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Kepler Spacecraft Finds 2 Planets Sharing Same Orbit

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A new planetary anomaly has been spotted.

To date, the telescope on the Kepler spacecraft has detected 1,235 planet candidates, and while Earth-bound telescopes are trying to determine if 54 of those planets may have conditions that could harbor life, one unique planetary system may have been uncovered.

Unique because it’s the first time scientists have discovered what may be two planets sharing the same orbit of their home sun, New Scientist reports…

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Analysis, Big Problems, Globalism, Health & Fitness, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Designer Drug Abuse Out of Control in Many Regions of the World

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Ecstasy tablets seized at the Belem International Airport in Belem.

The problem of so-called “designer drugs” is running out of control in many regions of the world, the U.N. global drugs watchdog said Wednesday.  The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) said detailed instructions for how to make designer drugs, which are slightly altered to bypass existing control systems, are often shared via the Internet.

 

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Pathways to Prosperity – Is College the Only Option for Career Success?

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Students need more options to career success.

Despite decades of efforts to reform education, and billions of dollars of expenditures, the harsh reality is that America is still failing to prepare millions of its young people to lead successful lives as adults. Evidence of this failure is everywhere: in the dropout epidemic that plagues our high schools and colleges; in the harsh fact that just 30 percent of our young adults earn a bachelor’s degree by age 27; and in teen and young adult employment rates not seen since the Great Depression.

 

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Analysis, Culture, Current Events, Entertainment, Historical Perspectives, Latest News, New Discoveries

The Top 20 Rudest Cities According To Foursquare

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A lot of valuable information can be gleaned from location-based service Foursquare. Foursquare’s engineers have compiled this list of the cities with the highest percentage of tips containing curse words. So is it rude to say your service was fucking incredible?!

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Analysis, Business, Green Friendly, Historical Perspectives

Profits Double For Business Selling Pre-Loved Products

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Might it be the United State’s fragile economy? Or maybe, just maybe, a slow awakening to the inherent fallacy in the myth that bright, shiny new products will make us happy? Whatever the root cause, Americans seem to be embracing pre-loved products over virginal, with a new fervour. At least, it seems so for the reuse businesses run by Winmark Corp. who recently announced that their profits had nearly doubled ($10.3 million for 2010), against the previous years trading…

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, New Discoveries, Science & Technology News

Scientists Discover How a Rare Cancer Heals Itself

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New discovery could lead to new treatments for other types of cancer.

Researchers believe they have found a key gene involved in Ferguson-Smith disease, otherwise known as multiple self-healing squamous epithelioma (MSSE), a skin cancer that grows rapidly but then a few weeks later, inexplicably, heals itself.

Analysis, Animals, Breakthrough Thinking, Education, Health & Fitness, Historical Perspectives, Latest News

Turtles Use Earth’s Magnetic Fields as a Navigational System

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A Loggerhead turtle with tracking device.

Scientists Nathan Putman and Ken Lohmann have determined that turtles can navigate across entire oceans by using the earth’s magnetic fields to determine their longitude and latitude. To test this hypothesis, they used a special water tank that permitted them to alter the magnetic fields inside. They then placed the turtles in the tank to see how they would respond to simulations of different locations…

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Europe Proposes Seven New Chemical Substances of Very High Concern

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Some chemicals are more detrimental than others.

This week Europe proposed to add seven more chemicals to the list of substances of very high concern (SVHC). The addition of a chemical to the SVHC list enables European regulators to ban the chemical from the market unless it is proven that the risks are adequately controlled, or there is not a feasible substitute and the socio-economic benefits justify the risk. The proposal contains more of the usual suspects such as phthalates, glycol ethers, and a chromate (the “Erin Brockovich chemical”), as well as some potentially difficult to replace chemicals like a widely used reducing agent and a common universal solvent…

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Why Are America’s Largest Corporations Paying No Tax?

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Who pays taxes if the corporations don’t?

Inspired by the UK Uncut movement, Americans are taking to the street, asking why they’re being asked to tighten their belts when the largest corporations in the country are paying no tax at all…

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