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Ask Nature - the Biomimicry Portal
Dec 1st
kateoplis: The Atlas of True Names traces the etymological...
Nov 30th
After the Yellowstone Fires | Stuck In Customs
Nov 30th
Ross Lovegrove’s Solar-Powered Alpine Capsule
Nov 29th
Listen Listen
amandalynferri: crimson and clover - tommy james and the shondells ah…at least this old gem...
Nov 28th
The Most Depressing Story of the Year: Deadly...
Nov 28th

Palin as Poetry

And the relevance to me With that issue, As we spoke About Africa and some Of the countries ...
Nov 28th
Listen Listen
Alice’s Restaurant Massacree - Arlo Guthrie For as far back as I can remember, every...
Nov 27th

Getting robbed

After Citi, $4.6165 trillion of our dollars have been spent bailing out banks.  (This before any...
Nov 26th
“Some of us—especially those under 60—have always wondered...”
— Zakaria
Nov 25th
so as long as we don’t get all crotchety and greedy as...
Nov 25th
the new (world’s first) national geographic store was...
Nov 23rd
Burkhard Bilger: Elephants, like many of us, enjoy a good malted beverage when they can get it....
Nov 23rd
Nov 21st
Taxpayers Get Golden Shower
Nov 21st
Warch Watch
A New Chapter on Climate Change (via ChangeDotGov) Having studied and worked in the climate,...
Nov 19th

Florida write-in tally

234 HILLARY CLINTON 174 RON PAUL 23 NONE OF THE ABOVE 23 JESUS 21 MIKE HUCKABEE 14 MITT...
Nov 19th
Warch Watch
dan deacon song in crayola commercial.  says he: “this is the first time i’ve let a...
Nov 18th
Warch Watch
my homeboy (as in, dude who i grew up with in a tiny little town of about 2,000) slamming vince...
Nov 17th
Warch Watch
Aurora Borealis, from Above. This dude is doing some mind-boggling photography from outer space.
Nov 15th
we own the west.
Nov 15th
Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman to Barack Obama: be ambitious (really ambitious)! Beltway CW...
Nov 14th
the  flaming lips christmas on mars game is damn hard. ...
Nov 14th
Redoing Astor Courts - The New York Times
Nov 14th
i badly want this book.
Nov 14th
Kahn dispatched his small troop of photographers to all...
Nov 14th
A project entitled “Archive of the Planet”...
Nov 14th
images from Albert Kahn’s “Archives of the...
Nov 14th
and, yes, that’s the first photo ever of a planet...
Nov 14th
Warch Watch
yes, that’s a robot.  time to get scared.
Nov 13th
7 for 10.  very disappointed in myself.
Nov 13th
one last time, just cause i’ve been missing it. ...
Nov 13th
One Day Poem Pavilion
Nov 12th
blakewhitman: ALL GOOD NEWS TODAY FOLKS (digital version) ...
Nov 12th
were i in nyc this weekend, this show would be a priority.
Nov 7th
“The eyes of the world were on the Green Mountain State on...”
— Pat Leahy, U.S. Senator from...
Nov 7th

Q: Having squashed Hillary's...

(For some reason these are the stupid things I waste time thinking about.)
Nov 7th
Warch Watch
mahna mahna.  this one never fails.  (also the best moment in Office history.)
Nov 7th
Warch Watch
a 1958 tv show on global warming! produced by frank capra! who knew?
Nov 7th
Stotesbury Today
Nov 7th
The Demolition of Stotesbury’s Mansion
Nov 7th
Nov 7th
a fascinating story—in photos—of a cool old...
Nov 7th
Change.gov
Nov 6th
Paloma cat 2 hurricanes in november?  
Nov 6th
How America really voted yesterday
Nov 6th
apparently the williamsburg cops weren’t all love and...
Nov 6th
“I decided to spend an hour this afternoon making phone calls...”
— The Daily Dish | So Many...
Nov 6th
Nov 6th
Warch Watch
richard pryor—actually our first black president
Nov 5th
FiveThirtyEight.com and why Election Night...
Nov 5th
Warch Watch
dancing in the streets—our ft. greene freakout last night.
Nov 5th
one of which carrying the pres elect
Nov 5th
only stepping in to help cars roll slowly through….
Nov 5th
the cops were incredible—hanging back and letting...
Nov 5th
reminded me why ft. greene just might be the best...
Nov 5th
impromptu block party shut down dekalb in front of Madiba...
Nov 5th

and this is why i'm sweating and...

an ambinder reader:: I’m a student at Carleton College who has contributed (financially and...
Nov 4th

Official Endorsement

johnmurray: Jervey ‘08. Much obliged.  But you might change your opinion were you to know that...
Nov 4th
[i’m pretty sure that talkinghead is standing in this...
Nov 4th
as goes Dixville Notch....
Nov 4th
“as both Obama and Jervey note”
— Need A Stimulus? Go For The...
Nov 4th
Warch Watch
two goals, one day, pt2
Nov 1st
Warch Watch
two goals, one day, pt1 (instant classics, stuff of legend, and both happened last wednesday.)
Nov 1st