Daily Archive: October 27, 2011

Oct 27 2011

Solving the Power Problem and the Climate Problem in one go

A massive project funded by Google exposes the vast untapped geothermal reserves available to the United States’ power infrastructure. How much energy? you ask. Well, the researchers based their estimates on what current technology is able to extract – not any hypothetical future advances. Even so, it turns out that there is three million megawatts …

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Oct 27 2011

Mock The Movie: Attack From Space

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Mock The Movie moves to Friday this week due to prior engagements tonight by some of our core constituents. This week we’ll be defending the Earth (well, Japan) from starfish-shaped aliens in Attack From Space! Via MTM’s patron site The Journal of Are You Fucking Kidding, the rules for the movie: Here’s how we do …

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Oct 27 2011

Rick Mercer: Teen Suicide

Given the post I just put up, this one (from two nights ago) is relevant and timely. Three hundred teen suicides because kids don’t realize that it gets better? That’s obscene. Do something about it. MAKE it better, for the kids, now, while they’re most vulnerable.

Oct 27 2011

Rick Mercer: It Gets Better

From 2007. I hadn’t ever seen this rant. Still good four years later.

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