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Fossil fuel divestment is one of the major subjects of student activists today. Back in December energy advocate Bill McKibben argued that colleges should cease investing in oil companies: “fossil fuel industry [is] an enemy that must be defeated,” since the industry uses “money and political influence to block climate action in Washington.” Students at many colleges have taken up the cause, known as “Fossil Free.” There are fossil fuel divestment […]

Hope you had a happy Thor’s day. It’s Freya’s day! Hurray! Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines – Houston Chronicle. Bobbie Short of Bigfoot Encounters website has died. Maybe Portlandites should read this A Natural History of Fluoride | Wired Science | Wired.com. Not that science matters… Score one for the antiscience cranks in Portland on fluoridation – Respectful Insolence. Top 10 New Species 2013

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Poster: Lifelong Bilingualism Is Associated With Larger Grey And White Matter Volumes In The Temporal Lobe. RK Olsen et al. Rotman Reserach Institute Baycrest. Here’s another reason to learn a second language: bilingualism staves off “senile moments” well into your 70s. With aging, our cognition inevitably declines – some faster than others. One brake that […]