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mental_floss Blog - Aug 7, 2008
Last week I mentioned The Long Now Foundation, the progenitor of a series of interesting experiments in long-term thinking (such as The Clock of the Long Now and The 10,000 Year Photograph). Stewart Brand was a Long …
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The Surprising Source of New York’s First Environmental Problemmental_floss Blog - Jun 6, 2008 Was it the automobile? Was it lead from paint? Was it poor water conditions? No – it was horse pollution. Treating a Dead Horse Near the end of the 19th century, cities were completely riddled with horse manure … |
mental_floss Blog - May 30, 2008
Joshua Klein is interested in synanthropic species: those animals that have specifically adapted to live within human ecologies, like large cities. Example species are rats and cockroaches, which survive well in human …
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Simple Forecasting: Weather Ballsmental_floss Blog - May 20, 2008 Portland, Oregon has long had a Weather Ball — a series of lights that tell you, in rough terms, a weather forecast. It’s located downtown, on top of a building. From many locations in Portland you can spot the ball … Also tagged: technology, blogs, advertising, weather, inventions, around the world |
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4 Strange Greenpeace Momentsmental_floss Blog - Feb 17, 2008 Greenpeace has been at the forefront of political and environmental activism since its inception in 1971. While opposing nuclear testing and supporting environmental causes, Greenpeace has routinely been in the media … |
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5 Ways to Get Closer to Your Garbagemental_floss Blog - Feb 16, 2008 When you throw something in the trash, it’s easy to think that it stops being your problem — your friendly neighborhood sanitation workers take it away, and that’s that. Well, until the Garbage Apocalypse of 2062, when … Also tagged: blogs, inventions, disgusting |
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Al Gore’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speechmental_floss Blog - Jan 4, 2008 When Al Gore and the U.N. climate panel won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, Gore’s push to solve the climate crisis received even more media attention. I’m familiar with An Inconvenient Truth and Al Gore in general, but … Also tagged: politics, blogs, science, current events, nature |
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Obesity, Global Trade and Beer Prices: Why the Farm Bill is actually coolmental_floss Blog - Nov 14, 2007 As is usually the case with bills in Congress, I had a lot of trouble believing that the 2007 Farm Bill was applicable to me. After all, the last time I even remember going to a farm was on a kindergarten field trip … Also tagged: politics, health, blogs, current events, food and drink |
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How Climate Change is Messing with Sportsmental_floss Blog - Oct 13, 2007 We’ve all heard about the dangers of global warming and climate change. It’s going to make the oceans rise, drown our cities, kill plants, cause hurricanes and ruin the Earth for our grandkids. But that’s all secondary … |
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The Smells of Fallmental_floss Blog - Oct 4, 2007 Although the first day of fall was on September 23 this year, I didn’t notice it was fall until last night. Why? Well, it didn’t smell like fall. Here in Portland, there’s a particular smell I associate with the onset … |