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A Bing deal for Microsoft, News Corp.?
Microsoft has been in early discussions about a pact to pay News Corp. to remove links to its news content from ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Farmer Ants Fertilize Their Gardens With Bacteria | Wired Science
Thanks to their vast underground fungus farms, leafcutter ants are one of Earth’s most successful species — and ...Posted by James Remeika -
Florida coalition targets pending federal pollution rules
The target: A settlement a federal judge in Tallahassee approved last week in a lawsuit brought by five ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Bio-fuel growth raises concerns about forests
Forests are a treasure trove of limbs and bark that can be made into alternative fuels and some worry the ...via NewsRack -
Rising sea levels threaten Caribbean region -
The effect of climate change is anything but hypothetical to retired Colombian naval officer German Alfonso. Just ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells
A new wave of testing by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found that 79 percent of the wells tested ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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Study Suggest Black Women's Relative Invisibility in Society
New research finds black women are more likely to go unnoticed and unappreciated than black men or whites of either ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Pesticides that kill rodents also poison owls.
Bait laced with the chemicals is eaten by the rodents. However the mice, rats and other rodents may live for ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
The Memory Scrub About Why Ft. Hood Happened Is Almost Complete ... If It Weren't for Archives
Reading through these credible accounts now, you can see how everyone from the PR flaks in the military to the ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
How Limousine Liberals, Water Oligarchs and Even Sean Hannity Are Hijacking Our Water Supply
A group of water oligarchs in California have engineered a disastrous deregulation and privatization scheme. And ...Posted by Chris Finnie
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Hiding Evidence of Global Cooling
Scientific progress depends on accurate and complete data. It also relies on replication. The past couple of days ...via Drudge Report -
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) on Climate
(Video) The Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the country's most influential environmental groups, has sent at ...Posted by Amanda Erickson -
Citizens left out in cold
State Rep. David Wolkins isn't shy about what he likes: golf, basketball and football. As ranking Republican ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Opinion: Obama Has Failed the World on Climate Change
US President Barack Obama came to office promising hope and change. But on climate change, he has followed in the ...Posted by Subramanya Sastry -
Copenhagen summit: Change we can't yet believe in
Confirming yesterday what had already been apparent for some months, Barack Obama and other leaders yesterday said ...via AllTop -
One month of Twitter hell
All November, Ian Martin will be following the BNP, led by Nick Griffin, on Twitter. Photograph: Dave Thompson/PA ...Posted by Xenia Pineda
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Naomi Klein on Climate Debt: Why Rich Countries Should Pay Reparations To Poor Countries For The Climate Crisis
(Video) With the Copenhagen climate summit two weeks away, best-selling journalist Naomi Klein examines the grass-roots ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Population & Environment: a Progressive, Feminist Approach
If we take seriously the need to protect the planet and distribute its resources more equitably, it becomes clear ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
20 Weird, Crazy Ideas for Helping the Earth | Environment
Global warming. Food shortages and water scarcity Dennis Baker penticton bc canada V2A6Z3 ...Posted by Dennis Baker -
The New Arms Race
(Blog Post) America will not win the arms race of the 21st century with rockets, but with robust investment in and support of ...Posted by Barry Grossheim
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Making Health Care Better
The American health care system is more expensive than any other, without providing better results. The cure, says ...via Tim O'Reilly -
When Soldiers Snap
“Every man has his breaking point,” said military doctors in World War II, believing that more than 90 days of ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Mental health of troops comes under scrutiny
Sgt. Justin "Jon" Garza joined the Army eight years ago at 20. When he arrived at Ft. Hood in June, the ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
What’s Good for the Kids
It has been apparent for a while now that we live in child-centric times. We approach parenting with a ...via Nicholas Kristof -
Google Computes News Quality
A recently filed patent application suggests that Google is taking steps to promote news produced by major media ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Was Fort Hood Shooter's Intentions Mass Murder, or Terrorism?
Some seee tis as an act of terrorism, but crime experts and fellow psychiatrists familiar with the military ...Posted by Derek Hawkins
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God, the Army, and PTSD
During the Iraq war, however, the great difficulty veterans experienced in getting psychiatric care—greater than ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Does Biased News Have a 'Time Bomb' Effect?
There's nobody more cynical about the media than your average European. Only 12 percent of Europeans claim to trust ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The Biggest Roadblock to Change May Be in Our Minds
When you step back from the specifics of the health care debate — as well as the rancor surrounding it — an ...via Miller-McCune -
I’d Like the Same Plan Better If It Was Bill Clinton’s
(Blog Post) Even among the most extreme opponents of President Obama's push for health care reform — those who equate his ...Posted by Michael Todd
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Climate Rage
With Copenhagen now likely to begin before Congress has passed even a weak-ass climate bill co-authored by the coal ...via Google News -
Out to lunch
The week before last, two Northwest pilots overshot Minneapolis, their destination, by a hundred and fifty miles, ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Are there asexuals among us?
some scientists believe that there may be a fourth sexual orientation in our species, one characterized by the ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
How to boost fuel efficiency? Raise taxes, executives say
While politically unpalatable, gasoline that costs at least $4 a gallon would have a far greater effect on American ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Healing our troubled vets
The public is kinder to its veterans today than it was during the Vietnam War, when soldiers risked their lives ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The psychology of healthcare reform
The House has passed the first comprehensive reform package of the health insurance industry in decades, which is ...via OneRiot
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Kipling Haunts Obama's Afghan War
The White Man's Burden, a phrase immortalized by English poet Rudyard Kipling as an excuse for European-American ...Posted by Cynthia Gilbert -
Curating, not moderating, the flow of content and participation
User generated content is, for many media companies and other organisations, more of a problem than a solution. ...via Dan Gillmor -
Obama Nominates Pesticide Executive to Be Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the US Trade Representative
(Video) President Obama’s nominee for the Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the office of the US Trade Representative, ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
EPA orders employees to remove YouTube Climate Video
The video, entitled “The Huge Mistake”, is by Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, two EPA enforcement attorneys ...Posted by Ben Ross
