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Blog - Fresh Evidence of Ancient Life on Mars?

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 06:38:29 +0000

A new study says it's the best explanation for materials found in a meteorite, but not everyone agrees.

Next Big Future found this 27 minutes ago on technologyreview.com

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Global warming is real

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:08:22 +0000

There are so many good reasons not to believe in global warming: summers lately have been cool and wet; since 1998 global temperatures have actually fallen; dissident scientists say it s not happening; green believers are irritating they wear Tibetan hats that only look good on Tibetans, and ...

The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and ... found this 3 days ago on timesonline.co.uk

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Health Care Rationing, American-Style

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:32:00 +0000

Uwe E. Reinhardt is an economics professor at Princeton. On last Sunday morning’s Meet the Press , the host David Gregory touched on the United States Preventive Services Task Force report that earlier in the week had recommended against routine screening mammography in women aged 40 to 49. ...

The Health Care Blog found this 3 days ago on economix.blogs.nytimes.com

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Neuroethics conference podcasts

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:00 +0000

The Dalhousie University-based Novel Tech Ethics group recently hosted a conference called Brain Matters: New Directions in Neuroethics . You can read descriptions of the conference at the Dana Foundation's website and in the neuroethics newsletter . They've also made six plenary talks available ...

Mind Hacks found this 5 days ago on somatosphere.net

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How our skin helps us to listen : Not Exactly Rocket Science

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:00 +0000

Profile Ed_Yong.jpg Ed Yong is an award - winning science writer based in London. Not Exactly Rocket Science is his attempt to make the latest scientific discoveries interesting to everyone by beating jargon, confusion and elitism with the stick of good writing. He finds writing about himself in ...

Mind Hacks found this 5 days ago on scienceblogs.com

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When a police line-up with six one-eyed men is better than a line-up with none

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:27:43 +0000

You're mugged by a man with a patch over one eye. You describe him and his distinctive appearance to the police. They locate a one-eyed suspect and present him to you in a video line-up with five innocent "foils". If this suspect is the only person in the line-up with one eye, prior research ...

Cognitive Daily found this 14 hours ago on bps-research-digest.blogspot.com

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INTERNAL BLEEDING: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes (9781590710739): Robert M. Wachter, Kaveh Shojania: Books

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:11:00 +0000

With a mix of horrifying medical accidents and warmly logical problem solving, Internal Bleeding provides a serious, if graphic, look at an industry where a simple mistake can lead directly to death. Happily, authors (both are medical doctors) Robert Wachter and Kaveh Shojania have as many ...

Notes from Dr. RW found this 5 days ago on amazon.com

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Rocket Lab : Rocket Research & Development Based in New Zealand

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:42:12 +0000

Rocket Lab is a company focused on delivering pioneering technology and specialised components to the international space industry. Our aim is to provide innovative low-cost solutions that enable public access to space and develop a space industry within New Zealand. We are located within the ...

SpaceRef Top Stories found this 5 days ago on rocketlab.co.nz

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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading in U.S. States: Observations and Lessons from the OTC NOx Budget Program

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:50:05 +0000

A number of U.S. states are considering market-based policies to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The experience gained from emissions trading for sulfur dioxide (SO2) and oxides of nitrogen (NOx) offers a useful body of information and data to draw on to design a GHG emissions ...

Worldchanging: Bright Green found this 5 days ago on wri.org

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Ground-level Ozone

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:50:05 +0000

(O 3 ) is a gas composed of three oxygen atoms. It is not usually emitted directly into the air, but at ground-level is created by a chemical reaction between oxides of nitrogen ( NOx ) and volatile organic compounds (VOC) in the presence of sunlight. Ozone has the same chemical structure ...

Worldchanging: Bright Green found this 5 days ago on epa.gov

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Programs and Regulations

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:50:05 +0000

NO x Trading Programs All NO x trading programs have the same goal: reduce the transport of ground-level ozone across large distances. However, the programs have developed through different mechanisms, which has led to differences in the number of states involved, the timing of the compliance ...

Worldchanging: Bright Green found this 5 days ago on epa.gov

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Programs and Regulations

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:50:05 +0000

The allowance trading system creates low-cost rules of exchange that minimize government intrusion and make allowance trading a viable compliance strategy for reducing SO 2 . The opt-in program allows nonaffected industrial and small utility units to participate in allowance trading. The NO x ...

Worldchanging: Bright Green found this 5 days ago on epa.gov

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Cap and Trade Markets

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:50:05 +0000

Cap and Trade Allowance trading is the centerpiece of EPA's Acid Rain Program, and allowances are the currency with which compliance with the SO 2 emissions cap is achieved. The SO 2 allowance trading component of the Acid Rain Program imposes a firm cap or limit on SO 2 emissions but allows ...

Worldchanging: Bright Green found this 5 days ago on epa.gov

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Cap and Trade Programs

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:50:05 +0000

Cap and Trade EPA s cap and trade programs to date have been primarily focused on the electricity generating sector. Power generation is a significant source of pollutants that can impair human health and the environment. These pollutants include sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), nitrogen oxides (NO x ), ...

Worldchanging: Bright Green found this 5 days ago on epa.gov

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Gravity’s Rainbow

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:13:00 +0000

Pressure changes are just one of many things that give me migraines. I went to bed with a migraine at 2pm yesterday and am about to go back to bed now just 30 minutes after waking up since it hasn’t gone away. Here’s what the pressure looks like: 12-02 Migraine Small, slow changes and almost ...

Ruminations of an Aspiring Ecologist found this 6 days ago on sarcozona.org

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Death of the mastodon

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:19:55 +0000

It's one of the biggest puzzles of paleontology: Why did North America's large mammals go extinct shortly after the glaciers melted about 15k years ago? New study suggests that hunters get the credit -- or blame.

Climate Progress found this 13 hours ago on whyfiles.org

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Global warming rigged? Here\'s the email I\'d need to see

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:14:37 +0000

It's no use pretending this isn't a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced that they are genuine, and I'm dismayed and deeply shaken by them. Yes, the messages were obtained ...

Greenfyre's found this 6 days ago on guardian.co.uk

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Climategate: Pielke Senior on the NCDC CCSP report – “strong arm tactics”

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 19:35:35 +0000

From Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. E-mail Documentation Of The Successful Attempt By Thomas Karl Director Of the U.S. National Climate Data Center To Suppress Biases and Uncertainties In the Assessment Surface Temperature Trends The release of the e-mails from Phil Jones further confirmed ...

Dot Earth found this 11 hours ago on wattsupwiththat.com

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3-D Renderings Bring Ancient Hominids to Life

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:42:04 +0000

turkanaboy1-s For decades, paleoartists have told the story of human evolution through sculpture and drawing. Now their tools have evolved, too. Computers allow a level of detail and control that isn’t possible with other media. Their creations can come closer than ever to bringing our ancestors ...

TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History found this 7 days ago on wired.com

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Back to the Earth: taking below-ground processes seriously for plant coexistence

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:09:19 +0000

Some of the earliest ecologists, like Eugen Warming and Christen Raunkiaer , were enthralled with the minutia of the differences in plant life forms and how these differences determined where plants lived. They realized that differences in plant growth forms corresponded to how different ...

Seeds Aside found this 16 hours ago on evol-eco.blogspot.com

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Impact of CRU Hacking on the AMS Statement on Climate Change

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:34:29 +0000

AMS Headquarters has received several inquiries asking if the material made public following the hacking of e-mails and other files from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia has any impact on the AMS Statement on Climate Change, which was approved by the AMS Council ...

Watts Up With That? found this 7 days ago on ametsoc.org

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Mental Illness vs. Suicide

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:22:25 +0000

Do countries with more mental illness have more suicides? At first glance, it seems as though the answer must be "yes". Although not all suicides are related to mental illness, unsurprisingly people with mental illness do have a much higher suicide rate than people without. So, all other ...

Neuroanthropology found this 19 hours ago on neuroskeptic.blogspot.com

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President to Attend Copenhagen Climate Talks

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:32:22 +0000

Administration Announces U.S. Emission Target for Copenhagen The White House announced today that President Obama will travel to Copenhagen on Dec. 9 to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference, where he is eager to work with the international community to drive progress ...

It's Getting Hot In Here found this 7 days ago on whitehouse.gov

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How Raptor Talons Fit Their Prey

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 21:01:57 +0000

Most birders learn through field guides that different raptor groups have recognizable body shapes adapted to the way they hunt. Accipiters, for example, have short rounded wings and long tails to facilitate short pursuits through close quarters. This is, in fact, a key to identifying many ...

Greg Laden's Blog found this 10 hours ago on dendroica.blogspot.com

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“Clean Energy Jobs Go To The Cleaners”

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:11:54 +0000

This is part of a series of brief posts on ‘clean energy jobs‘ opportunities for sparking meaningful employment, quickly, in the United States as discussed in Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me. Clean Energy Jobs Go To The Cleaners: $50 million per year for 9,000 jobs Coin-operated ...

Climate Progress found this 17 hours ago on getenergysmartnow.com

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Suborbital science goes public

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:27:13 +0000

Blue Origin Click for video: New Shepard flies in Blue Origin video from 2006, used with permission. Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos' usually secretive Blue Origin rocket venture raised the curtain today on three research experiments that are ...

Discover Magazine | rsslist found this 19 hours ago on cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com

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Brain Damage, Pedophilia, and the Law

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:27:43 +0000

An intriguing and tragic story of brain damage is reported in the latest issue of Neurocase : Klüver-Bucy syndrome, hypersexuality, and the law . The authors are Devinsky, Sacks, and Devinsky - Sacks being neurologist and author Dr. Oliver Sacks . Their anonymous patient, a 51 year old ...

Cognitive Daily found this 14 hours ago on neuroskeptic.blogspot.com

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Clean Energy Jobs Blow In (not Blow Up) Coal River Mountain

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:11:54 +0000

This is part of a series of brief posts on ‘clean energy jobs’ opportunities for sparking meaningful employment, quickly, in the United States as discussed in Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me. Clean Energy Jobs Blow In (not blow up) Coal River Mountain: $250 million per year for 5000 ...

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Clean Energy Jobs Take The PHE-School Bus

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:11:54 +0000

This is part of a series of posts on ‘clean energy jobs’ opportunities for sparking meaningful employment, quickly, in the United States as discussed in Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me. Clean Energy Jobs Take the PHE-School Bus: $100 million per year for 2,000 jobs There are ...

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Clean Energy Jobs Go To the Market

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:11:54 +0000

This is part of a series of posts on ‘clean energy jobs’ opportunities for sparking meaningful employment, quickly, in the United States as discussed in Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me. Clean Energy Jobs Go the Market: $4 billion year for 80,000 jobs In too many grocery stores across ...

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Group Says European Cap-and-Trade System Reduced Emissions

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:28:51 +0000

The officials who created and run the cap-and-trade system for the European Union could use some good news. The price of a ton of carbon dioxide in the current phase of the trading system has fallen to record lows recently. And although there are few suggestions the price could collapse ...

Worldchanging: Bright Green found this 12 days ago on greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com

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10 Lessons the US Can Learn From Europe's Cap and Trade

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:28:51 +0000

1. Emissions trading works Recommendation: Develop an emissions trading system that learns from and improves upon the EU experience. 2. Everyone will learn Recommendation: Build in a capacity to strengthen the system if and as experience supports this. 3. Prices can be volatile and impacted by ...

Worldchanging: Bright Green found this 12 days ago on treehugger.com

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Cap and Trade Works: Europe to Hit Kyoto Targets with Ease

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:28:51 +0000

Joe Romm at Climate Progress reports: Europe made a major commitment under the Kyoto Protocol that U.S. conservatives have been telling us for years it would never achieve. In fact, the Europeans are poised to surpass their targets under the terms of the Protocol. It is no longer plausible for ...

Worldchanging: Bright Green found this 12 days ago on treehugger.com

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Greenhouse gas emission trends and projections in Europe 2009 — EEA

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:28:51 +0000

This report presents an assessment of the current and projected progress of EU Member States, EU candidate countries and other EEA member countries towards their respective targets under the Kyoto Protocol and of progress towards the EU target for 2020. This is based on their past greenhouse gas ...

Worldchanging: Bright Green found this 12 days ago on eea.europa.eu

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HB 1180 - 2009-10

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:31:05 +0000

Bill Information > HB 1180 - 2009-10 Print Version | [In English] Search by Bill Number Search Bill Title by Keyword Search the full text of a bill HB 1180 - 2009-10 (What is this?) Regarding the use of bisphenol A. Go to documents... History of Bill as of Wednesday, ...

Worldchanging: Bright Green found this 12 days ago on apps.leg.wa.gov

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Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson: 36th District, Washington State House Democrats

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:31:05 +0000

Thank you for visiting my web page. I have the honor of serving the 36th legislative district, which includes many of Seattle’s friendliest neighborhoods. One reason I’m proud to serve the 36th district is that people in our local communities care as much as I do about education, the environment ...

Worldchanging: Bright Green found this 12 days ago on housedemocrats.wa.gov

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Infuriated mom: Why can't I protect my body? Study pinpoints chemicals in moms-to-be

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:31:05 +0000

Infuriated mom: Why can't I protect my body? Study pinpoints chemicals in moms-to-be

Worldchanging: Bright Green found this 12 days ago on seattlepostglobe.org

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Centaurus A (NGC 5128)

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:01:00 +0000

News Cen A in the media : The secret inside Centaurus A Credit: ESO, Y. Beletsky, Digitized Sky Survey 2, and A. Fujii Watching a Cannibal Galaxy Dine (ESO Photo Release 2009-11-20) Most recent publications found : ESO Photo Release 44/09 Watching a Cannibal Galaxy Dine -rays from the IC e +/- ...

Astronomy Cmarchesin found this 12 days ago on mpe.mpg.de

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Astronomy & Astrophysics

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:01:00 +0000

Free access article A&A 502, L5-L8 (2009) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912624 Letter Uncovering the kiloparsec-scale stellar ring of NGC 5128 J. T. Kainulainen 1, 2 , J. F. Alves 3 , Y. Beletsky 4 , J. Ascenso 5 , J. M. Kainulainen 6 , A. Amorim 7 , J. Lima 7 , R. Marques 8 , A. Moitinho 7 , J. ...

Astronomy Cmarchesin found this 12 days ago on aanda.org

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Clean Energy Jobs Go to School

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:11:54 +0000

This is part of a series of posts on ‘clean energy jobs’ opportunities for sparking meaningful employment, quickly, in the United States as discussed in Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me. America’s public schools are, in some cases all too literally, falling apart. Analyses of ...

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Green Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:11:54 +0000

Official unemployment is above 10 percent in America. Real un- and under-employment nears 20 percent. There is a reason that President Obama will hold a jobs summit and there is reason that members of Congress are speaking of a jobs bill. Ealier this year, Congress passed a stimulus package. It ...

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Evidence In Medicine

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:31:00 +0000

As mentioned in my last post , I want to continue the discussion of plausibility with the recent evidence suggesting benefit from an AIDS vaccine. This was a randomized, placebo-controlled trial in 16,000 adults, that, at least in the initial press releases, showed a statistically significant ...

PharmaGossip found this 13 days ago on evidenceinmedicine.org

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2009 MRS Fall Meeting

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 13:38:41 +0000

Registration Info Advanced registration is now closed -- register on-site at the Hynes Convention Center. This document also contains rates and cancellation policy information. SUPER SUNDAY Don't miss the exciting FREE events available to 2009 MRS Fall Meeting Attendees on SUPER SUNDAY, November ...

Chemistry World blog found this 41 hours ago on mrs.org

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JUSTICE COURSE PREVIEW (video)

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:04:20 +0000

JUSTICE COURSE PREVIEW

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Sandel’s Justice

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:04:20 +0000

Most of Michael Sandel’s series Justice is now up and streaming for your viewing pleasure. In my wildest Tooth Fairy dreams, this show is more popular than American Idol and there are dozens of Twitter hashtags devoted to the issues in each episode that people are collectively mulling. ...

Cosmic Variance found this 14 hours ago on juliansanchez.com

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Oklahoma University President Interferes with Federally Funded Health Research

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:09:24 +0000

Call for Support of Oklahoma Scientists and Research Programs Speaking of Research, along with scientists and others across the country, were appalled to learn yesterday that Oklahoma State University’s President cancelled a research project for which his university had already accepted ...

DrugMonkey found this 15 hours ago on speakingofresearch.com

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Ben Santer Savages the CRU Email Thieves

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 03:43:30 +0000

Ben Santer.jpg Ben Santer, a climate researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, has written a long, but very worthy lette, blasting the thieves who hacked into the East Anglia Univesity's Climatic Research Unit and defending ...

Dot Earth found this 3 hours ago on desmogblog.com

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Black Hole Caught Zapping Galaxy into Existence?

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:01:16 +0000

ESO 46/09 - Science Release 30 November 2009 For immediate release Black Hole Caught Zapping Galaxy into Existence? Which come first, the supermassive black holes that frantically devour matter or the enormous galaxies where they reside? A brand new scenario has emerged from a recent set of ...

SpaceRef Top Stories found this 2 days ago on eso.org

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Selected reading 12/2/09

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 03:09:00 +0000

Interesting reading and news items. These items are also bookmarked at my Diigo account . In the Brain, Seven Is A Magic Number Countless psychological experiments have shown that, on average, the longest sequence a normal person can recall on the fly contains about seven items. This limit, ...

cgdaney posted 4 hours ago from scienceandreason.blogspot.com

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Obama regret

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 03:00:13 +0000

I had my reservations before the election, but I voted for Obama as the better choice (and I have not changed my opinion on that at all). I had hopes that he'd get in office and stand up for some principles…but no such luck. There are several reasons for my dissatisfaction. He has ...

Thoughts from Kansas found this 4 hours ago on scienceblogs.com

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