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The Coming Crash: Our Addiction to Endless Growth on a Finite Planet

2013-04-01 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: Tara Lohan author of Water Matters: Why We Need to Act Now to Save Our Most Critical Resource interviews Richard Heinberg about ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth. If you want to understand how much energy costs, don`t look at your electric bill; instead get a copy of the new book Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth. This massive coffee table book contains hundreds of arresting images showing the effects of our energy choices, including oil spills,...

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Scientists engineer E.coli caffeine 'addiction' in beverages, say bacteria could clean wastewater

2013-03-29 17:45:46| Beverages - Topix.net

Scientists in the US have genetically modified an E.coli strain so that it is 'addicted' to caffeine, where it feeds on the stimulant and serves as a biosensor to measure levels thereof in common beverages such as Coke.

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Buzz Bissinger's Midlife Sex Crisis Metastasized Into a $600,000 Shopping Addiction

2013-03-27 05:17:00| Apparel - Topix.net

Buzz Bissinger is having a sexual midlife crisis. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Friday Night Lights stopped having sex with his wife "several years ago," he writes, and "began to wonder about sex and sexuality and where exactly I fit in in the complex spectrum." He started experimenting with sex with men, in being a "dominant leather ... (more)

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Email addiction: Why the enterprise can't break free

2013-03-19 17:55:46| InfoWorld: Top News

Atos CEO Thierry Breton caught a lot of flak last year when he announced he wanted his employees to give up email, but he may have been on to something. Kids these days don't use email -- digital market research company comScore found that use of Web-based email dropped 31 percent among 12- to 17-year-olds and 34 percent among 18- to 24-year-olds in the period between December 2010 and December 2011.

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