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  • The Environment

    Permafrost Contains Vast Store of Carbon

    By Laurie J. Schmidt Posted on 9.8.2008 5 Comments

    With so much focus on sea ice and ice shelves, the role of permafrost in the global climate cycle is often not on the public's radar screen. But according to a new study published last week in the journal Bioscience, permafrost in the Northern Hemisphere contains more than two times the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, and rapid thawing could make it a significant contributor to global climate change.

    9.8.2008 at 06:11pm - Comment by europeanguy

    All this proves is that carbon dioxide levels rise after ice melts morons. Your so god damn stupid that you don't realize that this proves every scientist who said carbon dioxide does not cause climate change right.

  • SciTech

    Victimless Leather?

    By Posted on 5.15.2008 6 Comments

    The Museum of Modern Art in New York has had to kill one of the works currently on display in its recent Design and the Elastic mind show. Literally. The piece is called Victimless Leather. It's an incubator built from a series of flasks which provides nutrients to feed a miniature living coat. The tiny coat was comprised of a biodegradable polymer matrix in the shape of a doll's jacket covered in a layer of living tissue made up of mouse stem cells. When the cells began growing to quickly, the curators of the show had to cut off the nutrients—effectively killing the cells.

    5.15.2008 at 05:14pm - Comment by europeanguy

    its too not to

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