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How Climate Change Has Driven Evolution

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:40:00 -0800

Time - Dec. 27 - This painting by artist Carl Buell depcits a scene from the late Eocene of North America. A new study shows how climate change drove species diversity in the past. We are the products of our environment — and that goes for egrets and elephants as much as

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Hollywood must win back its audience

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jeremy Kay - Sep. 07 - Alternative media and innovative multi-platform storytelling are set to challenge a complacent film industry And so the four-day Labor Day holiday is over and summer comes to an end in Hollywoodland. As the shadows stretch across the manicured lawns of the studio grounds, there will be plenty to think about. The blockbuster season that started in May with the enjoyable hit Iron Man 2 will most likely creep past summer 2009 for a new record. But even if the predictions of Hollywood.com and similar box office analysts are correct and the combined revenues reach $4.4bn (£2.9bn) or thereabouts – beating summer 2009 by around 2.4% – the victory, for that is what it is to the numerically selective advocates of theatrical distribution, will be a ...

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Fur, Fortune, and Empire

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:05:06 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By David Holahan - Jul. 15 (Review) - Anyone who has ever observed a fur trapper separating a pelt from a recently killed animal knows it is a gruesome, painstaking procedure. Yet this very act, repeated countless millions of times, was a surprisingly vital component in the early history

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'Climate dice' now dangerously loaded: leading scientist

Fri, 14 May 2010 23:00:00 -0700

The Independent - May. 14 - Evidence for global warming has mounted but public awareness of the threat has shrunk, due to a cold northern winter and finger-pointing at the UN's climate experts, a top scientist warned Wednesday. James Hansen, a leading NASA scientist whose

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The Joy of Stats

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By Hans Rosling - Jan. 09 (Editorial) - Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's commentator's style to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before - using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of 'The Joy of Stats' he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers - in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine.

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Polar bear listing no threat to development

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Anchorage Daily News - By Geoffrey L. Haskett - Dec. 26 (Opinion) - The simple fact is that development and the protection of threatened and endangered species can and do coexist in Alaska, precisely because of these cooperative efforts and in concert with the careful and prudent application of the Endangered Species Act.

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Misconceptions plague debate over gas line proposals

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - Jul. 01 (Editorial) - Exxon's decision to join forces with TransCanada has spurred a new round of debate over the best way to make sure Alaska gets a North Slope gas line. In that debate, some misconceptions are floating around and should be corrected.

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Anti-Americanism's Deep Roots

Mon, 19 Jun 2006 03:26:34 -0700

Washington Post - By Robert Kagan - Jun. 19 (Opinion) - I recently took part in a panel discussion in London about civil conflict and "failed states" around the world, centered on the interesting work of the British economist Paul Collier. The panelists included the son of a famous African liberation-leader-turned-dictator, the former leader of a South American guerrilla group, a Pakistani journalist, a U.N. official and the head of a nongovernmental humanitarian organization. Naturally, our reasoned and learned discussion quickly transmogrified into an extended round-robin denunciation of American foreign policy. The interesting thing was that the Iraq war was far from the main topic. George W. Bush hardly came up. The panelists focused instead on a long list of grievances against the United States stretching back over six decades. There was much discussion of the "colonial legacy" and "neo-colonialism," especially in the Middle East and Africa. And even though the colonies in question had been ruled by Europeans, panelists insisted that this colonial past was the source of most of the world's resentment toward the United States. There was much criticism of American policy during the Cold War for imposing evil regimes, causing poverty and suffering throughout the world, and blocking national liberation movements as a service to oil companies and multinational corporations. When the moderator brought up nuclear weapons proliferation and Iran, the panelists talked about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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