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EPA: global warming is a genuine and immediate threat
It’s amazing what can happen when a government organization that, in theory, is the de facto watchdog of the energy industry in the United States is no longer tethered to neocon yearnings. The...
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Yah! Fight the power and burn dem bulbs!
Between 8:30 and 9:30 tonight (Eastern Daylight Time, US), I “observed” Earth Hour, which meant turning out all of the lights in the house for an hour. (I admit that I didn’t unplug my laptop and go to...
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When low-wattage ideologues retort
Gribbit hates it when I call him on his lies and errors, which has led him to do everything possible to not even know when I’m doing it. Typical of nutjobs, he’s banned my IP address (not even a small...
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21 polo horses doped to death in Florida
This is one of the more revolting stories I’ve seen in a long time. In spite of my connections to endurance sports, I’m not a fan of the combined horse racing-polo scene (yes, I realize these are two...
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Walking through Mirkwood
A few of those Chimp Refuge readers who inexplicably followed the troop to this new already beshatted domain are not doubt familiar with J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, soon to be...
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Grief in the (other part of) the primate world
For some reason this is just heartbreaking. From the November issue of National Geographic magazine.
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Speculation
In 1973, a familiar thoroughbred horse named Secretariat, encumbered by a 126-pound jockey, ran 1 1/2 miles on a dirt track to win the Belmont Stakes in 2:24.00. Earlier that year, he had won the 1...
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Amy’s story
This is printed by permission from Amy Lane, a combat Marine in the U.S. Armed Forces who hopes to run Boston this coming spring. I won’t bore you with the details of how I came in touch with her. Just...
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Gribbit’s latest hilarity
In a post attempting to address the “ClimateGate” “scandal” that naturally turned out to be complete horseshit (and if you want a sound analysis of this, read this post on EnviroKnow and this one by...
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What a Richter 8.8 earthquake means
I was just reading a comment on a blog from a Chilean citizen that says so far (as of 2 1/2 hours ago, anyway) there were 122 confirmed deaths from this morning’s earthquake in Chile, which rang up an...
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Sticky Snow
Lots of people tend to think of snow as some amorphous blob, kind of like sand that melts. It comes down, it piles up, it blows about, it lays around. But under the right conditions snow can behave in...
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“the biggest, costliest, most complicated plumbing job in the history of the...
And it is. I shit all over Florida every chance I get, but I really shouldn’t. I was there thanks to the sweetest girl I ever knew and her equally sweet parents. We didn’t agree on all manner of stuff...
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Hot Water Heat Pump
For most folks, the second most energy intensive activity in the home (after living space heating/cooling) is heating potable water. For a great many people the obvious choice is storage-based or...
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The most appalling PETA commerical not made by PETA
I had never heard of “halal” before today and rather wish I hadn’t. In a nutshell, Islamic dietary law (why is there inevitably an aspect of ancient and mindless superstition accompanying every...
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The poorest town in the USA is full of fundamentalists…
…but not the kind you probably think. The Orthodox Jewish settlement of Kiryas Joel in Upstate New York owns the dubious distinction of being America’s most impoverished, by a lot. About 70 percent of...
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He’s Rocky, for now
On Friday afternoon, I and my training partner set off for a run. I say “partner” in the sense that we start our runs at the same time but, per her preference, do not actually run together much of the...
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Rocky’s road
I’m still not sure what’s going to happen to Rocky. Earlier today I was fairly certain he might be gone by nightfall in the form of an Animal Control paddy-wagon, but they didn’t come for him today and...
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A nature video stream-u might enjoy
I shot this short, moving film at the Briley Farm in Orange County, Florida during a ten-mile run yesterday. My primary motive was playing with a friend’s new camera, but I also like checking out the...
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The world of the calico cat
The creature below is Puzzle, a cat of indeterminate age and size. It is a calico cat and like virtually all such cats is female — coat color in cats is X-linked, and since males have only one X...
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Razzle’s dazzle
Cats like to mess with stuff, and so I like to mess with them in return. If I get my own orange tabby cat, I’m going to name it Tang, Clockwork, Mandy (as in Mandarin), Navel, or Agent.
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