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Buddhist Temple Built from Beer Bottles : TreeHuggerFifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a building block. It never happened, so Buddhist monks from Thailand's Sisaket province took matters into their own hands and collected a
Newspaper Circulation Continues to Decline Rapidly - NYTimes.com
The long long decline in newspaper circulation continued to accelerate, with sales over the spring and summer falling almost 5 percent from the previous year.
White House Explores Aid for Auto Deal - NYTimes.com
The Bush administration is examining a range of options to spur a merger between General Motors and Chrysler, government officials said.
21-Year Health Study of Children Set to Begin - NYTimes.com
Researchers will begin recruiting in January for a nationwide study that will follow more than 100,000 children for more than two decades.
A Rise in Kidney Stones Is Seen in U.S. Children - NYTimes.com
Kidney stones, once considered a disorder of middle age, are now showing up in children as young as 5 or 6.
Global Update - Polio Spreads to New Countries and Increases Where It’s Endemic - NYTimes.com
Since April, polio outbreaks have been found in 10 countries beyond the 4 in which polio is considered endemic — Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan.
'Digital dark age' may doom some data
PhysOrg.com: What stands a better chance of surviving 50 years from now, a framed photograph or a 10-megabyte digital photo file on your computer's hard drive?
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Class of 76 'cleverer' than kids of today - Yahoo! News UK
Clever teenagers of today are not as bright as kids in the class of 1976, according to researchers.
Ghost Lusters: If You Want to See a Specter Bad Enough, Will You?: Scientific American
Researchers set up
Neo-Nazis charged over Obama 'assassination plot' - Times Online
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China Being Submerged in Sand: Desertification Spreads 1,300 Square Miles Per Year : TreeHugger
photo: Josh Chin Many TreeHugger readers probably know the now-familiar sobering statistics regarding the nature of China’s economic rise and its toll on the environment: 14,000 new cars on the roads each day, 52,000 miles of roadways under construction,
MIT Boosts Methanol Fuel Cells Efficiency by 50% : TreeHugger
Making Methanol Fuel Cells Better Many researchers and engineers have wanted to replace batteries in consumer electronics with methanol fuel cells for a while, but their big weakness so far has been the proton membrane. 'The more protons cross
Abroad - At the Grand Palais, the Masters Trump Picasso - NYTimes.com
No show in Europe at the moment bids to be more spectacular, or ends up being more exasperating, than “Picasso and the Masters.”
Tapping the Vortex for Green Energy | Wired Science from Wired.com
A bane of Big Oil's offshore rigs could become a boon for renewable energy. By tapping the natural motion of slow-moving water, a new hydrokinetic generator could open vast new
Psychological study reveals that red enhances men's attraction to women
PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- A groundbreaking study by two University of Rochester psychologists to be published online Oct. 28 by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology adds color—literally and figuratively—to the age-old question of what attracts men to women.
Study Confirms Amphibians' Ability to Predict Changes in Biodiversity
PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists have long suspected that amphibians, whose moist permeable skins make them susceptible to slight changes in the environment, might be good bellwethers for impending alterations in biodiversity during rapid climate change.
Analysis of a Toxic Death | Cancer | DISCOVER Magazine
A year ago two dozen emergency room staff were mysteriously felled by fumes emanating from a dying young woman. Investigations turned up nothing--until a team of chemists from a nuclear weapons lab got involved. Visit Discover Magazine to read this article and other exclusive science and technology news stories.
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A Modern Use for Thoreau’s Notes on Flora - Linking Patterns to Climate Change - NYTimes.com
Scientists are using notes from Henry David Thoreau to discern patterns of plant abundance in New England and to link those patterns to changing climate.
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