How Will Religion Evolve? - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com

Does religion have a future? Who looks more like an evolutionary dead end: the religious American or the agnostic European? Or will both give way to some sort of compromise — people bound by new institutions that provide the social benefits of religion without belief in a tradi …

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Married couples face extra tax in Senate health care bill

Senate Democrats' health care bill would create a new marriage penalty by imposing a tax on individuals who make $200,000 annually but hitting married couples making just $50,000 more.

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A Central Nervous System for Earth: HP's Ambitious Sensor Network

HP Labs has joined the race to build an infrastructure for the emerging Internet of Things. The giant computing and IT services company has announced a project that aims to be a "Central Nervous System for the Earth" (CeNSE).

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Pixx: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944)

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was a chemist turned photographer ahead of his time who undertook an ambitious photographic survey of the Russian Empire for Tsar Nicholas II.

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Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan

Hutchinson, of Oakland, California, is currently being confined at Hunter Army Airfield near Savannah, Georgia, after being arrested. Her son was placed into a county foster care system.

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Vitamin D and calcium supplementation reduces canc... [Am J Clin Nutr. 2007] - PubMed result

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FACT CHECK: Sarah Palin's book goes rogue on some facts

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Keep Christ Out Of Xmas

The Yuletide holidays aren't the exclusive property of Christians, reminds Rel Davis, Founder of the National Keep Christ Out of Xmas Committee.

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Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own - Ars Technica

ISPs may not act for years on local complaints about slow Internet—but when a town rolls out its own solution, it's amazing how fast the incumbents can deploy fiber, cut prices, and run to the legislature.

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Web creator apologises for his strokes | Australian IT

A LIGHT has been shone on one of the great mysteries of the internet. What is the point of the two forward slashes that sit directly infront of the "www" in every internet website address?

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TED Blog: How food shapes our cities: Carolyn Steel on TED.com

Every day, in a city the size of London, 30 million meals are served. But where does all the food come from? Architect Carolyn Steel discusses the daily miracle of feeding a city, and shows how ancient food routes shaped the modern world.

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Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Hyperdrive Propulsion Could Be Tested at the Large Hadron Collider

The principle behind a novel form of spacecraft propulsion could be tested at the world's most powerful particle accelerator.

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Civil War on the Right

"...a significant fissure is opening up on the Right.

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Obama: U.S. Does Not Recognize Legitimacy of Continued Israeli Settlements

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Scientists Warn International Seed Laws Are Stifling Crop Diversity

Powerful seed companies and government subsidies are weakening crop diversity and may be destroying some of the very keys to future climate adaptation, a group of researchers warns as the World Seed Conference opens today in Rome. The researchers – from the non-profit Internat …

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Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.

Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.

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Women's Equality - The Global Challenge for Our Generation

There is no challenge or priority greater for our generation larger than the continuing global oppression of women, who represent half of humanity.

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Solar Roadways get prototype funding from DOT � Autoblog Green

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Will warm soda kill you? maybe. Heat forms potentially harmful substance in high-fructose corn syrup

Researchers have established the conditions that foster formation of potentially dangerous levels of a toxic substance in the high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) often fed to honey bees.

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US Marine Corps 'Knowingly Poisoned Their Own People and Then Lied About It'

Partain had no idea men could get breast cancer. But he thinks he knows what caused his: contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune, N.C., where he was born.

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Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder

A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia.

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Samuel S. Epstein: An Overdue Ban On A Dangerous Sweetener

Aspartame, first discovered in 1965 by the pharmaceutical company G.D. Searle, is an artificial sweetener marketed by Ajinomoto Sweeteners under trademark names including Nutrasweet, Equal and Canderel.

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Link Between Obesity And Diabetes

Recent researches have shown a close relation between obesity and diabetes.

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Columns of paramilitary police are now keeping a tenuous peace in Urumqi, the western Chinese city where more than 1,000 Uighurs rioted ten days ago in the bloodiest clash in decades between the authorities and the Turkic-speaking Muslim minority group.

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Remembering Apollo 11 - The Big Picture - Boston.com

40 years ago, three human beings - with the help of many thousands of others - left our planet on a successful journey to our Moon, setting foot on another world for the first time.

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