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First off, I want to thank Dr. Behncke
for taking the time to answer your questions -...
and also, thank you to all who sent him some thought-provoking questions. In fact, the questions and answers take up about 12 pages of text, so the Q&A; will be ...
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Q&A: Dr. Boris Behncke answers your Italian volcano ...
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liveleak.com - 75 minutes ago
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CLOSE [X] Just a short clip of an
owl coming in for a landing,up close and personal....
Capture This Video Liveleak requires flash. If you see this message, make sure you have the latest flash player installed. To install the latest version, click HERE ...
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Slo-Motion Owl (video)
worldchanging.com - 84 minutes ago
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There's been a lot of talk recently about
the "hacked climate emails." Long story, short: Hacker steals...
email, posts. Wingnuts take some lines out of context, claim they show a cover-up, cry conspiracy. Scientists refute, in detail. Media covers ...
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Unwritten Stories Reveal New Climate Scandal!
desmogblog.com - 84 minutes ago
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morano.jpg The Deniersphere being alive with delight over
the emails stolen from the UK Hadley Centre, my...
colleague Kevin Grandia has wondered aloud (see next post) about what a similar sampling of emails ...
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For Balance: Let's Have Marc Morano's emails
desmogblog.com - 84 minutes ago
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cei logo.jpg The climate conspiracy theorists are enjoying
their moment of glory with the hacked emails that...
were made public late last week. And who can blame them, given that many of them were relegated to ...
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How the climate denial machine will spin the CRU hacked ...
ucsusa.org - 84 minutes ago
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Late last week, computer hackers stole a thousand
private emails from the Climate Research Unit at the...
University of East Anglia in Great Britain and many seeking to thwart climate policy have been misrepresenting using the e-mails to attack climate ...
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Contrarians Unfairly Using Hacked E-mails
blogs.discovermagazine.com - 84 minutes ago
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After the large volume of climate skeptic/denier comments
that came in ......
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The “ClimateGate” Burden of Proof
pleion.blogspot.com - 93 minutes ago
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PZ Myers has a little contest on Pharyngula.
Answer one of these two questions and you might...
win a book drawn at random from PZ's pile:Was evolution a significant and essential factor in guiding Nazi thought?Can natural processes produce an increase in complexity?These questions are his response ...
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Contest on Pharyngula: refute-a-creationist
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plosone.org - 4 hours ago
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Food waste contributes to excess consumption of freshwater
and fossil fuels which, along with methane and CO...
2 emissions from decomposing food, impacts global climate change. Here, we calculate the energy content of nationwide food waste from the ...
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The Progressive Increase of Food Waste in America and ...
space.com - 4 hours ago
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A new estimate of the age of our
Milky Way Galaxy suggests it was an original member...
of the universe, having been born just about as early on as was possible. The overall universe is about 13.7 billion years old. That figure, after decades of wildly ...
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Milky Way's Age Narrowed Down
space.com - 4 hours ago
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A cluster of stars called Omega Centauri shines
like a jewel of the southern hemisphere night sky....
It is visible to the naked eye, but through a telescope, millions of stars are revealed to be part of this globular cluster. A new image shows Omega ...
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New Image Details Jewel in Southern Sky
space.com - 4 hours ago
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This near-infrared image shows the star cluster called
Terzan 5 within the Milky Way's bulge. Credit: F.R.Ferraro,...
University of Bologna.
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Image Display
pleion.blogspot.com - 5 hours ago
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Industrial slaughterhouses treat livestock very badly. That's not
news. But, a reminder now and then is welcomed,...
lest we forget because it's more convenient to ignore it.The PETA lists ten reasons not to eat Turkey, some of which I don't give a damn about. What mattes to me is how cruelly the ...
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Just two reasons not to eat Turkey
eso.org - 5 hours ago
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ESO 45/09 - Science Release 25 November 2009
For immediate release Cosmic "Dig" Reveals Vestiges of the...
Milky Way's Building Blocks Peering through the thick dust clouds of our galaxy’s "bulge" (the myriads of stars surrounding its centre), and ...
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Cosmic "Dig" Reveals Vestiges of the Milky Way's ...
noao.edu - 5 hours ago
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NGC 4565 is an excellent example of an
edge-on spiral galaxy. If our own galaxy was viewed...
from this perspective some 49 million light years distant- the Milky Way would appear very much like this. The dust lane is the obscuring lane of gas and dust ...
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Best of AOP: NGC 4565
guardian.co.uk - 5 hours ago
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Climate sceptics have lied, obscured and cheated for
years. That's why we climate rationalists must uphold the...
highest standards of science I have seldom felt so alone. Confronted with crisis, most of the environmentalists I know have gone into ...
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Pretending the climate email leak isn't a crisis won't ...
cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com - 6 hours ago
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NASA / STScI The galaxies NGC 2207 (left)
and IC 2163 are entangled in a picture from...
the Hubble Space Telescope. Such mergers are the focus of Galaxy Zoo's latest project. Galaxy Zoo's latest online research project is a ...
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Play the galactic slots
space.com - 6 hours ago
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A dancing prominence (upper left in the image)
bounces up and down after getting hit by a...
faint but powerful solar tsunami. (Click through to see an animated depiction.) Credit: NASA
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space.com - 6 hours ago
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Scientists have creatively combined pictures of the Sun
to make the first 3D view of a massive...
eruption on the Sun. It should improve understanding of the stormy events that can disrupt radio communications on Earth and threaten satellites and power ...
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Image of the Day
space.com - 6 hours ago
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Images of a tsunami blasting its way through
the sun's lower atmosphere have been taken for the...
first time. NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft captured one of the massive solar waves in action May 19, 2007, as it moved through four layers of the solar ...
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Solar Tsunamis Move at Astronomical Speeds
space.com - 6 hours ago
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Solar tsunami recorded by the twin STEREO probes
from head-on and the side. Gray area was contrast-enhanced...
to show the tsunami rippling across the sun's surface. Orange sequence shows a solar flare hit by the tsunami. Credit: NASA/STEREO mission ...
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Solar Tsunami Spotted
space.com - 6 hours ago
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A solar tsunami seen by the twin STEREO
spacecraft. Movies like this have helped convince scientists that...
this phenomenon is real, and not a visual illusion. Credit: NASA
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space.com - 6 hours ago
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A major flare on the Sun earlier this
week generated what scientists are calling a solar tsunami....
The tsunami-like shock wave , formally called a Moreton wave, rolled across the hot surface, destroying two visible filaments of cool gas on opposite ...
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Scientists Spot 'Tsunami' on the Sun
plantandsoil.unl.edu - 7 hours ago
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Menu Explore By Topic Soil Genesis and Development
Soil Physical Properties Soil Chemical Properties Soil Biota and...
Nutrient Cycling Soil Nutrient Management Soil Erosion, Conservation, and Water Quality Soils Home Study Course Awards What's New ...
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Plant and Soil Sciences eLibrary: Soil Science
neurocritic.blogspot.com - 7 hours ago
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Contour Drawing Rating Scale ( Thompson & Gray,
1995 ) - established as a reliable and valid...
measure of body size perception. Anorexia nervosa , an obsessive and unrelenting quest for thinness, is one of the most deadly psychiatric disorders. ...
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The Extrastriate Body Area and Visual Distortions in ...
cognitionandculture.net - 7 hours ago
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To what extent does the use of language
involve a language-specific ability, to what extent is it...
subserved by a more general symbolic or semiotic system? This is an old and ongoing controversy to which an article pre-published online in PNAS on Nov. ...
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Language faculty? Semiotic system? Or what?
spacefellowship.com - 8 hours ago
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The thin line of Earth’s atmosphere and the
setting sun are featured in this image photographed by...
the crew of the International Space Station while space shuttle Atlantis on the STS-129 mission was docked with the station. © Matt for International Space Fellowship, 2009. ...
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Picture of the Day – Thin Blue Line
badastronomy.com - 8 hours ago
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Click Here The Bad Astronomy Logo In March
2003, when I moved the website to a new...
server, I made a few changes to the site. One obvious one was the change to the image in the banner. The old image was done by my dear friend Kat Rasmussen . We were ...
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Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: The Logo
eurekalert.org - 9 hours ago
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Six international studies published this week in the
British journal the Lancet show that cutting greenhouse gases,...
in particular ozone and black carbon, can quickly save millions of lives worldwide in addition to slowing climate change. UC Berkeley's ...
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Cutting greenhouse pollutants could directly save ...
dx.doi.org - 9 hours ago
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Despite the ubiquity of raptors in terrestrial ecosystems,
many aspects of their predatory behaviour remain poorly understood....
Surprisingly little is known about the morphology of raptor talons and how they are employed during feeding behaviour. Talon ...
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PLoS ONE: Predatory Functional Morphology in Raptors: ...
scottsampson.blogspot.com - 11 hours ago
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AND WELCOME TO DAY 1 of The Whirlpool
of Life ! To kick things off, let’s get...
a few questions and answers out of the way: 1) Who am I? I’m a scientist and a science communicator. Until a few years ago, I held a dual position at the University of Utah ...
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The Whirlpool of Life
mindhacks.com - 12 hours ago
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Henry Markram , leader of the Blue Brain
neural tissue simulation project, has sent an angry email...
to IBM following their widely-reported but misleading announcement that they'd created a simulation as complex as a cat brain. This has come some ...
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Media cat and mouse game with brain simulations
cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com - 12 hours ago
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Featurepics.com Books on scientific subjects offer the world
... and other planets as well. Science books used...
to show dinosaurs exclusively in shades of scaly green and brown. Books about the solar system used to ...
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Science by the book
911.wikileaks.org - 12 hours ago
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From 3AM on Wednesday November 25, 2009, until
3AM the following day (US east coast time), WikiLeaks...
is releasing over half a million US national text pager intercepts. The intercepts cover a 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks ...
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9/11 Pager data
spacefellowship.com - 12 hours ago
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Using gravity measurement data from the NASA/German Aerospace
Center’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace) mission, a...
team of scientists from the University of Texas at Austin has found that the East Antarctic ice sheet-home to about 90 percent of Earth’s solid fresh ...
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NASA Satellites Detect Unexpected Ice Loss in East ...
jacr.org - 12 hours ago
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dailymail.co.uk - 15 hours ago
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A chemical produced naturally in women's bodies during
pregnancy offers hope as a powerful breast cancer drug,...
scientists say.Alph-fetoprotein, or AFP, seems to halt the growth of existing tumours and prevent new ones from appearing, a study found.
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Hormone produced by pregnant women could keep breast ...
phlebotomytechnicianprograms.org - 15 hours ago
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Are you into personal training across a wide
range of physical disciplines? If you have access to...
broadband, then you can enjoy a number of fitness, health and wellness videos offered through YouTube Channels. The tips found through the following YouTube Channels can provide exercise routines, recip
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25 Essential YouTube Channels for Health and Fitness Tips
ncse.com - 15 hours ago
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Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was
published on November 24, 1859, and the sesquicentennial festivities...
are everywhere! read more
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Happy Origin Day!
spacefellowship.com - 15 hours ago
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(Arianespace) – Arianespace has marked a historic milestone
with the arrival of its first two Soyuz launchers...
in French Guiana, which will be used to inaugurate service with this medium-lift workhorse vehicle next year from the Spaceport. The Soyuz 2-1a launchers were carried aboard the MN ...
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The first two Soyuz launchers are delivered to French Guiana
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com - 17 hours ago
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On the 150th anniversary of "Origin of Species,"
a reminder that in most instances evolution fails rather...
than succeeds.
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An Evolve-By Date
pleion.blogspot.com - 17 hours ago
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Olivia Judson in the New York Times on
the ability to evolve in response to environmental change....
Species can't always cope with changing environments, because they lack the standing genetic variation to enables them to adapt, They mostly go extinct before they can evolve in response.Oren Hassan ...
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Evolution highlights VIII
salon.com - 18 hours ago
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Copyright 2009 Salon Media Group, Inc. Reproduction of
material from any Salon pages without written permission is...
strictly prohibited. SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon Media Group Inc. Associated ...
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The K Chronicles
washingtonpost.com - 18 hours ago
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Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or
other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from...
the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...
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Fewer Americans believe in global warming, poll shows
onthehillblog.blogspot.com - 20 hours ago
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A group of health providers is disputing reassurances
from the Senate's top Democrat that a recent debate...
over breast cancer screenings is unrelated to contents of healthcare reform legislation.
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Mammography Debate Becomes Health Reform Flashpoint
engagewithgrace.org - 20 hours ago
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On a scale of 1 to 5, where
do you fall on this continuum? I'm not sure...
Need Help? If there were a choice, would you prefer to die... at home , or in a hospital ? I'm not sure Need Help? Could a loved one correctly describe how you'd like to ...
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Engage with Grace
pleion.blogspot.com - 20 hours ago
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Another email from the AFA on Gap's war
on Christmas. Gap has given in a is airing...
a commercial with the words 'Merry Christmas' in it. That way we know that Christmas is all about spiritual matters and not just another random materialistic holiday. They say.According to Bill Chandler, ...
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Christians wins the war on Christmas
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 22 hours ago
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Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of SuperFreakonomics, has embraced
charges by the right wing that a handful of...
illegally obtained private emails means that the scientific consensus on climate change is actually a dangerous conspiracy. Dubner lent ...
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SuperFreak Dubner Embraces ClimateGate Conspiracy ...
greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com - 22 hours ago
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Senator James Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, sent letters
to many of the scientists whose e-mail messages were...
made public, asking them to preserve all correspondence.
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Inhofe Seeks Probe of Climate Science
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