My unfortunate schedule this week has kept me from commenting on this before, but at 8pm tonight, wherever you are, please consider turning your lights off for Earth Hour.
This Australia-organized event is intended to draw attention to the massive amount of fossil fuels we consume to maintain our electric lifestyle, and how much of it [...]

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“The tiger was acting as a normal tiger does.”

I’ve waited a long time to post on this until more of the details had come out. However, as CNN.com reported this morning, Kulbir and Amritpal “Paul” Dhaliwal have begun the legal process to sue the city of San Francisco over the Christmas-day tiger attacks [...]

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The author has now left the building.
Sorry for the totally off-topic post here, but it can’t hurt to chime in with some personal news once in a while - especially when it affects the state of the site!
My senior thesis is finally, begrudgingly submitted - that little bugger just didn’t want to go! In all [...]

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The following is a guest post from Rob Myles, member of the Matsunami Board of Education and a contributor at Cracked.com
 
A long time ago, as these stories often begin, man cut his moorings with the earth and travelled the skies. Some time later, those fortunate few were chosen to pioneer the vastness that lay outside [...]

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“A Florida official said the woman died when she hit her head on the boat deck.”
Dear CNN,
I told you so.
- Science Says
From CNN.com:
The accident happened off the coast of Marathon Key, in the Florida Keys about an hour’s drive south of Miami. The woman, who was with her husband and children, was [...]

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This, ladies and gentlemen, truly is the future.
If you’re like me, you’ve kept a close eye on alternative-energy cars over the years, chuckling at the advent of “hybrid” SUVs and watching, stunned but pleasantly surprised, as the Prius’ sales and profile spiked through the roof.
Then again, you’ve also been wondering when this sort of car [...]

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Sorry that thing have been quiet around here lately - I’ve been embroiled in an epic battle with the final research paper of my college career, and needless to say, it’s a doozy. Many sleepless nights (I try not to sleep too much during the day either) later, I’m getting pretty darn  close to finishing [...]

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Brendan Koerner from Slate.com has got a great article up about the environmental economics of beer, in light of the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day, commonly associated with the drink. (and green-colored beer at that) The irony of that is that many common beers have enormous carbon footprints, based mainly on the containers that [...]

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Yahoo has got a new Buzz article up about all the baby seals that will die this season as a result of global warming. The World Wildlife Fund is reporting out of Germany that the loss of arctic ice will severely hamper the babies’ development, but the fight over the Arctic [...]

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