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Monday September 10, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/09/10 · 12:30

Monday is back again right on schedule. Science talk returns to brighten your day with selections from science sites across the globe. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Today's tidbits include sea otters can help fight global warming, scientists cast doubt on Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, progress towards computing with water droplets, scientists set a new world drilling-depth of ocean drilling, germ-killing copper could save thousands of lives, and destroyed coastal habitats produce significant greenhouse gases.

Pull up that comfy chair and grab a spot on the porch. There is always plenty of room for everyone. Another session of Dr. Possum's science education, entertainment, and potluck discussion is set to begin.

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Monday September 03, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/09/03 · 12:30

Here we are one more time. Monday arrived right on schedule. Science talk returns to brighten your day with selections from science sites across the globe. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Today's tidbits include NASA's WISE survey uncovers millions of black holes, there may be large methane reservoirs beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, shading Earth could combat global warming, development of a new and less expensive nanolithography method, and 'nanoresonators' might improve cell phone function.

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Monday August 27, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/08/27 · 12:30

Monday, marvelous Monday is here one more time right on schedule. Science talk returns to brighten your day with selections from science sites across the globe. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Today's tidbits include sunbathing helps keep some insects healthy, most mutations come from dad, only two percent of Canadians deny climate change, adolescent smokers have artery damage, research on wood formation sheds new light on plant biology, and the Milky Way now has a twin (or two).

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Monday August 20, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/08/20 · 12:30

Monday, marvelous Monday is here one more time right on schedule. Science talk returns to brighten your day with selections from science sites across the globe. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Today's tidbits include warming causes more extreme shifts in Southern Hemisphere's largest rain band, climate and drought lessons from ancient Egypt, a new form of carbon in observed, research reveals bats evolved more than one way to drink nectar, two new owl species discovered in the Philippines, and Greenland's melting breaks record 4 weeks before season's end.

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Monday August 13, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/08/13 · 12:30

Monday afternoon arrived one more time in Possum Valley. Science talk returns to brighten your day once again with selections from science sites across the globe. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Today's tidbits include July 2012 marked the hottest July on record for the contiguous U.S., an unusual Aztec burial, ritual use of 'black drink' at Cahokia, how gecko feet grip in the rain, plate tectonics on Mars, and daily aspirin linked to lower cancer mortality.

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Monday August 06, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/08/06 · 12:30

Magical Monday is here and science talk returns to brighten your day one more time with selections from science sites across the globe. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Today's tidbits include the later Stone Age got an earlier start than thought in South Africa, extraordinary human sculpture unearthed in Turkey, the giant moa had climate change figured out, people with allergies may have a lower risk of brain tumors, a small species of deep sea squid can jettison its arms as a defensive tactic, and a water desalination system that works up to several times faster than others.

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Monday July 30, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/07/30 · 12:30

Magical Monday is here and science talk returns to brighten your day one more time with selections from science sites across the globe. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Today's tidbits include the use of microbes to make 'clean methane, a new technology to make photovoltaics from any semiconductor, bacteria on skin may protect us, entropy can lead to order and pave the way to nanostructures, the longer you are awake the slower you get, some songbirds migrate on a strict schedule, and .

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Monday July 23, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/07/23 · 12:30

Magical Monday is here and science talk returns to brighten your day one more time. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Over the fold are selections from the past week from a few of the many excellent science news sites around the world. Today's tidbits include Neanderthals in northern Spain had knowledge of plants' healing properties, Cassini spots daytime lightning on Saturn, the largest dam built by Maya in Central America, researchers produce the first complete computer model of an organism, highly transparent solar cells to help windows generate electricity, and how ocean chemistry affects climate change.

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Monday July 16, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/07/16 · 12:30

Science talk returns to brighten your day one more time. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Over the fold are selections from the past week from a few of the many excellent science news sites around the world. Today's tidbits include volcanic ash fall preserved a 'nursery' of early animals, mapping the interior motions of the Sun, scientists clean up the physics mystery of cornstarch, Paisley caves yield 13,000-year-old Western stemmed points and more human DNA, and veterinary vaccines combine to form new viruses.

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Monday July 09, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/07/09 · 12:30

Science talk returns to brighten your day one more time. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Over the fold are selections from the past week from a few of the many excellent science news sites around the world. Today's tidbits include Arctic warming linked to a combination of reduced sea ice and global atmospheric warming, record breaking drought across the U.S., first 'bottom-up' estimates of China's carbon dioxide emissions, what happens when we sunburn, in the biggest story of recent times scientists announce their findings on the Higgs particle, and eddies not sunlight spur the bloom of tiny plants in the North Atlantic.

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Monday July 02, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/07/02 · 12:30

Science talk returns to brighten your day one more time. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Over the fold are selections from the past week from a few of the many excellent science news sites around the world. Today's tidbits include cotton T-shirt fabric can store electricity, Britain's oldest rock art, dying trees in the southwest set the stage for erosion and water loss in the Colorado River, ancient human ancestor had a unique diet, rising heat at the beach threatens the largest sea turtles, and understanding what's up with the Higgs boson.

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Monday June 25, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/06/25 · 12:30

Science talk returns to brighten your day one more time. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Over the fold are selections from the past week from a few of the many excellent science news sites around the world. Today's tidbits include Arctic climate more vulnerable than thought, top predatory are key to extinctions as the planet warms, biodegradable artery graft may enhance bypass surgeries, chemical evidence of the first dairying in Saharan Africa, a China submersible breaks the 7000-meter mark, and renewables could fill 80 percent of American electricity demand by 2050.

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