Mental_floss magazine - Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix. Infographic: The Darker Side of the "Bridge Fuel" - Environment. Natural gas is supposed to be the "bridge fuel" that helps power our refrigerators and flatscreens and factories while we transition from the filthy fossil fuels of the past to the clean, renewable energy of the future. As I've written before, the conventional wisdom, even among the Big Greens and Capitol Hill-connected progressives, is that "natural gas is the cleanest fossil fuel.
" (That, for instance, is a quote from John Podesta, the CEO and President of the Center for American Progress, and the very quintessence of liberal Beltway conventional wisdom.) But with all this attention comes a spotlight. The fuel is facing increasing scrutiny and some pretty ugly revelations have surfaced in the past few months about this alleged "bridge fuel. " First there are the widespread reports of water contamination near hydrofracking sites.
Then there was the industry's stubborn and seemingly panicked campaign against Josh Fox's documentary GasLand. All of which paints a troubling picture. Psych 160 - Spring 2008: Social Psychology - Download free content from UC Berkeley on iTunes. DailyLit: Read books online by daily email and RSS feed. Online Books, Poems, Short Stories - Read Print Library. Rare Book Room. Free eBooks at Planet eBook - Classic Novels and Literature. Banned Books Online. Presents Welcome to this special exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts. The books featured here, ranging from Ulysses to Little Red Riding Hood, have been selected from the indexes of The Online Books Page.
(See that page for more than 3 million more online books!) Please inform onlinebooks@pobox.upenn.edu of any new material that can be included here. October 1 - 7 is Banned Books Week. Books Suppressed or Censored by Legal Authorities Ulysses by James Joyce was selected by the Modern Library as the best novel of the 20th century, and has received wide praise from other literature scholars, including those who have defended online censorship.
In 1930, U.S. John Cleland's Fanny Hill (also known as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) has been frequently suppressed since its initial publication in 1749. The Comstock law also forbade distribution of birth control information. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's autobiography Confessions was banned by U.S. D.