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• FRIDAY 25. MAY, 2012
• 17:29 Space X Capsule Docks at Space Station

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  Space Exploration Technologies Corporation has made history as the first private company to send a spacecraft to the space station.
  
   

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• 17:24 Green Blog: On Our Radar: North Dakota's Oil Boom

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  Western North Dakota has had serious growing pains since it became an oil mecca.
  
   

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• 16:54 Dot Earth Blog: Daniel Kahneman on the Trap of 'Thinking That We Know'

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  A Nobelist in economics describes the potent filters shaping how we perceive information.
  
   

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• 14:28 Green Blog: Peter Seligmann of Conservation International: Serving Human Needs Serves the Environment

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  Peter Seligmann, the founder of Conservation International, discusses a shift in focus from pure conservation of creatures to linking the needs of nature to the needs of people.
  
   

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• 07:07 Dispute Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food

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  Concern over the possible health and environmental effects of such food has prompted a move for labeling it, but scientists, farmers and technology companies call the measures alarmist.
  
   

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• 06:28 Spring Valley Journal: Wildfire Base Camp, Spring Valley, Ariz.

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  In Arizona, a makeshift camp at a high school sustains 1,160 firefighters spread across three outposts in the mountains and 498 other workers.
  
   

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• 06:02 Op-Ed Contributor: How to Stop Wildlife Poachers

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  Guards patrol museums to secure our cultural heritage. We should take the same approach to safeguarding our natural heritage.
  
   

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• 05:20 Allison Macfarlane Named to Head Nuclear Agency

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  President Obama on Thursday nominated Allison M. Macfarlane, a professor at George Mason University, to serve as chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
  
   

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• 05:20 National Briefing | Space: Supply Ship Passes Test in Space Before Docking

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  The unstaffed SpaceX Dragon capsule performed a practice lap near the International Space Station and checked out its communication and navigation systems.
  
   

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• 03:29 Side Effects: Dogs and Humans, Speculation and Science

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  Two recent papers about the domestication of dogs take different approaches: one is data-rich, solid science, the other more speculative and inconclusive, seeking to prompt thought.
  
   

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• 00:30 Art Review: Tom Sachs, ‘Space Program: Mars,’ at Park Avenue Armory

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  “Space Program: Mars,” an exhibition at the Park Avenue Armory by the sculptor Tom Sachs, includes a 23-foot-tall plywood version of the Apollo Lunar Module.
  
   

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• THURSDAY 24. MAY, 2012
• 22:54 Green Blog: Tracking the Travels of Young Bluefin Tuna

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  Tags that transmit data reveal that bluefin tuna do not necessarily return to their birthplaces to spawn.
  
   

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• 22:12 Observatory: Butterfly Species Expands Range With Climate Change

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  The brown argus butterfly in England has spread northward as the warmer climate allows its caterpillars to feed off a new host plant, wild geraniums, researchers say.
  
   

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• 22:06 Dot Earth Blog: Brazil's New Leader Mulls Country's Forest Protections

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  Brazil's new leader faces a decision on forests laws that could have a huge impact on the Amazon.
  
   

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• 18:10 Private Supply Ship Flies by Space Station in Test

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  The world's first private supply ship flew tantalizingly close to the International Space Station on Thursday, acing a critical test in advance of the actual docking.
  
   

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• 16:58 Green Blog: On Our Radar: BP to Tame Refinery Flares

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  Federal regulators cited the company for repeatedly exceeding emissions limits on refinery flares that release harmful chemicals during malfunctions.
  
   

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• 15:53 Green Blog: A Pact on New York Watershed Discharges

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  New York officials say they have negotiated an agreement to alleviate muddy discharges in the Catskills that have angered Ulster County residents.
  
   

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• 13:52 Green Blog: Tremors of Anxiety Over Arctic Drilling

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  Local Inupiat worry about the possibility of an oil spill, harm to whales and a change in their way of life.
  
   

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• 05:31 The Energy Rush: Shell Arctic Ocean Drilling Stands to Open New Oil Frontier

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  Despite lively opposition, Shell, with President Obama’s support, will start test wells in Alaska’s North, in a moment of major promise and considerable danger.
  
   

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• 05:22 National Briefing | Midwest: Indiana: In Deal, BP Will Install Pollution Controls at Oil Refinery

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  The deal ends years of opposition that might have left BP unable to use $4 billion worth of new processing units being installed at Whiting that will allow it to run Canadian tar sands crude as early as next year.
  
   

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• 05:16 Dam Limits Loosened to Feed Grand Canyon

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  The Interior Department will allow periodic flow increases at the Glen Canyon Dam to help the Colorado River replenish sediment in downstream ecosystems.
  
   

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• 02:13 Dot Earth Blog: A Closer Look at Watts and Joules, Power and Energy

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  A clarification of the vital difference between energy and the process of putting it to use.
  
   

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• WEDNESDAY 23. MAY, 2012
• 23:00 Green Blog: Hot Nests Mean Baked Baby Leatherbacks

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  As climate change brings hotter, drier conditions, Pacific leatherback sea turtles will face dire nesting challenges.
  
   

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• 19:00 Green Blog: A Secret Behind the Whale's Mighty Gulp

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  Scientists discover a new organ -- "a kind of gel-filled balloon" filled with nerves -- that sends information about water intake and their jaw movements to a whale's brain.
  
   

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• 17:36 Scientist at Work Blog: In the Kipuka, Birds Take Shelter

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  Researchers travel to Hawaii to study how forest fragmentation caused by a series of 19th-century volcanic eruptions has shaped native bird communities.
  
   

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