WNYC — Radiolab: New Normal? (October 02, 2009) John Horgan examines how Americans seem to have a completely different attitude toward war than we did thirty years ago. He takes us on a stroll through Hoboken, asking strangers one of the great unanswerable questions: “Will humans ever stop fighting wars?” Strangely, everyone seems to know the answer. Robert […]
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It was after this scene that I decided to turn this off. The dialogue is superficial, the acting worse, and I don’t think this is a plausible scenario for Earth in the future. Whoever it was that recommended this to me: I’ll pass on the next one.
It’s any wonder that it’s my favorite season!
Charge your cell phone using light, courtesy SunCore [SunCore’s] Novacell is an external charger that will power mobile devices via a USB connection. That’s the connection found on most cell phone chargers today. That’s not all SunCore is working on. The company also develops embedded light-powered batteries. The only thing that would make this cooler would be […]
Acceptance ...
Baby Boomer Drug Abuse Resonates With Listeners : NPR [In late August] we talked about a disturbing report by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. […] Now, at the close of that conversation, we asked our listeners to tell us more about how these findings might be playing out in their own lives, […]
At Starbucks ...
I should be good for a few hours, eh?
2009 Sumatra earthquakes — The Big Picture — Boston.com
Essay — The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate — NYTimes.com A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a […]
Wondermark » Archive » #557; The Masters of Tea Or, as Becca put it so aptly, “Lipton is carpet water.”
Agriculture: “The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race”? ...
Jared Diamond: Archaeologists studying the rise of farming have reconstructed a crucial stage at which we made the worst mistake in human history. Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny. Hunter-gatherers practiced the most successful and longest lasting […]