Mountain blasted to make room for world's largest telescope
by Marc Pinter-Krainer - The peak of a 10,000-ft-high mountain has been blasted in Chile to make room for a gigantic telescope The top of a Chilean mountain was blown up in an almost ceremonial...
View Article30 Gorgeous Travel Locations Giving Pinterest Wanderlust
As kids we tore breathtaking photos from travel magazines and glued them into scrapbooks or threw them on our walls. Today we share those photos on Pinterest, no glue sticks required. Though the medium...
View ArticleMarijuana: Cubans Need To Talk About It
Yoani Sanchez, HAVANA | 20 June 2014 - Livio went on a trip and left his friends in charge of the most precious thing in his life. It wasn't a child, or a pet, or even one of those home appliances so...
View ArticleEarth's Biggest Volcano Might Be Waking Up
Ready to rumble? The world's largest volcano—Hawaii's Mauna Loa—appears to be stirring back to life after a relatively quiet 30 years, geologists say. Don't fret: It isn't about to erupt at any...
View ArticleTeam of Researchers from Dalhousie University to be Part of Global Initiative
researcher-Ocean-tiny-organisms.jpg A team of researchers at Dalhousie University is one of the 160 groups selected to take part in a global initiative, which aims to know more about tiny organisms...
View ArticleAstronaut Jamie Game Is Available on the App Store
Astronaut Jamie - fascinating arcade game about the adventures through the Solar System has been released for all iOS devices.Vixarix Company launches new adventurous game about the journey of little...
View ArticleWhy China Will Win the 2022 FIFA World Cup
With the FIFA World Cup finals being under way in Brazil, a popular joke in China tells the story of a fairy visiting Earth, appearing in front of a group of Chinese and telling them that they will be...
View ArticleIncrease in Oil Extraction Activities to Boost the Well Intervention Services...
The need for energy is forcing the oil operators to opt for new exploration and production activities; and therefore the need to invest in proved reserves of oil is rising....
View ArticleThe study 'not so cool' kids will love
If you weren't part of the "cool club" in middle school, you may have an extra spring in your step after hearing about a new study, which could be titled "Revenge of the Nerds." Remember the kids who...
View ArticleRare Fossil 'Mona Lisa' Meteorites May Be Evidence Of Ancient Cosmic Collision
They're being likened to the Mona Lisa -- four fossil meteorites that may be linked to an ancient cosmic crash in the early universe. Dr. Philipp Heck, curator of meteorites and polar studies at the...
View ArticleHow the US Is Bullying El Salvador Into Using Monsanto's GMO Seeds
President Salvador Sanchez Ceren, inaugural speech, June 1, 2014, San Salvador. Photo courtesy of Vivien Feyer.The crowd was jubilant. Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa waved triumphantly to the...
View ArticleAustralian company disputes it's planning to mine rare earth elements in...
An Australian company disputes that it is planning to mine rare earth elements and thorium in northern Idaho. Reported by FOXNews.com 2 hours ago.
View ArticleCompany disputes Idaho rare earth mining claims
BONNERS FERRY, Idaho (AP) — An Australian company disputes that it is planning to mine rare earth elements and thorium in northern Idaho. The Bonner County Daily Bee reports (http://bit.ly/1weSeS5 )...
View ArticlePresident Obama Establishes Task Force To Save Bees
Honeybees are dying off, and now a team of environmental regulators has been tasked with determining why. On Friday, President Barack Obama announced plans for a task force to help save the bees. The...
View ArticleChina’s Clever Little Trick Won't Save Molycorp
China's reported new taxes on rare earth producers, despite the expected upward effect on prices, will not provide sufficient force to save Molycorp. Reported by Motley Fool 3 hours ago.
View ArticleDeborah Lindquist: The New Summer Trend: Pattern Play
*By Deborah Lindquist* While last year was the year of the stripe, spring/summer 2014 has introduced a new trend, the year of the print. As we know, sometimes trends appear, flutter round a bit and...
View ArticleJerry Seinfeld's 5 Tips On Social Media Etiquette
Jerry Seinfeld is offering some tips on social media etiquette in the latest issue of Wired."Since I'm a cutting edge technology guy, I get asked a lot of technical questions," the 60-year-old comedian...
View ArticleAfter 687 Days on Mars, What's Next for Curiosity?
It takes Mars almost twice as long as Earth to rotate around the Sun Tuesday marks 687 days — one full Martian year — since NASA's Curiosity rover touched down on the Red Planet's surface Plenty has...
View ArticleMay was Earth's warmest on record, NOAA says. Will 2014 set a record, too?
According to NOAA, the average global temperature this May was 59.93 degrees F., 1.33 degrees above the 20th century average and .09 degrees above May 2010. Reported by Christian Science Monitor 5...
View ArticleWriting That Imagines What It's Like to Be: A Review of Kola Boof's Selected...
Let's just spell it out right at the start: Kola Boof is one of the great migrant writers of our time. Her Selected Writings, If My Father Dies I Give Birth to Him Again (edited by Mark Fogarty),...
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