Reports of violence in the capital of Kyrgyzstan have prompted
the US embassy there to express deep concern, and the Russian
government to call for restraint.

An anonymous reader writes "A pretty simple, non-scientific Google exercise confirming that, regardless of their political platform, US presidents inevitably end up being compared to famous dictators by their detractors, with Hitler being the go-to comparison (hello, Godwin's law)."

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<p>After the G20 protests in Pittsburgh many in the activist medical movement talked about finding ways to network, improve skills and broaden our ...

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One of the single greatest concerns of climate scientists is that human-caused warming will cause amplifying feedbacks in the carbon-cycle. Such positive feedbacks, whereby an initial warming releases carbon into the air that causes more warming, would increase both the speed and scale of climate change, greatly complicating both mitigation and adaptation.

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