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Vancouver Critical Mass Hits the Streets Another Year

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Vancouver Critical Mass Hits the Streets For Another Year

"Take public to the streets, by all means except the motor We are the world that we imagine, and our vision can be made realThe Age of the Bicycle will be upon us! as we move Towards Carfree Cities. The choice is...

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created by ScienceDave | 14 wks ago | updated 14 wks ago
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UBC Museum Robbery - Gold Jewelry, Bill Reid Artwork Stolen

Over the past weekend, thieves made off several pieces of solid gold jewelry from the University of British Columbia (UBC) Museum of Anthropology. Twelve of the pieces were fashioned by the late Bill Reid, a...

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created by ScienceDave | 19 wks ago | updated 19 wks ago
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Russian Sets Record For Solo Circumnavigation of Antarctica

It makes me all warm and gooey inside knowing there are still rich, eccentric adventurers out there."Russian Fedor Konyukhov completed the first solo circumnavigation of Antarctica in his 26m craft, throwing down the...

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created by ScienceDave | 20 wks ago | updated 20 wks ago
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Happy Belated Anniversary NowPublic and ScienceDave!

I realized something today - it has been more than one full year since I began posting to NowPublic. If there is one thing that remains certain here, it is that many great (and not so great) contributors have come and gone, but few have stayed.That said, instead of...

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created by ScienceDave | 21 wks ago | updated 20 wks ago
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Texas Rejects Creationist Science Degree Accreditation

Back in February, I first read about the proposed M.Sc. degree accreditation in Science Education from the Institute of Creation Science of Texas. Last December, education officials approved the plan, and it...

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created by ScienceDave | 22 wks ago | updated 22 wks ago
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Price For A Pint is Pinching Microbrewers

Sadly, the price of 2007's world's most popular drink may be on the rise.There were a number of reports by Canadian news outlets yesterday (and, according to Google news, New Zealand outlets as well) that, due...

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created by ScienceDave | 22 wks ago | updated 22 wks ago
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Pine Beetle Turning BC Forests into Net Source of Carbon Dioxide by 2020

Flying over British Columbia, or even driving through the interior of the province, will reveal a blight spreading throughout the province's forests. Hectares of pine trees have died and turned red,...

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created by ScienceDave | 24 wks ago | updated 24 wks ago
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"Viral media" might really be "Tree media" - Study

Finally, someone has done it (and published it in a prestigious journal like PNAS).Apparently, current models of information spread online have assumed the "viral" form (i.e. information spreads like an epidemic,...

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created by ScienceDave | 24 wks ago | updated 24 wks ago
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Strawberry Shortcake: The Four Seasons Cake Trailer

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Candy Flavored Cocaine - or - Science gone bad, real bad.

"Drug rings have occasionally sold cocaine mixed with candy powder, but investigators said the new product was significantly more sophisticated and lucrative. Cocaine cut with an added flavoring is less potent, but...

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created by ScienceDave | 24 wks ago | updated 24 wks ago
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Ride For Free - Get Tasered: Vancouver Transit

According to the Globe and Mail, Vancouver Metro Transit officials feel it is within their guidelines to taser riders who refuse to pay for public transportation: in 18 months, the taser was used 10 times. As...

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created by ScienceDave | 25 wks ago | updated 25 wks ago
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Health Canada: Bisphenol A is Dangerous

Health Canada has become the first regulatory body worldwide to officially state the worries and potential dangers surrounding Bisphenol A (BPA). BPA is widely used in plastic production - polycarbonate in...

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created by ScienceDave | 25 wks ago | updated 25 wks ago
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Greenwashing - What Some Advertisers Want you to Believe

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Greenwashing - Capitalizing off of Green Living Trends?

It isn't surprising that this has become an issue - companies making claims of sustainable, environmental, or "green" practices when, in fact, they may be doing no such thing.""It's an area in which we are expecting...

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created by ScienceDave | 25 wks ago | updated 25 wks ago
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One Night Stand, or Long Haul? It's all in your Face.

I, and many of my friends, always thought we could tell what was what (or at least, so I'm told).A group of 700 heterosexual participants in Durham, England were shown images of the opposite sex, and asked how they...

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created by ScienceDave | 26 wks ago | updated 26 wks ago
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NowPublic in the News: Ryerson Review of Journalism

Michael Tippet (NP co-founder), Rachel Nixon (NP Global News Director), Alfred Hermida (UBC Journalism Professor), and myself (user, or citizen, or participant, or whatever you want to call me) are interviewed about...

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created by ScienceDave | 26 wks ago | updated 26 wks ago
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Survey Says! American Public Attitudes Towards the Environment

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Survey Says! American Public Attitudes Towards the Environment

Dr. David M. Konisky from the University of Missouri's Institute of Public Policy recently released a survey that captures American attitudes towards current environmental issues (pdf here). The results were obtained...

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created by ScienceDave | 26 wks ago | updated 26 wks ago
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