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Peru’s Maple Energy aims to raise $11.84 million through share…

BioFuels Digest | December 31st 2009 by Jim Lane

In Peru, Maple Energy has announced an institutional capital drive which is expected to produce $11.84 million in gross proceeds for the early-stage ethanol company. The sale price values the company at $78.5 million. Peruvian-focused Maple Energy ha read more

How much longer will our Chinese food be delivered?

covertress - over the counter intelligence | December 30th 2009 by covertress

By Jeff Rubin, The Globe and Mail, h/t: theediblegardenA blog about how weaning our economy off oil means some fundamental changes in the way we live, and other things... If you think you’re eating local now, you haven’t tasted anything yet.Food read more

O’ Little Town of Bethlehem

20 Prospect | December 16th 2009 by Anonymous

Bethlehem, PA - Photo by Walker Evans - Nov 1935 from the Library of Congress FSA collection The pictures in this post were taken by the Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information, between 1935 and 1945. This landmark government program read more

ART CRITICISM VERSUS MARTIAL ARTS COMMENTARY

Learning to Fight | December 15th 2009 by Claire Berlinski

I must say that if there is any field of endeavor that gives rise to more utterly inane commentary than the martial arts, it's art criticism. Take this randomly selected gem from Artcritical.com:Paine manages to steer these leafless “Dendroids,” read more

The China Syndrome

Slipcast-The Ceramcis Blog | December 14th 2009

These pieces by Chilean/British Artist Livia Marin were shown at The House of Propellers in London earlier this fall, under the name "Broken Things" From the Gallery Site:“Broken Things” highlights the meticulous work of Livia Marin, a proce read more

7 Quick Reasons To Grow Your Own Organic Garden

Natural Health And Beauty Tips | December 10th 2009

During the last decades has been a change towards mechanization and homogenization of farming, which uses pesticides, additives, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers and mass-production techniques. All this is clearly affecting the health of mankind, a read more

Mechanization and automation in production processes

ENG CREATOR | December 5th 2009 by sultan

The automation of technological processes means: replace the work of the human action machine (the machine), while the automation of technological processes, it automates all of . the required service machine (machine running), and the system of cont read more

August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rain/Ray Bradbury

FREE ONLINE MONEY | December 1st 2009 by Zahoor Shah

August 2026: There Will Come Soft RainBy Ray BradburyAugust 2026: There Will Come Soft Rain” is an ironical depiction (description) of human society that is moving towards lifelessness.They irony in the story works on several levels. Thematically s read more

The Present and Future of Military – Talon Robot (Video)

Singularity Hub | November 30th 2009

Armed versions of the Talon robot can be remotely operated to assist (or replace) human troops in the field. Expendable. It’s a word that is rapidly disappearing from use when describing soldiers in the field. Instead, that label has fallen on read more

Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!

Appalachian History | November 26th 2009

What we’re missing is the voice of our elders, explaining why things happened as they did, and what it was like there, then. Without this context names and dates are just abstractions, as real as a virtual kiss. Without knowing the challenges and c read more

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