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- Think of your home as (small) profitable power plant https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/01/30/science/net-zero-home-renovation/ 71 comments
- Why Men Think Plant-Based Meat Will Turn Them Into Women https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/why-men-are-afraid-soy-will-turn-them-women/605968/ 23 comments nottheonion
- If you think about it, animals can't be the only way to transform plants into meat https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/02/03/plant-based-meat-impossible-burger-health-safety-column/2858815001/ 193 comments business
- GOP Congressman Thinks Donald Trump May Have Been Planted By The Democrats http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/14/donald-trump-democrats_n_7797154.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592 13 comments politics
- Louie Gohmert Thinks Global Warming Is Good Because It Will Mean "More Plants" http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/01/louie-gohmert-climate-house-speaker 5 comments politics
- Scientists think they've discovered an entirely new mode of plant communication http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/14/6002727/scientists-discover-a-possible-new-form-of-plant-communication 3 comments science
- Texas mayor: Plant explosion changed how I think about government aid http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/04/texas-mayor-plant-explosion-changed-how-i-think-about-government-aid/ 24 comments politics
- Should the US government be building more nuclear weapons? Residents of Kansas City, Missouri don’t appear to think so, for they are engaged in a bitter fight against the construction of a new nuclear weapons plant in their community. http://www.truth-out.org/kansas-city-here-it-comes-new-nuclear-weapons-plant/1315411950 10 comments reddit.com
- Vegetarians may have to get off their moral high horse because it turns out that those vegetables may not want to be eaten. And plants may be smarter than we think http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22angi.html?_r=1&em 4 comments science
- Bill Kristol And Dennis Miller Think That Conservatives Should "Plant A Flag On The Phrase Progressive" http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/15/kristol-miller-conservative-progressive/ 5 comments politics
- Plants can feel pain, have memory, and can communicate, learn and think. [PDF] http://ds9.botanik.uni-bonn.de/zellbio/ag-baluska-volkmann/plantneuro/pdf/neuroplanttz-biologia.pdf 6 comments science
- I think that the McCain plan for 45 nuclear plants is unnecessary and probably impossible, http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/45-nukes-graphic.php 17 comments politics
- Should the US convert coal plant sites to nuclear? The DOE seems to think so https://electrek.co/2022/09/15/should-the-us-convert-coal-plant-sites-to-nuclear-the-doe-seems-to-think-so/ 69 comments energy
- Children are unsuspecting meat-eaters: More than a third of children in the US (aged 4-7) think cheese, bacon, hot dogs, chicken nuggets, shrimp, and hamburgers come from plants. According to a new study, nearly half of the children in this age-group also think French fries come from animals. https://sapienjournal.org/a-third-of-children-in-the-us-dont-know-how-meat-gets-to-the-table/ 78 comments nottheonion
- Trump: "I think Apple will announce they'll build a plant in Texas. If they do I'll start to be happy." https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/trump-says-he-expects-apple-to-announce-it-will-build-plant-in-texas-11758354 98 comments wallstreetbets
- I will ve to think twice b4 supporting nuclear power plant ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAEvT_UdhNI#t=19 3 comments india
- What do you think about shutting down nuclear power plants? http://www.treeliving.com/shutting-down-us-nuclear-plants-would-have-daunting-effect-economy-and-environment 3 comments reddit.com
- Bolivia's president says he thinks the US will plant drugs on his plane http://www.cnn.com/2011/world/americas/07/26/bolivia.president.fear/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn 7 comments politics
- WTF? Former Monsanto VP may head FDA Safety Working Group. Same person thinks the FDA wastes too much time on food safety inspections at meat packing plants http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/fox-guard-henhouse-former-monsanto-vp 15 comments politics
- Oh the humanity! A bacon plant goes up in flames! Won't someone please think of the bacon! http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/50012937.html 7 comments reddit.com
- One would think that Iraqi farmers, now prospering under "freedom" and "democracy," would be able to plant the seeds of their choosing, but that choice, under little-known Order 81, would be illegal. http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m47991&hd= 5 comments reddit.com
- Vote up if you think "Joe the Plumber" was a Republican Plant http://citizenworm.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/confirmation-of-identity-and-link-to-keating/ 104 comments politics
- How God planted all those old fossil things to fool us into thinking the world was actually rather old http://baetzler.de/humor/book_of_creation.var 45 comments reddit.com
- What is the most obvious planted story-line you can think of? https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/02/10/sean-payton-thinks-someone-will-make-rfa-taysom-hill-an-offer/_ 289 comments nfl
- [De’Vondre Campbell] This is two weeks in a row we’ve had players get injured on turf fields. I think it’s time y’all take some of the money y’all make off us and invest in grass fields for every team around the league. The turf is literally like concrete it has no give when you plant @NFL https://twitter.com/came_along_way/status/1589630871006765058?s=46&t=FTEKKgNmNKw0vbbfG25nwA 444 comments nfl
- ‘They think workers are like dogs.’ How pork plant execs sacrificed safety for profits. https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/11/11/coronavirus-death-pork-plants-meat-packing/6044754002/ 7 comments politics
- Glenn Beck: "two can play at that game. I am drafting plans now to bring us back to an America that our founders would understand. … We need to start thinking like the Chinese. I’m developing a 100 year plan for America. A 100 year plan. We will plant this idea and it will sprout roots." http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/22/beck-100-year-plan/ 41 comments politics
- The Arctic is one of the fastest-warming places on the planet —and scientists still aren’t completely sure why. Now, scientists think they may have discovered an additional piece of the puzzle. Plants, it turns out, may have an unexpected influence on global warming. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/because-of-rising-co2-trees-might-be-warming-the-arctic/ 242 comments science
- More than 40 percent of the world’s coal plants are operating at a loss due to high fuel costs and that proportion could to rise to nearly 75 percent by 2040, a report by environmental think-tank Carbon Tracker showed on Friday. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-coal/more-than-40-percent-of-world-coal-plants-are-unprofitable-report-iduskcn1nz00b 10 comments worldnews
- New research indicates that plants can hear and smell, and are more intelligent than we think, this turns the Plant Intelligence theory from "paranormal" to reality! http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-01-09/new-research-plant-intelligence-may-forever-change-how-you-think-about-plants 11 comments science
- Plant Your Flag: "We can no longer allow the billionaires and their think tanks or the corporate media to set the agenda... You've got to plant your flag. We have to have some very specific legislation that the American people can rally around." http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=er3oqohxrelbiqhiz1afiw&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Djqj0nmjrcou%26feature%3Dshare 174 comments politics
- Morten Gamst Pedersen on Paul Ince's management at Blackburn: "He joined in on trainings and would kick down players and plant elbows. We didn't stop playing until his team had won. You don't want 25 minutes in red zone the day before a game. I don't think football management was for him" https://www.tv2.no/sport/11388116/ 107 comments soccer
- Ole Gunnar Solskjaer urges Manchester United board to think long term: "We have planted a seed, the tree is growing. Some clubs just rip up that tree and see if it is still growing and see if it is still getting water underneath." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/11/06/ole-gunnar-solskjaer-urges-manchester-united-board-think-long/ 237 comments soccer
- Call to cancel new coal plants worldwide as renewables ‘out-compete’ on cost - ‘Proposed coal investments risk becoming stranded assets which could lock in high-cost coal power for decades,’ says think tank boss https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/coal-plant-investment-electricity-renewable-energy-cost-difference-a9394341.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#echobox=1583972231 7 comments worldnews
- 'Sludge' can help China curb emissions and power cities, says think tank | If just 10 percent of the sludge was treated in bioenergy plants instead of being trucked to landfills, China's carbon emissions would be reduced by 380 million tonnes per year, roughly the equivalent Ukraine's emissions http://reuters.com/article/iduskcn0x51h9?utm_source=daily+carbon+briefing&utm_campaign=401b9d4502-cb_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_876aab4fd7-401b9d4502-303423917 9 comments technology
- 'Sludge' can help China curb emissions and power cities, says think tank | If just 10 percent of the sludge was treated in bioenergy plants instead of being trucked to landfills, China's carbon emissions would be reduced by 380 million tonnes per year, roughly the equivalent Ukraine's emissions http://reuters.com/article/iduskcn0x51h9?utm_source=daily+carbon+briefing&utm_campaign=401b9d4502-cb_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_876aab4fd7-401b9d4502-303423917 3 comments worldnews
- Romanesco is an otherworldly vegetable but it may also be more human than we think, reveal biologists in a new Science study. By tweaking the genes of a common white flower, the team showed how plant “memory” is behind the cauliflower’s recursive structure. https://www.inverse.com/science/the-truth-about-fractals-in-your-food 4 comments science
- John Podesta Says White House Is Ready To Spar Over Power Plant Rules. "Anyone who wants to run as a climate denier in 2016, I think they're going to have a hard time running on that nationally," he said. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/06/podesta-climate-carbon-rules_n_5460441.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=green&utm_hp_ref=green 44 comments politics
- Facebook stock does a face-plant. "I don't know if ads on social media sites will ever be as effective as they are on search platforms. And I think investors realize that Facebook may never be able to be as successful as Google as a result." http://buzz.money.cnn.com/2013/05/28/facebook-stock-slump/ 91 comments technology
- NYTimes - In Horsholm, Denmark, only 4% of trash is sent to landfills, the rest is recycled or incinerated in energy producing plants. Meanwhile NYC spends $300 million annually shipping trash to GHG producing landfills in Virginia. Why can't we embrace forward thinking green tech here? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/science/earth/13trash.html?src=me&ref=general 16 comments reddit.com