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Transformations - A Collaboration Between Bill Aron and Victor Raphael

The Heavens Spread Out Like a Prayer Shawl; Works by Victor Raphael at the Oregon Jewish Museum.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Transformations–A Collaboration Between Bill Aron and Victor Raphael is a wonderfully inventive set of artworks that takes familiar landscapes in the U.S. and Israel and creates something completely new with them. Bill Aron is a photographer who focuses on Jewish communities.

Contributions Connected to the Five Oil Companies Testifying Before the Senate Finance Committee

Includes total contributions from Big Oil companies and employees to current legislators.

(BERKELEY, Calif.) - The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on Thursday titled "Oil and Gas Tax Incentives and Rising Energy Prices."

The Democratic-controlled Senate invited executives from BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon, and Shell to testify on the rise in gas prices. Combined, the five companies and their employees have contributed $6.3 million to current lawmakers since 2001.

The Future of Nuclear Power In The U.S.

Opponents of nuclear power are using a worst-case analysis to scare people by focusing on the nuclear disaster at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - In order to keep the lights on and the motors running while reducing harm to humans and planet Earth, fossil-fuel power has to shrink.

While we shouldn't forget Three Mile Island and Chernobyl and the recent disaster at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, we need a rational discussion about the future of nuclear power in this country without misinformation and histrionics.

Study Finds States Vary in Children`s Health, Pervasive Gaps Exist in Insurance, Quality Care Across Sectors

Data finds fewer than half of U.S. children receive comprehensive, quality health care.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - A new report finds insurance duration, consistency and adequacy, and the corresponding access to health care, are lacking for many U.S. children and have a detrimental effect on their health and well-being.

The researchers cite a need for improvement in all states, with wide variations across states that can inform improvement efforts.

Second Wave of Mystery Pelican Deaths Hits Topsail Beach, NC

The Brown Pelican is found in the Chesapeake Bay, and in southern California.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - A second wave of mysterious pelican injuries and deaths has occurred in the past several weeks at Topsail Island in North Carolina. About 250 pelicans died six months ago in this area from still undetermined causes.

This recent incident involves about 30 pelicans that washed up on the shores either dead or so badly injured that they had to be euthanized.

NASA Announces Results of Epic Space-Time Experiment

"One day," Clifford Will of Washington University in St. Louis predicts, "this will be written up in textbooks as one of the classic experiments in the history of physics."

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Einstein was right again. There is a space-time vortex around Earth, and its shape precisely matches the predictions of Einstein's theory of gravity.

Researchers confirmed these points at a press conference today at NASA headquarters where they announced the long-awaited results of Gravity Probe B (GP-B).

Reactor Reax: Roundup of Stories About Nuclear Power

Problems relating to this non natural supply of power are diverse and widespread.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Is the writing on the wall, visible to all? I have to ask that question, as we mire through the mindless mire of corporate thinking in a modern age that is in so many ways, not even close to an age of awareness and understanding.

There will always be reasons that big business and deep pocketed men want to boost their earnings and further their power in the world, but back to that writing on the wall.

Forecast Calls for Nanoflowers to Help Return Eyesight

"We're right at the start of this amazing voyage" - University of Oregon physicist Richard Taylor

(EUGENE, Ore.) - University of Oregon physicist Richard Taylor is working to turn a patent based on a vision into fractal technology that, when implanted behind the eyes, will deliver renewed eyesight with high resolution.

Project Humanbeingsfirst Responds: Aliens and UFOs - Head in the Ass!

If bombing peoples to smithereens does not seem to impact people's sensibilities, then describing that crime in accurate terms should not either. Call a spade a spade.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - This article is in response to the commenter, "william Galison May 2, 2011 4:51 pm (Pacific time)" who noted:

'there are a lot of people far smarter and more educated than Mr Ebrahim who are spouting "UFO gibberish".', and 'Time Zahir him to pull his head out of his academic ass.'

Are Vaccines Obsolete?

Autism and vaccines, a surprising connection.

(LONDON) - In the article, 'Theoretical aspects of autism: Causes--A review,' Helen Ratajczak, surprisingly herself a former senior scientist at a pharmaceutical firm, did what nobody else apparently has bothered to do.

She reviewed the body of published science since autism was first described in 1943; all of it.