Posted on August 11, 2008
This flat-screen TV offers a view of the wilderness that the production of a chemical in its screen helps destroy. Your Flat Screen Has (Greenhouse) GasBy Emily UdellVegging out in front of your flat-panel TV may pose more danger than turning your brain to mush. A chemical used in the manufacturing of flat-screen televisions could rival some of the world’s most potent greenhouse gases in its harmful effects on the environment, according to a June study published in Geophysical Research Letters. The production of nitrogen triflouride, or NF3 — used to produce flat-panel display screens — has increased over the… more books movies musicCultureFood FightsGlobally, 1 billion overweight people coexist with 800 million starving people. That's one of many perverse facts in Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System (Melville House, April 2008, U.S.… more Reading The Onion SeriouslyCombining irreverent humor and acerbic critique, a handful of new media outlets -- including The Onion -- are transforming American politics and culture, writes Theodoe Hamm, in his new book The New Blue Media.After 9/11, The Onion stopped its presses for one week. The hiatus allowed the paper to show its respect for the gravity of what had happened in lower Manhattan. But it also enabled its… more Our Imperfect UnionsPick almost any metric -- fraction of workers in unions, lag of pay behind productivity increases, growing hours of work, rising economic insecurity -- and it's obvious that American workers and their unions are… more |
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