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10 Cool Ice Cubes

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:20:04 GMT

clipped by: gilligan
clipper's remarks: Don't miss these, they're really creative!

Clip Source: www.thetoyzone.com

Welcome to the world of next generation ice cubes! 10 of the best drink accompaniments that any Eskimo would be proud of.

1. Bone Chiller Cubes

2. Jazz Ice

3. Jewel Cubes

4. Chocolate Ice Cubes

5. ICE with a slice

6. Hans Solo Carbonite ice cube

7. ICE Cube Kebab

8. Ice Cube Shooter Glass

9. Tetris Ice Cubes

10. LEGO Ice Cubes

Tags: ice

Everyday Culprits of Tooth Decay

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:48:05 GMT

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Clip Source: www.divinecaroline.com

Crackers, Breadsticks, and Chips

Just what we needed—another reason to feel bread aisle-guilt. But unlike low-carb diets, there’s some real science behind this.

Lemonade, Pineapples, and Oranges

Acidic foods and drinks also initiate a harmful chemical process in the mouth—one that softens tooth enamel and also leads to decay.

Ice Cubes

Yes, it’s just water, but munching on ice cubes can also do a fair amount of damage.

Clip Source: www.divinecaroline.com

Brushing Too Hard or Too Often

This is what I got in trouble for. Turns out, what I thought was simply an effective cleaning was actually wearing down my tooth enamel and causing gum and cheek damage.

Soft Drinks, Energy Drinks, Sports Drinks, and Sweetened Iced Tea

Not only is soda the leading source of added sugar in the diets of kids and teens, most soft drinks also contain phosphoric and citric acids

Dried Fruit, Gummy Candy, and Chewy Treats

The timing matters with these sticky foods.

Candy, Cookies, Cake, and Pie

Trite but true: eating too much candy will rot our teeth.

Tags: health

McCain's VP pick...

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:03:45 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: I thought these two excerpts were especially relevant to how the pick of Palin will viewed. All i can say for now is that it sure does shake up the chemistry of the election.

Clip Source: www.time.com

She's pro-life in practice as well as in theory; she recently gave birth to a son that she knew would have Down Syndrome. She'll be the first woman on a Republican ticket, which could appeal to Hillary Clinton voters and help reduce Barack Obama's advantage among women. Her son is about to deploy to Iraq. She's an ice fisherman, a moose hunter and a lifetime NRA member. She killed her state's pork-laden Bridge to Nowhere that McCain has ridiculed on the trail.

Still, it's a long leap from the Wasilla city council to the White House, and the top consideration for any candidate for the number-two job is readiness for the number-one job, an issue that may weigh more on voters' minds when the potential number one is 72 years old.

Tags: politics, mccain, palin, vice president

Palin Has What It Takes to Be Next Dick Cheney

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:31:30 GMT

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Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Governor Sarah Palin Has What It Takes To Be The Next Dick Cheney

"I strongly believe that adding them [polar bears that is, not scientists] to the list is the wrong move at this time. My decision is based on a comprehensive review by state wildlife officials of scientific information from a broad range of climate, ice and polar bear experts."

But was Palin lying? Not technically. Look at what she wrote again. She only says her decision is "based on a comprehensive review of wildlife experts." She doesn't say it's based on agreeing with anything they said. That's you, jumping to conclusions.

The Feds -- who eventually did add the bears to the list -- based their decision on models that showed all of Alaska's polar bears dead by 2050. The ice they hunt and mate on is melting and they'll fall in the water and drown.

In other words, the Feds are right. The email is dated October 9, 2007. Palin's op ed, where she says they said the Feds were wrong, was published January 5th, 2008.

Tags: palin, republicans

Why Greenland isn't so green

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:38:42 GMT

clipped by: pokkets
clipper's remarks: Greenhouse gas levels before the Industrial Revolution were 280 parts per million (ppm), and now stand at around 385 ppm - just shy of the 400 ppm that prevailed in Greenland's pre-ice era.
The more they study climate models the more uncertainty they have, because the weather keeps showing them it involves a lot more than they imagined.
But almost any weatherman could tell you that.
They usually have trouble predicting tomorrows weather. They also know, that in 20 years they'll be forgotten, and people will be asking the incumbent weathermen. Who will still be predicting a 60% chance of showers.
In case you were interested
In 982 Erik the Red was exiled from Iceland for murder., he named the land Grænland ("Greenland").] Greenland was also called Gruntland ("Ground-land") and Engronelant (or Engroneland) on early maps.
They also say (in Wikki) that while only small parts of the island are green, they are, they are Very green.
Perhaps it's the contrast.

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Climatologists poring over Greenland's ancient past say global cooling, unleashed by a fall in atmospheric greenhouse gases, caused the vast island to ice over around three million years ago.

The study, which appears in Nature, says Greenland was mostly ice-free and may have hosted grasslands and forests before it became smothered in a thick, glacial crust in a relatively short time.

The ice sheet can only be explained by a decrease in naturally-occurring, heat-trapping carbon gases in the atmosphere

Over a period of around 300,000 years, concentrations of greenhouses gases fell by more than a third, to around the same level as before the start of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, they calculate

Lead author Dr Dan Lunt, from the University of Bristol, says a reverse greenhouse effect clearly played a major role in Greenland's glaciation, but how it happened remains unclear.

"There is a huge amount of uncertainty as to why there are big, natural swings in CO2 levels,"

We did indeed land on the moon - Adam and Jamie say so

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:32:41 GMT

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Clip Source: gizmodo.com

On their show last night, MythBusters sought to debunk one of the biggest myths of all, that NASA's "moon landings" were shot on a Hollywood backlot. And, spoiler alert, it looks like all that space exploration actually happened. So I guess that's it. Everyone can now remove their tinfoil hats and crack open a bag of freeze dried ice cream. Unless...of course...MythBusters is in on the whole thing...

North Pole Ice May Vanish By 2030

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:23:33 GMT

clipped by: klippety
clipper's remarks: More reasons to start now with consequent and radical solutions, if we haven't already.

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

North Pole Ice Cap Melting Faster Than Ever

WASHINGTON - The Arctic ice cap keeps melting under the effects of global warming and in August saw its second largest summer shrinkage since satellite observations began 30 years ago, US scientists said.

File NASA satellite image of the Arctic region. The Arctic ice cap keeps melting under the effects of global warming and in August saw its second largest summer shrinkage since satellite observations began 30 years ago, US scientists said. (AFP/Nasa/Amsre-e/File)

Measurements on August 26 showed an ice cap of 5.26 million square kilometers (2.03 million square miles), just below the 5.32 million square kilometers (2.05 million square miles) observed on 21 September 2005, making it the second biggest summer Arctic ice-cap melt in history, said the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).

Since the start of August, the Boulder, Colorado-based center said, the Arctic polar cap shrank by 2.06 million square kilometers (0.8 million square miles).

Icebergs Comes In Stripes.

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:25:56 GMT

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Clip Source: www.crookedbrains.net

The Norwegian sailor Oyvind Tangen when on a research in the Antartic, came across unusual black lines striped through an iceberg.

Most of them appear white due to the tiny bubbles within them that scatter light in all directions. When a crevice in the ice sheet or a part of an iceberg melts and quickly refreezes, then bubbles are not formed and it can appear blue.

When an iceberg falls into the sea, a layer of salty seawater can form ice on its underside. If that is rich in algae, it can form a green stripes. Brown, black and yellow lines are formed by sediments, that might be picked up when the ice sheet is on its way downhill towards the sea.

Doing Jobs Americans Won't Do? Nope...

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:02:24 GMT

clipped by: bmeuppls
clipper's remarks: Americans will work the same jobs as the illegals if truth be told... it's just that the industries didn't hire them....they hired the illegals.

Clip Source: michellemalkin.com

ICE agents on Monday seized 595 plant workers suspected of being in the country illegally. Several workers, who did not identify themselves, said Tuesday they were working and trying to keep the plant operational in the wake of the sudden loss of co-workers.

It’s an idea that maddens Samantha Stevens, 18, of Heidelberg, who was among those who pulled up to Avenue A across from the plant’s entrance throughout the day. She said she has been unable to find a job since she graduated from Heidelberg High School in the spring and blames, in part, the willingness of companies to hire illegal workers.

Gwendolyn Watkins, 40, of Stonewall said she drove 40 miles to Laurel to fill out an application with the electronics maker. She worked at Tower Automotive in Meridian as a production worker for eight months before job cuts in June left her unemployed.

Agents find 62 illegal immigrants in home

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:43:59 GMT

clipped by: dl211
clipper's remarks: I say bus them to SF, if we deport them, they'll beat the buses back.

Clip Source: www.chron.com

Agents find 62 illegal immigrants in home

EDINBURG, Texas — Federal agents found 62 illegal immigrants in a two-bedroom house after receiving a tip about suspicious activity in a quiet neighborhood Tuesday.

Neighbors on both sides of the duplex where Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents found the immigrants were shocked by the news.

"I was just looking around thinking 'where would they all fit,'" said Cris Melaragno, who lives in another duplex next door. "I barely have room for me and my three kids."

The undocumented immigrants hailed from a variety of Central American countries including Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Mexico, said ICE spokeswoman Adelina Pruneda.

Tags: illegal, immigra

Artic sea ice drops to 2nd lowest level on record

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:21:36 GMT

clipped by: moonspirit4ever
clipper's remarks: I'm not easy to convince. A claim has to have proof - there has to be evidence, there has to be numbers, and it has to make sense. After lots of reading, lots of listening, lots of thinking, I now can say that I know global warming is real and potentially devastating. I honestly don't get why some people don't see that.
I know that that most of the people that don't believe aren't stupid or evil. PLEASE stop, take another look, and reconsider the possibility that global warming is happening now and that there will be grave consequences that we need to understand. Some of us on the other side have done that for years. What if you are wrong? You should at least be able to answer that question - I can.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON - More ominous signs Wednesday have scientists saying that a global warming "tipping point" in the Arctic seems to be happening before their eyes: Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is at its second lowest level in about 30 years.

Arctic ice always melts in summer and refreezes in winter. But over the years, more of the ice is lost to the sea with less of it recovered in winter. While ice reflects the sun's heat, the open ocean absorbs more heat and the melting accelerates warming in other parts of the world.

Within "five to less than 10 years," the Arctic could be free of sea ice in the summer, said NASA ice scientist Jay Zwally.

Five climate scientists, four of them specialists on the Arctic, told The Associated Press that it is fair to call what is happening in the Arctic a "tipping point." NASA scientist James Hansen, who sounded the alarm about global warming 20 years ago before Congress, said the sea ice melt "is the best current example" of that.

Answers in Genesis: Yeah, that's the Ticket

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:24:42 GMT

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Clip Source: debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com

The Young-Earth Creationist doesn't even deal with the fact that animals cannot migrate long distances through deserts or ice fields without dying first. They adapt to conditions in the location which they exist and if the ecology changes in that location and they cannot complete their life cycle, they die. There's no attempt there to explain how a koala bear, who can only eat Eucalyptus leaves could travel from Turkey to Australia without going extinct first. There's no attempt to explain how an aquatic species like a duck-billed platypus could complete its life cycle during the "mini-Ice Age" that followed the flood while all the water was frozen. The truth of the Genesis account is simply asserted and no explanation is given for these problems.

Tags: creationism, noah's ark

The TransAntarctic Biofuel-Powered Expedition

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:49:37 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

The Moon-Regan Trans Antarctic Expedition will cross the continent of Antarctica from the west coast to the South Pole, then heading north through the Trans-Antarctic Mountain Range to the coast at McMurdo, covering distance of around 3,000 miles. The team's goal is to educate the world about Antarctica’s key role in climate change.

A bio-fueled Concept Ice Vehicle (CIV) has been developed specifically for the expedition. Equipped with an ice radar, the un-manned CIV will lead the way and scan for hidden crevasses. Two larger Science Support Vehicles (SSVs) carrying the team and their equipment will follow the pilot vehicle.

The original SSV was adapted by a team of engineers in Iceland, who dedicated 2,000 man hours to creating the perfect ice-busting expedition vehicle.

They use a low emission, turbo-charged, fuel-injected, 7.3 litre, V8 (bio)diesel and will be equipped with solar panels to provide extra power.

Oh-So-Blueberry Ice

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:17:47 GMT

clipped by: bunnicula

Clip Source: www.vegetariantimes.com

1 16-oz. pkg. frozen blueberries, thawed, or 2 cups fresh blueberries

1/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup lemonade concentrate, thawed

1 1/2 cups ginger ale

Bring blueberries, 1/2 cup water and sugar to a boil over medium heat. Cover, simmer 5 minutes; let cool. Purée mixture, then stir in lemonade and ginger ale. Pour in 9x9-inch baking pan; freeze 1/2 hour. Remove; scrape ice crystals into mixture. Refreeze. Scrape every 20 to 30 minutes.

Mound slush into 6 dishes; serve.

Tags: blueberries, dessert, recipes, vegan, vegetarian

AMAZING STRIPED ICEBERGS...pic

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:12:03 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: amazing...

Clip Source: www.slightlywarped.com

AMAZING STRIPED ICEBERGS

Icebergs in the Antarctic area sometimes have stripes, formed by layers of snow that react to different conditions.

Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with melt water and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form.

When an iceberg falls into the sea, a layer of salty seawater can freeze to the underside. If this is rich in algae, it can form a green stripe.

Brown, black and yellow lines are caused by sediment, picked up when the ice sheet grinds downhill towards the sea.