May 2010
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“To fight the appalling number of pedestrian deaths in Bogotá, he hired street...”
– Emmet Byrne, on Colombian presidential candidate Antanas Mockus
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Bicycle City: A Place for Car-Free and Sustainable... →
Coming soon to 160 acres of Gaston, South Carolina.
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U.S. police chiefs say Arizona immigration law... →
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“No one sits around mourning the decline of jobs as cobblers and chimney sweeps...”
– Kate Sheppard, “Carbon pricing and jobs”
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“We will never generate enough manufacturing jobs to fill in the gaps, and not...”
– Richard Florida (via dmdhashw and newsweek)
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“Saudi Arabia’s pavilion is an elevated oasis complete with palm trees....”
– Ezra Klein on the Shanghai Expo
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“The sight of oil drifting toward the Louisiana coast is not even prompting a...”
– Another good synopsis from the New York Times.
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No sympathy for taking it slow →
I haven’t had it this bad, but the sprained ankle has made me a little slower crossing the street, and I’m amazed when drivers get aggressive about it. Really? I’m limping along with a cane, and you’re going to drive across the intersection at me so I’ll hurry up and you can get home 10 seconds faster?
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“A month after the gulf explosion, the president made clear that he was not going...”
– Hilarious/sad New York Times synopsis of News Analysis: Obama Sketches Energy Plan in Oil
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Just ordered 48HR Issue 0, because I figured if I want to read it I’d better get it now.
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“If it were the high-earners suffering 31 percent unemployment, the media would...”
– “George Washington,” paraphrasing Ariana Huffington
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LED Bulbs for the Home Near the Marketplace →
LEDs are even more efficient and last a lot longer than CFLs (let alone incandescents), and it sounds like the new ones solve a lot of the design problems (dimming, directionality). They could win.
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“Maybe it’s somebody’s conceptual art project… I would be...”
– Conceptual artist Jenny Holzer, re: @jennyholzer
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Walker Open Field →
Open Field is a project of the Walker Art Center that invites the public to help transform our big, green backyard into a cultural commons. Join us this summer to partake in or create an array of activities that bring together relaxation, recreation, and exploration.
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9% of Americans believe the oil spill was created... →
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Tax bills in 2009 at lowest level since 1950 →
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“You can’t do anything with the words. They’re frozen there, uncopyable,...”
– Steven Berlin Johnson, on the iPad’s lack of copy-and-paste, in “The Glass Box And The Commonplace Book”
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WatchWhat an adorable water tower!
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The right to wear an American flag shirt to school is a straight-up civil liberties issue, and it drives me nuts that it’s becoming a
tea party thing.
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A new Reagan right here in flyover land →
Nick Coleman on Tim Pawlenty’s presidential aspirations.
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Lessons from the Exxon Valdez spill →
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Sewage streams into scenic parks? One man's goal →
A plan to turn New Delhi’s sewage canals into walk/bike paths.
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“This is the gravest natural resource shortage you’ve never heard of.”
– James Elser and Stuart White, “Peak Phosphorus, and Why It Matters”
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Health Care in Cuba: All That Glitters is Not Gold →
Pros and cons of Cuba’s health care system, from a Cuban.
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“You can blame all of New Orleans on the Mississippi River, because it built the...”
– Scott Eustis, “Rim and Spoke: the River Built Everything”
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“There is something exquisite about the moment when a conservative decides he...”
– Dana Milbank on Gulf Coast Republicans’ requests for federal assistance
Five Myths about immigration →
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Building a Green Economy →
Paul Krugman’s primer on the economics of climate change (and of doing something about it).