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Study: Americans consume 34 gigabytes of information per dayThere's a pretty interesting report that was just published today entitled “How much information?” It was put together by the Global Information Industry ...
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The Facebook Privacy Fiasco BeginsThe Facebook Privacy Fiasco Begins by Jason Kincaid on December 9, 2009 Today Facebook finally started to roll out a new set of privacy controls. These tools, many months in the making, are designed to help simplify the site’s notoriously confusing privacy options. But alongside them ...
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Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after 'Danish text' leak | Environment | guardian.co.ukCopenhagen climate summit in disarray after 'Danish text' leak Developing countries react furiously to leaked draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations, sideline the UN's negotiating role and abandon the Kyoto protocol • Read the 'Danish text' • In pictures: Copenhagen day two ...
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'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation' | Comment is free | The Guardian'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation' Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency. Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change ...
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War Is Peace: Can Science Fight Media Disinformation?: Scientific AmericanWhen I saw the statement repeated online that theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge would be dead by now if he lived in the U.K. and had to depend on the National Health Service (he, of course, is alive and working in the U.K., where he always has), I reflected on ...
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Obama is having the best first year of any president since Franklin Roosevelt. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate MagazineHow Obama will potentially achieve more in his first year than any President since FDR
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Spain stages The Greatest Show on Earth - Barcelona v Real Madrid | Sid Lowe | Football | The ObserverWhen Florentino Pérez spent €65m signing Kaká from Milan, followed it up four days later with the €94m purchase of Cristiano Ronaldo and then took his total spending to €254m (£230m), the club's director general, Jorge Valdano, likened it to a huge cinema production. He was quite right. This ...
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Futurity.org – Bizarre band of paleo-crocs unearthed5 fossil crocodiles from Gondwana 100 miliion years ago, three new species, found in Sahara
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Science journalism: don't forget the editors : bioephemeraDiscussion of problem caused in popular science journalism by misleading headlines
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Pretending the climate email leak isn't a crisis won't make it go away | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.ukI have seldom felt so alone. Confronted with crisis, most of the environmentalists I know have gone into denial. The emails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia , they say, are a storm in a tea cup, no big deal, exaggerated out of all recognition. It is ...
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