Most of us have come to admit that the planet HAS some problems. There are lots of ideas floating around, and some will be more practical than others. This is a piece from the Sunday Times by Charles Clover that explores twenty existing technologies that might make a difference.
For more than a year, BitTorrent search engine isoHunt has chased the Canadian music industry in court. In an act of self-defense, the founder of the site has sued the Canadian branch of the RIAA, asking the court to legalize its operations.
Social media could transform the NHS and other public services in the same way that file-sharing changed the music industry, a conference has heard.
This week the parliamentary science and technology committee looked into the the funding of homeopathy on the NHS and the evidence behind the decision of the MHRA, which regulates medicines, to allow homeopathy sugar pill labels to make medical claims without evidence of efficacy …
Tonight while I was out back BBQ'ing some chicken I remembered there was going to be a flyby of the International Space Station (ISS). So I turned down the heat on the grill and turned to setting my camera up for a shot.
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A couple of new memes are starting to grow in the AGW believing blogosphere. Unable to fathom that they could have been wrong, they are now beginning to concoct a story that the climate emails were forged or modified in order to make the scientists involved look bad.
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...if it is our goal to educate everyone on earth to the power and wonders of science (as it is the Skeptics Society and www.skeptic.com) and to employ science to solve social, political, economic, medical and environmental problems (as it is my personal goal), then we need as ma …
There was a programme on the Discovery channel on 28th November, Saturday, called, "Raw Nature."
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In the pre-heterosexualized/ pre-modernized/ pre-westernized world, both men and women had their own share of burden, as far as sexuality is concerned.
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AMSTERDAM – Even after the U.S. and China set targets this week for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the world's combined pledges ahead of next month's climate summit fall far short of what experts say is needed to avert dangerous global warming.
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