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• THURSDAY 3. JUNE, 2010
• 03:34 Don't Call The Guatemala Sinkhole a Sinkhole

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  Calling the hole in the capital city a "sinkhole" is a misunderstanding that masks a much more dangerous reality for over a million people who live in the area.  

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• 01:39 Google Wants to Know Where You Are

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  WiFi-sniffing technology turns your cell phone or laptop into a virtual GPS, which Google can use to locate you right down to your exact latitude and longitude.  

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• 00:19 Robotic Fish Lead Schools of Fish From Danger

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  Man has created a dangerous world for poor, unsuspecting fish. Now, man has also created a robot to guide the creatures away from peril.  

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• WEDNESDAY 2. JUNE, 2010
• 22:31 Canadian Man Fights African Witchcraft Murders

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  African albinos are being murdered and dismembered because of belief in magic and witchcraft.  

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• 21:35 'Drunk' Parrots Litter Australian Town

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  These seemingly inebriated birds are presenting a mystery for veterinarians struggling to explain their behavior.  

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• 20:37 Are Tsunamis Predictable?

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  Tsunami modeling technology has made huge strides in recent years, and scientists are learning a lot from the Chilean tsunami that rippled through the Pacific Ocean in February.  

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• 19:48 Young Mountaineer Meets His Death on Everest

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  Peter Kinloch's team was forced to make a tragic decision: leave him behind or die themselves.  

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• 18:40 Oil Spill Threatens Gulf Seafood

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  Seafood lovers can take comfort in the fact that oil has yet to have a major impact on catches in the Gulf -- at least for now.  

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• 17:30 Stuck Saw Hampers Efforts to Contain Spill

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  BP has tried and failed repeatedly to halt the flow of the oil, and the latest attempt like others has never been tried before a mile beneath the ocean.  

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• 17:05 Vodka's Bonds May Influence Taste

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  Measuring vodka's microstructure could serve as an all-purpose quality control measure.  

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• 16:46 Part-Human, Part-Machine Transistor Devised

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  By embedding a nano-sized transistor inside a cell-like membrane, scientists link humans and machines more intimately than ever.  

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• 16:10 Piano-Playing Gloves, Sans Keyboard

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  A pair of digitally enhanced gloves were built to play the piano on any hard surface.  

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• 15:08 Squirrels Show Altruistic Side

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  Squirrels aren't so anti-social, after all. Researchers find that they'll adopt orphaned pups.  

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• 14:30 Electric Car Does 0 to 87 in 10 Seconds

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  The Spanish tech corporation Tecnalia recently unveiled a bright orange electric vehicle in Madrid that it says can go from 0 to 87 miles per hour (140 kilometers) in 10 seconds. EVs are turning a corner, and Tecnalia's "Dynacar" is ...  

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• 07:25 One Gecko Turns Out to Be Four Different Species

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  A single gecko has just multiplied by four, since scientists have determined "it" actually represents four different species.  

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• 01:26 Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson Plan High Frequency Concert for Dogs

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  Lou Reed and his composer wife, Laurie Anderson, are planning a high-frequency concert for dogs.  

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• TUESDAY 1. JUNE, 2010
• 22:26 New Antarctic Animals Look Like Plants

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  Six new animals found in Antarctica look more flora than fauna.  

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• 22:13 Funky Foods

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  Israeli farmers are redefining our perception of food with mini watermelons and worm-shaped berries.  

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• 21:30 Phoenix Pterosaur Rises Again Out of the Sahara

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  A new pterosaur, named after the mythological Phoenix, has been unearthed in the Sahara desert.  

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• 21:10 Jamestown Trash Reveals Struggling Settlement

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  An unusually long-lasting drought plagued early colonists of the first permanent British settlement in North America.  

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• 19:50 A Deepwater Horizon Spill, Every Year

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  The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico pales in comparison to epic scale of pollution in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, one of the richest oil and gas-producing regions in the world.  

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• 18:50 Friday News Feedbag for May 28, 2010

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  If this is your first exposure to the Friday News Feedbag... we're glad to have you in the club. Welcome to Feedbag Nation, which stems from our weekly science news podcast that you can subscribe to here on iTunes and ...  

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• 18:07 Surviving the Antarctic

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  A new digital library brings some of the world's most incredible tales of adventure and survival at sea available with the click of your mouse.  

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• 18:07 Animal Screams Manipulate Movie Audiences

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  One reason why "The Exorcist" and "The Shining" scared audiences so much is that both had a lot of animal screaming in the soundtracks.  

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• 15:36 Gulf Oil Spill Not the Biggest Ever

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  Forty-two days into the worst oil spill in U.S. history, somewhere between 500,000 and 780,000 barrels of oil, possibly more, have contaminated the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.The biggest one happened in Kuwait during the 1991 Gulf War when Iraqi forces dumped an estimated 6-8 million barrels of oil from tankers and...  

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