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Bioaccumulation: the gift that keeps on giving

Bioaccumulation.It's what's for dinner.And lunch, and breakfast. Its danger depends a bit on whether you're flora or fauna, insect or mammal, baby or oldster -- and, of course, what you've...

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Rolling the dice with evolution

A new study by J. Alroy, just published in Science (subscription required for full text), has been getting some reporting by other sources. It's mildly entitled "The Shifting Balance of Diversity Among...

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350 eco-collapse jokes by 10/10/10 -- are you kidding?

When we heard about 350.org's 10/10/10 project a couple of months ago, we struggled to find one that was appropriate to our own project.Last week we had an epiphany, and we've launched an 11th-hour...

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Today the rain fell

Today the rain fell and the small barn roof was the timpani in the symphony of the rainToday the rain fell and the big barn roof thrummed like a thousand marching hobnail boots.But today hobnail boots...

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Politics: The Fashion Section (humor)

This season's in thing?Aggressive stance!It's not just a win, with extra-wide shoulders, very specific codpieces, and bald-man big-package whiteness, it's also causing conflagration on the...

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DDOS of WikiLeaks indicative of vast US hack

Correct me if I'm wrong, please.DDOS -- Distributed Denial of Service -- is what's been hammering WikiLeaks the last couple of days.That's when kajillions of requests for a server's webpage bombard a...

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"everything we do from now on matters."

As I've been doing daily for more than three years, this morning I was collecting news items documenting the ongoing environmental collapse (and adding punchlines) for the site I coedit.I ran across a...

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Another chance with revolution

I watched -- and worked in the aftermath of -- the collapse of the Soviet empire in '89, '90, 91.I tried to encourage, at the time, through my tenuous links in politics and policy, a dramatic response...

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A Modest Environmental Proposal

In light of the long-term environmental consequences of fossil energy extraction (whether that be hydraulic fracturing, tar sands, mountaintop mining, offshore drilling), and the cost of protecting...

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dot-connecting, then and now

As we close in on the 10th anniversary of our national, idiotic swerve into terror incognita, a land where fear was the currency used to buy off rationality, I'm reminded of the dots that weren't...

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So very Cosmopolitan

As an earnest and o-so-serious investigator of the ongoing environmental collapse, noted by few and bemoaned by only-a-few-more, I've recently realized that confronting the converging emergencies of...

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Thanks, Hillary

I have little doubt that Hillary Clinton was fundamentally involved in the Saudi Arabian announcement today that women will be "allowed" to vote, hold office, and serve on advisory...

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