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      Color, Controversy and DNA

      Posted by Shemuses

      A conversation between The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Nobel laureate and DNA pioneer James Watson about race and genetics, Jewish intelligence, blacks and basketball and Watson's African roots.

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      The Science of Racism

      Posted by Shemuses

      Last fall, James Watson, the father of DNA, spoke the unspeakable, saying that blacks are intellectually inferior. In a conversation with The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr., Watson clarified his views about race and genetics. Read what he says now - and why Gates regards him as "a racialist."

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      NASA lander in OK shape, photo caught Mars landing

      Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      On Monday, NASA released a black-and-white image captured during Phoenix's descent by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which had a bird's-eye view of the lander hanging from its parachute. It's the first time a spacecraft had taken an image of another craft during landing.

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      NASA - 100 Explosions on the Moon

      Posted by Damianmann from NASA

      Not so long ago, anyone claiming to see flashes of light on the Moon would be viewed with deep suspicion by professional astronomers. Such reports were filed under L … for lunatic. Not anymore. Over the past two and a half years, NASA astronomers have observed the Moon flashing at them not just once but one hundred times.

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    Jeff comments on:

    Liquid Lakes On Saturn's Moon Confirmed

    Now we just have to send up a spacecraft, suck up all those chemicals and lightly accelerate it back to earth – without blowing anything up.

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    11:12 am 7/31/08
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    derek comments on:

    A dash of lime -- a new twist that may cut CO2 levels back to pre-industrial levels

    Technofixes FTL.

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    9:43 pm 7/30/08
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    Jon comments on:

    Last-Ditch Resort: Move Polar Bears to Antarctica?

    Oy.  Vey.

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    2:11 am 7/25/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    A dash of lime -- a new twist that may cut CO2 levels back to pre-industrial levels

    Isn’t it Clorox that makes the polar bears white?

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    9:46 pm 7/21/08
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    raincitywoman comments on:

    A dash of lime -- a new twist that may cut CO2 levels back to pre-industrial levels

    See?  A  little Clorox will fix everything.

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    8:11 pm 7/21/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    A dash of lime -- a new twist that may cut CO2 levels back to pre-industrial levels

    Ocean’s be damned! :) Better than desalinating them with glacial ice melt … or not?

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    5:50 pm 7/21/08
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    garrettmoon comments on:

    A dash of lime -- a new twist that may cut CO2 levels back to pre-industrial levels

     What a surprise.  Shell is funding the research behind this.

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    11:48 am 7/21/08
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