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NASA’s Dharma Initiative “Swan Station?”

Posted by Susan Poulton on February 1, 2013
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All that is missing is the computer, the beeping, and a prompt to enter the code 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42. The dome-shaped survival room deep under Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida has been abandoned for over 40 years and now NASA is letting folks take a look.

Ivory Poaching Threatens ‘Elephant Memory’

Posted by David Braun of National Geographic in A Voice for Elephants on January 16, 2013
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The large number of mature and experienced African elephants being killed illegally for their ivory is exposing younger surviving elephants to a higher risk of mortality from predation and other risks, wildlife conservationists said today.