Sierra magazine has a cool feature this month: photos of people and their appliances, showing how much coal it takes to run those appliances for one month. A very clever visual technique, illustrated by the talented photographer Lauren Burke. Click through to read the accompanying article about mountaintop removal, and how most of us support it daily at home by doing things like blogging. Hat tip to Mike Tidwell, who showed us some of these pictures yesterday during his talk at NOVA.

Also, the New Yorker this month has its ~annual piece from John McPhee. This one is about the author's experience with fact-checking. It's an interesting read if you're a fan of McPhee like I am. Eldridge Moores is mentioned -- although if you watched the video I posted a while back, you've already heard that Aegean /Adriatic plate mix-up story.

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