Environment

Bachmann Encounters ‘Gay Robot,’ Hecklers in Liberal Iowa City – Johnston, IA Patch

December 24, 2011
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By now the GOP presidential candidates have seen it all: hecklers, protesters, haters of all shapes and sizes. Well, mostly all. On Thursday afternoon in Iowa City, Michele Bachmann encountered a man dressed in a robot suit, who shouted her down with the aid of a built-in megaphone. He called himself, “roboprof,” and was...

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Pigeons Can Follow Abstract Number-Counting Rules: Scientific American Podcast

December 22, 2011
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Several vertebrate species can distinguish between, say, two and five bananas—but with the exception of primates, they can’t grasp the numerical rules that would let them arrange their piles of fruit from least to most. Now, new research suggests that pigeons, like primates, can follow these abstract numerical rules. The study is in the...

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Man Builds Fairy Tale Home for His Family – For Only £3,000 | Gaia Health

December 21, 2011
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Man Builds Fairy Tale Home for His Family – For Only £3,000 | Gaia Health

Simon Dale is a family man in Wales, the western part of Great Britain. His interest in self-sustainability and an ecological awareness led him to dig out and build his own home—one of the loveliest, warmest, most inviting dwellings you could ever imagine. And it cost him only £3,000, about $4,700 American dollars!

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AP: Republican Extortion?!

December 14, 2011
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AP: Republican Extortion?!

I know its legal, but why are citizen income tax breaks on the same docket as a pipeline construction project? It may not be illegal, but isnt that technically EXTORTION??

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Alabama immigration law set back again – USATODAY.com

November 24, 2011
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Alabama immigration law set back again – USATODAY.com

MyTake : It’s embarrassing to me, as an American citizen, to know that we actually voted on, and legislated such laws. It’s barbaric, considering that our society had suffered through and (should have) learned from enslaving africans and the dismissal of native american sovereignty. We are witnessing the next embarrassing, somehow-excusable chapter in US...

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Occupying Sacramento

October 17, 2011
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Occupying Sacramento

My thoughts from my first experience with Occupy Sacramento at Cesar Chavez Plaza

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Stockton Heinz Facility to Close, Leaving Many Without Jobs – KTXL

October 12, 2011
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Stockton Heinz Facility to Close, Leaving Many Without Jobs – KTXL

MyTake: Lynchpin employers like Heinz are the companies that could use bailout funds to recover during hard times, or stimulus grants to help adapt to the changing markets to remain competitive. Or even their related industries (in this case agriculture and perishable distribution) could use supportive legislation to encourage retailers and consumers to BUY...

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HNIC

September 20, 2011
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Just sharing some loose thoughts on how I'd lead America to fix itself. Freestyle, from the heart.

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China looking to public to name space station – Yahoo! News

April 26, 2011
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China looking to public to name space station – Yahoo! News

Within FIVE years, China’s space agency will surpass NASA in avionics and space technology advancement. If not sooner. We are ditching Hubble, ISS, the shuttle program, just as we ditched Skylab, Apollo/Saturn and other history making footnotes. Ares? SMH. I don’t think China is going to make the same mistake. Not with all the...

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Human terrarium, Biosphere 2, looking good at 20 – Yahoo! News

April 26, 2011
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Human terrarium, Biosphere 2, looking good at 20 – Yahoo! News

A lot of people viewed B2 as a failure. I see it as an eye-opening first step.  The idea of exploration is to learn about the unknown ahead. It was better to learn those lessons on terra firma than 320,000,000 miles away from the nearest hardware store. Glad to hear it’s being recycled and...

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