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- What I would Change About the World: To start, I would subtract organized religion.
- Current Project: A mid-twenties crisis
- Influences/Heroes: Charles Darwin - Eric Schlosser - Richard Dawkins - Thomas Jefferson - Ken Griffey Jr.
- Political Bent: Optimistic
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- mako2424 posted 2008's Greenwashes of the year 4 years ago
The Greenwash Brigade brings you [their] favorite greenwashes of 2008. Some good, some bad, some just plain funny — and in no particular order. (Vote for your favorite in the comments.)... more
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- mako2424 posted Does Daylight Saving Time Conserve Energy? 4 years ago
Starting this month, roughly one quarter of the world’s population will lose sleep and gain sunlight as they set their clocks ahead for daylight saving. People may think that with the time... more
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- mako2424 posted Carbon Offsets: Fact or Fiction? 4 years ago
The producers of the show "24" are going carbon neutral. They're helping to fund a wind farm in India and burning some biodiesel in the production trucks to try to precisely balance... more
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- mako2424 posted Senate Proposes Enhancement of FDA oversight 4 years ago
Coming on the heels of a sweeping salmonella scare, a bipartisan group of senators yesterday introduced legislation designed to give the feds the financial and regulatory muscle they need to... more
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- mako2424 posted Hubble Space Telescope catches three galaxies doing battle 4 years ago
Peering more than 100 million light-years across the universe, the Hubble Space Telescope caught three galaxies interacting, which is an astronomer's euphemism for a gravitational struggle of... more
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- mako2424 posted Thunder + Lightning + Snow = ThunderSnow? 4 years ago
It's been more than 30 years—during the Blizzard of 1978 to be exact—since Neil Stuart saw "thundersnow," a weather phenomenon featuring the unusual combination of... more
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- mako2424 posted "Smart" devices may help dementia sufferers 4 years ago
From the country that brought the world George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four comes a new, friendlier kind of Big Brother. This one is here to help people with memory loss live on their own... more
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- mako2424 posted Building Next-Gen Lie Detectors 4 years ago
A young man steals across the hallway, slips through a door and scans the room. He opens a drawer, snatches a wristwatch inside and puts it in his pocket. Then he hurries out the door. Sixty... more
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- mako2424 posted Does Eating Fewer Calories Improve the Brain? 4 years ago
Hara hatchi bu, the Okinawan people’s habit of eating only till they are 80 percent full, is thought to be one of the secrets of their extraordinary health and longevity. In addition to one... more
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- mako2424 posted Can "Assisted Migration" Save Species from Global Warming? 4 years ago
As the world warms up, some species cannot move to cooler climes in time to survive. Camille Parmesan thinks humans should help even if it means creating invasive species. ++++++++++++++++... more
