October 2011
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Oct 31st
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Oct 29th
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Oct 28th
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Oct 27th
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Oct 26th
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Oct 25th
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Oct 24th
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Oct 23rd
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Oct 22nd
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Oct 20th
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Oct 19th
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Buried Antarctic Lake Could Hold Vital Climate... →
Lake Ellsworth could hold clues to climate change and on evolution of life on other extra-terrestrial environments. It could also uncover new forms of life previously unseen on earth, according to UK engineers and a scientist. The challenging drilling operation to reach the lake will begin in November.
Oct 15th
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A Surprising Town is Now America's Top Bike City →
Minneapolis is America’s No. 1 Bike City with 4% of residents biking to work from home, beating out Boulder, Portland and San Franciso despite the state’s famously ferocious winters.
Oct 14th
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Oct 13th
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California Officially Bans Possession and Sale of...
It has a been a month of progress for shark and ocean lovers everywhere. The Marshall Islands declared the world’s largest shark sanctuary and now the state of California’s Governor Jerry Brown has signed into legislation a bill making it illegal for anyone to posses or sell shark fins. Gov. Brown said “The practice of cutting the fins off of living sharks and dumping them back...
Oct 10th
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Green Child Magazine on Good World Games and... →
Games in and of themselves are great; but games that also do good are awesome. Good World Games had the crazy idea that maybe games are more than about having fun and entertaining your brain for a few minutes here a few hours there, although that is important stuff. What if games can change the way people behave in their real world lives? What if games can get people reflexively helping out noble...
Oct 6th
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Talk about Games for Good! Gamers Help Scientists... →
In an amazing exhibit of the good that can come from the synergism of internet and fun, University of Washington game creation FoldIt enabled gamers to reveal the structure of a long-researched protein essential to HIVs replication mechanism.  While scientist have been researching this protein for over 15 years without being able to identify its structure, gamers connected through FoldIt were...
Oct 4th
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