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West Virginia Lawmakers To Fight EPA Carbon Rule
from news.yahoo.com: Two lawmakers from the coal-producing state of West Virginia said on Monday they plan legislation to stop rules to set caps on carbon emissions from U.S. power plants. Representative Nick Rahall, a Democrat, will work with Representative David McKinley, a Republican, with the goal of stopping the Environmental Protection Agency’s rule on existing…
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NASA Captures Close-up Details of Solar Storm for First Time
from RT.com: NASA’s revolutionary solar observatory has captured rare footage of super-hot bubbles on the sun’s surface, known as coronal mass ejections. “The field of view seen here is about five Earths wide and about seven-and-a-half Earths tall,” NASA said in a description of the video, which shows the sun emitting flares into space. While…
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Japan Eyes Early Manned Mission to Mars
from houseofjapan.com: Japan, with the help of the international community, is working on plans to send a manned mission to Mars. Science ministry officials, citing the staggering costs and technological difficulties, said such an undertaking could only be accomplished with participation of other countries. In a May 30 meeting with an advisory council to discuss…
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Milk-Whitening Nanotech Enters US Food Supply Without FDA Oversight
from rawstory.com: The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) revealed earlier this week that there are over 1,600 nanotechnology-based products on the market today — and that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lacks the authority to regulate them. As Mother Jones reported, some of these nanotechnological innovations — which refer to particles less…
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Big Mac, Thin Wallet: Fast Food Breaks Your Bank and Your Brain
from nytimes.com: In recent years we have seen plenty of studies of the impact of fast food on our bodies. But what about our psychological health? … Across several studies, we found that thoughts of fast food spurred participants to hurry through reading a paragraph describing their city; express a greater desire for time-saving products;…
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What’s Behind the Corporate Buyout Food Frenzy?
from usatoday.com: The ongoing food frenzy comes down to this: buy or be bought. “Think of it as a Pac Man for companies,” says Michael Silverstein, senior partner at the Boston Consulting Group. If you don’t swallow someone else, they may swallow you. Perhaps that’s why even giant Tyson Foods got into the melee Thursday…
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‘Need Food, Not Football’: Brazilian Graffiti Art Expresses Outrage Over World Cup
from RT.com: With just two weeks remaining until the World Cup kicks off in Brazil, those who believe the global event is too much of a burden for the country’s struggling economy have found a new way to channel their protest energy – with graffiti. Street artists have covered walls in Rio de Janeiro and…
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Research shows collision created Chelyabinsk asteroid
from phys.org: On February 15 2013, an asteroid exploded about 30 kilometers above Chelyabinsk, Russia. The explosion, shared on video around the world, was the Earth’s second largest recorded airburst. By analyzing fragments of the meteorite that fell to Earth, Shin Ozawa at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan and colleagues determined that the asteroid formed…
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Forget Jesus and Judas, Our Modern Morality Play Stars Justin Bieber and Emma Watson
from independent.co.uk: The novelist Catherine Aird once wrote the brilliant line, “If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll have to be a horrible warning.”… Thankfully, research announced this week by the University of Manchester and Brunel University, on the effect of celebrity “storylines” on young people, seems to agree. Where once young people…
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Source of Fukushima Radioactive Leak Discovered After 3 Years
from rt.com: The source of the radioactive leak at the earthquake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was finally identified by the facility’s operator TEPCO to be in the primary containment vessel of reactor 3, authorities reported. It was in January when the crew of the plant first noticed that water was leaking through to the…
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DARPA Turns Oculus Into a Weapon for Cyberwar
from wired.com: For the last two years, Darpa has been working to make waging cyberwar as easy as playing a video game. Now, like so many other games, it’s about to get a lot more in-your-face. At the Pentagon Wednesday, the armed forces’ far-out research branch known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency showed…
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McDonald’s New ‘Happy’ Mascot Dubbed McScary
from reuters.com: McDonald’s restaurant chain says its new “Happy” mascot will bring “fun and excitement” to its children’s meals, but social media contend the toothy, red box-shaped character will have the opposite effect. Twitter responses to McDonald’s mascot announcement on Monday complain that the animated red Happy Meal box, with its cavernous dark mouth and…
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Urban Farming Yields Fresh Foods, Land Reuse
from news.nationalgeographic.com: Chickens are coming home to roost in U.S. cities, near pens for goats and hives for bees. In urban yards and on once-vacant lots, planting beds brim with herb plants, pea vines, and the ubiquitous kale. A new wave of urban agriculture is flourishing because it benefits consumers concerned about sustainably grown food…
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First Technique to Turn Light into Matter Discovered
from ndtv.com: In a breakthrough, scientists have for the first time discovered a revolutionary technique to turn light into matter, a feat thought impossible when the idea was first theorised 80 years ago. Three physicists at the Imperial College London’s Blackett Physics Laboratory worked out a relatively simple way to physically prove a theory first…