Tag: california
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Like Countless Spiritual Pilgrims, Esalen Institute Faces Its Own Midlife Crisis
What began with a burst of hippie idealism, they say, is turning into a spa for the 1 percent.
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Fukushima Radiation Now Detected In the U.S. Food Supply
Scores of experts and analysts have feared for months that it would happen, and now it has: Radiation from the heavily damaged nuclear power plants at Japan’s Fukushima complex has made it into the seafood chain off the coast of America.
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Fires Force Evacuation of Ghost Town In New Mexico
from cbsnews.com: Residents near a privately owned New Mexico ghost town have been ordered to evacuate as a blaze in the Gila National Forest continued to burn erratically. Fire officials said Saturday that the Whitewater-Baldy Complex fire has shrunk slightly to 82,000 acres but is still 0 percent contained because of weather conditions. The evacuation…
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Sun Exposure Lowers Cancer Risk
A study that correlated exposure to sunlight with cancer risk found that people exposed to more sunlight had a significantly lower risk of many types of cancer (Lin, 2012).
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More #TitanicMemes: Resurrections, Regatta and #PandoraStrain
#Titanic II: Between replica ship and Hologram Tupac, resurrections abound // Collision suspected in yacht mishap // 35 dead, 165 missing in India boat accident // Bogart’s “African Queen” Saved From Scrapheap // #TheSimpsons latest was about a fake #PandoraStrain aboard a luxury cruise ship; “A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again”
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Can Facebook Convince You to Give Up Your Organs?
It’s only been a day since Facebook announced a new feature that allows users of the social network to share their organ donor status on their profiles. But in at least one state, the move already seems to be having an impact.
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Bolide Over California?
A bolide i.e., an exploding fireball, streaked from east to west over Nevada and North California, some time around 8 am on April 22, with loud booms heard in both states. The Lyrid meteor shower and space debris have been ruled out. The bolide determined to be caused by a huge meteor of some 70…
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The Enviro Reporter on Fukushima Radiation Dangers, Including Radioactive Nori
from enviroreporter.com: Media coverage of Fukushima Daiichi’s multiple meltdowns contamination of the Pacific Ocean and America’s air, water, soil, food and drink took a giant leap when NBC G4-TV’s Attack of the Show! had this reporter on to discuss the gravest single environmental threat facing the world… Enviroreporter.com’s detection of high radiation from sea mist…
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USDA holding press briefing as mad cow rumor roils market
from reuters: The United States Department of Agriculture was holding a press conference on Tuesday as rumors that a case of mad cow disease was discovered in California sent live cattle futures tumbling. The spokesman declined to comment on the topic of the briefing. The contents of the briefing are embargoed until 3 p.m. ET.…
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#PopOcculture: Drowning In the Waves
#TitanicMemes: Human Remains Possibly Found in #Titanic Shipwreck* PDF: Women More Likely to Die in Ship Disasters than Men* Video: San Francisco Yacht Accident – Coast Guard Calls Off Search For Missing Racers* Killer swan blamed for man’s drowning* Police probe ‘killer’ python in urban Japan* Update: Small plane sinks into Gulf; no sign of…
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Haunting #Hologram of #Tupac ‘Stuns’ #Coachella2012
from msnbc: Rapper Tupac Shakur, who was shot to death 16 years ago at the age of 25, was resurrected on stage Sunday for an eerie posthumous performance with former creative collaborator and hip-hop icon, Snoop Dogg. In the closing set of the three-day Coachella Music Festival in Indio, Calif., the life-like image of a…
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#PopOcculture: Sphere, Psychics, Satanic Snakes and more
Twilight Language: Tulsa Terror and the Name Game // Future Unclear For Sphere That Survived 9/11 // Streisand hired dog psychic after pooch mid-life crisis // Vatican Gives Popular Jesus Character Whole New Look
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Media/Memes: Trayvon Manson, Titanic Tax Day
We’ve been tracking most of these stories for several weeks and now it seems as though they’re converging. We also have tax day, Lincoln’s assassination anniversary and many more memes… Stay tuned!
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Radioactive particles from Japan detected in California kelp
from latimes.com: Radioactive particles released in the nuclear reactor meltdown in Fukushima, Japan, following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami were detected in giant kelp along the California coast, according to a recently published study. Radioactive iodine was found in samples collected from beds of kelp in locations along the coast from Laguna Beach to…