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  • Bankers realize food speculation is causing global food insecurity

    Banks consider quitting food speculation due to role in global hunger By Brandon Keim, wired.co.uk Business Finan­cial giant Bar­clays is con­sid­er­ing an end to food spec­u­la­tion, a con­tro­ver­sial prac­tice linked to sud­den, dan­ger­ous spikes in glob­al food prices. Rich Ricci, head of Bar­clays’ cor­po­rate and invest­ment bank­ing… http://flip.it/eCcTF Related articles Millions face starvation as world…

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  • Why the iPad shall replace your ugly black television

    The future of television has arrived: it’s called the iPad By Nilay Patel, theverge.com Why owning the second screen is Apple’s game to lose The future of the tele­vi­sion is the iPad. That was the over­whelm­ing mes­sage at the TV of Tomor­row con­fer­ence in New York, which saw exec­u­tives and deci­sion mak­ers from across the……

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  • Why Climate Change Denial Is Just Hot Air

    Phil Plait, slate.com I was thinking of writing a lengthy post about climate change denial being completely unscientific nonsense, but then geochemist and National Science Board member James Lawrence Powell wrote a post that is basically a slam-dunk of debunking. His… http://flip.it/ag9vG Why Climate Change Denial Is Just Hot Air Related articles Two Documentaries on…

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  • How to describe environmental science to conservatives

    Concept Of “Purity” Makes Conservatives Care About Environmental Issues By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.com Re-framing environmental rhetoric so it appeals to conservatives can really work, a study finds. It’s not that polit­i­cal con­ser­v­a­tives don’t care about things like cli­mate change, recy­cling and deforestation—it’s that they don’t care ab… RT @PopSci: Pro tip: Framing environmental issues in…

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  • Farmingo digitizes organic farmers markets

    Farmigo Opens Doors to Online Farmers Market Bonnie Cha, allthingsd.com The ben­e­fits of your local farm­ers mar­kets are plen­ty. You’re get­ting fresh food, sup­port­ing local farms and help­ing to cre­ate a more sus­tain­able food sys­tem. But with lim­it­ed hours and loca­tions, you prob­a­bly can’t take advan­ta… RT @allthingsd: Farmigo Opens Doors to Online Farmer’s Market…

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  • Climate change caught in action in iceberg destruction

    Behold: The Largest Iceberg Breakup Ever Caught on Film Eric Liu, theatlantic.com The effects of climate change, in one gorgeous, terrifying video So, wow. Wow­wow­wow. A group of film­mak­ers, mak­ing a movie called, aptly, Chas­ing Ice, have cap­tured what they claim to be the largest ice­berg calv­ing ever filmed.… RT @megangarber: This is *literally* awesome:…

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  • NASA shows that earth looks like one big disco ball at night

    Satellite images of Earth, city lights at night Posted By: Bryan Chan, latimes.com Photography NASA has released images of Earth at night from the Suomi Nation­al Polar-Orbiting Part­ner­ship satel­lite that is orbit­ing 512 miles above the Earth’s sur­face. The agency stitched some of these images togeth­er to cre­ate a… http://flip.it/qaOMz Related articles This gorgeous video…

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  • GE decides to build appliances in USA again

    The Insourcing Boom Alexis C. Madrigal, Megan Garber, and Rebecca J. Rosen, theatlantic.com For much of the past decade, Gen­er­al Elec­tric’s sto­ried Appli­ance Park, in Louisville, Ken­tucky, appeared less like a mon­u­ment to Amer­i­can man­u­fac­tur­ing prowess than a memo­r­i­al to it. The very scale of the place seemed to… The Insourcing Boom – Charles Fishman…

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  • Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley

                Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net More than 100 bio­med­ical and life sci­ence com­pa­nies are clus­tered in Genome Val­ley, a research park in Hyder­abad, India. (Via Joanne Man­aster) Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley Related articles The Other Silicon Valley That The Tech Industry Is Leaving Behind [Video] (techcrunch.com) Silicon Valley to boost…

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  • Digital tracking reveals the relation between birds and cigarette butts

    What birds are doing with your cigarette butts Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net Nico­tine is one of nature’s bug zap­pers. Seri­ous­ly. Lots of plants have evolved to pro­duce bug-repelling chem­i­cals as part of their defense mech­a­nisms and tobac­co hap­pens to be one of those plants. So when city-dwelling birds use the… RT @BoingBoing: What birds are doing…

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  • Christie flip flops after hurricane Sandy

    Chris Christie listened to Rupert Murdoch’s warning, re-backed Romney – Salon.com By David Daley, salon.com After the Fox News chief threatened the governor on Twitter, the two men quickly talked, and Christie got on board Rupert Mur­doch’s warn­ing tweet — telling Chris Christie in the midst of Hur­ri­cane Sandy cleanup that the New Jer­sey gov­er­no……

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  • Marco Rubio, the Tea party and the Big Bang

    Listen up, Marco Rubio!: Science lessons for the tea party – Salon.com By William Bynum, salon.com Marco Rubio doesn’t know how old the Earth is. Maybe he and his GOP pals need this refresher on the Big Bang If a film of the his­to­ry of the uni­verse had been made, what would hap­pen if you…

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