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Originally posted on Science on the Land: Is Europe a no-go zone for GM crops? Those are genetically modified crops, also called genetically engineered (GE) crops or biotech crops. Whether we’re a no-go zone for GM depends on whether you look at the short game or the long game. We mostly don’t grow GM crops…

Path to tranquility

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Originally posted on Joshi Daniel Photography: Buddhist monk | McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India

Haiku-Writing Suspected Killer Hunted by Japanese Police

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The Telegraph reports on a poetry-writing suspected killer who is being hunted by Japanese police after the bodies of five people were found in a tiny mountain village. The chief suspect is a 63-year-old villager at whose home police found a “haiku” poem stuck to the window. The haiku is a traditional Japanese form, a…

NASA releases Saturn-Earth ‘photobomb’ pic

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The US space agency has released a rare photo of the Earth and moon taken from the vantage point of the outer solar system, with Saturn’s rings in the shot. The color images were taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft at a distance of nearly 1.4 billion kilometers away, NASA said. After calling on Earthlings to wave at Cassini for…

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At least one government agency is serious about climate change. In this month’s Mother Jones, Dana Liebelson and Chris Mooney write about a scientific study funded by the CIA to investigate whether humans could use geoengineering to alter Earth’s environment and stop climate change: The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will run the 21-month project, which is the…

Carbon Cycle Regulated by Tropical Ecosystems

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RedOrbit reports on a new study by the National Academy of Sciences that links rising temperatures to the release of carbon dioxide from tropical ecosystems: Rising temperatures, influenced by natural events such as El Nino, have a corresponding increase in the release of carbon dioxide from tropical forest ecosystems, according to a new study out…

Strange Fruit – A Terrifying Work of Art

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I posted this short documentary as a way of putting the death of Trayvon Martin into context. Many Americans either don’t know or have forgotten the horror of this episode in our history. And, whether you agree with the verdict or not, Trayvon Martin’s is one more in a long string of unpunished murders of black men…

Trayvon Martin and American Justice Cont’d.

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The night of the Trayvon Martin verdict, debates ensued all over the country. At a house down south, someone recorded it. It adds a lot of clarity.

National Cooperative Bank completes $30 million loan to housing co-op founded in 1927 by Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union

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National Cooperative Bank (NCB), a leading financial services company dedicated to providing banking products to cooperatives nationwide, just completed a $30 million loan for Amalgamated Houses in the Bronx, New York. The country’s oldest limited equity cooperative secured the loan to refinance approximately $8.5 million of existing debt and $19.6 million to bolster its reserves and undertake…

Freedom On The Farm

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