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Tylenol's Risks Not Fully Understood, Poll Shows
2013-09-24 18:55:12| Biotech - Topix.net
Most Americans know that overdosing can be dangerous but many wrongly think it's safe to mix drugs containing acetaminophen, a nationwide poll found.
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BYOD Security Is All About Juggling Risks
2013-09-23 18:00:50| TechNewsWorld
Allowing workers to use personal phones and tablets to do their jobs has created security risks in the workplace, but those risks can be minimized if they're managed. What should such a risk management program do? "The first step is you have to protect the device," said IBM Application, Data and Mobile Security Director Caleb Barlow. That includes everything from provisioning to data wiping.
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Switch from Coal to Gas Poses Some Risks for Utilities, Says Study
2013-09-13 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The unprecedented boom in natural gas production from places like Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio should make those densely populated regions self-sufficient in gas production by 2020, which in turn could encourage more electric utility fuel switching, according to two top energy sector analysts with Navigant Research. But utilities will still face a difficult set of questions when charting the future of power generation, including whether to invest billions of dollars in environmental controls...
New colour purple depicts worsening climate risks in U.N. draft report
2013-09-13 05:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Some parts of nature and human society are more vulnerable than expected to climate change, according to a draft of a U.N. report that adds a new purple colour to a key diagram to show worsening risks beyond the red used so far. It says "unique and threatened systems" like coral reefs, endangered animals and plants, Arctic indigenous communities, tropical glaciers or small island states seem be less able to adapt to warming than believed in a last report in 2007. The 44-page draft Summary for...
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Finding a Better Message onThe Risks of Climate Change
2013-09-12 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Its a common refrain: If people only knew more about the science, there wouldnt be so much polarization on the issue of climate change. But Dan M. Kahans groundbreaking work has gone a long way to prove that idea wrong. In fact, hes found, its not the lack of scientific understanding that has led to conflict over climate change, but rather the need to adhere to the philosophy and values of ones cultural group. Kahan, a professor of law and psychology at Yale Law School, says individualists...
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