Archive for June, 2008
“Methandienone, has been shown to increase muscle production by up to 20 pounds over a typical two month cycle. In addition, Methandienone increases protein amalgamation, allows users to renew glycogen stores at a faster rate and increases strength in a very brief period. Furthermore, the drug, which works almost immediately, is a complimentary addition to injectable substances that require a longer timeframe to show effects.”
“Methandienone, has been shown to increase muscle production by up to 20 pounds over a typical two month cycle. In addition, Methandienone increases protein amalgamation, allows users to renew glycogen stores at a faster rate and increases strength in a very brief period. Furthermore, the drug, which works almost immediately, is a complimentary addition to [...]
“In fact, prawn trawling uses almost 20 times more fuel per tonne of catch than the small-fish industry according to research by Dalhousie University in Canada.”
“In fact, prawn trawling uses almost 20 times more fuel per tonne of catch than the small-fish industry according to research by Dalhousie University in Canada.”— BBC – Climate Change – Bloom – Eat fewer prawns (and scrimp on the shrimp)
“Allstate has announced that the number of Californians running out of gas on the highway jumped 17% in the first 5 months of 2008 compared to the same time period in 2007. Additionally, AAA of Northern California saw a 6.5% increase in stranded “empty-tankers” in April.”
“Allstate has announced that the number of Californians running out of gas on the highway jumped 17% in the first 5 months of 2008 compared to the same time period in 2007. Additionally, AAA of Northern California saw a 6.5% increase in stranded “empty-tankers” in April.”— High Gas Prices: Empty Tanks Are the New Black [...]
Let the games begin China on June 20th. Look at that “air,” if you can call it that. I’m don’t think my lungs would recognize that stuff if you were to put it in a bottle and ship it across the ocean. Intead of oxygen bars, we should open Chinese air bars to recalibrate people to the reality of life for 1.3 billion people. Can we call what’s happening in Chinese cities reverse terraforming?
Let the games begin
China on June 20th. Look at that “air,” if you can call it that. I’m don’t think my lungs would recognize that stuff if you were to put it in a bottle and ship it across the ocean. Intead of oxygen bars, we should open Chinese air bars to recalibrate people to [...]
“Tables, chairs, a television flew through the air. Kitchen equipment was smashed with bricks. Soon the crowd had moved on to other Muslim restaurants on the same strip as terrified waiters and cooks scurried outside for safety. Disputes such as that one last summer are common in western China, where a volatile ethnic stew is increasingly erupting into violence. Among China’s dozens of minorities, few get along as badly as Tibetans and Muslims.”
“Tables, chairs, a television flew through the air. Kitchen equipment was smashed with bricks. Soon the crowd had moved on to other Muslim restaurants on the same strip as terrified waiters and cooks scurried outside for safety. Disputes such as that one last summer are common in western China, where a volatile ethnic stew is [...]
“While federal and state officials put the brakes on new coal-fired power plants and as investors back out of others, the demand for more renewable energy will only grow stronger. And as it turns out, the spots with the best renewable resources also have the harshest and often least habitable climates – dry, hot, windy, barren, etc. – so the electricity then needs to be transmitted to areas where people have settled (i.e. cities). And that is where some problems are surfacing.”
“While federal and state officials put the brakes on new coal-fired power plants and as investors back out of others, the demand for more renewable energy will only grow stronger. And as it turns out, the spots with the best renewable resources also have the harshest and often least habitable climates – dry, hot, windy, [...]
“The targeted offenses: if you are stolen, call the police at once. please omnivorously put the waste in garbage can. deformed man lavatory. For the past 18 months, teams of language police have been scouring Beijing on a mission to wipe out all such traces of bad English signage before the Olympics come to town in August. They’re the type of goofy transgressions that we in the English homelands love to poke fun at, devoting entire Web sites to so-called Chinglish. (By the way, that last phrase means “handicapped bathroom.”) But what if these sentences aren’t really bad English? What if they are evidence that the English language is happily leading an alternative lifestyle without us?”
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The targeted offenses: if you are stolen, call the police at once. please omnivorously put the waste in garbage can. deformed man lavatory. For the past 18 months, teams of language police have been scouring Beijing on a mission to wipe out all such traces of bad English signage before the Olympics come to town [...]
“Lanworth uses satellite images, digital soil maps, and weather forecasts to project harvests at the scale of individual fields. It even looks at crop conditions and rotation patterns — combining all the numbers to determine future yields.”
“Lanworth uses satellite images, digital soil maps, and weather forecasts to project harvests at the scale of individual fields. It even looks at crop conditions and rotation patterns — combining all the numbers to determine future yields.”— Feeding the Masses: Data In, Crop Predictions Out
“But in countries where regimes control Internet use, questions arise of whether the West should ever make Wi-Fi freely available, and if so, when. Just as the Voice of America reached millions in totalitarian countries, should we not develop the Web of America?”
“But in countries where regimes control Internet use, questions arise of whether the West should ever make Wi-Fi freely available, and if so, when. Just as the Voice of America reached millions in totalitarian countries, should we not develop the Web of America?”— Wi-fi, War, and Peace in Myanmar
Japan for Sustainability – First-Ever Social Sharing Network Service Launched
Japan for Sustainability – First-Ever Social Sharing Network Service LaunchedThis is a vision of how you’d create novel interactions between people and products, and dramatically reduce the amount of stuff in the world.
Inventing Green by Alexis Madrigal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
