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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Sunday, July 22, 2012

22 July - iGoogle

Map showing newly formed ice island from Peter...Map showing newly formed ice island from Petermann Glacier (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Petermann Glacier, Greenland, observe...English: Petermann Glacier, Greenland, observed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on July 5, 2003 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
All Things Considered - NPR
From Juvie To J.D.: The Story Of A 'Runaway Girl'

American Water Intelligence
Willcox O&M


BBC
Norway marks killings anniversary
Norwegians are commemorating the murder of 77 people in Oslo and Utoeya one year ago, as PM Jens Stoltenberg says "the people have won".  

Wealthy 'hiding' at least $21tn

Blog of Rights - ACLU


Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
CCPA-NS 5th Annual Fundraiser: Dinner and an Evening with Armine Yalnizyan


CNET
Kodak suffers blow as patent in Apple, RIM case is ruled invalid



CNN
Paterno statue coming down
The statue of late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has become an object of contention since the child rape scandal involving former assistant...  
Martin: Don't focus on Mayer pregnancy

Carbon Farmers of Australia
Comparing methodologies - how to find which one works for you?
( Is it just me, or is 'carbon farming' an alarming concept because of implied lack of focus on food production ? Add that to the dysfunction of corporate farming, nitrogen imbalance, mineral depletion, spreading coal ash and sewage sludge solids ( biolab germ and virus warfare on the cheap ), pesticide pollution and Monsanto seed monopoly/GM antifoods and we should be worried about having anything to eat !  This before the price of fuel skyrockets - or currency collapses to the same effect. And what is the benefit of a carbon tax BTW ...  Adding instability to a world in crisis with Peak Energy waiting in the wings ? Sounds good. What was that Colony Collapse Disorder again ? Bees  dying wholesale....bats too. )


Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
Carbon Forum North America 2012
Is Global Warming Causing Wild Weather?


Circle of Blue water news
This Is What Extreme Drought Looks Like, On a Graph


Commentators
Katy Guest: There are 24 hours a day, and women get one


Common Dreams
On Superhuman Strength
If It Were Up to Me


Daily Bell
What Is the Real Reason for Doyle's Letter Blasting the IMF?



Democracy Now!
Climate Parents: For Kids' Future, Mark Hertsgaard Urges Families to Take On Global Warming
Denver Shooting Rampage Leaves 12 Dead, 50 Wounded in Latest of Unparalleled U.S. Gun Attacks


Discovery

Neil Armstrong's Longest Landing
Neil Armstrong's most impressive bit of flying might be the time he made it back to Edwards after skipping off the atmosphere in an X-15.  
Adidas To Debut World's First 'Smart Game'

EPA Radiation News
EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck and Congressmember Rodney Frelinghuysen Announce System to Treat Contaminated Ground Water at Rockaway Borough, NJ Superfund Site; Tour Six Superfund Sites in Morris and Essex Counties



EPA Water Science
2012 Beach Grants




Food and Water Watch

food consumer
Vitamin E prevents liver cancer
By David Liu, PHD Sunday July 22, 2012 (foodconsumer.org) -- Taking vitamin E supplements or eating vitamin E rich foods may help reduce risk for...  
Pertussis Epidemic — Washington, 2012


Force Change
Don’t Punish Pennsylvania Teens for “Sexting”


FreakOut Nation
Dear Mitt, here is your retroactive apology
Louie Gohmert suggests the shootings could have been avoided if the country had not lost faith in God


Guardian UK
£13tn hoard hidden from taxman by global elite
• Study estimates staggering size of offshore economy• Private banks help wealthiest to move cash into havensA global super-rich elite has...  
Aurora deals with massacre's aftermath


 Corexit-dispersed oily Gulf shore deaths continue (Gulf of Mexico ...

Hayride


Inside Facebook


Lifehacker
This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
Manage Joint Finances Using a Whiteboard [Budgeting]


LobeLog
Why the Buenos Aires bombing is a False Indicator on Burgas


memeorandum
Senior Cleric: Tehran to Target Tel-Aviv in case of Israel's Folly (Fars News Agency)
You Didn't Build That - 1 In the beginning Govt created the heavens and the earth. (iowahawk)



Steve Munro
Queen East Construction News (Updated July 21)



NPR



NRC
IV-12-028: NRC Issues Augmented Inspection Team Report on San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Steam Generators
12-084: NRC to Discuss Implementing Orders for Post-Fukushima Improvements July 27 in Rockville, MD


New Scientist
Ethanol levels in the air over US cities on the rise

News 24
Baby found wrapped in plastic bag
A baby girl has been found abandoned at the back of a new building in Zondi, Soweto.  



Obama Conspiracy Theories
Cold Case Posse video fraud: it gets worse
Birther politics: follow the money

Open Channel
Photos of James Holmes, camp counselor for underprivileged kids
NBC NewsJames Eagan Holmes, right, goofing around with an unidentified fellow counselor at Camp Max Straus in summer 2008, near Glendale, Calif.By...  


Open Secrets
Midwestern Bank PAC Funds Kochs' Americans for Prosperity
A Heartbeat Away? The Money-and-Politics Veepstakes: Dark Horse Candidates


Outlook
Rajesh Khanna (1942-2012), R.I.P.



PECAN Group
Cover-Up? FBI Theater attack warning removed


Payvand Iran News
White House Hosts Iranian-American Community Leaders for Roundtable Discussion



Pesticide Action Network
EPA sidesteps chance to protect bees
EPA tightens rules on brain toxicant

Philippines News
30 human skeletons found in Philippines
Escudero eyes ‘internal arrangement’ to solve JBC membership row


Political MoJo | Mother Jones
Politicizing Tragedy and the Aurora Theater Shooting
We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for July 20, 2012


Politics Security Secrecy
Fighting back against National Security Letters | Suburban Guerrilla
Secrecy News 07/18/12

Psychology Today
The Week's Top Reads
Making Sense of the Mommy Wars


Satellite News
NASA Expands Consideration to Poindexter family on Loss of life of Former Astronaut
Former NASA astronaut and space shuttle leader Alan "Dex" Poindexter passed away while on holiday with his family September 1 in Pensacola, Fla. An...  
2012 Research and Technology Studies Resume at JSC


Science
The perfect pop song? It's the algorithm, not the rhythm, that counts
Three-hour sex sessions with multiple partners make dumpling squid easy prey

Science Daily
U.S. experiences warm and dry June; drought expands to 56% of lower 48

Scientific American


Shaleshock Media
Wildass Roadblock and Treesit Shut Down Fracking Rig



Star Online
IPF urged to resolve internal strife to help BN win big in polls



Statesman
Two shot, wounded on Sixth Street, police say
Nation's capital is testing aggressively for HIV virus

TED
Playlist: Stories of survival from the TED2013 Talent Search



Techdirt
The Internet Wins Again! Writer Gets Rapper Pitbull 'Exiled' To Alaskan Walmart


This Week in Science
It's the Oxygens


Trend
Afghan father kills two teenage daughters who ran away
A father in a village in southern Afghanistan shot dead his two teenage daughters when they returned home four days after having run away, a police...  



USA Today
Obama to visit victims of Colorado shooting



Unexplained Mysteries



Web MD
Are E-Cigarettes Here to Stay?
Electronic cigarettes are picking up steam -- and not surprisingly -- especially among smokers.  


Weird
Water only cafe in New York criticised for its high prices
Prince Charles' 31-year-old uneaten wedding day toast sells for £230



White House
Fact Sheet: HIV/AIDS Prevention
Fact Sheet: The Global AIDS Epidemic

WhoWhatWhy
Did You Hear About the Shooting?
Syria, The Movie: Monsters and Defectors


Toronto Star - all 14595 related »
Toronto Star - all 584 related »
Globe and Mail - all 13961 related »
Promising New Treatment for Kids With Egg Allergy - ABC News
If you're allergic to eggs, a doctor has probably told you to avoid the protein. But researchers have now found that eating small amounts of egg for several months may lower the allergic reaction. The multi-center study, published in the New England ...
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Leading scientists issue research road map to an AIDS cure - CTV News
Visitors look at the new panels to the AIDS Quilt on exhibit on the Washington Mall April 29, 2000. Over twelve years later International AIDS specialists on Thursday, July 19, 2012, released what they call a road map for research towards a cure for ...
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Do you see a pattern on food files at Health Canada under Leona Aglukkaq? - Canada.com
Minister of Health Leona Aglukkaq responds to a question during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, May 16, 2012. After discovering Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq quietly killed back in 2009 a departmental ...
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Inactivity 'killing as many as smoking' - BBC News
By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News A lack of exercise is now causing as many deaths as smoking across the world, a study suggests. The report, published in the Lancet to coincide with the build-up to the Olympics, estimates that about a ...
... View related stories »
Most IV drug users get hooked after one hit: study - News1130
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - One time can get you hooked. That's why a new study is hoping to prevent youth on the Downtown Eastside from using injection drugs. The study was done by researchers at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and the Urban ...
... View related stories »
MPP wants stop to 'turbines popping up everywhere' - CBC.ca
Opponents of wind turbines cheered last week when Health Canada announced it would study the effects turbine noise may have on human health. Turbines in Essex and Chatham-Kent counties in southwestern Ontario have become a fact of life.
... View related stories »
Doctors, scientists are taking it to the streets - Victoria Times Colonist
By Tobi Cohen, Postmedia News July 21, 2012 It's not every day 2000 scientists in white lab coats march on Parliament Hill toting a coffin. Or an esteemed senior physician abruptly interrupts a cabinet minister midway through a Pan Am Games ...
... View related stories »
Calgary Walk to End Breast Cancer raises nearly $2M - CBC.ca
A group of Calgarians are walking this weekend to raise money to fi
 Daily Galaxy
Weekend Feature: The Rivers of Saturn's Titan --"A Weirdly Earth-like Place"Weekend Feature: The Rivers of Saturn's Titan --"A Weirdly Earth-like Place"
'Seeds' of Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole Discovered'Seeds' of Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole Discovered
New Singularity in Space-Time FoundNew Singularity in Space-Time Found
Image of the Day --"The Kepler 5" --NASA's Short List of Potential Habitable ExoplanetsImage of the Day --"The Kepler 5" --NASA's Short List of Potential Habitable Exoplanets
1st Known Spiral Galaxy in Universe Discovered --Billions of Years Older than Expected1st Known Spiral Galaxy in Universe Discovered --Billions of Years Older than Expected

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
For Longmont, renewable energy is a breeze -- literally
Daily Camera
In 2011, all of Longmont Power and Communications' "renewable mix" came from wind farms like Silver Sage. That's about 3.1 percent of all the energy in the system -- small, perhaps, but not insignificant. "I think it's really important to Longmont ...
Corn v. Cattle: Renewable fuels mandate taking heat during drought
Daily Republic
This week, the Nebraska Cattlemen called on the Environmental Protection Agency to grant a waiver to Renewable Fuels Standard requirements, claiming the drought is driving corn prices too high while cattle prices plummet. “We're already starting to see ...
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Renewable Energy and Climate Change
RenewableEnergyWorld.com (blog)
I learned this in a big way when I conducted interviews for my last book, “Is Renewable Really Doable?” One I will never forget occurred at the offices of the Environmental Law Institute, where I spoke with the authors of a report that looked into this ...
UK Proposes New Renewable Tariffs for Small Wind, Hydro Plans
Businessweek
The announcement brings more predictability to U.K. subsidies for small-scale renewable power after a series of cuts to curtail a surge in solar power that ministers said threatened to swamp the program's budget. Three days ago, the department delayed ...
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Human Habitat

ecology water energy
Ecology Action, Cruzio earn gold rating for green remodel downtown
San Jose Mercury News
SANTA CRUZ - A green remodel of the former Sentinel newspaper office downtown has won Leadership in Environmental and Engineering Design gold certification for co-owners Ecology Action and Cruzio. It is the third privately owned project in the county ...
Our Authors: Author explores history of ecological sciences
Journal Times
I also edited two works: Edward Lee Greene's “Landmarks Of Botanical History” (2 volumes, Stanford University Press, 1983) and “History Of American Ecology” (Arno Press, 1977). Why did you write this book? I wrote the book because it is the subject of ...
State, enviros clash over cutting refineries' greenhouse gases
The Seattle Times
The Tesoro Corporation Refinery in Anacortes. Stu Clark, head of the Department of Ecology's clean-air program, said that because the state's refineries get their power from relatively clean sources, there are few easy improvements to be made. Enlarge ...
Reuniting Economics and Ecology for a Sustainable Future
Huffington Post (blog)
Nature and people are being brutally lambasted all over the planet. Recent torrential rains forced the evacuation of 400000 Japanese citizens, and the severity of the U.S. drought, which has not only laid waste to millions of bushels of corn and ...
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Water Power

water floods pollution
Water proposal set to be revealed
TheReporter.com
FRESNO -- California Gov. Jerry Brown is set to reignite the state's water wars when he makes the long-awaited announcement this week about plans to build a massive twin tunnel system to carry water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to ...
Water problems persist in Oldsmar
Tampabay.com
OLDSMAR — For the second day, crews have spread out across Oldsmar, attempting to locate a water main break that has left much of the city with no water or very low pressure. The outage, first reported Saturday morning, closed restaurants, halted ...
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Lubbock water restrictions continue today
LubbockOnline.com
Lubbock residents on the city's water system are waking up this morning to a second day under a precautionary boil-water restriction — and a glimmer of hope that a decision could come by noon today. The restriction has been in force since early ...
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Water-bourne organism kills S. Carolina boy
NewsOK.com
In very rare instances, health experts say such infections may also occur when contaminated water from other sources, like inadequately chlorinated swimming pool water or heated tap water less than 116.6 degrees, enters the nose when people submerge ...
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