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POPSCharles Richter Suffered With Asperger's - "I need not tell you that right now there are all the necessary means to create a decent world. The chief obstacles are ignorance; greed; militarism; nationalism; and the violence that stems either from a psychotic impulse to destruction, or from a feeling of inferiority and a desire for revenge." - It is painful to hear the same arguments now that we’re used to justify the two great wars -and along with them the same half truths, and probably some of the same lies". - In spite of the great development of information services the world has ever known, I think that no ordinary citizen has any real access to the facts on which he might base sound judgment on the national and social issues of our times". Hough closes her story by asking: " here we would be if Charles Richter's brain had been wired according to standard blueprints". The answer could be to on
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POPSOutlook for Oceans Bleak as Sea 'Deserts' Grow Link to Global Warming And it seems to be tied to global warming. Polovina's study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, finds that the areas of low productivity are expanding in lockstep with increasing water temperatures. As surface temperatures warm, that prevents colder water from rising up from the depths. And that colder water carries the nutrients that would feed the algae. Scientists studying climate change have predicted this kind of change. But the sea desert has been spreading 10 times faster than climate scientists predicted.So Polovina is a bit cautious — this could be a shorter-term fluctuation, not a permanent change. "In the next 10 years, maybe it could switch back," he says. "Until we get a much longer time series, we don't know."
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POPSBush Begins Preparations For Nation's Final Year "Our great nation will be a shining, then blinking, then slowly fading beacon to the world," Bush said. "As our time as a sovereign country with borders and currency comes to a close, let us hope we will be remembered for all the great things we accomplished, and not for the 1960s."
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POPSBush Calls On Business Leaders To Create 500,000 Shitty Jobs "I can make it possible for up to 50 people in the American Southwest to be mucking out grease traps by this time next week," said Rudy Maleska, president of SouthwasteCo, a Tucson, AZ, industrial-waste-removal service. "Whatever I can do to help my country, count me in."
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POPSMcDonald's Drops 'Hammurderer' Character From Advertising "We are sensitive to the concerns of parents and will immediately begin phasing out this character," Perlich said. "Whether we will remove him from commercials without explanation or write him out of the spots with a bloody police standoff, we have yet to decide. But we're confident the Hammurderer will be off the national radar by April."
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POPSThe Monkey Mind I'm just another monkey on the 3rd rock from Sol riding a roller coaster inside a Mandala. Whoopeee!
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