Tuesday, May 07, 2013

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Glowing plant gets funds green light
A DIY project to create a glowing plant has proved a big hit on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter.  
Data from census replacement to detail Canada's immigration patterns
Canada is about to discover how colourful it is. Statistics Canada will publish the first part of its controversial National Household Survey...  
Bleeding Obama Zombies, Conceal Carry Bras and Other Wonders of the NRA
Quote Of The Day, May 7, 2013
Facebook platform industry news: Compass Labs, ShopIgniter, Marin and Syncapse
Compass Labs/ShopIgniter Social marketing platform Compass Labs today announced its partnership with ShopIgniter, a platform for creating rich...  
By Maggie Fox, Senior Writer, NBC News. The U.S. is a worse place for newborns than 68 other countries, including Egypt, Turkey and Peru, according to a report released Tuesday by Save the Children. A million babies die every year globally on the same ...
Tanning beds could soon come with a warning label, alerting users to the risk of skin cancer and noting that the devices shouldn't be used by people under 18. Tanning bed. The Food and Drug Administration proposed new warnings for tanning beds. (Photo: ...
Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press11 a.m. EDT May 7, 2013. Patients who received infusions with Gammagard fared no better than those given a dummy solution. Story Highlights. Baxter: Study missed primary endpoints; Gammagard is used to treat blood ...
Two new economic analyses suggest a recent slowdown in health-spending growth may reflect lasting change due to fundamental shifts in how health care is delivered and paid for. The findings come as economists and policy experts debate whether the ...
BEIJING | Tue May 7, 2013 8:24am IST. BEIJING May 7 (Reuters) - Four more people in China have died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing to 31 the number of deaths from the mysterious H7N9 virus, with the number of infections rising by two to 129, ...
By Sharon Begley. NEW YORK | Tue May 7, 2013 12:15am EDT. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stepping into the debate over who should be screened for lung cancer, a leading medical specialty group issued new guidelines on Tuesday recommending that doctors ...
By Genevra Pittman. NEW YORK | Tue May 7, 2013 9:53am EDT. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with advanced cancer tend to get more aggressive care at the end of life and spend more time in the intensive care unit if they receive spiritual support ...
Supermarket secrets and a new study that proves something you may have thought you knew already. You shouldn't shop
 
3-D printed guns a boon for criminals
For those out there worried that our nation's stern gun laws were keeping firearms out of the hands of too many people, the solution appears to...  
Three missing women found alive a decade on in Cleveland, Ohio
Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, as well as a six-year-old, found in a house a few miles from where they disappearedFollow the...  
Building Blocks of Life Found in Galactic Cloud
Astrochemists have detected two complex molecules in interstellar space, which may provide more clues as to where life's first complex...  
Highlights: April 28-May 4
NJ Gov. Christie says he had weight-loss surgery - USA TODAY
Philippines' Mt. Mayon Spews Ash, Kills 5 - Wall Street Journal
Police hail rescued women's bravery
Officials praise the "survival and perseverance" of three women who have been found alive in a Cleveland, Ohio, home after vanishing about a decade...  
Imran Khan hurt in election fall
 
  • Satellite to monitor Earth's forests
    A satellite that can weigh the Earth's forests has just been given the go ahead by the European Space Agency.
  • Mercury link to Arctic fox decline
    A dramatic decline in the number of Arctic foxes on one island is being linked to levels of mercury in their food.
  • Helicopter to target caterpillars
    A helicopter is to be used to spray woodland in West Berkshire to combat toxic caterpillars that can cause health problems.
  • World's first 3D-printer gun fired
    The world’s first gun made using a 3D printer is successfully tested in the US by a group planning to make the blueprints available online.
  • US accuses China of cyber-spying
    China's government and military have targeted US government computers as part of a cyber espionage campaign, a US report on China says.
  • Arctic Ocean 'acidifying rapidly'
    Carbon dioxide is rapidly altering the chemistry of the Arctic, and the changes will last many thousands of years, a report says.
 
Official: US Special Forces team wasn't allowed to fly to Benghazi during attack
AFP/Getty ImagesAn armed man waves his rifle as buildings and cars at the U.S. consulate compound are engulfed in flames on Sept. 11, 2012, during...  
Restrict EU immigrants' access to benefits, says pro-Europe group
Business for New Europe shifts position as Labour MP calls on his party to oppose free movement of workers in EUPro-European business leaders...  
Bank loan shortage frustrates smaller manufacturers as output and orders fall
Pink unleashes fury on her fans after receiving hate mail for cancelling Birmingham show
Pink tells fans to ‘kiss my ass’ after receiving hate mail for cancelled gig(Picture: Getty) Pink has lashed out at fans telling them...  
Carey Mulligan: Nobody notices me when I go out with Marcus Mumford
Depressing Headline of the Day
President Ilham Aliyev receives former Romanian leader
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today received former Romanian President Emil Constantinescu, Azertag reported.  
Questions as decade old US kidnapping ends
Spellbound by a horrible story with a happy ending, Americans are awaiting details on the ordeal of three women who went missing around a decade...  
Comelecs latest move vs. vote-buying Money ban
Grandma Catches Fire
Close call. She almost went from a Golden Girl to an extra-crispy girl.  
Man dies in Donegal accident
A man in his 50s has died after the car he was driving and a bus were in collision today.  
A Personal Dilemma
A personal dilemma has come up for me in the last 24 hours.  And since it concerns religion, I figure the blog might be the perfect place to...  
New: Twitter widget, Email Me and a Sneak-Peek
Hi publishers, here's what's new this week at Paper.li!New Twitter widget:Last year Twitter announced that they would be retiring their original...  
Can Doctors Diagnose MS from Blood?
Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate

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BurlingtonFreePress.com
The state of Vermont has hitched its wagon to the star of 90 percent renewable power by 2050, and is pulling mighty hard to build more wind turbines, solar farms, and other renewable power generators. And some Vermonters are pushing back just as hard.
Voice of America
It offered above-market prices for electricity supplied by renewable energy companies but only offered the premium to firms who bought most of their equipment locally. Monday's appeal decision revised some of a December ruling in which the Japan and ...
CBS Local
CHICAGO — At Monday's American Wind Energy Association conference in Chicago, leaders of the newly-formed Michigan Energy and Technology Center (METC) announced their multi-faceted plan to generate economic activity in the Great Lakes State.
CleanTechnica
America's most fossil fuel dependent state has made great strides since laying out a statewide sustainability plan known as Hawaii 2050. The state acknowledged its challenges: 90% of food imported, greater than 90% of energy derived from burning ...
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Human Habitat

Cordis News
Recent years have brought striking discoveries in the field of bacterial genetics and ecology that sprung from rapid advances in sequencing technologies and 'omics' approaches, bioinformatics, microscopy and various analytical techniques. These ...
Greenpeace International (blog)
World governments, the public, and the UN now recognize that the human population number matters in achieving ecological sustainability for human communities. For forty years, since the first United Nations environment meeting in Stockholm in 1972, ...
The Daily Camera
Volunteers from Nederland's Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center and local organizations shared facts about nature with children and adults at Wild Bear's12th annual Earth Day event Sunday at Boulder's Central Park. The event was moved from April ...
Zee News
Nepal to work with neighbours to conserve Himalayan ecology Kathmandu: Nepal will work closely with its neighbours, India, China and Bhutan, to conserve the unique ecology of the Himalayan region, an intergovernmental body looking after conservation ...
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Water Power

Los Angeles Times
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — For decades this rural basin has battled over the Klamath River's most precious resource: water that sustains fish, irrigates farms and powers the hydroelectric dams that block one of the largest salmon runs on the West Coast.
Yahoo! Canada Shine (blog)
Things are always tense when archrivals face off. When the teams are competing for a state title, the tension is even more pronounced. Yet that doesn't excuse what happened at the conclusion of the Florida state water polo championship match between ...
Jerusalem Post
For the first three months of winter – from November to January – a series of heavy rainstorms gave Israelis confidence after having experienced a sequence of many drought years, the Water Authority said. However, the months of February and March that ...
Charlotte Observer
A road in Charlotte was blocked Tuesday morning and firefighters were going door-to-door warning people in Gaston County about flooding along the Catawba River. The water is flowing downstream after mountain counties received heavy rainfall Monday.
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