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Inspiration Mars: Suicide gets good PR

Commentable: March 1, 2013
It is very difficult not to be cynical about the “Inspiration Mars” project outlined by space pioneer and multimillionaire Dennis Tito. The basic idea is to launch a spacecraft in 2018 with two people in it that will circle around Mars and come back. Easy to describe in one sentence, but… As just about every [...]
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Cell phones and cancer: Another inconclusive round of study

Spun: May 18, 2010
Here we go again. Sometime today (May 18, 2010) a report from a massive study by the Interphone International Study Group of the potential cancer causing effects of using cell phones will be released in the International Journal of Epidemiology. This $24 million United Nations sponsored study spanning a decade and 13 countries was the [...]
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