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Solar Eclipse, Longest This Century, Draws Thousands To India (SLIDESHOW)

AP | INDRAJIT KUMAR SINGH | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

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TAREGNA, India (AP) — Hordes of scientists, students and nature enthusiasts prepared Tuesday for the longest total solar eclipse of this century...

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10 Worst Evolutionary Designs

wired.com | Posted 08.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Wierd Animals, Giraffe, Science, Kangaroo, Evolution, Hyena Clitoris, Animals, Sea Mammal, Green News

2. Hyena clitoris. When engorged, this "pseudopenis," which doubles as the birth canal, becomes so hard it can crush babies to death during exit....

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Buzz Aldrin Punches Moon Landing Conspiracy Theorist In The Face (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 08.20.2009 | Home

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CNN interviewed the hosts of the show "Mythbusters" about the conspiracy theorists who believe the Apollo Moon landing was faked, and the their extens...

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Is NASA Spacing Out?

Bill Chameides | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Nasa, Research, Michael Collins, Climate Change, Space, Apollo Missions, Apollo 11, Science, Astronauts, Moon, Alan Bean, Green News
Bill Chameides

Today is the 40th anniversary of the first lunar walk, and, not counting the late Michael Jackson, it's been almost that long since the last moonwalk. Is it time to do it again?

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The American Science Deficit -- and What to do About it

Chris Mooney | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Science, Moon Landing, Unscientific America, Space Race, Politics News
Chris Mooney

The policies and cultural changes unleashed in the wake of Sputnik shaped the course of American science for decades -- and made us world leaders. But then, something went very wrong.

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Only the Freshest Stem Cells Will Do

Beth Kohl | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Frozen Waffles, Nih, Embryonic Stem Cells, President Obama, Bush Stem Cells, Stem Cells, Obama Stem Cell Research, Science, Stem Cell Research, Diseases, Politics News
Beth Kohl

Frozen embryos, like waffles or fish or my old Dell, are only good for so long. You can't just keep them in the freezer forever with the assumption that, once you need them, you can scrape them off and use them.

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Shuttle Endeavour Launch VIDEO: Blast Off Successful But NASA Concerned About Debris That Hit Shuttle

Posted 08.15.2009 | Home

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***SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO*** By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After more than a month's delay, space shuttle Endeavour and ...

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Biocentrism, The New Face Of The Cosmos

Robert Lanza, M.D. | Posted 08.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Quantum Physics, Mind/Body/Spirit, Time, World, Physics, Science, Mind, Universe, Mind Body Soul, Living News
Robert Lanza, M.D.

Five hundred years ago people used to think the earth was flat. Evidence to the contrary was dismissed as absurd: "If the world was really a ball of r...

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Eat Less, Live Longer, New Study Says

nytimes.com | Nicholas Wade | Posted 08.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Longevity, Live Longer, Dieting, Health, Science, Diet, Health Study, Eat Less, Weight Loss, Living News

A long-awaited study of aging in rhesus monkeys suggests, with some reservations, that people could in principle fend off the usual diseases of old ag...

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Sahil Kapur

Only Six Percent Of Scientists Are Republicans: Pew Poll

HuffingtonPost.com | Sahil Kapur | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

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A new study by the Pew Research Center finds that the GOP is alienating scientists to a startling degree. Only six percent of America's scientists id...

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Post's Krauthammer Pushes Dangerous Fantasy

Joe Cirincione | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Nobel Prize, Richard Garwin, Nuclear Weapons, Charles Krauthammer, Missile Defense, George W. Bush, Union-of-Concerned-Scientists, Ted Postol, Start Treaty, Neoconservatives, Science, United States, Washington Post, Arms Control, Barack Obama, World News
Joe Cirincione

Krauthammer wants Russia to build more nuclear weapons. Why? Because he thinks we can shoot them out of the sky like clay pigeons. This is simply not true.

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Jackson Wasn't Normal. So what?

David Berreby | Posted 08.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Science, Statistics, Normalcy, Entertainment News
David Berreby

This prejudice in favor of the typical is on full display this week, as the world reacts to the death of Michael Jackson.

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Book Review: Why Does E=MC^2?

Dan Agin | Posted 08.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Relativity, Science, Einstein, Physics, Albert Einstein, Living News
Dan Agin

One of the important problems with popularizations of science is that there is not one public, there are many publics, and each public has its own formal education and interest in science.

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Transformational Science and the U.S. Economy

James M. Gentile | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Science, Research, Barack Obama, Politics News
James M. Gentile

There is increasing concern in the scientific community that incremental research is too much the priority, that U.S. science funding has become too conservative and too risk-averse.

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The Frogness of Music

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 08.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Symphony, Ipod, Biology, Digital Compresssion, Analog, Science, Music, Live Music, Living News
Arthur Rosenfeld

Music today is to live, real music as an origami frog is to a real one. Music has, in short, been dumbed down.

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Italian Scientists Build Real Life "Wall-E"

GlobalPost | Fulvio Paolocci and Angelica Marin | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

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PECCIOLI, Italy -- In this 8th century town, amid the rolling hills of the Tuscan countryside, everyone talks trash. Even at the local restaurant, vis...

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What's Your Favorite Method of Nature-Connection?

Linda Buzzell | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Yoga, Psychotherapy, Art, Nature, Environment, Green, Meditation, Science, Healing, Ecopsychology, Ecotherapy, Evidence-Based Medicine, Living News
Linda Buzzell

Research has shown that nature-connection of almost any kind turns out to be a powerful healing force.

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Mind-Controlled Wheelchair Invented By Toyota (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 08.01.2009 | Business

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Fox News had a fascinating interview with Michio Kaku, author of "Physics of the Impossible," in which they discussed Toyota's creation of a mind-con...

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Pooping Where You Sleep: Bad for the Economy

David Roberts | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Science, Economy, Environmental Practices, Green Economy, Coal, Green News
David Roberts

Time and time again, an environment-degrading practice often defended as necessary to economic health is revealed, upon closer inspection, to be uneconomic.

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Legalize Marijuana? Perish the Thought, Says Drug Czar -- Banish the Herb...and the Verb!

Norm Stamper | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Science, Chief Daryl Gates, Drug War, Marijuana Legalization, U.S. Drug Policy, Kerlikowske, Drug Czar, President Obama, Lapd, Politics News
Norm Stamper

The new Drug Czar: "The discussion about legalization is not a part of the president's vocabulary under any circumstances and it's not a part of mine."

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Japanese "Kaguya" Satellite Crashes Into The Moon, Send Back Final Footage (VIDEO)

Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Space Video, Video, Space, Kaguya Satellite, Science, Japanese Satellite Crash Video, Moon, Kaguya Crash Video, World News

***UPDATE*** Readers have pointed out that this is a rendered video reconstructing in 3-D, based on the observation date the satellite sent back minut...

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Tiny-rannosaurus Rex: Why Dinosaurs May Not Have Been As Huge As You Thought

Daily Mail | Posted 07.22.2009 | Home

Read More: Science, Dinosaurs Smaller, Dinosaurs, Animals, Dinosaurs Study, Home News

Dinosaurs may not have been as monstrously big as scientists and Hollywood film directors would have us believe. Scientists believe the original meth...

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Dear Media: Please Stop Reporting About Science

Jacob Dickerman | Posted 07.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Nasa, Bad Journalism, Science Journalism, The Rachel Maddow Show, Bbc, Moon, Science, Lunar, Media News
Jacob Dickerman

There's nothing special about the moon. If it didn't exist, life on this planet would be largely the same,

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Let's Ban English in School ... Except in English Class

Jeff Goldstein | Posted 07.20.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Mathematics, Science, Education, Math, Science Education, Universe, English, English Language, Comedy News
Jeff Goldstein

Why isn't math a natural part of all the subjects taught -- as in the case of say .... English?

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Evidence Found For Ancient Mars Lake

Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Mars, Space, Science, Mars Lakes, Nasa, Mars Lake, Green News

Several studies in recent years have claimed evidence for shorelines and other features that suggest ancient lakes on Mars. Firm evidence has remained...

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