isawstephen: A Letter from Our Boss, Jeff Hanak: →
To all Friends of the Restaurant Industry
Request for any donations to keep the City College of San Francisco Culinary Arts and Hospitality Program alive.
Being a former graduate of the two year program which was called Hotel and Restaurant in the late 80’s, I take great pride in calling…
Documents show for the first time that local anti-wind groups are co-ordinating and working with national fossil-fuel funded advocacy groups to wreck the wind industry. →
A network of ultra-conservative groups is ramping up an offensive on multiple fronts to turn the American public against wind farms and Barack Obama’s energy agenda.
A number of rightwing organisations, including Americans for Prosperity, which is funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, are attacking Obama for his support for solar and wind power. The American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec), which also has financial links to the Kochs, has drafted bills to overturn state laws promoting wind energy.
Now a confidential strategy memo seen by the Guardian advises using “subversion” to build a national movement of wind farm protesters.
The Koch brothers have more money than they’ll ever be able to spend in their entire lives, and they are actively trying to destroy efforts to make our planet safer for our children and grandchildren, just so they can have more money.
They are the platonic ideal of evil.
Really, against wind energy? C’mon!
Microaggressions →
This link came out of a conversation with friends about my experience at a small rural airport watching TSA agents subtly harass a woman of color and then put me through the backscatter scanner as well to cover it up. It’s one of those things where you wonder, did that really happen the way it seemed? Now I know what to call it: “microaggression.” Racism so subtle you’re supposed to miss it …
Not only have multiple independent researchers demonstrated that global temperatures are likely greater than at any period in the last 2000 years, but the data used by researchers are all independent too. Sources as varied as marine sediments, corals, tree rings, stalagmites, boreholes, the length of glacial tongues, ice cores, and lake sediments all independently confirm that modern global temperatures are anomalously high. Independent researchers using independent data and methodologies to reproduce the each other’s results is the ideal for how to conduct good science.
Brian Angliss, from Serious errors and shortcomings void climate letter by 49 former NASA employees
So very good. This is what popular science writing is all about.
(via globalspin)
When Nina Katchadourian gets bored on long flights, she dresses up in toilet paper and takes photos. The project is called, “Seat Assignment: Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style.”
The awesome of this leaves me speechless.
WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR: aatombomb: We were discussing homosexuality because of an allusion to... →
We were discussing homosexuality because of an allusion to it in the book we were reading, and several boys made comments such as, “That’s disgusting.” We got into the debate and eventually a boy admitted that he was terrified/disgusted when he was once sharing a taxi and the…
I think this sums it up
Huge Coronal Hole Is Sending Solar Wind Our Way
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An enormous triangular hole in the Sun’s corona was captured earlier today by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, seen above from the AIA 211 imaging assembly. This gap in the Sun’s atmosphere is allowing more charged solar particles to stream out into the Solar System… and toward Earth as well.
Normally, loops of magnetic energy keep much of the Sun’s outward flow of gas contained. Coronal holes are regions — sometimes very large regions, such as the one witnessed today — where the magnetic fields don’t loop back onto the Sun but instead stream outwards, creating channels for solar material to escape.
The material constantly flowing outward is called the solar wind, which typically “blows” at around 250 miles (400 km) per second. When a coronal hole is present, though, the wind speed can double to nearly 500 miles (800 km) per second.
(via universetoday)
Holy shit, you guys. The Sun is the Eye of Sauron.
bitshare: The entertainment industry are some sneaky bastards - yeah, I am looking at you RIAA. So, remember the whole SOPA thing where we came together as one Internet to stop the evils of Hollywood bribing lawmakers to track our online activities and shut down sites like Tumblr, Reddit and YouTube?
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