The Lumpen Proletarian

How Energy Efficiency Can End Up Hurting the Environment - NYTimes.com

Canada's prime minister abolishes the Government of Canada, replaces it with "the Harper government" - Boing Boing

The Reinvention of Silk - NYTimes.com

‘Something Ventured,’ a Love Story About Capitalism - NYTimes.com

Asian Carp Almost Migrate from U.S. to Canada, in a Big Truck : TreeHugger

Homeless robot begs for energy - Boing Boing

New volcanic fissure opens in Hawaii - Boing Boing

Ontario Struggles with Solar Boom  - Technology Review

Gems From 2008 Paris Theft Found in Drainpipe - NYTimes.com

Soda bottle skylights - Hack a Day

Malaysia Gambles on Processing Rare Earths - NYTimes.com

Stéphane Hessel, 93, Calls for ‘Time of Outrage!’ in France - NYTimes.com

Using cams to solve math problems - Boing Boing

Photos from the heart of a glacier - Boing Boing

Heat Hampers Colombian Coffee Crop, Jeopardizing Supply - NYTimes.com

A Glow in the West Texas Desert - NYTimes.com

"Repair-Ware" Household Gadgets Designed To Last Forever With Easy Fixability : TreeHugger

Hybrid Power for the Frontline - Technology Review

If You Bought Apple Stock Instead of Products - NYTimes.com

China's shrinking lakes

Study finds work climate the main reason women leave engineering

CultureLab: How one cybercriminal stole $86 million

US navy faces up to a new enemy – climate change - environment - 10 March 2011 - New Scientist

Japan’s Strict Codes and Drills Are Seen as Lifesavers - NYTimes.com

YouTube - Fitz and the Tantrums - MoneyGrabber

Dubai on Empty | Culture | Vanity Fair

How Rising Gas Prices Are Eroding the American Dream - Lisa Margonelli - Business - The Atlantic

Scientists Tune In To The 'Voices Of The Landscape' : NPR

Doctors fail to report incompetent colleagues - health - 12 March 2011 - New Scientist

BBC News - Japan earthquake: Footage of moment tsunami hit

Satellite Photos - Japan Before and After Tsunami - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

Poker Bots Invade Online Gambling - NYTimes.com

Research offers new desalination process using carbon nanotubes

Chinese scholar's rocks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Interview with author of Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA - Boing Boing

Antarctica, 1961: A Soviet Surgeon Has to Remove His Own Appendix - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

How Government Data Can Improve Lives - Economic View - NYTimes.com

Japan’s Confidence Falters as Its Routines Fail - NYTimes.com

One Per Cent: Hexagonal wind tunnel lets you make your own tornado

BBC News - US unarmed drones track drug gangs in Mexico - report

Canada's unique wetlands under threat: report

PC Problems Blog: HOWTO: Use Google and Asterisk For Free Home Telephone Service

Commentary: The New York Times Paywall Is … Weird | Epicenter | Wired.com

Hexayurt - Boing Boing

YouTube - Killing Joke - Wardance (Original 7" Single)

Looting in Japan: Why so little looting in Japan? The explanation is legal as much as cultural. - By 

Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine

Robin Hessman’s ‘My Perestroika,’ About Post-Soviet Life - NYTimes.com

Piggyback Virus Could Curb HIV Pandemic | Wired Science | Wired.com

A legacy from the 1800s leaves Tokyo facing blackouts | ITworld

One Man’s Quest to Outrace Wind | Magazine

Pictured: One Sea Turtle’s Worth of Plastic | Wired Science | Wired.com

BBC News - Red tape in Cuba: A struggle to change hotels in Havana

BBC News - Should men in uniform be forced to shave?

Shuttered Japanese Chip Makers Threaten IT - Smarter Strategies

Ben Krasnow: DIY scanning electron microscope - Overview video

Will's Amateur Science and Engineering: Fusion Achieved

YouTube - Donald Duck in Math Land Pt. 2

YouTube - better than evil knievel! it's ray!

Russian boreal forests undergoing vegetation change, study shows

Fission Products in Seattle Reveal Clues about Japan Nuclear Disaster  - Technology Review

Newly Homeless Re-Establish Order Amid Chaos - NYTimes.com

No Mortgage Lenders in Jail, but a Borrower Lands There - NYTimes.com

Stanford engineers put a damper on 'aeroelastic flutter'

Creating power from water

BBC News - Viewpoint: We should stop running away from radiation

Marine microbes digest plastic : Nature News

Taming the flame: Electrical wave 'blaster' could provide new way to extinguish fires

Wildlife Bridge Being Built Over Ontario Highway : TreeHugger

Engineered Organisms for Making Cheap Sugar - Technology Review

'Le Quattro Volte' - Review - NYTimes.com

Making liquid power

YouTube - Methane Biodigester How To

Antibiotics wrapped in nanofibers turn resistant disease-producing bacteria into ghosts

Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Threatens Farmers’ Way of Life - NYTimes.com

Using Heat to Cool Buildings - Technology Review

Companies Hope to 'Program' the Internet - Technology Review

Woodworking Classes for Kids - NYTimes.com

YouTube - How Differential Gear works must see 100%

Canada to Benefit from Global Warming (Infographic) : TreeHugger

TV ad featuring Rube Goldberg-esque musical device - Boing Boing

Scientists journey into an active volcano crater - Boing Boing

Greek Tablet Fragment May Shed Light on Early Bureaucratic Practices - NYTimes.com

Scientists Call the Market for Meteorites Black, and Some Are Seeing Red - NYTimes.com

New Type of Drug Kills Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria - Technology Review

As Shutdown Looms, Agencies Brace for Its Impact - NYTimes.com

Economics, physics are roadblocks for mass-scale algae biodiesel production, study finds

Research shows adult brains capable of rapid new growth

App-Powered Car Service Leaves Cabs in the Dust | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Analog TV Quirk Makes Art Through Tedium | Raw File

A New Rotary Engine Design - Technology Review

How Safe Is Safe Enough? To Engineers, It Depends : NPR

Artist Ron English's April Fool's sign at US-Mexico border - Boing Boing

BBC News - Afghanistan: Deadly Kandahar protest at Koran burning

BBC News - Playful Filipino names hard to get used to

Alberta conservation plan stuns oil patch - The Globe and Mail

Pae White Uses Computer-Assisted Loom To Weave Opera Curtain Of Scanned Images Of Aluminum Foil | FEELguide

TOM THE DANCING BUG: In Which Lucky Ducky Is Engaged In Shocking Class Warfare - Boing Boing

Stiglitz: wealth concentration will be America's downfall - Boing Boing

Drug-Resistant 'Superbug' Found in New Delhi Water : TreeHugger

Chinese Workers Struggle to Catch 'The Last Train Home' in World's Largest Human Migration : TreeHugger

A breakout board for your Android phone - Hack a Day

In a Tiny Universe, Room to Heal - At Home With Mark Hogancamp - NYTimes.com

Future farm: a sunless, rainless room indoors

Hot on the Trail of Chili Peppers - In the Garden - NYTimes.com