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Man recalls eating squirrels to survive alone in California forest
from latimes.com: A day after he was carried out of the Mendocino National Forest — having survived nearly three weeks on his own — 72-year-old Gene Penaflor described how “it all went dead” after falling down a canyon. He had separated from his deer hunting partner deep in the forest on Sept. 24 when he accidently…
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Sights and Sounds from the Bees and Seeds Festival
There were more March(es) Against Monsanto all around the world last weekend, but here in Portland, Oregon, organizers put down the protest signs and set up booths with bands, brochures and brother/sisterhood for a solutions-based event called the Bees And Seeds Festival. This short compilation features sights and sounds from O&D Railroad, Julia DeGraw, The…
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Is 3-D Printing the Future of Food?
3-D food printing emerges at SXSW Eco* from dairyherd.com: Food printing has been around for several years. A group at Cornell University created a printer in 2011 that could print chocolate, cheese, scallops, celery and turkey. Click here for more. Earlier this year, Dutch scientists printed a burger with a $325,000 price tag. Though it…
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2013 Draconid Meteor Shower Expected to Peak Tonight
from oswego.patch.com: Meteor showers, at least the big ones, are fairly predictable as to their arrival, but what you see from Herndon during any of these events is most definitely not. And the Draconid meteor shower 2013 peak is among the most unpredictable of all the celestial shows. If you didn’t have a chance to…
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Star Athletes Like LeBron, Serena Cash In On Junk Food Endorsements
from latimes.com: Superstar athletes Peyton Manning, LeBron James and Serena Williams led their colleagues with endorsements of food and beverages that are calorie-dense and unhealthful – sending mixed messages about diet and health, researchers said. Of 512 brands endorsed by 100 top athletes, nearly a quarter of them (122) were for food and beverages –…
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Pharaohs of the Sun
from NationalGeographic.com: On a morning in the year 1353 B.C. a young pharaoh of Egypt rose before dawn to greet the sun with a poem he loved and perhaps had written: “Beautifully you appear from the horizon of heaven,” he prayed as sunlight began to flood Egypt’s capital city of Thebes. To him the rays…
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Four on trial in #France for religion-inspired kidnap and torture
French torture trial over crucifixion-style exorcism* from rt.com: A group of former members of a US-based protestant church, the Seventh Day Adventist, are on trial in France for torturing a 19-year-old woman while attempting to exorcise “the devil” out of her in shockingly-violent style. The trial of three men and a woman, all of French…
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Monsanto Exec Wins This Year’s ‘Nobel Prize In Agriculture’
from markcrispinmiller.com: In an obscene development, a Monsanto executive is winning this year’s “Nobel Prize of agriculture” — the prestigious World Food Prize — for creating GMOs. Receiving it legitimizes the sort of rampant genetic modification Monsanto pioneered, and helps validate a ruthless business model that impoverishes farmers and monopolizes our food. If that wasn’t…
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Internet for all?: A4AI, ‘Alliance for Affordable Internet’ founded
from zdnet.com: In the 21st century, you could argue that Internet access is almost as important as literacy. In much of the developed world, Internet access is affordable and easily available. In the third world, it’s often neither affordable nor available. The newly created Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) seeks to make the Internet accessible…
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NSA & GCHQ target Tor anonymity network
from theguardian.com: The National Security Agency has made repeated attempts to develop attacks against people using Tor, a popular tool designed to protect online anonymity, despite the fact the software is primarily funded and promoted by the US government itself. Top-secret NSA documents, disclosed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, reveal that the agency’s current successes against…
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Colorado School of Mines engineers turn food garbage to glass
from denverpost.com: Colorado School of Mines engineers have found an alternative to digging into mountains for minerals: mining the minerals from food waste. They’ve turned putrid banana peels, eggshells and rice husks into crystal-clear glass. Now they’re investigating what other muck may yield. In a lab here, they rigged up a cooking system that starts…
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How the Adobe hack could fuel next wave of cyberattacks
from usatoday.com: Adobe has taken several steps to calm concerns among its corporate users about the loss of customer account data and critical source code to hackers. The company has begun advising enterprise customers that Adobe product users will be required to change their account password at their next login attempt… Meanwhile, corporations would be…
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Twitter Advertisers Say Service Needs More Users
from wsj.com: For some advertisers, 218 million people isn’t a big enough audience. That’s their message to Twitter Inc., which Thursday detailed plans for an initial public offering. Ad buyers say that the short-message service will need significantly more users, and a bigger sales force, to win more spending from their mass-market clients. “Scale still…
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Comet ISON: Will the Government Shutdown Ruin NASA’s Big Chance?
from policymic.com: On October 1, the comet ISON will pass near Mars, where monitoring equipment can gain more information on what could be the comet of the century. As long as the coincidental government shutdown causing the furlough of nearly the entire workforce of NASA doesn’t interrupt these observations, that is.
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How a partial government shutdown will affect food in America
from foxnews.com: No doubt you’re well aware that a shutdown doesn’t actually mean the government pulls the shades, locks the door, and puts the key under the mat. Essential services—anything involved in protecting life or property — remain operational… But if this goes on long enough even you, Joe and Jane Citizen, will be affected.…