Sochi Winter Olympics

Watched a great deal of the Sochi Winter Olympics past couple weeks.
Favorite event is the downhill (pure speed) but watched a good deal of the women's ice-skating.
Was not a fan of the final result. Home field advantage was definitely in play.

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/02/the-sad-perfect-end-of-kim-yunas-figure-skating-reign/283986/

http://olympictalk.nbcsports.com/2014/03/21/south-korea-yuna-kim-figure-skating-olympics-judging-complaint/

The Lego Movie

This review makes the movie sound almost subversive. Will have to go see it!

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/11/lego-film-subversive-countercultural

Fracking Impact on the Water Supply

Connections which may not have been made earlier on.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/05/fracking-water-america-drought-oil-gas

Manatee Die Off in Florida

Seems all the large animals are in trouble.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/15/where-florida-sea-cows-gone-manatees

Global Warming Solution?

Potential offset for carbon emissions.
Lace the upper atmosphere with sulfuric acid which reflects sunlight!
Band-aid on band-aid approach? Chance of infection rises.

http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/511016/a-cheap-and-easy-plan-to-stop-global-warming/

http://www.theguardian.com/world/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/jan/15/geo-al-gore-engineering-climate-disaster-instant-solutio

The Militarization of America

Do these images make you feel safer?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/scenes-from-militarized-a_1_b_2245537.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2014/01/13/photos-of-the-day-scenes-from-a-militarized-america/?hpid=z3

Another incident. Swat team invading the home of supposed credit card fraudster.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2014/02/04/scenes-from-a-militarized-america-iowa-family-terrorized/?hpid=z3

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/jun/24/military-us-police-swat-teams-raids-aclu

Monsanto and Genetically Modified Foods

Dangers of genetically modified foods.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/09/22/superbugs-destruct-food-supply.aspx

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/original-cheerios-to-go-gmo-free/2014/01/02/152e8560-7414-11e3-bc6b-712d770c3715_story.html?hpid=z4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_37_(2012)