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What Happens When Summer's Predicted Big... →
I fear that the story of the Deepwater Horizon is still only in the second act. As if Gulf residents need anything else to be worried about at the moment, the National Oceanic + Atmospheric Admn announced yesterday that this hurricane season (which officially starts next Tuesday) is likely to be “active to extremely active,” comparing it to the 2005 season that produced...
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This world is a strange madhouse. Currently, every coachman and every waiter is...
– Albert Einstein, 1920
Joss Garman has an excellent post comparing the campaign against relativity a century ago with the campaign against the science of climate change today:
At a time when The Guardian just reported another poll showing a drop in concern about climate change, and a New York...
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Foreign Policy: We're All Swedes Now →
With the U.S. release this week of the final installment of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy + +, the English-speaking world is again given a chance to indulge in a view of Scandinavia that is entirely dystopian. In Larsson’s Sweden, the police are useless where they are not corrupt; the countryside is full of violent drug dealers; the rich are utterly unprincipled. This is no...
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Carville lists a few things Obama could have done about the oil spill: “We’re about to die down here.” (starts at 2:10)
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Forecast: dark, damp and dangerous
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Exactly a century after rumors of his death turned out to be entirely accurate,...
– After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all (via wreckandsalvage)
“He left behind 5,000 unedited pages of memoirs when he died in 1910, together with handwritten notes saying that he did not want them to hit bookshops for at least a century. That milestone has...
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Some of you may have noticed that I no longer have a facebook page and that my...
– Louis C.K. (via schlomo: soupsoup)
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