Tuesday, June 21, 2011

the crisis of capitalism via RSA Animate

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"World's oceans in 'shocking' decline"

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This is just the latest in a series of warnings from activists and scholars that we are doing permanent damage to the systems that support life on this planet. I suspect it will be disregarded as the others have or dismissed as soon as someone drops a bomb somewhere or another economy goes into crisis. Gidden's Paradox sure is a bitch. 

Monday, June 20, 2011

snigger

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Via Chris Coltrane.

Wednesday, June 08, 2011

you know you're a scientist when . . .

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. . . you can spend an hour happily telling a very close family friend about how you once met a girl carrying a tray of your sperm across campus. And showing her pictures of them.