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Flu In The Lab, Red Matter, Flavor Networks, Making The Earth Move, TWIThe End Of The World, Worms In Space!!!, Oak Ridge Shorties, Sex On The Brain, And Much More…
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We must take serious interest in our own education, as a sacred duty to the past and future generations of this earth.
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This Week in Science… Coming up next.
Flu in the lab. Want more on this story? Check out TWiV!
Newly discovered red matter
Flavor Networks – http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27372/
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The ability to make the earth move… with proper lubrication
End of the world…
Corals and pH
Climate sensitivity
Climate perception
Water, food
Durban
Worms… in space!!!
4 or 5 great short stories out of Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Cleavage Wars
Naked Brains
Sex with Neanderthals
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Tell the difference between red shift and red stars by looking for the element spectral lines and see how far they’ve shifted. Hopefully the new telescope is set up to do that.
dude get your flu shot. Even you’re not getting sick from the flu you could be spreading it. if you don’t get the flu shot for yourself then get it for the people around you.
Regarding chemicals coming up from fracin operations way into the future, it’s actually happening right now. There is an excellent documentary on it the subject called GasLand (it was an oscar nominee in 2011 iirc). It’s quite horrifying.