By Robert Tanner(AP) - The Pentagon defended its months-long detention of an Associated Press photographer in Iraq, asserting that it has authority to imprison him indefinitely without charges because it believes he had improper ties to insurgents ( Read more... )

By Felicity Barringer, NY TimesWASHINGTON, Sept. 20 - In the latest round of legal Ping-Pong over the future of 49 million roadless acres of national forests, a federal judge in California on Wednesday reinstated Clinton-era protections against logging and mining on the land and invalidated the Bush administration’s substitute policy ( Read more... )

By Peter Weiss, (Science News)For millennia, people have hitched beasts to plows to exploit the animals' strength and energy. In a modern variant of that practice, scientists have chemically harnessed bacteria to a micromotor so that they can make the device's rotor slowly turn ( Read more... )

What a man can be, he must be.
--Abraham Maslow

This post is dedicated to those who are compelled to do what they can.


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FYI: The earliest known relatives to the modern-day elephant lived about 40 million years ago.

Man appeared roughly 4 million years ago.

It is widely believed among paleontologists that mammoths were hunted to extinction.

The following is from National Geographic News, Aug 30, '06Mike Fay, a Wildlife Conservation Society biologist on a ( Read more... )

Everthing you always wanted to know about solar power but were afraid to ask.

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Movie Sets From Steven Spielberg's "War Of The Worlds" Added To The World-Famous, Behind-The-Scenes Studio Tour

The original movie sets from Steven Spielberg's film, "War of the Worlds," are the latest new feature to be added to Universal Studios Hollywood behind-the-scenes Studio Tour, the theme park's signature attraction which immerses guests ( Read more... )

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