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An experiment that hints we are wrong on climate change - Times Online
The only trouble with Svensmark’s idea — apart from its being politically incorrect — was that meteorologists denied that cosmic rays could be involved in cloud formation. After lon...
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Do five simple things a day to stay sane, say scientists - Times Online
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Government will spy on every call and e-mail - Times Online
From the story: "Ministers are considering spending up to £12 billion on a database to monitor and store the internet browsing habits, e-mail and telephone records of everyone in Britain."
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Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol - Times Online
Using genetically modified bugs for fermentation is essentially the same as using natural bacteria to produce ethanol, although the energy-intensive final process of distillation is virtu...
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The undead: Forty per cent of patients in a ‘vegetative state’ are misdiagnosed. - Times Online
This'll give you nightmares. Yeesh.
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Study shows intelligent people drink more alcohol
Proof that ignorance is bliss.
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Boys, brains and toxic lessons - Times Online
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Why say no to free money? It's neuro-economics, stupid - Britain - Times Online
Our decisions seem not to be determined mainly by reason, but by a continuous battle between two sides of our psyches that are rooted in different mental circuits.
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Giants meet to counter US power - Times Online
Foreign ministers from the three emerging giants met in Delhi yesterday to discuss ways to build a more democratic “multipolar world”.
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How artificial sweeteners may be making slimmers put on weight - Times Online
Their results may seem counterintuitive and might not be welcome to nutritionists and doctors who have long recommended low-calorie or no-calorie sweeteners.
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Are you thinking what I'm thinking? - Times Online
From YouTube to Wikipedia, collective creativity and collaboration are replacing top-down management as a business model.
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IBM starts work on computer to rival the human brain - Times Online
The computers, which will be built by 2004, will lack the consciousness, intellect and capacity for thought of a brain, but will be equivalent in calculating speed and power.
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Snared Tiger Defies Poachers on Three Legs
Let's hope it finds and chews off the foot of the bastard that laid the snare.
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$5m reward for failed 9/11 tip-off - Times Online
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An American in chains - Sunday Times - Times Online
An excerpt from the forthcoming book, For God and Country, by James Yee, the Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo who was arrested, charged with spying, and then exonerated. It's quite a disturb...
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The Times Online guest contributors Opinion
Rushdie's August 2005 editorial on the need for a "Muslim reformation." Not a new idea, but interesting to read for his assumptions about the nature of "history" and even "reality."
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Military opposition to possible war on Iran
UK intelligence sources report in the Times (London) that there will likely be a wave of resignations among high-level staff officers should the Bush administration decide to launch a mil...
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Times Online on peak oil
Energy Bulletin's headline for today: "The Week Peak Oil Went Mainstream" (http://snipr.com/1ocy4).
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Sullivan on the Bush administration and torture (TImes Online)
Pretty much all the arguments -- even the terminology -- used by the Bush administration defending its torture policies were pioneered by the Gestapo and prosecuted by the US as war crime...
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Black people 'less intelligent' scientist claims - Times Online
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Times Online - Appointments
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