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Plastic in the Pacific Gyre can be microscopic and never biodegrade (video)
Category: Environment
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Why does plastic accumulate in the North Pacific Gyre? (video)
Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
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New jobs in North Carolina at CREE, producing LED lights
Category: North Carolina
Yesterday, North Carolinians woke up to some very unpleasant news that Dell decided to close its computer manufacturing plant in Winston-Salem, Forsyth Co, NC by the end of this year and lay off its entire workforce of 905 employees. While...
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Talkin' Trash
Category: Blogging
I know everyone in the sci-blogosphere is swooning over Carl Sagan. But as a kid I never cared much about him - I usually fell asleep halfway through each episode of 'Cosmos'. But I would not miss for anything an...
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American Scientist's Pizza Lunch speaker: Thomas J. Meyer on alternative energy sources
Category: Earth
From Sigma Xi: Greetings everyone. Here's hoping that summer treated you kindly and that you are ready to dive back into American Scientist magazine's annual Pizza Lunch speaker series. We begin this year at noon, Thursday, Sept. 24 at Sigma...
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Put down the duckie (at least don't throw it into the ocean)!
Category: Ecology
Miriam Goldstein of the Oyster's Garter and Double X blogs (follow her on Twitter) is embarking on a sea-faring expedition! SEAPLEX is a Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego project studying plastics - yes, including the rubber duckies...
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An Innovative Use of Twitter: monitoring fish catch! Now published.
Category: Technology
A few months ago, I posted about a very innovative way of using Twitter in science - monitoring fish catch by commercial fishermen. The first phase of the study is now complete and the results are published in the journal...
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A Letter on Ocean Acidification
Category: Environment
Sally-Christine Rodgers and Randy Repass do a TON for ocean conservation around the world, including supporting students and getting the right folks involved on the ground. They wrote this letter and asked a bunch of us bloggers to spread it...
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Science Cafe Raleigh - Energy for the Future
Category: Science Education
The Science Café for July (description below) will be held on July 21st at Tir Na Nog. This is the season when our utility bills begin to skyrocket. Our costly electric bills often bring into focus the high demand our...
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