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conspiracy and racketeering in one of the biggest public education scandals in american history. that story is coming up. first, i want to share the three awesomest things i saw on the internet today. the first, the story of pioneering rocket scientist yvonne brill. she died last week at the age of 88. and since she wasn t a household name, let me tell you this woman was a scientific bad ass. she developed and patented something called the electrothermal hydrozine thruster and as the blog explained, it s a rocket propulsion system maintaining a geosynchronous orbit around earth. remains an industry standard to this day. in other words, when satellites go up into space, they can be pulled off orbit, but the propulsion system she developed keeps them right where they need to be. to transmit. it earned her the national medal of technology and innovation in 2011, but you wouldn t know that based on the lead paragraph of her obituary which reads, and i m not making this up, she made a mean
0 busted and has flooded the neighborhood and is going all the way to the drain at the end of the street. um, luckily our house is here, which is seemingly unaffected, but the smell is unbelievable. i mean, look. incredible. and that is oil. that is oil. more precisely, that is heavy crude oil from the tar sands of canada spewing out onto the lawns and sidewalks and the streets, past the basketball hoops of the suburban area. that was shot by a resident of the area. the 20-inch mobile pipeline carrying the crude burst on friday, almost in two dozen homes in the area have been evacuated while the clean-up gets under way. the epa has classified it as a major spill. exxonmobil has not announced how much has spilled yet as of this evening they have cleaned up 12 thousand barrels of oil and water. in local news coverage, it was common to hear the residents say they didn t know they lived essentially on top of a 60-year-old oil pipeline. and in the cable news business, the true measure of