Bowling, it’s the new bowling… who knew they do this in SoCal? Milwaukee, yeah, but Anaheim?
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One out of four isn’t bad, is it?
Half of youngsters aged nine to 11 were unable to identify a daddy-long-legs, oak tree, blue tit or bluebell, in the poll by BBC Wildlife Magazine.
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Everything you wanted to know about snickerdoodles except the recipe.
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Scientist lone anthrax attacker… leave it to the beeb. Had some whitewash left after the David Kelley thing.
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Take the Pew news quiz. (I missed the Dow Jones question.)
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…and in closing, some dismalness:
It’s not just cheap oil we’re addicted to: it’s cheap everything. And the world we’re entering isn’t really of Peak Oil as it is one of Peak Consumption.
But consumption wasn’t the only choice we could have made. We could have chosen, instead, to invest. In what? In anything: anything would have been a more sensible choice than naïve consumption – education, energy, healthcare, transportation, even a more sensible and rational kind of finance.
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