Article headline reads: Tourists, Pandas safe after Quake; Local Town Leveled

That is a genuine screen-grab from a genuine web site of a genuinely major player. Your task, should you accept it, is to identify the player.

Of course, Google renders this utterly nugatory, so I’ll just say that the subs at National Geographic should stand up and take a massive collective bo...

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An orange tree ring barked by a vandal

I am incredibly angry. Actually, I’m resigned, but who writes because they’re resigned?

On the way to work each morning I generally take a short-cut through a modern church down the road. It's an unlovely church, but skipping through it shaves five minutes off the walk and sometimes affords amus...

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The problem is not that I am speaking from a position of ignorance. I am speaking from a position of knowledge to people who don’t know what knowledge would look like. I am talking to people who are afraid that other people who also don’t know what knowledge would look like will read the book and...

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A plate of green edamame soybeans in their pods Soybean news 1 from all over. [Tom Philpott at Gristmill]http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/4/22/12524/8050 links to two newspaper articles that report studies showing a difference in yield between GM and non-GM soybeans. Unlike Anastasia at Genetic Maize, I have not gone back to the origi...

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“My” Ugandan chicken farmer has repaid 8% of the loan she got from [Kiva]http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=33024.1 That’s not at all bad, given that the loan was disbursed less than a month ago. Of course, it would be nice to know a bit more about how Sylvia and the res...

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