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PBT: Michael Jordan, who will be an assistant captain for the U.S.
Read More »What Causes Prejudice against Immigrants, and How Can It Be Tamed?
In the wake of the bombing in Oslo and the shooting on Utoya Island in Norway, the spotlight has focused on confessed perpetrator Anders Behring Breivik. What drove the Norwegian citizen with extremist right-wing views to these mass killings? Although one of the terrorist's driving motives was anti-immigrant sentiment, he also killed fellow Norwegians belonging to his own ethnic group
Read More »It’s back to work for Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods returns to golf under a new set of circumstances.
Read More »Breach Of The Week: Your Smartphone Is A Hacker Paradise
Packed with personal data, and taken with you everywhere, your smartphone is an ideal target for hackers. And both iOS and Android have vulnerabilities.
Read More »PGT: Thompson routs field in LGPA Q-school stage
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Read More »Science Goes Guerilla in the U.S.
This is an invited guest post by Olivia Koski, graduate of the NYU program for science, health and environmental reporting.
Read More »Presidential Commission Seeks Volunteers to Store U.S. Nuclear Waste
Nestled more than half a kilometer deep in a salt mine, the plutonium slowly decays, taking some 250,000 years to become uranium. As the U.S. debates what to do with the nuclear waste produced by its fleet of 104 reactors, the radioactive legacy of decades of nuclear bomb-making sits entombed in the U.S.
Read More »Huge 2007 tundra fire seen as ominous sign for climate
By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A wildfire that burned over 400 square miles of Alaska tundra in the scorching summer of 2007 poured as much carbon into the atmosphere as the entire Arctic normally absorbs each year, according to a new study in the scientific journal Nature. [More]
Read More »PGT: Masson takes lead at Women’s British Open
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Read More »Two Key Design Rules Enable Chemists to Make Safer Compounds
By Richard Van Noorden of Nature magazine When chemists design new detergents, shampoos, paints, and lubricants, they don't immediately consider whether their molecules will have toxic side-effects. [More]
Read More »PGT: Tiger commits to play in PGA Championship
PGT: Tiger Woods has committed to play in the PGA Championship in two weeks at Atlanta Athletic Club.
Read More »Telomere length suggests poor people age faster: Study
People who were poor, ate poorly, had shorter telomeres than Scottish counterparts
Read More »The 5 Questions Entrepreneurs Need To Ask In Order To Get Funded
In my last post, I cautioned about the dangers of learning about venture capital from watching a TV show .
Read More »This Week In Bots: The Locomotion Edition
Roving robots are something we take for granted.
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