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NYT Magazine probes Obama’s economic thinking
If you read only one article about Barack Obama this week — hell, this campaign season — make it “Obamanomics,” by David Leonhardt, in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. Little […]
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Clean coal making the early rounds at DNC
8:28 a.m., residential Denver: First sighting of giant, roving “clean coal” van, sponsored by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. Photos to come.
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OMFG
How is this not the worst thing ever? Did the McCain campaign make this?
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Snippets from the news
• Fracture in Greenland glacier concerns scientists. • U.S. Open talks up greenness. • Can veggie oil clean up toxic groundwater? • Ethanol losing its golden reputation. • Is plastic […]
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California to phase out lead weights on tires by end of 2009
Lead weights used to balance vehicle wheels will be phased out in California by the end of 2009, in accordance with a court settlement approved Wednesday. The settlement resolves a […]
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Snippets from the news
• Oreos under attack for rainforest destruction. • Pacific nations plead for help. • Climate change poses threat to Himalayas. • Plan to bottle Vermont water is controversial. • Musk […]
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Snippets from the news
• Lease sale held in Gulf of Mexico. • First half of 2008 coolest of last five years. • Nations meet to talk climate in Ghana. • Shareholder resolutions related […]
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Umbra on Method cleansers
Dear Umbra, I’ve noticed lately that Method cleaning products are now being sold in a number of different retail outlets, whereas before they were only sold in Target. This shouldn’t […]
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EPA knuckleheads hide info on pesticide implicated in colony collapse disorder
So there’s this insecticide called clothianidin that seems likely to be implicated in colony collapse disorder. By the EPA’s own reckoning [PDF], clothianidin “has the potential for toxic chronic exposure […]
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Make it stop
A note to conference organizers everywhere: it’s been documented by science that extended periods of exposure to light jazz leads to terminal dyspepsia and even brain tumors. So perhaps you […]
