Occasionally, the commercial mass media tip their hand and give us a glimpse of the Man Behind the Curtain. In this case, TIME magazine has posted the covers of its December 5th edition for different world markets, all on the same web page for easy comparison. The rest of the world gets to read about […]
By ANGELA K. BROWN and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press BLUFFTON, Texas, November 20 (AP) – Johnny C. Parks died two days before his first birthday more than a century ago. His grave slipped from sight along with the rest of the tiny town of Bluffton when Lake Buchanan was filled 55 years later. Now, the […]
San Francisco, CA, November 24 (SPX) – A new study, led by PRBO Conservation Science (PRBO), projects a bleak future for San Francisco Bay’s tidal marshes under high-end sea-level rise scenarios that are increasingly likely. PRBO and colleagues found that in the worst case scenario 93% of San Francisco Bay’s tidal marsh could be lost […]
Here’s Desdemona in 1997, giving a presentation on propaganda technology. it was such an innocent time: before 9/11, and before The Matrix, when “social media” meant no-budget public access broadcasts like this one. Network X – P is for Propaganda Technorati Tags: corruption,North America,conflict,propaganda
November 15 (Daily Mail) – An episode of the BBC’s Frozen Planet documentary series that looks at climate change has been scrapped in the U.S., where many are hostile to the idea of global warming. British viewers will see all seven episodes of the multi-million-pound nature series throughout the Autumn. But U.S. audiences will not […]
By Craig Welch, The Seattle Times14 November 2011 SAWTOOTH RIDGE, Wash. — The bug lady scoots through stick-straight lodgepole and ponderosa, and marches uphill toward the gnarled trunk of a troubled species: the whitebark pine. The ghostly conifers found on chilly, wind-swept peaks like this may well be among the earliest victims of a warming […]
By RACHEL NUWER3 November 2011 As we noted here in a recent post, a substantial body of research indicates that species tend to become smaller as a result of global warming and other climate change patterns. So researchers in California were surprised to find that West Coast birds, on the contrary, have been growing larger […]
By Michelle Esteban 11 November 2011 SEATTLE – Debris the size of California is headed for the U.S. coast. The materials were swept out to sea after a massive earthquake and a tsunami hit Japan last March. A local oceanographer says while the bulk of the debris will take several years to arrive, items that […]
By Steven Church, William Selway, and Dawn McCarty 9 November 2011 Jefferson County, Alabama, filed the biggest U.S. municipal bankruptcy after an agreement among elected officials and investors to refinance $3.1 billion in sewer bonds fell apart. The county, home to Birmingham, the state’s most-populous city, listed assets and debt of more than $1 billion […]
The Wikileaks Iraq war logs provide us with a unique picture of every death in Iraq. This graph shows these events mapped using Google Fusion tables. • Download the data from the Datablog Wikileaks Iraq war logs: every death mapped Technorati Tags: conflict,North America,Asia
