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12 minutes ago ago from Semi-Successfully Depriving Electrons of Entropy
Apropos of my earlier entry about TSA doing even more to F**k-up Air travel in the wake of Christmas Day's "incident," this just in from DailyKos : In the wake of 9/11, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a New Yorker article on the history of hijackings (PDF), concluding: Can we close the loopholes that led to the September 11th attack? Logistically, an all-encompassing security system is probably impossible. A new safety protocol that adds thirty ...
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5 hours ago ago from GreenGrl
Air is our main contact with the environment in which we find ourselves. Every day, we breathe in 15 kg of air; that's more than our daily food intake. Air, in cities and confined environments where houses are really close together, consists of particles of different sizes charged of chemical pollutants. The finer particles will come into contact with the alveoli and will allow some pollutants go directly into the bloodstream, resulting in ...
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5 hours ago ago from HomePowerAmps.com
How many times have you heard that the secret to weight loss is diet and exercise together? How many people actually take that advice? Or, do we Americans tend to look for the quick-fix, the fad diet? Welcome to America's latest fad-diet: Bio-fuels. The main entree these days seems to be Ethanol, which we are producing in ever increasing quantities each year at the expense of our own food supply, and ironically, the environment itself. ...
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12 hours ago ago from Hullabaloo
Fergawdsake by digby This'll fix it: According to a statement posted Saturday morning on Air Canada’s Web site, the Transportation Security Administration will severely limit the behavior of both passengers and crew during flights in United States airspace — restricting movement in the final hour of flight. Late Saturday morning, the T.S.A. had not yet included this new information on its own Web site. “Among other things,” the ...
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6 hours ago ago from Gerry Canavan
* While we still come down on opposite sides of the particular questions involved, Traxus has a mostly good piece on Copenhagen, health care, and everything else . But if the term ‘progressive’ is to be taken seriously, a different political reality has to be embraced. All the feel-good talk about ‘getting somewhere’ or ‘good starts’ is so much living in the past. Everyone who calls the shots now knows, or has to pretend they know, that ...
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