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• LA Times, The Age, etc: New dinosaur and it’s a, a, a can you believe it?: a Missing Link!!

  
  Knight Science Journalism Tracker — Authority: 565
  One thing about evolution and speciation is that every new fossil species discovery, and a few living species discoveries, are links of varying importance from one cladistic twig to another. Hence the new ones were missing, whether or not anybody missed them. Now along comes discovery of the bones in South Africa of a ...
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• Green Mood Lighting for Starbucks! Switching 8,000 Stores to LEDs

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 726
  Photo via PhotopediaPhotos Its good news when a corporation like Starbucks that has outlets on every city street corner and inside the most unexpected of businesses (why is there a Starbucks in my bank lobby?) says that it is switching to LEDs. The coffee chain says that its swapping out conventional bulbs for LEDs ...
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• Be a counselor at Space Camp

  
  MAKE Magazine — Authority: 153
  In high school and college, I was a camp counselor almost every summer, and I highly recommend it! Its such a rewarding experience and you make so many lifelong friends. So when I found out (from CRAFTs Rachel Hobson) that theyre looking for counselors for Space Camp , I had to share. So many makers would make ...
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• Is dreaming just a warm-up for being awake?

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 885
  NYT: Is dreaming a way for the brain to warm up for the sights, sounds, and emotions of being awake? "It helps explain a lot of things, like why people forget so many dreams... Its like jogging; the body doesnt remember every step, but it knows it has exercised. It has been tuned up. Its the same idea here: dreams are ...
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• 2012 Debunking: The Short-Attention-Span Version

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 885
  Wow, its apparently Debunking 2012 Day here on BoingBoing. I honestly had no idea that David had his Mark Dery post in the works. But it does segue nicely into what I had planned. The Information is Beautiful blog put together an infographic that explains--in a short and quick format---what the 2012 believers are ...
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• Evolution Explained In Two (Or, For The Dense People Four) Minutes

  
  Below The Beltway — Authority: 691
  Or, if you spent too much time watching Pat Robertson and need two more minutes: Similar Posts: More Wacky Predictions From Pat Robertson What Goes Around, Comes Around (Not) Our Final Imam Robertson Update Imam Robertson Strikes Again Moonbat Alert
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• GE Ships USs First Smart Appliance, But Is It Pointless?

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 726
  Image via GE GE is shipping the first smart appliance to hit the US market. Its a water heater that can reduce energy consumption up to 62%, providing a savings of about 3,025 kWh per year . And the "smart" part comes with the fact that it can hook up to smart meters and a smart grid. But heres the downer - what ...
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• Boreal Forests Store Twice as Much Carbon as Tropical - So Why Arent We Doing More to Protect Them?

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 726
  photo: Gabriel Legaré via flickr. With all the focus on tropical forest conservation and the amount of carbon emissions resulting from its deforestation, are we overlooking protecting the massive amount of carbon stored in the worlds boreal forests ? Thats the question asked in a new report, The Ca... Read ...
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• Poisk Arrives at ISS

  
  Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science — Authority: 132
    International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA The Russian spacecraft carrying the Poisk module docked with the International Space Station today after a two-day trip from Earth. While Poisk has arrived, it is not yet ready to be used to dock spacecraft or for spacewalks. It will take at least until ...
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• Healthcare Debate Gets Federal Court Hearing Dec. 11; MD Claims FDA’s HPV Action Costs Extra $10B and Extra Worry for Women

  
  Your Story — Authority: 159
  TRUMBULL, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The FDA will be held accountable during oral arguments Dec. 11 in federal court for its “inappropriate classification of a virus DNA-replicating
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• Healthcare Debate Gets Federal Court Hearing Dec. 11; MD Claims FDA’s HPV Action Costs Extra $10B and Extra Worry for Women

  
  Your Story — Authority: 159
  TRUMBULL, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The FDA will be held accountable during oral arguments Dec. 11 in federal court for its “inappropriate classification of a virus DNA-replicating
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• The Shrinky Dink Solution

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 789
  Remember Shrinky Dinks ?  Michelle Khine sure does, and has implemented the decorative toys into her research project at UC Irvine. She was experimenting with tiny liquid-filled channels in hopes of devising chip-based diagnostic tests, a discipline called microfluidics. The trouble was, the specialized equipment ...
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• Hi-maize Resistant Starch Shown to Help Adults Eat Less Food over 24 Hours

  
  Your Story — Authority: 159
  BRIDGEWATER, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- A University of Surrey (Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom) clinical study found that the addition of Hi-maize resistant starch, a natural dieta
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• 33 Excellent OLED Energy Saving & Eco-Friendly Designs

  
  WebEcoist — Authority: 613
  OLEDs are like a new type of magical material, self-illuminating and eco-friendly. They are organic and work in a way similar to the bioluminescence that makes a firefly and certain deep sea fish glow. OLEDs can be extremely thin, flexible, varying in shapes, colors and sizes, some are even transparent while providing ...
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• Sliding down to the carbon atom

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 703
  The folks at the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah have a nifty little interactive gizmo on their web page which shows the relative sizes of small objects from a coffee bean down to a carbon atom. A slider along the bottom (or just running your mouse left/right on the graphic itself) changes ...
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• Measuring Greenlands Ice Loss

  
  AAAS News - RSS Feed — Authority: 127
  Science for Kids: Measuring Greenlands Ice Loss Greenland has tons of ice. The Greenland ice sheet covers about 80 percent of the country, and its the second largest ice sheet in the world, after the Antarctic ice sheet.
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• Cigarette Smoking Has Slight Increase In USA

  
  News America Now — Authority: 138
  “A little under 21 percent of Americans were current cigarette smokers, according to a 2008 national survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up slightly from the year before, when just 19.8 percent said they were smoking. It also is the first increase in adult smoking since 1994, ...
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• Australian Scenery – Tasmania

  
  The Medium Format Camera Site The Medium-Format Photography Blog — Authority: 160
  On behalf of a group of photographers, AUScenery Gallery is proud to present some awesome scenery of Tasmania, Australia most visitors have never seen. You will travel back in time with us to share our overland experiences without suffering from the extreme heat and cold. If you like landscape photography, ...
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  The Medium Format Camera Site The Medium-Format Photography Blog — Authority: 160
  
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• Sports Photography – Shooting Horizontal (landscape)

  
  The Medium Format Camera Site The Medium-Format Photography Blog — Authority: 160
  A sequence of images explaining why I might prefer to shoot horizontal (landscape) rather than vertical (portrait) for certain sports or situations.
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