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Islamist Militia Threatens Kenya’s Border - NYTimes.com

The Shabab, a radical Islamist militia that has taken over much of southern Somalia, is considered a threat to the tens of thousands of Westerners living in Kenya.

With Insufficient Insurance, Injured Athletes Add Medical Bills to College Debt - NYTimes.com

While some colleges accept considerable responsibility for medical claims, many others assume almost none.

Ancient Maya Practiced Forest Conservation -- 3,000 Years Ago

(PhysOrg.com) -- As published in the July issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science, paleoethnobotanist David Lentz of the University of Cincinnati has concluded that not only did the Maya people practice forest management, but when they abandoned their forest conservation practices it was to the ...

July 21, 1904: All Aboard for Siberia, Tovarich | This Day In Tech | Wired.com
1904: Decreed by a czar, built by thousands of workers over a period of more than a decade, the Trans-Siberian Railway is officially completed. As you'd

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Seawater Greenhouse - The process

Bio Soil Enhancers, Inc. Soil Amendment Products

Bio Soil Enhancers, Inc. Amendment Products can be used in small gardens, lawns, farms, food plots, houseplants, flower gardens, and basically anywhere plants are grown.

Eastman Wins Green Chemistry Award : TreeHugger

Future scientists will surely look back at the tremendous growth era of chemistry in the previous century and muse about the medieval 20th century technology. For millenia, nature has produced everything life on the planet needed using only the

Build a Geodesic Dome Solar Greenhouse to Grow Your Own Food : TreeHugger
What do you do when you want to grow your own food, but live here? That's the question my dad wanted to answer when he started this project about a year ago: Living at 7,750 feet above sea level,

Technology Review: Big Oil Turns to Algae

ExxonMobil invests $300 million in Synthetic Genomics to develop algae biofuel.

A New Path of Conduction for Future Electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month, researchers from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory made headlines when they revealed experimental evidence of a topological insulator: a material that could revolutionize computer processors by allowing electricity to flow without resistance. This week in Science, SLAC ...

Trees evolved camouflage defense against long extinct predator: First evidence of camouflage defense in plants

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many animal species such as snakes, insects and fish have evolved camouflage defences to deter attack from their predators. However research published in New Phytologist has discovered that trees in New Zealand have evolved a similar defence to protect themselves from extinct giant ...

Turnster kan dingen met een bal | Flabber

Tijdens een oefening op de mat laat deze turnster zien wat balcontrole betekent in de vrouwenwereld.

The longest solar eclipse of the century - The Big Picture - Boston.com

The Big Picture - News Stories in Photographs from the Boston Globe

SCORE! New Biomass Cookstove Also Doubles As Electrical Generator : TreeHugger
The vast majority of TreeHugger readers undoubtedly take for granted cooking on a stove that doesn't produce prodigious amounts of smoke every time you use it -- that smoke's produced elsewhere a lot of the time, at the power

Reintroducing Wolves to Scotland Could Bring Back the Forests of Old : TreeHugger

19th century gray wolf hunt. Image: Public domain More Wolves = More Birds (Who Knew?) Hunted to extinction in Scotland about 250 years ago, the gray wolf might make a comeback. Scientists have been studying the impact of the

Technology Review: Blogs: Potential Energy: A Biofuel Milestone

From MIT. Information on Emerging Technologies & impact on business & society

Maximum Security and a Starring Role - NYTimes.com

A thriving theater company at a maximum-security prison in Italy is giving convicts a new identity: actor.

Flu Changes Summer Camp Life - NYTimes.com

Tamiflu and hand sanitizer are added to the usual routines of swimming and crafts.

Who can cool his body fast? Toucan
(AP) -- The toucan's colorful bill gives new meaning to the phrase cool dude. Indeed, that gigantic schnoz turns out to be a radiator the rain forest dweller uses to lose body heat. The bill of the Toco Toucan makes up about one-third of its body length and ornithologists have long wondered about the ...