Images on TV and the internet continually tick off the number of gallons of crude oil leaking into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Yet the numbers are quickly becoming unfathomable to us in our daily lives. We have no reference point for tens of millions of gallons, except to know that’s a lot [...]
May 18, 2010
Scientists have discovered enormous plumes of oil in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, in an indication that the leak from an underwater well could be far worse than previously estimated, AFP reported Saturday citing The New York Times. One of the plumes was 10 miles (16 kilometers) long, three miles wide and [...]
April 7, 2010
Junk mail accounts for 1/3 of all mail sent in the United States, adding up to over 800 pieces of junk mail delivered each year to each household. Want to know how many trees that is? 100 million. Every single year. Just for junk mail. This is equivalent to clear cutting all of Rocky Mountain [...]
January 24, 2010
LONDON — International hotel chain Holiday Inn is offering a trial human bed-warming service at three hotels in Britain this month. If requested, a willing staff-member at two of the chain’s London hotels and one in the northern English city of Manchester will dress in an all-in-one fleece sleeper suit before slipping between the sheets. [...]
November 10, 2009
Procter & Gamble announced in October that it will once again create and host a public restroom for the holiday season in New York City’s Times Square as a promotion for Charmin tissue. Last year’s installation was merely specially outfitted toilet facilities, but this year P&G will upgrade by hiring five bloggers (“Charmin Ambassadors”) to [...]
November 8, 2009
NEW YORK — A T-shirt a day has kept unemployment at bay for an American man who is making about $85,000 a year by selling advertising space on his torso. Jason Sadler, 26, a former marketing professional from Florida, founded his own company, iwearyourshirt.com, in 2008 with the idea to wear a T-shirt supplied by [...]
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