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Spam doesn't lie: American consumers desert PCs for most mundane chore

2014-01-23 14:26:35| InfoWorld: Top News

Traditional PCs were used at historically low rates last quarter to open emails, another sign that a longtime task of those notebooks and desktops has been hijacked by mobile devices, an email-centric firm said today. U.S. consumers used a traditional personal computer to open only about a third of all the spam email they received, with the task shifting more to mobile, a marketing vendor reported.

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A big fracking lie

2014-01-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Politico: There, right on the Chesapeake Bay, the Obama administration wants to give fast-track approval to a $3.8 billion facility (12 times the cost of the NFL Ravens stadium) to liquefy gas from all across Appalachia. The new plant, proposed by Virginia-based Dominion Resources, would somehow be built right between a coveted state park and a stretch of sleepy beach communities, with a smattering of Little League baseball fields just down the road. Along the Chesapeake itself, endangered tiger beetles cling...

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02.09: The Big Lie: Motherhood, Feminism, and the Reality of the Biological Clock

2014-01-14 00:36:38| Powells Books Events Calendar

The Big Lie (Prometheus) is a candid assessment of the pros and cons of delayed motherhood. Part personal account, part manifesto, Tanya Selvaratnam describes her emotional journey through multiple miscarriages after the age of 37. Her doctor told her she still "had time," but Selvaratnam found little reliable and often conflicting information about a mature woman's biological ability (or inability) to conceive. Through in-depth reporting and her own experience, Selvaratnam urges more widespread education and open discussion about delayed motherhood. The result is a book full of valuable information that will enable women to make smarter choices about their reproductive futures and to strike a more realistic balance between science, society, and personal goals.

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Study reveals how badly frackers lie about jobs

2013-11-22 21:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: The fracking industry wouldnt lie, would it? But how else to explain the massive discrepancies between the number of jobs that it claims to create and the number of jobs that it actually creates? Perhaps its just confused about whats going on at its own operations. Whatever the reason, the gulf between fracking propaganda and reality has been laid bare in a new report led by the Multi-State Shale Research Collaborative, a watchdog group that studies employment trends, economic development, and...

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