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Worldwide She-Male Fish Mystery Widens: Discovery NewsA new class of chemicals takes part of the blame for feminized male fish that are appearing around the world.
Economy to Dominate Annual Chinese Gathering - NYTimes.com
Worried that the economic crisis could provoke unrest, the Communist Party might propose more stimulus spending.
Student Proving Walls (Even Sofas) Can Talk
Most college students will admit to searching their couch cushions for extra coins to do laundry. But Jon McKinney's cushion hunt isn't about finding money. He wants to help epidemiologists identify what's triggering diseases like asthma in children, and he's got the backing of the Environmental Protection ...
Is the Dead Sea dying?
The water levels in the Dead Sea - the deepest point on Earth - are dropping at an alarming rate with serious environmental consequences, according to Shahrazad Abu Ghazleh and colleagues from the University of Technology in Darmstadt, Germany. The projected Dead Sea-Red Sea or Mediterranean-Dead Sea ...
Politicians can use fear to manipulate the public
A new study in the American Journal of Political Science explores how and when politicians can use fear to manipulate the public into supporting policies they might otherwise oppose. Politicians' use of fear is more likely with regard to topics that are abstract and difficult for citizens (and/or the ...
Interact: Watch 24 Brilliant Hours of U.S. Flights
See the latest multimedia and applications including videos, animations, podcasts, photos, and slideshows on Wired.com
Robots - The Big Picture - Boston.com
The Big Picture - News Stories in Photographs from the Boston Globe
We are friendlier to people who resemble us, scientists find - Telegraph
The more someone looks like us the more likely we are to help them, scientist find.
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Movie Preview: "Age of Stupid" - So Is We, Or Isn't We? : TreeHugger
I've just viewed Wall•E, that precocious Disney/Pixar look at a future in which the robots are smart while the humans are fat blobs of over-pampered flesh unable to live on the (literally) trashed Earth. Other family members were mollified
Vice Magazine - SCHOOL'S OUT FOREVER - PART 1
Vice Magazine - SCHOOL'S OUT FOREVER - PART 1 - by JAMES GRIFFIOEN
World Tree Technologies | Products | Main Content
World Tree Technologies, Inc. is an environmental company focused on the global commercialization of the Empress™ Splendor Tree.
Book Review: Sea Sick : TreeHugger
In case you haven't heard, the oceans are dying. The coral, the fish, the plankton, the whole bloody system is going topsy-turvy. In her new book Sea Sick, Canadian Journalist Alanna Mitchell travels from the shore line to the depths
Vertical Farm in Dubai Uses Seawater : TreeHugger
Images from Studiomobile via Designboom A good rendering is a thing of beauty, and when it is of an amazing vertical farm, so much the better. Italian architects Studiomobile has developed a Seawater vertical farm to be built in
Auditors Raise Doubts About G.M.’s Viability - NYTimes.com
As G.M. reported that its survival was in doubt, the White House said that helping the auto industry was a priority.
Economists say copyright and patent laws are killing innovation; hurting economy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Abolishing patent and copyright laws sounds radical, but two economists at Washington University in St. Louis say it's an idea whose time has come. Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine see innovation as a key to reviving the economy. They believe the current patent/copyright system discourages ...
Watchmen's World Draws From Strangelove, Taxi Driver | The Underwire from Wired.com
The Owl Ship from the Watchmen movie rests in the Owl Chamber, a large, enclosed set built on a soundstage in Vancouver, British Columbia. Photo: Clay Enos/Warner Bros. Subway superhero
Radical Approach to Block HIV Gets Some Results | Wired Science from Wired.com
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The Crisis of Credit Visualized on Vimeo [via claudio]
The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis.
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No jail for man in bus beheading - Americas- msnbc.com
A Canadian judge ruled Thursday that a man accused of beheading and cannibalizing a fellow Greyhound bus passenger is not criminally responsible due to mental illness.
"Bat Box" Heaters Could Save Animals' Lives
Solar-powered heaters could help save the lives of bats infected with a deadly fungus, a new study suggests.
Carrot City: Anything Grows : TreeHugger
Pig City, MVRDV- each tower can feed 500,000 people Carrot City is a fabulous display of the possibilities of urban farming, both vertical and horizontal, in an exhibition at Toronto's Design Exchange that shows 'a mix of realized projects
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