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Moving mirrors make light from nothing
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110603/full/news.2011.346.html
A team of physicists is claiming to have coaxed sparks from the vacuum of empty space1. If verified, the finding would be one of the most unusual experimental proofs of quantum mechanics in recent years and "a significant milestone", says John Pendry, a theoretical physicist at Imperial College London who was not involved in the study.
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Tiny houses: How the movement to create micro houses reflects social reform
http://www.phoenix.edu/colleges_divisions/business/articles/2011/03/tiny-houses-how-the-movement-to-create-micro-houses-reflects-social-reform.html
After years of houses getting progressively bigger, the pendulum seems to have begun swinging in the opposite direction. People have become more environmentally conscious and aware of their effects on the planet. From recycling and composting to simply buying less, they are foregoing conspicuous consumption in favor of downsizing and reducing waste.
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Green jobs are real: U.S. solar employs more people than steel
http://www.grist.org/green-jobs/2011-06-14-green-jobs-are-real-u.s.-solar-employs-more-people-than-steel
With that said, the solar industry is just getting started here in America. Solar is a high-growth industry with the potential to create millions more jobs in a diverse range of sectors; while still an extraordinarily important industry, steel is not.
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Fisheries and Wildlife Declines in the North Pacific, 2002
http://www.inforain.org/maparchive/mAdtl.php?mbID=404
Alaska's North Pacific Ocean is home to one of the richest assemblages of marine wildlife in the world, as well as some of the most productive commercial fisheries. This map indicates the species of fish, marine mammals, birds and crabs whose populations have decreased significantly in recent years.
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Bottled Water is hazardous to you and our world
http://www.naturalnews.com/032744_bottled_water_environment.html
Plastic bottles have become the number one environmental pollutant. They make up a sizeable portion of the enormous plastic garbage patch that is currently floating around in the Pacific Ocean. This enormous plastic `reef` is currently more than twice the size of Texas and growing rapidly. It is located just a few hundred miles off the California coast.
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Health freedom victory! Fairbanks, AK, city council votes to end water fluoridation
http://www.naturalnews.com/032741_water_fluoridation_Alaska.html
Sometimes organizing like-minded individuals, petitioning, and showing up to city council meetings to express your thoughts actually does make all the difference in instigating positive change. Health-conscious individuals from Fairbanks, Ak., recently achieved a huge health freedom victory when their city council voted almost unanimously to end water fluoridation. The decision followed concerted public outcry and presentation of the facts surrounding the health damage caused by consuming fluoride
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Vibration exercise machines improve your lymphatic health
http://www.naturalnews.com/032783_vibration_machine_lymphatic_system.html
In addition to acting as a catalyst for lymphatic drainage, a vibration exercise machine also sparks the activity of the lymph nodes, which are key components of the immune system. Therefore, the movement allows individuals to both rid their bodies of toxins that they already possess and prevent them from contracting illnesses from new ones.
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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/06/21/249949/32-corporations-spent-more-compensation-paid-taxes/
At the moment, a slew of multinational corporations - who already pay exceedingly low taxes - are lobbying for yet another tax boondoggle that would cost the government nearly $80 billion in revenue over the next ten years. With corporate taxes already so low, and corporations flush with cash and paying tens of millions to their CEOs, there's little reason to grant these huge companies yet another giant tax giveaway.
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Mayan Calendar Explained - A Schedule to Enlightened Consciousness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlKbHIZCa2E
Exploring the complexities of the Mayan Calendar in simple terms gives a compelling explanation for the dizzying acceleration of events today.
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TSA claims it will soon stop molesting little children, but not adults, veterans or senior citizens
http://www.naturalnews.com/032805_TSA_children.html
In a policy change announcement, the TSA now claims it will soon stop molesting little children by reaching into their pants and feeling their genitals. That we live in such a police state today where the opening line to a news story even mentions government agents molesting little children should be downright astonishing, but it's the truth.
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New Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=11164&LangID=E
GENEVA - In an unprecedented step, the United Nations Human Rights Council has endorsed a new set of Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights* designed to provide for the first time a global standard for preventing and addressing the risk of adverse impacts on human rights linked to business activity.
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Corporations are psychopaths - with zero degrees of empathy
http://www.naturalnews.com/032814_corporations_psychopath.html
Corporations are legislatively derived artificial individuals that can sue and be sued, raise funds, make political decisions, etc. They are headed by a Board of Directors that is by law duty bound to make decisions in the best interests of the corporation. Since corporations are businesses whose sole purpose is to make money, best interests are almost always those that increase profit, empathy be damned. http://apps.americanbar.org/buslaw/...
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No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back. ~Turkish Proverb
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