Category: Environment
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Sun to Flip its Magnetic Field Soon
The sun’s magnetic field is expected to flip in the next three to four months and it could lead to changes in our climate, storms and disruption to satellites. This solar event only happens once every 11 years and signals what physicists call the Solar Maximum – a time when the Sun’s solar activity is…
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Sea Turtle Meets A Scuba Diver
Very cool video: Sea turtles do the cutest things. In this video posted to Reddit, a friendly sea turtle pays a surprise visit to a scuba diver. At first, the diver pushes the curious animal away with a big shove to its belly. But the turtle persists. The diver quickly comes around and starts to…
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Gov. Regulation Run Amok: 6,125 New Regs. in 90 Days
It’s Friday morning, and so far today, the Obama administration has posted 165 new regulations and notifications on its reguations.gov website. In the past 90 days, it has posted 6,125 regulations and notices – an average of 68 a day. via CNSNews.com. Shear insanity. Makes me think of the old Guns & Roses song Signs.…
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US Out Of The Top 10 In World Prosperity Index
The Legatum Prosperity Index assessed and ranked the prosperity of 142 countries based on eight sub-categories: economy, entrepreneurship and opportunity, health, governance, education, safety and security, personal freedom, and social capital. via Business Insider. We are now 12th. Embarrassing. No wonder people are leaving in droves.
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Airlines Fees vs. Fares: Impacting Taxes
The liberal Washington Post complains: There’s a 7.5 percent federal tax on every airline ticket. The money goes into a fund that pays for the air transportation system: airports, capital improvements and the operation of the Federal Aviation Administration. … When the airlines kept ticket prices down by shifting $12.8 billion to baggage fees, they…
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Google Data Centers — Photos and Comments
Very cool photo tour of some of the stuff behind the scenes at Google data centers.
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U.S. Postal Service is Dying, Why You Should Care
The USPS has been teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. A key reason was a 2006 law that required the postal service to make annual payments of about $5.5 billion for 10 years to pay for future retiree health benefits. … In the three months that ended June 30, the agency reported net losses of…
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Ever Hear About the “Green” Old Lady?
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days.” The young clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation…
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Windfarms Increase Night Temperatures (a la Global Warming)
U.S. main stream media so far slow to respond: Large windfarms can increase local night time temperatures by fanning warmer air onto the ground, new research has revealed. The study used satellite data to show that the building of huge windfarms in west Texas over the last decade has warmed the nights by up to…
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How America Will Fail
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