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It’s 3.14. Imagine the nerds errupting on this date in 2015…

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This is how they tried to save the Yellow River Dolphin: “Jiangsu province Changshu City Fluorine Chemical industry land sewage treatment plant (江苏省常熟市氟化学工业园污水处理厂) was responsible for collection and processing of the industrial sewage. However they did not, the sewage pipe was extended 1500 meters under the Yangtze River and releasing the sewage there. 2009 June [...]

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Telegraph – Bad weather blamed for Scotland having ‘more people with ginger hair’ Scotland’s notoriously bad weather appears to be behind why more of the country’s population appeared to be blessed with ginger hair, new research has claimed.

The non scientific research found that in areas where the temperatures in summer were cooler and winter [...]

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BBC – New video of tsunami wave sweeping through Chilean town

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Boston.com’s Big Picture site is already on the case.

A good point made by RC2:

8.8 Magnitude Earthquake in Chile sends tsunami 500mph barreling straight for Hawaii. The entire Pacific, including Oz and Japan, is under tsunami warning, although as I type they’ve already dialed the direst predictions about how big the wave will be [...]

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Bwah hah hah:

Mashable – Facebook Analyzes How Relationship Status Impacts Happiness [STATS]

Facebook already has a methodology for measuring the overall “happiness” of its users. It basically looks at how many positive words people use in their status updates (for English speaking users). This results in the USA Gross National Happiness Index. [...]

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The Globe & Mail – The great global warming collapse As the science scandals keep coming, the air has gone out of the climate-change movement, by Margaret Wente

The impetus for the Copenhagen conference was that the science makes it imperative for us to act. But even if that were true – and even if [...]

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Well, that didn’t take long. It’s not even 9 am.

I hear that Punxsutawney Phil has been officially cited by the IPCC as evidence of a worsening climate.

-Iain Murray

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Oops. I am retroactively dating this post.

A little busy travelling Friday cat-blogging. From the Daily Mail.

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I’m just giving up now. There was no way I was going to get anything done today and tomorrow I get to go on a quick 2-night trip home! Woohoo!

So for today’s post, as all you ninmates are doubtless aware, Lord Monckton is on tour in Australia and Aussie Brett McS was on the [...]

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HOW HAVE I GONE ON THIS LONG:

Baby Beaver Kits First Swim

Omg omg omg omg omg. THEY HAVE LITTLE FLAPPY TAAAAALES.

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I have decided to take advantage of this long weekend and make myself a portfolio. For those of you wondering what on earth I’m doing. Also: a friend was in town and we had brunch. SO MUCH BRUNCH. So that’s where I’ve been.

I have a ton of links on Haiti and other important things [...]

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Send in Nancy Drew!

Telegraph Blogs – Climategate goes American: NOAA, GISS and the mystery of the vanishing weather stations

For those who haven’t seen it, here’s a link to US weatherman John Coleman’s magisterial demolition of the Great AGW Scam. I particularly recommend part 4 because that’s the one with all the meat. It [...]

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It’s rare that I’m busy. Like, on-the-outside-of-this-room-busy, but today I have been.

So here: 70 Cutie Baby Animals Bring You a Good Mood

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The Times – Hippo swims to freedom after zoo is flooded

Hippopotamuses mate in water, are born in water and spend most of the day wallowing in muddy pools — but there comes a time in every hippo’s life when she simply wants to have dry feet. For Nikica, aged 11, [...]

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