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• Concerned Montrealers fight plan to pour sewage into St. Lawrence

  03-10-2015 23:03 via cbc.ca
  
  More than 25,000 people have signed a new petition demanding the city put a stop to its plans to dump raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River.
  
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• VIDEO: Farmers find woolly mammoth skeleton

  03-10-2015 21:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Farmers in Michigan uncover a woolly mammoth skeleton in a soybean field.
  
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• Lost 'Epic of Gilgamesh' Verse Depicts Cacophonous Abode of Gods

  03-10-2015 18:16
  
  The new finding, a clay tablet, reveals a previously unknown "chapter" of the epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. In 2011, the Sulaymaniyah Museum in Slemani, in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, purchased a set of 80 to 90 clay tablets from a known smuggler. The large block of clay, etched with cuneiform writing, was still caked in mud when Al-Rawi advised the Sulaymaniyah Museum to purchase artifact for the agreed upon $800.
  
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• Oregon Mass Shooting: How to Talk to Kids About Violence

  03-10-2015 18:14
  
  Hearing about violent events in the news can evoke feelings of sadness, grief, helplessness and anger in little ones, according to the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS) at the University of California at Los Angeles. Instead, parents have to walk a fine line — being honest without being gory, accepting the natural emotions that come while simultaneously reassuring kids that caregivers will do everything to protect them, said Dr. Matthew Lorber, the acting director of the C
  
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• 'Martian' Astronaut Would Get Cancer if Mission Were Real, Author Says

  03-10-2015 18:00 via rss.sciam.com
  
  No real-life technology exists to protect a traveler from the potentially deadly doses of radiation on Mars
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• Martian Astronaut Would Get Cancer If Mission Were Real, Author Says

  03-10-2015 18:00 via rss.sciam.com
  
  No extant technology exists to protect a traveler from the potentially deadly doses of radiation on Mars
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• Rebels accuse South Sudan government of attacks weeks after peace deal

  03-10-2015 15:48
  
  By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudanese rebels said on Saturday government troops had attacked their positions over the last three days, casting further doubt on a fragile peace agreement in the world's youngest country. No one was immediately available to comment from the government - but both sides have regularly accused the other of breaking the ceasefire ratified by parliament last month under pressure from the United Nations, regional and world powers. “For the last three days w
  
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• Interstellar Travel as Delusional Fantasy [Excerpt]

  03-10-2015 14:00 via rss.sciam.com
  
  A popular critique of a voyage to the stars reveals the hazards of becoming hoodwinked by tragically misconstrued “pathological technologies” that promise us possibilities impossible to...
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• How much for that Nobel prize in the window?

  03-10-2015 12:56
  
  No need to make peace in the Middle East, resolve one of science's great mysteries or pen a masterpiece: the easiest way to get yourself a Nobel prize may be to buy one.
  
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• Franklin Expedition search: Every HMS Erebus artifact 'has a story to tell'

  03-10-2015 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A fragment of HMS Erebus's wheel is one of the summer's more symbolic finds from the Franklin Expedition shipwreck, but it's only one clue toward unlocking the High Arctic mystery of exactly how Sir John Franklin's mid-19th century expedition met its demise.
  
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• Trade in invasive plants is blossoming

  03-10-2015 06:00
  
  (ETH Zurich) Every day, hundreds of different plant species -- many of them listed as invasive -- are traded online worldwide on auction platforms. This exacerbates the problem of uncontrollable biological invasions.
  
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• Does knowing high-status people help or hurt?

  03-10-2015 01:18
  How happy you are may have something to do with who you know -- and where you come from. A sociology professor, set out to discover whether knowing high-status people helped or harmed mental health, using depressive symptoms as a proxy.
  
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• Researcher calls for changes to colorectal cancer screening guidelines

  03-10-2015 01:17
  Colorectal cancer will claim the lives of close to 50,000 Americans this year, according to the American Cancer Society. Screening is the most effective way to reduce the risk of dying from the disease, yet as a physician argues in a recent editorial, current recommendations to screen older people with a family history of colorectal cancer, specifically with colonoscopy every five years, is not justified for most patients.
  
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• Lead exposure in mothers can affect future generations

  03-10-2015 01:17
  Researchers have discovered that mothers with high levels of lead in their blood not only affect the fetal cells of their unborn children, but also their grandchildren.
  
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• Largest dinosaur population growth study ever shows how Maiasaura lived and died

  03-10-2015 01:17
  Research into a vast bone bed in western Montana has yielded the most complete life history of any dinosaur known.
  
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• Sondors ebike crowdfunding campaign called misleading by Canadian man

  03-10-2015 00:28 via cbc.ca
  
  A Canadian man is Going Public after he says he was misled by one of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns ever, and had nowhere to turn for help.
  
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