E-mails reportedly from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), including personal exchanges, appeared on the internet on Thursday.
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The CRU hack
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As many of you will be aware, a large number of emails from the University of East Anglia webmail server were hacked recently (Despite some confusion generated by Anthony Watts, this has absolutely nothing to do with the Hadley Centre which is a completely separate institution). As people are also no doubt aware the breaking into of computers and ...
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BBC News
UK climate unit's e-mails hacked
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The e-mail system of one of the world's leading climate research units has been breached by hackers.
Nature Publishing Group
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NatureNews
Leading British climate centre hacked
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One of Britain's leading climate-research centres has had more than 1,000 files stolen from its computers and republished on the Internet. The cyber-attack is apparently aimed at damaging the reputations of prominent climate scientists.
Kimzetter
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Wired Top Stories
Hacked E-Mails Fuel Global Warming Debate
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An online debate over global warming science has broken out after an unknown hacker broke into the e-mail server at a prominent, British climate-research center, stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming research and posted them online. Global warming skeptics are seizing on portions of the messages as evidence that scientists are ...
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Hadley hacked: warmist conspiracy exposed?
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The director of Britain’s leading Climate Research Unit, Phil Jones, has told Investigate magazine’s TGIF Edition tonight ..."It was a hacker. We were aware of this about three or four days ago that someone had hacked into our system and taken and copied loads of data files and emails."…
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KEVIN SACK
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NYT
Backers of science-driven medicine cheered the new recommendations on cancer screening, while many patients still believe that more is always better.
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Good Math
The Balance of Screening Tests
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As you've no doubt heard by now, there's been a new recommendation issues which proposes changing the breast-cancer screening protocol for women under 50, by eliminating mammograms for women who don't have significant risk factos. While Orac has done a terrific job of covering this here and here , I wanted to throw in a couple of notes and a ...
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Kevin
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KevinMD.com
Can less aggressive cancer screening recommendations be better for patients?
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By Amy Tuteur, MD Doctors have understood for some time that it was inevitable. The American Cancer Society has acknowledged that cancer screening has been oversold. It seems like every day you read in the newspaper that what was standard medical care yesterday is now no longer recommended. Don’t doctors know anything? Well, actually they do.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's announcement of a new strategy on Afghanistan will not take place until after the Thanksgiving holiday next week, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Friday.
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TPMDC
Tag Team: Obama, Biden, Interest Groups Push On Health Care
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The White House, Democratic National Committee and pro-health care groups are going full force to build support in advance of tomorrow test vote on the Senate health care bill. President Obama had nothing on his public schedule following a return from his 8-day trip to Asia, and administration sources said they believe he and the White House ...
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Grist
The Climate Post: You heard it here first—Copenhagen a success
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by Eric Roston First things first: A week of anticlimaxes saw President Barack Obama conducting a less-than-exuberant swing through China, the international community conceding a binding climate treaty at the COP-15 negotiations in Copenhagen, and U.S. lawmakers postponing to the spring of 2010 consideration of climate policy—even as talk ...
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Grist
15 people worth watching in Copenhagen
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by Jonathan Hiskes So who will be the real power players in Copenhagen? The official estimate for official delegates attending the U.N. climate conference hovers somewhere around a gajillion. OK, seriously, it’s a mere 20,000. Then there are thousands of activists, journalists, business leaders, and NGO reps who will be seeking the ...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Women in the United States should start cervical cancer screening at age 21 and most do not need an annual Pap smear, according to new guidelines issued on Friday that aim to reduce the risk of unnecessary treatment.
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Hot lines, online groups and organizations that charge fees on a sliding scale are options for finding help.
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I have few regrets in life, but if there’s one, it’s that I didn’t have access to all this amazing technology when I was a teenager and figuring out just how I was going to tackle my love for astronomy. How I would have loved podcasts, programmable telescopes, CCDs, websites with satellite pass information…
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google's dual-pronged operating system strategy will likely produce a single OS down the road, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
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The Reference Frame
Google Chrome OS
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Click to zoom the screenshot in. As a user of Google Chrome 4.0 , I was interested in the newest Google press conference about the Google Chrome Operating System (OS) that was released to the open-source community today. The conference could be watched by opening the following URL in the Windows Media Player: . ...
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Sony’s Kazuo Hirai has a lot of ideas about what he would do if it had an iTunes-like online store. The company wouldn’t just sell digital music, movies and books for Sony products, said Hirai, executive vice-president for networked products and services. It would also try to connect users with each other.
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PhysOrg.com
(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected to benefit meteorologists, water resource managers, climate modelers and farmers.
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The Earth Journalism Awards honour those in the media (professional journalists and citizen journalists/bloggers) who use their communication skills and influence to promote awareness of and provide new insight into climate change issues - whether it be in their region or in relation to certain key themes - through the production of powerful and ...
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AP - A Vatican researcher claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus' burial cloth. The claim made in a new book by historian Barbara Frale drew immediate skepticism from some scientists, who maintain the shroud is a medieval forgery.
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PhysOrg.com
Researcher says text proves Shroud of Turin real
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(AP) -- A Vatican researcher claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus' burial cloth. The claim made in a new book by historian Barbara Frale drew immediate skepticism from some scientists, who maintain the shroud is a medieval forgery.
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Science.ORF.at
Text auf Turiner Grabtuch?
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Eine Forscherin will einen fast unsichtbaren Text auf dem berühmten Grabtuch von Turin entdeckt haben. Der Fund beweise die Authentizität des Stücks, sagt sie.
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GINA KOLATA
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NYT
The Preventive Services Task Force, which urged women to get less-frequent screening for breast cancer, was created to be apolitical.
by Grist Related Links: Cast your vote for the best climate journalism A Gristy guide to the COP15 climate talks 15 people worth watching in Copenhagen (a slideshow!)
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VIDEO: Climate Justice and the Copenhagen Moment
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An inspiring new video from smartMeme with leaders from frontline communities and allies talking about the Copenhagen moment. Posted in Carbon Trading, Copenhagen 2009, United States
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Grist
Climate talks timeline: From 350 to Kyoto to Copenhagen and beyond
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by Grist Whether you’ve been hitting snooze each time a global climate conference rolls around or you’re looking for a refresher before the Copenhagen climate talks this December, Grist has an interactive timeline to bring you up to speed. And don’t forget to keep tabs on all our juicy coverage of the Copenhagen climate talks . ...
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Grist
Copenhagen 101: The essentials on the climate talks
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by Jonathan Hiskes Welcome! It’s not too late to get up to speed on the climate-change jamboree that begins Dec. 7. Here’s a short primer. What is this Copenhagen thing? It’s a gathering of negotiators from every United Nations member country who will try to come up with a plan to protect the world from catastrophic climate ...
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Engineers have sent proton particles all the way round the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) machine for the first time in more than a year.
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Universe Today
Large Hadron Collider Could Re-Start This Weekend
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could be re-started on this Saturday morning CERN officials said. Engineers are preparing to send a beam of sub-atomic particles around the 27km-long circular tunnel, which has been shut down since an accident in September 2008. Scientists hope to create conditions similar to those present moments after the [...]
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Physics Today
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Physics Today News Picks
Beams sent around LHC
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Physics Today : Updated: 2:38PM EST : Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), announced that they have sent a particle beam around the 27-kilometer collider. Recent coverage of the LHC by Physics Today can be found here . Related news stories Scientists at Cern hold their breath as they prepare to fire up the LHC The Guardian
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SPACE.com - WASHINGTON - The camera that captured many of the Hubble Space Telescope's most famous images and the "contact lenses" that focused the observatory's flawed mirror debuted Wednesday at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. along with the first phase of a new interactive gallery devoted to humans living ...
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Has cap-and-trade in Europe worked? WRI’s Senior Fellow Jill Duggan, who helped implement the EU trading scheme, sorts the myths from reality. Europe began its cap-and-trade system in 2005, with a three year learning period (phase 1). In recent U.S. Senate climate hearings, cap-and-trade critics pointed to the challenges of that first phase as ...
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Slice of SciFi
Actor Brad Pitt has signed on for the big-screen adaptation of the popular video-game "The Dark Void" Variety reports. "Dark Void" follows a pilot who crash lands in the Bermuda Triangle following a routine mission and finds himself in an alternate world resembling a primitive Earth where aliens with superior technology are planning to take over ...
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SciFi Scanner
Daily Scan for - Pitt Fills Dark Void, Campbell Eyed As Khan
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• Rebecca Mader, who played Charlotte on Lost , will be back for the show's final season . Looks like they're bringing everyone back, though my guess is that it's going to happen in another timeline that runs parallel to the main one. • Brad Pitt is now attached to a movie based on the video game Dark Void , about a pilot lost in the Bermuda ...
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Innovation
Modern Warfare helps buoy Q3 profits at GameStop
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The success of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the new first-person shooter published by Activision, has reportedly helped boost profits for the most popular video game retailer in the US. According to the Associated Press, sales rose to $1.83 billion in the most recent quarter at GameStop. That's a ...
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AP - The fleet of new cars and trucks sold to U.S. consumers averaged 21 miles per gallon in the 2008 model year, a modest increase over the previous year, the Environmental Protection Agency reported Friday.
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An aerospace engineer from Maine, the reigning champion of NASA's Astronaut Glove Challenge, held onto his title to win first prize in a competition to build a better space glove.
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Data Storage Startup, Energy Manager, Win GreenBeat Innovation Contest
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The winner of the Innovation Competition, held as part of the GreenBeat 2009 conference in San Mateo, California, today, is actually a pair of winners. The judges could not quite settle on one of the 11 entrants and so instead awarded both Locust Storage, a startup (just out of stealth mode today) and CPower [...]
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If you were interested in buying the Barnes & Noble Nook as a holiday gift, strike it off your list. The e-reader is now officially sold out through 2009, according to the B&N Web site.
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Make: Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Gifts for dads
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There's a funny thing about dads' toys. Very often, kids borrow dad's supposedly grown-up toys and dad plays with toys designed for a much younger demographic. With that in mind, we present the Gifts for Dads list, filled with stuff that may appeal to more than one generation in your household. And you may also want to check out the holiday gift ...
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