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The Mammoth Cometh

Bringing extinct animals back to life is really happening — and it’s going to be very, very cool. Unless it ends up being very, very bad. Read original article:  The Mammoth Cometh ; ;Related ArticlesNuclear Waste Repository Set to Reopen After LeakCalifornia Endangered Species: Plastic BagsStudy Links Temperature to a Peruvian Glacier’s Growth and Retreat ;

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The Mammoth Cometh

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Observatory: Mutant Petunias Sing the Blues

What makes some petunias blue? Researchers have discovered a genetic glitch that produces the different shade, and weakens the plants. View post:  Observatory: Mutant Petunias Sing the Blues ; ;Related ArticlesObservatory: These Females Prefer a Familiar (Fish) FaceA Symbol of the Range Returns HomeDot Earth Blog: In One Image: Cold Snaps In Global Context ;

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Observatory: Mutant Petunias Sing the Blues

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Food, Genes and the Feeling of Risk

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The Crochet Answer Book – Edie Eckman

Wouldn’t it boost your confidence to have an experienced and confident crocheter on call, day and night, offering assistance when needed? Most of us aren’t fortunate enough to have that kind of aid, but now there is help available 24/7 with The Crochet Answer Book. Being a “good” crocheter is not about making perfectly stitched, elaborate […]

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Inside of a Dog – Alexandra Horowitz

The bestselling book that asks what dogs know and how they think, now in paperback. The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human. Horowitz introduces the reader to dogs’ perceptual and cognitive abilities and then draw […]

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Codex: Tyranids (Enhanced Edition) – Games Workshop

From the cold darkness of the intergalactic void comes a race of ravenous aliens known as the Tyranids, a numberless horde of super-predators governed only by the instincts to hunt, kill and feed. Each Tyranid is a living weapon, perfectly adapted to its designated function, but each creature is no more than a single cell in a vast gestalt entity controlled […]

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Following Atticus – Tom Ryan

After a close friend died of cancer, middle-aged, overweight, acrophobic newspaperman Tom Ryan decided to pay tribute to her in a most unorthodox manner. Ryan and his friend, miniature schnauzer Atticus M. Finch, would attempt to climb all forty-eight of New Hampshire’s four thousand- foot peaks twice in one winter while raising money for charity. It wa […]

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Penny Saving Household Helper – Rebecca DiLiberto

This handy guide resurrects the fine art of frugal housekeeping with over 500 tips on saving money throughout the home and garden. Learn creative ways to cut back, pinch pennies, reduce, recycle, and re-use. Want to save on the grocery bill? Buy the whole chicken rather than individual cuts. Get more wear out of your wardrobe? Add a dash of salt to the washe […]

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The Knitting Answer Book – Margaret Radcliffe

Every avid knitter has faced this dilemma: deep into a project at midnight, just trying to finish one more row, and, then . . . oh no, a dropped stitch three rows back! Help! If only there was a 24-hour hotline to answer every question a knitter might encounter. Well, now there is, with The Knitting Answer Book . The expert authors, Margaret Radcliffe and Ed […]

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Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team (Interactive Edition) – Games Workshop

Not all battles in the 41st Millennium are massed engagements between lumbering armies and towering war machines. In the shadows of these epic conflicts, squads of elite soldiers clash – their missions no less vital, their foes no less deadly. Designated as Kill Teams by the Imperium, or by a myriad of different names for their alien and daemonic counterpart […]

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What the Dog Did – Emily Yoffe

Dave Barry meets The Secret Lives of Dogs in Emily Yoffe’s funny and insightful look at all things canine. Filled with adventures of heroic dogs, lovable and lazy dogs, malodorous dogs, phlegmatic and incontinent dogs, What the Dog Did delivers some of the most outlandish and certainly the funniest dog stories on record.

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How to Raise the Perfect Dog – Cesar Millan & Melissa Jo Peltier

From the bestselling author and star of National Geographic Channel’s Dog Whisperer , the only resource you’ll need for raising a happy, healthy dog. For the millions of people every year who consider bringing a puppy into their lives–as well as those who have already brought a dog home–Cesar Millan, the preeminent dog behavior expert, says, “Yes, […]

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Codex: Inquisition – Games Workshop

The Inquisition is the most powerful organisation within the Imperium. Bound by no Imperial law or authority, its agents – Inquisitors – operate in a highly secretive manner and answer only to themselves. Inquisitors use whatever means are necessary in order to safeguard the Imperium from heretics, mutants and aliens. It is not without good reason that Inqui […]

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Food, Genes and the Feeling of Risk

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Developing a Fax Machine to Copy Life on Mars

DNA sequencing and DNA synthesis are becoming faster and cheaper, and J. Craig Venter wants to use the technology to bring Martian life to Earth. Read this article:  Developing a Fax Machine to Copy Life on Mars ; ;Related ArticlesThe Future of StormsDot Earth Blog: Room for Agreement on Next Steps for Nuclear Power?In a Bean, a Boon to Biotech ;

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Wide Rejection of Labels for Genetically Engineered Food in Washington State

A measure that would require labeling of genetically modified foods is rejected in Washington State. Read article here:  Wide Rejection of Labels for Genetically Engineered Food in Washington State ; ;Related ArticlesDot Earth Blog: Wide Rejection of Labels for Genetically Engineered Food in Washington StateA Risk Communicator Says Industry Should Embrace Labeling of Genetically Modified FoodsIf Only… Grazed Grasslands Could Sop Up All Industrial CO2 ;

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Wide Rejection of Labels for Genetically Engineered Food in Washington State

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