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The Limits to Environmentalism
Science & Tech  (tags: climate, computers, environment, health, history, humans, investigation, NewTechnology, research, science, scientists, society, technology )

Kit
- 22 days ago - blogs.discovermagazine.com
If you were cryogenically frozen in the early 1970s, like Woody Allen was in Sleeper, and brought back to life today, you would obviously find much changed about the world.
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Human Races May Have Biological Meaning, But Races Mean Nothing About Humanity
Science & Tech  (tags: archaeology, concept, discovery, environment, history, humans, investigation, research, science, scientists, society, study, world )

Kit
- 23 days ago - blogs.discovermagazine.com
Like Charles Darwin, today's scholars have concluded that humans are fundamentally an African species. But unlike Darwin they conclude from this that there is a biological, essential unity of humankind, such that talk of "civilized" and "savage" is->
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10 Amazing Discoveries You Missed This Week
Science & Tech  (tags: science, discovery, society, news, Gizmos, design, medicine, study, interesting )

Cal
- 33 days ago - alternet.org
Here's what researchers revealed this week: blood tests for depression, how to escape a ticket, the science behind Tupac's reappearance, crazy new species and more.
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Deadly, Bat-Killing Epidemic Came From Europe
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, AnimalWelfare, environment, suffering, killing, society, wildlife, wildanimals, science, scientists, research )

Britt
- 42 days ago - news.discovery.com
A fungus that has caused the deaths of millions of bats may have traveled here on the bottom of a shoe or on animal stowaways.
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Please Sign: Don't Allow Biotech Industry to Brainwash School Kids
Science & Tech  (tags: brainwashing school kids, education, biotechnology, Monsanto, Bayer, Dow, geneticengineering, environment, science, technology, world, research, study, health, humans, society, safety, habitat, business, scientists, climate, food safety, GE labeling )

S
- 61 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Biotech giants like Monsanto are now trying to Brainwash School Kids with a so-called teaching aide promoting genetically engineered foods. The workbook claims GE crops produce higher yields, are more nutritious, and better for the environment. Fables!
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How the New Mexico Anti-Nuclear Campaign Achieved a Major Victory
Science & Tech  (tags: business, climate, concept, energy, environment, habitat, health, medicine, nuclear plant, research, safety, science, society )

Kit
- 89 days ago - truth-out.org
On February 13, the President released his proposed fiscal year 2013 budget. On page 26 of the document "Cuts, Consolidations, and Savings: Budget of the U.S. Government" we find, "The Administration proposes deferring the construction of the Chemistry->
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How I Dismantled the World's Deadliest Weapon
Science & Tech  (tags: Atomic weapons, computers, concept, design, discovery, investigation, NewTechnology, research, science, scientists, society, study, technology )

Kit
- 92 days ago - discovermagazine.com
In October Sandia National Laboratories engineer Phil Hoover dismantled the U.S. arsenal's last B53, a 9-megaton bomb 600 times as powerful as the one dropped on Hiroshima. Hoover talked to DISCOVER about taking apart America's most powerful weapon.
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The Engineer Who Has "Saved More Lives Than Any Single Person in the History of Aviation"
Science & Tech  (tags: business, computer, concept, discovery, design, engineering, investigation, NewTechnology, research, science, society, technology )

Kit
- 108 days ago - blogs.discovermagazine.com
The number one cause of plane crashes used to be controlled flight into terrain (pdf), accidents where pilots unintentionally collide with an obstacle. A pilot unable to see through fog, for example, could fly straight into a mountain, crashing an-->
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Domestic Cats, and Wild Bobcats and Pumas, Living in Same Area Have Same Diseases
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, environment, healthconditions, habitat, nature, humans, research, science, wildlife, world, AnimalWelfare, animals, animalwelfare, environment, habitat, humans, suffering, wildlife, wildanimals, society, investigation, society, study, scientists )

Britt
- 108 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (Feb. 6, 2012) -- Domestic cats, wild bobcats and pumas that live in the same area share the same diseases. And domestic cats may bring them into human homes, according to results of a study of what happens when big and small cats cross paths.
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Law Enforcement Websites Under Attack By Hackers
Science & Tech  (tags: computer, computers, habitat, humans, interesting, internet, investigation, news, society, tech, technology, world )

John
- 111 days ago - windstream.net
Saboteurs stole passwords and sensitive information on tipsters while hacking into the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed to the collective known as Anonymous
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Tribute to Arfa Karim - the Youngest Ever Microsoft Certified Professional
Science & Tech  (tags: world, technology, science, humans, health, medicine, asia, children, death, news, society, education, family, child, children )

Matloob
- 131 days ago - propakistani.pk
Arfa Karim; it's a name that needs no introduction. She made the nation proud when she became the youngest ever Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in 2004 at the age of 9.
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Stephen Hawking: We Should Colonise Mars But Encountering Aliens 'Will Not End Well'
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, space, society, science, Black Holes, Mars, News, Outer Space, Physics, Professor Hawking, Stars, Stephen Hawking )

Michael
- 137 days ago - huffingtonpost.co.uk
Professor Stephen Hawking told listeners of BBC Today programme that he thought humans would almost definitely colonise Mars, but he warned against encouraging alien encounters.
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Higher Efficiency With Quantum Dot Solar Cells
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, society, science, concept, design, energy, environment, solar research, scientists )

Michael
- 148 days ago - ecogeek.org
Photovoltaic technology has taken another step forward as researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have demonstrated a photocell with an external quantum efficiency over 100 percent using quantum dots.
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Violence and Evolution: Where Do We Stand?
Science & Tech  (tags: concept, discovery, history, humans, investigation, research, science, society )

Kit
- 148 days ago - truth-out.org
The question has come up because of recent studies by Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, featured on TED, among other venues, which seem to show that, contrary to common opinion, violence has been steadily decreasing by a number of measures-->
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If You Can't Notice a Gorilla in Plain Sight, How Can You Testify as a Witness?
Science & Tech  (tags: concept, discovery, humans, investigation, memory, research, science, scientists, society, study )

Kit
- 163 days ago - us.mg4.mail.yahoo.com
For example, when we recall a vivid experience, it often passes before our mind's eye in great detail. But we rarely check the accuracy of that imagery, and when we do, the details often are distorted. Our assumptions lead us to trust confident-->
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