Hmmm. A little suspicious somehow.

Quoted: New Scientist took a look at the relative carbon impact of owning a dog (or cat, or hamster) and owning an SUV like a Toyota Land Cruiser. The results, plotted in the chart above, may surprise you.

Here's the definitive list. GR isn't in the top ten; it's 30th. Obviously, faulty data. At least we have this going for us: "unusually high voter-participation." Minneapolis is 4th, Eunice. But there is Brett Favre...

Quoted: Which metropolis has the most intelligent residents? The Daily Beast crunched the data on the brainpower of America’s 55 largest cities, from first-to-worst. How did your hometown rank?

Hmm. Yay Dianne! Technical writers rank two spots behind professors for stress-free jobs. Now you know why we're laid back. (We are, aren't we?)

Quoted: Add in the summer vacations, long holiday breaks and near total job security for tenured positions, and it's no wonder college professors have such high job satisfaction

guess not

Quoted: Take this quiz to find out...if you fit the billionaire profile

The ice house project is interesting. The pictures and info about Detroit housing really good, especially the ones that compare circa 1950 to now.

Quoted: Detroit is a depopulated city with many areas returning to open space prairie land

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Quite the dust devil.

I got a link to this from today's APOD, which shows the effects of dust devils on Mars.

Cool!

A lot of bleeding from Detroit over the past 5 years...

Quoted: This animated map provides a striking visual of employment trends over the last business cycle using net change in jobs from the U.S. Bureau of Statistics

Our big event: over 1200 works of art on display in and around downtown. Some are really fun, some wacko, some good, and then there's the rest.

Quoted: I've got a pretty ballsey prediction that ... this will be a shining moment in Grand Rapids history.