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PATH: BS | Science Mike Rowe: America Is Engaged In A Civil War Against Work Posted by Pile (14806 views) [E-Mail link] [Sociology] Mike Rowe, host of the tv show, "Dirty Jobs" addresses a group in the tech industry and gets into a very insightful talk about whether conventional wisdom is "right" and what the problem is with America. Very well worth watching... READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Tennessee Coal Plant Causes Huge Environmental Disaster Posted by Pile (12568 views) [E-Mail link] [Environment] [Industry] Just after midnight on December 22, levees broke at the The Kingston coal power plant, and a man-made pond containing toxic ash - essentially the leftovers from the nearby coal-burning power plant - burst its walls, and more than one billion gallons of coal ash spilled into the Tennessee River and its tributaries. The spill is 40 times larger than the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska, and one of the greatest environmental disasters in our nation's history. Imagine a river nearby to where you live: healthy, full of aquatic life, essential to community, ecology and economy. Now imagine that same body of water now filled with a grey-black sludge almost volcanic in proportion and density, full of toxins and poisons. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article What's In Your Cupboard? Posted by Pile (11428 views) [E-Mail link] [Psychology] [Bad Parents] A clever group has put together a short animated film called, "Instruction Manual For Life", and created a unique metaphor for peoples' ideology and sense of tolerance. Check out this insightful film.. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Is Piracy A Cover For Nuclear Waste Dumping Off Africa? Posted by Pile (17244 views) [E-Mail link] [Industry] [Environment] Who imagined that in 2009, the world's governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy - backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China - is sailing into Somalian waters to take on men we still picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder pantomime villains. They will soon be fighting Somalian ships and even chasing the pirates onto land, into one of the most broken countries on earth. But behind the arrr-me-hearties oddness of this tale, there is an untold scandal. The people our governments are labeling as "one of the great menace of our times" have an extraordinary story to tell -- and some justice on their side. READ MORE | 11 comments since 2011-11-21 00:19:40 | Comment on this Article Environmental Group Exposes EPA Whitewashing Posted by Pile (12760 views) [E-Mail link] [Environment] Preliminary water tests from rivers near a huge coal ash spill in Tennessee show elevated levels of pollutants such as mercury and lead, a environmental group said on Friday. "We're concerned that the water poses a greater risk to residents in the area than has been revealed so far," said Matt Wasson, a program director at Appalachian Voices, a environmental group that coordinated the testing of the water with scientists from Appalachian State University. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article A Primer On The Nature Of "Growth" Posted by Pile (12192 views) [E-Mail link] [Edumakashun] [Science] We interrupt this web site to bring you something that's likely more educational than what we usually provide, but it's worth watching... Do you understand the nature of the figures people give you every day about "growth rates?" Want to understand why prices change the way they do, why scientists say natural and other resources may run out much sooner than you think? Check out this amazingly informative and important video. READ MORE | 2 comments since 2008-12-15 10:40:25 | Comment on this Article Antibiotic-Free Chicken Injected With Drugs Before Hatched Posted by Pile (13100 views) [E-Mail link] [Biotech] Tyson Foods, the world's largest meat processor and the second largest chicken producer in the United States, has admitted that it injects its chickens with antibiotics before they hatch, but labels them as raised without antibiotics anyway. In response, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) told Tyson to stop using the antibiotic-free label. The company has sued over its right to keep using it. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Scientific Study Shows Conservatives Aren't Interested In Truth Posted by Pile (16212 views) [E-Mail link] [Psychology] A new study out of Yale University confirms what argumentative liberals have long-known: Offering reality-based rebuttals to conservative lies only makes conservatives cling to those lies even harder. In essence, schooling conservatives makes them more stupid. READ MORE | 22 comments since 2010-12-29 06:07:25 | Comment on this Article Gay Scientists Discover Christian Gene Posted by Pile (14010 views) [E-Mail link] [Biotech] [Humor] Gay scientists have isolated the gene they believe makes people Christian. READ MORE | 4 comments since 2010-12-10 18:13:17 | Comment on this Article Are YOU At Risk For Levee Failure? Posted by Pile (13341 views) [E-Mail link] [Environment] Every state in the country has U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects, and many of them are in dangerous "vulnerable" condition. If you think what happened in New Orleans couldn't happen to you, think again. Now Levees.org has put together a searchable database by zip code so you can check to see if your community is at risk. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article 10 Articles displayed. Show More Articles.

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