Science
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Rat-eating plant discovered in Philippines (Chris Irvine)
Rat-eating plant: The team of botanists, led by British experts Stewart McPherson and Alastair Robinson, found the plant on Mount Victoria in the Philippines June 7, 2011 (Telegraph) -- A ...
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Canadian scientists 'bottle' antimatter (Keith Bonnel)
June 6, 2011 (PostMedia News) -- Makoto Fujiwara has spent more than a decade in laboratories hunting an elusive prey, the stuff of science fiction -- the missing half of everything. He and other ...
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Human Intelligence and the Environment (Noam Chomsky)
May 10, 2011 (International Socialist Review) -- I’ll begin with an interesting debate that took place some years ago between Carl Sagan, the well-known astrophysicist, and Ernst Mayr, the grand old ...
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Giant asteroid heading close to Earth (Martin Evans)
Asteroid YU55 will pass close to earth later this year Photo: ALAMY May 5, 2011 (Telegraph) -- A giant asteroid weighing 55 million tonnes will just miss the Earth later this year, Nasa experts have ...
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Our Growing Income Inequality -- It's NOT an Accident (Prof. Hendrik van den Berg)
Hendrik van den Berg Hendrik van den Berg, University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor of economics April 18, 2011 (NebraskansForPeace.org) -- Something very disturbing has been happening in the United ...
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Fukushima Reactors Are a 'Ticking Time Bomb,' Japanese Govt in Denial (Michio Kaku)
Scientist Michio Kaku: When we hear "that things are stable, it’s only stable in the sense that you’re dangling from a cliff hanging by your fingernails." Democracy Now Apr. 13, 2011 AMY ...
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Fukushima radiation taints US milk supplies at levels 300% higher than EPA maximums (Ethan A. Huff)
Apr. 11, 2011 (NaturalNews) -- The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to release new data showing that various milk and water supply samples from across the United States are testing ...
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Japan's Nuclear Volcano Erupts (Mike Whitney)
Apr. 12, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Shares plunged across Europe and Asia Tuesday as the crisis at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant deepened and Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency ...
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Radiation Detected In Drinking Water In 13 More US Cities, Cesium-137 In Vermont Milk (Jeff McMahon)
Apr. 11, 2011 (Forbes) -- Radiation from Japan has been detected in drinking water in 13 more American cities, and cesium-137 has been found in American milk --in Montpelier, Vermont -- for the ...
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'No safe levels' of radiation in Japan (Dahr Jamail)
Experts warn that any detectable level of radiation is "too much." According to the US Department of Energy, no level of radiation is so low that it is without health risks Apr. 4, 2011 (Al Jazeera) ...
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Japan nuclear operator aims for cold shutdown in 6-9 months (Taiga Uranaka)
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese nuclear power plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) hopes it will be able to achieve cold shutdown of its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant within six to ...
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