Reading List:
- Farhad Manjoo – True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society (done)
- Annie Leonard – The Story of Stuff
- Raj Patel – The Value of Nothing
- Cox – Why Does E= MC^2
- Schutz – The Stuff of Life (About Genetics and Origins)
- Richard Dawkins – The Greatest Show on Earth
- Naome Klein – No Logo
- Naome Klein – The Shock Doctrine
- Nassim Nicholad Taleb - The Black Swan - The effects of radical improbability
- Rick Smith – Slow Death by Rubber Duck
- Michael Maloney – Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing in Gold and Silver
- Jared Diamond – Guns, Germs and Steel
- Jared Diamond – Collapse
- Bart Ehrman – Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible
- Broke USA – How the Working Poor Became Big Business
- 13 Bankers – The Wallstreet Takeover and The Next Financial Meltdown
- This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
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All 2010 Links & “The Best of…” in BOLD
.Stopped at July 30th – Dakota Skye Videos…
Science, Educational, Technology:
- Ebooks: Quick Change in Strategy for a Bookseller
- How To Find Cheaper College Textbooks, EBooks
- For-profit Colleges Encourage Fraud
Biology and Genetics:
- Frank Morton on the Evolution of Plant Diversity, Farming’s New Feudalism
- Decoding Diversity In Bushmen – We’re a lot different than previously estimated
- Are You Ready for A World Without Antibiotics?, Sponge Restores Antibiotic Pwr
Health & Healthcare Issues:
- The official food of the Olympics – McDonalds
- Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize Wish – Teach Every Child About Food
- The Emergence of Food Deserts, In Chicago – A Plan to Quench Food Deserts, 1
- Why Did Whole Foods Tart Up My Organic Peanut Butter?
- EWG’s Safe Baby Bottles Guide
- EWG’s How to Reduce Cleaner-Created Air Pollutants At Your School
- Defining New Standards for “Natural” Cleaning Products
- Receipts a Large – And Largely Ignored – Source of BPA
Climate Change & Energy:
- The Story of Cap-and-Trade (More)
- Climate Change Trends – Carbon Emissions Giants (More)
- Warming Planet Can Mean More Snow (More) (More)
- NPR’s Animated Story About Carbon & Climate Change
- Bill Gates on Climate Change and Fast Nuclear -1
- Bill Gates on Climate Change and Fast Nuclear -2 (More)
- Light Concentrators on Molten Salts to Store Energy, 1, 2,
- Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency
- Nuclear Energy Loses Cost Advantage over Solar Energy
- Where the US Power Plants Are, When Built, and What They Pollute
- Fossil Fuel Subsidies are Ten Times Those of Renewables, 1, 2, 3
- UK’s Largest Coal Fired Power Plant Could Switch To Biomass, 1
- Texas Oil Companies Funding Campaign to Overturn CA Climate Law
- Companies go at it against EPA to stop them from Regulating Pollution
Politics, Capitalism, Financial Crisis:
- Are We Hooked on Growth?, Growthbusters.org
- Greenspan Calls for a Repeal on All The Bush Tax Cuts, (More)
- Top Ten List of Things That Aren’t as Cheap as You Think (Lifecycle Costs Unaccounted For)
- Traveling Down the Amazon Road: Nature Meets Civilization
- Europe’s Debt Crisis: What it Means for Americans
- Commercial Real Estate Dip Seen Weakening Economy
- A Look Inside the President’s Economic Report
- The AIG Bailout Scandal
- Republicans Intentionally Feed The Racism & Anger of the Right
- Government For Sale: How Lobbyists Shaped the Financial Reform Bill
- Citigroup to Pay $1 in Every $500 in Subprime Exposure it Hid
- Merrill’s Risk Disclosure Dodges are Unearthed
Government:
- EPA’s Rule-making Gateway (how rules are made)
- EPA’s State and Local Climate Portal
- Open-EPA: Looking for Suggestions on How to Improve (More) (More) (More)
- The Recovery Act – 1 Year Results
- The Coming Class War Over Public Pensions
Entertaining, Stupid, & Creatively Cool:
- Avatar’s plot originally far more gruesome and dark
- Trivialization Nation: Are we Devaluing Our Values
- Weight Loss News: Skip the Parasitic Worm Diet
- Colbert And Others On Sara Palin’s Stupidity (More) (More)
- Daily Show – Barack Obama ignores his Boy Scout duties
- Daily Show – Takes on Palin’s Mama Grizzly Campaign
- (Obama) Gulf Sea Food is Delicious and Safe to Eat, 1
- Humans Must Leave Earth to Survive – Stephen Hawking
- Why Does DIGG Hate Global Warming? The Scandal, (More)
