2015年2月24日 星期二

2015-02-25 Canada English Science


Daily Times
   
Ontario Launches Climate Change Consultations   
NorthumberlandView.ca
Ontario is launching public consultations on how the province can successfully fight climate change while fostering economic growth. In-person consultations will be held across the province until March 24, 2015. Information about public sessions, including ...

Pakistan Upgrades The Climate Change Division Into A Ministry,Is That Going ...   Pakistan Tribe
Weather patterns causing negative impacts on glaciers, river flows   DAWN.com
Mushahid Ullah vows to cope the negative impacts of climate change   International News Network

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CBC.ca
   
Tuukka Rask has wasp named after him   
CBC.ca
A pest, in hockey parlance, is usually an agitating forward adept at, well, bugging his opponents. Think Sean Avery or Claude Lemieux. The term is seldom applied to goalies (OK, maybe Ron Hextall), but a Boston-area researcher has decided to name a new ...

Newly discovered African wasp named for Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask   SI.com
Scientists name new species of wasp after Boston Bruins goalie Rask   Reuters
Scientists name species of wasp after Tuukka Rask   Toronto Sun
National Post   
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CNET
   
Watch a rogue daredevil comet survive grazing the sun   
CNET
A lone-wolf comet buzzes the sun and surprises researchers by making it around to the other side. by Amanda Kooser · @akooser; 25 February 2015, 7:48 am AEDT. comments. 0. facebook. twitter. linkedin. googleplus. more. more +. email. tumblr. stumble.
A New Sungrazing Comet May Brighten in the Evening Sky, Here's How to See It   Universe Today
SOHO Sees Something New Near The Sun   Space Fellowship

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Energeticcity.ca
   
Cultural Centre hosts public forum   
CJDC
Monday night the North Peace Cultural Centre (NPCC) Board of Directors held a public forum to hear from residents about improvements they want to see at the centre in the next five years. The new board wanted to hear from citizens of Fort Saint John about ...

Community weighs in on NPCC at public forum   Energeticcity.ca

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The North Bay Nugget
   
Phelix ready to roll for title   
The North Bay Nugget
While the high school students who make up FIRST Team 1305 are the brains behind the operation, Phelix the robot is the one everyone will be watching. Phelix – and his human teammates – will be taking part in three regional competitions in March, one at ...

Near North Robotics introduces Phelix   Bay Today

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New York Times
   
Building a Face, and a Case, on DNA   
New York Times
There were no known eyewitnesses to the murder of a young woman and her 3-year-old daughter four years ago. No security cameras caught a figure coming or going. Nonetheless, the police in Columbia, S.C., last month released a sketch of a possible ...

The Problem With Those DNA-Based Mugshots   Gizmodo Australia
Law and Order: Using DNA to generate suspects' facial profiles   Genetic Literacy Project
On the Face of It   GenomeWeb

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NorthernLife.ca
   
Young inventors, scientists wanted to help change the world   
NorthernLife.ca
16-year-olds Ciara Judge, Emer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow took home the grand prize at the Google Science Fair Competition 2014 for their contribution to stamping out world hunger. Photo by Google.
Not Your Grandma's Science Competition - Part 3   Scientific American (blog)

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The Nation.
   
This Year's Climate Talks Are Our Last (and Best) Chance to Slow Global Warming   
The Nation.
An interview with Jeffrey Sachs on the 2015 Paris negotiations, sustainable development and the profound threat facing our planet. David Kortava. February 24, 2015. Share. Decrease text size Increase text size. Jeffrey Sachs (Photo by Tanita Preston).
Earth Hour renews the charge to change climate change   WWF International
'Unacceptable Risk': Climate change? These filmmakers asked Colorado ...   The Colorado Independent
Changing the Climate Narrative   Huffington Post
Daily Caller   
Washington Post   
Regina Leader-Post   
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News24
   
Who's your daddy? Hippo ancestry unveiled   
News24
A great-great grandfather of the hippopotamus probably swam from Asia to Africa some 35 million years ago. (Mark Ralston, AFP). Multimedia · User Galleries · News in Pictures Send us your pictures · Send us your stories ...

Prehistoric predecessors of Hippopotamus is smaller than what you think   Empire State Tribune
How hippos are related to whales: Fossils of 28 million-year-old ancestor ...   Daily Mail
Fossil find sheds new light on hippo history   Toronto Star
Washington Post   
Hamilton Spectator   
NBCNews.com   
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Daily Mail
   
How the length of a woman's fingers reveals her CAREER   
Daily Mail
Women whose index finger was short compared to their ring finger were more likely to have what was regarded as a traditionally male job, such as a lawyer or a manager in industry, the researchers found. And those whose index finger was longer than their ...

Research Briefs—Feb. 24, 2015   McGill Tribune
Psychology Review: Men Whose Ring Fingers are Longer than Their Index ...   Headlines & Global News
Men with short index fingers and long ring fingers are nicer to women   Science Codex
Healio   
Microfinance Monitor   
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