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Are Australian Travel Junkies Destroying the Planet?If you live on an isolated island and want to see the world, you're going to need to fly to get there. No one knows this better than Australians, who are considered some of the most well-traveled people on the planet. But there's one Australian who says her fellow citizens must squash t... |
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![Magpies Challenge Bird Brain Myth [Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)]](http://statics.keegy.com//img/postsh/1F/2B/th2-magpies-challenge-bird-brain-myth-living-the-scientific-life-scientist-interrupted.jpg)
Magpies Challenge Bird Brain Myth [Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)]tags: cognition, behavior, self-recognition, self awareness, tool use, memory, brain architecture, birds, European magpie, Pica pica, bpr3.org/?p=52 Figure 1. European magpie, Pica pica, with yellow mark [larger view]. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060202. Birds have been dispara... |
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Frost Sparkling on Mars Phoenix Lander MirrorMars Phoenix sent home a series of images of frost accumulating on the mirror of the telltale --a four-inch instrument used to sense wind direction and velocity on the lander. Although frost was also seen accumulating on the ground a few days ago, and around rocks during the Viking missions in t... |
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Economist Opens Online Debate on EnergyThe Economist, that venerable British magazine about money, has opened a new online debate on the future of energy. The debate presents the pro and con sides to the following proposition: "We can solve our energy problems with existing technologies today, without the need for breakthroug... |
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Should we lower the drinking age back to 18? [Pure Pedantry]I have talked a little before about alternative strategies to lowering college alcohol abuse -- alternative meaning as opposed to outright bans like the 21 drinking age. Now a set of college presidents are circulating something called the Amethyst Initiative whose goal is to lower the drinki... |
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King penguin becomes a knight; his relatives are endangered by global warming [Thoughts from Kansas]Military penguin becomes a 'Sir': A penguin who was previously made a Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian Army has been knighted at Edinburgh Zoo. Penguin Nils Olav has been an honorary member and mascot of the Norwegian King's Guard since 1972. Over the years, he has been promoted through t... |
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