Soaring ocean temperature is ‘greatest hidden challenge of our generation’ 

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IUCN report warns that ‘truly staggering’ rate of warming is changing the behaviour of marine species, reducing fishing zones and spreading disease Source: Soaring ocean temperature is ‘greatest hidden challenge of our generation’ | Environment | The...

Sea Level Rise: “It’s not a hundred years off — it’s now.”

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“It’s not a hundred years off — it’s now.” “Local governments, under pressure from annoyed citizens, are beginning to act. Elections are being won on promises to invest money to protect against flooding.” NYTimes article “Congress has largely ignored...

Pet cats decimate bird populations. You can do something about it.

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Pet cats kill lots and lots of birds. If you want to help preserve bird species, you can do one of two things. You can keep your cat indoors, or you can make your cat more visible to birds. I keep my cats indoors. It is safer for them, and they can’t kill the...

We are changing from coal to renewables for electricity.

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It’s happening! We are switching from coal to renewables for electricity. Iowa utility going to all-wind by 2019! The economics are inevitable. The fuel cost for wind is 0....

Software Problem Trades 8 Million Shares Per Minute for 45 Minutes

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This happened on August 1, 2012. Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale During the 45-minutes of Hell that Knight experienced they attempted several counter measures to try and stop the erroneous trades. There was no kill-switch (and no documented procedures for...

WARNING WARNING WARNING. The US will rapidly decline if we do not teach actual science in our schools.

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“I believe that God created the known universe, the earth and everything in it, including man. And I also believe that someday scientists will come to see that only the theory of intelligent design provides even a remotely rational explanation for the known...

Astronaut spacewalk training!

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Astronaut hugs!!!!!!!

Private company gets US approval for Moon landing

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Moon Express becomes first private company to get US approval for lunar mission

A bus that goes over traffic.

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The Chinese have built a bus that goes over top of traffic to ease traffic congestion. They tested the full scale demonstration model. Neat! BBC Article

Water levels in MD flood today rose 20 ft in matter of minutes, smashing records dating back 150 yrs.

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