Photo courtesy of NASA by Bob Berwyn, via Summit County Citizens Voice Past climate change in the Dead Sea region was sudden and dramatic, with Mediterranean-type vegetation giving way to desert plants within just a few decades as the climate dried out. One of those dry spells may have resulted in the Canaanites’ urban culture collapsing while nomads invaded their area, perhaps establishing a climate link to biblical events described in the Old Testament as the exodus of the Israelites to the Promised Land. The new climate data from the area came from a detailed study by scientists with the Steinmann-Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology at the University of Bonn, who tracked distinct dry periods during the pottery Neolithic Age (about 7,500 to 6,500 years ago), as well as at the transition from the late Bronze Age to the early Iron Age (about 3,200 years ago)
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Category: Africa, agriculture, author, Climate Progress, Economy, Feeds, Global Warming, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, Politics, Science, ThinkProgress, Tweets, War | Comments OffPussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (photo: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images) Reuters reports that Russia’s human rights “ombudsman,” Vladimir Lukin, said that prison sentences a Russian court handed down to three women from the punk band Pussy Riot were “excessive” and warned that the whole fiasco surrounding the trial is damaging Russian society. The women, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich, were convicted of hooliganism after performing an anti-President Vladimir Putin song on the altar of Moscow’s main cathedral and sentenced to two years in a prison colony .
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Category: author, Congress, Economy, Feeds, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, Science, ThinkProgress, Tweets, War | Comments OffA group of current and former inmates filed a federal lawsuit against the St. Louis city workhouse on Friday, claiming guards forced them to fight each other in gladiator-style combat. The class-action suit claims guards took away inmates’ food and privileges and attacked them if they refused to fight
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Category: Arizona, author, Economy, Feeds, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, ThinkProgress, Tweets, War | Comments OffSome of you know I’m semi retired. The main benefit of working more hours than I was when I had a regular job is that I pretty much have a 24 hour day. Sometimes 3 AM is as productive as 3 PM.
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Category: Articles, author, Entertainment, FAA, Feeds, Media, Science, Slate, Tweets, Video, War | Comments Off“Back in the day” Finocchio’s opened in 1936 as a mecca of classic female impersonation in San Francisco. I can’t even pretend to say the 30′s were a simpler time for anyone in the transgender culture.
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Category: Articles, author, Entertainment, FAA, Feeds, Media, Science, Slate, Tweets, Video | Comments OffJust wanted to see if you were paying attention. Just got to thinking if NASA did discover the first intelligent life anywhere.
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Category: Articles, author, Entertainment, FAA, Feeds, Media, Science, Slate, Tweets, Video | Comments OffImagine no religion—and, therefore, no war .
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Category: author, Environment, Feeds, Media, Peace, Pennsylvania, Pentagon, Politics, War, Washington | Comments OffMinnesota Court Says State Defense of Marriage Act Law Doesn’t Block Inheritance of Assets Minnesota’s Defense of Marriage Act does not deny the right of same-sex partners to inherit each other’s assets, according to a …
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Category: Defense of Marriage Act, director, Feeds, LGBT, Marriage Equality, SPONSOR, Video, Washington | Comments OffBeing able to lift 267 pounds is only one of the things that makes 18 year-old British Olympic weightlifter Zoe Smith tough. She can also swat down sexist Twitter trolls like they’re flies.
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Category: author, Congress, Economy, Feeds, Global Warming, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, Politics, Republican Party, ThinkProgress, Tweets, War | Comments OffOne of Mitt Romney’s foreign policy advisers this morning in a conference call with reporters promised that the presumptive GOP presidential nominee would clearly articulate his Afghanistan policy in a major foreign policy speech today before the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Romney and his campaign surrogates have either been all over the map on Afghanistan or failed to contrast Romney’s policy from the Obama administration’s.
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