Rudy Adler
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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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How Cherokee Is Real Cherokee? Mixed-Race People Discuss Elizabeth Warren
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In a Majority-Minority Nation, Numbers Aren't Everything
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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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Juilliard Brings Online Music Education to the Masses
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Sleep Better: 4 Ways to Manipulate Your Melatonin Levels #30DaysofGOOD
We went on a little rant about being afraid of terrorism the other day. We still stand by it. But it gets harder when things like this happen....
A recent Grist article discusses the issue of offshore drilling as a byproduct of U.S. aspirations for energy independence. Since oil reserves in...
Is the Mile-High Club part of Al Qaeda? Yes. Obviously..
We may not be hearing much about that vague "war on terror" anymore. While Obama did use the phrase in his remarks to the Pentagon last week,...
Watch these Tea Party activists spit in their gift horse's mouth.
You know that ridiculous color-coded terrorism threat level chart? The Department of Homeland Security is reevaluating whether a vague system for...
If al Qaeda needs Afghanistan as a safe haven, we can't afford to leave. The complexities of Afghanistan defy salvation by the answer to any...
A 22-year-old sociology student was accused of "conspiring to commit animal enterprise terrorism" after he refused to out the radical...
Oil is at a record high today. Over 75 dollars a barrel. Great news!.
A short history of black gold, from the ancient Persian army's flaming oil-dipped arrows to today's piercing pain at the pump.
By 2015, Mercedes' entire line of cars will run on alternative fuels. Can you imagine what would happen if the companies that make affordable cars...
Last-minute regulations cement Bush's dirty legacy Despite a backdrop of two wars and a crumbling economy that desperately needs attention, the...
The folks at the excellent energy blog The Oil Drum are calling it: peak oil happened in mid-2008 at 81.73 million barrels per day. That means...
Crude Blogging We're running out of oil, but search for the phrase "peak oil" on the websites of 31 major U.S. newspapers, and you'll get a...
In a recent post, Ben Jervey talked about the fearsome possibility that a hurricane might pass over the oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico and...
Esquire has a modest gallery of art created as commentary on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Included are Jane Fulton Alt's "Crude Awakening"...
There's an arresting image about a third of the way into Joe Berlinger's new documentary, Crude, that sees a young Ecuadorian boy holding two...
It's just hard to know what to say about this tragedy. This infographic (larger version here) starts to put it in perspective. The numbers are...
According to the YouTube channel for the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command, "This video is from the larger of two existing leaks on the riser....
Making a complete switch to clean, sustainable power seems a bit of a tough sell at the moment, considering that oil still accounts for a whopping...
