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20 Pounds? Not Too Bad, for an Extinct Fish
2013-04-24 02:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: For most fishermen a 20-pound trout is a trophy, but for Paiute tribe members and fish biologists here the one Matt Ceccarelli caught was a victory. That Lahontan cutthroat trout he caught last year, a remnant of a strain that is possibly the largest native trout in North America, is the first confirmed catch of a fish that was once believed to have gone extinct. The fish has been the focus of an intense and improbable federal and tribal effort to restore it to its home waters. I was in awe,...
A bad day in Twitterland
2013-04-23 21:35:11| CNET News.com
It's becoming increasingly clear that Twitter needs to follow Google, Microsoft, and Apple in providing two-factor authentication sooner rather than later. [Read more]
Good news or bad news? Humans feel empathy for robots, new research shows
2013-04-23 17:41:43| Extremetech
Good news, prospective robot overlords: Researchers in Germany have proven that humans do indeed feel empathy for robots. This empathy exists for robots irrespective of their form -- a dinosaur-shaped robot and humanoid robot both elicited the same empathetic response.
Hazardous air: What goes into your lungs on a bad day in Beijing
2013-04-23 09:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenpeace: You have seen air pollution before, but not in this way. Beijings hazardous air is changing the energy outlook of the country, and sending a warning to other countries on the human cost of heavy reliance on coal. Beijings airpocalypse in last December and January was an exceptionally serious air pollution episode that is estimated to have caused a 3-fold increase in hospitalizations due to respiratory diseases and has drawn comparisons to London smog in 1952. In that time Greenpeace recruited...
Bad Practices, Part 2
2013-04-19 20:38:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
One bad maintenance practice can negate the benefits of otherwise following best practices. Here are two more bad practices you should avoid: read more
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