Beer Styles

Fast Company offers an infographic of all the beer:


Hope there is room to add another one, the American-Style India Black Ale. See TheAtlantic: The American Beer Style You Haven't Heard Of

And this seems like a good enough of a reason to mention Audio Two's Many Styles

Survival Guides

Via NPR: How To Survive When Your Elevator Plunges [lay on your back]

Via Wired: Survive a Dog Attack [bop it in the snout]

Best Caption Ever

Drakozoon kalumon, the primordial blob reconstructed by scientists, looks almost nothing like this Xavier University sports mascot.

Via the CSMonitor: Scientists recreate ancient mysterious blob

Fuel Out Of CO2 - This Sounds Too Good To Be True

I want to believe it though.

The claim, sunlight + CO2 = fuel

See
NYT: Biotech Company to Patent Fuel-Secreting Bacterium
The organism can grow in bodies of water unfit for drinking or on land that is useless for farming, according to the company, Joule Unlimited

GCC: Joule Awarded Patent on Renewable Diesel Production Directly from Sunlight and CO2Joule’s microorganisms function as biocatalysts that use only sunlight, waste CO2 and non-fresh water to directly and continuously produce diesel-range hydrocarbons, which are chemically distinct from biodiesel and are compatible with existing infrastructure.

FC: Revealed: Bacteria That Turns Sunlight Into Fuel

"The Earth Isn't Fragile; We Are"

A couple of reminders of this fact:

Esquire: The Ocean Is Not in Trouble

NYT: Which Comes First – Peak Everything or Peak Us?

Sovereignty

I wonder what the Red Staters think about this?

Via DuluthNewsTrib: Red Lake Tribal Council declares lands ‘wolf sanctuary’

the Red Lake Tribal Council voted to adopt a management plan that designates more than 843,000 acres of tribal lands in eight Minnesota counties as a “wolf sanctuary.” The band Wednesday issued a news release saying tribal laws will supersede state laws.

Which reminds me of a tribe in South Dakota offering access to safe abortions in the event the state banned them.

The sovereignty of the tribal areas really isn't disputed from what I can tell; unlike the sovereignty of the States. Tea Partiers are of the opinion that the sovereignty of the States is being infringed and so the "real America" has the right to secede. Yet, when the states exercise their sovereignty in ways the Tea Partiers disagree with then they are for federal control. Two examples are Republicans being unhappy with state-level medical marijuana and domestic partnership laws.

Obama 1, Caterpillar 0 (or something like that)

Last year, as Obama was making a tour of the country to get support for the Stimulus, he visited Caterpillar's headquarters.

Wingnuts made a big kerfuffle of anti-stimulus comments from employees and the CEO.

Example via ABC: D'oh! Caterpillar CEO Contradicts President on Whether Stimulus Will Allow Him to Re-Hire Laid Off Workers

And they were right - the results of the Stimulus have been outrageous: Caterpillar dealer sales rise, aided by N America

The company, the world's largest maker of earth-moving equipment, said dealer sales of its iconic yellow construction and mining machines rose 37 percent in the three months through the end of August, up from 32 percent in the three months ended in July and 22 percent in the period ended in June.

Omnibus

A week off from Google Reader and still not caught up. Some reads that I found interesting:

-Open Heat Map

-when people say "they want their country back" and mean how the USA was in the 1950's what they are unknowingly pining for is less income inequality.
Atl: The Rich Are Getting Much Richer, but Don't Blame Taxes


-Grist: Creating 625,000 jobs and saving $64 billion through energy efficiency

-FS: How increased immigration would help fix the economy

Statistical analysis of state-level data shows that immigrants expand the economy’s productive capacity by stimulating investment and promoting specialization. This produces efficiency gains and boosts income per worker

-FC: E.T. For Real: Cells From Red Rain Can Reproduce, May Be From "Out There"

-MSNBC: Greenspan, in switch, now favors higher taxes

-CSM: Glaciers, known for erosion, can help mountains grow

-3QD: Winner-Take-All Politics

"The Republicans, according to Hacker and Pierson, by marrying populist rhetoric to elite action, have been able to stitch together a constituency that includes moderate income supporters – Christian conservatives, tea partyers, and elite-wary blue-collar workers – while pursuing policies catering almost exclusively to business and moneyed elites."

-Never promise crazy a baby. NDTV: Mistresses, wives of trapped Chilean miners clash over cash

-PhysOrg: Egyptian papyrus found in ancient Irish bog

-TheWeek: 6 global warming skeptics who changed their minds [and me circa 2000]