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Climate Change and Flooding in Netherlands and Bangladesh
In the Guardian, Tahmima Anam returns to her birthplace of Bangladesh to see how it is dealing with rising sea levels. The facts about climate change in Bangladesh are indeed grim. The country is a...
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Mostly Non-Health-Care Links
* ACORN will disband as a result of the O’Keefe hoax. * Via Twitter I see NBC News is reporting (no link yet) that the Senate parliamentarian has rejected the GOP challenge to the health care sidecar....
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Annihilation of All Life on Earth Links
* In 1989 we were six hours away from the annihilation of all life on earth. * Humans think we run the place, but we haven’t even built the most awesome dam in the world. That honor belongs to the...
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China and Ecology
So he stands in the village in Guangdong province, where the world’s old motherboards—yours and mine—are sent to die. There, children pick through the old computers, breaking down every reusable part...
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‘We’re Building Things Based on a Hydrological Lie’
The headline reads, “World’s Dams Unprepared for Climate Change Conditions.”
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A Whole Lot of Sunday Night Links
* SNL wins a game: Djesus Uncrossed. * Batman should never have revealed his secret identity. * Dan Harmon explains his Joseph-Campbell-influenced theory of the “story circle,” in a few posts: 1 2 3 4...
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Weekend Links
* My proposed Coursera course will ask students to discover for themselves how and why John Doerr, and your other Venture Capitalists, are willing to provide an even greater abundance of knowledge in...
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Welcome to the Anthropocene
‘On Average, Humanity Has Built One Large Dam Every Day for the Last 130 Years.’
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Sunday Reading, Accept No Imitations
* Timeline of Science Fiction Ideas, Technology and Inventions (sorted by Publication Date). * Ill-considered, disastrous dam project “has given biologists the opportunity to measure the speed of...
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Midweek Links!
* Truly, this is the best of all possible worlds: X-Wing, Tie Fighter Are FINALLY Getting Digital Re-Releases. I don’t meant to brag but I was the very very best in the world at this game, back when....
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Surprise Sunday Links! Watch Out!
* The route Google Maps recommends if you’re headed to Ferrum College from the west involves what may be the loneliest and most roller-coaster-like stretch of roadway ever to earn a state route number...
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Wednesday Night Links!
* Somehow, Grad School Vonnegut has returned. * I’ll be giving a talk at UCSB next Tuesday as part of my ongoing Aurora project. Email me for details if you want them! UCSB Lit and Environment...
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