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RBC scrambles to explain hiring practices to Canadians after contentious report
2013-04-08 08:05:24| IT Services - Topix.net
The Royal Bank of Canada was scrambling to explain its hiring practices to customers Sunday after a media report claiming the bank was employing foreign workers to replace Canadian staff prompted a flood of outrage.
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Oceans may explain slowdown in climate change: study
2013-04-07 19:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Climate change could get worse quickly if huge amounts of extra heat absorbed by the oceans are released back into the air, scientists said after unveiling new research showing that oceans have helped mitigate the effects of warming since 2000. Heat-trapping gases are being emitted into the atmosphere faster than ever, and the 10 hottest years since records began have all taken place since 1998. But the rate at which the earth's surface is heating up has slowed somewhat since 2000, causing scientists...
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Reddit's 'Explain Like I'm Five' videos star real 5-year-olds
2013-03-19 19:50:14| CNET News.com
Reddit turns one of its most popular sub-reddits into a YouTube series starring actual 5-year-olds working to comprehend complex subjects. [Read more]
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Wave Patterns In The Atmosphere Help Explain Weather Extremes
2013-02-26 19:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: In recent years, the world has suffered from severe regional weather extremes such as the heat wave in the US in 2011, or the one in Russia in 2010 that coincided with the unprecedented Pakistan flood. There is one common physical cause behind these individual events, according to a new study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research [PIK]. The findings of the study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [PNAS], suggest man made climate change repeatedly disturbs...
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How can evolutionary biology explain why we get cancer?
2013-01-22 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Contact: Ben Norman sciencenewsroom@wiley.com 44-012-437-70375 Wiley Over 500 billion cells in our bodies will be replaced daily, yet natural selection has enabled us to develop defenses against the cellular mutations which could cause cancer. It is this relationship between evolution and the body's fight against cance…
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