Author: Daniela

  • A Poetry of Names

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    Andrew Leonard’s June 10th column, in Salon, pays tribute to Ian M. Banks, the popular science fiction author who died of cancer on Sunday.  Leonard takes, “a plunge into the poetry of Ian M. Banks’ Culture spaceships” by listing the names of “the awesome, meddlesome, cantankerous and benevolent spaceships” that populate Banks’ novels: Prosthetic Conscience…

  • Photo of the day

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    Here’s a truly gorgeous image by astrophotographer Mick Hyde, a mosaic of NGC 7000 (the North American nebula) and the Pelican nebula (IC 5070).  Read more here.

  • TransCanda Whistleblower Warns of Shoddy Practices

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    Former TransCanada Corp. employee Evan Vokes’ impassioned testimony before a Canadian Senate committee last week painted “a very, very bleak picture of the pipeline industry in Canada, and probably by extension, the States,” according to Sen. Betty Unger. Vokes’ allegations on Thursday against TransCanada, the Canadian company leading the controversial proposal to send tar sands…

  • Window in the sky

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    Originally posted on pica cordoba: and yet another….

  • Beth Greer Interview with Vandana Shiva

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    Another great interview with Vandana Shiva – errant cell phone ringing, dog barking, birds chirping LOUDLY, bad sound and all!!

  • Monday Prayer

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    There Are Poems There are poems that are never written, that simply move across the mind like skywriting on a still day; slowly the first word drifts west, the last letters dissolve on the tongue, and what is left is the pure blue of insight, without cloud or comfort.  —  Linda Pastan,  (via sina-santi2)

  • 97% of Scientific Community Agree – Humans Causing Global Warming

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    Scientists agree on a warming Earth 08 June 2013 Issue No:275 University World News Researchers in America, Australia, Britain and Canada found an overwhelming consensus among scientists regarding human-induced global warming after examining the abstracts of 12,000 papers dealing with climate from 1991 to 2011. They say the number of papers rejecting the consensus was…

  • Re-Thinking Meat

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    My friend Frank shared this with me.  I’m all for the labeling, reducing the amount of meat consumed and certainly vegetarianism.  But the in-vitro meat…I don’t know…  

  • NASA Flights Target How Pollution, Storms And Climate Mix

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    More than 250 scientists, engineers, and flight personnel are participating in the Studies of Emissions, Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys (SEAC4RS) campaign. The project is sponsored by the Earth Science Division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Brian Toon of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences…

  • Students Must Learn About Cooperative Business Models

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    June 9, 2013by: Kenny Bavoso Entrepreneurship is the main thing that is taught in business schools. A good business does not encourage being employed but generates a want among students to be their own boss. What most business schools fail to understand is that behavior is the key to entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial education should ultimately impart values,…