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Oregano Is New CO2-Cutting Drug of Choice (For Cows) : TreeHugger

Roma, on Move, Test Europe’s ‘Open Borders’ - NYTimes.com

Recession Raises Poverty Rate to a 15-Year High - NYTimes.com

An Introduction to the OPOC™ Powertrain | EcoMotors

Desktop Manufacturing - Video Library - The New York Times

Movie Review - 'The Town' - Ben Affleck Returns to Boston in a Crime Drama - NYTimes.com

Disabled Japanese tourist plans robo-suit adventure

'Archeologists of the air' isolate pristine aerosol particles in the Amazon

Foraging for fat: Crafty crows use tools to fish for nutritious morsels

Researchers build Moon garden

The “Indian Superbug”: Worse Than We Knew | Wired Science | Wired.com

Kill Whitey. It’s the Right Thing to Do. | Wired Science | Wired.com

IEEE Spectrum: Why Are Terrorists Often Engineers?

Gogol Bordello: "Immigraniada (We Comin' Rougher)" - Boing Boing

Inside a termite mound - Boing Boing

Around the Solar System - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Chemists discover method to create high-value chemicals from biomass

YouTube - Flying with the fastest birds on the planet: Peregrine Falcon & Gos 

Hawk - Animal Camera - BBC

Op-Ed Columnist - The Angry Rich and Taxes - NYTimes.com

Limnion Geothermal Energy Reactors Offer Idiot-proof Installation, Small Footprint : TreeHugger

Unglazed Clay Pots Create Efficient Drip Irrigation (Video) : TreeHugger

Facing Social Pressures, Families Disguise Girls as Boys in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com

Rapid Prototyping for Microcontrollers | mbed

A Perk of Our Evolution - Pleasure in Pain of Chilies - NYTimes.com

Apollo discovery tells a new story

Turning over a new leaf

Study examines men's priorities when looking for mates

Buyer backlash: Why do slogans about saving money increase spending?

Paper-thin supercapacitor has higher capacitance when twisted than any non-

twisted supercapacitor

New Compass Uses Light Beams to Detect Magnetic Field | Wired Science | Wired.com

Chemistry Ph.D. thesis explained via dance routine - Boing Boing

Rogue high-speed traderbots chaffing the market with thousands of nonsensical transactions every second - Boing Boing

Juárez, Mexico: Amid escalating violence against press, local paper asks narcos, 

"What do you want from us?" - Boing Boing

Amazon.com: People of Walmart: Shop and Awe (9781402250712): Andrew Kipple, Adam Kipple, Luke Wherry: Books

BBC News - A journey from Hudson Bay north to the Canadian Arctic

Designers Create a "More Efficient" Chainless Bike : TreeHugger

Starling Flocks Mesmerize in Coordinated Swarms : TreeHugger

Yahoo's New Efficient Data Center Modeled After Chicken Coops : TreeHugger

Introducing Stringbike: the bike with no chain (w/ Video)

Global map of air pollution - Boing Boing

BBC News - Chernobyl plant life endures radioactivity

Eileen Nearne, Wartime Spy, Dies at 89 - The New York Times

How the CIA ran a secret army of 3,000 assassins - Asia, World - The Independent

Baby Carrots: Eat ‘Em Like Junk Food