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Oberlin Students Take Culture War to the Dining Hall
Some students at Oberlin College are taking their demands for diversity and racial inclusion to the dining hall, asking for more traditional meals and criticizing what they consider poor efforts at...
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Research Confirms a Link between Intelligence and Life Expectancy
The reasons are unclear, but higher IQ is correlated with longer life span People are living longer than ever. According to a 2015 World Health Organization report, Japanese live the longest, with an...
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The Best Prosecco to Drink This New Year's Eve
Not all Proseccos are created equal. The best among these light and gently fruity sparkling wines, which hail from Italy's Veneto region, are made by farmers and smaller family run estates who grow and...
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American Pure Whey, New Bern, NC is recalling all lots distributed from 7/2015 to 09/2015 of the products 100% Pure Whey Protein Matrix and 100% Pure Whey Protein Isolate, because they may contain...
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Trump and the media, made for each other
For many months now, like the anxious producers of some hot reality show, the American media has been waiting for Donald Trump to get up on stage and say the one thing that will lead to his swift and...
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Agrichemical Industry 'Attack Dog' Hired to Discredit Teenage Anti-GMO Activist
The U.S. agrichemical lobby targeted a Canadian teenager as part of its “increasingly nasty and divisive public relations war over GMOs,” according to new reporting from Global News. Rachel Parent was...
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The warmest Christmas Eve the East Coast has ever seen is shattering records
The world's hottest year is ending in the most fitting manner possible: with one of the most significant heat waves on record for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The heat extends more than 1,500...
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Govt. has to look into Bt cotton crop failure in Raichur: Experts
Following media reports on Bt cotton failure, an independent fact-finding team of experts visited Bt cotton fields in Raichur district on Thursday. The team visited fields in Gonal and Kadagamdoddi...
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Rich, White and Refusing Vaccinations
The people most likely to refuse to have their children vaccinated tend to be white, well-educated and affluent, researchers report. A study published in the January issue of the American Journal of...
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Organic farming can cut nitrate leaching in half
Don Wimmer, right, looks over fields of vegetables with his son, Denny, on their farm in Arispe on Aug. 1, 2014. Don was born on the farm in 1926 and worked conventional crops and livestock there until...
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Can Big Food Win Friends By Revealing Its Secrets?
A man scans a voucher code in with his smartphone. Some food companies use labels like this to provide details about ingredients and manufacturing processes to consumers. iStockphoto hide caption The...
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Father of Drowned Syrian Toddler Makes Heartfelt Holiday Plea
The images shocked the world and raised awareness of the plight of the millions of people fleeing Syria. Now the father of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old toddler whose lifeless body was photographed in...
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If Doctors Learned To Cook, They Might Give Better Advice
Tulane's medical school is one of the first to teach medical students how to cook healthful food, with the goal that they'll share that knowledge with patients. Jeff Kubina/Flickr hide caption Is your...
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The Right Chemistry: Chemists are more popular than they think
Most chemistry conferences these days feature a session on the “public understanding of chemistry.” Usually speakers express frustration about equating the term “chemical” with “toxin” or “poison,”...
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Give Your Twitter Community Management a Professional Boost - It's Magical! Quickly identify valuable people in your Twitter community that you were neglecting to engage because of all the noise in...
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Voices of the Food Chain
Voices of the Food Chain is a project of the Food Chain Workers Alliance and Real Food Media to capture and share stories of the country’s 20 million food workers in their own words. Including voices...
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As Beekeepers Lose More Hives, Time For New Rules On Pesticides?
America's beekeepers are having a rough time. They lost an estimated 42 percent of their hives last year. While some colony losses are normal, these numbers are high. "Such high colony losses in the...
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In 2015 we celebrated the “International Year of Soils” and with good reason. Soil sustains all our agricultural and livestock food production, wood for fuel production, filters water so that we can...
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Let Alec Baldwin tell you why he is an optimistic climate warrior
It wasn’t exactly the Oscars, but there was a star-studded award ceremony Monday night in Paris: the United Nations Development Program’s Equator Prize. Awarded this year to 21 indigenous and community...
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The Globe’s Hottest Year Just Keeps Getting Hotter
On Monday, NASA released its latest monthly temperature data for the globe. And it’s perhaps no surprise that this November was the warmest on record for the planet. The Japan Meteorological Agency’s...
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