Guest Thinkers — July 19, 2009

CO2 vs. CO in emissions

I know CO2 is bad, but what about CO?

The emissions in current oil production of products release huge amounts of everything! Just as other burning products have been anaylized for every component, why has CO emissions been ingnored and or not spoken about.

These two different compounds are called Carbon DIoxide, which is what we exhale, and Carbon MONoxixe, which is deadly to the WHOLE environment.

This would speed along the idea of change for a better environmennt.

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Sponsored

How China gained — and lost — its spot as the world’s wealthiest nation

The story of China is the story of global economics.

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High Culture

What will English sound like 1,000 years from now — if it even exists?

In order to figure out how English might evolve in the future, we have to look at how it has changed in the near and distant past.

Strange Maps

InterContinental Railway: All aboard the train from New York to Paris — via Siberia

Dig a 70-mile tunnel under the Bering Strait, and you get this amazing InterContinental Railway, which will reshape the world.

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Health

Psychedelics open a new window on the mechanisms of perception

Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.

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Starts With A Bang

What’s it like to approach the edge of the Universe?

With a finite 13.8 billion years having passed since the Big Bang, there’s an edge to what we can see: the cosmic horizon. What’s it like?

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