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Salad Dressing Science Mixes Up Researchers
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Salad Dressing Science Mixes Up Researchers [podcast]
Protecting the polar bears...with oil!
The polar bear is widely accepted as the unofficial symbol of global warming. Most people would suggest that the poor, drowning, computer-generated creature from Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth thrust the plight of the polar bear into the national consciousness. Soon after, with the birth of little Knut in a Berlin zoo, the world had a physical being of heartbreaking cuteness to associate with the problem, though the cub, far from the Dorian Gray of his species, is susceptible to the corruption of age, as are most adolescents.
It didn’t take long for Hollywood to cast them as honorable (and rational) warriors, who’d also star in their own features and rub elbows with the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio. So when reports surfaced in 2006 that the shifting climate forced the bears into cannibalism, the public reacted with an outpouring of compassion rather than dismissing them as fearsome predators, as may have been the case in other circumstances. These days, 1993 seems a lifetime ago, when America was captivated by Coca-Cola’s dreamlike Arctic idyll.
U.S. Airforce wants to be more like Hitler
...in as much as the German airforce was a pioneer in using alternative fuels to power its planes.
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Ginormous bar graph shows folly of Iraq spending vs energy spending
So how much more does the Bush Administration spend on the Iraq War than it spends on energy R&D? Answer: a big-ass number. But a number doesn't really get across the sheer magnitude of these mis-allocated resources. This bar graph does a better job. (Be prepared to scroll down. A LOT.)
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Hair mat madness – a ‘home grown’ solution for oil capture
Photo: Hair mat with oil, courtesy of Matter of Trust.
Picture a toupee in need of grooming that measures 1 ft x 1 ft x 1/3 inch-thick and you’ve got a good idea of what volunteers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area are using to clean up last week’s 58,000-gallon oil spill.
Some 2,000 of the 1/3-pound mats have been deployed by the San Francisco–based nonprofit Matter of Trust. Co-founder Lisa Gautier said by phone today that they have received calls from Russia and Mumbai, India, in recent days asking how to get, make, use and dispose of the mats.
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