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Bottled water's environmental backlash

Science – Bottled water, once an icon of a healthy lifestyle, has become a pariah, the environmentally incorrect humvee of beverages. In recent months, dissent over the once innocuous bottle of Aquafina or Dasani has grown from a trickle to a tsunami.

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How staph became drug-resistant threat

Health & Fitness – The evolutionary path of the bacterium called MRSA wound around the globe for decades before a pair of Chicago doctors in 1996 noticed the bug had taken an ominous turn.

View Story Discuss (0) (chicagotribune.com) 262 days ago by GregD

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Lottery card withdrawn because many could not comprehend negative numbers

Money – The concept of comparing negative numbers proved too difficult for some Camelot received dozens of complaints on the first day from players who could not understand how, for example, -5 is higher than -6.

View Story Discuss (0) (manchestereveningnews.co.uk) 262 days ago by _kam0_

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Why Science Must Adapt to Women

Women – An elite survivor assesses the hidden costs of exclusion.

View Story Discuss (0) (discovermagazine.com) 262 days ago by _kam0_

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So What Can Be Done To Save Primates?

Do No Evil – Besides habitat destruction, primates are being "harvested" for biomedical research; they are being captured as pets and also being eaten in large numbers as "bushmeat" - a global phenomenon facilitated by logging, which increases primates' vulnerability to poachers.

View Story Discuss (0) (treehugger.com) 262 days ago by _kam0_

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What makes wine wine?

Food – Europe is on the verge of siding with vintners in Germany and northern climes who say what they make from apples and berries is just as much wine as the grape stuff, diplomats said on Monday.

View Story Discuss (0) (uk.reuters.com) 262 days ago by Deidre

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Your Heart Shrinks With Age

Science – Every year that you age, your heart shrinks and its ability to pump blood through your body decreases by up to 5 percent.

View Story Discuss (0) (livescience.com) 262 days ago by _kam0_

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Haemoglobin functions added

Science – A team of researchers from Wake Forest University, the National Institutes of Health and other institutions has discovered a previously undetected chemical process within the oxygen-carrying molecule haemoglobin that could have far-reaching implications for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

View Story Discuss (0) (scientistlive.com) 262 days ago by _kam0_

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The 5 Best and Worst Science Based Movies of All Time

Movies – Picking the best and worst of anything will get you a lot of grief. So we applaud Sidney Perkowitz, an Emory University physics professor, for his courage in choosing the best and worst science-based movies of all time.

View Story Discuss (2) (discovermagazine.com) 261 days ago by _kam0_

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Ron Paul Raises More Than $4.2 Million

News – Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, aided by an extraordinary outpouring of Internet support Monday, hauled in more than $4.2 million in nearly 24 hours.

View Story Discuss (1) (ap.google.com) 261 days ago by populist

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House Probes Blackwater Immunity - TIME

Politics – The State Department may have offered some form of legal immunity to Blackwater contractors targeted in an investigation into the Sept. 16 shootings that killed 17 Iraqis in Baghdad.

View Story Discuss (0) (time.com) 261 days ago by Fedquip

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MI5: Al-Qa eda recruiting UK children for terror

Religion – Muslim children as young as 15 are being recruited by al-Qa'eda to wage "a deliberate campaign of terror" in Britain, the head of MI5 - Islamists were "radicalising, indoctrinating and grooming young, vulnerable people to carry out acts of terrorism."

View Story Discuss (7) (telegraph.co.uk) 261 days ago by ekklesiawarrior

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Marvell Joins Open Handset Alliance

Gadgets & Tech – Marvell believes that this open platform will spark innovation and empower developers to create revolutionary applications and accelerate the delivery of those applications to mobile users," said Marty Schroeder, Vice President of Marvell's Cellular and Handheld Business Group.

View Story Discuss (0) (linuxelectrons.com) 261 days ago by schestowitz

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Debian powers sleek, two-pound mini-PC

Gadgets & Tech – German Web retailer Manufactum has introduced a sleek, low power mini-PC that runs Debian Linux. The 450-Euro Manuscriptum is based on a 500MHz AMD Geode LX800, is equipped with an 80GB hard drive, and offers 1920 x 1400 graphics, according to the company.

View Story Discuss (0) (linuxdevices.com) 261 days ago by schestowitz

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Debian and the grass roots of Linux

Gadgets & Tech – Debian GNU/Linux was the first project to be deliberately modelled on the principles of distributed software development, and provides the core software for many of the more successful commercial Linux distributions.

View Story Discuss (0) (itpro.co.uk) 261 days ago by schestowitz

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