Thursday, November 5, 2009

Coping With Climate Change: Which Societies Will Do Best?


by Gaia Vince
November 2, 2009
Yale Environment 360

As the world warms, how different societies fare in dealing with rising seas and changing weather patterns will have as much to do with political, social, and economic factors as with a changing climate.

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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Souped-Up Hubble Makes A Comeback


by Nell Greenfieldboyce
All Things Considered
National Public Radio
September 9, 2009

...."We are giddy with the quality of the data that we have with this new telescope," says Heidi Hammel, senior research scientist at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.

"You can already see remarkable differences between what we're seeing now and what we saw with the prior instrumentation," says David Leckrone, senior project scientist for Hubble at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland...

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Saturday, August 15, 2009

How to Behave: New Rules for Highly Evolved Humans


Wired Magazine
July 2009

Wait Before Revealing TV Spoilers

If Your Call Drops, Call Back

Don't Google-Stalk Before a First Date

Ask a Basterd: Am I a Jerk if I Dump Our Sucky Rock Band Bassist?

Don't Blog or Tweet Anything With More Than Half a Million Hits

Delete Unwanted Posts From Your Facebook Wall

Meet Online Friends in the Real World ...



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Monday, July 6, 2009

Creating comics for the Middle East


Marco Visscher | May 2009 issue
Ode Magazine

Comic book artist Suleiman Bakhit looks for stories and role models that will empower and inspire a new generation of comic book readers in the Middle East...

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Monday, June 8, 2009

People’s Economic Summit


By Betsey Piette
New York
Workers World
Published Jun 7, 2009

Gathering under a banner stating, “Another World is Urgently Needed—But We Must Fight for It!” more than 200 community, labor, youth, immigrant rights, housing, health care and social justice activists met on May 31 in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza for the People’s Economic Summit.