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Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.
- Murray Bookchin (b. 1941), U.S. ecologist.

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Rice plants may have up to 55,000 genes.

NASA Says World Will Not End In 2012

NASA has launched an investigation in its efforts to prove that world will not come to an end on December 21, 2012, despite the claims of many Internet theorists.

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Greetings From Palmer Station, Antarctica. Residents of Palmer Station, Antarctica, used their bright red United States Antarctic Program parkas to send ground-to-air greeting to scientists and flight crew aboard NASA's DC-8 flying science lab...
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Looking in Detail at a Spectacular Double-Ring Basin. This spectacular 290-kilometer-diameter double-ring basin seen in detail for the first time during MESSENGER’s third flyby of Mercury bears a striking resemblance to Raditladi basin, observed during...

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HTC Touch Diamond2 HTC Touch Diamond2 HTC earned their reputation for designing some of the most elegant Windows Mobile phones on the market with products like their first Touch Diamond. The Touch Diamond2 is even more impressive. Read More


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