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http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/31585,features,sweet-and-sour-tale-of-the-miracle-berry I’m not at all surprised about this considering they did the same thing with stevia extract. http://www.stevia.net/ I once read the reasoning behind this is because it’s so healthy, cheap,(and patent-free) because noncaloric sweeteners are big business in the U.S., same with sugar and the sugar-alcohols, sorbital, mannitol and xylitol.
http://cliqck.com/ Who really gives a crap? This is just another “social network” feeding into the completely-unjustifiable-border-lining-obscene obsession many Americans have with the consumption of goods and keeping up with the Jones. Ya’ll be good little consumer monkeys now and your friends will envy you and life will be just grand.
I knew someone who traveled the world as a professional book hunter. I hear there is a lot of money to be made. How do you get a job like that?
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/02/profligate.html I couldn’t agree more, Seth. And I read this on the day the mailman delivers a stack of junk mail at least an inch thick. Same crap as last week and the week before. Oh, but who’d want to miss Walmart’s 11×11 trifold on high grade glossy in freaking pantone advertising baby products. Whichever target market they were shooting
Via Post Modern Times | 2012, which offers a series of short animated films presenting new ideas about global consciousness and techniques for social and ecological transformation.
http://bentleywg.livejournal.com/1161046.html Detroit Public Schools Book Depository
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140661-pg,1/article.html Human-powered computing team supplies a supercomputer with enough juice to model a nuclear fusion reaction.
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/11/26/super-powered-magnetic-wind-turbine-maglev From the page: Maglev wind turbines have several advantages over conventional wind turbines. For instance, they’re able to use winds with starting speeds as low as 1.5 meters per second (m/s). Also, they could operate in winds exceeding 40 m/s. Currently, the largest conventional wind turbines in the world produce only five megawatts of power. However, one large maglev
http://www.productwiki.com/prang-fun-pro-crayons/ Prang crayons are made from 100% soybean oil, making them an earth-friendly alternative to your standard Crayola.
It seems so pointless for so many people to have to work so hard making the things that will end up in a landfill somewhere.
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http://consumerist.com/consumer/college-is-expensive/professor-says-textbooks-are-too-expensive-quits-using-them-280753.php
http://www.bestlifeonline.com/cms/publish/health-fitness/Our_oceans_are_turning_into_plastic_are_we_2_printer.shtml From the site: “At the same time, all over the globe, there are signs that plastic pollution is doing more than blighting the scenery; it is also making its way into the food chain. Some of the most obvious victims are the dead seabirds that have been washing ashore in startling numbers, their bodies packed with plastic: things like