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TRMW
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Starfish Eating a Baby Seal
From the "Cute Animals Devouring Other Cute Animals" file, I bring you this BBC video showing a mob of starfish ravaging the carcass of a seal pup. (That starfish covered mound in the picture? Seal pup.) Granted, they do this very, very slowly. The...
 
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Skeptical Science Debunks the Deniers
Here’s an excellent website that thoroughly debunks a lot of the most common talking points endlessly repeated by climate...
 
Mark Smithers
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TrailBlazing Royal Society
Welcome to Trailblazing, an interactive timeline for everybody with an interest in science. Compiled by scientists, science communicators and historians – and co-ordinated by Professor Michael Thompson FRS – it celebrates three and a half centuries...
 
sillydad
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It’s Settled! Obama’s “Restore Scientific Process” Means His Science
*Scroll for Updates*Climategate is the smoking gun. It is the biggest scandal to rock the scientific world since I don’t...
 
Brokekid
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Royal Society puts 60 seminal scientific papers online
The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge (aka The Royal Society) is celebrating is 350th birthday next year. Spun out in part of the fantastically cool Invisible College, the Royal Society's members have included Isaac...
 
Francesco
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Royal Society
Trailblazing is a user-friendly, ‘explore-at-your-own-pace’, virtual journey through science. It showcases sixty fascinating and inspiring articles selected from an archive of more than 60,000 published by the Royal Society between 1665 and 2010.
 
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See-ming Lee (SML)
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Wolfram Education Group: Free Online Seminar Catalog
Our seminar series offers brief presentations by senior Wolfram Research technical staff on topics of interest to Mathematica newcomers as well as to experienced users. These seminars provide you with an easy way to learn about what's new in...
 
Jake Barnard
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Climate Change: Countering the Contrarians
Scientific American talks evidence, digging into seven arguments against the reality of climate change that, if not the most frequently-cited in general, are certainly the most frequently cited in BoingBoing comment threads. Personally, I've started...
 
Seldo
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Should scientific analysis that relies on software also submit the source code for peer review?
Lessons from the dodgy accounting scandal in the climate science field.
 
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Royal Society puts 60 seminal scientific papers online
The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge (aka The Royal Society) is celebrating is 350th birthday next year. Spun out in part of the fantastically cool Invisible College, the Royal Society's members have included Isaac...
 
MD
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What's DNA Splicing?
Splicing is a process in which scientists splice human DNA with the DNA of different animals to create a new creature. SPLICE...
3 hours ago mashDATA | Topics: video, films, news, science
 
Stu
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What Do You Think of Genetic Testing?
I somehow landed on the mailing list of a company that sells DIY genetic testing kits to parents recently. Apparently, one of...
3 hours ago GNMParents | Topics: society, abilities, aptitude, future
 
Stu
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What Do You Think of Genetic Testing?
I somehow landed on the mailing list of a company that sells DIY genetic testing kits to parents recently. Apparently, one of...
3 hours ago GNMParents | Topics: society, abilities, aptitude, future
 
Rick XX6
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Scientists Grow Pork Meat in a Lab, Annoying PETA People To Disappear Soon [Food]
Scientists in the Netherlands have successfully synthesized some real-deal pork meat without having to kill any pigs. Sure, it's not quite edible yet, but they predict you'll be eating labmeat in a mere five years. What they made this time is what...
 
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<em>wude72</em>
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Beyond Sunlight: Unknown Species Discovered Under the Sea
As part of a concerted effort to explore what may be considered one of the last frontiers in terms of biodiversity, scientists...
4 hours ago ecofollower | Topics: eco, ecosystems, Marine life, ocean
 
Madam Vegetarian Lover
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Group condemns bulldozing of UNESCO tribal reserve
AFP - A group of Brazilian ranchers is bulldozing a UNESCO reserve inhabited by an indigenous Indian tribe with no prior...
4 hours ago Vegetarian Lover | Topics: science
 
klham
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Panspermia
...that's the word to describe the theoretical migration of life through space via debris from asteroid impacts. The...
 
Preoccupations
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Royal Society:Trailblazing
Welcome to Trailblazing, an interactive timeline for everybody with an interest in science. Compiled by scientists, science communicators and historians – and co-ordinated by Professor Michael Thompson FRS – it celebrates three and a half centuries...
 
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klham
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The Royal Society's Top 60
Via JOHO, the Royal Society has published online the top 60 seminal works by its members over the last three and a half...
 
Houston
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@MajoratWH Is gIBBS retarded? Science is settled even though the data is falsified? #WTF-over
 
Che
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Difference Between Comets and Asteroids
Comets vs AsteroidsThere is a lot of confusion between two of the more popular heavenly bodies that are found in our solar...
 
Dsten
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Science in Medicine Institute created in the US, perhaps NZ should follow suit? http://is.gd/585bf
 
gawker
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Scientists Grow Pork Meat in a Lab, Annoying PETA People To Disappear Soon [Food]
Scientists in the Netherlands have successfully synthesized some real-deal pork meat without having to kill any pigs. Sure,...
4 hours ago Gizmodo | Topics: Food , Lab grown..., Lab meat, Meat
 
Pamela Seiple
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HubSpot Offers Science of Social Media Marketing Webinar with @danzarrella http://hub.tm/?eIHGX
 
<em>pc4media</em>
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New Blog Post: HubSpot Offers Science of Social Media Marketing Webinar with @danzarrella http://hub.tm/?Ssokw
 
pdjamez
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Science Jokes to Brighten Your Monday Morning
Fair warning: These jokes are total groaners. Like science-based vaudeville. Frankly, that's what makes them so awesome. I've only had this video since Saturday, and my husband is already sick of me trying to make people laugh at the Schrödinger's...
 
stevloon
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Periodic Table Cupcakes & Watchmen Cupcakes
The food geeks over at Foodie Friday baked up some awesome Periodic Table Cupcakes.Astute chem majors will notice the...
5 hours ago laughingsquid | Topics: Comics, Food, Science
 
kenyob
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6 Ways Your Body Loves to Screw You (Explained by Science) http://ff.im/-ce0l8
 
Glamology
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RT @AppleLevy The Science of the Kiss http://bit.ly/51G4Nh via @goodcleanlove
 
groovemonkey
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RT @ravit_ustrategy: The science of tweeting: learn from statistics how to make tweets 2 grab attention...and get retweets http://ow.ly/HdAH
 
<em>meekon5</em>
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Chapter 06 - In Transit.
The transit way is separate from the pedestrian for good reason, all entirely automated. I stand by the entry port, my journey...
 
rj3sp
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Aliens Living Among Us, Bulgarian Scientists Claim
clipped from www.telegraph.co.ukAliens 'already exist on earth', Bulgarian scientists claimAliens from outer space are...
6 hours ago LinkNotes | Topics: space, aliens, science, extraterre...
 
sillydad
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A Message For The Environmental Movement
The world’s leading climate scientists have been embarrassed by the publication of private emails that hide the decline...
 
Sulumits Retsambew
Sulumits Retsambew posted a blog entry
By the People | A Citizen-Led Conversation » Blog Archive » A New …
Being young and paid a paltry government wage, I can attest that this is more important than you might think. The best example...
 
Skumar
Skumar posted a blog entry
Pellet Robustness And Fuel Efficiency And The Greenhouse Effect
Biomass pellets are at present the most common as well as well known form of pellets used for energy. Most biomass pellets at...
 
James G
James G posted a blog entry
Siberian Tiger Population Declines
The Siberian tiger population is likely on the decline, according to a new report.[...]Click below to read the full story from...
6 hours ago erikmc | Topics: Science
 
Jane
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See new blog post: Economics: The Undismal Non-Science @ http://SedonaCyberLink.com
 
unrealfred
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That’s one way of putting it
John Scalzi on Star Trek:Star Trek has as much to so with plausibly extrapolated science as The A-Team has to do with a...
 
The Dude Dean
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Buzz: LHC Makes History with 1.18 TeV Protons http://su.pr/17XvJg http://bit.ly/BuzzLHCPro #Science
 
Wisco
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Griper Blade: Right Out of Touch on Climate
Polling shows that Republicans far outside the mainstream on global warming
 
Madam Vegetarian Lover
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China gives hint of what to expect at Copenhagen
AFP - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday sought to reassure the EU that China shared its environmental concerns, a week...
6 hours ago Vegetarian Lover | Topics: science
 
Eben T
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Starfish Eating a Baby Seal
From the "Cute Animals Devouring Other Cute Animals" file, I bring you this BBC video showing a mob of starfish ravaging the carcass of a seal pup. (That starfish covered mound in the picture? Seal pup.) Granted, they do this very, very slowly. The...