New from Australia about increasing stresses on the environment. A good read.
More than 400 ocean dead zones - areas so low in oxygen that sea life cannot survive - have been reported by oceanographers around the world between 2000 and 2008.
That is compared with 300 in the 1990s and 120 in the 1980s.
This is an interesting article from an Australian source about the risk of strokes from taking various pain killers. The risk increases as you get older.
Anti-inflammatories are best kept in reserve to use intermittently, says Cohen, as a "passport to activity" such as a weekly game of golf.
Katrina vanden Heuvel of "The Nation" magazine is clear about the fact that they should never have criticized John Tyner for his decidedly negative interaction TSA as the magazine just didn't do enough fact checking on his background. It's refreshing to have this sort of response coming back from the editor of a magazine that I generally respect.
Now if someone can just get an extension for Amplify up and running so that I can easily clip out a piece (such as the one below) while running the browser and add my own comment for inclusion in my Amplify stream, etc. Incidentally I just used the Amplify bookmarklet in Safari to create this entry.
I thought that SS was an insurance program for people who could no longer work for whatever reason and not an entitlement program. Not sure what Friedman thinks "cutting" SS will do or why it's necessary considering that it's also tied up in a trust fund that's apparently solvent through the next couple of decades. Let's play the game of distracting the voters however and not mention how the rich don't actually pay their fair share for the public commons.
I guess it really didn't turn out to be as savage an event as some people were hoping for, but I think I'd have liked to have heard these two trying to justify a war, or a belief or not.
Looks like a new version of Dropbox is on it's way. Like many folks I'm a user of the software.
