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Los Angeles Loses Streetcars, Cairo Wins : TreeHugger

Whale Power Technology Kicks Big Ass : TreeHugger

Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric heights [via claudio]

Last Supper helpings have grown - latimes.com

Could Tiny Bubbles Cool the Planet? - ScienceNOW

New York to End a Program to Give Cash to the Poor - NYTimes.com

Technology Review: From Biomass to Chemicals in One Step

Suicides, Some for Telangana’s Cause, Jolt India - NYTimes.com

News Analysis - With or Without Health Reform, We Pay for Others’ Bad Habits - NYTimes.com

Oil Spill Verdict Against Total Is Affirmed - NYTimes.com

Giant Greenhouses Mean Flavorful Tomatoes All Year - NYTimes.com

Chemicals in smoke help plants grow sturdier, study shows

Toads' earthquake exodus

Essential oils to fight superbugs

March 30, 1848: Niagara Falls Runs Dry | This Day In Tech | Wired.com

Can Roads Control Your Driving? The Truth About Safety-Enhancing Road Design » INFRASTRUCTURIST

Explained: Dynamo theory

Airplane repo men - Boing Boing

Scale model of a war-torn WWII town built and photographed by brain-damaged beating victim - Boing Boing

YouTube - Battle at Kruger

Magnets Can Manipulate Morality : Discovery News

How a Can Collector Died a Secret Millionaire : TreeHugger

Technology Review: Speedier Bug Catching

For Some, Cycling Eases Parkinson’s Symptoms - NYTimes.com

Modern Love - A Life to Live, This Side of the Bars - NYTimes.com

Separating Pranks From Fraud on the Web - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist - China, Concubines and Google - NYTimes.com

BBC - Earth News - Ant mega-colony takes over world [via claudio]

Microbe Wakes Up After 120,000 Years in Ice - Science News | Science &  Technology | Technology News - FOXNews.com [via claudio]

Microscopic nanobees 'sting cancer tumours to death' - Telegraph [via claudio]

'Buy farmland and gold,' advises Dr Doom - Times Online [via claudio]

Chinese investors eye Quebec farmland [via claudio]

China among countries buying up farmland around the world [via claudio]

Asian Carp Solution for the Great Lakes? Bring on the Pelicans! : TreeHugger

Canada Approves Enviropig™, Piglets Inherit Genetic Modifications for Clean Manure : TreeHugger

Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Meet Great Lakes Garbage Patch: Don't Plant Plastic in the Lakes : TreeHugger

In Syria, a Prologue for Cities - NYTimes.com

Eating like a bird helps forests grow

'Failure is good'

This is your brain on Cryptococcus: Pathogenic fungus loves your brain sugar

Sequencing the Video Genome | Wired Science | Wired.com

Wikileaks: CIA leaked video | Flabber

YouTube - drunkhistoryTesla.avi

Open source prosthetics - Boing Boing

The Psychological Immune System | Psychology Today

FORA.tv - Dr. Katherine Pollard: What Makes Us Human?

In social dealings, being older is being wiser

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Report: Exxon Paid NO Federal Income Tax in 2009 : TreeHugger

Some Queries Prompt Google To Offer Suicide Hotline - NYTimes.com

Australia Leader Angry Over Beached Chinese Vessel - NYTimes.com

Vest to prevent balance disorder patients falling

Fossil Turtle Had Extra-Thick Shell to Fend Off World’s Largest Snake | Wired Science | Wired.com