HEADLINES

DINOSAUR GAS THE LATEST CULPRIT IN GLOBAL WARMING Liverpool, U.K. – Aside from the most extreme of scientific and political luddites, everyone agrees that he Earth is starting to warm up. Coral reefs are dying out, glaciers are collapsing, and the mean temperature of the planet is continuously increasing. That is fact, the only real debate is cause. ORANGUTANS ACROSS NORTH AMERICA USING IPADS TO COORDINATE THEIR RISE TO POWER Miami, FL – Technology has certainly done some amazing things, increasingly so, for human society. While certainly tech is often amazing unto itself, it is really most powerful when in the hands of users. As we saw last year during the early days of the Arab Spring, technology can have a real and disruptive effect on human culture.   NEW MAYAN CALENDAR FIND SHOWS THE WORLD ISN’T GOING TO END THIS YEAR AFTER ALL Guatemala City, Guatemala – For years many had worried that the world would end in 2012. True, there have been many, many predictions about the end of times in that past and clearly none of them have come true, but the Mayan predictions are the first to gain real traction and have a real date.

THE SUN READYING FRESH ATTACK ON EARTH WHICH COULD DESTROY EVERYTHING WE HOLD DEAR Oxford, U.K. – The Sun is constantly bombarding us with deadly rays. Most of the time we are safe from that assault, protected by our ozone layer, but every now and then the massive star that supports all life on planet Earth gets a little worked up and causes problems.   MISSION TO CONQUER AND DESTROY ANY LIFE ON JUPITER’S MOONS UNDERWAY Paris, France – For more than a century science and science fiction have been almost preternaturally obsessed with life on other planets. Whether it is the simple discovery of such life, the combating of alien creatures bent on our destruction, the obsession has remained a potent tale in our common experience. PACIFIC REEF SHARK POPULATIONS FINALLY DECLINING SHOWING SOMEONE IS THINKING OF THE CHILDREN Honolulu, HI – Depending on which side of the equation you fall on, sharks are either a magnificent creature, evidence of the power and incredible diversity of nature, or they are killing machines, a pestilence deserving of death. For most people, that latter is the most common belief.

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