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Photo credit: Kuranosuke Oishi via Creative Commons In 2006, Americans spent roughly $15 billion on bottled water. That’s more than we spent on movie theater tickets and ipods. While $15 billion seems staggering, also consider the fact that we pitched roughly 38 billion plastic water bottles into our landfills. The ever-growing bottle water industry is [...] We’ve made a few improvements to make it easier to virtually visit the places we’ve written about. You can now browse all Sprol articles visually on a map in two different ways. Visit the Sprol World Map, and via a Google Maps mashup, you can see all of the articles we’ve published so far right [...] The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has declared that all fresh spinach is again safe for human consumption. However, this outbreak was not the first time we saw this type of E. coli contamination and will not be the last. Dating back to 1995, this most recent E. coli poisoning episode is the 20th occurrence linked to spinach, lettuce and other salad greens. Enrichment is a process that uses networks of machine centrifuges, which spin uranium hexafluoride gas into low-enriched uranium for civilian power plants and highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons fuel, depending on the duration of the process. National Public Radio photo: eugene When most of us think of the Galapagos Islands, we think of Mother Nature, herself. It is here, 600 miles from mainland Ecuador, where Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution. And today, the Galapagos Archipelago continues to support 5,000 different species of plants and animals. The Archipelago is 430 kilometers long and [...] |
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