This Is How I Feel About Buying Apps
Sometimes we don’t think twice about whipping out our wallets for certain items—be they cups of coffee or the latest gadgets—but apps for our iPhones? We need to think about those for a while. Republished with permission from Matthew Inman aka “The Oatmeal,” a former web designer turned comic artist. You can see more of…
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Dead lakes, dying seas: human-made natural disasters
This is the Aral Sea, which was once one of the four largest lakes in the world, until the Soviet Union diverted the rivers that fed it. Now full of stranded ships, it’s just one of the world’s dying lakes. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union diverted the two rivers that fed the sea, and…
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