Archive for the 'environmental' Category

Yellow pages: 1. Trees: – 19,000,000

Nineteen million trees are cut down each year to publish both the White and Yellow Pages phone books. As if that isn’t bad enough, there’s also a lot of energy used: 7.2 million barrels of oil and 3 billion kilowatt hours of consumption, as well as 268,000 cubic yards of landfill. And that’s BEFORE we [...]

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Santa, quantum physics and worm holes

Aurthur Clarke  (2001: A space Odyssey), said that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
And this time of year, what’s more magic than the ability of one fat guy to circumnavigate the globe delivering presents. Well, turns out there’s a gentleman who can give us insights into just how that happens. He explains it’s [...]

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Christian group raps against sins of the “front hug.”

Saw a video this weekend about the “dangers” of groin-to-groin front hugs among teens. We’ll go out on a limb here, and guess most mature people think there are better topics to rally against than the front hug. Of course, this group offers an alternative called the “Christian Side Hug.” (Believe me, I am NOT  [...]

Saturday, November 28th, 2009