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- Canadian Oil Sands Flyover
An aerial/telephoto exploration of the Canadian Oil Sands operations. Two trillion barrels of oil in the ground. Pyramids of sulfur and coke. Lakes of oil stretching to the horizon. At $200k/yr, it's easy to understand how one might get roped in, gold rush style. - Clean energy will unfortunately be political
Conservative thinktanks step up attacks against Obama's clean energy strategy, as revealed by ALEC bills and other PR documents. This morning at the World Renewable Energy Forum, in response to a (long winded) question about how we might re-frame the energy discussion in light of the unfortunate hay which was made from Solyndra's failure, US Energy Secretary Stephen Chu re-iterated that clean energy should not be a political issue -- that it's just common sense. That may be true, but it doesn't mean it will remain apolitical. As Pericles once said... "Just because you do not take an interest in - The Dangerous World of Underground Chemistry
A look at the increasingly outsourced world of underground pharma. Domestic black-market chemists handle R&D and distribution, and the actual manufacturing is done in China. Seems that way with everything. - Google Street View for building energy efficiency
Essess is doing drive-by thermal imaging in high density urban areas across the US, hoping to target possible building energy efficiency opportunities. Another company is using urban satellite imagery to choose the best rooftops for solar energy siting. Big Brother may be watching you... but at least occasionally he's got the right idea. - The Neapolitan Mob’s Most Dangerous Family
A character sketch of Paolo di Lauro, one of the Neapolitan Camorra's former leaders. Southern Italy it seems, like some parts of Mexico, operates with more than one quasi-state organization governing in parallel. A tacit negotiation between the official and unofficial systems, which sometimes erupts into violence -- ironically, at those times when the so-called "criminal" organizations have become weak.
- Canadian Oil Sands Flyover
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- Incredible photo essay on the Athabasca Tar Sands operations: businessinsider.com/canadian-oil-s… 5 days ago
- At a great talk about individual cities as the right scale for renewable energy systems innovation at #wref2012 1 week ago
- Heard rural Wyoming folk talking local Chinese coal/gas investments, hacking of their SCADA water system. I live in a @GreatDismal future. 1 week ago
- The tar sands have to stay in the ground. Stop the pipeline… again. And again. And again, if necessary. act.350.org/sign/kxl/ 3 months ago
- Roughly 2/3 of all the humans who have ever reached the age of 65 are alive today. 4 months ago
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Shared Links for May 21st
Car-Free Housing in European Cities – A survey of sustainable residential development projects across Europe, including Vauban, outside Freiburg. The study is from 2000, so it's a little out of date, but an interesting overview anyway. It would be great … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, bicycle, chile, cities, copyright, design, economics, environment, europe, green, internet, kayak, law, paddling, patagonia, policy, politics, religion, spanish, sustainability, technology, transportation, travel
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Shared Links for Mar 31st
Privacy and the Fourth Amendment – Our laws, or at least, our interpretations of them, desperately need to be updated to deal with information and privacy in a computer mediated world. What will be the framing cases, and how will … Continue reading
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Tagged bailout, banking, bicycle, china, christianity, crisis, cycling, economics, environment, espionage, finance, fixie, green, imf, internet, law, moyers, nytimes, policy, politics, privacy, religion, security, sustainability, technology, tibet, video
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Shared Links for Mar 11th
The Missing $1,000,000 Tax Bracket – There's a fair amount of debate over what the "top marginal tax rate" should be, but it's infrequently noted that there's actually vastly more variation in the income threshold at which that rate becomes … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, biology, bush, cartoon, christian, climate, cooperation, fish, green, nature, obama, policy, religion, science, stemcells, tax, transportation, usa
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Shared Links for Feb 28th
Short Term Investing – A gleeful satire of what really, truly ails Wall Street, and capitalism in general: grotesquely short term thinking. (tagged: investing finance money bailout satire ) MBARI finds fish with a transparent head – This thing is … Continue reading
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Tagged alien, bailout, biology, darpa, economics, evolution, film, finance, fish, imapcts, investing, kessler, mars, military, money, movie, non-linear, ocean, politics, religion, research, robot, satire, science, space, sustainability, technology, video, war, weird, youtube, zeitgeist
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Shared Links for Feb 23rd
Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers – I just don't buy the lament of the newspapermen. If the papers were subsidizing the collection of "real" news with ads, how sure are we that people ever wanted news? Why exactly should … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, atheism, bailout, banks, bernanke, cosmos, crisis, democracy, economics, economy, fed, finance, financial, geithner, government, media, mortgage, naturalism, religion, sagan, science, spirituality, stimulus, subprime, technology, transparency, zombie
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Shared Links for Feb 11th – Feb 12th
These are my links for Feb 11th through Feb 12th
Francis Collins has no evidence for God
I can’t say that I’m surprised, but what Francis Collins presented in his talk last night at Caltech as constituting evidence for God’s existence was utterly unconvincing. However, what he said and the questions which followed were vastly better framed, … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheist, caltech, christ, francis collins, god, jesus, personal, public, religion, science, veritas forum
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What is Human
The utter primacy of H. sapiens in all the theistic religions is one of the things that bothers me most deeply about them. I believe we are unique and unusually important amongst life on earth (as were the first oxygenic … Continue reading
Look who’s irrational now… everyone!
Baylor University, a private Baptist school in Texas, has just published the results of a survey of American religious belief. One of the findings, which was picked up by the Wall Street Journal, is that …conservative religious Americans are far … Continue reading
The Keeping of the Light
Several years ago, Yuk Yung noted, either in seminar or at one of his lunch talks, that overall, as a system, the Earth, including its biosphere, actually does not consume energy. This isn’t so surprising if you think of it … Continue reading