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10.21: Divas, Dames and Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics
2013-09-09 21:36:01| Powells Books Events Calendar
Wonder Woman, Mary Marvel, and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, ruled the pages of comic books in the 1940s, but many other heroines of the World War II era have been forgotten. Mike Madrid's Divas, Dames and Daredevils (Exterminating Angel Press) is a thrilling look back at the lost supergirls of Golden Age comics, highlighting their influence on popular culture and on the heroes of today.
West Antarctic Ice Sheet's Age Gains 20 Million Years
2013-09-06 16:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet could have formed 20 million years earlier than previously thought, researchers propose, after updating a detail in global climate models, placing more confidence in those models' ability to predict future changes in global climate. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet accounts for only about 10 percent of the ice on the continent today. It sits below sea level and is subject to melting from warm air and seawater infiltration, more so than the larger East Antarctic Ice Sheet,...
Soot from Europe's Industrial Age May Have Spurred Melting of Alps
2013-09-03 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Soot, also known as black carbon, could have been the reason behind the abrupt retreat of the mountain glaciers in the Alps starting in the 1860s, according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. If correct, the theory could solve a longstanding scientific debate as to why the glaciers began melting even decades before global temperatures started rising. Records dating back to the 1500s show that large valley glaciers in the Alps suddenly melted...
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Ultron 101: Meet the Killer Robot of Avengers: Age of Ultron
2013-08-30 16:10:08| Toys - Topix.net
Marvel Entertainment announced that James Spader had been cast as the titular supervillain in the upcoming Avengers: Age of Ultron .
Get rich in the Age of Megafires: 2014-20
2013-08-28 04:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MarketWatch: New investment strategies, dead ahead. Not just for Americas 95 million investors. But for the climate-change deniers like Big Oil and the Koch brothers. The trigger: megafires destroying treasures like our national parks. Time for a mega-wakeup call. Act now, because the climate deniers will soon do a megashift and stop denying. Got that? Denialism will soon stop. End. So get out in front of this historic shift. Reuters A sign on the edge of Yosemite National Park, in California, is surrounded...
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