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• Collect Art Purchase Scheme - About

  Public Bookmark added by meika on 12/01/2008

  What is the COLLECT Art Purchase Scheme? The COLLECT Art Purchase Scheme is an interest-free loan scheme that enables you to purchase artworks by contemporary Tasmanian artists from participating Tasmanian galleries. Who can use it? All Australian residents can apply to the COLLECT Art Purchase ...

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• Where does the gene activity of youth go? New findings may hold the key

  Public Bookmark added by meika on 11/26/2008

  New evidence may explain why it is that we lose not only our youthful looks, but also our youthful pattern of gene activity with age. A report in the Nov. 26 issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, reveals that a protein perhaps best known for its role in the life-extending benefits ...

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• Oiligarchy | Molleindustria

  Public Bookmark added by meika on 11/25/2008

  online game about big oil

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• 'Gray's Paradox' solved: Researchers discover secret of speedy dolphins

  Public Bookmark added by meika on 11/24/2008

  In 1936, zoologist Sir James Gray observed dolphins swimming faster than 20 mph, but his studies had concluded that the muscles of dolphins simply weren't strong enough to support that speed. The conundrum came to be known as "Gray's Paradox." For decades the puzzle prompted much speculation ...

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• Putting a green cap on garbage dumps

  Public Bookmark added by meika on 11/24/2008

  Landfill sites produce the greenhouse gases methane and carbon dioxide as putrescible waste decays. Growing plants and trees on top of a landfill, a process known as "phytocapping" could reduce the production and release of these gases, according to Australian scientists' writing in a ...

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