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"We have been led to believe that we must make our health care choices only within the current structure of a predatory, for-profit insurance system which makes money not providing health care. We cannot fault the insurance companies for being what they are. But we can fault legislation in which the government incentivizes the perpetuation, indeed the strengthening, of the for-profit health insurance industry, the very source of the problem. When health insurance companies deny care or raise premiums, co-pays and deductibles they are simply trying to make a profit. That is our system." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"This is the first public announcement we've seen on who will be getting a look at the factory-equipped Prius Plug-In early next year. Xcel Energy is getting 10 of the PHEVs to put into service with their SmartCityGrid Project in Boulder, CO." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"Willing to embrace new brands, new technology and alternative powertrains, Generation Y will redefine the automotive market. A just released study on Generation Y new vehicle buyers in the United States shows Generation Y consumers are more likely than the generations before them to consider purchasing a Chinese or Indian branded vehicle, more willing to accept hybrid powertrains, and more likely to want the latest entertainment technology in their vehicle. As the largest generation since the Baby Boomers continues to gain spending power and enter the new car market, which automakers will win their confidence? AutoPacific’s study underscores the opportunities for automakers to reach Generation Y consumers as they move through their Teen, Young Adult and Young Family life-stages." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"In this YouTube video, Toyota's Dick Kelley gives tips on driving the 2010 Prius. Not everything he says is 100% correct (EV mode is up to 25 mph, not 20 mph), but it's an interesting video to watch none-the-less." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"The design for the new Prius began 3 years ago in the Toyota think tank. Prius had not yet begun it's iconic ascent into the eco flagship it is today. The engineers goals were still lofty. Typical of many marketing scope documents, the objectives seemed mutually exclusive." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"The last Toyota Prius flipped the automotive world on its head, changing the purchasing priorities of American car buyers seemingly overnight. Attracted to its sky-high fuel economy, practical body style and green image, consumers came to the Prius for many new car searches (regardless of their actual motoring needs). What was once an automotive oddity relegated to hemp-wearing greenies, the Prius grew to become the country's 13th-best-selling vehicle in 2008. Now there is the all-new 2010 Toyota Prius. It's poised to keep the hybrid revolution going, but with key changes to make it more appealing to an even wider audience." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"WASHINGTON — Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, the House narrowly approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system on Saturday night, advancing legislation that Democrats said could stand as their defining social policy achievement." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"The development of the USDA National Organic Standard in place of differing state/regional standards was widely predicted to accelerate trends of increasing consolidation in this sector. The first draft of the standard was released in 1997; what changes in ownership and control have since occurred?" - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"A day after it was announced that the U.S. unemployment rate had hit the double-digit mark, a report was released showing that nearly half of the members of Congress are millionaires, seriously questioning the notion that our lawmakers identify with “we the people.”" - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"At MIT, an experiment identifies which students are gay, raising new questions about online privacy" - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"Ahead of the Copenhagen summit, PBS look into the electric future in Denmark — and checks in with Project Better Place." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. takes public safety very seriously. It believes its vehicles to be among the safest on the road today. Recent events have prompted Toyota to take a closer look at the potential for an accelerator pedal to get stuck in the full open position due to an unsecured or incompatible driver's floor mat. A stuck open accelerator pedal may result in very high vehicle speeds and make it difficult to stop the vehicle, which could cause a crash, serious injury or death." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"TOYOTA ACCELERATOR PROBLEMS-You’ve heard about this story. Floor mats in Toyotas getting caught and holding down the gas pedal. Sounds like a pretty simple fix. But Brian Ross looked into the story and found what he referred to on WORLD NEWS as a “kind of Toyota owners’ rebellion over what the company and the federal government say is the cause of an estimated 2000 runaway cars.” Ross explains: “The company ordered a huge floor mat recall and the federal government urged consumers to follow Toyota’s directions…but across the country some owners…say floor mats can’t be the only cause of the problem.”" - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"My first evidence that meditation can help migraines came after reading instructions on meditating with pain by Shinzen Young. I’ve had migraines for about 20 years, and at one point realized that painkillers — over the counter or prescription — were making it worse, and giving me rebound headaches." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"Many signs point to the Apple and AT&T agreement that makes the latter the exclusive carrier of the iPhone within the US coming to an end within the next year. For starters, non-exclusivity has been profitable for Apple in others part of the world. Moreover, even AT&T’s CEO acknowledges the deal won’t last forever." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"Join Host Alex Tsakiris for a discussion with The Men Who Stare at Goats author, Jon Ronson. The 35-minute interview explores the science of remote viewing portrayed in the film, and whether skepticism is warranted." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"A novel temporal illusion, in which the cause of an event is perceived to occur after the event itself, provides some insight into the brain mechanisms underlying conscious perception. The illusion, described in the journal Current Biology by a team of researchers from France, suggests that the unconscious representation of a visual object is processed for around one tenth of a second before it enters conscious awareness." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"How can you tell the difference between a French baby and a German baby? No, it’s not that one is wearing a saucy little beret while the other is tucked into tiny pair of lederhosen. Well, maybe that’s part of it. But a new study in the journal Current Biology shows that the babies actually sound different. Because the melody of an infant’s cry matches its mother tongue." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"Have you ever had a mysterious attraction to a particular historical figure without really knowing why. . . until one day you find out something about their life and “bam!” it all makes sense? I recently had this experience with the twentieth century design pioneer Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) ." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"America’s most trusted satire newspaper and website, The Onion, has been steadily moving into online video in the past few years (with many hilarious pokes at the Web, the iPhone, and social media along the way). Now, the outfit has landed a very real deal with Comedy Central to develop a pilot for a show based on its Onion Sports Network (OSN) videos." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"To call something “a fundamental principle of Buddhism” is correct only if, first, it is a principle that aims at the quenching of f (suffering) and, second, it has a logic that one can see for oneself without having to believe others." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

""Redesigning Community" was a diverse, but powerful, session. Speakers tackled the literal aspects of design, as well as the more abstract idea of social redesign. As the session progressed, talks became more and more emotionally intense." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"(*The term informavore characterizes an organism that consumes information. It is meant to be a description of human behavior in modern information society, in comparison to omnivore, as a description of humans consuming food. )" - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"The meal you ate the first day you started working. The first exam you aced in high school. The shoes you wore to the prom." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"CNN released 2 stories on Lifestreaming this week. The first is titled “Do digital diaries mess up your brain?” written by Elizabeth Landau which provides some very interesting information with regards to Lifestreaming. It begins providing some background about Gordon Bell and the Sensecam which will finally be released soon. But the story goes on to also discuss how the current suite of services including Blogs, Facebook, and Twitter are now providing additional opportunities to stream our lives. Then the story takes a bit of a different turn" - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"Hmm. Well, The Red Book is the big story in publishing this season, which on one hand is exciting because it seems such an opportune time for it to be revealed, and unbelievably depressing since it sets us up for yet another round of the commodification of Jung. The Brits seem to get it right, discussing the book in a sober, respectful tone:" - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"Bill Harris is the President and Director of Centerpointe Research Institute and the creator of Holosync audio technology. For the past thirty-five years, Bill has been intimately involved in the field of personal growth, with a specific interest in the effects of neurotechnologies on human change, evolution, and growth. Since 1989, over 150,000 people have used Holosync’s binaural sound engineering." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"If we live in a multiverse, it's reasonable to ask how many other distinguishable universes we may share it with. Now physicists have an answer" - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"Apple rumors swirl practically every week, but there's rarely one that's as potentially game-changing as this one: According to insiders, the company's aiming to cut out the cable TV middle man, and serve up network TV to as many as 65 million users via iTunes." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

"According to mobile analytics company Flurry, there’s been a surge of ebook-related applications for the iPhone. Based on their research, which included sampling over 2,500 applications and 40 million consumers accross four mobile platforms, this category is so popular on the iPhone that it overtook even the extremely popular games category." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet