Kleenex, one of the most popular brands of tissue products in the world, contributes to the destruction of ancient forests.

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tephys on March 31st, 2009

HP, Lenovo and Dell are slipping on their environmental initiatives.

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tephys on March 30th, 2009

You think you’ve seen or heard everything. Yet, deep down you know you don’t quite understand the number or meaning of that which you see. Here’s a video that will open your mind up just a bit more.

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tephys on March 19th, 2009

Researchers at the Blue Reef Aquarium in Cornwall made a discovery worthy of a Frank Herbert novel: A massive, 4-foot-long reef worm that was chomping through their local corals.
According to This Is The West Country:
Staff eventually lured it out with fish scraps – but not before it bit through 20lb fishing line.
Curator Matt Slater [...]

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tephys on March 18th, 2009

We’ve seen those tilt-shifted photographs that take real images and make them look like minatures. Now, someone has made a video of it! Take a look.

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

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tephys on March 18th, 2009

Kids by MGMT played on iPhones.

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tephys on March 18th, 2009

Daito Manabe used a system that converts music to electrical impulses and wired up his friends’ faces to twitch in time to the song.

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tephys on March 17th, 2009

Frostie dancing to Ray Charles’ “Shake Your Tail Feather.” I really do believe this bird is dancing!

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Our global footprint now exceeds the world’s capacity to regenerate by about 30 per cent. If our demands on the planet continue at the same rate, by the mid-2030s we will need the equivalent of two planets to maintain our lifestyles. And this year’s report captures, for the first time, the impact of our consumption on the Earth’s water resources and our vulnerability to water scarcity in many areas.

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tephys on March 17th, 2009

Think of it as an ultra-realistic version of Second Life. Co-founder of MySpace, Brad Greenspan may be helping to develop a massive online city currently dubbed City Space, set to be the most complex and intricate representation of a city, entirely-rendered on the servers and then streamed to your computer. This means all you may [...]

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