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1. Radiation oncologists respond to newspaper injury investigation (source: New York Times)
   A sobering investigative report from the New York Times on radiation overdoses in cancer treatments has prompted the American Society for Radiation Oncology to produce a new quality assurance plan.
2. Obama Administration launches Climate.gov (source: NOAA)
   The federal government has a number of branches, organizations, and advocates that speak on climate change, from the Department of Energy to the Environmental Protection Agency. Now, a joint project of the Department of Commerce and NOAA will collect that disparate information in a climate change portal: Climate.gov.
3. Watch the final night launch of the Space Shuttle (source: YouTube)
   With only a handful of missions left before the Space Shuttle is retired; Endeavor’s trip to the International Space Station early this morning was the last of it’s scheduled nighttime takeoffs.
4. A hare-brained story about hair color (source: Columbia Journalism Review)
   Craig Silverman of RegretTheError.com details a whopper of a botched science story that appeared last month in the UK’s Sunday Times. The story, ostensibly about a study of aggressive tendencies in blonde women, is still on the Times’ website, despite the study’s author saying it is entirely “fabricated.”
5. Safer drinking through chemistry (source: Fast Company)
   With nearly 90,000 pint glass attacks each year, the UK has considered banning glass drinkware from its pubs, despite vocal protests from beer fans. Attempting to stave off a switch to inferior plastic, however, a design firm has produced two potential solutions.

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