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- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 26 minutes ago*Bolivia Climate Conference: Indigenous Peoples Design Roadmap to New World *By Brenda Norrell Americas Program http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/2183 Indigenous Peoples from around the world, includi...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour agoCONTACT Klee Benally media@savethepeaks.org 928-380-2629 *District Court to Hear Arguments Over Sewage Effluent Snowmaking Scheme on Peaks Concerned Citizens Prepare Events to Protect Public Health *By Kle...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoSharks are intriguing, phenomenal creatures. Not only do they come in 440 species, they have they been around for more than 420 million years -- before the dinosaurs! One thing that surprised me about shar...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoA thief stole five paintings from the Paris Museum of Modern Art worth more than half a billion dollars.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoThe life-sized, robotic butterfly in the video below has proven an aerodynamic principle that could have big implications in the field. Scientists Hiroto Tanaka of Harvard University and Isao Shimoyama of ...
- posted by David Teeghman at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoIf you were like me growing up, you spent countless hours building all types of structures out of wood blocks and plastic Legos. Researchers at MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology want t...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago*Support New Mexico Indigenous Leaders in Protesting the Expansion of Uranium Mining and the Nuclear Cycle of Destruction! *Demand a Clean Up of This Toxic Legacy and Respect for Sacred Lands Wednesday, May...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoFor more than six years, Opportunity has toiled away on the Red Planet -- and it shows no signs of slowing down.
- posted by Teresa Shipley at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoWhat makes music sound pleasant? Scientists think they know the answer.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoIn the lab, researchers are creating artificial, microbial life. Is that playing God? And, if so, is it wrong? Bioethicist Arthur Caplan gives us his take.
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoA team of scientists create the first real-life "Frankenstein" by injecting man-made DNA into a previously lifeless cell.
- posted by Clark Boyd at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoA team of European researchers and archivists have buried a digital time capsule deep inside a Swiss mountain. It's all in an effort to ensure that future generations can access your thousands of out-of- f...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoA new type of supernova explosion could explain the origin of the calcium in our teeth and bones.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoBooks and magazine articles suggest that the brains of men and women are very different, but are they?
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoFor the first time, the Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a star 600 light-years from Earth torturing an exoplanet, stripping it of its outer layers, slowly eating it alive.
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoAs new estimates suggest much more oil is spewing into the Gulf, experts outline how broad the future impact could be.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 7 hours agoHEALTH - Looking to shed a few extra pounds? #1. Select nonfat or 1% milk instead of whole milk. #2. Use smaller plates and eat less food. #3. Flavour your coffee with cinnamon and nutmeg instead of sugar...
- posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 12 hours ago*Volcano ash or not something is changing* in the European airspace: integration. Merging various sorts of air traffic into a single playing field. The rising interest for light jets, used instead of queui...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoAccording to two Japanese researchers, we might be able to spot an 'aurora' crowning the poles of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. But this isn't your average aurora.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoGovernment and industry attempts to withhold information are delaying our ability to understand and respond to the spill, not to mention hold the parties involved responsible.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours agoThis story was written by Randall Howell and is copyright Native Sun News. http://64.38.12.138/News/2010/019862.asp PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA — The recent fatal shooting of a 22-year-old Oglala Lakota man near ...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoAs ice recedes, Greenland is popping up at nearly an inch per year. And the rise seems to be accelerating.
- *Sometimes I am as confused as others* about the 'economic crisis', that seems to have engulfed us. Confused by the smalltalk of so-called experts, the half-truths erupting from politicians, disbelief and...
- posted by Zahra Hirji at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe big blue ocean takes up a large chunk of our planet and yet our understanding of its enormity is shockingly poor. A new study calculates the oceans depth and volume, bringing us one step closer to defi...
- posted by Suzanne MacNevin at Lilith News - 1 day agoTECHNOLOGY - Imagine a job where you can go for a walk, go to the gym, go shopping, etc. and get paid every time your SmartPhone rings and you help out a customer? In the very near future there will be an...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAlthough they aren't yet advanced enough to replace field combatants, robots can perform routine tasks that would otherwise put troops in harm's way.
- posted by Kasey-Dee Gardner at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAs a dog lover, owner and advocate, I can let a lot slide when it comes to dogs behaving badly. But badly behaving owners: they’re another story. One of my BIGGEST pet peeves is when dog owners don’t clean...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day agoMike Gravel in his political campaign for President gave us a message, about philosophy, art, religion, & politics, that I haven't forgotton. In our modern society,whether proposing marriage, seeking emp...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoFor centuries, biologists have puzzled over the evolutionary function of the female's delicate off-white casing.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoContact: Simon Ortiz (602) 438-9325 Eric Hardy or Mishuana Goeman *Photo: Acoma Pueblo poet, author and scholar Simon Ortiz* *Double click on protest poster to enlarge * *Indigenous and American Indian Studi...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe mantle under Alaska is moving 20 to 30 times faster than the crust -- reversing the usual order of plate tectonics.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIn a test this week inside the Garrett Coliseum in Montgomery, Ala., E-Green Technologies inflated a 235-foot long, 65-foot diameter airship called Bullet 580.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoRELIGION - The popular social media website Facebook has been banned in Pakistan for images of the Prophet Muhammad on various Facebook groups. Today Pakistan’s government has ordered internet service prov...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAs scientists try to plot where the spill is going, officials struggle to contain the impact of where the oil has already been.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThanks to the efforts of modern-day supporters, Alonzo Cushing will be honored 147 years after he stood his ground at Gettysburg.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoPOLITICS - The Thai military overran the Red Shirt protestors, arresting hundreds but scattering an unknown number across the city of Bangkok last night. The military used armoured personnel carriers and b...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoCANADA - An anarchist group called the FFFC has posted a video and a message on YouTube claiming responsibility for firebombing a Royal Bank of Canada branch in Ottawa on Tuesday and is now ramping up to d...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoIn a 2007 article entitled "The *Conference of Defence Associations* gets $100,000 a year from the Department of Defence", CDA executive director Alain Pellerin told Maclean's John Geddes : "We also have ...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe scraps of ancient bandages -- some with dirty fingerprints of Tut's embalmers -- had been contained in long forgotten jars at a museum.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA common chemical found in antibacterial soaps is turning up in lakes and streams and could potentially harm wildlife and human health.
- posted by David Teeghman at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPirates of the Caribbean use a paper map, beach bums use metal detectors and now the Boy Scouts are using GPS devices to find hidden treasure. Just in time for its 100th Anniversary, the Boy Scouts are rol...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoIn defiance of a UN edict making it illegal to hire Abousfian Abdelrazik and to put pressure on our government to get him off that 1267 terrorist blacklist, the Canadian Labour Congress will hire Abdelra...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day agoKurt Sonnenfeld : Exclusive interview voltairenet.org 22 June 2009 From Buenos Aires (Argentina 9/11 FEMA videographer at Ground Zero goes public As official videographer for the U.S. government, Kurt...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe USGS just launched a nifty free and customizable service for water alerts so you can arrange to be texted when conditions are ideal for kayaking, or if a local river is flooding.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAfter a short cameo appearance on Iron Man 2, how else is the SpaceX CEO connected to the sci-fi action thriller?
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe years are not kind to George and Abraham. The erosive forces of wind, rain, heat and cold constantly badger the granite and other metamorphic rock from which the Mount Rushmore National Monument was ca...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoFor over 500 days, six men will live in isolation, simulating a full-duration flight to Mars.
- posted by Zahra Hirji at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAmong the team of geologists monitoring Mt. St. Helens at the time of its violent eruption 30 years ago, Don Swanson recounts his experience with poignant clarity.
- posted by David Teeghman at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAirplanes are notorious polluters. They're as noisy as a rock concert, spew poisons like volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides into the air as well as dump millions of pounds of carbon dioxide int...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAntibiotics kill both harmful and helpful bacteria. Plus, over time and prolonged use of antibiotics, some bacteria develop a resistance to these drugs. That's causing new and life-threatening strains of b...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoWho says you can't ride out doomsday in comfort and luxury?
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoWhat a difference a bit makes. NASA engineers believe they have traced the cause of Voyager 2's gibberish to single bit in the spacecraft’s memory.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAzendohsaurus just got demoted. Find out how and why this animal lost its dinosaur status.
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoBill Nye... yes... THE Bill Nye the Science Guy is on this week's show, talking about everything from the Large Hadron Collider to his "green-off" with Planet Green's Ed Begley, Jr. Listen to him on this w...
- posted by Zahra Hirji at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoRising temperatures spell trouble for fish and the million people who depend on the lake for their livelihood.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 days agoCANADA/ENVIRONMENT - Canada has some of the biggest geothermal companies in the Pacific Rim, but none of them have a geothermal facility inside of Canada. They're all built in other countries as far south ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAs political fallout from the spill spreads, oil is starting to travel further along the shoreline of the Gulf Coast.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 days agoCARS - Chrysler and General Motors are already predicting huge profits due to the market rebound in automotive sales which are up 16.7% in the last 4 months. That should do well for General Motors which s...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoIllinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin have almost three spaces for every car. That means more urban heat and less runoff.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe 2,700-year-old grave held a dignitary, aged around 50, buried with the remains of a one-year-old child over his body.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago*From Ecological Disaster to Constitutional Crisis: the Long Struggle Over the Xingú Dams Comes to a Climax at Belo Monte *By TERENCE TURNER CounterPunch Once again, the indigenous peoples of the Xingú vall...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAn eland at California's Oakland Zoo recently gave birth, at first surprising zookeepers there. The mother has lived exclusively with females since November.
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 days agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The cost of Bush's war on Iraq, left to Obama to 'finish' and clean up, passed the one trillion dollar mark some time ago but has yet to support or prove the old lie...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago*Canadian First Nations and Investors draw line in the tar sands with Shell at Annual General Meeting **Press statement * *Photo: Ben Powless, Mohawk, Copenhangen* * *Today, Shell executives will face ques...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago*Obama administration approved drilling plans for * *Arctic* Drilling critics warn of dangers from a spill in the Arctic SHELL: Company's win in court has it poised to begin. By DAN JOLING The Associated Pr...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago*Undocumented youths arrested at protest at McCain's office * *Raw video of protest: *http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=12497415 * *KGUN: Illegal immigrant who takes part in sit-in at Senator McCain's...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago*From: The International Tribunal of Consicence* Mexico City, Nov. 4 -- 10, 2010 The International Tribunal of Conscience sends Solidarity Greetings and an Invitation to the ALIANZA INDIGENA SIN FRONTERAS (...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAlthough we may have to wait for some time until the Large Hadron Collider confirms or denies the existence of the Higgs particle, the quest to find the elusive particle is digging up lots of treasure on t...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA new prototype rocket could give the Air Force a round-trip ticket to space by 2013.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoOn the surface, algae is an attractive fuel source, especially since it doesn't cut into food crops. The problem isn't that the algae doesn't grow quickly--the high yield is remarkable--it's that productio...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe EPA and the US Coast Guard have authorized BP to use oil-dispersing chemicals from a controversial product line that some believe may harm Gulf wildlife.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days agoTrailer for *Unseen Tears*. *Unseen Tears* documents the impact of Native American boarding/ residential schools on western New York. For More Information Visit Native American Community Services of Erie ...
- *Longevity is something that not most of us would want*, but a healthy longer life-span most certainly. *Dr. Eline Slagboom*, professor of Molecular Epidemiology at the Medical Center of the *University o...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago*ACLU and Civil Rights Groups File Legal Challenge to Arizona Racial Profiling Law* *By ACLU *PHOENIX - May 17 - The American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of civil rights groups filed a class acti...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe Higgs boson is theorized to give all matter mass, but in an effort to find this elusive particle, the most powerful and expensive particle accelerator had to be built. How will the quest to find the Hi...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe first results of the long-awaited, 10-year, international Interphone study finds little evidence that cell phones cause either glioma or meningioma, the two most common types of brain cancer.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoBoth the bride and groom work in robotics, so it was only fitting that a robot bring them together.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoKudzu vines are not only dominating our landscapes with the help of global warming; they're also increasing ozone pollution.
- posted by Teresa Shipley at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoNew research finds that people over 50 are happier than their younger counterparts.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*UPDATE MON. May 17, 2010: **** Tucson: Students to be arrested today at 5 pm at Sen. McCain's office* National Media Contacts: Juan Escalante (407) 602-8675 and Flavia de la Fuente (949) 910-6362, media@...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 3 days agoChoice Joyce at *Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada* has researched which MPs are anti-choice, pro-choice, or unknown using their public statements during campaigns, their position on the awarding of th...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoWithout fundamental restructuring of the fishing industry, our oceans could essentially become barren deserts.
- posted by David Teeghman at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoTornado Alley may have just gotten a little safer, thanks to researchers at a couple of Midwestern universities. For the first time, tornado chasers were able to fly an unmanned aircraft (or UA, for short)...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe Catalogue of Life, which chronicles 1.25 million organisms, is releasing a special edition this week to mark the International Year of Biodiversity.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe adolescent brain is extra sensitive to reward signals when pay-off for a risk is higher than expected.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoAstronauts began the first of three planned spacewalks Monday from the shuttle Atlantis.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoSUE, the world's largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, is being spruced up for her 10th anniversary celebrations. Watch as The Field Museum vacuums dust bunnies off of her.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoEngineers are still exploring options for how to keep oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoHow about a dissolvable wedding gown? As someone who has never been married, I can't imagine for a minute spending the $1,056 that the average woman spends on her wedding dress, according to Brides.com's A...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA massive granite statue of Thoth, the ancient Egyptian god of wisdom, has been dug out at the site.
- posted by Teresa Shipley at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoKorean researchers find that switching meat for vegetables significantly lowers two kinds of environmental chemicals.
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoCell phones and microwaves aren't the only devices to give off radio waves, the electronics in radio telescopes themselves can hamper observations if you're not careful.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoLast week I was invited on a CRI English radio show to talk about all things extraterrestrial. Seth Shostak (SETI Institute) and Douglas C. Lin (Peking University) were also there to give an expert opinion.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoFor five days, NASA will give the Phoenix Mars Lander one last chance to phone home.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoScientists have found evidence suggesting the spill is far larger than official estimates.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*TUCSON: Indigenous Peoples Protest Against SB 1070 and HB 2281* Indigenous Peoples Protest Againt SB 1070 and HB 2281 Date: Friday, May 21, 2010 Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm Location: US Immigration Court Street...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*The Anomaly of Histories: The Masters Narrative and the Wakeup Call from the Nightmare of Manifest Destiny * Coyote Radio on American Indian Airwaves Interview with Tupac Enrique Acosta of TONATIERRA *The...
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