Word: ipod
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Walker does his best to help us wise up, but don't feel too bad the next time you enjoy your iPod or gulp down a Starbucks Frappuccino. You just can't help...
...gasoline-powered car, have obvious carbon costs. Others are less clear but still significant. Take your diet: livestock are responsible for an estimated 18% of global carbon emissions, so when you chow down a hamburger, you're effectively emitting CO2 as well. Even something as small as an iPod Nano will add to your carbon footprint, thanks to both the energy used to produce and ship it and the energy later needed to charge it (68 lbs. of CO2 over its lifetime, according to the British design consultancy...
...took a day trip to New Orleans. Encountering a skyline of majestic skyscrapers that could have belonged to any city, I found myself filled with immense love for this vast country. As Dvorak’s “New World” symphony played on my iPod, the city felt like a new world I was discovering for the first time. This is America: one body of many co-dependent parts—interstates flowing like arteries and one common heart beating forever into the dawn. For a while, New Orleans did feel like a part of America that...
LAMONTSTER: With iPod headphones plugged into their laptops, Lamonsters are almost always listening to sweet jams. Usually, these sweet jams were popular about two months ago, just before midterms, when these students first entered Lamont. Currently listening to: “Get Low,” by Flo Rida. Will soon be listening to: “4 Minutes to Save the World,” by Madonna (from now until the end of finals...
Intuitively, the perils of texting while walking make sense. But George Branyan, pedestrian coordinator for the District of Columbia Department of Transportation, says that in most pedestrian accidents, neither text messaging nor iPod oblivion are major factors. "I am not seeing it in the crash data," Branyan says...