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Rod Lamberts wrote a decade ago: If there’s one thing decades of advertising, public relations, psychology research and science communication have taught us, it’s that throwing facts at opposing opinions with the hope of changing people’s minds is like...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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I realize that all people want to do is talk about Donald Trump (myself included), but sometimes other issues are worth knowing about. One of them is the habitability of Ukraine after Putin has been defeated and brought to justice for crimes against...
by Pakalolo
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on Tue Aug 30, 2022 at 06:07 AM PDT
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President Biden was derided here for his naivete in saying that he believed that he could get some bipartisan legislation passed. He has been derided here “as the weakest” president in forever, but he got some strong legislation passed with only our...
by Dem
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on Sat Aug 06, 2022 at 04:33 AM PDT
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OAKLAND, CA - Anglers, divers and other residents of the Lake Tahoe Basin have reason to celebrate. Under a settlement agreement finalized on November 4 in federal court in Sacramento, AT&T’s PacBell subsidiary will remove eight miles of decrepit...
by Dan Bacher
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on Fri Nov 26, 2021 at 03:17 PM PST
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Fifty-five chemicals never before reported in human were found in the blood of pregnant women, and in the umbilical blood of their newborns, according to a study from the University of California San Francisco published online in Environmental Science...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat May 15, 2021 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Last year, 271 people were murdered in Detroit, giving it the third-highest homicide rate among large U.S. cities. Grim as that total is, the University of Michigan School of Public Health estimates that 650 of Detroit’s inhabitants die each...
by Meteor Blades
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on Wed Sep 16, 2020 at 10:02 AM PDT
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Before I get to the study that set off a 4 alarm fire in my mind, I'm going to present some background and or refresher information. I will try to keep it brief.
by enhydra lutris
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on Wed Jun 17, 2020 at 06:06 AM PDT
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Showing once again how little the Trump regime cares about the rule of law, according to unnamed insiders, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Chief Andrew Wheeler will in the coming weeks defy a court order to set a drinking water standard for a...
by Meteor Blades
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on Thu May 14, 2020 at 11:35 AM PDT
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All life on planet earth exist in a bubble called the biosphere. In simple terms, the biosphere is defined as the regions below and above the surface of the earth that are inhabited by the various lifeforms. In this biosphere the life that is dominant...
by melshim
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on Tue Apr 28, 2020 at 04:19 AM PDT
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Former United Farm Workers President Arturo S. Rodriguez is in Washington D.C. testifying today before the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis at a hearing entitled, “Creating a Climate Resilient America: Overcoming the Health Risks of the...
by ufw
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on Wed Feb 05, 2020 at 09:16 AM PST
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SACRAMENTO – On December 12, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra blasted the Trump Administration’s decision to open up 1.2 million acres of public lands in Central California, mainly in the San Joaquin Valley, to oil and gas drilling, including...
by Dan Bacher
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on Tue Dec 17, 2019 at 10:12 AM PST
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"The likely culprit of the sudden deaths? The loosening of pesticide restrictions" Why have 500m bees died in Brazil in the past three months? www.theguardian.com/… "honeybees in only three ...
by Angmar
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on Thu Sep 26, 2019 at 12:30 PM PDT
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Since taking office, Donald Trump and his series of industry lobbyists at the EPA, FDA, and Interior Department have made an express point of deregulating toxic chemicals. And whether it’s allowing more heavy metals up smokestacks, blessing toxic...
by Mark Sumner
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on Sat Jun 29, 2019 at 08:48 AM PDT
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Most bolding, underlining, etc in these reverse-date order article samples is my emphasis, but don’t bet on it. See Medscape note in the turquoise box somewhere below for how to get free access to their articles, which are the majority in this...
by mettle fatigue
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on Tue Jul 31, 2018 at 09:00 AM PDT
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I really hate to put this idea in your head, because his visuals are more than bad enough, but… Donald Trump has a fragrance.
You don’t just wear it… you deploy it!
Turns out Trump has several fragrances — Success by Trump, Empire...
by Front Toward Enemy
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on Tue Aug 23, 2016 at 08:45 AM PDT
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"If this had been a rich, white neighborhood, the landfill would never have gotten here," Uniontown resident Esther Calhoun, president of Black Belt Citizens Fighting for Health and Justice, told NBCnews. “They put it here because we're a poor, black...
by Pakalolo
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on Mon May 23, 2016 at 09:26 AM PDT
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My Beloved Cousin Bob: The captain of the paramedics and a firefighter in a major US city, he was one of the original paramedics from when the discipline was new. He gave his whole 40 year + career and beyond to helping people, saving lives. Bobby’s...
by TX Lib
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on Thu May 05, 2016 at 10:55 AM PDT
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February is Black History Month
Today is
National Tortellini Day
17 year old Rochelle Ballantyne is one of the best chess players in the world. She's on the b
by Tara Thralls
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on Sat Feb 13, 2016 at 09:02 PM PST
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The Brazilian government recently released the largest and most comprehensive report that has been done on the climate change impacts to their country. Despite the critical importance of the issues ra
by Pakalolo
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on Sat Dec 05, 2015 at 10:43 AM PST
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https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-deception/
The Teflon Toxin
DuPont and the Chemistry of Deception
Sharon Lerner
Aug. 11 2015, 5:35 p.m.
The Intercept @ firstlook....
by kathybbb
25 comments
on Sat Aug 15, 2015 at 10:34 AM PDT
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