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Space Junk Problem Reaches Tipping Point

It’s bad news for all you aspiring space tourists out there. Soon, the only ticket into space may be of the suborbital variety and nothing more ambitious, like actually flying into orbit. Earth is now surrounded by so much space junk that a leading expert on the issue has declared that we are at a “tipping point” — it may soon become too dangerous to venture into low-Earth orbit (LEO) through fear of having a manned spaceship punctured or a communications satellite trashed. [Read more]

Ian O’Neill on the nightmare scenario of the Space Age. Via: discoverynews

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Tea Baggers; always on the wrong side of history.

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Don’t hate in color, LOVE in color

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A sea otter no-go zone and a colony established decades ago have failed to help the threatened species. Wildlife officials say it’s time to scrap the program.

Photo credit: Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times

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The war on drugs is a war on minorities and the poor. The numbers don’t lie. The Civil Rights movement won a major victory in the late sixties, and in the early seventies we began to wage the war on drugs. We didn’t miss a beat.

— E.D. Kain

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Moss Graffiti

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“Equal”

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Chinese team develop fuel cell that can clean water as it generates electricity | Physorg.com

Yanbiao Liu and his colleagues from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, have succeeded in building a device capable of both cleaning wastewater and producing electricity from it. Using light as an energy source the team created a photo-catalytic fuel cell that used a titanium dioxide nanotube-array anode and a cathode based on platinum. The light energy degrades the organic material found in the wastewater and in the process generates electrons which pass through the cathode converting it into electricity. The team has published its results on Water Science & Technology.

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I’m not sure I’ve ever identified with a newspaper article as much as I did this morning.

Almost stopped me in my tracks when I saw the cover. 

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€10,000 reward is being offered in Germany for the safe return of a cow called Yvonne who went on the run in May after apparently sensing she was about to be sent to the slaughterhouse.

Yvonne, a six-year-old dairy cow, has, in the words of one newspaper, become “a kind of freedom fighter for the animal loving German republic” since she escaped from her field in the village of Zangberg, 50 miles north-east of Munich, on 24 May.

Having been fattened up, she was due to be dispatched when she managed to breach the electric fence surrounding her farm. For months she led a quiet life grazing among the fir trees of nearby forests, until she nearly came a cropper crossing a road into the path of a passing police car.

As word spread of this invincible cow, animal protection activists got involved, incensed that local hunters had been given permission to shoot Yvonne on sight. Gut Aiderbichl, an animal sanctuary over the Austrian border in Salzburg, agreed to buy Yvonne from the farm for €600 and has offered her a paddock with grass to graze on for the rest of her days.

Now a fight is on as the bovine protectionists are pitted against the trigger-happy Bavarians, who shot and killed Bruno, the first bear to be seen on German soil for 170 years, in June 2006.

You will not see a larger disparity in the central states than what is shown on the map below.

Using satellite data from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA has released this image displaying vegetation anomalies across the U.S. during the month of July.

In the green shaded areas, vegetation growth was much above average during the month, while brown shadings had well below-average vegetation growth. The greatest contrast, highlighted in the red box below, is right over the central U.S. This wet and dry contrast is not just a July story, it’s a story we’ve been following since spring.

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