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• Environment needs dose of bold reform
  An informed wake up call to the UN and the environmental movement as a whole.
• Schoolgirl smashes the world record as she lets 25 snails slide across her face
  To think that the previous world record was only 9 snails on a face! (via boingboing)
• Why You Can’t Swat a Fly
  Research has revealed how an acrobatic house fly uses its small brain and 360 degree vision to dodge your futile swipes.
• Science Debate 2008
  Barack Obama’s answers to the top 14 science questions facing America (with McCain’s answers to come).
• The Medicalisation of Everyday Life
  With a slow down of new discoveries, the medical community is scrounging for ways to sell more products by inventing new diseases.

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Originally published September 2, 2008