"Mettre en œuvre une réelle politique d’efficacité énergétique s’impose d’autant plus que le nucléaire n’a jamais permis de réduire notre facture pétrolière ni nos importations d’électricité de pointe depuis l’Allemagne, très coûteuses et polluantes. Son coût est d’ailleurs appelé à augmenter du simple fait de l’indispensable renforcement de la sûreté des centrales. Jouer sur l’offre seule est donc voué à l’échec."

Nucléaire : le bouquet énergétique n’a pas qu’une fleur - Libération

Topsy, a six-ton, 10-foot-tall female Indian elephant in a circus, had recently developed a bad temper, killing three circus workers in as many years. Each had in one way or another abused her. After a failed attempt to publicly poison Topsy by feeding her cyanide-laced carrots, and flawed plans to have her hanged, officials decided instead Topsy would be publicly electrocuted by Thomas Edison as a publicity stunt.

Electrocuting an Elephant (via BornFreeUSA)

"Au passage, le public découvre qu’un ménage qui gagne quelques centaines d’euros de plus par an, ou un agriculteur quelques milliers, c’est mal. Pour un gouvernement qui glorifie à longueur d’année la valeur argent et ne trouve rien à redire aux profits des grandes multinationales de l’énergie, le ressort comique est du plus bel effet."

La tragedia dell’arte du photovoltaïque français

By itself, this meter does nothing. It is solely for the guide of Ministers of the Church in Confessionals and pastoral counselling. 
Hey Church of Scientology, guess what I have - Imgur

By itself, this meter does nothing. It is solely for the guide of Ministers of the Church in Confessionals and pastoral counselling. 

Hey Church of Scientology, guess what I have - Imgur

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Sliders are those people who appear to possess a truly uncanny skill: they can turn off, or turn on, streetlights when they are in their near-vicinity. Sometimes, it seems, this is entirely at random, and on other occasions, there is evidence that the phenomenon - or perhaps skill would be a better term - can be controlled, at least to some degree.

And, to prove his point, Evans provides his readers with numerous accounts - from equally numerous walks of life and backgrounds - of people who are possessed of this curious talent. Clearly, as the author shows, this is a worldwide phenomenon, rather than one solely limited to one locale or one particular person.

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REVIEWS OF THE MYSTERIOUS KIND: Sliders: When The Lights Go Out…

This is an old phenomenon, named after Russian inventor Semyon Davidovich Kirlian, who made it famous in 1939. Its technical principles are simple. In a nutshell, it consists of applying a high voltage electric field near a photographic plate, which, as a result triggers the appearance of a radiating light surrounding the object being photographed. What is most baffling about it, is that, in spite of the phenomenon’s alternate name bio-electrograph, it works for both living beings and innate objects, refuting theories that defend the existence of a human aura, that can be photographed. (via Kirlian Photography: the soul of things
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This is an old phenomenon, named after Russian inventor Semyon Davidovich Kirlian, who made it famous in 1939. Its technical principles are simple. In a nutshell, it consists of applying a high voltage electric field near a photographic plate, which, as a result triggers the appearance of a radiating light surrounding the object being photographed. What is most baffling about it, is that, in spite of the phenomenon’s alternate name bio-electrograph, it works for both living beings and innate objects, refuting theories that defend the existence of a human aura, that can be photographed. (via Kirlian Photography: the soul of things

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These speed tests were filmed at actual web page rendering times.

Google Chrome Speed Tests (via googlechrome)