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Brooklyn Apartments to Generate Their Own Power

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A Brooklyn developer is renovating a Park Slope brownstone so that it generates as much energy as it uses.

 
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Station grabs SpaceX Dragon ship

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The first commercial cargo ship to visit the space station is attached to the orbiting laboratory by a robotic arm.

 
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Dogs, booze and bling: Northern Ireland’s medieval shopping mall

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Excavations reveal a medieval luxury shopping mall

 
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Mars ‘has life’s building blocks’

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New evidence from carbon in meteorites suggests that the basic building blocks of life are present on Mars, a study in Science journal says.

 
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Ancient walking mystery deepens

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An ancient creature thought to be the first to step on land could not have walked on four legs, 3D computer modelling shows.

 
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Space X Rocket Heads to Space Station

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If the cargo capsule makes it to the space station, it would be the first commercial, rather than government-operated, spacecraft to dock at the space station.

 
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Green Blog: The Call of the Wild, Answered

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Hiking along remote reaches of the Appalachian Trail invites reflection on resilience and discovery.

 
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Big Day for Elon Musk, a Space Entrepreneur Who Promises More

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The launch of the rocket ship built by his company, SpaceX, is the latest achievement by Elon Musk.

 
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Lansley is changing the regional funding model for NHS resources. Less for the poor, more for the old.

Read the original post here: bengoldacre - secondary blog.

Here’s an interesting nerdy corner you might have missed: Andrew Lansley is changing the regional funding model for NHS resources. Currently it’s done on a complex formula taking lots of factors into account, like deprivation, age, etc.
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Aric Sigman back in the news: Telegraph and Metro

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You will remember Aric Sigman, the slightly farcical omg-computers-harm-children man who operates from his home in Brighton, and distorts scientific research by cherry picking only the scary results which suit his story. He even – amazingly…

 
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