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Science Past for April 11, 2009
Science Past | from the issue of April 11, 1959 Scientists urged to dig for specimens of Peking Man — Give up the loss of the bones of ancient Peking Man, one of man’s earliest ancestors, as a “perfect crime,” and start digging for new specimens of this Pleistocene forebear. This is the advice to […]
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Science Future for April 11, 2009
April 22–26 Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology to be held in Atlanta. See www.saa.org April 29 Psychologist Daniel Levitin and Grammy Award–winner Rosanne Cash speak at What Is Music to Your Ears? The Science of Hearing in New York City. See www.nyas.org June 1–3 The e-Biosphere 09 International Conference on Biodiversity Informatics […]
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Bracing for global climate change is a local challenge
Weather and climate extremes have been affecting people around the world, from recent droughts in China and Australia to strong storms in Asia to a cold wave in large parts of Europe and the United States — all within a month of the World Meteorological Organization reporting 2008 would likely rank among the 10 warmest […]
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Tallying emissions in ports and at sea
Ships are major contributors to acid rain and ground-level ozone concentrations in some parts of the world.
