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Electric Cars to Get Supercar Sounds : Gas 2.0

Seeded on Fri Nov 6, 2009 9:49 PM EST (gas2.org)

Are you a petrohead with a conscience? Someone who likes the thought of owning an electric car but put off by the weedy sound of today's offerings?

technology, electric-cars, supercar-sounds, car-sounds, electric-car

Waste Management Turns Landfill into Fuel Pump : Gas 2.0

Seeded on Fri Nov 6, 2009 9:44 PM EST (gas2.org)

Seeded by gladbutterfly

Waste Management, one of the biggest garbage companies in the country, says it will be able to produce 13,000 gallons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) daily from just one landfill in Northern California.

technology, fuel, waste-management, landfill, liquified-natural-gas

On Invoking God to Defend Mammon Â« naked capitalism

Seeded on Fri Nov 6, 2009 3:39 PM EST (nakedcapitalism.com)

Seeded by gladbutterfly

The efforts to try to burnish the image of bankers have gone from being unconvincing to ridiculous. I am certain we will see Jon Stewart comment on the latest twist, of trying to claim that God wants banks (and therefore bankers) to make a lot of money.

business, bankers, god, divine-will, profit, self-interest

Obama Faces His Anzio

Seeded on Fri Nov 6, 2009 3:12 PM EST (The New York Times)

Seeded by rochart

But while health care won't be Mr. Obama's Waterloo, economic policy is starting to look like his Anzio. Duh???

obama, economy, government, jobs, freedom, truth, fiction, recovery, fact

A Bad Way to Spend Money

Seeded on Fri Nov 6, 2009 3:03 PM EST (The New York Times)

Seeded by rochart

Congress threw good money after bad this week when it voted to extend and expand a wasteful home buyer's tax credit set to expire at the end of the month.

government, stimulus, mortgage, foreclosure, lobbyists, stupid, taxpayer, screwed

Justice investigation targets Monsanto

Seeded on Fri Nov 6, 2009 10:10 AM EST (St. Louis Journal)

Seeded by Pamela Drew

The U.S. Justice Department's inquiry into Monsanto Co.'s marketing tactics in the biotech seed industry may be a leading indicator of the Obama administration's approach to antitrust matters in general.

us-news, monsanto, seed-monopoly, biotech-brigade, roundup-ready-nation, gmo-seed, monsanto-monopoly, organic-rignts

Junk Food Turns Rats Into Addicts / Science News

Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 8:41 PM EST (sciencenews.org)

Seeded by gladbutterfly

Junk food elicits addictive behavior in rats similar to the behaviors of rats addicted to heroin, a new study finds.

science, junk-food, obesity, addiction, natural-reward-system

Vegan Temptations

Thu Nov 5, 2009 7:08 PM EST

By Lilithbytes

So you think you're vegan? Think you have strong convictions? Ok don't worry too much, you probably do, but just how tempting is a bar of chocolate or a tub of ice-cream when you've just had the worst day of your life? How hard is it to say to friends and family at a hol …

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health, family, diet, eating, vegetarian, vegan

Tech Support Cheat Sheet

Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 6:40 PM EST (xkcd.com)

Seeded by krishna-167929

A Flow chart

technology, humor, satire, tech-support

Farmers Skirt Rules on Gene-Altered Crops, Report Says

Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 5:22 PM EST (The New York Times)

Seeded by rochart

As many as 25 percent of the American farmers growing genetically engineered corn are no longer complying with federal rules intended to maintain the resistance of the crops to damage from insects, according to an advocacy group's report released Thursday.

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