Tweaking The Power Of Life

Rowan 5/15/2012
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The virus becomes biologically adaptive, infecting a bacteria that grows along the roadways and sidewalks, and begins to evolve to exploit its new interconnectedness… just as the human population of the Earth is undergoing a new surge upward.

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Car Exhaust Makes You Fat Even If You Never Even Ride In A Car

The Green Man 4/22/2012
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Air pollution from cars is making America’s children fatter, and killing far more people than traffic accidents. So, why isn’t the Department of Homeland Security on the case?

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Why Aren’t Paranormal Investigators Taken Seriously?

Rowan 4/11/2012
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Should scientists stop criticizing each other’s work, and just try to get along?

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15000 Records Smashed By Unprecedented March Heat

The Green Man 4/9/2012
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Last month, 15,000 new record high temperatures were set in the lower 48 states. It was the hottest March ever recorded in the continental United States.

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One Million Year Fires And Hot Shit

Truman 4/4/2012
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Apparently, piles of decomposing bat guano can become so hot that they light on fire all by themselves.

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Right Wingers Have Anti-Skeptical Rejection Of Science

Rowan 3/30/2012
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The label of “skeptic” should not be sullied by connection with people who simply don’t have the strength of character to admit that they’re wrong.

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Obama Administration Chooses To Ignore Science In Acid Rain Decision

The Green Man 3/23/2012
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The Obama Administration’s decision to block acid rain protections came decision came in spite of the acknowledgement by the EPA’s own scientists that the proposed pollution protections are necessary to prevent further ecological degradation of the waterways in the northeastern United States.

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Sea Level Rise Of About 50 Feet Predicted

The Green Man 3/21/2012
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Already, we have ignored global warming for too long to save Washington D.C. from sea level rise. How much more of the United States are we willing to sacrifice to the ocean waves, just because we’re too lazy to change our dependence on machines to replace every bit of human work?

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Earth’s Oceans Are Acidifying At A Previously Unknown Rate

The Green Man 3/20/2012
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The authors of the journal article discuss “the possibility that we are entering an unknown territory of marine ecosystem change.” I’d say that’s a big deal.

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The Statistical Abstract Random Synchronicity Gambit

Jim Cook 3/12/2012
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Visit the very last Statistical Abstract of the United States. Open a separate window containing a random number generator. There are 29 categories listed on the left. Generate a random number between 1 and 29, and roll your mouse over …

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Ice Continues Dramatic Melt In Arctic And Below

The Green Man 3/11/2012
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Ice cover on large bodies of water continues to decline across the north, in the Arctic, but also in the Great Lakes, according to a new report.

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Scientists Confirm Finding “Osiris Particle” Is Near, Or Not

F. G. Fitzer 3/7/2012
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Journalists have discovered that if they give the nickname of a god to a scientific subject that people don’t otherwise care about, their writing all of a sudden becomes relevant to readers and publishers.

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Does Libertarian Liberty Include The Right To Lie To Your Customers?

Peregrin Wood 3/1/2012
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When you buy the Oreganol herbal supplement, you may not improve your health, but you will be assisting a kooky political campaign, thanks to the independent expenditures made by Judy Kay Gray, the owner of North American Herb and Spice.

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NASA: January 2012 may have been quite warm in the U.S., but globally it was coolish

Jim Cook 2/15/2012
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One of the standards of citizenship in the reality-based community is that we must follow and note actual observations of empirical reality, even when they don’t accord with our favorite hypotheses or local observations. And so I’ll note that while …

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Earth To Minnesota GOP: Will You Accept Global Warming Reality Now?

The Green Man 2/7/2012
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Somewhere in Minnesota, one decent Republican voter can propose today that the GOP in Minnesota stop its opposition to solutions to the immense and growing problem of climate change.

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Winter Ice Cover On Arctic Ocean At Record Low

The Green Man 2/2/2012
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The extent of ice now on the Arctic Ocean has been, for many days now, below even the levels from the 2007 to 2008 winter season, the year when remarkably low levels of Arctic ice grabbed international attention. Human beings have never recorded an Arctic Ocean with so little winter ice.

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Research Confirms Sun Changes Aren’t To Blame For Global Warming

The Green Man 2/1/2012
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There is no peer-reviewed scientific study that indicates that, as our reader claimed, all the planets in the Solar System are warming. Assertions of such interplanetary warming trends are completely without foundation in fact. The idea of Solar System warming is, to use a word that Cold Earthers like to use, a hoax.

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Will You Believe Scientific Journals Or A Wall Street Opinion Page?

The Green Man 1/30/2012
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The Wall Street Journal opinion piece was designed to gain attention because it was designed by “16 scientists”. Once a person starts to look into the qualifications of these sixteen signers, the article begins to look less impressive.

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