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Editor's Note: Actually, Col. Muammar Qadaffi discovered and developed what these scientists are talking about a long time before. "The Great Man-Made River Project" (GMMRP) was conceived in the 1960s and built in the 80s. Col. Qadaffi made Libya self-sufficient in food and clean water. Buried underground deep in the... » read this article
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Philip Guelpa , WSWS
23 September 2011
A newly reported fossil discovery from the Malapa, South Africa may provide greater insight into the evolution of the genus Homo from our australopithecine ancestors. The fossils consist of remains of two individuals, an adult female and juvenile male, possibly a mother and son. They appear to... » read this article
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Introduction: The scientific world is all aflutter about a report that describes a strong bias in funding from the National Institutes of Health (N.I.H.). The report notes that the N.I.H. tries to make its evaluation process "color blind". This, of course, is impossible when scientists normally promote their work by... » read this article
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Dahr Jamail , Al Jazeera
Severe weather events are wracking the planet, and experts warn of even greater consequences to come.
The rate of ice loss in two of Greenland's largest glaciers has increased so much in the last 10 years that the amount of melted water would be enough to completely fill Lake Erie,... » read this article
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Paul Rincon , BBC
A parasitic wasp protects itself from predators while cocooned by turning its ladybird host into a "bodyguard".
After a female wasp injects its egg into the ladybird, the larva munches on its host's internal tissues before breaking out through the abdomen.
In some cases the partially paralysed ladybird remains sitting... » read this article
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Kelly Zito , SF Gate
The giant pumps propelling water to some of California's biggest cities and farming districts trapped and killed 6 million young splittail last month, enraging conservation groups and further stoking the fiery debate over operation of the state's sprawling water system.
The killings are also renewing calls to relist the splittail... » read this article
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Jason Palmer , BBC
Editor's Note: We have always heard that time is not an absolute but rather, an invention of mankind that rules our lives. This fascinating Amazonian tribe have no concept of time; nor do they have the concept of "river" as we know rivers; nor do they measure their lives in... » read this article
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