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Trying to Build a Greener Britain, Home by Home - NYTimes.comThrough a host of small efforts by residents, the seaside town of Hove has become a prototype of a green village.
Lyall Watson, 69, Scientific Polymath and Explorer - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
Mr. Watson was a maverick scientific polymath and explorer who wrote the best-selling book “Supernature” and introduced the “hundredth monkey” theory.
Observatory - Icebergs Digging Deep, With Implications for Life on the Bottom of the Sea - NYTimes.com
Close to the coast the seafloor can take a pounding as icebergs are moved around by currents, wind and tides.
Vital Signs - Risks - High PCB Levels, Fewer Births of Boys - NYTimes.com
Women exposed to high levels of polychlorinated biphenyl are significantly less likely to give birth to boys, according to a new study.
Vital Signs - Having a Baby - Infant’s Smile Works on Mom’s Brain - NYTimes.com
A picture of a mother’s own smiling baby activates reward-processing regions of her brain much more strongly than seeing a picture of an unknown baby, a new study shows.
Rise in Tuberculosis Is Linked to Loans From International Monetary Fund - NYTimes.com
The rise in tuberculosis cases in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is associated with the receipt of loans from the fund, a new study has found.
'Snow flea antifreeze protein' could help improve organ preservation
PhysOrg.com: Scientists in Illinois and Pennsylvania are reporting development of a way to make the antifreeze protein that enables billions of Canadian snow fleas to survive frigid winter temperatures.
Amazon powers tropical ocean's carbon sink
PhysOrg.com: Nutrients from the Amazon River spread well beyond the continental shelf and drive carbon capture in the deep ocean, according to the authors of a multi-year study.
Researchers find key to saving the world's lakes
PhysOrg.com: After completing one of the longest running experiments ever done on a lake, researchers from the University of Alberta, University of Minnesota and the Freshwater Institute, contend that nitrogen control, in which the European Union and many other jurisdictions around the world are investing millions of dollars, is not effective and in fact, may actually increase the problem of cultural eutrophication.
Beijing's smog takes shine off Olympic gold - Scotsman.com News
Beijing's smog takes shine off Olympic gold - Lung-busting pollution may mean few records are broken at this year's Games, writes <strong>Fiona MacLeod</strong>
Crude Reporting: Ask the Tough Questions About Oil
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Stoooopid .... why the Google generation isn’t as smart as it thinks - Times Online
On Wednesday I received 72 e-mails, not counting junk, and only two text
messages.
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