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Steel Dynamics: Not just for Superman
The steel market is as sturdy as, well, steel. With other countries hoarding their own steel for expansion at home, Steel Dynamics is filling the U.S. hole and is using scrap metal to do it.
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Exposing popular 'let's pretend' fantasies
Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today's Pop Mysticisms. By Robert M. Price. Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, 2008. ISBN 978-1-59102-608-2. 370 pp. Hardcover, $24.95. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Immanuel Velikovsky tried to pass off religion as science by writing an allegedly nonfiction fairy tale in which the...
Articles 2008-09-01
The myth of Nibiru and the end of the world in 2012: an astronomer tries to counter misinformation on the Internet about claims of a supposed rogue planet and an impending catastrophe, encountering troubling credulity, scientific illiteracy, and conspiracy thinking along the way
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SKEPTICAL INQUIRER readers may not be aware that a rogue planet on a 3,600year orbit is about to enter the inner solar system and visit a catastrophe upon Earth. This threatening planet was discovered by the ancient Mesopotamians, who named it Nibiru. It was known also...
Articles 2008-09-01
Credit crunch: 'It's just the end of the beginning'
Here's some "big picture" numbers on the state of the world's financial system. According to ING, the total value of assets written down by Planet Earth's big banks is $502bn. The total value of capital raised by the same: $351bn. That deficit, of $151bn could easily get much much bigger....
Articles 2008-08-28
Why I love...
Name Don Letts Occupation Film director Passion Earthy pleasures I'm seriously turned on by the planet and all it has to offer. I can still look at a tree and a blue sky and be amazed. I don't allow my kids to kill insects because I...
Articles 2008-08-24
Guerrilla Games
MARKETING SPONSORSHIP Tim Delaney wonders why official sportssponsors pay vast sums when ambush tactics can generate acres of publicity Few people who watched the Chinese win gold for their Olympics opening ceremony will deny that the Games are "the greatest TV show on earth". Practically every...
Articles 2008-08-18
'It's a JFK/Diana moment in our home. Yes, Carol Vorderman has
Days Like Those I don't think I will ever forget Matthew's animal yelp of distress as he read a two-day old English newspaper in a Greek taverna on the tiny, peaceful island of Poros. "Sweet Lord Jesus, no," he wailed. "What have they done? God damn...
Articles 2008-08-18
Starry details
The article "Astronomers find distant star with a whole set of superEarths" (SN: 7/05/08, p. 7) leaves out some of the most interesting and important information. Is HD 40307 a G-type star like our sun? Which method was used to detect the planets? The article implies Doppler was used, but...
Articles 2008-08-16
The Encyclopedia of Earth: A Complete Visual Guide
The Encyclopedia of Earth: A Complete Visual Guide Michael Allaby, Robert Coenraads, Stephen Hutchinson, Karen McGhee and John O'Byrne [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The reference book for the planet, complete with thousands of photographs, illustrations, diagrams and maps. Univ. of California Press, 2008, 608...
Articles 2008-08-16
Real Wood Floors: Wood Floors are Carbon Neutral
ST. LOUIS, August 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite their bad rap, greenhouse gases are essential to life on Earth. These gases work in the Earth's atmosphere to trap heat and warm our planet, which is essential for plant and animal life. But just like anything else, too much...
Articles 2008-08-15
It may be a long, slow journey, but new fuel-efficient delivery cars travel the road to a better environment
The motto of Pizza Fusion, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based chain, is "saving the earth, one pizza at a time." Does that sound a bit quixotic? Then consider the following idea: Set aside one day of the year to conduct programs, seminars, discussions and activities to raise Americans' consciousness...
Articles 2008-08-11
Family hikes offered around Chabot
MY SON and I were introduced to a banana slug last weekend and we've been talking about it ever since! We got up close and personal with the slug on the trails near Chabot, thanks to a naturalist who even put the gooey gastropod on a glass plate for us....
Articles 2008-08-07
Dell Meets Carbon Neutral Goal Ahead of Schedule
* Green Energy Investment Covers 100 Percent of Global Electricity Use * Partnership with Conservation International Preserving Madagascan Forest ROUND ROCK, Texas -- Dell has met its carbon neutral goal ahead of schedule, achieving a major milestone in its commitment to be the 'greenest' technology company...
Articles 2008-08-06
Spare the Air Music Festival Announces Line-Up
FULLERTON, Calif., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The line-up for the Spare the Air music festival, which will take place at the Fullerton Transportation Center in Fullerton, CA from 11am to 8pm on Saturday, August 30, was announced today by Sean Francis, the event's promoter and organizer. "In...
Articles 2008-08-05
Thrasher skate rock: life of pain
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] LOVE SKATEBOARDING. I love rock and roll. The only rule is there are no rules. This is our world, they just live in it. In a blink of time where the whole earth is our home, boundaries and borders are nothing more than a mere gas...
Articles 2008-08-01
Heather Chadwell to Host Stripper Competition at Strippers & Hustlers Ball, Labor Day Weekend, Las Vegas
Heather Chadwell, model, TV personality, anda former stripper herself, has joined the All-Star lineup for Perry Mann'sExotic Erotic Strippers and Hustlers Ball, August 30 and 31 at the OrleansArena in Las Vegas. Heather will host the stripper competition, featuringtop performers from Déjà vu, Hustler, Olympic Gardens, Palomino, and ClubParadise. They'll...
Articles 2008-08-01
Measure fund's performance during market cycles
Mutual fund performance depends on many things: the number of stocks in the fund's portfolio, for example, the fees that the fund charges and the manager's drinking habits. A fund's performance shouldn't depend too heavily on the rotation of the Earth around the sun, however, unless the planet...
Articles 2008-08-01
Earth Voyage: educators on a sustainable mission
In 2006, community planners, artists, educators and students participated if in the Design Science Lab DSL, a 10-day think tank on regional and global sustainability issues sponsored by the Buckminster Fuller Institute and the United Nations and held in Asheville. It was at this event that Asheville residents Mark Hanf,...
Articles 2008-08-01
Because the Cat Purrs
Because the Cat Purrs Janet Lembke Skyhorse Publishing 555 Eighth Avenue, Suite 903, New York, NY 10018 9781602392359, $22.95, www.skyhorsepublishing.com Humanity is not the only resident of Earth; we share our homes with thousands of others on the planet. "Because...
Articles 2008-08-01
Rescue Plan for Planet Earth
Rescue Plan for Planet Earth Jim Stark The Key Publishing House media@thekeypublish.com Smith Publicity publicity dan@smithpublicity.com 9780978252656, $19.49, www.thekeypublish.com So many governments bickering at one another about topics which may be petty in the eyes of...
Articles 2008-08-01
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