Top 10 new species of 2011 named by conservation group - Los Angeles Times


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Top 10 new species of 2011 named by conservation group
Los Angeles Times
This year's list was released Wednesday, on the 305th birthday of Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, who created the modern system of plant and animal names and classifications. Scientists have so far discovered and named nearly 2 million species, ...
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ConsumerBase Catalogs Beverage Industry Mailing Lists in Database - Houston Chronicle

ConsumerBase Catalogs Beverage Industry Mailing Lists in Database
Houston Chronicle
Typical beverage industry target audiences for B2B direct marketers include packaging and distribution facilities, research and development scientists, breweries, retailers, and beverage company professionals. Corporate and independent beverage ...

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ConsumerBase Catalogs Beverage Industry Mailing Lists in Database - San Francisco Chronicle (press release)

ConsumerBase Catalogs Beverage Industry Mailing Lists in Database
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Evanston, IL (PRWEB) May 25, 2012 ConsumerBase LLC, a multi-channel mailing list provider based in Evanston, IL, is updating its growing database with enhanced beverage industry mailing lists for the business market. The beverage industry consists of ...

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Food & Wine's dumb 'Best BBQ' list - Washington Post (blog)

Food & Wine's dumb 'Best BBQ' list
Washington Post (blog)
And surely some of the people on this list turn out fine chicken thighs. But it's unclear what, exactly, about grilling meat makes these folks rocket scientists. But I nitpick. The word “genius” has been devalued; we sling it around like hash on a ...

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Data journalism research at Columbia aims to close data science skills gap - O'Reilly Radar

Data journalism research at Columbia aims to close data science skills gap
O'Reilly Radar
The role models for this emerging practice of data journalism won't be found on broadcast television or on the lists of the top journalists over the past century. They're drawn from the increasing pool of people who are building new breeds of newsrooms ...

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Chemistry by Candlelight - Wired News

Chemistry by Candlelight
Wired News
He lists a few, from the burning of fossil fuels to the image of London, packed with people breathing in oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide. “And where does all this go?” Faraday asks. “Up into the air.” One hundred and fifty years ago, scientists like ...

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InNexus leader develops new firm - AZ Central.com

InNexus leader develops new firm
AZ Central.com
Morhet was the CEO, and Morhet and University of Arizona scientist Frederic Zenhausern were listed as board members in 2010 and 2011, filings show. The company's most recent annual report, filed with the Corporation Commission in March, lists only ...

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Eat Your Hake and Have It, Too - New York Times

Eat Your Hake and Have It, Too
New York Times
Seattle WHOLE FOODS recently stopped selling fish that are on the “red lists” of seafood to avoid, issued by the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Blue Ocean Institute. Other major food retailers are considering similar measures, under the assumption that ...

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Science Blogging in Sub-Saharan Africa - Global Voices Online

Science Blogging in Sub-Saharan Africa
Global Voices Online
The continent is not short on talented scientists. Bernard Kom lists a few of the mosts prominent African scientists [fr] right now, and some of them are also active on the web. Jacques Bonjawo is a Cameroonian engineer who chairs the Board of ...

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The ultimate freedom - Bangkok Post

The ultimate freedom
Bangkok Post
The anthropologist and political scientist draws extensively on works done by other scholars before him. But original and a source of the author's pride is his development of "friction of terrain" _ or the ruggedness of hill peoples' choice of ...

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