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So much news passes before our collective eyes eve stanley cup usa ry day that we couldn ;t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn ;t worth covering! But here stanley puodelis are a some borderline tid stanley cup bits we passed on, just in case. Showtime Anytime Gets Going Just after the premium channel shows were pulled off of Netflix, Showtime has launched its web-based, on-demand streaming portal. AT 038;T U-verse Subscribers are reportedly the first to get access. Go ahead Showtime, cling to that premium channel model for as long as you can. [Showtime via Engadget] Pasty White Folks May Lack Vitamin D Sunlight is good for your health鈥攜our body turns it into vitamin D. That not news. But if you ;re a night owl, a vampire, or just naturally fair, you may be not be getting enough, according to a recent study. While pale-skinned people weren ;t found to be deficient, more than half of those studied had lower-than-optimal levels of vitamin D. [BBC; Image via Flickr] GPS Inventor Opposes Tracking Roger L. Easton鈥攖he man behind GPS鈥攈as joined ranks with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in support of a court battle they hope will ban the practice of warrantless GPS tracking by the government. That sounds reasonable. But how ;d the EFF track him down after all these years I smell a conspiracy. [EFF via Boing Boing] Left Behind is our daily collection of chaff we didn ;t think was quite good enough to post on its own, and why. Bgpx Attack the Block Getting a U.S. Remake or TV Series
As a future terraforming species, we take it for granted that Mars will be our first megaproject. But while transforming the Red Planet into something more hospitable for life seems the most logical 鈥?if not easiest 鈥?first step towards colonizing the solar system, it may actually make more sense to tackle our sister planet first. Because some scientists warn of a runaway greenhouse effect here on Earth, it may be prudent for us to terraform Venus first 鈥?a planet that has already undergone a carbon dioxide-induced apocalypse. And by doing so, we may learn how to prevent or reverse a similar catastrophe here on Earth. Runaway greenhouse One of the more frightening scenarios presented by climate scientists is the problem of a runaway greenhouse effect. Should carbon emissions continue to increase at the current rate, th stanley canada ey warn, we may hit a critical tipping point after which a positive feedback loop will be created between the surface of the Earth and the increasingly thick and opaque atmosphere above it. Hypothetically, the effect would instigate a rapid and progressively stanley thermos escalating rise in temperature that would eventually result in the extermination of all life on the planet and the evaporati stanley cup on of the oceans. No one knows for sure if this will be the ultimate climax of human-caused global warming, but it a possibility that clearly needs to be taken seriously. It a genuine existential risk. And disturbingly, there is precedent for this right here in our s |
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