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    Feb
    2012
    6:34pm, EST
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    Where's the snow? Not in Lower 48, but elsewhere

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    The weather's been messed up since they sent the first woman into space.

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    Feb
    2012
    6:21pm, EST
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    A stunning photo captures growing Antarctic ice rift

    Shot of beginning stages of birth at calving Pine Island Glacier iceberg taken from space

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    What an excellent almost surreal pic!

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    Feb
    2012
    6:07pm, EST
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    Second 'sunken UFO' claim doesn't really hold water

    A flying saucer skidding on seafloor? More exploration, better equipment may explain mystery

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    Judging whatever these items may be strictly from sonar acoustic images... is horribly naive and completely unprofessional. The salvagers who discovered them have made NO claims as to what they are aside from some imaginative references to the Star Wars franchise. On the other hand, the professional …

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    Feb
    2012
    4:18pm, EST
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    Gorilla seeks help using sign language

    Koko points to mouth to indicate toothache

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    Feb
    2012
    3:31pm, EST
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    What's that mysterious object spotted near Mercury?

    One observer says it has to be a spaceship, but experts offer plausible explanation

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    Feb
    2012
    2:51pm, EST
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    Magma may provide signal for super-volcano eruptions

    Volcanologists find a stagnant mountain can reawaken very quickly, in just several decades

    2 comments

    This is scary news for Yellowstone. The magma pocket under Yellowstone has been active and growing for several decades at least. The last eruption of Yellowstone put ash on the East Coast of the US!

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    Feb
    2012
    2:09pm, EST
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    What's so special about 11/11/11?

    Nothing unusual, meaningful, ominous or auspicious? Depends on who you ask

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    Feb
    2012
    12:09pm, EST
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    How plants reshaped the rivers of early Earth

    415 million years ago, the meandering, branching waterways we know virtually didn't exist

    2 comments

    Yea, though I walk through the valley of internet, I shall fear no creationists or global warming deniers, for science is with me, its reasoning and observations they comfort me.

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    Feb
    2012
    11:31am, EST
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    Reclusive Amazon tribe missing after attack

    Authorities in Brazil fear Peru drug smugglers battled with uncontacted Indians

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    Feb
    2012
    10:35am, EST
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    Culture may trigger evolution of human features, study finds

    Research helps solve mystery of Amazonian tribe's divergent head shapes

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    "Culture may trigger rapid evolution of various human features, suggests new research..." So can we expect to see new generations growing up with tilted necks to accommodate holding cell phones without hands; while other youngsters may develop low hanging buttocks to fit into their baggy pants?

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    Feb
    2012
    10:22am, EST
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    Tracks show dinosaurs were swimmers

    Prints suggests dinosaur clawed sediment as it swam

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    Feb
    2012
    10:06am, EST
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    Did Stonehenge start out as royal cemetery?

    Dating of cremated remains shows burials took place as early as 3000 B.C.

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