Check out the beads, tumbled by mother nature Made me think of your beautiful jewelry, +Christy Ramsey!

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(Sat04) Read the interesting story of Glass Beach near Ft. Bragg in Southern California.

http://www.unfinishedman.com/glass-beach-dump-youll-want-visit/

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Ok – this is cool.

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Artificial Leafs
♻: https://plus.google.com/u/0/109667384864782087641/posts/KqAKsHGjfCY

Solar is the best energy source but it all comes down to cost. Some have said, "let's go crazy" and burn up fossil fuels, drive up the price, & force ourselves into a cleaner source sooner.

MIT seems to be always working on solar. There's been a lot of previous mentioning of artificial leafs and solar power. It's mostly come down to the catalysts needed to split water using solar power.

There's a new article that says they've been able to make new devices "made entirely of earth-abundant, inexpensive materials — mostly silicon, cobalt and nickel — and works in ordinary water. Other attempts to produce devices that could use sunlight to split water have relied on corrosive solutions or on relatively rare and expensive materials such as platinum."

The other interesting aspect to these types of alternatives is that it has the potential to change power from being a centralized commodity to a personal one.

A while ago there was the idea of a "Home Gen" machine that could sell power back to the electrical company in addition to provide electrical and HVAC.

By using the idea of leafs, humans could not only provide for themselves but also others. Taken together would be a human tree.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-artificial-leaf-fuel-sunlight-video.html

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'Artificial leaf' makes fuel from sunlight (w/ video)
Researchers led by MIT professor Daniel Nocera have produced something they’re calling an “artificial leaf”: Like living leaves, the device can turn the energy of sunlight directly into a chemical fue…

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Thanks for sharing, +Jessica Pierce

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Cartographer Harold N. Fisk's 1944 maps of the MIssissippi, showing its course variations over time.

Link has many more photos, in much better detail than you can see here, as well as a zip file of the full-sized maps.

visualnews.com/2011/09/24/vintage-maps-trace-the-meandering-mississippi/

p.s. changing my name to Cartographer Harold N. Fisk

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OMG, is +Tom Anderson a cyborg?
(Is this the new meme? ::wink::)

Updated to add: My friend heard back from Tom! Now more questions arise: Will she get her specific photo request or does Tom want to be known as a cyborg? Or… is Tom really a cyborg? Dun dun DUN!

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+Tom Anderson, I'm onto you. Please prove me wrong.

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Tom Anderson – Cyborg?
Ramblings of a self-professed internetophile chick.

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For everyone in my circles and beyond: A Google Chrome extension that adds a "Translate" textual link to the right of where you +1 a comment.

Horray!

Note: It doesn't work in the "Notifications" drop down menu.

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Great G+ Helper!! – A must have extension if you're running on Chrome, with all the new circlers – from allover the world, this helps with the language barrier.

Hi you all! I look forward to learning more about you. (and to think I was only rather playfully proclaiming the world our playground;)

Thanks for the tip +Brandon Campeaux (via +A.V. Flox

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Google Translate for Google+ – Chrome Web Store
Translate your Google+ stream using integrated, inline, Google Translate support.

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