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As Oil Giants Lose Influence, Supply Drops
New York Times - By Jad Mouawad - Aug. 19 (News Report)
Oil production has begun falling at all of the major Western oil companies, and they are finding it harder than ever to find new prospects even though they are awash in profits... More »
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Windmills split town and families
Associated Press - By Helen O'Neill - Aug. 17 (News Report)
"Listen," John Yancey says, leaning against his truck in a field outside his home. The rhythmic whoosh, whoosh, whoosh of wind turbines echoes through the air... More »
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Oceanic Dead Zones Continue to Spread
Scientific American - By David Biello - Aug. 15 (News Report)
More bad news for the world's oceans: Dead zones--areas of bottom waters too oxygen depleted to support most ocean life--are spreading, dotting nearly the entire east and south... More »
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How Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America
AlterNet - By Terrence McNally, Susan Jacoby - Aug. 18 (Interview)
"It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant." Barack Obama finally said it. Though a successful political and electoral strategy, the Right's stand against... More »
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Russian Aggression Carries High Cost For NASA
Pajamas Media - By Rand Simberg - Aug. 18 (Special Report)
As Washington reassesses its overall relationship with Russia in the wake of the recent incursion into the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, our current space policy may be... More »
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Minding Mistakes: How the Brain Monitors Errors and Learns from Goofs
Scientific American - By Markus Ullsperger - Aug. 17 (Review)
Key Concepts: The brain contains neural machinery for recognizing errors, correcting them, and optimizing behavior. ... The neurotransmitter dopamine plays a major role in our... More »
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Pinker on words, Lakoff on brains and politics
Australian Broadcasting - By Natasha Mitchell - Aug. 17 (Review)
All in the Mind this week features an encore broadcast of the Stephen Pinker's interview about The Stuff of Thought, his latest forensic excavation of language and its... More »
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McCain scores an imperfect 8
Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Thomas L. Friedman - Aug. 14 (Opinion)
McCain did not show up for the crucial vote July 30, and the renewable energy bill was defeated for the eighth time. In fact, McCain has a perfect record on this renewable energy... More »
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The Regeneration Gap
Daily Kos - Aug. 10 (Blog Post)
If you glance over to the right hand margin, you'll see a diary written by a group of staunch, progressive allies from the Americans for Cures Foundation... More »
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Weapons Plutonium Fuel Test Fails
Union of Concerned Scientists / Friends of the Earth - Aug. 4 (Press Release)
Citing the recent failure of an experimental plutonium fuel assembly test at a South Carolina nuclear plant, two watchdog groups today called on the Department of Energy (DOE) to... More »
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Fresh scent may hide toxic secret
Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Lisa Stiffler - Jul. 23 (Special Report)
The scented fabric sheet makes your shirts and socks smell flowery fresh and clean. That plug-in air freshener fills your home with inviting fragrances of apple and cinnamon or a... More »
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Medical Dispatch: Superbugs
New Yorker - By Jerome Groopman - Aug. 10 (Special Report)
In August, 2000, Dr. Roger Wetherbee, an infectious-disease expert at New York University's Tisch Hospital, received a disturbing call from the hospital's microbiology laboratory... More »
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Earth: The Biography - Atmosphere
National Geographic - By Iain Stewart - Jul. 22 (Special Report)
(VIDEO) The atmosphere is Earth's protective layer, cloaking us in a warm, oxygen-rich embrace and shielding us from the cold hostility of space... More »
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Eastern Uganda Grapples with Power Plant Project
National Public Radio - By Jason Kane - Aug. 14 (Special Report)
(text only) In the East African nation of Uganda, where 95 percent of the people live without electricity, a $750 million hydropower project has been approved by the government... More »
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How Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America
AlterNet - By Terrence McNally, Susan Jacoby - Aug. 18 (Interview)
"It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant." Barack Obama finally said it. Though a successful political and electoral strategy, the Right's stand against... More »
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The Winning Hand
New York Times - By Bob Herbert - Aug. 5 (Opinion)
Put aside for a moment all the talk about alternative fuels. They are no doubt important and the wave of the future. But the fastest, cheapest, easiest and cleanest step toward a... More »
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Beijing, IOC growing desperate on air pollution
Foreign Policy - By Alex Ely - Jul. 28 (Blog Post)
With the 2008 Olympic Games just 10 days away, Beijing officials are scrambling to improve the city's awful air quality. One drastic measure that city officials are considering... More »
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Where would America's renewable energy come from?
Christian Science Monitor - By Eoin O'Carroll - Jul. 24 (Blog Post)
That's where my new favorite website comes in. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, part of the US Department of Energy, offers a wealth of data about America's capacity for... More »
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Ecoterrorism, not
The Writing Corner - By Beth Wellington - Jul. 31 (Blog Post)
[DISCLOSURE: This piece is from the private blog of a NewsTrust staff member] But Blue Ridge Earth First! activists as eco-terrorists? Five folks who blockaded Dominion Resources... More »
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Look Twice
Greater Good - By Susan T. Fiske - Aug. 3 (Review)
Most people think they're less biased than average. But just as we can't all be better than average, we can't all be less prejudiced than average... More »
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Hack the Vote
Slate - Aug. 15 (Special Report)
This year, campaigns are relying more than ever on e-mail, texting, and the Web to get their message out and raise cash. But high-speed communication also means more opportunities... More »
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Army hands locals 3,300 acres at Fort Ord
San Francisco Chronicle - Aug. 13 (News Report)
One of the last large sections of Fort Ord - a former infantry training base in Monterey that dates back to 1917 - will sprout homes, businesses and parks decades sooner than... More »
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Web tool lets citizens track cash and candidates
San Francisco Chronicle - Aug. 13 (News Report)
A Berkeley non-profit startup is winning kudos for an innovative site called MAPLight.org that lets citizens track everything from how much money is being raised by the... More »
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Russian Aggression Carries High Cost For NASA
Pajamas Media - Aug. 18 (Special Report)
As Washington reassesses its overall relationship with Russia in the wake of the recent incursion into the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, our current space policy may be... More »
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Timing Of Political Messages Influences Voter Preferences, Researcher Finds
ScienceDaily - Aug. 17 (News Report)
In political campaigns, timing is almost everything. Candidates communicate with voters over a long period of time before voters actually vote... More »
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Pinker on words, Lakoff on brains and politics
Australian Broadcasting - Aug. 17 (Review)
All in the Mind this week features an encore broadcast of the Stephen Pinker's interview about The Stuff of Thought, his latest forensic excavation of language and its... More »
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Obama's, McCain's energy plans share similar goal
Houston Chronicle - Aug. 10 (Opinion)
"There will always be differences, but overall they're not that far apart," said Gal Luft, executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (a... More »
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Global Warming Did It! Well, Maybe Not.
Washington Post - Aug. 3 (Opinion)
We're stuck on the notion that climate change is the culprit every time a natural disaster strikes. But that's just muddying the waters... More »
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42 things I know (about newspapers)
Lobdell's OC - Aug. 11 (Blog Post)
The idea that your daily news is collected, written, edited, paginated, printed on dead trees, put in a series of trucks and cars and delivered on your driveway -- at least 12... More »
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The Many Challenges of the Social Media Industry
Web Strategist - Aug. 7 (Opinion)
Like every industry, the social media industry is plagued with problems that for now, are slowly being solved. It's important to note the challenges in our industry in order to... More »