By Guy Adams 5:30 AM Thursday Oct 14, 2010 Share Email Print There were few words that Florencio Avalos could find to express the joy he felt when he finally reached the surface of the San Jose mine shortly after midnight local time. Just a smile as wide as the Atacama Desert as he stepped out of the Phoenix escape capsule and fell into the arms of the wife and two children he had last hugged almost 70 days ago. It was a magnificent sight to see, this remarkably healthy man breathing fresh air he must have thought he would never breathe again, and greeting the men who had brought him to the surface in one piece. When the red, white and blue cage broke through the top of the escape shaft, the…
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Image: Kai Krause , Public Domain/CC Don’t Overlook Africa! Because of the way flat maps distort the size of countries (the closer they are to the poles, the more distorted they are), most people don’t really know just how big the African continent is. This leads many people – and the smart and powerful aren’t immune to this – to underestimate Africa’s importance. The map above shows just how wrong our perception can be (unless we’ve already seen a map like this before). It shows tha… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …A California governor with an state in disarray and approval numbers in the low 20′s endorses a Florida governor and senator-wannabe, thus effectively finishing off Charlie Crist’s independent campaign : Sorry if this offends anyone, but in what amounts to a bi-coastal tragic-comedy, failed progressive governor, Charlie Crist, has been endorsed by failed progressive governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, doubtless influencing at least two people in Tallahassee’s vote. Tweeting from California, the Windmill State, Schwarzenegger said: I endorse Governor Charlie Crist for Senate. Great leader, works with both parties, and our country needs someone like him in D.C. right now. Inspiring, huh? Only a rudderless man like Schwarzenegger can look at a peer (Crist) for whom political expediency determines “principle” and label him a “great leader.” Does anyone but Schwarzenegger and Crist think an endorsement from a guy who went from charismatic conservative leader to spineless, flailing failure is going to inspire Floridians to vote for Charlie “I’m a Lovely Shade of Orange” Crist? Maybe we can get Schwarzenegger to endorse a few other people, like Lisa Murkowski, Harry Reid, Patty Murray, Richard Blumenthal, Bawney Fwank and Chris Coons.
Continue reading …Overconsumption in Rich Nations Leading Humanity From a Living Planet to a Dead One
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Not Another Nature Film from WWF on Vimeo . The latest installment of the biennial Living Planet Report , produced by WWF in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London and the Global Footprint Network , has been released; and as you might expect following the daily updates on TreeHugger, the growing burden that human consumption of natural resources … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Mushkin gets cozy with SandForce again, launches 6Gb/s EP Series SSDs for Enterprises
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285MB/s read speeds from the Callisto series ? Phsaw. We need at least twice that to get us out of bed in the morning, and Mushkin has our wake up call. Its announcing the EP Series of SSD drives, based on SandForce SF-2000-series processors, pledging 6Gb/s burst speeds. That sounds mighty impressive, but if you capitalize that B it turns into a somewhat less stunning figure of 768MB/s. Sequential read and write speeds are 500MB/s, while each can sustain a rate of 60,000 operations per second. That’s a lot of I/O, and it’s coming to gilded racks sometime in the first quarter of 2011. Continue reading Mushkin gets cozy with SandForce again, launches 6Gb/s EP Series SSDs for Enterprises Mushkin gets cozy with SandForce again, launches 6Gb/s EP Series SSDs for Enterprises originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Image Credit Wang Wenlan: The Kingdom of Bicycles Two years ago I wrote For Bicylists, There is Safety in Numbers noting the work of Chris Rissel, who said “It appears that motorists adjust their behaviour in the presence of increasing numbers of people bicycling because they expect or experience more people cycling.” Last year we asked Is there “safety in numbers”? and quoted
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Controversial head of DC schools Michelle Rhee has announced her resignation. Rhee’s firing of teachers earlier this year got her nationwide recognition and were backed by Mayor Adrian Fenty. That support also helped bounce him out of office. (Oct. 13)
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Photo via Noel Feans New research from Oregon State University shows that trends in evapotranspiration is having incredibly significant impacts on everything from our planet’s vegetation growth to carbon absorption to natural cooling systems. But what in the world is “evapotranspiration” and why does it have such a huge effect on the earth’s systems?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Inside this Brooklyn New York dance studio is an artist’s collective called House of Yes. It’s creators teach a different form of dance here, one in which the performance takes place above the stage not on it. (Oct. 13)
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A Mexican police commander investigating the reported shooting of an American tourist on a border lake plagued by pirates has been decapitated and his head was found in a suitcase, a Texas sheriff says. (Oct. 13)
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