- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 minutes agoAirline companies conduct test flights over Europe and push to resume flights, claiming volcanic ash has dispersed.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago*Manny Pino: Laguna Acoma for a Safe Environment * *Exposing the underbelly of Cold War genocide: Uranium mining in the Pueblos of New Mexico* Manny Pino is from the Acoma indigenous territories in New ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago*Meet Susana Deranger joining the Bolivia Climate Conference* "I am a member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. I am the co-founder of a new group called Indigenous Women Without Borders. I have been...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 15 hours agoENVIRONMENT - Air travel in Europe has practically ground to an halt as ash and chemicals from an erupting volcano in Iceland makes air travel very dangerous. The amount of ash being spewed into the jet st...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoThe Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cStephen Saves the Space Programwww.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorFox News Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert is stepping up his in...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago*RETURN TO SENDER * Mohawk Nation News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com MNN. Apr. 14, 2010. A parasite lives in or on a host and sucks nourishment. It can’t live independently. Otherwise it perishes. It’s...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoA peanut-sized, encrusted rock may be a fragment of a meteor that lit up Midwestern skies on Wednesday night.
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoEvery now and then, curious human divers push Octopi a little too far...and get their cameras stolen.
- posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 day ago*Are we beginning to see the tip of an iceberg?* Eyjafjallajökull, the ashes-spitting volcano on Iceland, has sent its greetings to all of us in Europe. And it's not getting better yet. It came with the wi...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoFirst Nations Chiefs apply to bring a class action suit to protect the wild salmon of BC from fishfarms. Chief Bob Chamberlin : "We look forward to stripping away the denial the provincial governmen...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoRecycled cardboard is a decent replacement for styrofoam packaging, but what about heavy items that need stronger protection? A company called Ecovative Design is banking on mushroom roots. "We should make...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Oneida youth joins grassroots Native delegation to Bolivia Climate Conference* Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Daygot Leeyos Edwards is a young female lyricist and music producer from On...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe 2003 film festival favorite movie "The Triplets of Belleville" has more in common with astrophysics you think. The filmmaker was inspired by Einstein.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoDear readers, It is an exciting time at Censored News, with Navajo, Yaqui, Mohawk and Shoshone youth and elders preparing to embark on journeys to the Bolivia Climate Conference, ultimately a gathering th...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Navajo Grassroots Delegate to Bolivia Climate Summit Blasts Power Plant* ** *Navajo government invests in disease-producing coal fired power plant ***DOODA DESERT ROCK COMMITTEE Elouise Brown, President P....
- posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 day ago*Ubuntu 10.04 'Lucid Lynx'* released within the next weeks is a Linux OS that will prove to become a challenge for Windows-users. Lucid Lynx is the culmination of immense efforts to produce a consistent us...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoDr. Henrietta Mann (Southern Cheyenne) Speaks about Climate Change at the UN. From: Seventh Generation Fund Dr. Henrietta Mann speaks about Climate Change at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indige...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*April 20, 2010* By Leonard Peltier My warmest regards to our host, Bolivian President Evo Morales. To Presidents Rafael Correa, Daniel Ortega, Hugo Chavez, and other esteemed Heads of State; national re...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAs of Thursday, most of Europe's major hubs were closed. Here are questions and answers as to why it happened.
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoHyperspectral imaging is used to detect changes in light from plants and soil caused by a decomposing body.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoCANADA - Last night I attended a Toronto City Hall open house meeting for the public wherein TTC Chair Adam Giambrone announced plans to allow riders to use debit or credit cards equipped with PayPass when...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThere are 13 crew aboard the space station, but this is the last time so many astronauts will call the orbiting outpost "home".
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAn Iceland volcano eruption that snarled air traffic and darkened much Northern Europe's skies this week also poses threats to animal health, according to the British Veterinary Association, which has issu...
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA drop in boat traffic and fishing may have contributed to a boost in dolphin births in the Mississippi Sound.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoEven women who are confident about their bodies have an internalized desire to be a certain size and shape.
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoDistant quasars are acting very strange: they're not acting strange. Usually the massive black holes powering these active galactic cores should exhibit some time dilation, but the most distant quasars don't.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago** *Western Shoshones join Native American Grassroots Delegation to Bolivia Climate Summit* *Updated Friday morning *By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Top photo: Timbisha Cha...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 2 days agogeezerpower April 15, 2010 — Well, I went to a Tea Party today, in Salem Oregon, with hundreds of people attending. When I left at 11:30 AM there were at least several hundred. Like many of the events ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe president has set a goal of sending astronauts into orbit above the Red Planet by the mid-2030s.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 days agoPOLITICS - While the United States wanes in recession, China's economy continues to wax and grow at a phenomenal rate. In the first quarter of 2010 China's GDP grew 11.9%. The rapid increase in China's sp...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 days agoCANADA - Yesterday the Canadian dollar closed at 100.08 cents US, up .27 of a cent from Tuesday. This is the first time in two years the Canadian dollar has passed over parity. On November 7th 2007 the lo...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA toe belonging to King Tutankhamun’s father has been finally returned to Egypt.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoI wrote a blog this morning about an unmanned aircraft designed to chase tornadoes. After I wrote that, I got out my iPod and listened to "This Tornado Loves You" by Neko Case from her latest CD Middle Cyc...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoGenetic tests reveal that meat from whales hunted for Japanese "research" purposes is being traded illegally.
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe active search for the long-lost bird of science and myth -- the ivory-billed woodpecker -- is officially ending. At least it is for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. “The preliminary conclusion we’ve com...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoIceland's erupting volcano is a pain in the neck for air travel. But it could be worse -- a lot worse.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThat Twitter message you just posted about your ham sandwich might now become part of history.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoGrowing up in Vermont, the car wash was a fun ride that also happened to scrub off a winter's worth of salt. Little did I know how much water it wasted. Now a car wash in Minnesota is saving water ...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoEarth should be warming more than it is, according to a new study. Scientists know the missing heat is there, somewhere in the atmosphere or in the oceans, but can't find it. Where is it?
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoDid ethnic prejudice spur the now infamous legend of the Donner Party's cannibalism?
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoIf this is your first exposure to the Friday News Feedbag...we're glad to have you in the club. Welcome to Feedbag Nation, which stems from our weekly science news podcast that you can subscribe to here on...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThis week NASA released a movie that captures a living planet, rather the just another postcard glamour shot.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoNaturalist Mark Fraser shows us a crustacean that lives right in most of our backyards: isopod woodlice.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe supercharging of weather patterns by global warming is making parts of Earth's oceans much saltier.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoYou would think that with all of the gizmos, gadgets and devices tornado chasers have at their disposal, they would know everything there is to know about tornado formation. But not true. So for the first ...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 days agoOver at the Military Police Complaints Commission, Department of Justice lawyer Alain Préfontaine is trying to prove that diplomat Richard Colvin's emails flagging abuse of Afghan prisoners were so vaguely...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoFiery ash clouds drifting over Europe have canceled hundreds of flights.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoPresident Obama plans to pitch his plan to combine public and private flights to take smaller space journeys with Mars as a gradual destination goal.
- *The Northern hemisphere of our planet* appears to be in upheaval. Dare I predict: more is to come? The BBC headlines (left) early this morning were quite revealing! It is not only the latest eruption of a...
- posted by Clark Boyd at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoWhen you go to the pharmacy to pick up your prescription, I'm sure you feel pretty much assured that the drugs you're getting are the real deal. Not so in many parts of the world. Fake pharmaceuticals are ...
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe bizarre hexagon etched into the clouds above Saturn's north pole has foxed scientists for over quarter of a century, but the mystery may have been solved with some laboratory fluid dynamics.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoAfter China's quake, it's hard not to wonder -- is something crazy going on with Earth's crust?
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoAn enormous-toothed leech, pulled from the nose of a girl who was bathing in a river, has just been documented in the journal PLoS ONE. Named Tyrannobdella rex, which means "tyrant leech king," the new spe...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 days agoPOLITICS - The following is a list of things uncovered by the FBI from the Hutaree Christian terrorist militia in Michigan (according to court papers released Monday): Dozens of assault Rifles Machine Gun...
- *When Lubarsky comes along and has Murphy with him* you are in deep trouble! They came along last Friday evening in a storm... When the lights went up and I proudly re-read my text on *Les Fradkin* I noti...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 days agoENVIRONMENT - The number of earthquakes in recent years has been going up. The most recent was today's 6.9 magnitude earthquake in China which has killed over 400 people, but there is a lot of scientific d...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA trip to El Salvador inspires a husband and wife to build low-cost water purification units in their garage.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 days agoTECHNOLOGY - The following is what Microsoft predicts the future of computing will be like. Apparently the technology to do it is already available today, but the price needs to come down dramatically. Mic...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 3 days agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Radical right wingers --tea baggers et al --are accused of 'trawling for assassins. It's but one of several outrages now associated with the disingenuous, bigoted 't...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoCan the the United States' Clean Water Act be used to combat carbon dioxide emissions?
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThink twice before beaming up any life from Saturn's moon Titan. It's very likely the sludge will explode and/or overwhelm your entire spaceship crew, eventually killing them with the stench.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoBeautifully decorated, the tomb of Ken Amun features scenes from the Book of the Dead.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA prototype robot, jointly developed by NASA and General Motors, will be flown to the International Space Station for tests working alongside the live-aboard crew. Robonaut 2, nicknamed R2, won't be making...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe eruption under the ice cap was 10 to 20 times more powerful than one last month.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA nitrogen valve in the cooling system of the space station is not budging, and may pose a problem.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThese exoplanets are orbiting backwards, and they're turning theories of planet formation upside-down.
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoAs clean as the drinking water is in the United States compared to other countries, it still contains trace amounts of cancer-causing contaminants. But this past March, the Environmental Protection Agency ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoOfficials in New York have identified two strains of simian foamy virus in wildlife imported as food—known as “bushmeat”—from three primate species: two mangabey monkeys and a chimpanzee. Concern is rising...
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