Month April 2009

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Listening to the ultra right currently getting paranoid about re-education camps reminds me of what some of the ultra left said during the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush regimes, that concentration camps were being planned. Didn’t happen, did it?

Fungi as styrofoam replacement

Using special fungi to dissolve lignin mixed with agricultural waste produces a substance quite a lot like styrofoam, but without the carbon footprint, plus it’s organic and created from waste. From Evocative Design, who created it Eventually we hope to…

Dream the Impossible Dream

Susan Boyle, a 47 year old woman, showed up on Britain’s Got Talent. She was way awkward during the intro, seemed seriously out of her depth, and said her dream was to sing before an audience. The jaded audience looked…