So the case is closed. The release of private emails between climate scientists at the University of East Anglia that show malpractice and conspiracy have had their effect. Public acceptance of the reality of global warming has dipped, politicians are retreating and changes to how science is done and scientists behave are required. ... read more >>
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Climate wars damage the scientists but we all stand to lose in the battle
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Tags: battle, Climate, damage, environment
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The Lovely Bones
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Victorian morbidity is alive and well and prospering in Hollywood films about love, death and stages in between, aimed at romantic teenage girls coping with puberty. First there’s the Time Traveler’s Wife where a grown-up male appears to make what we nowadays call inappropriate advances to a young girl. ... read more >>
Victorian morbidity is alive and well and prospering in Hollywood films about love, death and stages in between, aimed at romantic teenage girls coping with puberty. First there’s the Time Traveler’s Wife where a grown-up male appears to make what we nowadays call inappropriate advances to a young girl. ... read more >>
Tags: Hollywood films, Movie news, Saoirse Ronan, Susan Sarandon., The Lovely Bones
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Want to promote cycling? Cut back car adverts now
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Step out of your home and what do you see? There is a subliminal and overt message on the streets and in the media to buy cars and use them. You’ll find it on TV, on your computer, in the newspapers you read. It makes the promotion of any other form or transport, such as cycling, an uphill struggle regardless of how convenient, healthy and sustainable it may be. ... read more >>
Step out of your home and what do you see? There is a subliminal and overt message on the streets and in the media to buy cars and use them. You’ll find it on TV, on your computer, in the newspapers you read. It makes the promotion of any other form or transport, such as cycling, an uphill struggle regardless of how convenient, healthy and sustainable it may be. ... read more >>
Tags: cars, environment, increase ownership, increase use
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MoD’s vanguard: a mix of robot bomb defusers and kneepad goo
Friday, February 12th, 2010
A robotic hand that could defuse bombs remotely, a camera with the ability to detect minute changes in the landscape and a mysterious orange goo that absorbs the impact of bomb blasts are among new battlefield technologies unveiled by the Ministry of Defence. ... read more >>
A robotic hand that could defuse bombs remotely, a camera with the ability to detect minute changes in the landscape and a mysterious orange goo that absorbs the impact of bomb blasts are among new battlefield technologies unveiled by the Ministry of Defence. ... read more >>
Tags: defuse bombs, new battlefield technologies, robotic hand
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Do You Happen to Have a Cigarette?
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Smoking is harm, yet the smokers become more and more. And whatever social advertisement is not dreadful for them. It may sound crazy, still many people cannot imagine their awakening without a cup of coffee with fragrant cigarette. They feel in this something magical and enchanting. Not few of celebrities will confirm this fact. ... read more >>
Smoking is harm, yet the smokers become more and more. And whatever social advertisement is not dreadful for them. It may sound crazy, still many people cannot imagine their awakening without a cup of coffee with fragrant cigarette. They feel in this something magical and enchanting. Not few of celebrities will confirm this fact. ... read more >>
Tags: Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, cigarette, Cristina Aguilera, Eva Mendes, Harm, Paris Hilton, smoking
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Smoking creates neighborly rift
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
A dispute over smoking has neighbors in Albuquerque involved in a lawsuit and counterclaim, authorities said. Jesus and Pat Martinez said Linda Garcia’s cigarette smoke comes in through their vents and efforts to get rid of it have not been successful, the Albuquerque Journal reported. The couple said Garcia and her husband, Paul Marquez, have not been willing to switch from smoking in the back yard to smoking in front of their house. ... read more >>
A dispute over smoking has neighbors in Albuquerque involved in a lawsuit and counterclaim, authorities said. Jesus and Pat Martinez said Linda Garcia’s cigarette smoke comes in through their vents and efforts to get rid of it have not been successful, the Albuquerque Journal reported. The couple said Garcia and her husband, Paul Marquez, have not been willing to switch from smoking in the back yard to smoking in front of their house. ... read more >>
Tags: Albuquerque, cigarette smoke, neighbors, smoking
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Brittany Murphy’s husband tells People that prescription medications were his
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Simon Monjack, the husband of the late Brittany Murphy, tells People that many of the prescription medications found in their house at the time of her death were for his use. Monjack, in his first interview since Murphy’s death on Dec. 20, tells People that the actress had been suffering from “laryngitis and flu-like symptoms” at the time of her death. ... read more >>
Simon Monjack, the husband of the late Brittany Murphy, tells People that many of the prescription medications found in their house at the time of her death were for his use. Monjack, in his first interview since Murphy’s death on Dec. 20, tells People that the actress had been suffering from “laryngitis and flu-like symptoms” at the time of her death. ... read more >>
Tags: antibiotic, Brittany Murphy, heart attack, laryngitis and flu-like symptoms, Simon Monjack
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Jesus Luz, Madonna’s Boyfriend, Flashes Pubic Hair, Talks Career (PHOTOS)
Friday, January 15th, 2010
Madonna’s boyfriend Jesus Luz got a photo spread and Q&A with Interview magazine. Despite only being famous because he’s Madonna’s boyfriend, the topic of Madonna was off-limits for the interviewer. The Brazilian-born Luz filled time saying he likes New York’s energy and is growing as a DJ. He likes DJ-ing, he says, because “I like to be a channel of music, to give people music to dance to, to see the reactions of people when I use effects.” ... read more >>
Madonna’s boyfriend Jesus Luz got a photo spread and Q&A with Interview magazine. Despite only being famous because he’s Madonna’s boyfriend, the topic of Madonna was off-limits for the interviewer. The Brazilian-born Luz filled time saying he likes New York’s energy and is growing as a DJ. He likes DJ-ing, he says, because “I like to be a channel of music, to give people music to dance to, to see the reactions of people when I use effects.” ... read more >>
Tags: boyfriend, Flashes Pubic Hair, Jesus Luz, Madonna, PHOTOS
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Kate Moss puffs away as she soaks up the sun on Thailand beach break.
Monday, January 4th, 2010
It seems that Kate Moss is starting the New Year as she means to go on. Not for her painful attempts to quit smoking, or hasty resolutions to tone down her party lifestyle. Instead the supermodel enjoyed a lie in until after midday, before wandering down to the beach to enjoy a cigarette. ... read more >>
It seems that Kate Moss is starting the New Year as she means to go on. Not for her painful attempts to quit smoking, or hasty resolutions to tone down her party lifestyle. Instead the supermodel enjoyed a lie in until after midday, before wandering down to the beach to enjoy a cigarette. ... read more >>
Tags: attempts, Kate Moss, Pete Doherty, quit smoking, Thailand
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The silliness of Climategate
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
It wasn’t very long ago that a dinner party guest who wanted to spare the hostess any embarrassing contention simply avoided discussing religion or politics and stuck to the weather. Not anymore. In fact, it says something unutterably depressing about the state of the nation that we’ve finally managed to politicize even the climate. ... read more >>
It wasn’t very long ago that a dinner party guest who wanted to spare the hostess any embarrassing contention simply avoided discussing religion or politics and stuck to the weather. Not anymore. In fact, it says something unutterably depressing about the state of the nation that we’ve finally managed to politicize even the climate. ... read more >>
Tags: Big Tobacco, conference, global warming, Politics, President Obama, second-hand smoke, Tobacco Regulation, tobacco-growing states
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Obama promises Native Americans place on agenda
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
WASHINGTON — President Obama pledged Thursday to redeem broken promises made to American Indians, saying he’s empathetic because of his own history as an “outsider.” ... read more >>
WASHINGTON — President Obama pledged Thursday to redeem broken promises made to American Indians, saying he’s empathetic because of his own history as an “outsider.” ... read more >>
Tags: agenda, Cherokee, employment, Kimberly Teehee, Larry EchoHawk, Native Americans, President Obama, school construction
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