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After he swam the North Pole, Lewis Pugh vowed never to take another cold-water dip. Then he heard of Lake Imja in the Himalayas, created by recent glacial melting, and Lake Pumori, a body of water at an altitude of 5300 m on Everest — and so began a journey that would teach him a radical new way to approach swimming and think about climate change.
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Check out the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” web site.

Get rid of the senate method of fillibuster.

If you are in CA, work against Prop 23.

Watch it now before AGW makes it all go away.
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Which we already knew, but now the gummit knows it too.

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Do you remember when, in an act of slap-in-the-face cynicism (that American Environmentalists accepted with little protest) Ronald Regan took the previously deployed (and largely symbolic) solar panels off of the roof of the white house?

Bill Clinton did not restore them. Bush … well, whatever. And Obama has not restored them either.

Time to put them back. Here’s a petition you can sign.

… emerged Huxley:

No, no, not THAT Huxley, THIS Huxley:

Please visit Cocktail Party Physics for an amazing essay on Thomas Henry Huxley (who is indeed the namesake of the other Huxley). Read: How East London defined “Darwin’s Bulldog” and brought him into conflict with the world’s most dangerous anarchist.

In Iran, there was NOT an assassination attempt on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Here is a picture of him not being assassinated as his bodyguards don’t react to anything as startled onlookers glance at the cite where there was not an explosion behind them.

(Photograph from Reuters, in The Guardian, which is NOT reporting anything.)

The BBC also reports that nothing happened in Iran today. Aljazeera.net, on the other hand, reports: Iran denies attack on Ahmadinejad.

Barack Obama

Born on or near August 4th 1961, in Honolulu Hawaii. Or somewhere.

Overturning more than 40 years of accepted practice, new research proves that the tools used to check tests of “general mental ability” for bias are themselves flawed. This key finding from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business challenges reliance on such exams to make objective decisions for employment or academic admissions even in the face of well-documented gaps between mean scores of white and minority populations.

Here’s the link.

John McKay at Archy has written an in-dept analysis of Minnesota Congressperson Michele Bachmann. Read it here.

Surly Amy address Religion vs. Faith.

And, of course, the Ultimate Death Match: Fungus vs Worm

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A new mammal species has been discovered in Madagascar, and is described here on Tetrapod Zoology. It is NOT a primate.

Brian Switek reviews Shooting in the Wild: An Insider’s Account of Making Movies in the Animal Kingdom, an important book that “an in-depth look at wild animals on film, covering the history of wildlife documentaries, safety issues, and the never-ending pressure to obtain the “money shot.”” (booklist). Brian’s review, which I highly recommend, is HERE.

The PLoS Blog Pick of the Month for July has been announced, and it’s a post by Hannah Waters of Culturing Science on forest canopy height. This is a great choice. Read it here.

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