StyleSalt - Italian Vogue's controversial oil spill fashion spread

Russia fires pose nuclear threat, death toll hits 50 | Reuters

Stanford engineers' new solar energy conversion process could revamp solar power production

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F.B.I. Challenges Wikipedia Over Use of Its Seal - NYTimes.com

Crews Step Up Work to Contain Michigan Oil Spill - NYTimes.com

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Where Did the Money to Rebuild Iraq Go? - Boing Boing

BBC News - Tokyo's 'oldest man' had been dead for 30 years

Street-Fighting Math: down and dirty guide to approximation and problem-solving - Boing Boing

BBC News - New 'superbug' found in UK hospitals

Portugal Makes the Leap to Renewable Energy - NYTimes.com

Brainless slime mould makes decisions like humans | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine

Real world R/C car "video game" - Boing Boing

Mind-reading marketers have ways of making you buy - life - 09 August 2010 - New Scientist

Technology Review: Jet Fuel from Plants

Move to Limit ‘Factory Farms’ Gains Momentum - NYTimes.com

Genetics Pushes Canola Into the Wild - NYTimes.com

A Masterpiece of Nature? Yuck! - NYTimes.com

Vital Signs - Behavior - Internet Use Tied to Depression in Youths - NYTimes.com

Building muscle doesn't require lifting heavy weights: study

Portable Housing, Made in Montana - The New York Times

Are you ready for a world without antibiotics? | Society | The Guardian

Artful Transmission Towers Designed to Look Like Us : TreeHugger

Sugar battles oil spills

How algae 'enslavement' threatens freshwater bodies

Excess stomach removed via mouth, novel weight loss surgery a U.S. first

Single neurons can detect sequences

Backstory: How 250 Years of Progress Gave Us the Most Complicated Clock Ever | Magazine

Childhood memories of father have lasting impact on men's ability to handle stress

Doctor and Patient - How Good Are Foreign-Trained Doctors? - NYTimes.com

Marijuana may cause Canada's economic comedown | Douglas Haddow | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

R-House in Syracuse Can Be Heated With A Hair Dryer : TreeHugger

Solar-Powered Toothbrush Needs No Toothpaste : TreeHugger

Permafrost Melting Releases Mercury Into Swedish Lake : TreeHugger

3D Portraits of Celebrities Created With Their Own Garbage : TreeHugger

Technology Review: Going Further on the Same Tank

The TV Watch - Reality TV Is an Old Entertainment Form - NYTimes.com

Moose Offer Trail of Clues on Arthritis - NYTimes.com

Junk DNA Can Revive and Cause Disease, Study Finds - NYTimes.com

Home Aquariums as Decorating Elements - NYTimes.com

Listening to Earth breathe through 500 towers

Stern Korean Culture Stifles Biological Predisposition to Blab | Wired Science | Wired.com

Wasps punish fake fighters - life - 19 August 2010 - New Scientist

Rwanda Harnesses Energy from Exploding Lake : Discovery News

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Family of Four Grows Their Food in a Swimming Pool : TreeHugger

Montenegro Reaches for Respectability With Port Project - NYTimes.com

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Latest Casualty of the BP Spill: Strip Clubs : TreeHugger

Centuries-Old State of the Art Still Useful Today : TreeHugger


NASA Releases Time-Lapse Video of Gulf Oil Spill : TreeHugger


Antibiotic Use in Animals Should be Limited, F.D.A. Says - NYTimes.com


Does national IQ depend on parasite infections? Er… | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine


YouTube - The First Mestizo-Mexicans ~ Gonzalo Guerrero's Story


BBC News - Oil leak's spread predicted by simulation


Movie Review - 'Alamar' - Father, Son and Egret in the Banco Chinchorro of Mexico - NYTimes.com


TerraCottem | The TerraCottem soil conditioning technology is unique because of its synergetic effect | English


'Party of Parasites' author took $1M in farm subsidies - KansasCity.com

What Goes Into (And Comes Out of) A Barrel Of Tar Sands Oil : TreeHugger

BBC News - Can painting a mountain restore a glacier?

"The Vertical Farm," the Movie by Sting : TreeHugger

Technology Review: Can AIDS Be Cured?

Ozzy among first to get revealing whole-genome sequencing - thestar.com

‘Heroin Stamp Project’ to Open at White Box Gallery - NYTimes.com

Global Update - Tuberculosis - Mining Plays Bigger Role in TB in Africa Than Had Been Realized, Study Finds - NYTimes.com

Humans will be extinct in 100 years says eminent scientist

Photographers' bust-card screened onto a lenscloth - Boing Boing

China's High-Tech Underclass - Newsweek

Organic pesticides not always 'greener' choice, study finds

Mad Men's Matthew Weiner and Janie Bryant: Threads of the Story - WSJ. Magazine - WSJ

Technology Review: An Energy-Saving Air Conditioner

People prefer to go south - Boing Boing

When Chimpanzees Go on the Warpath - NYTimes.com

BBC News - Extreme DIY: Building a homemade nuclear reactor in NYC

No Sleep 'Til Fusion

Shareable: The Exterminator's Want-Ad

Economists Who Did Their Homework (800 Years of It) - NYTimes.com

Strength in naughty or nice | Harvard Gazette Online

Israel Grows Uneasy Over Reliance on Migrant Labor - NYTimes.com

Exploring Algae as Fuel - NYTimes.com

Scientists Confirm Underwater Plumes Are From Spill - NYTimes.com

Who Lives There - In a Crumbling Mansion, Creativity and History Meet - NYTimes.com

Botanical Gardens Are Turning Away From Flowers - NYTimes.com

Sticky Rice is Secret Ingredient in Great Wall of China's Strength : TreeHugger

Technology Review: Neural Stimulation for Autoimmune Diseases

 

Young Americans Embrace Rigors of the Bolshoi - NYTimes.com

 

A Waiting Game on the Louisiana Water - NYTimes.com

 

Op-Ed Columnist - Our Epic Foolishness - NYTimes.com

 

Scientists determine structure of immune molecule that counteracts HIV strains

 

Study finds poker players using drugs to enhance performance

Crocs and fish key to human evolution

 

Mobile phones responsible for disappearance of honey bee - Telegraph

 

CMU's Research Cafe: a living behavioral economics lab that serves tasty snacks - Boing Boing

 

YouTube - Honest Harley Davidson Commercial

 

Chinese farmer fires homemade cannon to battle eviction - TNT Magazine

 

Is Conventional Farming Just Hydroponics in Dirt? : TreeHugger

Plastic Century Dares You: Sip from Trash-Filled Water : TreeHugger

 

‘Peak Oil’ Movement Prepares for the Worst - NYTimes.com

 

Technology Review: Drugs that Go Beyond the Genome

 

Finding Supermodels in Rural Brazil - Video Library - The New York Times

 

Studies Show Jews’ Genetic Similarity - NYTimes.com

 

Your Brain on Computers - Plugged-In Parents - NYTimes.com

Clemson engineers to create model underground energy-storage facility

 

Study: Shrinking glaciers to spark food shortages

 

With fungi on their side, rice plants grow to be big

 

Ron English's X-Ray Guernica - Boing Boing

 

How a "mad viking" saved a crime-ridden park in San Francisco - Boing Boing

 

Views Show How North Korea Policy Spread Misery - NYTimes.com

Chinese farmer defends his field with DIY cannon - Boing Boing

 

The Evolution Of Man - PBH3

 

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Blog: German Millionaires Volunteer to Pay 'Rich Tax' - CNBC

 

Study Says Drug Manufacturing Facilities are Major Source of Drugs in Drinking Water : TreeHugger

 

Pac-Man Ship Eats Oil Spills (Wakka Wakka Wakka) : TreeHugger

Scenes from the Gulf of Mexico - The Big Picture - Boston.com

 

How It Works: Waterboxx | Popular Science

 

Detroit Residents Getting Burned by Polluting Trash Incinerators : TreeHugger

 

Technology Review: A Paper Test for Liver Damage

 

Retailers Look to Profit From Last Century’s Styles - NYTimes.com

 

For American Muslims, Choosing to Wear the Veil Poses Challenges - NYTimes.com

Tiny insect brains capable of huge feats

 

How Bacteria Boost the Immune System

 

Revised edition of The Urban Homestead - Boing Boing

 

The Science of Gaydar

 

The Female Factor - In Sweden, the Men Can Have It All - NYTimes.com

 

BBC News - French oyster business faces fresh plague crisis

NYT: Vast mineral deposits found in Afghanistan - The New York Times- msnbc.com

 

Technology Review: Plastic Antibodies Fight Toxins

 

Technology Review: Old Livers Made New Again

 

Stimulus Package Bond Program Raises Doubts - NYTimes.com

 

Essay - Are Killer Viruses Things of Beauty? - Review - NYTimes.com

Tree-mendous - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com

In The Garden - Growing Your Own Horseradish - NYTimes.com

 

Greenbutts Cigarette Filters Create Garden of Flowers from Discarded Butts : TreeHugger

 

The Pros and Cons of Induction Cooking - NYTimes.com

 

Economic Scene - To Cut Health Costs, U.S. Needs to Learn to Say No - NYTimes.com

 

Sound bullets could treat cancers and replace ultrasound (w/ Video)

 

Using plants to purify canal water

Gut feeling: Intestinal germ helps sushi digestion

 

Traditional Inuit knowledge combines with science to shape weather insights

 

Texas Town Installs a Monster Battery for Backup Power | Popular Science

 

YouTube - MUTE BEAT - Dub In The Fog

 

Libertarian Legacy | TPMCafe

 

Stigler's law of eponymy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Quiet sun puts Europe on ice - environment - 14 April 2010 - New Scientist

 

YouTube - Axis Of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles)

 

Man operates strip club in his basement - Boing Boing

 

You've heard of peak oil. How about peak gold? - The Globe and Mail

 

The Oil Drum: Europe | Peak asphalt: the return of gravel roads

 

The most beautiful suicide

For nations living the good life, the party's over, IMF says

 

The rootless world of the super-rich - Telegraph

 

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BBC News - How big is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?

 

BBC News - 50 years of a sometimes bitter pill

 

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$2.2 Trillion Gulf Economy Is Threatened By The Spill

 

BBC News - Can free market economics boost Amazonian land rights?

 

Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration? | Video on TED.com

 

Giant Plumes of Oil Found Under Gulf of Mexico - NYTimes.com

 

Why Generation-Y Can’t Read Nonverbal Cues - WSJ.com

 

Vintage ads depicting abused and domesticated women - Boing Boing

Foucault's Pendulum cable snaps, causing irreparable damage - Boing Boing

 

YouTube - Literature gets a ride in the streets of Buenos Aires

 

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Flickr Photo Download: BP Cake

 

Crackdown in Bangkok - The Big Picture - Boston.com

 

Greenland rapidly rising as ice melt continues

The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: What happens when three men who identify as 

 Jesus are forced to live together? - By Vaughan Bell - Slate Magazine

 

YouTube - Temptations - Shakey Ground

 

Pushed to Lower Salt Use, Food Industry Pushes Back - NYTimes.com

 

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Your Money - Another Debt Crisis Is Brewing, This One in Student Loans - NYTimes.com

 

Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience: A breakthrough cure for Ebola

Haitian Farmers Refuse Monsanto's Seeds and Instead Commit to Burning Them : TreeHugger

 

Colombia to Elect World's First Green Party President : TreeHugger

 

Geek Gardening: A Wired Guide to Domestic Terraforming | Magazine | Wired.com

 

Battling a Virus Ravaging East Africa’s Cassava Crops - NYTimes.com

 

A Crack in the Stoic’s Armor - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com

 

Global Update - Poisoned Wells - In Asia, Cutting Arsenic Risk in Water Through Well-Drilling Techniques - NYTimes.com

Art - Marina Abramovic’s Silent Sitting at MoMA Reaches Finale - NYTimes.com

 

Detoxifying the Home - NYTimes.com

 

Men are dying for sex: Mating competition explains excess male mortality

 

McRefugees in Shanghai find refuge in fast food joints - Boing Boing

 

Living in denial: Why sensible people reject the truth - opinion - 19 May 2010 - New Scientist

 

Adderall Receives Honorary Degree From Harvard | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

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