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We listen to music and talk to people. Watch on cable channel 11 in the Boise area or on-line at TVCTVOnline.org. Watch previous shows on YouTube at http://bit.ly/cudJlT , and check out the backgrounds at http://bit.ly/i6RcqN . Join us at MOA's Posterous group ( http://bit.ly/hwSIbE) for discussion throughout the week. :) via reverbnation.com Posted via email from Moments of Awareness

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  A string of recent bee attacks in Florida, California, Texas and Arizona have left both humans and animals injured this summer. (Getty Images) Those attacks were the latest in a series of particularly aggressive bee swarms this summer in Florida, California, Texas and Arizona. They have attacked people, dogs and horses. So far, an 82-year-old man in Brownsville, Texas, and a horse have died from the shower of stingers. But at least one bee expert rejects the suggestion that bees have been unusually aggressive this summer. Dr. May Berenbaum, a professor and department head at the University of Illinois' Department of Entomology and one of the country's leading bee experts, said that roughly 40 people die from bee attacks per year—which she prefers to call "bee encounters" or "sting events"—out of a population of over 300 million people. [...] Full article at  abcnews.go.com 'Bee' sure to read to the e

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Sometimes I push back on my heels, look at this country and wonder aloud: “What on earth are we doing?” We have a growing crisis among the nation’s children, yet our policies ignore that reality at best and exacerbate it at worst. According to a report issued this week by the Guttmacher Institute , the unintended pregnancy rate has jumped 50 percent since 1994, yet a July report from the institute points out that politicians are setting records passing laws to restrict abortion. It said: “The 80 abortion restrictions enacted this year are more than double the previous record of 34 abortion restrictions enacted in 2005 — and more than triple the 23 enacted in 2010.” Add to this the assault by conservatives on Planned Parenthood, and what are we saying? This is what we’re saying: actions have consequences. If you didn’t want a child, you shouldn’t have had sex. You must be punished by becoming a parent even if you know that you are not willing or able to be one. [...] ~~~

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SAN FRANCISCO -- It's a tale of romance from the Ice Age - and its consequences today. Long ago, in a part of the world now known as Europe, early modern humans lived alongside the Neanderthal people - and they interbred. A fast-growing population of modern humans eventually drove the Neanderthals to extinction 30,000 years ago, but the benefits of those early dalliances between the two groups live on. The Neanderthals, it seems, passed on to humans many of the genes that now mark our greatly improved immune systems, according to an international team of researchers led by a Stanford group. The researchers, deciphering the genome of fossil Neanderthals and modern humans, report they have found in both a major group of matching immune system genes - genes the scientists say we inherited from our stocky Ice Age predecessors. [...] Full article at  sfgate.com   Posted via email from Moments of Awareness

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You're invited to join "Night of Sweet Relief" ONE NIGHT, HUNDREDS OF LIVE MUSIC EVENTS AND THOUSANDS OF FANS! Sweet Relief Musicians Fund and ReverbNation want you to join an exciting annual event called "Night of Sweet Relief." One evening, nationwide, designated to celebrating live music performance -- encouraging music fans to venture out, support artists on stage and benefit musicians in need. Since 1994, Sweet Relief has distributed millions of dollars to pay for medical costs, housing, food and other vital expenses of ill, disabled and elderly musicians. On Saturday, October 15th , hundreds of live music events taking place in arenas, theaters, clubs and bars will participate in supporting this cause by building in a $1 donation to their ticket price or door cover charge. Even if you are unable to build in a donation this year, we still welcome your venue's participation. As part of our commitment to independent mus

Space station astronaut Mike Fossum of NASA talks to Mission Control after working on the Robonaut 2 helper droid on the International Space Station on Aug. 22, 2011, during the robot's first tests. CREDIT: NASA TV View full size image Move over Commander Data, there's a real robot in space, now. The International Space Station got a new crewmember today, one made not of flesh and blood, but of gears and clockwork instead. Called Robonaut 2, the automaton astronaut was activated by human spaceflyers today (Aug. 22) after months in storage since being delivered to the space station earlier this year. An initial series of tests checked the robot's power systems and camera eyes. "Those electrons feel GOOD!"  read a post on Robonaut 2's Twitter page. "One small step for man, one giant leap for tinman kind." [ Photos: Robonaut 2, Robot Butler for Astronauts ] [...] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can follow SPACE.com Manag

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There are stories every day about some rescuer heroically stopping a suicide attempt -- breaking down a door, scooping someone off a ledge or cutting a noose down with a ninja star. But sometimes there's no strapping fireman or hero cop or friendly ninja, just one little silly thing between life and death. Something like ... #8. A Kiss The 16-year-old Chinese boy in this story was having a pretty shitty time. His mother was dead and he was convinced his stepmother hated him, probably because she stole all his dad's money and left the two of them homeless and scrambling to stay alive. [...] Full (poignant) article at  cracked.com   Posted via email from Moments of Awareness

Artist's impression of Pluto and Charon as seen from one of Pluto's other moons. CREDIT: David Aguilar/Center for Astrophysics View full size image For three-quarters of a century, schoolkids learned that our solar system has nine planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. But things changed nearly five years ago today. On Aug. 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) struck Pluto from the list, demoting it to the newly created category of " dwarf planet ." The move was spurred by the discovery of multiple large bodies orbiting even farther from the sun than distant Pluto — particularly an object called Eris, which appeared to be bigger than Pluto. As a result, the IAU came up with a new definition of "planet": A body that circles the sun without being some other object's satellite, is large enough to be rounded by its own gravity (but not so big that it begins to