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A Farmer Bets Better Fake Chicken Meat Will Be As Good As The Real Thing : The Salt : NPR
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 9:41 AM EDT (NPR)
Beyond Meat, a new company based in Maryland, has come up with an alternative to chicken meat that it claims is a dead ringer for the real thing. And unlike other meat alternatives on the market, this one aims to be cheap, as well as tasty. The inspiration for Beyond Meat (for …
Tubing In: Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff Prelude in G Op. 32 No. 5
Wed May 16, 2012 12:00 PM EDT
According to Youtube, an hour of video is uploaded every second. Most of it is total crap. There are, however, some gems: here's one.
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6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 2:16 PM EDT (CRACKED.com)
When it comes to the birth of America, most of us are working from a stew of elementary school history lessons, Westerns and vague Thanksgiving mythology. And while it's not surprising those sources might biff a couple details, what's shocking is how much less interesting the v …
An Atheist World in 30 Years
Tue May 15, 2012 12:29 PM EDT
An upstanding Newsviner posted an article recently asking the question of the secular vision of the world, come 30 years hence "What Would It Look Like???? [sic]" Herein, I take a stab at answering the question, with the intent to allay some of the fears that the religious …
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Global Warming: An Exclusive Look at James Hansen's Scary New Math
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 3:16 PM EDT (TIME)
How can NASA physicist and climatologist James E. Hansen, writing in the New York Times today, “say with high confidence” that recent heat waves in Texas and Russia “were not natural events” but actually “caused by human-induced climate change&rdq …
Tubing In: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
Mon May 14, 2012 12:00 PM EDT
According to Youtube, an hour of video is uploaded every second. Most of it is total crap. There are, however, some gems: here's one.
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The Price We Pay: Gas Is Down, Maybe For A While : NPR
Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 3:36 PM EDT (NPR)
After spending much of the year on the rise, gas prices are now falling. The average price for a gallon of regular gas nationwide is $3.73, according to AAA. That's a drop of nearly 20 cents in one month, and industry analysts expect the price to keep falling. You can get in a …
Tubing In: Building the Parthenon
Fri May 11, 2012 12:00 PM EDT
According to Youtube, an hour of video is uploaded every second. Most of it is total crap. There are, however, some gems: here's one.
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Why Atheists Have Become a Kick-Ass Movement You Want on Your Side |
Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 5:39 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Why would any organization or social change movement want to ally itself with a community that's energetic, excited about activism, highly motivated, increasingly visible, good at fundraising, good at getting into the news, increasingly populated by young people, and with a pro …
Gay marriage: North Carolina begs the question too
Seeded on Wed May 9, 2012 10:17 PM EDT (The Economist)
NORTH CAROLINA passed its constitutional amendment to bar gay marriage by a thumping 61-39 majority yesterday. Celebrating the vote, Tami Fitzgerald of Marriage NC, the group that backed the amendment, provided a slightly different variety of question-begging from the ones my c …
Stem cell shield 'could protect cancer patients'
Seeded on Wed May 9, 2012 2:35 PM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
It may be possible to use "stem cell shielding" to protect the body from the damaging effects of chemotherapy, early results from a US trial suggest. Chemotherapy drugs try to kill rapidly dividing cancer cells, but they can also affect other healthy tissues such as bone marro …
Tubing In: Are we ready for neo-evolution?
Wed May 9, 2012 12:00 PM EDT
According to Youtube, an hour of video is uploaded every second. Most of it is total crap. There are, however, some gems: here's one.
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Flu research: How to make bird flu fly, part one
Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 3:05 PM EDT (The Economist)
ON APRIL 27th, after much toing and froing, the Dutch government gave Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam permission to submit his paper on bird flu to Science. Dr Fouchier is the head of one of two groups studying how bird flu might become transmissible bet …
Half of Americans Support Legal Gay Marriage
Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 2:59 PM EDT (gallup.com)
Fifty percent of Americans believe same-sex marriages should be recognized by law as valid, with the same rights as traditional marriages -- down slightly from 53% last year, but marking only the second time in Gallup's history of tracking this question that at least half of Am …
The Man Who Killed the Middle East
Tue May 8, 2012 2:21 PM EDT
Baghdad around the year 1000 was a good place to be. Along with other cities in the Muslim world such as Mecca, Alexandria, and Jerusalem, Baghdad was a major hub of trade, as well as of science and philosophy.
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Curry's ability to fight cancer put to the test
Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 12:17 PM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
A chemical found in curry is to be tested for its ability to kill bowel cancer tumours in patients.
Nothing Special or Why We Are Not Alone
Mon May 7, 2012 11:25 PM EDT
Two of the axioms that lie at the base of modern philosophy of science are the related doctrines of the Copernican Principle and the Mediocrity Principle. Both state, essentially, that we're nothing special.
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Tubing In: Beethoven, Quartet no. 12, and an Introduction
Mon May 7, 2012 4:05 PM EDT
A thought struck me as I walked back from the grocery store just now, toilet paper in tow. I've seeded a couple of videos since re-starting this old addiction of mine, but videos seem to occupy a weird twilight zone in Newsvine architecture, not quite fitting the role of a …
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America's labour market: Bringing back those missing millions
Seeded on Mon May 7, 2012 10:20 AM EDT (The Economist)
FRIDAY'S jobs report touched off a round of hand-wringing over the possibility of permanent damage to America's labour force as a result of years of labour-market weakness. Labour-force participation fell in April; there has been virtually no recovery in the employment-po …
The End of Age, Part II
Fri May 4, 2012 10:37 PM EDT
Can you see the wise man simplyLiving, loving quietlyEvery breath he takes eternityTill the sun turns black
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China's eco-cities: Sustainable urban living in Tianjin
Seeded on Thu May 3, 2012 10:34 PM EDT (BBC - Homepage)
It takes less than an hour on the new high-speed train line to travel the 150 kilometres (93 miles) southeast from Beijing to Tanggu, the dirty coastal port town of nearby Tianjin – the world's fifth biggest port. Here, you can see signs of the past and present: fine colo …
Gary Kovacs: Tracking the trackers | Video on TED.com
Seeded on Thu May 3, 2012 5:29 PM EDT ()
As you surf the Web, information is being collected about you. Web tracking is not 100% evil -- personal data can make your browsing more efficient; cookies can help your favorite websites stay in business. But, says Gary Kovacs, it's your right to know what data is being colle …
Private space flight: Keep on truckin'
Seeded on Thu May 3, 2012 2:48 PM EDT (The Economist)
SIX years ago, when NASA, America’s space agency, announced it wanted the private sector to take over responsibility for ferrying cargo to the International Space Station (ISS), many scoffed that it was a fantasy. But yesterday’s fantasy has become today’s rea …
Scientific freedom and security: The world's deadliest bioterrorist | The Economist
Seeded on Wed May 2, 2012 4:32 PM EDT (The Economist)
SOME things are best kept secret. It is hard, for instance, to argue that public interest dictates publishing the blueprints for an atom bomb. The matter is less clear-cut, however, when scientific information that has the potential to wreak havoc might also stop that havoc hap …
From Minister To Atheist: A Story Of Losing Faith
Seeded on Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:20 PM EDT (NPR)
Teresa MacBain has a secret, one she's terrified to reveal. "I'm currently an active pastor and I'm also an atheist," she says. "I live a double life. I feel pretty good on Monday, but by Thursday — when Sunday's right around the corner — I start having stomachache …
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