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Everyone's opinions are different and we all read for different reasons, but just because an article isn't a strictly factual, question->answer piece doesn't mean it's poorly written. As the article makes clear the answer is still unknown, therefore the purpose of the piece is to both show how science is done, even when it doesn't go as planned, and to get the reader thinking about something they may have never considered before about an animal many of us spend a lot of time with.

As the article says, this is a much bigger problem than just Miami.

Globally, it’s estimated that a hundred million people live within three feet of mean high tide and another hundred million or so live within six feet of it. Hundreds of millions more live in areas likely to be affected by increasingly destructive storm surges.

Global warming appears to me to be bad science, however...

Climate scientists do and have studied the link between climate and the sun, as well as many other factors, but in the end GHG emissions from humans are contributing the most to increasing global temperatures.

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-wor...

Also while it's a big system, there are also 7 billion of us. In 2012 we released over 30 billion tonnes of C02 into the atmosphere.

https://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/IEDIndex3.cfm?tid=90&...

The City Dark is a pleasant documentary about the loss of our night skies and what it means for us and other animals. Great soundtrack.

http://www.thecitydark.com/

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1fTkF8PIu0

I haven't tried this but you might get something out of creating a reddit multi (maybe r/worldnews, r/news, r/science, r/foodforthought, and whatever else), check it once a week and sort by top and "this month" or "this week". The top ten links are probably impactful, engaging, and relevant.

The lazy in me would actually like this in a weekly email.

This is why I have been using SUIT-like components and utilities in my recent projects.

https://github.com/suitcss/suit

One critique of your site design, I don't know if it's just me, but infinite scrolling can be frustrating. I was trying to get to the "About" section in the footer but it kept running away from me.

http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2013/05/03/infinite-scr...

I don't know how many tech related job listings they have, but you could look at http://www.idealist.org/.

This is their mission statement:

"Idealist connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives.

Idealist is independent of any government, political ideology, or religious creed. Our work is guided by the common desire of our members and supporters to find practical solutions to social and environmental problems, in a spirit of generosity and mutual respect."

I was going to say this.

A good book on the policies that helped kill unions and weaken the middle class is Who Stole the American Dream by Hedrick Smith.

http://www.amazon.com/Stole-American-Dream-Hedrick-Smith-ebo...

This article sounds like it's talking about a form of cooperative, without calling it a cooperative, which isn't a new idea, but certainly is one that is starting to become more mainstream. For example, the UN named 2012 the "Year of the Cooperative." I'd like to believe that people are starting to see cooperatives as a way of organizing businesses outside of only coffee shops and grocery stores.

Yes! Magazine came out with a good series not too long ago on cooperatives in operation today, their varieties, their benefits. http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/how-cooperatives-are-drivi...

Typo on homepage:

"Contribute tracks to other people's songs. Open up your songs for other people's contributions. Clone/version/remix existing songs."

Turn them into .svg, then load them all into http://icomoon.io/app/, and release it as an icon font set.

Completely agree. I couldn't make sense of the gradient deal, but open up the inspector, set the body font size to 16px and the paragraph line height to 150% and it all becomes a lot clearer.

40 year vision:

I have in my pocket a wad of clay. I flatten it into a pancake and its face lights up with the book I was reading on the subway. Roll it into a ball, thin it out, maybe a special twist and it forms itself into a screwdriver. Another squeeze and it becomes my house key.

I'd give $100 to the kickstarter that has a meshnet node in a box that's basically plug and play.

For just some interesting historical context, around the turn of the last century, new middle class in America were very against tipping in restaurants, viewing it as un-democratic and un-American.

Anti-tipping advocates often championed an egalitarian vision of capitalist consumption in which both consumer and employee would benefit. Tipping, they maintained, undermined the dignity and independence of citizens in a democracy. “Let us not congratulate the servants on their gain,” one writer admonished, “for no servant takes a tip without losing something of manhood or womanhood.” Another argued that to accept a tip “is to enter into a relationship of dependence to the giver and by implication to acknowledge his superiority.” Frank Crane, a syndicated columnist, contended that the tip put waiters “into a class with the beggar, or the receiver of a bribe.” And Alvin Harlow, a historian popular at the time, wrote: “What, may I ask, is more un-American than tipping? It doesn’t belong in American society; it doesn’t belong in a democracy. It is a product of lands where for centuries there has been a servile class.” http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/summer2012/features/tip...

I don't see anything about it in the docs, is there color formatting for polygons, so you could do choropleth maps?

http://community-wealth.org/strategies/panel/coops/index.htm...

According to this site there were 724 purchasing co-ops in the US in 2009. Those would be stores like REI or food co-ops where the consumer is part-owner.

The total number of cooperatives, including worker-owned business like Land o Lakes and ACE Hardware, credit unions, and utility co-op (25% of US power generation is publicly owned) is 29,000 with revenues around $625 billion.

I don't know where to ask this, but does anyone know why they bothered with the front trunk? Was it just to keep the Model S looking like a typical car, so people would be less averse to considering it? Crumple zone for accidents? Seems like it would be unnecessary weight on a car where that would effect range.

Do you thinking providing funding to individual kids is more successful than creating a pool for everyone? I'd feel bad for the one student that for whatever reason happens to be overlooked by the internet, while their peer gets funded. What if you grouped students by school or class? That way the potential failure or rejection is shared by the group rather than just one kid.

Seconded. I think this TED talk does a good job correlating income inequality to a lot of disagreeable outcomes. http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html

This is the thing I've never understood. Building a house that doesn't need to spend as much energy(money) heating and cooling is a better house. Just the same as a toilet that uses less water to flush is a better toilet. These aren't part of a UN plot to control your life, it's just a smart decision.

Secondly, regardless of what someone might think of climate change, you can't get around the fact that the Earth doesn't have infinite resources and is neither an infinite wastebasket. Something has to change about with how we do business to fix that fundamental issue.