you to drink, but not so much it gets cold before you need a refill.
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Physicists Take First Steps to Harness Antimatter
Seeded on Wed May 13, 2009 12:28 PM EDT (US News & World Report)
"This morning, NASA successfully launched the world's first gamma ray shuttle to the galactic center of the Milky Way. Once there, geo-astronauts say they can mine and harvest enough raw antimatter to power Earth's energy needs for the next decade.
Is time an illusion?
Seeded on Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:20 PM EDT (NewScientist)
Time. There is nothing with which we are so familiar, and yet when you try to pin it down you find only a relentless torrent of questions.
Wolfman lives off the land
Seeded on Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:27 PM EDT (The Sun Newspaper Online)
A WOLFMAN has been living wild in woods for years – evading capture by cops. The loner has a series of lairs in dense woodland in deepest West Wales and lives off berries, rabbits and other wild animals.
Octo Mom Goes Octo Mill
Mon Apr 13, 2009 2:02 PM EDT
It's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's Octo Mom! Octo Mom, sounds like a character from the Fantastic Four doesn't it? Well before you laugh or shake your head, this woman is brilliant, yes, I said brilliant. She played all of you and us right into her dollar greedy hands.
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Cybersecurity Act would give president power to 'shut down' Internet
Seeded on Mon Apr 13, 2009 1:51 PM EDT (Raw Story)
A recently proposed but little-noticed Senate bill would allow the federal government to shut down the Internet in times of declared emergency, and enables unprecedented federal oversight of private network administration.
Everything You Need To Know About St. Patrick
Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:51 PM EDT
If you're a student of culture, a number of things have likely piqued your curiosity; like why so many modern people get drunk about ancient religous stuff.
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