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  1. Bill Gates: Lagging Research On Diseases Of Poor Is A Market Failure http://bit.ly/jKiav9 about 2 hours ago via twitterfeed
  2. Lindau Nobel Meeting--Buckminsterfullerene and the Third Man http://bit.ly/mQ8RrH about 2 hours ago via twitterfeed
  3. Squid Studies: "It is not down in any map; true places never are" -- Herman Melville, Moby Dick http://bit.ly/ij7nZm about 2 hours ago via twitterfeed
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  5. Lindau Nobel Meeting--Peter Agre and Torsten Wiesel: Nobel laureate scientific diplomacy builds bridges http://bit.ly/k6M9sP about 3 hours ago via twitterfeed
  6. Noninvasive Medical Imaging Could Cut Lab Animal Use, Improve Data Quality http://bit.ly/iD5j15 about 4 hours ago via twitterfeed
  7. Brilliant, but Distant: Most Far-Flung Known Quasar Offers Glimpse into Early Universe http://bit.ly/mxsdIE about 5 hours ago via twitterfeed
  8. Lindau Nobel Meeting--Evolutionary chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn http://bit.ly/l7jNUp about 6 hours ago via twitterfeed
  9. 'Green' Positions on Climate Change Can Help All Candidates, Survey Finds http://bit.ly/lQ6ide about 7 hours ago via twitterfeed
  10. New Poll Finds Most Americans See No Immediate Threat from Climate Change http://bit.ly/ldXWFf about 8 hours ago via twitterfeed
  11. Beauty peagants and the misunderstanding of evolution meet....again http://bit.ly/igsEMV about 11 hours ago via twitterfeed
  12. Global Warming and the Science of Extreme Weather http://bit.ly/jy1Itb about 11 hours ago via twitterfeed
  13. The Last Great Global Warming (preview) http://bit.ly/ko7vzR about 13 hours ago via twitterfeed
  14. Why Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Cleaner Alternatives Will Require Fossil Fuels http://bit.ly/kBJkId about 13 hours ago via twitterfeed
  15. Climate Researchers Seek Global Warming Clues in the Arctic's Svalbard Archipelago [Slide Show] http://bit.ly/m2sukO about 13 hours ago via twitterfeed
  16. Message to Early-Career Scientists: Work to End Third World Diseases http://bit.ly/lrTIMy 3:43 PM Jun 28th via twitterfeed
  17. Lindau Nobel Meeting--Joke van Bemmel, chromatin and epigenetics http://bit.ly/kdcCAL 3:43 PM Jun 28th via twitterfeed
  18. Ooze-Down Economics: Will Opening Global Oil Reserves Stimulate the World Economy? http://bit.ly/jyIgEY 2:40 PM Jun 28th via twitterfeed
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