Billions of bits of plastic are accumulating in a massive garbage patch in the Atlantic Ocean—a lesser known cousin to the Texas-size trash vortex in the Pacific, scientists say. “Many people have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” said Kara Lavender Law, an oceanographer at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. (See pictures of the Pacific [...]
February 18, 2010
For those of you counting down until the end of days, have you considered what’ll happen to your pets once you’re spirited away to heaven? Eternal Earth-Bound Pets has, and promises to care for your pet after the apocalypse. For $110, Earth-Bound Pets’ “network of animal activists are committed to step in when you step up [...]
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There’s some of us who think it looks like Dr Robotnik. Others think it’s a waste of a typewriter. Artist and creator Aaron Ristau thinks it’s a computer mouse worth $300. To use it, you have to insert your smallest finger through the copper on the side of the mouse, and click the typewriter L and R keys [...]
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February 16, 2010
MIAMI — A South Florida teenager who sued her former principal after she was suspended for creating a Facebook page criticizing a teacher can proceed with her lawsuit, a federal judge has ruled. The student, Katherine Evans, is seeking to have her suspension expunged from her disciplinary record. School officials suspended her for three days, saying she [...]
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LONDON (AFP) - British Airways on Monday said it would use low-carbon fuel to power part of its fleet from 2014 once Europe’s first sustainable jet-fuel plant was built by US biofuels specialist Solena Group. BA chief executive Willie Walsh said the “unique partnership” with Solena would put the airline on the road to realising its target of reducing net carbon emissions by 50 [...]
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The vampire squid is one of many unheard of creatures living in the deep sea. The species, which is technically not a squid, but a cephalopod, had been living fairly anonymously since it first appeared 300 million years ago, even before dinosaurs existed, according toNational Geographic. Only now is it getting more attention because its [...]
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