Extinction

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• Ex Oram Fatuus

  
  Simple Country Physicist — Authority: 128
  Thursday is my day to listen to Melvyn, Lord Bragg’s “In Out Time” and Jesse Brown’s “Search Engine” at gym. I save the best for last. The IOT ‘cast dealt with the Anabaptists and the Siege of Münster. The SE ‘cast dealt with the incarceration of the Iranian ‘Blogfather’ and the inaction of the ...
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• New Dinosaur Extinction Theories

  
  Texas Tech Today — Authority: 445
  Dr. Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University has found a crater in India that is far bigger than the one in Mexico. Reporting on the find, The Economist (October 24, 2009) says Chatterjee’s crater “is 500 kilometres across. The explosion that caused it may have been 100 times the size of the one that created ...
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• Declaration calls for more wilderness protected areas to combat global warming

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  Meeting this week in Merida, Mexico, the 9th World Wilderness Congress (WILD9) has released a declaration that calls for increasing wilderness protections in an effort to mitigate climate change. The declaration, which is signed by a number of influential organizations, argues that wilderness areas—both terrestrial ...
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• Warm-blooded Dinosaurs Worked Up A Sweat

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 519
  Schematic diagram to show how the mechanical advantage and active muscle volume in the dinosaur hind limb were reconstructed.Were dinosaurs “warm-blooded” like present-day mammals and birds, or “cold-blooded” like present day lizards? The implications of this simple-sounding question go beyond deciding whether ...
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• 11/11

  
  Simple Country Physicist — Authority: 128
  Today is Armistice Day, also known as Remembrance Day and Veterans Day. Regardless of what we call it the purpose of the day is for us to recall and rejoice those of our species of military service. Clausewitz tells us (approximately) that “War is a continuation of policy by other means.” What that means, ...
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• Human Extinction: How Could It Happen?

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 737
  It would take a combination of severe and catastrophic events to drive the hardy human race to extinction, research concludes. And ultimately, the human race, itself, will determine its fate.
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• BNP: The True Face Of Immigration

  
  Romanian National Vanguard News Agency — Authority: 138
  Related posts:BNP: The True Face Of Immigration ...Truth in the true meaning of July the 4th – day of American National Freedom THE 4TH OF JULY Have you ever wondered what...Obama’s Immigration Plot To Create More Illegal Immigration & One Party System CONTACT: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) ...
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• BNP: The True Face Of Immigration

  
  Romanian National Vanguard News Agency — Authority: 138
  Related posts:BNP: The True Face Of Immigration ...Truth in the true meaning of July the 4th – day of American National Freedom THE 4TH OF JULY Have you ever wondered what...Obama’s Immigration Plot To Create More Illegal Immigration & One Party System CONTACT: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) ...
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• Koalas in Danger of Extinction in Three Decades

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 758
  Canberra, Australia (AHN) – Already affected by warmer global temperatures that reduce nutrients in their food, Australia’s koala have significantly declined because of habitat destruction and disease, and may become extinct in 30 years. The Australian Koala Foundation said as few as 43,000 and no more than ...
  2 days ago

• Costa Rica proposes to downgrade Las Baulas National Park, threatening leatherback sea turtles

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  Costa Rica is considered by many to be a shining example of environmental stewardship, preserving both its terrestrial and marine biodiversity while benefiting from being a popular tourist location. However, a new move by the Costa Rican government has placed their reputation in question. In May of this year the ...
  2 days ago

• Ethical farming, part two

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 510
  I decided to write a follow-up piece to my last blog about the meat industry. I wish to clarify a few points and add to the debate some more information that is often unclear or misused. I do make a clear distinction between different types of farms and different farming practices. There are too many [...]
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• Prime Minister of Kenya urged to ban lion-killing pesticide after child dies from ingestion

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  On Monday October 26th a three-year-old girl mistakenly ate the pesticide Furadan (also known as carbofuran) in western Kenya. Her father, a teacher at a primary school, said that he had no knowledge of how dangerous the pesticide was, which he had purchased to kill pests in his vegetable garden.
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• Why Do Animals, Especially Males, Have So Many Different Colors?

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 519
  This male Hetaerina damselfly from the occisa species has red spots at the base and tip of its wings but no black pigmentation.Why do so many animal species — including fish, birds and insects — display such rich diversity in coloration and other traits? In new research, Gregory Grether, UCLA professor of ecology ...
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• Forget all about it: Erasing traumatic memories

  
  Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info — Authority: 139
  Traumatic memories can last a lifetime, but a recent study shows that these memories can be undone by interfering with perineuronal nets. Steve Pogonowski Faculty of 1000: Biology and Medicine It is well known that fear memories are permanent. However, a recent paper in Science, evaluated by three Faculty ...
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• Susceptibility of sharks, rays and chimaeras to global extinction

  
  ConservationBytes.com — Authority: 113
  © R. Harcourt Quite some time ago my colleague and (now former) postdoctoral fellow, Iain Field , and I sat down to examine in gory detail the extent of the threat to global populations of sharks, rays and chimaeras (chondrichthyans). I don’t think we quite realised the mammoth task we had set ourselves. ...
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• Traumatic memories can be erased after all

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Washington, Nov 10 (ANI): Fear memories get registered in the brain forever. However, a new study has offered fresh hope after claiming that traumatic experiences can be wiped out. A recent paper in Science, evaluated by three Faculty Members for F1000, reports an extraordinary finding that supports the use of a drug ...
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• New Book Looks at Humanitys Role in the Next Extinction

  
  Critter News — Authority: 131
  Another book I want to read! Im a glutton for depressing punishment! Nevertheless the subject of eradicated species has become publishing hot property after a bidding battle in the US saw Henry Holt, a publisher, beat its rivals to buy The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert last week. According to the New York ...
  3 days ago

• Should Mankind become Extinct?

  
  Rec and Sports — Authority: 158
  I read an article the other day outlining the eleven species that have been photographed alive before they went extinct. It is sad to know that in the last one hundred and fifty years eleven species of animals have went extinct as a direct result of man. Each one of these animals was hunted to extinction for food, ...
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• Global warming threatens desert life

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  There have been numerous studies showing how climate change is impacting a variety of environments—from the Arctic to coral reefs to alpine—but how could a warmer world damage deserts, already the worlds warmest and driest environments?
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• two brothers and the blue fin tuna

  
  ken wilson online — Authority: 106
  Why should human beings care about whether the population of blue fin tuna is decimated by overfishing?   Its pretty unusual in the realm of living things for one species to care about the fortunes of another, even though we live in a delicate balance of competition and cooperation with all other living things.  ...
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