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...news, even for those who already worry about rising CO2. It's generally agreed that during the earlier warm period, known as the Miocene Climatic Optimum, which occurred 15 million years ago, the global temperature was high enough to make sea levels between 80 ft. and 130 ft. higher than they are today. According to the new study, CO2 levels in the atmosphere at that time hovered at from 390 to 430 parts per million (p.p.m.). Today's CO2 level: 387 p.p.m. and rising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fossils Suggest an Ancient CO2-Climate Link | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...Anonymity-Sketchiness Ratio, easily remembered as the ASR. In order for your action to not be sketchy, its anonymity must be as high as possible relative to its sketchiness. For those of you still in Math Xa, anonymity goes in the numerator and sketchiness goes in the denominator. Higher numbers are good: it means your witnesses don’t know or care who you are. Lower numbers are bad: it’s like posting to your news feed—everyone will know.Assume “sketchiness” to equal awkward, bizarre, generally stupid, embarrassing...

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: On Ratios and Ragers | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...Model S can be plugged into conventional outlets or be fully quick-charged from a higher-powered system in as little as 45 minutes and the engineering platform will also be used for derivatives including a minivan and crossover utility vehicle, O'Connell notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. Bets a Billion on New High-Tech Automakers | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

...also higher for new IPOs. "Back in the '90s, people were able to go out with just a business plan, raise money in an IPO and then spin the company off to somebody without ever even renting office space," says Marc Pado, U.S. market strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald. Those quick-buck days are long gone as venture capitalists and others are now prepared to hang on to an investment for up to eight years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech Mergers and Acquisitions Coming Back | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

People in the top fifth percentile of drinkers had the highest odds for anxiety. But it was abstainers who were at the highest risk for depression - higher even than the heaviest of drinkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Nondrinkers May Be More Depressed | 10/6/2009 | See Source »

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