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POPSImproved shopping with RFID Here is a new German product called the Tip 'n Tell, a PDA with plug in RFID interrogator. There a youtube vid on it at the article source
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POPSArctic Sea Ice images Arctic ice extent from satellite photos. The picture on the left was taken in September 1979; the picture on the right was taken on September 9, 2007--most of you have seen the news in 2008-we continue to have big break-offs of ice Go here for current projections of 2050 and 2100 http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/06/vanishing-sea-ice/sea-ice-interactive
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POPS495 million for Yucca Mountain Will completion of Yucca mean trains and trucks all over the U.S transporting radioactive nuclear waste there? (coming to a town near you?)
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POPSBill Moyers on Media Reform The trend towards "communitainment" by major media undermines democracy. Some press members are deferential complicit enablers. Ads, celebrities, nonsense and propaganda often dominate tv news in order for the conglomorates to please shareholders and pay top management.
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POPSSolving Health Care in America
The blend of private insurance and medical services coupled with government standards is a low cost flexible and competitive approach to universal coverage. The use of a two tiered system along with a co pay for visits both gives incentive to the patient to be compliant and helps eliminate unnecessary use of medical services. An escalating co-pay for repeat offenders could also be an incentive to keep costs down. The US under such a system would continue to remain the leader in health care. Giving grants to research centers and training hospitals allows for on going research as well as giving an upward path to those with strange diseases or the need for specialized care. The system in place is a good system. By eliminating the abuses of Medicare and encouraging preventive care the system could operate in a superior fashion at or below what we are currently paying in taxes today. (All elected officials have to be in the system. They cannot have special treatment. )
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POPSxtreme hybrid car 150 mpg.....This was a 2007 Saturn Vue Greenline, converted to an Extreme Hybrid™ by custom fitting it with Lithium Ion Batteries, Ultracapacitors, a Motor Generator, AFS Trinity patented Power Electronics and Controls, and other parts. Automakers do not have to wait for new battery developments in order to create plugin hybrids that can go 40 miles on an overnight plug in charge. They can do this today by utilizing current lithium batteries protected within an AFS Trinity Fast Energy™ system.
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POPSFiling of Yucca Mountain Application The Nuclear Energy Institute's president and chief executive officer, Frank L. (Skip) Bowman, made the following remarks today in response to the U.S. Department of Energy's filing of a license application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the planned repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev., for used nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste
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POPSBill Richardson on foreign policy since he may be Obama's VP, and this guy has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 5 times, here's his bio http://www.governor.state.nm.us/governor.php
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POPSJust Six Numbers Martin Rees argues that six numbers underlie the fundamental physical properties of the universe, and that each is the precise value needed to permit life to flourish. In laying out this premise, he joins a long, intellectually daring line of cosmologists and astrophysicists – not to mention philosophers, theologians, and logicians – stretching all the way back to Galileo, who presume to ask: Why are we here?
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POPSIs nuclear energy good or bad? Things began to heat up for the industry within two weeks of President Bush taking office in January 2001. He formed the National Energy Policy Development Group (NEPD), headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, which produced a National Energy Policy report by May of that year, recommending “the President support the expansion of nuclear energy in the United States as a major component of our national energy policy.” Following a long legal battle to force the release of NEPD documents to the public, environmental lawyers at Natural Resource Defense Council uncovered that industry lobbyists were integral in forming the president’s energy policy and his decision to launch a so-called ‘nuclear revival’. Over eight years the nuclear industry has received billions in government funds
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