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The Ruling Glass As craft beers continue to make headway in the beer industry, gaining market share year over year, small brewers are making big waves with new ideas about flavor and processing techniques that are changing the way consumers think about beer. www.manufacturing.net
Another Week of GW News, May 20, 2012 [A Few Things Ill Considered] Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor . Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... scienceblogs.com
Iowa Energy Center Supports Research Aimed at Building a Bioeconomy Three teams of Iowa State University researchers will use grants from the Iowa Energy Center to develop biorenewable technologies. All three projects involve the thermochemical conversion of biomass to biorenewable fuels and products. www.newswise.com
Is American decline real? “[T]he United States cannot afford another decline like that which has characterized the past decade and a half....[O]nly self-delusion can keep us from admitting our decline to ourselves.” – Henry A. Kissinger, 1961 In these words, one of America’s most distinguished strategic thinkers and policy makers expresses alarm at America’s condition and the perils it faces. The warning seems timely ... www.salon.com
Preparing for the big one A recent survey of how people are most likely to die rated asteroid impacts pretty low—something like 1 in 100,000. That’s statistically about the same probability as death by lightning or a tsunami. But there’s an obvious flaw in this predictive comparison. Lightning kills one person at a time about sixty times per year. Asteroid impacts, by contrast, probably haven’t killed anyone in thousands ... www.salon.com
‘I’d rather slam my cock in a door than debate climate change’ The sum total of useful commentary on ABC’s stultifying I Can Change Your Mind About Climate was five minutes of British scientist and author Ben Goldacre saying he'd rather slam his c-ck in the door then debate climate change,... Read more... Read more on the blog... feeds.crikey.com.au
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