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Dec 23, 2012

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

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... We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to t...

The Road to 7 Billion People by the Numbers

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The Road to 7 Billion
Dec 22, 2012

Hong Kong, Choked By Smog, Bans Most Polluting Vehicles

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Choked by smog, the city of Hong Kong has finally cried "enough!" Despite setting clean air targets, the city's smog problems...

Despite tragedy in CT, stricter gun control laws are not the solution - focus on Mental illness & medications are keys to Preventing another crisis

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While sensible gun regulations are in order,  addressing the root causes  of the mass shootings is more important if real preventative measu...

Unsolvable Economic Issues have: More than half a million adults in California seriously thought about committing suicide during the previous year,

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More than half a million adults in California seriously thought about committing suicide during the previous year, according to a new study ...

CDC - recommendations for safe Infant Formula in Communities with Water Fluoridation

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The proper amount of fluoride from infancy through old age helps prevent and control tooth decay. Community water fluoridation  is a widely ...

No level of fluoride safe for infants... fluorosis effects associated with fluoride in infant formulas

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OBJECTIVES: The authors describe associations between dental fluorosis and fluoride intakes, with an emphasis on intake from fluoride in inf...

BP Gulf Oil Spill Judge Approves $7.8 Billion Settlement - via @Bloomberg

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BP Plc (BP/)  and the lead lawyers representing victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico  oil spill won approval of the economic and environmental...

Chart Of The Day: The Death Of America's Middle Class | via @ZeroHedge

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There is one chart that everyone should see that is part of Reuters'  must read  special series:  The Unequal State of America: Redistri...

Training Under Way For New Nuclear Plant Operators In S. Carolina

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excerpts from ABC News: "Southern Co. in Georgia and SCANA Corp. in South Carolina are the first to prepare  new workers to run a recen...

Officals warn Hurricane Sandy victims of mold, asbestos, lead paint exposure

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As residents and business owners start to rebuild after Hurricane Sandy, state and federal officials are trying to get one message out loud ...

TSA (Finally) Studying Health Effects of Body Scanners

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Slashdot "A 2011 ProPublica series found that the TSA had glossed over the small cancer risk posed by its X-ray body scanners at airpor...

The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust

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Slashdot - " Cars, once again, are killing us . They're killing us in  crashes and accidents , yes, and they're encouraging us ...

Mississippi River bedrock is being blasted to clear way for barge traffic,

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irjci  - Barge operators along a key stretch of the Mississippi River are bracing for months of shipping delays as the  Army Corps of Engine...

NRA says it will make 'meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again'

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irjci  - The  National Rifle Association , which has remained mum since the Dec. 14 mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., and increased calls for...

Is Safe, Green Thorium Power Finally Ready For Prime Time? - via @Slashdot

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"If you've not been tracking the thorium hype, you might be interested to learn that the benefits liquid fluoride thorium reactors ...

Without debt deal, About 2.1 million Americans will lose their extended jobless benefits Dec. 29

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About 2.1 million Americans will lose their extended jobless benefits  on Dec. 29 , leaving many on the brink of poverty, if Washington does...

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) addresses solar flare concerns.

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NRC TO FURTHER EXAMINE SOLAR FLARE ISSUES RAISED IN RULEMAKING PETITION The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has determined its rulemaking proc...

Food stamps to be cut... To pay NFL's taxes?

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Center on Budget & Policy Priorities  -  As policymakers deliberate over the "fiscal cliff" and calls are coming from some qua...

EPA Issues New Boiler and Solid Waste Incinerator Rules

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With much anticipation, on December 21, 2012 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a suite of air pollution rules regulating ha...
Dec 18, 2012

People Are Living Longer, With More Disabilities Than Ever

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SlashDot: "Worldwide, people are living longer . Their lives are starting to look more like the lives of Americans: too much food is a ...
Dec 17, 2012

Downloading Tweets... And all social networking becomes a complete, waste of time

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Twitter is starting to roll out the ability to download all your Tweets . What could possibly go wrong? The Joy of Tech knows. Link -via @L...

Meet Google’s energy innovation czar | via @SmartPlanet

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Arun Majumdar, the former chief of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, has been hired by Google to drive ener...

Pb (Lead) the "Criminal Element" upcoming article by @kdrum of @motherjones

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Environmental Pb's effects on crime, IQ explain 90% of time-related variance. So are criminals routinely tested for lead? Unfortunately ...

"I told them ... I love you all very much."

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"I told them ... I love you all very much." A dispatch from Newtown father Ross MacDonald. As seen on frontpa...

Quotation of the day: Taxing the poor

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“With all the talk about taxing the rich, we hear very little talk about taxing the poor. Yet the marginal tax rate on someone living in pov...
Dec 15, 2012

E-bike gets 200 miles per charges, 80 miles per hour priced at $16,000

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SmartPlanet ... The Hanebrink X-5 electric bicycle weighs 120 lbs and has a  dual suspension monocoque chassis made of aircraft-grade alumin...

6 rooms into 1: morphing apartment packs 1100 sq ft into 420

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faircompanies... Today the 420-square-foot space can be expanded to include the functionality of 1,100 square feet: walls, drawers and beds ...

The world now has an obesity problem that is 25% of global deaths| via @SmartPlanet

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It’s no longer just developed countries like the United States that are dealing with obesity. Now, overeating is more of a  global   problem...

Nine out of ten organizations lack proper tech skills: study | Is #socialmedia killing our productivity?

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Is digital distraction the cause of this headshot to our nations productivity? ...findings of a new  survey  of 1,200 executives, just relea...

Drought’s a Grinch – years from now | Great Lakes Echo

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... In Michigan, the $40 million annual crop is also at risk,   reports  the Great Lakes Echo  of the Knight Center for Environmental Journa...

Military weeding out obese and overweight troops... 15 times increase in number discharged

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irjci  - Between 1998 and 2010, CNN reports, the number of active-duty military personnel deemed overweight or obese more than tripled. In ...

Solar Panels For Every Home?

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Slashdot ... "David Crane and Robert F.Kennedy Jr. write in the NY Times that with residents of New Jersey and New York living through ...

Our $202 Trillion Destiny, We cannot mathematically solve this debt problem. We can only slow its progression."

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How we destroyed the future in one generation: .. . As Cashin so wisely points out: "Somewhat lost in the posturing is the fact that th...

It is about time...US gun website sued for alleged ties to slayings

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CHICAGO - A prominent U.S. gun control group on Wednesday sued a gun auction website it says is linked to a mass shooting at a Wisconsin spa...