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Not Exactly Pocket Science - panic aboard the Titanic, the rise of polar...
Not Exactly Pocket Science - panic aboard the Titanic, the rise of polar bears and emasculated frogsI'm trying something new. Right from the start, I've always tried to write fairly long and detailed...
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Sunday Night Movie: Ants Get Political
Sunday Night Movie: Ants Get PoliticalHow did they catch this footage of an ANTi-pesticide protest? Here's a peek behind the scenes.awildSun, 05/02/2010 - 13:54TagsantsfunpesticidevideosfunIngenious...
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Inside the Outbreaks
Inside the OutbreaksMark Pendergrast writes: To kick off this book club discussion of Inside the Outbreaks, I thought I would explain briefly how I came to write the book and then suggest some possible...
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A disaster waiting to happen: The Chemical Safety Board Investigation Report...
A disaster waiting to happen: The Chemical Safety Board Investigation Report on 2008 Bayer CropScience fatal pesticide chemical explosionby Elizabeth GrossmanOn August 28, 2008 at 10:53 p.m., a massive...
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Do Neonicotinoid Pesticides Contributed to the Complex Thing We Call Bee...
Do Neonicotinoid Pesticides Contributed to the Complex Thing We Call Bee Colony Collapse? A commonly used insecticide, and possibly an increasingly widely used form of that pesticide, could be a causal...
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The Honeybee Bubble
The Honeybee BubbleBy gluing radio chips to the backs of 800 honeybees, researchers proved that Neonicotinoid pesticides interfere with their behavior. Greg Laden reports that bees exposed to the...
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Is Non-Organic a No-Brainer?
Is Non-Organic a No-Brainer?A Stanford University analysis of over 200 nutritional studies found little evidence that organic food is better for you than conventional food. But health is affected by...
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Tarantula insecticide
Tarantula insecticide Photo credit: Margaret C. Hardy Drs. Glenn King and Maggie Hardy at the Institute of Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Australia have discovered a small protein,...
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Pesticide exposure during pregnancy increases autism risk in the child? Not...
Pesticide exposure during pregnancy increases autism risk in the child? Not so fast...If there's one thing that antivaccine activists share in common, it's the passionate (and as yet unproven) belief...
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Pesticide confuses bees
Pesticide confuses bees Image of honeybee By Fir0002 (Own work) [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)], via Wikimedia Commons A new study conducted by researchers at the...
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