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How Do Other Countries Celebrate Their Independence?
LiveScience.com - Americans have their fireworks, barbecues, and parades. But citizens from other countries, by climbing greased palm trees to get a TV or engaging in competitive kite-flying, demonstrate their own unique traditions as they celebrate their nation's independence.
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LiveScience.com - Americans have their fireworks, barbecues, and parades. But citizens from other countries, by climbing greased palm trees to get a TV or engaging in competitive kite-flying, demonstrate their own unique traditions as they celebrate their nation's independence.
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The Chemistry of Firework Displays
Ponca City, We love you writes "David Ropeik writes at MSNBC that there's a lot more to making a basic firework display than putting a fuel source and an oxidizer together. Pyrotechnic chemists, who are trying to create bedazzlement instead of bang, don't want their work to explode, b ... more »
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Ponca City, We love you writes "David Ropeik writes at MSNBC that there's a lot more to making a basic firework display than putting a fuel source and an oxidizer together. Pyrotechnic chemists, who are trying to create bedazzlement instead of bang, don't want their work to explode, b ... more »
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Thai zoo's 1st baby panda goes on display
AP - Thousands of excited visitors flocked Saturday to a zoo in northern Thailand for the first public viewing of a baby panda, which has been featured on Thai front pages almost every day since her birth six weeks ago.
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Fellow students smell your exam fear
Anxiety seems to prompt the release of a chemical that automatically triggers empathy in anyone who sniffs it
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Anxiety seems to prompt the release of a chemical that automatically triggers empathy in anyone who sniffs it
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'Hippy' monkey is a killer when starved of sex
The world's most peaceful primate is observed launching a lethal attack, giving clues to the origins of human gang warfare
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The world's most peaceful primate is observed launching a lethal attack, giving clues to the origins of human gang warfare
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Heavy rain in southern China forces 150,000 to flee
Reuters - Torrential rain battering southern China has forced more than 150,000 people from their homes, toppled hundreds of houses and punched a dangerous hole in the spillway of a dam, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
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Reuters - Torrential rain battering southern China has forced more than 150,000 people from their homes, toppled hundreds of houses and punched a dangerous hole in the spillway of a dam, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
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Blood test could predict IVF success
Patterns of gene expression in a woman's blood may give couples a clue as to whether she is likely to get pregnant using IVF
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Patterns of gene expression in a woman's blood may give couples a clue as to whether she is likely to get pregnant using IVF
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Top 10 Apollo hoax claims
Sceptics claim to have the photographic evidence that proves the moon landings were shot in a studio – do they have a case?
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Sceptics claim to have the photographic evidence that proves the moon landings were shot in a studio – do they have a case?
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Do the police care more about dogs than humans? Seems that way
After the death of Ian Tomlinson, there was no talk of devastation, of lessons learned, of sadness and shock – just a lot of denialThe contrast couldn't be greater. Commenting on two deaths apparently caused by police malpractice yesterday, a Chief Superintendent said that everyone in th ... more »
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After the death of Ian Tomlinson, there was no talk of devastation, of lessons learned, of sadness and shock – just a lot of denialThe contrast couldn't be greater. Commenting on two deaths apparently caused by police malpractice yesterday, a Chief Superintendent said that everyone in th ... more »
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Space Station to be in sight from eastern Ontario
People in eastern Ontario will get a great view of Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk's current domicile early next week.
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People in eastern Ontario will get a great view of Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk's current domicile early next week.
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