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• Urban Aquaculture

  Authored by Lindsay Utz, Morgan Currie, Michael Schaubach, Danielle Flug, Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman, MacKenzie Fegan, Supermarché, Erik Winkowski, and Jake Yuzna - 11 votes

• Keep your neighborhood green and growing!

  Authored by rachill268 - 1 vote

• Once Again, We Refuse to Take Responsibility

  Authored by JHanks6 - 1 vote

• The Economy

  Authored by Chris Weller, Max Joseph, and Danielle Flug - 11 votes

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  Environment

  response to  laurajoliza's post Yes, but what do they eat?

  how?

  I would love for you to explain to me how GM fish which eat corn is unhealthy for me.

  please, enlighten me.

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  Commented on July 18, 2008 by - myexcuse

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  Culture

  response to  GOOD magazine's post Everyone’s a (Food) Critic

  A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer.

  I would imagine drinking alcohol during a hot, crowded, rock concert while singing (and possibly dancing), would make singing more difficult as it would not quench thirst and irritate the throat.

  not that rockstars live particularly healthy lifestyles (sometimes), but I would imagine this would have some kind of impact on their singing abilities, or even ability to perform due to dehydration.

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  Commented on March 16, 2008 by - myexcuse

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  Education

  response to  Anne Trubek's post Stop Teaching Handwriting

  an article close to home

  ahh a trip down memory lane.

  one must realize that writing cannot easily allow a child to fully utilize their own creative ability.

  when I was young, I could write fine and type very well even from a young age, but as a child you simply have not (and, as far as I am concerned) cannot type or write as fast as you can come up with the idea's and thoughts you wish to inscribe.

  I eventually had my mother help me by simply allowing me to dictate what it was I wished to put down on paper/computer, and with her 120wpm typing ability (as compared to my meager 60-70wpm ability) it considerably improved the quality of whatever report I happened to be working on.

  even now typing at 100+wpm doesn't fully allow me to use the speed in which thoughts come to me. I've gotten good at quickly backtracking and re-writing a sentence several times (if necessary) until I have the appropriate form that matches what I feel is closest to what it was I was trying to put down in the first place.

  Although the ability to write is stressed often in academic settings, I can honestly say I have not written, by hand, any important document (save government forms, but even the majority of those have migrated to the digital equivalent) for the past 5 years.

  whats even more funny is how the author brings up the keyboard being an outdated interface (which it is quickly becoming). Many people seem to forget how truly archaic a QWERTY keyboard is.

  bravo!

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  Commented on February 13, 2008 by - myexcuse

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  Media

  response to  Siobhan OConnor, Livia Corona, Morgan Currie, Henry Joost, and Todd Bieber's post Bombshell in Baghdad

  Not just jihadists

  How about whole generations largely desensitized to war and death on a massive scale.

  Be fearful of some kid growing up in America, seeing all this carnage on the internet and television day in and day out, only to grow up to be another war mongering politician.

  I for one do not fear, in the least, terrorists or terrorism. I fear my fellow American.

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  Commented on January 15, 2008 by - myexcuse

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  Magazine

  response to  Scott Stowell and GOOD magazine's post Project 006

  The Age of Mediocrity

  We live in an age of mediocrity, from politics to entertainment and even into our education systems.

  I agree that this project is far too binary, not because it's so dualistic but because many things that ARE 'designed' these days are simply average.

  They aren't good, nor are they bad. They are mediocre.

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  Commented on September 7, 2007 by - myexcuse