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XKCD's epic takedown of climate deniers
The web comic nails it Topics: climate skeptics, polar vortex, Extreme weather, Climate Change, Sustainability News, Entertainment News XKCD creator Randall Munroe has gotten it absolutely ...
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5 reasons to stop using antibacterial soap
A few weeks ago, the FDA announced a bold new position on antibacterial soap: Manufacturers have to show that it's both safe and more effective than simply washing with conventional soap and water ...
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These 11 popular sodas tested positive for a potential carcinogen.
The chemical compound that gives some sodas a caramel-brown color could be a carcinogen-and according to a new study by Consumer Reports, it's in many popular soft drinks at levels that exceed what
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Senate bill would require smartphone 'kill switch' in case of theft
Senator Amy Klobuchar will soon introduce a bill to combat smartphone theft - a rapidly growing crime as the technology proliferates - that would require phone makers to install a "kill switch" to ...
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'Space cop' satellites to patrol Earth's orbit
US scientists have developed a series of mini-satellites tasked with patrolling the Earth's orbit. The so-called "space cops" are intended to help satellites avoid collisions with space junk. The ...
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EFF Files Brief on Behalf of Rep. Sensenbrenner in NSA Spying Case
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a brief on behalf of Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), the author of the original USA PATRIOT Act, in a case brought by the American
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Is this the stomach-turning truth about what the Neanderthals ate?
It was the tell-tale tartar on the teeth that told the truth. Or at least, that is what it appeared to do. Researchers - after studying calcified plaque on Neanderthal fossil teeth found in El ...
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America's Working Destitute: Full-time jobs, yet homeless
US homeless shelters are struggling to accommodate the growing number of poor Americans. The face of the average tenant has been changing in the past few years, and sometimes even a full-time job ...
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Rather than savage cuts, Switzerland considers "Star Trek" economics
Star Trek Economics
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An army of robot baristas could mean the end of Starbucks as we know it
Starbucks' 95,000 baristas have a competitor. It doesn't need sleep. It's precise in a way that a human could never be. It requires no training. It can't quit. It has memorized every one of its ...
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Natural Cures Not Medicine on Facebook: www.facebook.com/naturalcuresnotmedicine Peru will provide electricity to more than 2 million of its poorest residents, Don Lieber from Planetsave has ...
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New Economy Week | October 12-18, 2013
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The Abolition of Poverty in Switzerland: A Template for Europe?
For the past 18 months people all over Switzerland have been campaigning for the "Citizens' Initiative for Unconditional Basic Income". Today the result of their efforts will be handed to the ...
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Beyond Consumerism: Replacing the Value of "More" with "Enough"
The following essay is adapted from the book Enough Is Enough by Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill.] Given how deeply consumerism has become embedded in everyday life (despite the way it coaxes people to ...
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Man Who Was Chasing Burglars Ends Up Getting Shot by Suspicious Neighbor(Video)
A man from Owasso, Oklahoma named Joshua Snow looked outside around midnight to realize his car was being burglarized, so he grabbed his gun and ran outside in his underwear to chase after the ...
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Battle of Blair Mountain
Themes: Art & Music, Labor, Organizing | Reading Levels: Grades 6-8, High School | Resource Types: Songs and Poems After reading Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21 by Lon
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An Open Letter to New York Comic-Con: Protect Our Secret Identities!
Last weekend at New York Comic-Con, a lot of attendees found themselves tweeting ecstatically about the convention -- without having written those tweets, because NYCC had hijacked people's social ...
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Aussie Company Planning To Use Drones For Textbook Delivery - Slashdot
Talk about automation!
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Woman giving birth on a clinic garden when nurses denied her treatment " FB
A disturbing photograph of an indigenous woman from Mexico delivering a baby on a patch of grass outside a medical center has set off a firestorm online and sparked a national debate that led to the
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This Satellite Could Be Beaming Solar Power Down From Space By 2025 - Slashdot
Daniel_Stuckey writes "A NASA veteran, aerospace entrepreneur, and space-based solar power (SBSP) expert, [John] Mankins designed the world's first practical orbital solar plant. It's called the ...
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US electrical grid on the edge of failure
Steve Hockstein/Bloomberg/Getty Facebook can lose a few users and remain a perfectly stable network, but where the national grid is concerned simple geography dictates that it is always just a few ...
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Just thinking about science triggers moral behavior
Stockbyte/ PunchStock/ Getty Images An article by Scientific American. Public opinion towards science has made headlines over the past several years for a variety of reasons - mostly negative. High
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US copyright czar resigns from White House for job at anti-piracy firm
Just weeks after resigning from a key position in the White House the United States' lead copyright officer has joined an ant-piracy trade group that lobbies for influence in the government on ...
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Departing DHS secretary warns of 'serious' cyber-threat, devastating natural
The departing US Homeland Security Secretary used her farewell speech to warn the nation's leaders of an impending "serious" cyber-attack as well as a natural disaster, the impact of which will ...
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Old Economy Steve Is A New Meme That Will Enrage All Millennials Everywhere
Drives up federal deficit for 30 years, hands the bill to his kids. ..