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For 2nd Time Ever, We Saw an Asteroid Before It Hit Us
from newser.com: While working a solo shift on New Year’s Eve, an Arizona astronomer spotted a car-sized asteroid en route to Earth. There are a few amazing things about this: 1) It’s only the second time ever that an asteroid has been spotted before impact, and 2) The previous one was spotted by the same…
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Non-GMO Cheerios More Marketing Boon Than Health Boost?
from nbcnews.com: A non-Frankenfood Cheerios may not make much of a difference to consumers’ health, but it could deliver some benefits to General Mills’ bottom line. Opponents of genetically modified foods cheered the cereal maker’s announcement Thursday that its original flavor Cheerios now is made without GMOs and will be on store shelves soon.
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Authorities Capture Man They Believe Killed Popular California Priest
from cnn.com: Authorities have nabbed a man they believe killed a Roman Catholic priest during a “violent struggle” in a Northern California church rectory, police said. The suspect, Gary Lee Bullock, was arrested early Thursday afternoon in the southern part of Humboldt County near Garberville, said Eureka Police Chief Andy Mills. “There’s no question in…
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Top 10 GE Labeling Stories of 2013
from foodfreedomgroup.com: 2013 has been an amazing year in the fight for GE labeling! We have seen the first passage of GE lableing laws on the state level, the introduction of legislation on the national level and the fight for GE labeling has come to the forefront of food issues here in the U.S. As…
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Over 1,000 chosen for one-way #Mars reality-TV mission
from channelnewsasia.com: More than 1,000 candidates — from 200,000 hopefuls — have been chosen to train for a private Mars colonisation mission to be partly funded by a reality-TV show following their training and subsequent steps, organisers said Thursday. They are to be whittled down to just 24, who will be sent over six launches…
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Scientists Condemn Retraction of GMO Rat Tumor Study
from activistpost.com: Scientists from around the world have united to condemn the retraction by the editor of the Elsevier journal Food and Chemical Toxicology (FCT) of the pioneering study on genetically modified (GM) maize and Roundup herbicide, conducted by Prof Gilles-Eric Séralini and his team at the University of Caen, France. The study found that…
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Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Marijuana Buyers
from nytimes.com: Customers began lining up before dawn on Wednesday to take part in what they called a historic departure from drug laws focused on punishment and prohibition. Many had flown in or driven hours specifically to buy a bag of marijuana. At the Medicine Man dispensary in Denver, which claims it is the closest…
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Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Skype
from RT.com: Syrian computer hacker conglomerate, the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), has kicked off the New Year with a number of cyber-attacks, compromising Skype’s Twitter, Facebook accounts, and its official blog. Social media accounts belonging to Skype, Microsoft’s voice-over-IP service, were hacked around 19:30 GMT. SEA posted on Skype’s Twitter account a rogue message saying…
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Religion Photos Of 2013 Capture The Year’s Most Powerful Moments
from huffingtonpost.com: Photos can often capture the emotion, spirit, the conviction, and the beauty of religion and religious adherents better than words. The editors of HuffPost Religion created this collection of 2013’s most moving photographs.
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The Year In Food: What 2013 Cooked Up
from newsobserver.com: It was bound to be a weird year in food news for 2013… It was the year National Public Radio reminded us that you shouldn’t wash raw chicken before you cook it (true) but blamed Julia Child for doing it wrong (not fair even if it was true). It was the year that…
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China Rejects Shipments of GMO Corn
from latimes.com: China rejected two shipments — almost 546,000 tons — of U.S. dried distillers’ grain, a corn byproduct, because it contained genetically modified material, state media reported Friday. China’s top food-quality watchdog rejected the two shipments because they contained MIR162, a special insect-resistant variety of maize developed by Syngenta, a Swiss maker of seeds and pesticides. …
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Big Food Wants to Call GMO Foods ‘Natural’
from grist.org: Is genetically engineered food natural? The Grocery Manufacturers Association, a trade group representing some of the world’s biggest food and food-related companies, including ConAgra Foods, Bayer CropScience, and the Coca-Cola Company, thinks so. And it’s pressing the Food and Drug Administration to see things its way… An Environmental Working Group rep told The…
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Beat For Rick Ross & Jay Z’s “Devil Is A Lie” May Have Been Stolen
from allhiphop.com: In an ironic turn of events, the initially credited producer of Rick Ross and Jay Z’s collaboration “Devil Is A Lie” has been accused of stealing the beat from another producer. KE On The Track was originally credited as the producer of the track when the song debuted online yesterday (December 20th). Minutes…
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Neolithic Wooden Tridents – A Mystery to Archaeologists
from pasthorizonspr.com: Tullie House Museum in Carlisle, Northwest England, has two rare Neolithic wooden tridents now on display. The artifacts were discovered in 2009 during excavation work, but so far, despite much examination and discussion, these 6000 year old objects have baffled archaeologists as to their intended function. Only four other similar tridents exist in…
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#Israeli Singer #Bezalel Announces Revolutionary “#NewWorldOrder” Music Project
from world.einnews.com: After his song “Tunisia” amazingly became the symbol of the Jasmine Revolution, Bezalel announces “New World Order”, and launches a crowd-funding campaign to create a revolutionary project. Bezalel, born Bezalel Raviv, is an Israeli independent singer and songwriter of Tunisian parentage, who famously fuses sounds from the East and West.