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0	How Science Failed During the Gulf Oil Disaster When the Deepwater Horizon oil well exploded two years ago in the Gulf of Mexico, many scientists, including me, stepped outside of the Ivory Tower to study what was an unprecedented — and unintended — environmental experiment. We succeeded i... 0 Published 35 days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	BP Oil Spill Aftermath: Eyeless Shrimp, Clawless Crabs and Fish with Oozing Sores [Video] Al Jazeera just published an astonishing report on the after-effects of the BP oil disaster, and it's not pretty. There are an alarming number of deformities in sea creatures: mutated shrimp, fish with so... 0 Published 37 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
6	Op-Ed: What Scientists Under Pressure Can Learn From Spock As kids, my brothers and I watched re-runs of the original Star Trek series every afternoon. Perhaps because I was the youngest (and the one bullied the most), I dreamed of being Captain James Tiberius Kirk, the hero of every show, who saved the USS Ente... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	A 4,600 Gallon per Minute Oil Skimmer Just Won the $1.4 Million X Challenge [Video] Current industry-standard oil recovery equipment pulls roughly 1,000 gallons a minute but, as the Deep Water Horizon incident showed, that simply isn't good enough. So Wendy Schmidt—as in wife of e... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	BP Has Another Spill On Their Hands [Blip] Seriously? BP admitted today that a pipeline leak on Saturday resulted in "2,100 to 4,200 gallons" of methanol and oily water being spilled onto the Alaskan tundra. After last year's 5 million barrels spilt, can they really afford even smal... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
6	Gulf Oil Shouldn’t Spill Beneath the Radar A year after the Deepwater Horizon blowout sent 200 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, smaller leaks still bubble across the Gulf — but unlike big spills, they’re largely ignored. A nonprofit organization called SkyTruth,... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	Trump Offered Obama a BP Spill Fix and "One of the Great Ballrooms of the World" [Wtf] Donald Trump. Just a normal man with a normal ego. An ego so mild that he casually asked to be put in charge of BP repair operations. When he was turned down, he offered to build Obama a ballroom. Hoookay... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Gulf Spill, One Year Later [Gulf Oil Spill] Fixing This \| One year on, we take a look at the technologies used to combat the worst oil spill in US history More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
34	Tears for Spongebob… Submitted by: battousai 0 Published 100+ days ago in Picture Is Unrelated - WTF Pictures and...: Profile, Details
0	BP Employee Lost Laptop Containing Personal Data of Oil Spill Victims [Security] Uh oh! During some "routine business travel," a BP employee managed to lose a laptop which contains the personal data of the thousands of Louisiana residents who filed compensation claims after the Gulf oil spill: More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
12	Dr. Seussian Mystery Fluid Could Have Saved Top Kill A mixture of cornstarch and water best known for entertaining kindergartners could have plugged the spewing Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, say physicists. Where regular drilling mud failed to stop the flow, oobleck — a complex fluid that s... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	BP CEO Thinks Last Year Was Almost the Company's Best [Blockquote] Ah man, don't you hate those days where everything goes totally right except for when you, I dunno, step in a puddle? BP CEO Bob Dudley feels like that about BP in 2010, except his "puddle" was an environ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Over 25 Billion Tweets Were Sent in 2010, and the iPad Was the Top Tech Subject [Twitter] The year is only just grinding to a halt, but Twitter's already released its list of the top subjects tweeted about in 2010. Of the 25 billion tweets published, BP's Gulf oil spill disaster was the most t... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	BP's Oil Used as Paint For "Oil & Water Do Not Mix" Posters [Bp Oil Disaster] I love the series of photos of Anthony Burrill using oil from Louisiana beaches left from the BP oil disaster for his posters. From something so horrible comes something pretty eye-catching—and bene... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Oil Spill Could Totally Be a Win-Win It’s always good to keep a sense of humor about these things… Related posts:Sign at BP- The Most Ironic Thing You’ll Ever see The BP Oil Spill Affects Everyone, Even Cartoons The BP Oil Spill Re-Enacted By Cats in 1 Minute Posted by ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in UrlyBits - Distracting You With Shiny Things: Profile, Details
0	Burning the Oil in the Gulf of Mexico [Photography] With BP closing its book on the oil spill disaster, we're left to repair the damage—and look at Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky's dramatic photos from the last few months, including the Q4000... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	BP's Oil Spill Report Lays Blame on "Multiple Companies and Work Teams" [Bp] After five months of investigations, soul-searching and naval-gazing, BP's released its report today summarizing exactly how a catastrophe such as their Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster could have occurr... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	BP Sand Shark Hunts Tarball Prey On Devastated Gulf Coast Beaches [Oil Spill] Meet the Sand Shark. Unveiled this week on the sands of Alabama, this imperfect tool is perhaps the best weapon yet against the oily disaster BP has wrought against the Gulf coast. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Using Power Plant Waste To Clean Up the Gulf [Cavalry] How are we going to clean up the Gulf oil mess? Easy. With waste material from power plants, of course. Oh, and it's a certifiably eco-friendly method. That's right: we're finally getting a real-life toxi... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Watch BP's Latest Attempt To Plug The Oil Spill [Bp] Since a containment cap wasn't the final solution, BP's making yet another attempt to plug the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf once and for all using a lot of mud and cement. You can watch the whole thin... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	There Is A New X Prize To Be Won – Can You Clean Up Oil? The X prizes are some of the most prestigious, and difficult, awards in the world. First private space flight? That was good for a cool $10 million. Now there is a new X Prize on the loose, and it highlights the massive holes in our energy infrastructure... 0 Published 100+ days ago in The Next Web - International technology...: Profile, Details
0	Cleaning Up the Gulf Oil Disaster With Dustbusters [Oil Disaster] How is the scrappy Plaquemines Parish Inland Waterway Strike Force cleaning up BP's mess as oil creeps into their backyard—the wetlands of southeastern Louisiana? With dustbusters. And they say they... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	"Critical Alarm System" Turned Off Before Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Explosion [Oil Disaster] BP knew about the Deepwater Horizon oil rig's safety risks a year ago. So, naturally, the "critical alarm system" that would've warned workers bad things are happening was intentionally disabled before th... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	BP Admits Altering Multiple Official Images [Bp] BP has acknowledged their practice of photoshopping some of the official images of their Deepwater Horizon clean-up efforts, and has vowed to stop manipulating photographs going forward. They've also crea... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	BP Photoshops Another Official Image Terribly [Bp] This week it came to light that BP had photoshopped—poorly—an official image of their crisis command center. Apparently, that wasn't an isolated incident. Let's take a closer look at this view... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	BP's Photoshopped Crisis Command Center Is Terrible On Every Level [BadIdeas] This image was posted on BP's main website until yesterday. Look at all of those people working so hard to stem the oil disaster! Now look a little closer. Now be appalled that it's egregiously—and ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	BP Successfully Stops Oil Flow [Bp] According to BP officials, the implementation of their latest containment seal at the Deepwater Horizon rig has been successful. That means that for the first time in months, no new oil is gushing into th... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	New Containment Cap Placed on Gulf Oil Gusher [Bp] Looks like BP has successfully placed a new containment cap onto that oil gusher in the Gulf. It'll take some tests and time before we know if this cap is actually effective though. [MSNBC via Breaking News] More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	BP's New Fix Today: Another Containment Cap [Bp] This morning will mark BP's umpteenth attempt at containing the ecological disaster they created months ago. And because they're out of new ideas, they're just trading in their kinda-working sealing cap f... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The BP Oil Spill Affects Everyone, Even Cartoons Ariel, Spongebob, The Beetles and their yellow submarine! Nobody is safe from the effects of the oil spill. Related posts:The BP Oil Spill Re-Enacted By Cats in 1 Minute Carebears Anonymous SpongeBob Contraceptive Sponges Posted by Paul for Da... 0 Published 100+ days ago in UrlyBits - Distracting You With Shiny Things: Profile, Details
0	When Things Fall Apart: The Nightmares of an Offshore Oil Rig Worker [Bp] "I know at any moment this machine could destroy itself and there won't be a thing I can do about it. What a mutinous thing when a machine, usually so faithful and repetitious, turns against us." More&... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Turtle Protests BP Even the turtles are upset about the rumors of BP burning turtles alive in the oil spill. Related posts:The BP Oil Spill Re-Enacted By Cats in 1 Minute BP… Oil Romance (Song) BP Spills Coffee Posted by Sara for Daily Shite, 2010. \| Permalink \| ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in UrlyBits - Distracting You With Shiny Things: Profile, Details
0	TEDxOilSpill – What Are You Prepared To Do? TEDxOilSpill happens this Monday in Washington DC – and in smaller Meetups around the world – to “explore new ideas for our energy future, and how we can mitigate the current crisis in the Gulf”. The event in DC is already sold ou... 0 Published 100+ days ago in The Next Web - International technology...: Profile, Details
0	TEDxOilSpill – What Are You Prepared To Do? TEDxOilSpill happens this Monday in Washington DC – and in smaller Meetups around the world – to “explore new ideas for our energy future, and how we can mitigate the current crisis in the Gulf”. The event in DC is already sold ou... 0 Published 100+ days ago in The Next Web - International technology...: Profile, Details
0	BP Begins Fighting Oil Spill With Kevin Costner's Oil-Separating Centrifuges [Bp] Woah! BP Has actually gone ahead and started using those centrifuges designed by Kevin Costner to clean up the oil spill. And there's video. More » BP - Oil spill - Kevin Costn... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Stupid Robot Makes the Oil Spill Even Worse, Somehow [Bp] The hits keep on coming from BP! Today, a bumbling robot knocked the cap off the well, causing the spill to actually increase in its rate of destruction. Well, fuck. More » Oil... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	How BP's Deepwater Horizon Failsafe Failed [Bp] It's been two months since BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig started spewing toxicity into the Gulf of Mexico. And we're just now learning how the rig's last line of defense failed to prevent one modern hi... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
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0	What 25,000 Barrels of Oil a Day Looks Like [Bp] Estimates of how much of BP's oil is gushing into the gulf each day range from 25,000 to 40,000 barrels' worth a day. Here's what the low end of that looks like stacked to the heavens. More &raqu... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	BP Takes PR Lessons From Domino's [Bp] Why fix the spill when you can fix the brand? That pretty much sums it up, doesn't it? We've seen how BP deals with coffee spills. Here's how they deal with rebranding. This College Humor video stands pre... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	BP Purchases 32 of Kevin Costner's Oil-Water Separation Machines [Oil Disaster] Laugh you may have when you heard that Kevin Costner was stepping into BP's oil spill disaster with a potential solution, but BP has now snapped up 32 of the centrifuge machines to help separate the oil f... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Lightning Strikes BP Ship, Halts Oil Containment Efforts [Bp] There are reports that BP was forced to temporarily pause oil collection and containment efforts in the Gulf as a precautionary measure earlier. This was apparently because lightning struck one of the com... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Gizmodo Recycling Program: Get Paid and Help the Gulf Coast [Recycling] Recycle your old gadgets, get paid, and help out the Gulf Coast oil spill. Sound too good to be true? It's not; it's the Gizmodo Recycling Program. More » Gulf Coast - Oil spil... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Twitter Down? Blame BP Damn you BP!!! Related posts:Can You Blame Him? Bloody Owl – Ocarina of Time Twitter will kill you! Posted by Nick for Daily Shite, 2010. \| Permalink \| No comment \| Post tags: BP, comedy, deepwater horizon, fail whale, funny, gulf of mexico, hu... 0 Published 100+ days ago in UrlyBits - Distracting You With Shiny Things: Profile, Details
0	Obama’s Going To Kick BP’s Ass – He Even Sings About It President Obama is going to kick BP’s ass and when you’re putting together a team of experts to do the ass kicking, all you can is sing about it. Related posts:Obama Caught Checking Out Girl's Ass I Will Follow Him(Obama) Parod... 0 Published 100+ days ago in UrlyBits - Distracting You With Shiny Things: Profile, Details
0	Why James Cameron Can Be the Gulf's White Knight [Ocean] James Cameron's announcement last week that he was assembling a veritable Justice League of oceanographers, engineers, and other specialists to combat the BP oil disaster was met with some eye-rolling. Bu... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Fresh Horror from the Gulf Coast Oil Spill [Oil Spill] The Big Picture's latest roundup of photos from the Gulf Coast disaster. Ghastly. [The Big Picture] More » Gulf Coast of the United States - Gulf Coast - United States - Mississippi - Big Picture ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Worst Oil Disaster in US History: How You Can Help [Disaster] Thanks in large part to BP and the government's inept handling of the Gulf Coast oil spill, we're going through one of the worst ecological disasters in American history. But there are some things we can ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	How BP Deals With Office Coffee Spills [Humor] For God's sake get these people some tippy cups! Then get them to engineer the oil rig equivalent of a tippy cup, and the world will be saved. [UCB via Cajun Boy] More » BP - B... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	BP’s Social Media Campaign Going About As Well As Capping That Well [Bp] BP can't control its oil leak, but it's also having a rough time with image control. More » Business - Social media - Marketing and Advertising - Internet Marketing - BP ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details

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