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Science Daily News Feed New Scientist News on KurzweilAI.net BGG’s Pandora America’s Finest News SourceThe Fourth Rail reports on the ominous situation in Pakistan, future home of loose nukes. It seems a whole laundry list of terrorist targets have vanished into thin air.
The al Qaeda and Taliban personnel abandoned the 28 camps after “the US had presented Islamabad with a dossier detailing the location of the bases as advance [...]
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This weekend those of you who, unlike BGG, do not have practically a nursing-home bedtime can get out in the wee hours and enjoy the Perseid meteor shower. The sand-grain to marble-sized bits of debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle will be streaking through the upper edges of the atmosphere at a speed of about 133,000 [...]
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This article from CIDRAP summarizes followup studies after a 2005 dengue fever outbreak in Brownsville, Texas (more detail on dengue in my previous post here). As CDC reported in the August 10th MMWR, many residents of Brownsville have previously been infected with dengue (many infections were probably asymptomatic), putting them at risk for future [...]
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