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Environment Researchers report potential for a 'moderate' New England 'red tide' in 2012
04-07-2012
http://www.bio-medicine.org, WHOI Media Relations
New England is expected to experience a "moderate" regional "red tide" this spring and summer, report NOAA-funded scientists working in the Gulf of Maine to study the toxic algae that causes the bloom.
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Robots and Artificial Intelligence A Robot With a Human Skeleton
04-07-2012
http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
Over at BBC, mathematician Marcus du Sautoy has examined what hes calling the worlds first anthropomimetic robot--a robot that mimics in extremely high anatomical detail the movements and construction of the human body.
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Geology Unexplained Melting at the Askja Crater Lake in Iceland
04-07-2012
http://www.wired.com, By Erik Klemetti
A few news reports (in Icelandic) have been talking about the crater lake on Askja caldera having mysteriously become ice-free over the last month while lakes around it (that arent on volcanoes) and at lower elevations are still ice-covered
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Art Popular painter Thomas Kinkade dies in Calif.
04-07-2012
http://www.google.com,By JOHN S. MARSHALL AP
Artist Thomas Kinkade once said that he had something in common with Walt Disney and Norman Rockwell: He wanted to make people happy.
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Just For Fun! Ease into South America in Santiago
04-07-2012
http://www.theaustralian.com, By Anthony Dennis
IF SINGAPORE is Asia for beginners, Santiago is surely South America for starters. But therein end the similarities.
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Transportation Public Transportation is a Human Right: Demonstrators in 18 Cities Occupy Transit
04-07-2012
http://www.inthesetimes.org, By Rebecca Burns
Following a March 28 "fare strike" in New York City, during which members of Occupy Wall Street chained open subway entrances and posted fake notices, 18 cities participated in a National Day of Action for Public Transportation on April 4.
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Feminism Feminists and Immigrants
04-07-2012
http://www.inthesetimes.org, BY Sady Doyle
Why dont many womens rights advocates see attacks on immigrants as part of their struggle?
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Obama Administration Promises Broken, Promises Kept
04-07-2012
http://www.inthesetimes.org, BY Theo Anderson
President Obama has fulfilled many campaign promises. But thats cold comfort to progressives.
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Homeland Security 'Cyber Czar' wants Homeland Security to patrol America's Internet borders
04-07-2012
http://rt.com
Lawmakers in Washington are divided as to how to implement cybersecurity legislation to protect against infiltration from hackers, but one insider says the answer is simple: just establish border patrol for the Internet in America.
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World News
Ecuador's immigration policy does not help terrorists
04-07-2012
http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com, By Nathalie Cely
Otto Reich and Ezequiel Vαzquez Ger's reckless and illogical column ("How Ecuador's immigration policy helps al Qaeda") says more about the authors' desire to baselessly attack the government of Ecuador than their ability to offer readers any substan
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Archaeology Million Year Old Fire Pit
04-07-2012
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Microscopic analysis revealed clear evidence of burning, such as plant ash and charred bone fragments. These materials were apparently burned in the cave, as opposed to being carried in there by wind or water, and were found alongside stone tools in
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Religion: Believers True Freedom
04-07-2012
Christine Smith's Blog
Some share of freedom and its blessings in society from a strong standpoint recognizing the spiritual foundation. The aware are passionate educators about political/societal freedom, but even they succumb to anxiety and worry in their personal lives.
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Science, Medicine and Technology Is some homophobia self-phobia?
04-07-2012
http://www.bio-medicine.org, Susan Hagen
Homophobia is more pronounced in individuals with an unacknowledged attraction to the same sex and who grew up with authoritarian parents who forbade such desires, a series of psychology studies demonstrates.
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Robots and Artificial Intelligence SushiBot Rolls Out 3,600 Pieces per Hour
04-07-2012
http://www.wired.com, By Daniela Hernandez
Would-be sushi moguls take note: Suzumo has a line of sushi robots that might fulfill your 24-7 maki-making fantasies. The Japanese company is displaying its machines at the World Food and Beverage Great Expo 2012 in Tokyo this week.
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Biology, Botany and Zoology Controversy Deepens Over Pesticides and Bee Collapse
04-07-2012
http://www.wired.com, By Brandon Keim
A controversial new study of honeybee deaths has deepened a bitter dispute over whether the developed worlds most popular pesticides are causing an ecological catastrophe.
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Food
How to Eat the Abundance Around You
04-07-2012
http://www.survivalblog.com, Linda Runyon
Long before the days of supermarkets and organized agriculture, people lived. We are the evidence. They lived in small groups and even alone as hunter gatherers.
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Racism The Never-Ending Crusade
04-07-2012
http://www.inthesetimes.org, BY Patrick Glennon
No Americans were killed on U.S. soil by Islamic extremists in 2011. Why does Islamophobia persist?
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Energy Google's Search for Clean Energy
04-07-2012
http://www.technologyreview.com, By Jessica Leber
The Internet giant thought it could help invent cheap renewable power. That wasn't so easy.
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Biofuel Sapphire Energy Raises $144 Million for an Algae Farm
04-07-2012
http://www.technologyreview.com, By Kevin Bullis
But is the company scaling up its technology too fast? This week, algae-biofuel startup Sapphire Energy announced it has received $144 million in new funding, which brings its total to over $300 million.
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Politics: Republican Campaigns Ron Paul rocks UC Berkeley
04-07-2012
http://rt.com
Ronald Reagan, the golden calf of the GOP, called it "a haven for communist sympathizers, protesters and sex deviants." At the University of California, Berkley this week, though, students showed up in droves to support a Republican: Ron Paul.
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Agriculture Bacterial Shock to Recapture Essential Phosphate
04-07-2012
arclein
e work at QUB has focused on microorganisms that capture and store phosphate from wastewater, and how this process varies under different nutritional and environmental conditions.
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Science, Medicine and Technology Russian Ion Space Propulsion
04-07-2012
arclein
A ground-breaking Russian nuclear space-travel propulsion system will be ready by 2017 and will power a ship capable of long-haul interplanetary missions by 2025, giving Russia a head start in the outer-space race.
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