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• New solar material converts 90% of captured light into heat

  By genvana on November 9, 2014 • ( 6 )

  

  By NEHA KARL Scientists have created the ‘black hole of sunlight’ – a new nanoparticle-based material that absorbs and converts more than 90 percent of captured sunlight to heat. Research from the US have developed a super-Sun-absorbing material that will… Read More ›

• Did Voting Restrictions Determine the Outcomes of Key Midterm Races?

  By konigludwig on November 6, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  By Ari Berman in The Nation Bryan McGowan spent twenty-two years in the US Marine Corps, including four tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. When he was stationed at Camp LeJeune in North Carolina from 2005 until 2010, McGowan used same-day… Read More ›

• Ted Cruz’s Big Adventure

  By konigludwig on November 3, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  If Republicans win the Senate, expect a ferocious tactical clash between Cruz and the actual leader Mitch McConnell “Ted Cruz’s big (awful) plans: Why a clash is coming if GOP wins majority” by Jim Newell in Salon No one’s more… Read More ›

• South Florida Wants to Split State Over Climate Change

  By genvana on November 3, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  by Anastasia Pantsios Some may remember a politically motivated proposal to split California into six separate states floated earlier this year. That was basically a proposal by a wealthy venture capitalist for the rich areas to take their ball and go… Read More ›

• Swedish FM to Israel’s Lieberman: I’d be happy to send him an IKEA flat pack – “He’ll see it requires a partner, cooperation and a good manual.”

  By enormousgherkin on November 1, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  A somewhat unusual war of words took place Thursday, after the new Swedish government made good on a recent pledge to recognize the state of Palestine, a move to which Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman responded furiously. “The Swedish government should… Read More ›

• Egyptian activist Mahienour El-Massry receives international rights award

  By konigludwig on November 1, 2014 • ( 6 )

  

  El-Massry dedicated the award she received in Italy to fellow activists still in prison Egyptian activist Mahienour El-Massry received the 2014 Ludovic Trarieux international human rights award in Florence on Friday. El-Massry was announced as the winner of the award… Read More ›

• Jim Crow returns: Millions of minority voters threatened by electoral purge

  By konigludwig on October 31, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Election officials in 27 states, most of them Republicans, have launched a program that threatens a massive purge of voters from the rolls. Millions, especially black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters, are at risk. Already, tens of thousands have been removed… Read More ›

• Virus

  By Ecantados on October 28, 2014 • ( 6 )

  the waste collected, bloody sheets, corpses bled, bloated left to lie amid the debris of futile attempts to heal, relieve as the whimpers, cries, demands of those left, floated within the hearing of those standing back, set to deceive the… Read More ›

• Iran Executes Woman for Murdering Alleged Rapist Despite International Campaign for a Retrial

  By konigludwig on October 25, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  By Daniel Politi in Slate Iran hanged a woman on Saturday who was convicted of murdering a man she said tried to rape her, ignoring an international campaign urging the country to spare her life. Reyhaneh Jabbari was sentenced to… Read More ›

• Have science and anthropology found the oldest Homo sapiens DNA?

  By Ecantados on October 23, 2014 • ( 6 )

  

    When you review all the species and sub species there are a lot. The simplification that there was monkey and than there was chimp and than there was Neanderthal and than there was humans is a simplification of an… Read More ›

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