Something is up. We, the cultural prom jocks that once could brag about raping the earth, are beginning to self examine and ponder. And personally, I find it quite hurty.
It seems that on the heels of Al Gore’s candid and ascerbic film ‘An Inconvenient Truth‘, comes another indictment of the corporate mega-sloth mentality - ‘Who [...]

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Cross section of a lavender leaf. Go here for more SEM microscopy photography.

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Everyone has bad habits. I do too. I’m always looking to improve — but this is not one of those times. The two bad habits I refuse to give up: I love caffeine. I love television.
I spent last week visiting friends who are not as dependent on TV as [...]

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Well, as to the question of why that thing did what it did, here’s your answer:

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I hardly understand this, but it makes me happy, nonetheless. The folks at CERN have developed the first “self-contained antiproton factory”. They used to collect anti-protons by hand, with a magnetic butterfly net (tee-hee-hee), but now the process is automated. The fact that antiprotons can be ’stored’ and ‘tuned’ for other experiments (including the synthesizing [...]

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