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Babblegator.com » Why off-shore drilling isn’t worth it
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Why off-shore drilling isn’t worth it. The oil slick off the Louisiana cost is still expanding and is now approaching coastal marshes. The Coast Guard is now going to try to set fire to the slick. In the hopes of dissipating the oil. Some commentators have (jokingly? Suggested that the US should simply nuke the slick and move on. Like the Russians did several times during the Soviet era. All of this craziness makes me wonder: what’s the point of all of this? Here, we see that price goes down by 17 cents ...
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Babblegator.com » Energy/Environment
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Longest Day vs. Hottest Day. Someone once told me that the San Francisco Bay Area has the longest time lag between the longest day of the year (the summer solstice, or June 21) and the hottest day of the year. Wikipedia says: Among major U.S. cities, San Francisco has the coldest daily mean, maximum, and minimum temperatures for June, July […]. Monday, October 15, 2012 19:23. Filed under: Energy/Environment. Cadillac Desert meets High Speed Rail. Saturday, October 13, 2012 11:03. Consider the (crudely dr...
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Babblegator.com » Neato
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Longest Day vs. Hottest Day. Someone once told me that the San Francisco Bay Area has the longest time lag between the longest day of the year (the summer solstice, or June 21) and the hottest day of the year. Wikipedia says: Among major U.S. cities, San Francisco has the coldest daily mean, maximum, and minimum temperatures for June, July […]. Monday, October 15, 2012 19:23. Filed under: Energy/Environment. Tuesday, October 9, 2012 11:53. Filed under: Energy/Environment. How far can you see from a plane?
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Babblegator.com » Read in September
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Here are my reviews of the books I read in September. The New Kings of Non-Fiction. Edited by Ira Glass. —. Ira Glass hosts public radio’s This American Life. A People’s History of the United States. The book is very well written, in a clear and objective style. The story and characters are fascinating. One reviewer commented that it is a tale of America’s two worst policy failures in the first decade of the 21st century – the War on Terror and Hurricane Katrina. Wednesday, October 3, 2012 20:28.
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Babblegator.com » Books
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Here are my reviews of the books I read in September. The New Kings of Non-Fiction. Edited by Ira Glass. — Ira Glass hosts public radio’s This American Life, a show presenting weekly “non-fiction journalistic” stories on a variety of themes. This book consists of Glass’ favorite examples of what he terms “good writing” he’s collected […]. Wednesday, October 3, 2012 20:28. Filed under: Books. Buy a Babblegator shirt! Thugs with a Pension. Walter van den Berg. Last Week's Top 10. A Confederacy of Dunces.
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Babblegator.com » “Mama”? No, “Pepsi”
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No, “Pepsi”. Chance that a British baby’s first word is a brand name: 1 in 4. I’d like to see some of the details behind this study…. Saturday, May 8, 2010 11:55. Filed under: Politics/Society. Laquo; Why off-shore drilling isn’t worth it. Buy a Babblegator shirt! Thugs with a Pension. Walter van den Berg. Last Week's Top 10. A Confederacy of Dunces. By John Kennedy Toole. Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. 169; Babblegator.com. Logo design by Jenny Cooper.
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Babblegator.com » Music
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SF Symphony (October 6). Snooty artsy snobby music alert */ I bought season tickets to the San Francisco symphony this year, and Friday night was the first concert of my subscription series. Vasily Petrenko was the guest conductor. First on the program was Arvo Pärt‘s Fratres, in the version for string orchestra and percussion. Pärt is an exponent of holy […]. Sunday, October 7, 2012 12:11. Filed under: Music. Wednesday, March 31, 2010 15:40. Filed under: Music. Wednesday, March 17, 2010 22:56. So here w...
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Babblegator.com » Cadillac Desert meets High Speed Rail
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Cadillac Desert meets High Speed Rail. California is planning to start construction on the nation’s first high speed rail system early next year. However, the high speed rail authority. In charge of planning and executing the project still has to overcome numerous obstacles. One such obstacle is the opposition of Central Valley farmers. The Central Valley boasts some of the world’s finest farm land. In the Central Valley, farming is big business. Farmers are upset. Think about that for a second. Granted,...
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Babblegator.com » SF Symphony (October 6)
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SF Symphony (October 6). Snooty artsy snobby music alert */. I bought season tickets to the San Francisco symphony this year, and Friday night was the first concert of my subscription series. Vasily Petrenko was the guest conductor. First on the program was Arvo Pärt. In the version for string orchestra and percussion. Pärt is an exponent of holy minimalism. A style of music with very simple materials with a “mystical focus.”. To me, the high point of this work is the second movement, the. Bartok, an avo...
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Babblegator.com » Media/Internet/Tech
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I hate this commercial…. 8230; and I’ll tell you why. This is only one of a many commercials like this. You may have seen one from Sprint that’s very similar: three people are stuck on a ski lift, and the commercial talks about how these three people have awesome Sprint phones so they can visit an alternate reality (be […]. Sunday, May 2, 2010 19:30. Filed under: Media/Internet/Tech. I’ll continue the gasoline story soon, I promise! Tuesday, April 13, 2010 13:18. Filed under: Media/Internet/Tech. As I...