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Oct 22, 2013

This Is Your Brain on Toxins - "what are the lessons from the human catastrophe of lead poisoning over so many decades?"

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NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF -  NY Times:  "Lead helps to guard your health."...  That was the marketing line that the former National Lead...

Fructose: the poison index | fructose concentration enough to do major arterial and pancreatic damage

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A ruling on fructose boosts the powerful sugar industry, either by incompetence or collusion, but is based on pseudoscience Fizzy drinks can...
Oct 21, 2013

Train carrying oil, gas derails in Alberta, Canada in massive fire & explosion

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  This photo provided by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, emergency crews work a massive fire after a CN tanker train carrying oil and gas der...

China smog emergency shuts city of 11 million people

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Reuters :  (Reuters) - Choking smog all but shut down one of northeastern China's largest cities on Monday, forcing schools to suspended...

Great Lakes at record lows "the longest in its period of record,"

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Crains Detroit - In September, Lake Michigan's average water level was 577.56 feet, or 18 inches below its long-term average for the mon...
Oct 20, 2013

Store chain takes vendor products off the shelves of its stores because of serious OSHA safety citations

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Outpost Natural Foods says it will take Palermo pizza products off the shelves of its stores because of serious safety citations the company...

Carbon-negative energy, machine that converts biomass into carbon-negative energy.

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Tom Price, the director of strategic initiatives at All Power Labs, demonstrates the company's PowerPallet, a machine that converts biom...
Oct 19, 2013

U.S. debt jumps a record $328 billion — tops $17 trillion for first time - @washtimes

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U.S. debt jumped a record $328 billion on Thursday, the first day the federal government was able to borrow money under the deal President O...

US Should Cancel Plutonium Plant, Say Scientists

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"Rachel Oswald reports that the Union of Concerned Scientists, an independent science advocacy organization, says that the United State...

A Looming #Energy Crisis Lies At The Heart Of The #Shutdown - via @gailtheactuary

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As the US heads toward debt default .... the underlying reason for the predicament is generally not clear to the American people or the worl...

RECOVERY? 4 in 5 in USA face near-poverty, no work

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives...

$32 million fishery business collapses after fleet fails to catch a single fish

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A $32-million commercial fishery has inexplicably and completely collapsed this year on the B.C. coast. The sardine seine fleet has gone hom...

Thank the EPA that Gas Prices Could Dip Below $3 by Year-End

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According to David Lutz of  Stifel, Nicolaus & Company , consumers are going to get a big boost to their wallets before the end of the y...

No Battery Required for This Wireless Device : uses TV and Wi-Fi signals for free energy

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Sending texts after a phone's battery dies sounds impossible, right? Soon it might not, thanks to a new technology that not only uses TV...
Oct 18, 2013

What is the monetary value of the ocean ? [feedly]

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Professor Robert Diaz of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science is a co-editor of "Valuing the Ocean" a major new study by an i...

Poor children are now the majority in American public schools in South, West

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Washington Post -  A majority of students in public schools throughout the American South and West are low-income for the first time in at l...
Oct 17, 2013

Air pollution world leading cause of cancer - U.N. agency WHO

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(Reuters)  By Kate Kelland and Stephanie Nebehay   - The air we breathe is laced with cancer-causing substances and is being officially clas...