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Allegedly, tree-ring records just don't exist for the 3rd and 4th centuries CE. Some dendrochronologists speculate that those centuries simply didn't happen—that we're keeping track of time wrong. This is my new favorite conspiracy theory. I'm in no way equipped to determine the veracity of this, but I just love the idea.
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The soda maker is going to cease selling all of their full-calorie, sweetened beverages in schools worldwide by 2012. (There has been a 95% drop in the sale of such drinks in schools in the past half decade, presumably because of schools pulling them.) Presumably that means diet drinks, bottled water, and juices will still be sold. As a voluntary effort, I think it's commendable.
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I love this idea. New sources of energy (wind, solar) tend to be gathered in places far from the population, which means constructing major new power lines, and nobody wants that. The solution is to run the cables along the bottom of bodies of water, such as bays, lakes, even rivers. Though this approach isn't without its environmental impacts, if used to enable clean power to get to urbanized areas, it seems like a great trade-off.
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I'm happy to see that Carl Malmud's International Amateur Scanning League is getting some attention. He's doing important work.
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I love the part in the report where it says “Coke this month said it no longer would sell its other sweetened drinks in grade schools unless parents or school officials asked it to.” Like there’s any way that they would ever be permitted to sell anything in any school if school officials didn’t ask them to.
John Rigby & Co. claims to have been founded in 1735, and they appear to have sincerely believed this for the last 100 years. Yet in fact John Rigby hadn’t even been born in 1735 and certainly couldn’t have been making rifles yet. The company actually only dates back to the 1800’s. I read an article in Rifle magazine that traced back the error to a typo in a piece of promotional material in the early 20th century.
Anyway, my point is that if a substantial corporation can tag an extra 100 years onto their recent history and convince themselves that this was real then certainly the rest of the world could have done the same thing.