TOXIC: Garbage Island - Parts 1, 2 and 3 PDF Print E-mail
Post by Thomas Morton | Vice   
Tuesday, 09 October 2012 20:38

Oh, This is Great - Humans Have Finally Ruined the Ocean

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I'm not one of those guys who corners folks at parties to rant at them about biodiesel or calls people "fucking idiots" for being skeptical about global warming. But I should also point out that I'm not one of those Andrew Dice Clay "Fuck the whales" types either.

The problem with all the bravado on both sides of the ecology debate is that nobody really knows what they're talking about. Trying to form opinions on climate change, overpopulation, and peak oil hinges on ginormous leaps of faith based around tiny statistical deviances that even the scientists studying them have a hard time understanding. It gets so convoluted with all the yelling and the politics that sometimes you just want something huge and incontrovertibly awful to come along for everybody to agree on. Something you can show anyone a picture of and go, "See? We're fucked."

PART ONE

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The Sound of Earth PDF Print E-mail
Post by Robin   
Sunday, 07 October 2012 20:36

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$1 billion dollar project underway to drill into Earth’s mantle PDF Print E-mail
Post by Tom Levitt | CNN   
Monday, 08 October 2012 20:12

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Humans have reached the moon and are planning to return samples from Mars, but when it comes to exploring the land deep beneath our feet, we have only scratched the surface of our planet.

This may be about to change with a $1 billion mission to drill 6 km (3.7 miles) beneath the seafloor to reach the Earth's mantle -- a 3000 km-thick layer of slowly deforming rock between the crust and the core which makes up the majority of our planet -- and bring back the first ever fresh samples.

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Stuff They Don't Want You to Know PDF Print E-mail
Post by Jo   
Friday, 12 October 2012 00:00
From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events. Get a closer look at the Stuff They Don't Want You to Know - a series of fascinating videos by A Discovery Company, HowStuffWorks.com. Here is the first one - the rest will follow.

They are short and you will likely get caught in wanting to watch the entire series in one sitting!

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