Which is the Best Water Filter for You? The Brita Pitcher, Dispenser, or Faucet?

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This is talking about if Brita Pitcher, Dispenser, or Faucet? Is the best for you. also If you like your water room temperature, the jug/cooler/dispenser is the Brita for you. You can leave the fridge out of the equation entirely. I have one of these hanging off the end of my desk these days. I fill it once every two days or so and I don’t have to worry about anybody placing my room temperature, fully filtered, life promoting beverage in the tooth-freezing, headache-inducing refrigerator. It’s just better that way. This can use more infrmation.
The Lazy Environmentalist



How do I know if I’m really buying organic fruit and vegetables?
By Chell Reister on organic vegetables


Look at those bountiful stacks of fresh fruit and vegetables - apples, bananas, peaches, and plumbs - oh my! And so many organic varieties as well. Can I really trust the organic stickers at my local grocer? And what if some other customer takes an ordinary apple and then decides to put it back in the organic stack? Certainly that happens, on purpose and by accident. So how do I know which is which?
Fortunately, there are ways to tell nowadays, from the label on every piece of fruit, the marked band on every head of lettuce, and the stamp on every bag of spinach. While the items can be misplaced or mislabeled by the grocer, the PLU code tells you the true origin of your edibles - USDA organic, genetically modified (GM), or diesel (just kidding).

Pentagon Scientists Target Iran’s Nuclear Mole Men and Dung beetles' secret superpower: ultimate night sight

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/
This is talking about Iran’s nuclear facilities may be deeply-buried in a “maze of tunnels” — making them hard to find and even harder to destroy. But the Pentagon is working on some new technological tricks for exactly this kind of mission. I think that this ca nuse a lot more information and less talking about other things.


http://www.newscientist.com/
This article is talking about I HAVE never seen anyone get so excited about cow dung as Eric Warrant. We are driving through the wide open landscape of the dusty Araluen valley in New South Wales, Australia, when he spies a herd of cows lumbering away from their roadside water trough. "This is perfect," he enthuses, veering his rusty pickup off the edge of the road. Also This was not what I expected when I set out to see this researcher's ground-breaking work developing a full-colour night-vision camera. The project, involving a close collaboration with Toyota, could one day give drivers an unprecedented view of the road ahead. Unlikely as it sounds, the project really did begin in a cowpat.