Nicotine in third-hand smoke, the residue from tobacco smoke that clings to virtually all surfaces long after a cigarette has been extinguished, reacts with the common indoor air pollutant nitrous acid to produce dangerous carcinogens.
The scientists reported on a new technique used with a relatively small Earth-based telescope to identify an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-size planet nearly 63 light-years away.
If you call Project Prevention's helpline it's likely that Barbara Harris, the founder of this US based organisation, will answer the phone. A warm and vivacious grandmother, her aim is to give $300 to as many drug and alcohol addicted women as possible.
President Barack Obama invited Republican and Democratic lawmakers from the House and Senate to a Feb. 25 meeting to discuss ways to get an overhaul of the U.S. health-care system through Congress.
Climate change is transforming the Arctic environment faster than expected and accelerating the disappearance of sea ice, scientists said on Friday in giving their early findings from the biggest-ever study of Canada's changing north.
Saying that the Obama administration must change its approach to an Air Force refueling tanker contract, Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa, moved Thursday to block Senate approval of at least four White House nominees for top federal jobs Thursday.
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I read an article if you can call it that. That claimed the rich are leaving new jersey due to high taxation. They dont post the study of course, so i can only go by what they post.
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Researcher Lorianne Updike Toler was intrigued by the centuries-old document at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
a conservative activist and Illinois comptroller candidate filed a federal lawsuit against Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White late last week over an atheist display on state property over the holiday season.
A Japanese company has invented, possibly, the cleverest office gadget of the year: a machine that turns waste paper into lavatory paper.
Researchers have built a new super-small "nanodragster" that improves on prior nanocar designs and could speed up efforts to craft molecular machines.
Last week, the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) sky survey program, designed to sweep the heavens looking for near-Earth asteroids, spotted something really weird; an elongated streak that looked as if two asteroids had collided.
According to a Reuters rep, the was withdrawn "due to significant errors of fact." "The story was wrong on multiple points and should not have gone out," she emailed us. A formal withdrawal will issued will address specific points that were incorrect later today.
Could humans one day walk on walls, like Spider-Man? A palm-sized device invented at Cornell that uses water surface tension as an adhesive bond just might make it possible.
Spray-on liquid glass is transparent, non-toxic, and can protect virtually any surface against almost any damage from hazards such as water, UV radiation, dirt, heat, and bacterial infections.
On January 27, 2010 a Honda advertisement ran on Glenn Beck's show in the UK. Shortly after, the Stop Beck – UK effort contacted Honda and urged them to stop sponsoring Glenn Beck.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A German reptile collector has been jailed for 14 weeks and must pay a 5,000 New Zealand dollar ($3,540) fine for plundering New Zealand's wild gecko and skink populations, a judge has ruled.
Over the course of the past two weeks, more than one-hundred mostly small earthquakes per day, on average, have shaken up a remote area of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
Google Earth may put conventional maps to shame, but its satellite and aerial imagery shows the world as it used to be, rather than as it is.
A Queens teacher who collects a $100,000 salary for doing nothing spends time in a Department of Education "rubber room" working on his law practice and managing 12 real-estate properties worth an estimated $7.8 million, The Post found.
For the moment, though, let's set aside the pure viciousness of that statement and address what Bauer claims is his larger point. In effect, his thesis is that government assistance actually causes poverty because it subsidizes and encourages irresponsible actions.
"In his first year in office, President Obama did better even than legendary arm-twister Lyndon Johnson in winning congressional votes on issues where he took a position, a Congressional Quarterly study finds.
Belief: Iran is a militarized society bristling with dangerous weapons and a growing threat to world peace.
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Joules, I have learned a great deal from you since I came here. I like to see you pop up, because you actually do your work. Thanks.
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Hello JoulesBeef :D
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Joules did you take down your article about Reagan or did it get block-voted off the vine ?
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Joules... you are too cool... but I miss the cow with the big tounge hangin out the mouth...:}
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This guy will admit he can't spell very well, but he won't tell you he is one of the most informed and intelligent members of Newsvine... but he is.
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hey dont post this, but... you need to, should start using a spell checker... you have good points, but your dyslexia, and or bad spelling knocks down your comments/arguments...
just an observation from a friend
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dude, you crack me up ... even tho i only figure out every other word, be my friend... i need more like you in my life!
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You're a very intelligent person! I love reading your comments here on the vine, I sent you a friend request/
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Newsvine just wouldn't be the same without Joulesbeef.
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Thanks for adding my to your list of friends. :)
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I, too, like JoulesBeef. Ohhh, he and I are on completely different ends of the political spectrum, and yes, he does tend to get under my skin at times, but in the end I enjoy the back and forth banter between us. He's okay...for a liberal. Love ya, Joules! :)
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Hey Joules. I think your comments are just really great. Hilarious and to the point.
You have my respect.
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Joules is the Jackson Pollock of the English language, you come away from his comments simultaneously bewildered and enlightened. Truly one of a kind.
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someone might take him as a real person if he knew how to spell
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I like you!
I can't stand Ann Coulter she/he is a bag of hot air, she/he is a hate monger of the worst kind with little to no substance or facts that only caters to the kool-aid FOX news drinkers who want to be afraid of everything .
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I love your comments--just the right mix of funny and hitting the nail on the head!
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JB is one of my favorite Newsviners. We may be opposite in politics, but we both LOVE technology. Keep seeding!
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