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The Curious Case of the Disappearing Distros

2014-12-23 03:26:42| TechNewsWorld

Well the holidays are pretty much upon us at last here in the Linux blogosphere, and there's nowhere left to hide. The next two weeks or so promise little more than a blur of forced social occasions and too-large meals, punctuated only by occasional respite down at the Broken Windows Lounge. Perhaps that's why Linux bloggers seized with such glee upon a good old-fashioned mystery.

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Study ties climate change disappearing rabbits in Michigan

2014-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Detroit Free Press: A color-changing rabbit once found hopping through fields and forests across Michigan has become so rare, hunters choose not to shoot it. Not since the mid-1990s has a customer asked White Lake taxidermist Doug Ellis, 51, to mount a snowshoe hare. "They're beautiful," he said. "But you just don't see them." The rabbits have coats that adapt with the seasons to camouflage them with their environment. They turn white during the snow season and brown the rest of the year. With last winter an...

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Why sand is disappearing

2014-11-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: TO those of us who visit beaches only in summer, they seem as permanent a part of our natural heritage as the Rocky Mountains and the Great Lakes. But shore dwellers know differently. Beaches are the most transitory of landscapes, and sand beaches the most vulnerable of all. During big storms, especially in winter, they can simply vanish, only to magically reappear in time for the summer season. It could once be said that a beach is a place where sand stops to rest for a moment before resuming...

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The case of the disappearing crude-oil tank cars

2014-09-05 11:48:40| Railroads - Topix.net

The case of the disappearing crude-oil tank cars The case of the disappearing tank cars Check out this story on DemocratandChronicle.com: http://on.rocne.ws/1o1f0Hn Trains carrying crude oil pass regularly through the Rochester area these days. But which of two routes through Monroe County is CSX Transportation using? Readers helped us answer that question, and in the process, revealed some of a mystery about our oil-train traffic.

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