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• July 29, 2010

• Eruptions

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  Thursday Throwdown: Stromboli's tiny bubbles, Hawaiian lava flow update and recovering from Eyjafjallajökull Trying to catch up on a pile of news including the latest from Hawai`i, the sulfur dioxide of Nyiragongo, subglacial volcanism in Antarctica and Don Ho's favorite volcano.

• Casaubon's Book

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  Something Told the Wild Geese: Feeling Winter in Summer .And like the wild geese in my oldest, Eli's favorite poem, I can feel the tang of winter coming. When you live on a farm, and when you eat with the seasons, winter is always coming in a way

• Framing Science

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  The of Death of Cap and Trade: Getting Beyond False Narratives Alternative policy directions are needed along with new approaches to communicating about the relevance of the issue.....

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Is BP Cutting Corners in Alaska? The word on the street: Yes....

• July 28, 2010

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  Lava flows: You can't stop them, you can only hope to contain them Lava flows have returned to Kalapana - and although typically not dangerous to life, lava flows are very costly to property.

• Casaubon's Book

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  Environmental Puzzle Solving: Doing the Math on the Commute From a purely cost perspective, this is a no brainer - even if gas prices rise to $5 per gallon in the near future, the additional commuting would be less than $400 - whereas we might save as much as $8000 in total housing and energy costs. But I don't want to just look at it from a financial perspective, because I think that ignores our overall impact.

• July 27, 2010

• Observations of a Nerd

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  Life on the Hi'ialakai: a few photos We just spent two days at French Frigate Shoals, most of which I spent diving or sleeping. Our research is going very well, which keeps me pretty busy, but I still find time to snap a picture or two. Here...

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  Who Picked Those Veggies? Dateline NBC introduces you to your five year old tomato picker.

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  Have I Completely Lost my Mind? Is our home, our farm this place, its land and its building or can our home, our farm move with us, and our sense of comfort come too? How do we tell? I have, frankly, no clue.

• A Few Things Ill Considered

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  Another week of GW News, July 25, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup...

• Tomorrow's Table

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  Environmental Deficit Disorder: The Biology of (Not) Being Outdoors British kids can more easily identify Japanese cars than native plants and animals.

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  RARE: Portraits of America's endangered species What can I do to get people to care about the environment? I want people to fall in love with these animals as much as I did so the world pays attention.

• Framing Science

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  On Climate Change, the Public May Not Support Changing Their Own Diet, But Would They Support Programs to Change Society's Diet? Valuable food for thought from a reader of our BMC Public Health study....

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Susan Shaw: The oil spill's toxic trade-off Break down the oil slick, keep it off the shores: that's grounds for pumping toxic dispersant into the Gulf, say clean-up overseers. Susan Shaw shows evidence it's sparing some beaches only at devastating cost to the health of the deep sea....

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  Why is it so hard to achieve Energy Efficiency? Each one of us can and must be part of the energy efficient solution

• Stoat

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  Curry jumps the shark It looks like it is finally time to announce Judith Curry's departure for the dark side, prompted by her comments at RC. I still think she has good intentions, at heart, but has been "captured by the septic narrative" or...

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  Bridges to Sustainability: People, Planet, Possibility Ultimately it is human beings and their fate that concerns us

• The Pump Handle

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  The Asbestos Toll Goes Global A nine-month investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists finds that the asbestos industry is spending millions to keep asbestos on the global market -- and by 2030, asbestos may have claimed as many as 10 million victims worldwide.

• Casaubon's Book

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  The Tragic Sense and the Need for Connection This, I think is a real question for people dealing with our collective ecological crisis - how do you keep talking, even if it doesn't seem like the rest of the world understands, even if their concerns seem wrong? How do you tell people we need to change without sitting in judgement - and without despairing when they aren't listening? How do you go on in the world without being a depressing jerk all the time?

• Stoat

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  Kkinky again mt discusses Denialism, Informational Conformity and New Coke. Go read it now, if you didn't when he first wrote it. Paul Graham propounds the concept of the top idea in your mind which might partly explain why rolling out a...

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  Mystery Volcano Photo #26 Time for your weekly dose of volcano mystery!

• July 26, 2010

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  Hey Folks, Delurk and Introduce Yourself! C'mon, you know you've always wanted to. This is the chance - if you've never made a comment (or you've made a thousand), tell me who you are and what interesting stuff you are doing to save the world.

• The Pump Handle

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  Fishing Closures and Seafood Sniffing: Addressing Gulf Seafood Safety Based on presence of oil in specific areas of the Gulf - and in fish and shellfish - federal and state agencies are determining which areas should be closed to fishing and overseeing the safety of seafood destined for markets. Consumers' confidence in the agencies doing these jobs will influence their willingness to purchase Gulf seafood .

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  Another Way to Reduce "Drugged Driving" Medications can impair driving ability - but it's hard to tell people that if they're taking prescription drugs they can't drive.

• Tetrapod Zoology

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  The familiar Matamata, known to us all since the 1700s, and its long, fat neck (matamatas part II) Some weeks ago I wrote a bit about the Matamata Chelus fimbriatus: a weird, flat-headed South American pleurodiran turtle. It's one of the strangest creatures tetrapods on the planet, and there's so much to say about it that the...

Synthetic Biology

Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order. Read these posts from the ScienceBlogs archives for more:

Pharyngula May 30, 2007

“Playing God”

The Loom January 31, 2008

"Frankenstein Was Here": Synthetic Biology as Graffiti

Discovering Biology in a Digital World July 2, 2006

Build your own virus