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Crimea votes to join Russia

March 16, 2014, 2:08 pm
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With 50 percent of votes counted, preliminary results show 95.5% of voters in Crimea want to join Russia, electoral official says. Ukraine crisis: Early results show Crimea votes to join Russia By Laura Smith-Spark, Diana Magnay and Nick Paton Walsh, CNN updated 4:50 PM EDT, Sun March 16, 2014 Perevalnoye, Ukraine (CNN) — Preliminary results […]
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Hindu Fascists, on Fast Track

March 16, 2014, 6:43 pm
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Home»  Politics BJP signals regime change The relocation of Joshi and the snub to Swaraj has only reaffirmed the regime change that has been underway in the party since last September—it is now in its final leg Gyan Varma 0inShare 6 Comments Subscribe to: Daily Newsletter Breaking News Latest News 12:27 AM IST Women seeking political […]
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Why Russia will stop in Crimea

March 17, 2014, 7:35 am
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Why Russia will stop in Crimea Mar 11, 2014Aleksey Pilko Share this: The decision to protect the Crimea won’t lead to similar attempts by Russia to re-draw borders elsewhere in the former Soviet Union. Pro-Ukrainian supporters raise their hands to symbolize a referendum and remember the victims of violence in recent protests in Kiev as […]
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Obama’s Follies

March 17, 2014, 8:48 am
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Hi, bakulaji! Transcript: Obama announces sanctions after Crimea referendum   Video: On Monday, the day after Crimea voted to secede from Ukraine, President Obama announced expanded sanctions on Russian officials in the White House briefing room. 3 Share to Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Add to PersonalPost Share via Email Print Article More […]
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Big Bang

March 17, 2014, 10:10 am
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Space & Cosmos Detection of Waves in Space Buttresses Landmark Theory of Big Bang By DENNIS OVERBYEMARCH 17, 2014   Photo   Alan Guth was one of the first physicists to hypothesize the existence of inflation, which explains how the universe expanded so uniformly and so quickly in the instant after the Big Bang 13.8 […]
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Early Russian Spring in Eastern Ukraine

March 18, 2014, 7:37 am
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Europe In Eastern Ukraine, the Curtain Goes Up, and the Clash Begins By C. J. CHIVERS and ANDREW ROTHMARCH 17, 2014     Photo   Pro-Russia protesters in Kharkiv, Ukraine, tried briefly on Sunday to push their way into the regional administration building. Credit Tyler Hicks/The New York Times KHARKIV, Ukraine — The opponents arrived […]
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Dangers of Privatizing of Science

March 18, 2014, 7:46 am
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Science   Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science   By WILLIAM J. BROADMARCH 15, 2014     Continue reading the main story Video Play Video Video|4:26 Credit Schmidt Ocean Institute Funding the Future As government financing of basic science research has plunged, private donors have filled the void, raising questions about the future […]
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The Older-and-Wiser Hypothesis

March 18, 2014, 7:58 am
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bakulaji… The New Middle Ages The Older-and-Wiser Hypothesis By STEPHEN S. HALL Published: May 6, 2007 In 1950, the psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson, in a famous treatise on the phases of life development, identified wisdom as a likely, but not inevitable, byproduct of growing older. Wisdom arose, he suggested, during the eighth and final stage […]
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Crimea in Russia

March 18, 2014, 8:31 am
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Kremlin: Crimea and Sevastopol are now part of Russia, not Ukraine By Alla Eshchenko and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN updated 11:01 AM EDT, Tue March 18, 2014 Your video will play in 3 secs STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: Armed men have fired on Ukrainian soldiers, one injured — Ukrainian defense ministry Kremlin says Crimea and Sevastopol are […]
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Gareth Porter

March 18, 2014, 2:18 pm
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I Grew Up Believing in Time Magazine’s Version of America – Gareth Porter on RAI (1/3) On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Porter tells Paul Jay that by the end of the Vietnam War, he understood the US government and military could do terrible things –   March 16, 2014 Author:Gareth Porter Published:14 Feb 2014 Publisher:Just […]
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World War III Script

March 18, 2014, 3:01 pm
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  The Opinion Pages|Op-Ed Columnist The Unlikely Road to War MARCH 17, 2014         Roger Cohen     A 19-year-old Ukrainian nationalist from a remote farming village, raised on stories of his family’s suffering during Stalin’s great engineered famine, embittered by Moscow’s long imperialist dominion, enraged by the slaying of a fellow […]
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Early Spring

March 18, 2014, 3:11 pm
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These Pictures of Spring Flowers Will Melt Your Frozen Heart —By Tim McDonnell | Mon Mar. 17, 2014 12:00 PM GMT Climate change might have had a hand in the exceptionally cold winter much of the country just suffered through, but on the upside, there’s new evidence that it’s sending spring in early, and giving […]
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Climate Change is Real

March 18, 2014, 3:39 pm
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Published on Tuesday, March 18, 2014 by Common Dreams Scientists: Wake Up, America! US Climate Inaction Imperils Earth Contrary to all information, warnings, and urgings—the US ho-hum approach to global warming cannot be tolerated - Jon Queally, staff writer Once and for all, prominent U.S. scientists are saying, Americans need to wake up, get a […]
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The Chicken Didn’t Cross The Pacific To South America

March 18, 2014, 4:38 pm
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Tech / Sci When Did Chickens Cross The Pacific Ocean? DNA Shows ‘No Evidence’ Of Pre-Columbian Contact By Zoe Mintz on March 18 2014 5:04 PM A new study that sequenced DNA found in ancient chicken bones suggests Polynesian people did not reach South America before European explorers.  Wikimedia Commons Ancient chicken DNA may shed […]
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Andrei Linde

March 18, 2014, 6:58 pm
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Andrei Linde and the Beauty of Science Posted by Andrea DenHoed On Monday, a team of scientists announced that the BICEP2 telescope, at the South Pole, had detected gravitational waves that could be traced to a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang, lending evidence to a theory about the universe’s expansion called […]
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Fat Gene

March 19, 2014, 2:42 am
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Researchers identify ‘fat gene’ associated with obesity By Kevin Jiang March 14, 2014 Mutations within the gene FTO have been implicated as the strongest genetic determinant of obesity risk in humans, but the mechanism behind this link remained unknown. Now an international team of scientists has discovered that the obesity-associated elements within FTO interact with […]
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Crimea: Big Chill

March 19, 2014, 3:43 am
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Europe If History Is a Guide, Crimeans’ Celebration May Be Short-Lived By OLESYA VARTANYAN and ELLEN BARRYMARCH 18, 2014   Photo   Youths waited for a bus in Atotsi, Georgia, near the border with South Ossetia, where men in unmarked military uniforms recently started building a border fence. Credit Justyna Mielnikiewicz for The New York […]
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Crimea: Big Chill

March 19, 2014, 10:43 am
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Hi, bakulaji! Europe Europe weighs hurting own economy to press Russia amid Crimea crisis Video: During a speech Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin asserted that the West should respect “the free will of Crimeans” to secede from Ukraine and join Russia. 51 Share to Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Add to PersonalPost Share […]
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Supernova 1987A

March 19, 2014, 11:14 am
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Supernova 1987A Discovery! SN 1987A in the LMCClick image to enlarge. Credit: Hubble Heritage Team using data collected by Robert Kirshner (Harvard/CfA), Nino Panagia (STScI), Martino Romaniello (ESO), and collaborators A supernova is the explosive end of a star’s life. The power of the event is almost more than one can imagine. During the first […]
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Putin Fingures Obama

March 19, 2014, 2:05 pm
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Photo by Sasha Mordovets Josh Rogin f Washington Bureau 03.17.14 Exclusive: Russia Will Sanction U.S. Senators Putin is set to respond to Obama’s sanctions of Russian officials with his own list. Several U.S. Senators and officials will be banned from visiting Russia, including Sen. Dick Durbin. U.S. senators, congressmen and top Obama administration officials are […]
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