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Hummingbird Fall Migration 2010 (about 7 hours ago)

Ruby-throated hummingbirds began migrating through here around August 10th.  Males first.  Always. They have territory to claim. The birds have to migrate early, they have a long way to go. Some fly nonstop more than 500 miles across the Gulf of Mexico.  Migration is peaking n...

Hill Country Mysteries by Hill Country My...

stacyb

Late Night: BP to Teach Kiddies Environmental Science (about 7 hours ago)

graphic: PDXCreative via Flickr Irony is coughing up blackened blood and gasping its last breath: BP, the energy giant responsible for the largest offshore oil spill in history, helped develop the state’s framework for teaching more than 6 million students about the environment. Despite ...

Firedoglake by stacyb

AGZaremba

Oil in the Sand (about 8 hours ago)

I wasn’t expecting what I found - the same white sugar sands of my childhood aren’t there. Instead, these shores remind me of the east coast beaches - full of shells and broken pieces of miscellanous ocean matter. I guess I’m a victim of my own lack of googling. I assume th...

The Mom Job by AGZaremba

Britt Bravo

How Many Oil Rigs Will Explode Before We Realize the Future Lies with Clean Energy? (about 13 hours ago)

It shouldn't take an oil apocalypse to get our attention. We are facing a continuing threat in the gulf from multiple points of potential peril.

Annalee Newitz on Alternet by Britt Bravo

RANDOM TUESDAY THOUGHTS - ALIEN SWEAT-SHOP LABELS (about 14 hours ago)

Oh look, it's Tuesday! Which means it's that time again. Time to worship the Un Mom and throw down our offerings of randomness. I'm used to all the odd labels and universal symbols on clothing tags. You know the ones telling you to hand wash or line dry or some other sort of fabric care. I rece...

Rant-Rave-Roll by rantraveroll

TerrorBull Games (about 18 hours ago)

Take control of world politics with a British line of satirical board games British gaming start-up, TerrorBull Games, takes some of the world's most serious and complex issues and turns it into entertainment with satirical board games that may or may not be family friendly, ba...

Cool Hunting by Jacob Resneck

Tropical Storm Hermine (about 20 hours ago)

TS Hermine formed in the Gulf and headed for Texas, but decided to go to Mexico first.Note: I thought they'd misspelled Hermione, but apparently not. They're pronouncing it differently. I wonder what language that is.

Joy's Galaxy by Pagadan

Shopping in New York: Eataly (23rd and 5th Avenue) (about 21 hours ago)

The line at Eataly Our Shopping in New York series makes its return with a bang: the grand opening of Eataly, the Turin-based food behemoth brought to American in part by Mario Batali and the Bastianichs (both Lidia and her son Joe). Michael knew that it was a question of when, not if we were goi...

The Manhattan [food] Project by the_manhattan_f...

BShallue

Hermine who? (about 21 hours ago)

There's a tropical storm in my backyard. I thought it was just regular old rain when I woke up this morning and I was grateful it waited until the holiday weekend was over to get back to work. Then I turned on the television and a woman in a slicker suit told me it was Tropical Storm Hermine. Wh...

Long Hollow by BShallue

Radio Show September 2, 2010 Death of a Father (about 22 hours ago)

Guest: Barbara Thompson Barbara Thompson is a licensed clinical social worker, registered occupational therapist and associate professor with The Sage Colleges. In l965, when Barbara was 12 years old and living on Long Island, her father died suddenly of a heart attack. Within six months, she an...

Grief Counseling by The Grief Blog