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• Hoax Alert: UK Nanny State Takes Kids From Fat Family, Issues Biscuit Threat Index

  
  UsefulArts.us — Authority: 118
  We’ve previously commented on how the land of Orwell seems hell-bent on invading the personal lives of its citizens.  Now here’s all the proof necessary to feel both concerned and superior at once. Sadly, only one is a hoax. Here’s a remarkable story of government power from Dundee, Scotland, in which ...
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• A New Sauropodomorph Described

  
  Evolving Complexity — Authority: 419
  A species of a group of dinosaurs related to the Sauropods has been discovered in South Africa. The Sauropods, which include the popularly known Brontosaurus (now correctly known as Apatosaurus), are known to have had bi-pedal ancestry due to the structure of the bones in the forearm. Aardonyx (Earth Claw) is a ...
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• Hey RSPB! The Babbler Thanks you for this

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  Gabriel: The Wildlife Clubs of Kenya had earlier own requested for a material support from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). Last month the RSPB donated 4 pairs of binoculars. Through the RSPB International Environment Education manager Barrie Cooper we (WCK) send our sincere gratitudes for this ...
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• Great whites near Calif. shore more often than thought

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  Greenwire : A decade-long study into the movements of great white sharks in the Pacific reveals the predators make precise migration patterns and spend months foraging on prey near the central and northern California coast. The findings published yesterday in the Proceedings of the Royal Society indicate the sharks ...
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• Tomorrow’s Giants 1 – Big Data

  
  Semantic Science — Authority: 103
  I recently spent an afternoon at a meeting entitled “Tomorrow’s Giants”, which was jointly organized by the Royal Society and Nature and took place here in Cambridge. The meeting was in preparation for a larger meeting, also entitled “ Tomorrow’s Giants ” which is to be held on the 1st July 2010 as ...
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• Golf courses across Britain could double up as bird sanctuaries: RSPB

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  London, Nov 3(ANI): A British charitable organisation, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), has said that Golf courses across the country could double up as sanctuaries for birds.It has also asked golf courses to cut down the use of chemicals and fertilisers in the fields to promote a good habitat for ...
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• Extraordinary Scene Captured in 1936 of a Nazi Funeral in the Heart of London

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  An astonishing image and footage from a Nazi state funeral, held within view of Buckingham Palace, will be publicly revealed in the forthcoming Discovery Channel program: ‘Wartime London with Harry Harris’. The extraordinary scenes captured in 1936, following the death of the German Ambassador Leopold Von Hoesch, ...
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• Grandmas help girls live longer, but not boys

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  London, Oct 28 (ANI): Granddaughters who live with their paternal grandmothers are likely to live longer, says a new UK study.However, in case of grandsons, the presence of a gran is not a good idea.According to the research from Cambridge University, the survival rate of a granddaughter living in the same house as ...
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• Group culture protects from depression

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  Collectivistic cultures, which promote social harmony over individuality, protect people who are genetically predisposed to depression from experiencing the condition according to research published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B
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• Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel on End of Life Decision Making

  
  What Sorts of People — Authority: 114
  The following expert panel has just been announced. Given that Bill C-384, legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada, is scheduled to receive its second hour of debate on November 16th, and to be voted on on November 18th, the announcement of the panel is timely (even if largely ineffectual w.r.t. that ...
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• Israel Gelfand

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Giant of mathematics who surmounted Soviet antiSemitism to win three Orders of Lenin
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• Im in Ur Wasteland Burying Ur Dead

  
  Helen Smith — Authority: 120
  Yes, of course I watched Nick Griffin on Question Time last night. But before that I went to Josephine Harts Poetry Hour at the Royal Society, as part of the British Academy Literature Week. Kenneth Cranham, Charles Dance and Elizabeth McGovern read poetry by T.S. Eliot, Robert Browning, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Galileo Lectures

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 464
  I usually enjoy the NZ Royal Society Lectures. This year we have had the Galileo Lectures to mark the International Year of Astronomy . Here are the description of the six lectures, together with links to download the podcasts. Taken from: Radio New Zealand National : Lectures & Forums : The Galileo Lectures ...
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• Birds evolve their songs to talk in city noise

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Melbourne, Oct 22 (ANI): A new study has shown that birds living in an urban environment evolve their songs to talk through the noise.For the study, Dr David Luther of the University of Maryland and Dr Luis Baptista of the California Academy of Sciences examined three adjacent dialects of the native White-crowned ...
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• Two India born academics win New Zealand grant

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Hamilton (New Zealand), Oct 22 (IANS) Two India born academics have won a prestigious research grant in New Zealand to help design public policy on the use of new and emerging technologies.Priya Kurian and Debashish Munshi of the University of Waikato here were awarded the $560,000 Marsden research grant by the Royal ...
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• Science and the Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 669
  The UK Royal Society’s long-awaited study on improving agricultural productivity and increasing food security was released this morning.  Although I’ve only had a chance to skim the report, it seems to have lived up to its promise of eschewing politically correct pop-environmentalism and instead embracing the ...
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• Don’t trust the Royal Society

  
  Nicholas John Mead — Authority: 118
  So the Royal Society – one of the most respected and oldest scientific research institutions in Britain – today says GM food can feed the world and has appealed to the Government for a £2 billion government injection into the industry . Wouldn’t a better way to feed the world be to use the billions of kilos ...
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• Tiny dinosaur species discovered

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  Dinosaurs are known for their huge size, but a new species discovered in Colarado, USA, is notable for being tiny. The miniature creature from the Jurassic is described in Proceedings of the Royal Society B this week.
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• Disability, social care and sex

  
  Mad World — Authority: 424
  It seems there are many debates to be had regarding disabled people, sex and the role of social care professionals.
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• Bill Gates Says Africa Needs GMOs

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 669
  Last week, Bill Gates announced at the World Food Summit in Des Moines that the  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would be redoubling its efforts to improve agricultural productivity among poor farmers in less developed countries.  He announced that the foundation would be making $120 million worth of new grants ...
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