May 2011
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Germany to Close All Nuclear Plants by 2022 - Judy... →
The German government on Monday announced plans to shut all of the nation’s nuclear power plants within the next 11 years, a sharp reversal for Chancellor Angela Merkel after the Japanese disaster at Fukushima caused an electoral backlash by voters opposed to reliance on nuclear energy.
The plan calls for phasing out all of Germany’s 17 nuclear reactors — eight of which are offline — and...
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“The stable climate of the last 12,000 years is gone. Which means you...”
– - Sharon Begley, Global Climate Change: Freak Storms are the New Normal
Reads like apocalyptic sci-fi. But people will believe what the want to believe. People will move to San Diego, Las Vegas and Phoenix without considering what’s coming.
I wrote a dark scenario recently:
The California...
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“The stable climate of the last 12,000 years is gone. Which means you...”
– - Sharon Begley, Global Climate Change: Freak Storms are the New Normal
Reads like apocalyptic sci-fi, but won’t get the attention needed because people will believe what they want to believe.
As I conjectured in a dark scenario, southern California and the southwest are rapidly turning to...
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White Working Class No Longer The Majority
In 2005, the white working class dropped below 50% mark in the US population for the first time: now, that group is 48% and dropping. Still the largest demographic group, but becoming smaller all the time, and now, the most pessimistic group in America:
Ronald Brownstein, Eclipsed
The demographic eclipse of the white working class is likely an irreversible trend as the United States...
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“The American consumer is rejecting 3-D.”
– - Richard Greenfield, of BTIG, cited by Brooks Barnes and Michael Cieply in Hollywood Starts to Worry as 3-D Fizzles in U.S.
It is a strange format — always a bit out of focus, and headache-inducing. Roger Ebert explained it in detail.
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“By passing on McHenry’s already debunked claims without fact checking them, the...”
– - Ryan Chittum, Elizabeth Warren Is Smeared, and the Press Is Along for the Ride
“McHenry controversy shows the media copping out with he said-she said stories”
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Elizabeth Warren Fans Attack Patrick McHenry on Facebook Over Liar Charge (huffingtonpost.com)
Blowback for Patrick...
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“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making...”
– Niels Bohr
(via scienceisbeauty)
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“On both sides of the Atlantic, a consensus has emerged among movers and shakers...”
– Paul Krugman, Against Learned Helplessness
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Hand-Pulled Noodles
Measure the ingredients carefully using a digital scale. Mix the dry ingredients, and stir in the water and the vegetable oil. Once the dough has formed, put the dough on a flat table and knead it with your hands. The dough has to be kneaded and stretched until the gluten structure breaks down and no lumps are visible when the dough is stretched. This requires about 20 minutes. A stand mixer...
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Twitter →
@pedrosky: U.S. leads developed world in fewest steps per day among adults - http://t.co/TYPACxD
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To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing,...
Now all the truth is out, Be secret and take defeat From any brazen throat, For how can you compete, Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbours’ eyes? Bred to a harder thing Than Triumph, turn away And like a laughing string Whereon mad fingers play Amid a place of stone, Be secret and...
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“Watering cart. To provoke the rain. On earth as it is in heaven.
A cloud...”
– James Joyce, Ulysses
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Fibonacci Poetry →
rainbowhill:
fuckyeahfibonacci:
It’s a new poetry form that’s sweeping the nation: Fib.
Fib is an experimental Western poetry form, bearing similarities to haiku, but based on the Fibonacci sequence.
The typical fib is a six line, 20 syllable poem with a syllable count by line of 1/1/2/3/5/8 - with as many syllables per line as the line’s corresponding place in the Fibonacci sequence.
An...
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Blade Runner Was Right: They Are Implanting False...
Jonah Lehrer vividly remembers drinking coke from a glass bottle at a high school football game, vividly. However, the school prohibited glass from the stadium, so it couldn’t have happened. But Coke works hard to make you act as if it did.
Jonah Lehrer, Ads Implant False Memories
A new study, published in The Journal of Consumer Research, helps explain both the success of this...
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Pakistan Threatens US With China
Pakistan and China have mutual interests, but Pakistani official tried to use their growing involvement to smack the US in the face:
Michael Wines, Pakistan and China - Two Friends Hit a Bump
[…] it raised eyebrows when this week the two nations politely disagreed over whether Mr. [Yousaf Raza] Gilani [Pakistan’s Prime Minister] had given the Chinese a gift that would be hard to...
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“The reality is that the Ryan plan is turning into a political disaster for...”
– - Paul Krugman, Medicare and Mediscares
Krugman calls ‘liar, liar, pants on fire’ on Ryan, who once said that his plan would give seniors the same protections that congressman get, which is total bullshit.
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The Best Chocolate Mousse of Your Life Under 5... →
CHOCOLATE MOUSSE (CHOCOLATE CHANTILLY) Recipe by Herve This & Heston Blumenthal
Ingredients
4 servings
9.35 ounces (265 grams) bittersweet (%70 cocoa solids) chocolate, chopped (preferably Valrhona Guanaja)
1 cup (240 ml) water
4 tbsp sugar, optional
Method
Place a large mixing bowl on top of another slightly smaller one, filled with ice and cold water (the bottom of the large bowl...
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Could Conjoined Twins Share a Mind? - Susan... →
Totally fascinating.
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“Frankly, the argument about indefensibility simpy doesn’t hold, not when we all...”
– Running Chicken
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Word Of The Moment: Disasterbation
Disasterbation: The snarky enjoyment that greenies get from contemplating the end of the wold as we know it by anthropogenic disaster.
(via Sami Grover, Disasterbation Turns You Blind)
