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Sears & KMart Installing Spyware on YOUR Computer!
Science & Tech  (tags: spyware, Sears, KMart, internet tracking )

RC
- 687 days ago - arstechnica.com
Chilling story of how visitgors to the Sears and Kmart websites get a secret surprise - tracking spyware on their computers that trasnmits every internet move they make to company merketing headquarters!
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Air-Car Ready for Mass Production
Science & Tech  (tags: energy, carbon, eco friendly cars, climate change, pollution, green )


- 904 days ago - green.yahoo.com
The world''s first commercial compressed air-powered vehicle is rolling towards the production line. The Air Car, developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre, will be built by India's largest automaker, Tata Motors.
26 comments
Spider Silk Could Repair Human Ligaments
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- 1133 days ago - livescience.com
Tufts University in Medford, Mass., have found that spider webs could be used as scaffolds for regenerating ligaments damaged in one of the world's most common knee injuries
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Windmills Generate Hope, Cash for Poor U.S. Rural Areas
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June
- 1167 days ago - foxnews.com
REDHOUSE, Md. -- John Roth stood on his 88-acre farm, looking up at the land he owns on the mountain ridge. He hopes that someday he will see a new crop that needs no fertilizer and renews itself -- windmills that generate electricity and,
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Animals Are Smarter Than We Thought
Science & Tech  (tags: animalprotection, Good News )

Katrianne
- 967 days ago - usatoday.com
Many animals exhibit smart behaviors. But do any of them show what humans would call "intelligence?" Some recently reported lines of research cautiously suggest that the answer is "yes."
15 comments
Suppressed Report Shows Cancer Link to GM Potatoes
Science & Tech  (tags: gm, technology, Cancer, GeneticEngineering )

Pete
- 1007 days ago - news.independent.co.uk
Campaigners against genetically modified crops in Britain last are calling for trials of GM potatoes this spring to be halted after releasing more evidence of links with cancers in laboratory rats.
18 comments
Exposing Marijuana Myths - A Review of the Scientific Evidence
Science & Tech  (tags: marjuania myths, exposing, medicine )

Carol
- 1012 days ago - marijuanalibrary.org
Since the 1920s, supporters of marijuana prohibition have exaggerated the drug's dangers.
35 comments
Global Warming-Related Extinctions Have Begun
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Jacquelin
- 1094 days ago - foxnews.com
WASHINGTON -- Animal and plant species have begun dying off or changing sooner than predicted because of global warming, a review of hundreds of research studies contends. These fast-moving adaptations come as a surprise even to biologists and ecologi
16 comments
Two Rare Species of Whale Seen Off Scottish Coastline
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June
- 1168 days ago - news.scotsman.com
TWO rare species of beaked whale have been spotted in Scottish waters. Three northern bottlenose whales - the same species as the whale stranded in the Thames river last January - were spotted last week from a ferry that runs between the islands
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Ancient Tree Frog Found Encased in Amber!
Science & Tech  (tags: frogs, amphibians, odd, amber )

Rachel
- 1003 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
A miner from Mexico's Chiapas state has made the find of a lifetime--a tiny tree frog preserved in amber that could be 25 million years old, a scientist recently announced. The block of amber, or fossilized tree resin, encasing the 0.4-inch...
7 comments
The Seventh Sense
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Lynn
- 1159 days ago - damninteresting.com
Ask a neurologist how many senses the human body has, and you might get a surprising answer. Many identify nine or more senses- some listing as many as twenty-one.
14 comments
THE SPIRITUALITY OF COLLAPSE, By Carolyn Baker
Science & Tech  (tags: education, history, culture, environment, science, world )

Robert
- 922 days ago - carolynbaker.org
Civilization is a mental/material world of culturally transmitted illusion.
58 comments
Mango Skin Is to Be Eaten, Not Discarded
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June
- 1069 days ago - hindu.com
NOT JUST SKIN DEEP: It is likely that the mango skin also has an ingredient which lowers cholesterol levels MY FATHER was fond of mangoes. During the summer season, he would polish off two mangoes at each meal time
18 comments
Offshore Wind Farms Could Power Entire East Coast
Science & Tech  (tags: wind turbine farms )

Scuba
- 1009 days ago - foxnews.com
Wind power could supply all the energy needs of much of the East Coast and then some, if a phalanx of wind turbines running from Massachusetts to North Carolina were installed offshore, a new study concludes.
17 comments
New DNA Test Could Replace Animal Experiments
Science & Tech  (tags: animal, AnimalCruelty, ANIMALEXPERIMENTS, AnimalWelfare )

Nicole
- 899 days ago - drhadwentrust.org
new test for checking if drugs damage DNA could reduce the number of animal experiments currently conducted in drug development, and also be cheaper than conventional animal test techniques.
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