Sports Illustrated’s current cover says it all. Green Options reports environmentalists aren’t the only ones talking about global warming anymore: it’s affecting ski resorts, insurance companies, and a host of cultural institutions like the wide world of sports: The Miami Dolphins have built a climate-controlled bubble to avoid the extreme Florida heat during practices, seven [...]

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This is a story about love, writes Erin McClam … About inscrutable complexity and remarkable simplicity, about the promise of forever. It is about obsession and devotion, and grand gestures and 4,000-word love letters. It is about a curious group of people with an almost religious zeal for a mind-numbing string of numbers. Actually one [...]

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The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once. Albert Einstein

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It’s time to launch Einstein’s lock — and the USA’s move to extra daylight saving is worth celebrating — for, according to the BBC: The US is switching to daylight saving time, or summer time, three weeks earlier than usual to cut fuel consumption and help the environment. At 0200 EST (0700 GMT) clocks will [...]

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