Communities of Resistance

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Coincidence Control Network: File #022

This week: The Balsa Wood Titanic, The Phantom of Winnipeg, May Day and Occupy’s Second Wave, Kim’s Favorite Bedtime Story, the Dark Knight of Sterling Heights, MI and The Pornographic Jihad. Personnel –  Joe Nolan, Nicholas Pell,  Joseph Matheny, and Ken Eakins. [powerpress] Links The Titanic Strikes Back – Link Winnipeg/Phantom  - Link Clouds will save us from global warming. [...]

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Atlantic Hurricane Forecast: Storms Close to the Coast

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AccuWeather's 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season forecasts 12 named tropical storms, five named hurricanes and two major hurricanes. [More]

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Occam s Razor, Flying Monkeys and Musings on Lager Beer

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I thought I was done with this miniseries on alcohol, yeast and civilization, but several people have written me asking about one particular mystery of great relevance to their lives, lager beer. And so here you have it, the seventh ( see the first ,…

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They came from Mars

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Computer generated image of Mars at daybreak. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A glowing fireball descended through the sky over North Africa last July, accompanied by two sonic booms. Observers saw the fireball turn from yellow to green, then split into two…

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Clean Energy Lags Put World on Pace for 6 Degrees Celsius of Global Warming

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LONDON — The world is far behind on delivering the low-carbon energy it needs, and unless urgent action is taken, calamitous climate change is certain, the International Energy Agency told a meeting yesterday of energy ministers whose countries accoun…

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Dirty Science: What Makes Soil Become Dense?

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How Alan Turing Invented the Computer Age

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In 1936, whilst studying for his Ph.D. at Princeton University, the English mathematician Alan Turing published a paper, On Computable Numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem, which became the foundation of computer science. I…

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Windmills Show the Power of Access to Knowledge

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In 2001, in the face of a widespread famine, a then 14 year-old Malawian William Kamkwamba decided to find a way to secure a better future for his family. After he was forced to drop out of secondary school due to the tuition requirements, William u…

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Coincidence Control Network: File #021

This week: Iran’s giant Intranet, Bradley Manning needs to go home, Anonymous creates a new Megaupload?, Goodbye Lulzsec – hai thar Malsec, FBI seizes another mailer, Who’s to blame for oil spills?, Hole drummer’s documentary, Surviving Progress, Debt, and three boobies! Personnel –  Joe Nolan, Nicholas Pell,  Joseph Matheny, and Ken Eakins. Linkypoops Iran unplugs the Interbutzz – Link [...]

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"Pay What You Want" May Deter Consumers

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Music, film and video game makes face a new online, digital world. And some are testing a revolutionary pricing system: "pay what you want." But a new study finds that when consumers can name their own price, many may opt out of buying at all…

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Why the Engineering, Computer Science Gender Gap Persists

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Shree Bose, who won the grand prize at this year's Google Global Science Fair, credits her love of science to her big brother, Pinaki. As a child, he had a habit of teaching her what he'd just learned in science class. How atoms work, for examp…

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Critically Endangered Colombian Parrot Doubles Its Protected Habitat

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One of the world’s rarest birds has a little bit more breathing room this week. The Giles Fuertesi Nature Reserve in the Colombian Andes, home to the critically endangered Fuertes’s parrot ( Hapalopsittaca fuertesi ), has doubled in siz…

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307-Various: “Palenque Entheobotany Seminars Remembered”

Today’s program features, first of all, a conversation between Matt Pallamary and Wild Bill, who begin by reminiscing about the legendary Palenque Entheobotany Seminars, but who then go on to other wild tales, some of which may actually be true. After …

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When Faced With A New Problem, Vervet Monkeys Look To Mom

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A trip to an unfamiliar part of the world is all you need in order to realize that humans have vastly different ways of eating, playing, talking, problem-solving, and so much more. Some of us use forks, while others prefer chopsticks, and still others…

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The 4th U.S. Case of Mad Cow Disease: Should You Be Concerned?

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Credit: Franck-Boston/iStockphoto On April 24, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported the fourth confirmed case of mad cow disease in the U.S., the first since 2006 . In an official statement , the department s chief veterinary officer John Clif…

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