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Science Etcetera Marsday, 20080401

April 1st, 2008
  • Whitehouse during Earth Hour. Surprise. Surprise.
  • Chris Mooney has the Bush Administration’s now long-running history of protecting corporate rights to put mercury in your food.
  • People are flocking to Antarctica to catch a glimpse before it melts away.

    • Antarctic Landscape

    Antarctic Landscape
    Photo by Jerzy Strzelecki
  • Al Gore is launching a $300 million advertising campaign against Global Warming.
  • LiveScience has the politics that made Jesus divine.
  • If either parent was a breech delivery, then their children are twice as likely to be breech.
  • Astronomers have found a binary solar system where the stars are so close they share matter, and look like a spinning peanut (video in the article of the phenomenon).
  • Good sex lasts from 3 to 13 minutes.
  • The alarmist tone of this documentary really puts me off, but the truth is that environmental collapse equals political collapse. Do we want private enterprise to do to water what it’s done to oil?



    • 7 comments to “Science Etcetera Marsday, 20080401”

    1. I think the first link should be taken off. Or at least the tone changing. I mean, you said it was dumb, don’t make them seem bad for not doing it. :P

           by Nick Hamden April 1st, 2008 at 8:52 am

    2. Antarctica is a continent. It can’t “melt away”. :) Now Arctica, however…

           by ClintJCL April 1st, 2008 at 10:36 am

    3. Good point on the last bullet — water is in a bad situation currently. Check out this chart:
      http://www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/274762201/

           by ClintJCL April 1st, 2008 at 10:40 am

    4. Interesting video. Honestly I’m a little surprised. I’ve never heard of us running into any water issues. And the whole privatization of water is something I haven’t heard of. I didn’t think any water distribution was handled by the government.

           by sour Swinger April 1st, 2008 at 6:34 pm

    5. The Privatization Of Water was one of the “Top 25 Censored News Stories” of…. 2006 I want to say. It’s a yearly article put out selecting what they consider to be the 25 most underreported / censored news stories.

           by ClintJCL April 1st, 2008 at 7:02 pm

    6. Sour Swinger,

      I’ll need to scope out a blog post covering the whole issue. There’s a good blog here focusing on Georgia’s water shortage, which led the state to consider legislation to adjust its borders with Tennessee to get at their neighbor’s water, and sue for the right to cut off Florida’s water.

      Lake Mead, which feeds Las Vegas and many other communities has a great big ring around it, from where the water level has dropped more than 10 feet over just a few years. California gets drier and drier each year as there is less snow on the Colorado mountains to feed the state.

      The Aral Sea is vanishing, and Lake Chad is almost gone, which is a big contributing factor to the genocides happening in Africa currently.

      There’s also been riots in South America over the privatization of water, where it has become incredibly expensive.

      But I’m babbling now. I’ll gather up all the facts into a blogpost near-future. : )

           by ideonexus April 1st, 2008 at 11:13 pm

    7. It’s bad. Very bad. The corporations basically want to hold our lifeblood, water, ransom. And at this rate, they will succeed utterly.

           by ClintJCL April 2nd, 2008 at 8:58 am

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