Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Good Reads and Information

The ways people dealt with summer heat before air conditioning also helped us get to know our neighbors. They don't build homes like that much anymore.

Discover Magazine has a video contest called Evolution in Two Minutes (or less). Your task is to create a short video that will get the idea and significance of evolution across to an educated lay audience.

Crazy racist commercials. Throughout the creative process, no one stopped to say, "Hey, think about this!"

Try No Dig Gardening for Your Backyard Vegetables. Treehugger has an overview with links to other resources. (via Boing Boing Gadgets)

Top 10 Ridiculously Common Science Myths. Of course, YOU already know the truth about these, don't you?

Food stamps and child nutrition programs are expected to cost up to $900 million more this year because of increased ethanol use. Diverting the corn crop away from food affects the price of corn, corn syrup, corn starch, animal feed (and therefore meat) plus other crops that are displaced to grow more corn.

LED clock made from an old hard drive. Groovy colors in recycled geeky goodness!

There are more people claiming VA benefits as former POWs than were ever taken prisoner. Many more. Isn't someone keeping up with this?

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