Living in trees

Scientists have constructed an artificial leaf capable of absorbing power from sunlight via photosynthesis. Soon we'll be living in homes powered by these things..

Elephant Elephant

Via Fark; someone has a strange way of teaching opposites. That said I bet this sorta book is more interesting to kids than the boring stories I remember getting at school. If you want people to want to read you need to provide engaging material.

Baby Lisa Arrested!

This is something I didnt see coming...she was always so nice on the show..she just had a baby so maybe there is something going on there..jail is not a place for a mother of 3..she divorced in February the husband she married on the show ..I wonder what Beth knows..

Nuclear melting (vs meltdowns) explained

For those who were curious a calm and collected  description of whats happening with the Japanese Nuclear Plants.

Amazing pics from Japan

Via the Dori Monsen show and the NY times - great before/after photos of Japan with a little window you can slide back and forth to compare. Pretty creative!

US Navy base in lost city of Atlantis

Natural disasters stir up all sorts of stories and folklore. After seeing the devastation in Japan, it is not so hard to beleive that an entire city could be wiped out by a Tsunami.  Here is a story about a potential location for the lost city of Atlantis, which some beleive was wiped out by a tsunami. When I was traveling in Spain I was reading a book that hypothesized Atlantis was a city on a landmass near the north pole, which, 12000 years ago was in a different location. Anyhoo I also read about the story that Atlantis was buried in a swamp in Spain, and being in Spain, I went to check this out. I was quite surprised to find a huge US Navy base at that very location. One wonders if this "navy base" is a front for an Area-51 type research station.

Florida fires DCF employees who didnt visit kids

So two crazy people were able to adopt their foster kids then try to murder them with acid. Of course, this involved the public worker not doing the visitations they claimed they did in the paperwork. The worker and their supervisor were fired but I'd like to see some perjury charges for falsifying court docs.

DSHS regularly pulls this sorta BS where kids have to die before worker who failed to do their basic jobs are fired. When is the Washington government going to address this ?

Time to dump Chase Bank

Apparently Chase will be altering debt cards substantially, limiting them to 50 dollar purchases and adding 3-15$ monthly fees. This is all because the government is requiring Chase to lower the fee it charges the stores you purchase things from from 18 cents to 12. 'Cause those banking executives need bigger bonus' I guess.

Here is a list of 8 viable alternatives to Chase.

How I lost my monkey junk

Heh this story was an interesting read. Great chit chat for the office water coolers.

Republican Jesus

I think the greatest threat to America is the right wing christian extremists. This story about McCarthy-esk hearings examining Islam in America is brought about by a guy who cheered when Christians strapped bombs to things and killed innocent people. As important as I feel spiritual identity is to the make up of a person, and as much as I feel Christianity is the "easiest" point of entry at the moment to spirituality, I think we seriously need hearings on Christian extremists in America.

NPR

I'm an avid NPR listener and I actually donated to one of their pledge drives so I feel I am qualified to give my opinion in regards the value of Public radio and the recent issues surrounding it. Today NPR executive Vivian Shiller quit/was fired over the ambush video of a NPR VP badmouthing the Tea party. As far as I'm concerned the peasants should rejoice. 

Mother gets kids back

A mother in Florida gets probation and custody back. Of course if this was a father the kids would have remained in foster care and the guy would be in jail. As a culture we have no respect or concern for the future of children..which leave our futures up in the air. Multiply this case times a million all over the US and you can see why American is no longer a world leader in anything but thuggery.

Takes custody any and put these kids in a public boarding school where they arnt dependent on just one loser.

A Teacher was fired !!!!!!

...for the bumpersticker on her car. Cant fire teachers for being bad teachers, or having sex with students...no those people get put on paid leave. But if you have a bumper sticker that's offensive to lazy parents/bad teachers you lose your job. IMHO part of the problem with bad teachers is they can give drugs to kids at school whenever they feel they dont want to do their job. The the parent does it at home and the kid is zonked 24-7.

No matter how bad the behavior, we simply dont know enough about a growing brain to be using this stuff responsibly.