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08/29/08 // Link:
Gas Goes Up, People Stop Driving. Jerry Brown was Right. From November to June, American driving dropped by 53.2 billion miles. Think about that. 53.2 billion fewer miles. That’s crazy. And kinda cool. Gasoline prices, which rose to a nationwide average of $4.11 a gallon last month, now average $3.69 …continue reading »
02/28/08 // Link:
Fuel Efficiency: The Opel T1 Got 377mpg in 1973 Stick that in your hybrid and smoke it. I looked into hybrids a bit and realized the gas mileage isn’t much better than traditional engines, the key to hybrid’s success is, to my mind, best explained by the sense of …continue reading »
02/20/08 // Link:
Tom Coates on the One Laptop Per Child Project By far the best piece of writing on the One Laptop Per Child project that I’ve run across (my own included). I’ve been following this project for over a year now (partly because of my job at Wired, but also …continue reading »
01/09/08 // Link:
Dengue Fever Threatens Continental US This is never what you want to hear: According to Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and his senior scientific adviser, Dr David Morens, cases of dengue have already been reported in Texas, …continue reading »
09/23/07 // Link:
Life Before Air Conditioning Having spent the seven of the last ten years in the American south, where summer is a sweltering miserable nightmare, I’ve given quite a lot of thought to heat, air-conditioning and the impacts both have had on the local culture. …continue reading »
08/14/07 // Link:
Ancient Forest Found in Hungary From the BBC: “An ancient forest of cypress trees, estimated to be eight million years old, has been discovered in Hungary. “Archaeologists found the 16 preserved trunks in an open cast coal mine in the north-eastern city of Bukkabrany. “The …continue reading »
08/03/07 // Link:
10 of the Best Natural Phenomena Very cool list with a number of things I was not familiar with including something called gravity waves, which are described thusly: “In a gravity wave, the upward moving region is the most favorable region for cloud development and the …continue reading »
07/27/07 // Link:
Sao Paulo: The City That Said No To Advertising This sounds too good to be 1, but apparently Sao Paulo Brazil banned all forms of advertising within the city limits. That’s gotta scare the crap out of Google, but it sounds great to me. “A city stripped of advertising. …continue reading »
05/30/07 // Link:
Our Oceans Are Turning Into Plastic… Are We? I first heard of Trash island from my uncle who’s a bit of a sailor and have subsequently discovered that not many people realize there is a pile of trash in the middle of the pacific that’s twice the size …continue reading »
05/24/07 // Link:
As a Carbon ‘Sink,’ Southern Ocean May be Plugged The ocean seems to be coming up a lot lately in the news, which is worrisome because the news only covers things like the ocean when they get so bad no one can ignore them anymore. Or when they smell …continue reading »
05/24/07 // Link:
New Grub Street Interesting look at the debate over whether or not Whole Foods is any better than any other grocery store. Probably not, based on my experiences, but it does cost a hell of a lot more, so if you equate money …continue reading »
05/17/07 // Link:
New Hummingbird Already In Peril Scientists in Colombia have discovered a new species of hummingbird: “A newfound denizen in Colombia’s forest, but its future may be choked by the slashing and burning of trees by coca farmers, researchers said. The gorgeted puffleg, a rare hummingbird …continue reading »
02/01/07 // Link:
Kiruna: The Town That Moved This January, Sweden’s northernmost town of Kiruna, 145 kilometres into the Artic Circle has decided to move itself 4km in order to save itself from sinking into cracks created by the worlds largest iron ore mine. Kiruna grew thanks to …continue reading »
10/17/06 // Link:
Boing Boing: Googleplex goes solar “Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA will soon become America’s largest solar electric installation on a single corporate site, and one of the largest such projects in the world.”continue reading »
08/17/06 // Link:
China typhoon death toll hits 163 - Aug 13, 2006 “China’s death toll from Typhoon Saomai rose Sunday to 134, with 163 people missing, as authorities said some victims were evacuees who died when buildings used as shelters collapsed in the strongest storm to hit China in more than five …continue reading »

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