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• Plunder the sea

  New online game illustrates the impacts of overfishing 1

  Posted 1 year, 7 months ago

  Following in the footsteps of other web-based enviro games such as Whale's Revenge, Planet Green, and, uh, Catstration (okay, maybe that one is a stretch) comes Ocean Survivor. The game has no relation to a certain CBS reality show; players swim through the sea as a bluefin tuna and avoid obstacles like death-by-bottom-trawler:

  

• Journey to the bottom of the Earth

  CBS airs final segment of Antarctica series tonight 1

  Posted 1 year, 9 months ago

  CBS has been televising a series this week on climate change impacts in Antarctica. Monday's broadcast spotlighted how climate change has affected Adelie penguin populations. The segment last night focused on scientific research in Antarctica and what it might mean for our understanding of global warming (see video below). You can tune in tonight at 6:30 pm EST to find out about waste and recycling issues in our least-inhabited continent.

• Stadium Barack

  Obama takes the stage in Seattle to rally support for Saturday's state caucuses 9

  Posted 1 year, 9 months ago

  Barack Obama's speech in Seattle today made this 26-year-old feel positively old. I and a few other Gristers hopped a bus over to the rally in Key Arena and were greeted by a stadium overflowing with supporters, many of them high school and college students. I overheard an usher say "I dont see this kind of support for [Seattle's basketball team] the Sonics anymore." (The venue holds 18,000 people: by speech time it was over capacity, with people crowded on the floor, spilling into the aisles, and climbing up the walls into off-limits box seats; several thousand had… Read More

• Rockin' robins

  Birds die in Portland neighborhood after alcohol binge 3

  Posted 1 year, 9 months ago

  This story from The Oregonian gives new meaning to the term "dead drunk":

  It's a case fit for wildlife CSI: 55 robins from the Mount Tabor neighborhood -- all dead within a few nearby backyards.
  
  Toxic spill?
  
  Mystery virus?
  
  Maybe not. The leading theory is that the birds were fatally intoxicated, said Bob Sallinger of the Audubon Society of Portland's wildlife care center, where the birds ended up last week.
  
  That's right: The birds drank themselves to death.
  
  Not from a bottle, though. The birds' bellies were chock full of holly berries, skins… Read More

• 'The Story of Stuff'

  Another reason to procrastinate about my Christmas shopping 2

  Posted 1 year, 11 months ago

  From the producers of "The Meatrix" and "Grocery Store Wars" comes "The Story of Stuff," a short video about production and consumption, just in time for the holiday shopping binge. Click here for the full movie (sample clip embedded below).

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  Hmm ...

   ... these sure look familiar, Ashley.

  :-)On A Palin/Biden bingo game to help you veep score during the debate posted 1 year, 1 month ago 5 Responses

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  Q&A with Obama on climate and energy

  Here is part of the transcript and video (sorry, sound quality is not great) from a press conference with Obama just prior to the Seattle rally, where he discussed green tech, energy, and climate change. He announced at this meeting that he would move immediately on an international climate pact.On Obama takes the stage in Seattle to rally support for Saturday's state caucuses posted 1 year, 9 months ago 9 Responses

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  Huckabee on evolution vs. creationism

  Also this, from Mother Jones:

  ... at a more recent debate, when he was asked by Wolf Blitzer if the creation of the Earth occurred six thousand years ago and only took six days, as stated in the Old Testament, Huckabee said, "I don't know. I wasn't there."

  On Notable quotable posted 1 year, 11 months ago 5 Responses