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In March, BP told federal officials that, in the unlikely case of a spill, they could recover 491,721 barrels of oil from the ocean each and every day. Two and a half months after Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank, they have collected a grand total of 67,143 barrels. Remember, kids: regulation happens not because of elected officials who are desperate to find stuff to regulate, but because of the blatant, dangerous lies of companies like BP.
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It's long been known that birds use magnetic fields to navigate, but now it can be known that the iron is actually superimposed on their vision. A researcher has even diagrammed what it looks like. I wonder how such creatures have dealt, historically, with significant movement of magnetic north. Do they die off? Or can they adapt fast enough to survive?
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In the past few weeks there's been a spate of articles about the psychology behind the choice to have children, but I think this is one of the better ones. It's got lots of good quotable bits about children, such as "They’re a huge source of joy, but they turn every other source of joy to shit".
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While Poland was communist, they could sometimes get American films, but they couldn't get the promotional materials. So they had to make their own movie posters, frequently without any idea of what the American ones looked like. Apparently they still do this, since some of these posters are from post-communist Poland, like "Fight Club," "The Big Lebowski," and "Pulp Fiction."
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How bad does a university have to be to lose accreditation? As bad as Washington D.C.'s Southeastern University.
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In middle school, we learned that blood plasma pioneer Dr. Charles Drew died after a car accident, because the hospital refused to give him a blood transfusion on the basis of his race. Turns out that's not true. He died because his injuries were severe—a transfusion would have simply killed him faster. Bessie Smith's death was also not a result of medical treatment refused on the basis of her race.
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Another BP related news the NYT has this story about a hazardous chemical exposure among 20 percent of BP Gulf spill responders
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