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Just because our physical brain is at the mercy of a myriad of networks doesn’t mean we’ve absolved of personal responsibility You assume Black Friday gives you the best chances of buying holiday gifts at the cheapest prices. Turns out this assumption often isn’t true Those info-streaming retinal displays from the Terminator movies may be closer to fact than fantasy The U.S. Federal Reserve has been pumping billions of dollars into the European banking system in recent weeks in an attempt to help stabilize the continent’s financial crisis Photos by Rebecca Jackrel Did you have any idea there are wolves in Africa? Jackals, sure. Painted dogs, yep Image: Radio Nederland Wereldomroep via flickr The tiny South American nation of Suriname has recently joined its neighbor Guyana in creating an agency dedicated to dealing with climate change. Even a bat as common as the little brown bat – yes, that’s it’s name – is at risk of extinction, threatening to upend ecosystems across the continent. The end result could be the virtual elimination of more than half the bat species found in the U.S., including bats that eat up to 1,200 mosquitoes an hour, and hunt down crop pests equally fast. Natural gas is often seen as the “bridge fuel” to a clean-energy future—it’s abundant, reliable, and has about half the emissions of coal. Today, a couple of reminders of just how tricky it can be to really make that gas-powered energy revolution a reality. In California, state regulators are concerned that new emissions rules from the Environmental Protection Agency could actually “retard” the state’s efforts to clean up its energy mix, The Wall Street Journal reports today |
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