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Industrial plants, residential plants, li'l teeny-weeny sea plants. Everybody's doing it. It's photosyntastic!

Far as I'm concerned, the whole global warming or climate change debate comes down to one thing: we do not have the modelling capacity to completely understand or accurately predict climate. There are common-sense measures that can be useful (like pollution control) and also alleviate AGW if...

Did you know energy can be converted to matter?

Any idea when the monster hurricanes will hit?

Oh dear. You're channelling EagleSmack.

And the track record of predictions thus far suggests that some of those variables ain't been accounted for.

Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science (Exclusive Video) - YouTube

X-cellent!

Oh, spare us your hyperbola. It's a sine that you're off on a tangent.

Samuelson writes a thoughtful op-ed on how fast-food workers are winning wage increases through state and local governments, not through unionising: How to get a raise at McDonald’s - The Washington Post The day of the American union may be coming to a close, for two reasons. First, unions...

How municipalities in St. Louis County, Missouri profit from poverty - The Washington Post

In corporations, it’s owner-take-all - The Washington Post Kinda scary, but since most of my income comes from investments, I'm cool with it.

Staten Island Residents Brace For Eric Garner Protest March Saturday NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Staten Island residents are bracing for what they expect to be a crowd in the thousands Saturday for Rev. Al Sharpton’s march to protest the police custody death of Eric Garner. The “We Will Not Go...

Ice bucket challenge goes awry, firefighters hurt By Associated Press August 22 CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. — A charity stunt that has grown into a social media phenomenon went terribly wrong for four Kentucky firefighters when a fire truck’s ladder got too close to a power line after they dumped...

In the news: But in the coming weeks, NASA is expected to announce its long-awaited solution: a multibillion-dollar contract to build a U.S. spacecraft, which could help reignite a struggling American space program. Instead of paying the Russians more than $70 million a seat to ride their...

Here's Officer Sunil Dutta's Stasi screed in a nutshell. It could be straight out of the mouth of a Stasi agent: And here's the whole essay: I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me. - The Washington Post And here is the Atlantic's brilliant response...

In Compton, school police can use semiautomatic weapons By Justin Moyer August 21 It’s a place that’s been associated with gunfire at least since the release of N.W.A.’s “Straight Outta Compton” in 1988: Compton, Calif., a city of 100,000 south of downtown Los Angeles, and a site of 1992...

Ignorant child. Captain Planet Intro - YouTube

Seems like just arugula guy.