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Canada cigarette smuggling is making a comeback
Smuggling slowed down in the late 1990s after the Quebec and Ontario governments cut taxes thereby significantly reducing the price of store bought packs But in the last six years the illegal trade has come back with a vengeance

 

Chinese Farmer Wu Zhongyuan Builds Helicopter Out Of Wood. Government Stops Him From Flying It. — Loyal K*N*G

BBC News - Feeding birds 'changes evolution'

Bird-feeders, hung in many a garden, can affect the way our feathered friends evolve, according to scientists.

 

Minority Cord Blood Report: 232 toxic chemicals in 10 minority babies. | Environmental Working Group

Environmental Working Group's study finds bisphenol A (BPA, perchlorate and more than 200 other chemicals in umbilical cord blood of 10 minority newborns.

 

After Delays, a Vaccine Is Tested in Fight Against Tainted Beef - NYTimes.com

A beef company has started a trial for a drug intended to reduce E. coli in cattle after years of bureaucratic delays in Washington.

 

Are angry women more like men?

'Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?' wrote author Lynn Hecht Schafran. The answer, according to an article in the Journal of Vision, may lie in our interpretation of facial expressions.

 

Greenhouse gas carbon dioxide ramps up aspen growth
The rising level of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be fueling more than climate change. It could also be making some trees grow like crazy.

 

Controversial Signs of Mass Cannibalism | Wired Science | Wired.com

At a settlement in what is now southern Germany, the menu turned gruesome 7,000 years ago. Over a period of perhaps a few decades, hundreds of people
were

 

Dams Could Alter Local Weather, Cause More Rain | Wired Science | Wired.com

As if America's aging dams were not in enough trouble already, new research suggests that their reservoirs could be increasing the intensity of extreme

 

Emerald cockroach wasp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

YouTube - Why Switzerland Has The Lowest Crime Rate In The World

When thinking about the mass extermination camps of a holocaust think..The key to freedom is to be able to have the ability to defend yourself &, if you ...

 

Gentlemen of Bacongo
Cool Hunting: Gentlemen of Bacongo

 

Geist: Record industry faces liability over `infringement' - thestar.com

Chet Baker, a leading jazz musician in the 1950s, is about to add a new claim to fame as the lead plaintiff in possibly the largest copyright infringement case in Canadian history.

 

Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

At Stanford, nanotubes + ink + paper = instant battery

Millions in U.S. Drink Contaminated Water, Records Show - Series - NYTimes.com

More than 20 percent of water treatment systems have violated key provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act.

 

Global Health - Guinea Worm Believed to Be Eradicated in Nigeria - NYTimes.com
The Carter Center, which has battled the worm for 20 years, says none have been found for 12 months in a row.

 

Restoring Soil, Revering Life: Solutions for Climate and Agriculture : TreeHugger

Editor's Note: This guest post is by Timothy J. LaSalle of the Rodale Institute. What I am about to share with you works for large-scale farmers as well as gardeners anywhere in the world. Pests and diseases do not

 

French introduced farming to Britain: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- Simon Fraser University archeologists Mark Collard and Kevan Edinborough and colleagues from University College London have uncovered evidence that French farmers introduced agriculture to Britain some 60 centuries ago.

 

Gravestones Talking through Time

(PhysOrg.com) -- A visit to your local graveyard can provide not only a history lesson, but a science lesson as well. Historians know that gravestones can reflect the lives of people whose memories are lost in time, and they have long scoured old burial sites to piece together the stories of those ...

 

Turning metal black more than just a novelty

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Rochester optics professor Chunlei Guo made headlines in the past couple of years when he changed the color of everyday metals by scouring their surfaces with precise, high-intensity laser bursts.

 

Researchers demonstrate that stem cells can be engineered to kill HIV

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA AIDS Institute researchers have for the first time demonstrated that human blood stem cells can be engineered to target and kill HIV-infected cells.

 

Map of Malaria in the USA, 1870 Boing Boing

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In Laos, Restoring the Traditional Way - NYTimes.com

Allison Brown decided to create a business dedicated to preserving and restoring traditional Lao buildings.

 

In India, Anxiety Over the Slow Pace of Innovation - NYTimes.com

Indians fret that Bangalore, and India more broadly, will remain a low-cost satellite office of the West, rather than a hotbed of entrepreneurship.

 

IEEE Spectrum: Robo-Air Blower Makes Ping-Pong Balls, Apples Defy Gravity

Mediterranean Sea Saved by Monumental Flood | Wired Science | Wired.com
A cataclysmic flood could have filled the Mediterranean Sea — which millions of years ago was a dry basin — like a bathtub in the space of less than two

 

YouTube - China's empty city - 10 Nov 09

China's economy is continuing to grow despite the global recession, helped by a massive government stimulus package of $585bn.But doubts remain whether such ...

 

For Elderly in Rural Areas, Hard Times Get Harder - NYTimes.com [via claudio]

The recession and cuts to programs for aging Americans have made growing old in isolated areas even tougher.

 

Uneasy Engagement - China’s Economic Power Unsettles the Neighbors - Series - NYTimes.com

China is finding it harder to cast itself as a friendly alternative to an imperious American superpower.

 

Doctor and Patient - Lessons From the War Zone - NYTimes.com

Seeing the casualties of combat has the paradoxical power to create doctors with an extraordinary appreciation for all humanity.

 

Scientists Create Material More Insulating than the Vacuum

(PhysOrg.com) -- With its complete lack of atoms, a vacuum is often considered to be the best known insulator. For this reason, vacuums are regularly used to reduce heat transfer, such as in the lining of a thermos to keep beverages hot or cold. However, in a recent study scientists have found a material ...

 

Researchers learn why invasive plants are spreading rapidly in forests
(PhysOrg.com) -- Invasive plants are advancing into Eastern forests at an alarming rate, and the rapid spread has been linked by researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences to forest road maintenance and the type of dirt and stone used on roads.

 

Extra pores on plants could ease global warming: Japan study

Japanese researchers said Thursday they had found a way to make plant leaves absorb more carbon dioxide in an innovation that may one day help ease global warming and boost food production.

 

Mediterranean Is Scary Laboratory of Ocean Futures | Wired Science | Wired.com

Warmed, overfished and polluted, the small Mediterranean Sea is giving scientists a look at what the future may hold for the rest of Earth's oceans — and