Friday, August 8, 2008

Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Spreading

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From Future Pundit: erome Groopman has a good article in The New Yorker surveying the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Of...
Tuesday, August 5, 2008

NASA, Scientists Not Ready to Give Up on Martian Life

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Soil samples taken from "Snow White" trench, shown here on July 8, 2008, were found to contain the highly oxidizing substance perc...

Captains’ Logs Yield Climate Clues -- Records Kept by Nelson And Cook Are Shedding Light On Climate Change

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Replica -- Captain Cook's "Endeavor" From Times Online: Britain's great seafaring tradition is to provide a unique insight...

The Coolest Machine Ever?

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From The Dinocrat: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is set to begin operating this year to test the validity and limitations of the Standard ...

Why Coffee Is Good For You

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Sorting Out Coffee’s Contradictions -- New York Times When Howard D. Schultz in 1985 founded the company that would become the wildly succes...

More Than 100,000 Rare Gorillas Found In Congo

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From CNN: (CNN) -- An estimated 125,000 Western lowland gorillas are living in a swamp in equatorial Africa, researchers reported Tuesday, d...
Monday, August 4, 2008

The Solar Revolution is Near

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From The Futurist: I have long been optimistic about Solar Energy (whether photovoltaic or thermal) becoming our largest energy source withi...

Is MIT's Latest Solar 'Breakthrough' All Hype or a New Hope?

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From Popular Mechanics: The research university's third solar-powered power move in six weeks sounds like a revolution in the making: Us...

Is Aging An Accident Of Evolution? Stanford Scientists Say "Yes"

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The Daily Galaxy: "Everyone has assumed we age by rust. But how do you explain animals that don't age? Some tortoises lay eggs at t...

The Overflowing American Dinner Plate

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From the New York Times: In 1970, the average American ate about 16.4 pounds of food a week, or 2.3 pounds daily. By 2006, the average intak...

Weighing the Health Benefits of Birth Control

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From The New York Times: Unveiled in 1960, the birth control pill revolutionized contraception. Yet despite an abundance of birth control op...

Miscanthus Can Meet U.S. Biofuels Goal Using Less Land Than Corn Or Switchgrass

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From University Of Illinois: CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — In the largest field trial of its kind in the United States, researchers have determined that...