From the monthly archives:

May 2008

Celine Dion’s Florida Mansion Used 6.5 Million Gallons of Water in Two Years

Celine Dion, despite being known for singing an incredibly annoying ubiquitous song for the blockbuster film that made Leonardo DiCaprio a household name, apparently hasn’t learned much from the actor. The Palm Beach Post checked out the Canadian diva’s water usage at her Jupiter, Florida home and what they found is astonishing. Over the past [...]

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High School Student Finds a Way to Biodegrade Plastic in 3 Months

Holy awesome! Some high school kid in Canada came up with a way to bio-digest plastic shopping bags. For a freaking science fair! Amazing. 500 billion plastic bags are produced worldwide every year, and they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. We’re all aware of the fact that plastic bags pose a lot of [...]

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Scotland Building a 300ft Bridge for Squirrels to Cross Traffic

Poor squirrels. There’s just one example of animals that we’ve displaced with all of our strip malls and highways, but a highly visible one. No wonder they raid our birdfeeders and gardens – we’ve made it a lot harder for them to go about life as they’re meant to. That’s why we’re glad to hear [...]

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Apple Working on Solar Powered Portable Devices

There’s no way around it: portable electronic devices are here to stay. We’ve all got them: cell phones, electronic organizers, laptop computers, mp3 players and other handhelds. While it’s great that many of them are getting lighter and smaller, what we’d really love is to be able to charge them with the power of the [...]

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McCain Doesn’t Want to Give Veterans Increased Education Benefits

Apparently, John McCain wants you to support the troops – but not too much. Wear your flag pins and display those yellow ribbons on your vehicles with pride. But don’t actually give the troops the education benefits they were promised before joining the armed forces. That would be wrong, apparently. See, a bill was recently [...]

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Sweet! The Dutch Build the World’s First Solar Speedboat

Oh, how I love basking in the sunshine, smelling the salty air and dipping a foot into the water while relaxing on a boat. Too bad motor boats are really not good for the environment – they’re noisy, they use a lot of energy and leak oil. Then I saw this: the world’s first solar [...]

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