17 September 2010

bbc

BBC, UK: pigeon vs internet
(also in So. Africa. (no, not the same pigeon...)

Reuters: "Italy seizes $1.9 billion of assets as Mafia goes green"

Tuesday seized Mafia-linked assets worth $1.9 billion -- the biggest mob haul ever -- in an operation revealing that the crime group was trying to "go green" by laundering money through alternative energy companies.

Alister Doyle, Reuters, Home of "Ice Giants" thaws, shows pre-Viking hunts

JUVFONNA, Norway Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:17pm EDT

Climate change is exposing reindeer hunting gear used by the Vikings' ancestors faster than archaeologists can collect it from ice thawing in northern Europe's highest mountains.

National Geographic: Is it too late to save the oceans?

IOKIYAR, part XXXVII. OK, why is Phil Davison an "internet sensation"[video link] according to Yahoo whereas Howard Dean was labeled crazy for similar behavior? [also here]

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