August 2010
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July 2010
154 posts
Study: Climate change 'undeniable' →
(FT) — International scientists have injected fresh evidence into the debate over global warming, saying that climate change is “undeniable” and shows clear signs of “human fingerprints” in the first major piece of research since the “Climategate” controversy.
The research, headed by the US National Oceans and Atmospheric Administration, is based on new data not available for the UN’s...
EPA Whistleblower: BP Used Toxic Chemical Linked... →
(via ryking)
Coroner Calls Death of Mississippi Man Homicide,... →
abbyjean: Jermaine Williams, a 30-year-old African-American man from Bolivar County, MS, died in police custody on July 23, 2010. Little has been released about the circumstances of his death—except that the local deputy coroner is calling it a homicide by taser. On Saturday, Bolivar County Deputy Coroner J.O. Trice said he considered the death of Williams a homicide and attributed it solely to...
Wetlands Front Group Funded By Big Oil Wants To... →
A group of oil companies including BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, Citgo, Chevron and other polluters are using a front group called “America’s WETLAND Foundation” and a Louisiana women’s group called Women of the Storm to spread the message that U.S. taxpayers should pay for the damage caused by BP to Gulf Coast wetlands, and that the reckless offshore oil industry should continue drilling for the...
“For the better part of the past year, Republicans have tried to come up with a...”
– The Tea Party Contract on America
FYI, this was put together by the Democrats — who IMHO don’t have much to pat themselves for these days other than not being as despicable as the Republicans and their cohorts in the Teabagger Party.
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WatchThe Gulf oil spill dwarfs comprehension, but we know this much: it’s bad. Carl Safina scrapes out the facts in this blood-boiling cross-examination, arguing that the consequences will stretch far beyond the Gulf — and many so-called solutions are making the situation worse.
Carl Safina: The oil spill’s unseen culprits, victims
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Pantry Raid: Vegan doesn't necessarily mean... →
caraobrien: Disclaimer: I’m not anti-vegan, so don’t start sending me hate mail. There are just some nutritional points made in this article that I think are important to consider when choosing what vegan foods you’re consuming.
Finance's Next Opportunity: Social Investing
taitran: The transaction costs of government and foundation grant-making now run 20% to 45%
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/03/finances_next_big_opportunity.html
2.8gb torrent of 100 million facebook pages →
braincraft: Bowes’ directory contains 171 million entries, relating to more than 100 million individual users - more than one in five of Facebook’s recently trumpeted half billion user base.
The file contains user account names and a URL for each user’s profile page, from which details such as addresses, dates of birth or phone numbers can be accessed. Accessing a user’s page from the list ...
Watch1700% Project: Mistaken for Muslim By Anida Yoeu Ali
Really interesting video. I was supposed to be in it, but the scheduling didn’t work (but now I see I can recognize more than half of the people in the video…blah). The video is a finalist for the One Chicago, One Nation Online Film Compeitition.
Synopsis: In this video, narratives collide with music, poetry and politics to create a...
Credit Cards Take From Poor, Give to the Rich -... →
A new paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston says merchant fees and reward programs offered by many credit-card issuers essentially take money from those who have the least and give it to those who have the most. The imbalance may have to be remedied via government intervention, the authors, Scott Schuh, Oz Shy and Joana Stavins, argued. The paper was published as part of the bank’s Public...
U.S. military can't account for $8.7 billion (96%)... →
via ryking:highsee:ryking
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Climate Change May Mean More Mexican Immigration →
Climate change’s impacts on crop yields may force as many as seven million Mexicans to emigrate to the U.S. over the next 70 years, according to research published July 26 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study is among the first to attempt to put hard numbers on questions about “environmental refugees” that may be caused by climate change.
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Watchryking: BP is buying the silence of University science departments in order to prevent them from exposing the damage done to the Gulf.
“Just to show you how naïve I am: When I first heard about the plan to build a...”
– Robert Wright via azspot
Forget Brainstorming →
Brainstorming in a group became popular in 1953 with the publication of a business book, Applied Imagination. But it’s been proven not to work since 1958, when Yale researchers found that the technique actually reduced a team’s creative output: the same number of people generate more and better ideas separately than together.
None of us are as dumb as all of us. via @fritinancy:...
India develops $35 touch-screen 'laptop' for... →
Linux-based, solar powered, and touch-screen operation? shiet, this is snazzier than my current laptop.
via afghanipoppy:mohamedn
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“Michael Dell attended Memorial High School in Houston, selling subscriptions to...”
– Wikipedia on Michael Dell
Apple: The New World Leader in Software Insecurity →
infoneer-pulse: Apple has displaced Oracle as the company with the most security vulnerabilities in its software, according to security company Secunia.
Over the first half of 2010, Apple had more reported flaws than any other vendor. Microsoft retains its third-place spot. Secunia has tracked security vulnerabilities and issues advisories since 2002, producing periodic reports on the state of...
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Death Threat: The Widening Gyre by Alan Grayson... →
One day, a Republican operative offers $100 to anyone who’ll punch me in the nose.
The next day, I get a death threat.
After Fox News spewed its usual clownish hatred about me yesterday, my office received a call. The caller told our receptionist - a young intern - that “10 people are going to kill the Congressman within 24 hours.” We gave the information to the Capitol Police; they are ...
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