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on November 22, 2014
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Because their goals weren't ambitious enough
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on November 19, 2014
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That would be a huge deal for climate. More and more electric utilities would switch over to this cleaner source over time. By 2050, the Google engineers' modeling suggested, US carbon-dioxide emissions would be 55 percent lower than what we're currently on pace for.
But they also found that this new technology would still be adopted too slowly to avert significant global warming…
Why Google halted its research into renewable energy
The company realized its aim to make solar cheaper than coal wasn’t ambitious enough.
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Well who knew seals were so horrible? Â
Posted by Dustin
on November 19, 2014
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In three of the four recorded incidents the seal let the penguin go. But on one of the more recent occasions, the seal killed and ate the penguin after trying to mate with it.
Seals discovered having sex with penguins
Fur seals have been caught engaging in an extreme form of sexual behaviour. Specifically, trying to have sex with penguins
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Why  hipsters all look the same
Posted by Dustin
on November 12, 2014
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Here comes the crucial twist. In all of the examples so far, we assumed that everyone had instant knowledge of what everyone else was wearing. People knew exactly what the mainstream trend was. But in reality, there are always delays. It takes time for a signal to propagate across a brain; likewise it takes time for hipsters to read Complex or Pitchfork or whatever in order to figure out how to be contrarian.
The mathematician who proved why hipsters all look alike
What brain neurons tell us about the ‘hipster effect’ when all contrarians end up looking the same.
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Jonathan Nolan, cowriter of Interstellar, is adapting Isaac Asimov's Foundation…
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on November 10, 2014
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Jonathan Nolan, cowriter of Interstellar, is adapting Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy into a series for HBO.
Exciting news!
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To the people with whom I was discussing the moral status of rich people
Posted by Dustin
on November 9, 2014
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I'm completely on the side of people in the USA who raise their voices against the level of income inequality we're seeing here. Â (And no, I'm not advocating some sort of government mandated redistribution, just policies that encourage a market where extreme wealth concentration isn't as big of a problem.)
However, I wonder how many of us recognize the fact that we're all the 1% when compared to much of the rest of the world.Â
The idea makes me uncomfortable because I like my stuff and don't want to give it up! Â
Then I think about how that's analogous to the 1% here in the US, and suddenly I've got a lot more empathy.  Not that it changes my stance on the matter, but it makes it harder to frame the 1% as the bad guys and the rest of us as the good guys.
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North American on Jupiter
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on November 2, 2014
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Posted by Dustin
on October 31, 2014
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If you tell me you're allergic to gluten, I will not believe you
Posted by Dustin
on October 28, 2014
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This sucks for people who actually have celiac disease, but that's what happens in situations like this.
While there are no scientific data to demonstrate that millions of people have become allergic or intolerant to gluten (or to other wheat proteins), there is convincing and repeated evidence that dietary self-diagnoses are almost always wrong, particularly when the diagnosis extends to most of society.
Against the Grain
Nearly twenty million Americans now say that they regularly experience stomach problems after eating products that contain gluten. Credit Illustration by Paul Rogers
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Posted by Dustin
on October 25, 2014
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