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Changes In The Sun Are Not Causing Global Warming, New Study Shows (Science Daily)

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Keeping with the star trek theme, in the days of the Federation, humans have learned the ability to control all aspects of earth’s weather. If paying attention to the subtle cues in each episode, they seemingly have eliminated catastrophic events like tornadoes, while still leaving a typical summer thunderstorm on the planet’s precipitation menu. San Francisco, home of star fleet, is never shown to be cloudy, foggy, or mildly cool. It’s a level of specificity and control in these global temperature obsessed times i tend to crave, almost more so than the food replicators and transporter machines. I kid, of course, food replicators trump all. 

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Happy Earth day. yes, that’s “day.” with a period, not “day!” with an exclamation point. Personally, i have little to celebrate about. I turn on the radio, (and having left the station on WFAN from the mets broadcast the day before) and i hear morning host craig carton making fun of  former NY Giant Dhani Jones for caring about his carbon footprint. By the way, my sister got me into Dhani’s new show on the travel channel where he goes all over the world playing other sports and learning about other cultures: Dhani tackles the world. (It’s a great show!). Jim just said yesterday: doing things, and going new places changes your mind (plasticity).

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If you haven’t seen Nova’s joint effort with National geographic, Extreme Ice, it’s available online in clips. It’s a really distressing look at the melting ice up north, and its much more than anticipated speed of melting. 

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Science, science everywhere, so let’s drink up! Here is a nice mix of news that may make you revisit your ideas of how our world works. For all those global warming skeptics out there, we have ice shelves the size of large states breaking up; for other the supernatural believers  in addition to this video) this revelation of the NJ UFO hoax; for all those people who think that the perpetuation of poverty is a choice, we have a new study on how poverty affects brain development; for energy Luddites who think our grid modernization hinges on proper energy storage, we have something for them too; and for Jim, we have a story about how awesome being funny is. Enjoy!

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oh really? i know that politicians aren’t the sharpest knives in your knife holding thingee, but man, i just want to shake this guy. just shake him!

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