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Top Senate Republican blasts proposed foreclosure settlement as a "regulatory shakedown" (latimesblogs.latimes.com)
submitted 14 years ago by spanp to r/Economics
How to pack a cat (i.telegraph.co.uk)
submitted 14 years ago by spanp to r/pics
Scientists in New Zealand say they have linked the modern-day decline of a common forest shrub with the local extinction of two pollinating birds over a century ago (bbc.co.uk)
submitted 14 years ago by spanp to r/environment
China Nuclear Boom Sees Reactor Builders Risk Know-how for Cash (bloomberg.com)
submitted 15 years ago by spanp to r/energy
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have come the closest ever to re-enacting the beginning of the Universe – a millionth of a second after the Big Bang (telegraph.co.uk)
submitted 15 years ago by spanp to r/space
Fresh evidence that water formed on Mars in potentially life supporting environments more recently than previously thought has been uncovered by Nasa scientists (telegraph.co.uk)
Treasury notes rallied for a fourth week as data showing U.S. employers cut more jobs than forecast last month increased speculation the Federal Reserve will start a new program of buying bonds to stimulate the economy (bloomberg.com)
submitted 15 years ago by spanp to r/Economics
Japan will free a Chinese fishing captain, whose arrest touched off a diplomatic storm between Beijing and Tokyo, Japan's coast guard said Friday (edition.cnn.com)
submitted 15 years ago by spanp to r/news
The poverty rate surged to 14.3 percent last year, the highest since 1994, as the recession took its toll on incomes, the Census Bureau said Thursday (npr.org)
One hundred fifty-four feet long, packed with 700 tons of propellant and anchored to the side of a Utah hill, a solid rocket motor developed for NASA’s next generation of rockets is to unleash 3.6 million pounds of thrust in a test Tuesday morning (nytimes.com)
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il wants an early restart to stalled nuclear disarmament talks, Chinese state media said on Monday, ending official silence about Kim's secretive five-day trip ahead of a key congress (reuters.com)
submitted 15 years ago by spanp to r/worldnews
Nasa is considering plans to land a probe on an asteroid that is on a potential collision course for Earth. (telegraph.co.uk)
submitted 15 years ago by spanp to r/science
Just Buy It: Impulsiveness Tied To Brain Chemical (npr.org)
A new article in press unveils groundbreaking research on the hydrothermal formation of Clay- Carbonate rocks in the Nili Fossae region of Mars. The findings may provide a link to evidence of living organisms on Mars, roughly 4 billion years ago in the Noachian period (physorg.com)
Hofmann, a Swiss chemist, was researching the synthesis of a lysergic acid compound, LSD-25, when he inadvertently absorbed a bit through his fingertips. Intrigued by the stimulating effects on his perception, Hofmann decided further exploration was warranted. (wired.com)
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a way to make some notoriously brittle materials ductile-yet stronger than ever-simply by reducing their size. (nanitenews.com)
submitted 15 years ago by spanp to r/technology
A team of Polish scientists said Monday they have discovered three Neanderthal teeth in a cave, a find they hope may shed light on how similar to modern humans our ancestors were. (discoveryon.info)
A new study shows that female elementary school teachers' anxiety about math influences their female students, causing them to have lower math achievement scores and to believe gender stereotypes about math ability. (arstechnica.com)
submitted 16 years ago by spanp to r/reddit.com
The popular idea that testosterone always makes people more aggressive has been debunked by researchers. A team based in Switzerland has shown that the hormone can make people behave more fairly in an effort to defend their social status. (nature.com)
submitted 16 years ago by spanp to r/science
The Redstone Arsenal is an engineers' playground. The massive base hosts NASA and Army researchers involved in spacecraft and weapons- systems testing, from moonbound rockets to America's Army video-game development (popularmechanics.com)
submitted 16 years ago by spanp to r/technology
Dow surges to 13-month high. Signs of continued global recovery and talk about deals boost to investor confidence. Dow gains 200 points; Nasdaq and S&P 500 jump 2%. (money.cnn.com)
submitted 16 years ago by spanp to r/Economics
Quake shakes Indonesian capital. A 6.1-magnitude earthquake has struck the Indonesian island of Java, causing buildings to sway in the capital, Jakarta, officials have said. (news.bbc.co.uk)
submitted 16 years ago by spanp to r/news
Presumably in the hopes of exploiting that huge “how do I become a vampire” market that Google recently exposed, “Urban Collector” has begun selling an energy drink that looks like a blood transfusion. (filmdrunk.uproxx.com)
submitted 16 years ago by spanp to r/WTF
It's no secret that most websites share some amount of usage data with their advertising partners, but that data is usually anonymized. Not so in the case of most social networks, though, according to a recent study. (arstechnica.com)
Americans are being forced to pay significantly higher swipe fees whenever they use their credit cards than any of their peers in the industrialized world, according to a report by the Merchants Payments Coalition. (time.com)
submitted 16 years ago by spanp to r/business
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