Opit's LinkFest!: 30 June

By Lauren HaslerWisconsin Center for Investigative JournalismDonovan Richards first attempted to take his own life at age 4. The Wisconsin boy, who...

Vietnamese immigrant charged with helping al-Qaida in Yemen

Your family is probably losing $155K from 401(k) plan, and why new rules won't help

Canada's embarrassing second-class status in trade partnership

BC can meet energy needs, reduce GHGs — but we need a major shift

Too big to fail? Canadian banks are not immune from global crises

Memento Mori ...

Does Announced EU Deal Leave Out Critical Elements?

Virologists Sue Merck for Faking Positive Results on Mumps Vaccine

Final National Recommended Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Carbaryl--2012

Fish Advisories with EPA's Improved Online Tools

2012 Beach Grants

Truth and Consequences of Fracking

Riverdale: You Are In the Way

Developing Road Preservation Local Law and Road Use Agreements

The dish on gossip: Its origins, functions, and bad reputation

It’s your choice! – Or is it really?

When the thought of yourself nags you: How failure to attain cultural standards brings suicide on the fringe of consciousness

Tom Hodgkinson: 'Do women consider the ukulele sexy?'

Patrick Cockburn: How Julian Assange's private life helped conceal the real triumph of WikiLeaks

Joanna Moorhead: Adele has the right idea - have children young

Removing animals from the land to make way for trees. Carbon Farming gone mad?

Good media coverage last week - Augers well for future

Carbon Farming Newsletter - June 2012

Selenium supplements may cut risk of death from breast cancer

By David Liu, PHD Saturday June 29, 2012 (foodconsumer.org) -- A new study in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment suggests that selenium...

Cancer Experts Offer Seasonal Advice for Safer Grilling

Healthy Recipes: Tomato Soup with Chickpeas and Lemon

Remembering R.D. Burman

Nora Ephron (1941-2012)

'Abu Jundal': 26/11 Audio Intercepts

'Billy Lynn' A Full-Bore Tale Of A Day After Iraq

Synthetic 'Bath Salts' An Evolving Problem For DEA

Week In News: Rounding Up The Health Care Ruling

New Senate Cyber Bill No Better Than Last Version

Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights

We've Only Just Begun: Standing up for the Rights of All in Arizona

Fred Pearce

Tracking Invasive Asian Carp: Where Are Those Flopping Fish?

The Stream, June 29: Electricity Production Fastest-Growing Use of Freshwater in U.S.

Crashing the USDA’s 150th Birthday Party

Don’t Bet on Wall Street: The Financialization of Nature and the Risk to Our Common Resources

Bling, Bentleys and Bogus Credits

Norman Solomon Defeat In California A Blow For Anti-War Progressives

#FOXfail, #CNNfail

Obama Administration’s Plan For Arctic Offshore Drilling Safety: ‘I Believe There’s Not Going To Be An Oil Spill’

Hayride Cartoon: Don’t Think This Will Fix Things, Doc

WOW, THAT’S REALLY SHOCKING: White House Says No Plans To Prosecute Holder For Contempt

Highway Bill Passes Senate, Includes RESTORE Act To Use BP Fines For Gulf

Lawsuit Accuses GOP Donor Adelson of Pursuing "Prostitution Strategy" In His Hotels

We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for June 29, 2012

This Week in Dark Money

Startup courts Millennials with social, crowdsourced news site

Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered; e-mail lost

ITC delays ruling on U.S. ban of Xbox

Couple transform bus into two bed home to beat property prices

Do aliens exist? The top ten questions Brits want answering are revealed

Artist creates mouthwatering works of art out of watermelons

Add Power Switches for Outlets to Kill Vampire Loads [Weekend Project]

Flick Widgets Allows Widget Launching with Your Phone's Accelerometer [Video]

DIY $2 Pad Keeps Cash Handy [Cash]

Facebook roundup: stock price slips, Chill raises $8M, new currency API and more

Facebook career postings: mobile, platform, recruiting, client management, more

Facebook hires: head of policy, analysts, client partners, engineers, more

A Contemplation of Chattering Minds

Fact Finder: Digit Divide

The 62nd Annual Lindau Meeting: Connecting Generations of Physicists

The Immune System in Three Dimensions

Go with the Flow

The Sedimentary Life of Earthquakes

AndrewF's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

Innovation, Copying And Civil Disobedience

Bias In Tech & Media: Lists That Perpetuate The Stereotypes

Sanctions May Squeeze Iran ... And Raise Oil Prices

Synthetic 'Bath Salts' An Evolving Problem For DEA

Yitzhak Shamir, Former Israeli Prime Minister, Dies

Morsi sworn in as Egypt's president, promises new era

CBC.ca - all 3323 related »

Syria conference leaves open whether Assad can be part of transitional government

Washington Post - all 3014 related »

Yitzhak Shamir, former Israeli prime minister, dead at 96

Jewish Telegraphic Agency - all 543 related »

Record heat, storms bring despair, 'horror'

Their stay in Parvin State Park in southwestern New Jersey was supposed to be a getaway, a chance to enjoy the wilderness and quality time with...

Law could force Mississippi's only abortion clinic to close

Yitzhak Shamir, former Israeli PM, dies

Assad's fate left open after Syria talks

Representatives agree that transitional government should be set up, but role Syrian president might play left openA UN crisis meeting in Geneva on...

Weary Mexicans trudge to the polls

Morsi sworn in as Egyptian president

As Supreme Court Affirms Patchwork U.S. Healthcare System, Vermont Pushes Ahead with Single Payer

Roundtable: Supreme Court Ruling Ensures Coverage for Millions, But Doubts Remain on Quality, Access

Michael Moore: Supreme Court Healthcare Ruling a Victory on the Path to Single Payer

Space Station Crew to Return to Earth Sunday

Three astronauts living on the International Space Station will return home to Earth Sunday after spending more than six months in orbit.

Toxic Seas Spurred Mass Die-Offs

TWiDN: The Universe: No God Required

First female taikonaut: 'It's good to stand on Earth'

Today on New Scientist: 29 June 2012

Pharma giant failed to report 80,000 drug files

Highlights from June 23 to June 29

Top 25 List: June 2012

Are You Shy?

Who Gets Covered Under Health Reform?

As the debate rages over "Obamacare," here's a look at what the changes will mean.

Health Care Reform: Questions and Answers

Aging Eyes Are Seeing Better

WEEKLY ADDRESS: An All-Hands-On-Deck Approach to Fighting the Colorado Wildfires

Statement by the Press Secretary on H.R. 6064

Remarks by the President After Viewing Wildfire Damage

Deadly storms leave millions without power in eastern US - Chicago Tribune

Syria conference leaves open whether Assad can be part of transitional government - Washington Post

10000 still displaced in raging Colorado wildfire - USA TODAY

N.Y. school bus monitor 'fine' with bully punishment

10,000 still displaced in raging Colorado wildfire

Conservationist: Reasons for chimp attack unclear

'Smoking vaccine' developed

Mystery 'fairy circles' stump scientists

Google scientists create 'computer brain'

Hawks on Iran

Experts: Military Contractors Hype Economic Costs Of Sequestration

Clinton On New Sanctions: Iran ‘Will Understand Even More Fully The Urgency Of The Choice They Face’

Commend the Federal Appeals Court Decision to Uphold Greenhouse Gas Regulations

End Negative Stereotypes of Black Cats

Demand Adequate Medical Care for Minnesota Prisoners

IV-12-023: NRC to Meet with Omaha Public Power District Officials to Discuss Fort Calhoun Nuclear

12-079: NRC Holding Public Meeting to Discuss Proposed Enhancements to its Force-On-Force Inspections

III-12-026: NRC Issues Confirmatory Order to D.C. Cook Nuclear Power Plant

ObamaCare: Was Roberts Doing Us a Favor? Please Weigh In.

Times/HBO: a Flower for “Poppy” Bush

The Hijacking of Arab Spring, and the Media’s Complicity

Teens all for wise use of social website

Underage and on Facebook

Villagers honour ‘Nenek’

The Fantastic Voyager

So what will you do with your extra second tomorrow night?

So, what will you do with your extra second?

Off politics for a moment: “Holy fucking shit!” (video)

Watch Michele Bachmann bring the church Right to the State (video)

Faith Based: Religious Neoliberalism, its partnership and its attack on America

Quantum levitation in action: Raw footage from Boaz Almog’s TEDGlobal talk

Looking forward, looking back: TEDGlobal 2012 recap

Conflict as thinking: Margaret Heffernan at TEDGlobal 2012

Iran, Sweden FMs confer over the phone

Foreign Ministers of Iran and Sweden in a telephone conversation discussed the latest developments on nuclear talks between Iran and Group 5+1 and...

Iran, German foreign ministers discuss nuclear issue

UN-backed Action Group agrees on measures for peaceful transition in Syria

Friday. Confusing

The Trial of Billy the Elephant

Reader’s Digest: Whales Are People Too

What Do You Call a Veterinarian Who …?

Daily News Egypt names senior staff

Alborsa Newspaper invests in re-publishing Daily News Egypt

Pan-Muslim body may participate in UN Syria observer mission

NBC Meteorologist On Record Heat Wave: 'If We Did Not Have Global Warming, We Wouldn't See This' (Joe Romm/ThinkProgress)

Issa, Grassley release details about Fast and Furious whistleblower retaliation, cover-up (Matthew Boyle/The Daily Caller)

Mitt Romney Wants Americans To 'Get All The Education They Can Afford' (Karoli/Crooks and Liars)

1 000 held in Sudan demos

At least 1 000 people have been arrested and hundreds have been hurt during anti-regime protests in Sudan, an activist group says.

ANC is 'haemorrhaging' - Winnie

Iraq attacks kill 11 people

Which is more stupid?

Voeltz death watch (update)

Nut case birther attorney to seek indictment of Supreme Court justices

Supreme Court Decision = Fundraising Opportunity!

Capital Eye Opener, June 29: BCS Changes Playoffs but Keeps Lobbyists on Field, Donations-by-Text Falter, and Firefighters Still Fanning Flames in Campaigns

Obama Health Law Stands: The Money Roundup

Photos: Iranian Activists Protest In Support of Abr Forest

Two Iranian sites approved as World Heritage sites

9th Biennial Conference of Iranian Studies: Jul 31st to August 5th in Istanbul, Turkey

George Zimmerman Passed Police Lie Detector Test Day After Trayvon Martin Killing

Oreo Pride: Rainbow-Stuffed Cookie Sparks Threats of Boycott

The Bear at the Door

How Brazil stopped Monsanto's bullying

Reality-checking the Farm Bill in CA

Senate passes good Farm Bill!

Schneier on Security: On Securing Potentially Dangerous Virology ...

The Strategic Imperative of Security - The Land of the Free

National Security Secrecy and Surveillance

NASA's THEMIS Satellite Sees a Great Electron Escape

When scientists discovered two great swaths of radiation encircling Earth in the 1950s, it spawned over-the-top fears about "killer electrons" and...

2012 Research and Technology Studies Resume at JSC

Jeff Adams – Real Estate Investing

Mali: Islamists destroy Timbuktu heritage sites

To Do

renewable recycling conservation

renewable energy group inc

Businessweek

RENEWABLE ENERGY GROUP INC (REGI:US) stock price & investing information. Find RENEWABLE ENERGY GROUP INC historical stock quotes, key competitors, stock data, executives and company news.

Brookfield Renewable Acquires Large-Scale Hydroelectric Portfolio

Energy Digital (press release)

Investors Enquiries Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners L.P. Zev Korman Director, Investor Relations 416-359-1955.

Renewable Energy Supplies 7% US Electricity, Has Anyone Noticed?

SustainableBusiness.com

That's more than the total electricity use of 197 nations, 92% of all countries.

Bulgaria cuts preferential prices for renewable energy

Reuters

Wind subsidies cut by 20 pct, solar by 50 percent* Cuts aim to address fears of soaring electricity prices* Investors say government killing the sector* Chinese Ming Yang Wind Power Group may sue.

Human Habitat

ecology water energy

Country Ecology: White Mountain's alpine butterflies

Conway Daily Sun

One of the enjoyable aspects of receiving Wildlines, New Hampshire Fish and Game's quarterly newsletter of the Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Program is learning about some environmental intern's work on a little known species. With great sensitivity ...

Country Ecology: White Mountain's alpine butterflies

NewHampshire.com

Country Ecology: White Mountain's alpine butterflies. Source: http://www.conwaydailysun.com/index.php/outdoors/environment/91075-country-ecology-white-mountain-s-alpine-butterflies. One of the enjoyable aspects of receiving Wildlines, New Hampshire ...

Global Ecology, Sustainability, and Next-Generation Toy Design in the Bamboo ...

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)

Otis faculty members and students joined Hape employees and members of the China Academy of the Arts to study the complexities of sustainable business practice and associated manufacturing challenges while developing new product designs that will ...

Ecology Youth Corps heads to the highways to clean up litter

Access Washington

Ecology Youth Corps (EYC) crew members receive $9.04 per hour, and work 7 hours per day, Monday through Friday. First session crews will operate this year from this week through July 20. Second session crews will start July 23 and work through Aug. 16.

Water Power

water floods pollution

Ranchers, farmers seeking solutions to US water worries

Reuters

Ranchers, farms eye new water-saving initiatives* MillerCoors partners with farmers to save water* Non-profits push water as a crop programBy Carey GillamBLOOMING GROVE, Texas, June 30 (Reuters)

WSSC issues water restrictions; Laurel pools closed Saturday after power outage

Baltimore Sun

Because of power outages in Friday's storms, Laurel's city pools are closed Saturday, June 30. Friday's storm brought new challenges in addition to the excessive heat: downed trees, water restrictions and power outages.

Water restrictions due to runoff from Cayce fire

WIS

The City of Cayce is asking residents not to use water outside, such as watering their yards or washing their vehicles.

Water conservation measures remain for Monmouth County

myfoxny.com

All of Monmouth County, N.J., remains in a under a state of emergency and strict water conservation measures are in effect after a water main break on Friday.

	"Mars' Moon Phobos May Yield Alien Life" --NASA Experts
	Image of the Day: Pulsar in Supernova Remnant Sets Speed Record at 6 Million MPH
	EcoAlert: 100-Kilometer Wide Impact Crater Found in Greenland --Oldest Known on Planet
	Saturn's Titan Harbors an Ocean of Water --Increases Odds for Life
	Did the Milky Way Have a Encounter with a Massive Dark Matter Structure 100 Million Years Ago?

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