They Found a Fungus that Eats Plastic

01.31.2012 | by | Comment


Yale sent a group of students to the Amazon to poke around at plants and “As it turns out, they brought back a fungus new to science with a voracious appetite for a global waste problem: polyurethane.”

Read more at Fastcoexsist.com

My favorite reply in the comments section: “We don’t really have the best track record when it comes to introducing a foreign species to handle a problem we’ve created.”

LOL

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This is Happening: Pirate Fishing

01.31.2012 | by | Comment

Al Jazeera investegates a multi-million dollar illegal fishing trade off the coast of Sierra Leone.

“The precious marine resources of some of the world’s poorest people are being targeted by industrial-scale pirate fishing operations, to feed the seafood hungry markets of Europe and Asia.” - Al Jazeera

Watch the Part 1 of “People & Power” below Read more

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But It’s Kind of Funny Right?

01.31.2012 | by | Comment

“Mocking requests to return the drone, a local toy company plans to send a miniature pink model of the RQ-170 Sentinel to U.S. President Barack Obama.” -Reuters

Watch the video below. Read more

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Julian Assange Meets The Simpsons

01.30.2012 | by | Comment

RADICAL.

“WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has provided the voice for an animated version of himself in the 500th episode of Fox’s “The Simpsons,” a network spokeswoman confirmed Monday.”
-NY Daily News

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SAGAN SUNDAY

01.29.2012 | by | Comment


Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: Episode 7 – The Backbone of Night

If you are feeling slow and hungover like me… a dose of Cosmos always does the trick

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Modified Turntable Plays Tree Rings

01.25.2012 | by | Comment

Rad: modified record player designed to interpret a fallen tree’s rings into rather dynamic piano pieces. Read more at treehugger.com

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High Definition: Exponential Growth

01.25.2012 | by | Comment

Dr. Albert A. Bartlett gets real on the arithmetic of exponential growth, or what he calls, “The National Religion.”

Watch his entire presentation here.

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Police Brutality: The Coloring Book

01.24.2012 | by | Comment

“46 contemporary artists have contributed drawings in response to the recent wave of excessive force used by the police in U.S. cities.”

buy it cheap here.
Check out a slide show preview over at TWBE.

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World Economic Forum

01.24.2012 | by | Comment


“The economic equivalent of the Oscars, the WEF is a time for the 0.1% to celebrate the achievements and successes of free-markets, and to discuss how to keep the crumbling ship from running ashore; it’s also a time to get in a few good runs on the slopes, deep tissue massages and a soothing hot tub session on the 99%’s dime.” -Adbusters

Meanwhile Occupiers in Davos are building igloos. Rad.

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This is Happening: Oil for Gold

01.24.2012 | by | Comment

This is a big deal.

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