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From Slashdot:
A number of readers submitted word on the massive WikiLeaks release of Afghanistan war documents . "The data is provided in CSV and SQL formats, sorted by months, and also was rendered into KML mapping data." WikiLeaks provided the documents in advance to the New York Times, Der Spiegel , and the UK's Guardian — the latter also has up a video tutorial on how to read the logs. From the Times:
"A six-year archive of classified military documents... offers an unvarnished, ground-level picture of the war in Afghanistan that is in many respects more grim than the official portrayal. The secret documents... are a daily diary of an American-led force often starved for resources and attention as it struggled against an insurgency that grew larger, better coordinated and more deadly each year. The New York Times, the British newspaper The Guardian, and the German magazine Der Spiegel were given access to the voluminous records several weeks ago on the condition that they not report on the material before Sunday. The documents — some 92,000 reports spanning parts of two administrations from January 2004 through December 2009 — illustrate in mosaic detail why, after the United States has spent almost $300 billion on the war in Afghanistan, the Taliban are stronger than at any time since 2001."

Thom Hartmann talked to author Frederick Kaufman about his cover story in this month's edition of Harper's Magazine The food bubble: How Wall Street starved millions and got away with it.

It's subscription only but you can read more about Kaufman and his work at his blog AmericanStomach.com.

A comprehensive and wide-ranging two-volume study from 2007, Environmental Assessment of Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles, looked at the impact of plug-in vehicles on the U.S. electrical grid. It also analyzed the "wells-to-wheels" carbon emissions of plug-ins versus gasoline cars.

The study is well regarded, in part because of its authors. It was a joint effort by two somewhat unlikely partners: the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), which is the utility industry's research arm, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

from the Chattanoogan:

Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tn.) made the following remarks on Tuesday on the floor of the U.S. Senate:

“Last week The New York Times ran a story entitled ‘Biomass Under Scrutiny’ about whether we’re accomplishing anything by displacing coal with biomass to produce clean electricity. Biomass is essentially burning wood and other organic products in a sort of controlled bonfire to produce electricity. Wood is natural, trees grow and re-grow—burn them up today and more trees also grow tomorrow...but we can’t rely upon biomass to replace significant amounts of the fossil-based electricity we get today from coal.

From a very interesting site dealing with fallout data.
"1945-1998" by Isao Hashimoto
"... a haunting visualization of the 2053 atomic explosions that occurred on this planet, from the “Trinity” test at Los Alamos.."