For thousands of years Sun worshipers have celebrated the Sun god’s rebirth after the winter solstice. Pagans honored the birth of the “invincible sun” with a festival of lights, using big bonfires, pork fat tallow candles and, today, billions of colored lights. Rome’s seven day Saturnalia was religious revelry with decadent drunkenness, outrageous adultery and [...]
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This campaign is a response to the student debt crisis and the dependency of U.S. higher education on debt-financing from the people it is supposed to serve. There is no justice in a system that openly invites profiteering on the part of lenders. Education is a right and a public good, and it should [...] Unpaid bills land some debtors behind bars There are real horror stories about tenants being evicted when their landlord was foreclosed. Sometimes they didn’t even know until the sheriff came. Checkyourlandlord offers basic information on this for free while charging for more detailed information. It could be worth a few bucks a month to get regular reports on whether the property [...] Wired According to the mobile carriers, we consented to their installation of Carrier IQ even though we didn’t know about it and can’t easily remove it once we do know. Sprint, AT&T, HTC and Samsung told Sen. Al Franken (D-Minnesota) Thursday that their end-user licensing agreements — those pages of fine print you sign [...] Inductive charging could be standard in Europe within ten years. German researchers and Nissan are both working on it. Should anyone try to introduce it here in the US, I’m sure NIMBYs and vested interests will block it for years, just as they’ve done with offshore wind. Truly, it is far better we argue [...] Drive it if you dare. I use “moot” – of little or no practical value or meaning… frequently, but never gave a lot of thought to its “debatability”. I might have to change that. For example, I commented recently “that the truth is impolite is moot” – regardless of being a former governor and senator etc etc ad adnausium, Corzine [...] Black Panthers. California State Capitol. 1967. As of Jan. 1, 2012, open carry of an unloaded handgun will be illegal in California. What’s that you say? You didn’t even know it was legal? California AB 144 passed in October and was signed by Governor Brown. He did so saying he listens to California police [...] WindFlip tows the turbine out almost horizontal – and then when it gets to the site, tilts it up into position – using only the weight of seawater to do it. CleanTechnica has the details on this innovative technology to tow and install behemoth floating offshore wind turbines. This is of course happening in [...] |  | ||||
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