Author: Daniela

  • Insecticide Use Surging Again in Midwest

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    NPR’s July 9th Morning Edition Series featured a piece on the resurgance of insecticide use in the Midwest: Across the Midwestern corn belt, a familiar battle has resumed, hidden in the soil. On one side are tiny, white larvae of the corn rootworm. On the other side are farmers and the insect-killing arsenal of modern…

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  • Blue Planet HD 189733b Rains Glass

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    NASA’s ever-peering eye into the heavens, the Hubble Space Telescope, has found a distant planet whose blue hue could be the result of glass rain. The planet, HD 189733b, is located 63 light-years away, and it wasn’t until recently, when the planet passed behind its host star, that scientists were able to surmise that the…

  • Millennials Meet to “reRoute” Our Economy

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    By: Keith Harrington: Huffington Post In case you missed it, this past spring students at over a dozen universities and colleges across North America gathered on their campuses to lay the foundations of a new millennial-led movement for economic system change. This month, these leaders will take a good hard look at the next strategic steps for their…

  • Friday’s Poem

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    A collection of poetry by Andrea Waddell, a trans woman who was murdered in Brighton in October 2009, has been published with the support of her family. Sounds of the Soul: Adventures in Time by Andrea Waddell deals with the enthusiasms and complications of Andrea’s life: activism, philosophy, nature, illness, transgender issues and more. somewhere down my ‘to…

  • Why Manufacturing is Failing in the US

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    I came across the following statistics in the Manila Times Today while doing some research on new economic models: Manufacturing in the Phillipines has gone from about 39 percent of GDP in the 1980s to 33 percent in 2010-2012. This was a sharp contrast to Thailand, whose industry to GDP ratio peaked to 44 percent…

  • Thursday Prayer

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    Renowned classical Indian dancer Ananda Shankar Jayant was diagnosed with cancer in 2008. She tells her personal story of not only facing the disease but dancing through it, and gives a performance revealing the metaphor of strength that helped her do it.

  • Yakuza Crime Group Releases New Magazine

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    It’s a shame George Carlin is gone.  When he joked that there’s a magazine for every activity with five participants, I don’t think even he could’ve envisioned this one. Organised rhyme: Yakuza crime gang releases poetry mag Magazine … Yakuza members chop off their own fingers as punishment By HARRY HAYDON Published: 10th July 2013…

  • Euroactive Publishes Press Release on new EU Biobased Industry Initiative

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    Today the European Commission adopts a new proposed €3.8 billion Public Private Partnership for Biobased industries in Europe, aimed at ensuring smart, sustainable and inclusive economic growth, and at enabling Europe to become a world-leading Innovation Union . The proposal comes as part of an innovation investment package of new Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs) under…

  • The GM safety dance: What’s rule and what’s real

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    This is a great, well-researched article on whether or not safety testing of GE crops is required.