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Kung fu nuns teach cosmic energy to CERN scientists | Robert Evans
Buddhist nuns practise Kung-fu at the Amitabha Drukpa Nunnery on the outskirts of Kathmandu on April 26, 2012. The sisters of the Amitabha Drukpa Nunnery -- aged from nine to 52 -- come from across ...
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Calling All Activists: Occupy For Seed Freedom (Oct. 2-16) | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 26, 2012 It all begins with a seed. Civilizations come and go; nations rise and fall; cultures flourish and vanish, but seeds remain... ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- Sept. 25, 2012 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation Sept. 25, 2012 Sept. 22-Nov. 12 House and Senate election recess. Sept. 24-28 Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, ...
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Corporate Ecocide: It’s Much More Than Monsanto | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust "The earth is not dying. It is being killed, and the people killing it have names and addresses." --Utah Phillips The other night, I started ...
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Higgs-like particle found in ‘milestone’ for mankind | Agence France-Presse
Proton-proton collisions as measured by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) in its search for the Higgs boson particle. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images July 4, 2012 ...
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Sea Levels Rising Fast on U.S. East Coast | Charles Q. Choi
Not clear whether human-caused global warming is to blame, experts say. The last house on Holland Island, Maryland, where 360 people lived before tides took over (file picture). Photograph by Astrid ...
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40 Million Stars Mapped In New Night Sky Census | Space.com
Color-composite image of FSR 1735. The cluster is the circular regions of stars and enhanced brightness in the center of the image. North is up and East is to the left. CREDIT: Henri Boffin, ESO ...
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Greenhouse gas levels pass symbolic 400ppm CO2 milestone | AP
The Arctic Ocean with leads and cracks in the ice cover of north of Alaska. Photograph: Courtesy Eric Kort/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA Monitoring stations in the Arctic detect record levels of ...
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Fukushima Radiation Found in Tuna Off California | Common Dreams
May 29, 2012 (Common Dreams) -- Detectable amounts of cesium-137 and cesium-134 were found in bluefin tuna caught off the coast of California about four months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- April 30, 2012 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- April 30, 2012 April 28-May 6 House and Senate recess. April 30 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Jurgen Scheffran, International Network of Engineers and Scientists (INES); David Krieger, ...
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Scientists Closing in on Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy | Clara Moskowitz
Simulated view of a black hole in front of the Large Magellanic Cloud. CREDIT: Alain R. | Wikimedia Commons Apr. 6, 2012 (SPACE.com) -- Though scientists have suspected for a while that a giant ...
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