Wednesday, August 14, 2013

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Top of the Morning: Egypt Security Forces Violently Clear Protests
Top stories from DAWNS Digest Egyptian Security Forces Violently Clear Protests Security Forces have signaled for several days that they would no longer tolerate protest encampments by pro-Morsi supporters. Several people are reportedly been killed, but the Muslim Brotherhood puts the number of its supporters killed in the hundreds. Latest on this violent turn: (BBC http://bbc.in/17MPT2b) CAR Tro
Climate Models cannot explain why global warming has slowed
Finally climate scientists are starting to ask how the models need to change in order to fit the data. Hans von Storch, Eduardo Zorita and authors in Germany pointedly acknowledge that even at the 2% confidence level the model predictions don’t match reality. The fact is, the model simulations predicted it would get warmer than it has from 1998-2012. Now some climate scientists admit that there is
Here’s Exactly How Robert Mugabe Stole the Zimbabwe Election
On July 31 Zimbabweans went to the polls in the highly anticipated national elections that marked the end of the Government of National Unity established in 2009. In the end, President Robert Mugabe won with 61% of the vote over MDC-T’s Morgan Tsvangirai. Mugabe’s ZANU PF party also took two-thirds supermajority in parliament, the most they have held since the MDC first contested elections in 200
NASA Apollo Astronaut Walter Cunningham says trust in NASA and science has been abused
Donn F. Eisele, Walter M. Schirra, Jr. and Walter Cunningham. Walter Cunningham is a fighter pilot and a physicist and was the Lunar Module pilot on the Apollo 7 mission. In a 263 hour mission in October 1968 the three astronauts covered four and a half million miles. Over forty years later, he describes how the public trust built by the astronauts and technical specialists who put man on the moon
Reasons for Optimism and Concern: Can Technology Save the World?
== Can we save the world?  ==I cannot recommend too highly an excellent article that appeared in The Guardian -- Technology as Our Last Best Hope -- about the concept of ecological modernism, which sees technology as key to solving big environmental problems."The prophets of ecological modernism believe technology is the solution and not the problem. They say that harnessing innovation and entrepr
Samantha Power’s First Week: When Activists are Diplomats, and Diplomats are Activists 6 (title unknown) / by Eric Auner of TPR / 1d
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