Wednesday is yet another Earth Day, but something feels different about this one for me. Maybe it’s the things i finally did this year to change a wasteful lifestyle. Maybe it was educating myself more, or getting rid of my car and taking public transportation more. Or maybe its the feeling that the government is starting to address climate change. Ninly.net was telling me of his new garden and compost in his new backyard and it made me jealous. Garbage has just been on my mind.

This week’s radiolab is a fascinating listen of historic garbage. How the things a people throw away can define who they are, and what they did. It’s part of a larger episode called detective stories, a sensibility that scientists know so well. Scientists of all types are really just detectives.

Imagine the archeologists digging into fresh kills 1000 years from now. They might actually think we were obsessed with aol time warner.

ahhh the big ball of garbage