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KQED serves the people of Northern California with a public-supported alternative to commercial media. Home to the most listened-to public radio station in the nation, one of the highest-rated public television services and an award-winning education program, and as a leader and innovator in interactive technology, KQED takes people of all ages on journeys of exploration — exposing them to new people, places and ideas.
Genome 3.0: ENCODE Takes Our DNA From Junk to Treasure
Black Holes: Ultimate Trash Compactors of the Universe
Space Shuttle Endeavour Makes a Bay Area Victory Lap
Side Trips from Interstate 5: San Emigdio Mountains
Retiring Space Shuttle Endeavour on Its Way to Bay Area, with Flyover Friday Morning – 9/20 KQED Science News Roundup
Space Shuttle Endeavour Lifts Off For Last Time, Heading to California – 9/19 KQED Science News Roundup
Culture Clash: Of Cats, Birds and Conservation
What's Next for Nuclear?
Field Notes: Dan Costa in Antarctica
Space Shuttle Endeavour Expected to Take Final Flight Over Silicon Valley – 9/18 KQED Science News Roundup
California Wildlife Mural Celebrates Its Third Birthday
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/24/genome-3-0-encode-takes-our-dna-from-junk-to-treasure/oasis/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44240\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-44240\" title=\"Oasis\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/Oasis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/Oasis.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/Oasis-400x227.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genes are not embedded in a vast expanse of junk DNA. Over 80% of our DNA appears to be doing something, somewhere, some time.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>New \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7414/full/489052a.html\">research\u003c/a> is making us rethink how our DNA works. Again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of a barren landscape dotted with the occasional gene, we now have a lush forest dotted with the occasional gene. This is the next step in our continuing evolution away from the idea that genes determine who we are to the determining factor being how we use the genes we have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new work from the ENCODE projects suggests that over 80% of our DNA is doing something even though only about 2% is genes. A lot of that something appears to be controlling when genes are turned on and to what level. At least that is what we think now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who knows what our new understanding will be once we come up with new ways to investigate what is going on in our DNA. And once we come up with the right questions to ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44245\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/24/genome-3-0-encode-takes-our-dna-from-junk-to-treasure/bacteria/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44245\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-44245\" title=\"bacteria\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/bacteria.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not surprisingly, we use our DNA differently than a bacterium uses its DNA.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Genome 1.0\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the beginning, there were genes. From work mostly in bacteria, scientists believed that these pieces of DNA were the key to who we were. And that what made us more complex than a bacterium or a water bug was that we had more genes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This wasn’t crazy or anything. Given what they knew, genes seemed like the obvious candidates for making us who we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, genes are just the instructions for proteins and proteins are the molecules that do the heavy lifting in our cells. The idea was that more complex creatures would do more things and so would need more proteins and so have more genes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists figured we’d be a bit like the bacteria they were studying. The thinking was that since by and large bacterial genomes are mostly genes, ours should be too. But once we managed to develop the technology to sequence the human genome, we saw that we don’t resemble bacteria nearly as much as we thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Genome 2.0\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of the 21st century, scientists sequenced the human genome. To everyone’s surprise there were only something like 20,000 – 25,000 genes. Most scientists expected 100,000 or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44246\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/24/genome-3-0-encode-takes-our-dna-from-junk-to-treasure/waterflea/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44246\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-44246\" title=\"waterFlea\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/waterFlea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/waterFlea.jpg 250w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/waterFlea-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/waterFlea-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/waterFlea-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/waterFlea-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/waterFlea-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">She has more genes than you do.\u003cbr>Courtesy PLOS Genetics.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The genome appeared to be long stretches of not-genes interspersed with the occasional gene. Given our still \u003cem>gene-ocentric\u003c/em> way of thinking, we called all the DNA that wasn’t a gene “junk” DNA. We figured it was the flotsam and jetsam of billions of years of evolution cluttering up our genomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As more and more organisms were sequenced, scientists kept getting the same result. Ten to thirty thousand genes spread across vast stretches of what looked like junk DNA. And to make matters worse, gene number didn’t appear to relate to complexity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, a water flea has around \u003ca href=\"http://earthsky.org/earth/winner-for-largest-number-of-genes-in-any-animal-known-so-far-a-water-flea\">8,000 more genes than you do\u003c/a>. A mouse, roundworm and a flowering plant called \u003cem>Arabadopsis \u003c/em>has the same number as you. At least a fruit fly only has 14,000 or so! Clearly there isn’t a lot of correlation between complexity and gene number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current theory for what is going on is that the key factor in making us complex is how we use the genes we have. A mouse uses its 23,000 genes one way, roundworms another and humans a third way. Or more accurately, each uses its genes in lots of different ways depending on cell type, DNA sequence, environment and so on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ENCODE project appears to support this idea and to show that a lot of that junk DNA is actually involved in controlling genes. One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Genome 3.0\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ENCODE project set out to figure out how genes are controlled. They focused on proteins called transcription factors (TFs) because scientists already had a pretty good handle on how these things work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44251\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/24/genome-3-0-encode-takes-our-dna-from-junk-to-treasure/tbp/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44251\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-44251\" title=\"TBP\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/TBP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"147\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transcription factors like this one are proteins that bind DNA and control how much a gene is turned on.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>TFs stick to certain bits of DNA and control genes from there. So one might like the DNA sequence AAGCTT and another might like TATAAA. Each TF then sticks to any of its preferred sites that are accessible and the level of gene expression is determined by which factors are bound where for how long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ENCODE project found way more of these TF binding sites than they thought they would. And while they matched up half a million to nearby genes, this still left millions that were without a gene. They are almost certainly controlling genes, we just don’t yet understand how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way they are probably controlling genes is through some sort of long distance control. Scientists already knew of many cases where DNA far from a gene can influence its expression. (And when I say far, I mean far. Our chromosome 1 is over 3 inches long on its own. That is massive in the microscopic world. If the nucleus where the DNA is stored was the size of a baseball, the DNA of chromsome 1 would be over 100 miles long. That is quite a bat!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way this long distance control is thought to happen has to do with the fact that this long molecule isn’t stretched out. Instead it is packaged in an ordered clump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So even though those TFs I talked about are arranged along these long molecules sort of like beads on a string, pieces that are far away on the DNA can be close in 3D space. Members of the ENCODE project identified and analyzed over 1000 of these DNA loops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another way to influence gene expression is by affecting the accessibility of the TF binding sites on the DNA. If a site is hidden, it can’t be bound by a TF and so can’t affect any genes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accessibility is controlled by that packaging (chromatin) I talked about earlier. Some DNA is in parts of the clump that the TFs can get to and some isn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44269\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 100px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/24/genome-3-0-encode-takes-our-dna-from-junk-to-treasure/chromatin/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44269\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-44269\" title=\"chromatin\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/chromatin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"246\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">TFs have to get to the DNA to have an effect.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another ENCODE group determined how the pattern of accessibility is different in different cell types and firmed up the idea that TF binding can be like an avalanche. One TF binds which opens the DNA up allowing more to bind which opens up more DNA and so on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among its many contributions, the ENCODE data provides us with the start of a cataloging of what parts of our DNA are important and, to a lesser extent, which parts interact with each other. This data is already starting to bear fruit in that it is providing us with clues to how certain genetic differences can affect a person’s chances for developing genetic diseases. In particular, certain findings with regard to Crohn’s disease are becoming more understandable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results I’ve described so far aren’t really a paradigm shift except in terms of the percentage of DNA being used. It is things any molecular biologist knew before just spread out over more of our DNA and described in much more detail. This is not true of all of the results though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another big finding of the ENCODE project is that over 75% of our DNA is copied into RNA in one cell or another. This was unexpected and might one day push us to \u003cem>Genome 4.0\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may remember that genes are copied into RNA before they are translated into proteins. Given that only 2% of our DNA is genes, all this RNA is not being translated into proteins. Which given what we’ve learned over the past few years, isn’t unexpected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists had been finding lots of different RNAs involved in, you guessed it, controlling gene expression levels. But no one expected there was this much untranslated RNA. There is so much of it that it is unlikely it is all contributing to controlling genes in the ways we’ve identified so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, there are still lots of things to find out and when they figure out what this RNA is doing, we’ll learn more about our genomes. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the beginning, there were genes. From work mostly in bacteria, scientists believed that these pieces of DNA were the key to who we were. And that what made us more complex than a bacterium or a water bug was that we had more genes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This wasn’t crazy or anything. Given what they knew, genes seemed like the obvious candidates for making us who we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, genes are just the instructions for proteins and proteins are the molecules that do the heavy lifting in our cells. The idea was that more complex creatures would do more things and so would need more proteins and so have more genes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists figured we’d be a bit like the bacteria they were studying. The thinking was that since by and large bacterial genomes are mostly genes, ours should be too. 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Most scientists expected 100,000 or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44246\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/24/genome-3-0-encode-takes-our-dna-from-junk-to-treasure/waterflea/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44246\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-44246\" title=\"waterFlea\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/waterFlea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/waterFlea.jpg 250w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/waterFlea-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/waterFlea-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/waterFlea-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/waterFlea-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/waterFlea-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">She has more genes than you do.\u003cbr>Courtesy PLOS Genetics.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The genome appeared to be long stretches of not-genes interspersed with the occasional gene. Given our still \u003cem>gene-ocentric\u003c/em> way of thinking, we called all the DNA that wasn’t a gene “junk” DNA. We figured it was the flotsam and jetsam of billions of years of evolution cluttering up our genomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As more and more organisms were sequenced, scientists kept getting the same result. Ten to thirty thousand genes spread across vast stretches of what looked like junk DNA. And to make matters worse, gene number didn’t appear to relate to complexity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, a water flea has around \u003ca href=\"http://earthsky.org/earth/winner-for-largest-number-of-genes-in-any-animal-known-so-far-a-water-flea\">8,000 more genes than you do\u003c/a>. A mouse, roundworm and a flowering plant called \u003cem>Arabadopsis \u003c/em>has the same number as you. At least a fruit fly only has 14,000 or so! Clearly there isn’t a lot of correlation between complexity and gene number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current theory for what is going on is that the key factor in making us complex is how we use the genes we have. A mouse uses its 23,000 genes one way, roundworms another and humans a third way. Or more accurately, each uses its genes in lots of different ways depending on cell type, DNA sequence, environment and so on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ENCODE project appears to support this idea and to show that a lot of that junk DNA is actually involved in controlling genes. One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Genome 3.0\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ENCODE project set out to figure out how genes are controlled. They focused on proteins called transcription factors (TFs) because scientists already had a pretty good handle on how these things work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44251\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/24/genome-3-0-encode-takes-our-dna-from-junk-to-treasure/tbp/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44251\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-44251\" title=\"TBP\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/TBP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"147\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transcription factors like this one are proteins that bind DNA and control how much a gene is turned on.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>TFs stick to certain bits of DNA and control genes from there. So one might like the DNA sequence AAGCTT and another might like TATAAA. 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As difficult as it may be to imagine the mass of ten, twenty, or thirty Suns crushed to a point in space, the math promised that black holes with millions or even billions of solar masses could exist, which pointed scientists to the cores of galaxies, regions known to contain a lot of material from which such supermassive black holes might form. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is believed that the core of every major galaxy probably contains a supermassive black hole. Our own Milky Way is believed to contain a 4.3 million solar mass black hole at its core—and that's thought to be at the lower end in size for galactic supermassive black holes. The Milky Way's \"dark heart\" has been inferred from the motions of a number of stars in the galactic core, which have trajectories indicating that they are orbiting something quite massive (like, 4.3 million solar masses), yet unseen. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, observations are showing us that black holes may be quite common in the Universe. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44505\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/20/side-trips-from-interstate-5-san-emigdio-mountains/emigdio-top/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44505\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-44505\" title=\"emigdio-top\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emigdio-top-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The southern wall of the Great Valley is worth passing through instead of passing by. Photos by Andrew Alden\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With all the construction going on south of Bakersfield on I-5, now is a time to seriously consider a scenic detour of two hours or so that avoids the congestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The key points are the little towns of Maricopa and Lebec, and the road between them is named Cerro Noroeste Road at its west end and Frazier Mountain Park Road at its east end. I've marked it with asterisks in this Google Maps clipping. How you get to Maricopa is up to you: state route 33 gets you there from Coalinga, as does state route 58 from Buttonwillow. Another road goes through the Elk Hills if you have extra time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/20/side-trips-from-interstate-5-san-emigdio-mountains/emigdiotopo/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44506\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44506\" title=\"emigdiotopo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emigdiotopo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emigdiotopo.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emigdiotopo-400x344.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The geologic overlay (from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.quake.ca.gov/gmaps/GMC/stategeologicmap.html\">interactive state geologic map\u003c/a>) shows that this road threads along the part of the San Andreas fault called the Great Bend. Compressive forces across the fault here have pushed up the land into mountain ranges, the San Emigdio range on the north and the Transverse Ranges on the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/20/side-trips-from-interstate-5-san-emigdio-mountains/emigdiogeo/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44504\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-44504\" title=\"emigdiogeo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emigdiogeo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emigdiogeo.png 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emigdiogeo-400x344.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pink is Sierra Nevada granite, brown is Precambrian rocks, other colors are mostly young (Tertiary) sedimentary and volcanic rocks.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I'll show you the sights from the southbound perspective. The San Emigdios get their name from the patron saint of earthquakes, and this area was badly shaken by the enormous 1857 earthquake that \u003ca href=\"http://geology.about.com/od/geology_ca/ig/saf1857/\">ruptured the ground from Parkfield to El Cajon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haze often hides the range, but as you approach the west side of the Great Valley it emerges over the arid oil-producing country around Taft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/20/side-trips-from-interstate-5-san-emigdio-mountains/emig-taftview/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44509\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44509\" title=\"emig-taftview\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-taftview.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-taftview.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-taftview-400x276.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cerro Noroeste Road begins as a turnoff from state route 33/166 just west of the fault trace. If you take an early opportunity to \u003ca href=\"http://geology.about.com/od/geology_ca/ig/saf1857/saf1857norosag.htm\">look north\u003c/a>, you can follow the fault's path into the Carrizo Plain. The road ascends to a ridge with spectacular views. Northward you'll see a kaleidoscope of vegetation and lithology on the Great Valley's south edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/20/side-trips-from-interstate-5-san-emigdio-mountains/emig-lithline/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44507\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44507\" title=\"emig-lithline\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-lithline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-lithline.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-lithline-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southward is a succession of Transverse Range ridges that includes the Sierra Madre, San Rafael and Santa Ynez mountains, the last of which overlooks the Santa Barbara coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/20/side-trips-from-interstate-5-san-emigdio-mountains/emig-cerrosouth/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44501\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44501\" title=\"emig-cerrosouth\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-cerrosouth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-cerrosouth.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-cerrosouth-400x264.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In springtime, the vegetation includes some choice vernal pools. This was in late May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/20/side-trips-from-interstate-5-san-emigdio-mountains/emig-vernalpool/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44510\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44510\" title=\"emig-vernalpool\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-vernalpool.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-vernalpool.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-vernalpool-400x280.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high point of the road is Apache Saddle, just over 6000 feet. This is also the highest point on the San Andreas fault. On the other side is the resort area from Pine Mountain Club to Lake of the Woods to Frazier Park, right off I-5. If you take the time to explore, you'll find that the rocks are very different on opposite sides of the fault—that's because the southern side has been carried hundreds of miles west past the northern side, one earthquake at a time, for some 25 million years and counting. This is the view of the fault valley from Mount Pinos; the highest peak is Mount San Emigdio, flagship peak of the range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/20/side-trips-from-interstate-5-san-emigdio-mountains/emig-pinosview/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44508\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44508\" title=\"emig-pinosview\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-pinosview.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-pinosview.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-pinosview-400x258.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(I showed you \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/03/29/californias-and-the-worlds-oldest-rocks/\">California's oldest rocks\u003c/a> from Mount Pinos a few months ago.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fault valley itself is a dramatic showcase of tectonic features if you know what you're looking at. Its inhabitants sprawl around the fault trace, as they do almost everywhere. This view is looking west in Pine Mountain Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/20/side-trips-from-interstate-5-san-emigdio-mountains/emig-cerrovalleywest/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44502\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44502\" title=\"emig-cerrovalleywest\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-cerrovalleywest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-cerrovalleywest.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-cerrovalleywest-400x259.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farther along, you'll drive through Cuddy Valley. This photo was taken in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/20/side-trips-from-interstate-5-san-emigdio-mountains/emig-cuddyvalley/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44503\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44503\" title=\"emig-cuddyvalley\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-cuddyvalley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-cuddyvalley.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-cuddyvalley-400x275.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fault trace runs along the foot of the hills on the opposite side. At the far end is \u003ca href=\"http://geology.about.com/od/geology_ca/ig/saf1857/saf1857cuddysag.htm\">a prominent sag pond\u003c/a>, formed where two fault strands allow the ground to subside between them. The large peak is Frazier Mountain, which you can drive up if you return for a longer visit. And why wouldn't you? It beats creeping up the Grapevine.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44505\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/20/side-trips-from-interstate-5-san-emigdio-mountains/emigdio-top/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44505\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-44505\" title=\"emigdio-top\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emigdio-top-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The southern wall of the Great Valley is worth passing through instead of passing by. Photos by Andrew Alden\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With all the construction going on south of Bakersfield on I-5, now is a time to seriously consider a scenic detour of two hours or so that avoids the congestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The key points are the little towns of Maricopa and Lebec, and the road between them is named Cerro Noroeste Road at its west end and Frazier Mountain Park Road at its east end. I've marked it with asterisks in this Google Maps clipping. How you get to Maricopa is up to you: state route 33 gets you there from Coalinga, as does state route 58 from Buttonwillow. Another road goes through the Elk Hills if you have extra time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/20/side-trips-from-interstate-5-san-emigdio-mountains/emigdiotopo/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44506\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44506\" title=\"emigdiotopo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emigdiotopo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emigdiotopo.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emigdiotopo-400x344.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The geologic overlay (from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.quake.ca.gov/gmaps/GMC/stategeologicmap.html\">interactive state geologic map\u003c/a>) shows that this road threads along the part of the San Andreas fault called the Great Bend. Compressive forces across the fault here have pushed up the land into mountain ranges, the San Emigdio range on the north and the Transverse Ranges on the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/20/side-trips-from-interstate-5-san-emigdio-mountains/emigdiogeo/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44504\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-44504\" title=\"emigdiogeo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emigdiogeo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emigdiogeo.png 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emigdiogeo-400x344.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pink is Sierra Nevada granite, brown is Precambrian rocks, other colors are mostly young (Tertiary) sedimentary and volcanic rocks.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I'll show you the sights from the southbound perspective. The San Emigdios get their name from the patron saint of earthquakes, and this area was badly shaken by the enormous 1857 earthquake that \u003ca href=\"http://geology.about.com/od/geology_ca/ig/saf1857/\">ruptured the ground from Parkfield to El Cajon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haze often hides the range, but as you approach the west side of the Great Valley it emerges over the arid oil-producing country around Taft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/20/side-trips-from-interstate-5-san-emigdio-mountains/emig-taftview/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44509\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44509\" title=\"emig-taftview\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-taftview.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-taftview.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-taftview-400x276.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cerro Noroeste Road begins as a turnoff from state route 33/166 just west of the fault trace. If you take an early opportunity to \u003ca href=\"http://geology.about.com/od/geology_ca/ig/saf1857/saf1857norosag.htm\">look north\u003c/a>, you can follow the fault's path into the Carrizo Plain. The road ascends to a ridge with spectacular views. Northward you'll see a kaleidoscope of vegetation and lithology on the Great Valley's south edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/20/side-trips-from-interstate-5-san-emigdio-mountains/emig-lithline/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44507\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44507\" title=\"emig-lithline\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-lithline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-lithline.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-lithline-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southward is a succession of Transverse Range ridges that includes the Sierra Madre, San Rafael and Santa Ynez mountains, the last of which overlooks the Santa Barbara coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/20/side-trips-from-interstate-5-san-emigdio-mountains/emig-cerrosouth/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44501\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44501\" title=\"emig-cerrosouth\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-cerrosouth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-cerrosouth.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-cerrosouth-400x264.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In springtime, the vegetation includes some choice vernal pools. This was in late May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/20/side-trips-from-interstate-5-san-emigdio-mountains/emig-vernalpool/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44510\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44510\" title=\"emig-vernalpool\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-vernalpool.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-vernalpool.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-vernalpool-400x280.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high point of the road is Apache Saddle, just over 6000 feet. This is also the highest point on the San Andreas fault. On the other side is the resort area from Pine Mountain Club to Lake of the Woods to Frazier Park, right off I-5. If you take the time to explore, you'll find that the rocks are very different on opposite sides of the fault—that's because the southern side has been carried hundreds of miles west past the northern side, one earthquake at a time, for some 25 million years and counting. This is the view of the fault valley from Mount Pinos; the highest peak is Mount San Emigdio, flagship peak of the range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/20/side-trips-from-interstate-5-san-emigdio-mountains/emig-pinosview/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44508\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44508\" title=\"emig-pinosview\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-pinosview.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-pinosview.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-pinosview-400x258.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(I showed you \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/03/29/californias-and-the-worlds-oldest-rocks/\">California's oldest rocks\u003c/a> from Mount Pinos a few months ago.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fault valley itself is a dramatic showcase of tectonic features if you know what you're looking at. Its inhabitants sprawl around the fault trace, as they do almost everywhere. This view is looking west in Pine Mountain Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/20/side-trips-from-interstate-5-san-emigdio-mountains/emig-cerrovalleywest/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44502\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44502\" title=\"emig-cerrovalleywest\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-cerrovalleywest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-cerrovalleywest.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-cerrovalleywest-400x259.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farther along, you'll drive through Cuddy Valley. This photo was taken in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/20/side-trips-from-interstate-5-san-emigdio-mountains/emig-cuddyvalley/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44503\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44503\" title=\"emig-cuddyvalley\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-cuddyvalley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-cuddyvalley.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/emig-cuddyvalley-400x275.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fault trace runs along the foot of the hills on the opposite side. At the far end is \u003ca href=\"http://geology.about.com/od/geology_ca/ig/saf1857/saf1857cuddysag.htm\">a prominent sag pond\u003c/a>, formed where two fault strands allow the ground to subside between them. 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"content": "\u003cp>Here's today's roundup of science, nature and environment news from the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dRzl5','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site568/2012/0919/20120919__ssjm0920shuttle~1_VIEWER.JPG\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dRzl5\\'>Retiring Space Shuttle Endeavour on its way to Bay Area, with flyover Friday morning - San Jose Mercury News</a>Click photo to enlarge The Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off Wednesday on its final flight, piggybacking on a 747 across the country toward the Bay Area for a historic flyover Friday on its way to it final destination: a Los Angeles museum.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.mercurynews.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Mercurynews</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site568/2012/0919/20120919__ssjm0920shuttle~1_VIEWER.JPG\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/dRzl5\">Retiring Space Shuttle Endeavour on its way to Bay Area, with flyover Friday morning - San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a>Click photo to enlarge The Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off Wednesday on its final flight, piggybacking on a 747 across the country toward the Bay Area for a historic flyover Friday on its way to it final destination: a Los Angeles museum.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Mercurynews\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dRzCo','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" 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fed either genetically engineered corn or the herbicide Roundup had an increased risk of developing tumors, suffering organ damage and dying prematurely, according to a new study that was immediately swept up into the furor surrounding crop biotechnology when it was released Wednesday.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.nytimes.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Nytimes</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/common/icons/t_wb_75.gif\" class=\"thumb 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The National Center for Atmospheric Research hopes to wrap up testing and accept the supercomputer in October.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.sfgate.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Sfgate</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://www.sfgate.com/img/modules/siteheader/brand.png\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">Final testing under way for Wyoming supercomputer(AP) â Final testing is being done on a National Center for Atmospheric Research supercomputer on the outskirts of Cheyenne that will be used for climate modeling and other Earth sciences. 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lifted off Wednesday on its final flight, piggybacking on a 747 across the country toward the Bay Area for a historic flyover Friday on its way to it final destination: a Los Angeles museum.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Mercurynews\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dRzCo','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div 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src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Sfgate\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/business/energy-environment/disputed-study-links-modified-corn-to-greater-health-risks.html','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/common/icons/t_wb_75.gif\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' 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"content": "\u003cp>Here's today's roundup of science, nature and environment news from the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dPR6f','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/content/2012/0919-space-shuttle-endeavour-heading-to-california/13796191-1-eng-US/0919-Space-Shuttle-Endeavour-heading-to-california_thumbnail_90.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dPR6f\\'>Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off for last time, heading to California</a>The space shuttle Endeavour, bolted atop a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, left its Florida home port for the last time on Wednesday and headed to California to begin a new mission as a museum exhibit. By Irene Klotz, Reuters / September 19, 2012<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.csmonitor.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Csmonitor</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/content/2012/0919-space-shuttle-endeavour-heading-to-california/13796191-1-eng-US/0919-Space-Shuttle-Endeavour-heading-to-california_thumbnail_90.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/dPR6f\">Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off for last time, heading to California\u003c/a>The space shuttle Endeavour, bolted atop a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, left its Florida home port for the last time on Wednesday and headed to California to begin a new mission as a museum exhibit. By Irene Klotz, Reuters / September 19, 2012\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.csmonitor.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Csmonitor\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~3/H6NiVsK8VUE/us-usa-space-shuttle-idUSBRE88I01D20120919','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20120919&t=2&i=654378791&w=130&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=CBRE88I03AN00\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~3/H6NiVsK8VUE/us-usa-space-shuttle-idUSBRE88I01D20120919\\'>Trees must fall to make way for space shuttle\\'s L.A. road trip</a>LOS ANGELES | Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:11pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The space shuttle Endeavour always had plenty of elbow room while soaring around Earth. But to make way for its slow 12-mile (19-km)journey through city streets next month to its final destination at a Los Angeles museum, some trees must fall.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.reuters.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Reuters</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20120919&t=2&i=654378791&w=130&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=CBRE88I03AN00\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~3/H6NiVsK8VUE/us-usa-space-shuttle-idUSBRE88I01D20120919\">Trees must fall to make way for space shuttle's L.A. road trip\u003c/a>LOS ANGELES | Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:11pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The space shuttle Endeavour always had plenty of elbow room while soaring around Earth. 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Consumer Reports is urging U.S. limits for arsenic in rice after tests of more than 60 popular products -- from Kellogg's Rice Krispies cereal to Gerber infant cereal -- showed that most contained some level of inorganic arsenic, a known human carcinogen.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dPRAJ','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dPRAJ\\'>West Nile cases in U.S. up 19 percent in latest week-CDC</a>Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:08pm EDT (Reuters) - The number of U.S. cases of West Nile virus rose by 19 percent in the latest week, slowing slightly from its earlier pace but still putting this year on track to be the worst outbreak since 2003, government figures showed on Wednesday.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.reuters.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Reuters</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/dPRAJ\">West Nile cases in U.S. up 19 percent in latest week-CDC\u003c/a>Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:08pm EDT (Reuters) - The number of U.S. cases of West Nile virus rose by 19 percent in the latest week, slowing slightly from its earlier pace but still putting this year on track to be the worst outbreak since 2003, government figures showed on Wednesday.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dPRw8 ','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dPRw8 \\'>Cancers on the rise in pregnant women: study</a>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The number of pregnant women diagnosed with cancer has increased over the past couple of decades, a new study from Australia suggests. In 2007, the most recent year studied, researchers found 192 out of every 100,000 pregnant and postpartum women received a cancer diagnosis - up from 112 per 100,000 women in 1994.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.reuters.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Reuters</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/dPRw8%20\">Cancers on the rise in pregnant women: study\u003c/a>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The number of pregnant women diagnosed with cancer has increased over the past couple of decades, a new study from Australia suggests. In 2007, the most recent year studied, researchers found 192 out of every 100,000 pregnant and postpartum women received a cancer diagnosis - up from 112 per 100,000 women in 1994.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dPR1h','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/09/13/watson-portrait-097ef45a285ed6cbdc790f1bd25221e18bf3bc6d-s2.jpeg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dPR1h\\'>Scientists See Upside And Downside Of Sequencing Their Own Genes : NPR</a>When scientists were looking for the first person to test a new, superfast way of deciphering someone\\'s entire genetic blueprint, they turned to James Watson - the guy who shared a Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA. \\"They had to sequence someone, so they got me,\\" he says.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.npr.org\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Npr</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/09/13/watson-portrait-097ef45a285ed6cbdc790f1bd25221e18bf3bc6d-s2.jpeg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/dPR1h\">Scientists See Upside And Downside Of Sequencing Their Own Genes : NPR\u003c/a>When scientists were looking for the first person to test a new, superfast way of deciphering someone's entire genetic blueprint, they turned to James Watson - the guy who shared a Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA. \"They had to sequence someone, so they got me,\" he says.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Npr\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dPQEU','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/files/2012/09/AirPollution_-Mark_H_Anbinder_Flickr_02142012-300x269.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dPQEU\\'>More Regulation Considered For Bay Area\\'s Biggest Mercury Polluter, Which Is... | KQED News Fix</a>Quick, what\\'s the biggest single source of mercury pollution in the Bay Area? If you guessed something like the Chevron facility that caught fire in Richmond last month, you\\'d be wrong. It turns out that Lehigh Permanente, a Cupertino company that mines lime and uses it to make cement, put about 260 pounds of mercury into the air in 2011.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://blogs.kqed.org\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Kqed</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/dPQEU\">More Regulation Considered For Bay Area's Biggest Mercury Polluter, Which Is... | KQED News Fix\u003c/a>Quick, what's the biggest single source of mercury pollution in the Bay Area? If you guessed something like the Chevron facility that caught fire in Richmond last month, you'd be wrong. It turns out that Lehigh Permanente, a Cupertino company that mines lime and uses it to make cement, put about 260 pounds of mercury into the air in 2011.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Kqed\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dPPnI','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/15/20/04/3473698/3/150x150.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dPPnI\\'>Harvard claim of Jesus\\' Wife papyrus scrutinized</a>Scholars on Wednesday questioned the much-publicized discovery by a Harvard scholar that a 4th century fragment of papyrus provided the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus was married. [...] experts in the illicit antiquities trade also wondered about the motive of the fragment\\'s anonymous owner, noting that the document\\'s value has likely increased amid the publicity of the still-unproven find.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.sfgate.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Sfgate</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/15/20/04/3473698/3/150x150.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">Harvard claim of Jesus' Wife papyrus scrutinizedScholars on Wednesday questioned the much-publicized discovery by a Harvard scholar that a 4th century fragment of papyrus provided the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus was married. [...] experts in the illicit antiquities trade also wondered about the motive of the fragment's anonymous owner, noting that the document's value has likely increased amid the publicity of the still-unproven find.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Sfgate\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dPPuj','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/15/16/74/3469070/3/150x150.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dPPuj\\'>Pot compound seen as tool against cancer</a>Marijuana, already shown to reduce pain and nausea in cancer patients, may be promising as a cancer-fighting agent against some of the most aggressive forms of the disease.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.sfgate.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Sfgate</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/15/16/74/3469070/3/150x150.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/dPPuj\">Pot compound seen as tool against cancer\u003c/a>Marijuana, already shown to reduce pain and nausea in cancer patients, may be promising as a cancer-fighting agent against some of the most aggressive forms of the disease.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Sfgate\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Here's today's roundup of science, nature and environment news from the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dPR6f','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/content/2012/0919-space-shuttle-endeavour-heading-to-california/13796191-1-eng-US/0919-Space-Shuttle-Endeavour-heading-to-california_thumbnail_90.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dPR6f\\'>Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off for last time, heading to California</a>The space shuttle Endeavour, bolted atop a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, left its Florida home port for the last time on Wednesday and headed to California to begin a new mission as a museum exhibit. By Irene Klotz, Reuters / September 19, 2012<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.csmonitor.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Csmonitor</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/content/2012/0919-space-shuttle-endeavour-heading-to-california/13796191-1-eng-US/0919-Space-Shuttle-Endeavour-heading-to-california_thumbnail_90.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/dPR6f\">Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off for last time, heading to California\u003c/a>The space shuttle Endeavour, bolted atop a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, left its Florida home port for the last time on Wednesday and headed to California to begin a new mission as a museum exhibit. By Irene Klotz, Reuters / September 19, 2012\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.csmonitor.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Csmonitor\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~3/H6NiVsK8VUE/us-usa-space-shuttle-idUSBRE88I01D20120919','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20120919&t=2&i=654378791&w=130&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=CBRE88I03AN00\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~3/H6NiVsK8VUE/us-usa-space-shuttle-idUSBRE88I01D20120919\\'>Trees must fall to make way for space shuttle\\'s L.A. road trip</a>LOS ANGELES | Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:11pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The space shuttle Endeavour always had plenty of elbow room while soaring around Earth. But to make way for its slow 12-mile (19-km)journey through city streets next month to its final destination at a Los Angeles museum, some trees must fall.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.reuters.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Reuters</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20120919&t=2&i=654378791&w=130&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=CBRE88I03AN00\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~3/H6NiVsK8VUE/us-usa-space-shuttle-idUSBRE88I01D20120919\">Trees must fall to make way for space shuttle's L.A. road trip\u003c/a>LOS ANGELES | Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:11pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The space shuttle Endeavour always had plenty of elbow room while soaring around Earth. But to make way for its slow 12-mile (19-km)journey through city streets next month to its final destination at a Los Angeles museum, some trees must fall.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/19/us-usa-rice-arsenic-idUSBRE88I0RR20120919?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FhealthNews+%28Reuters+Health+News%29','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20120919&t=2&i=654605751&w=130&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=CBRE88I18A800\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/19/us-usa-rice-arsenic-idUSBRE88I0RR20120919?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FhealthNews+%28Reuters+Health+News%29\\'>U.S. needs arsenic limits in rice: Consumer Reports</a>LOS ANGELES | Wed Sep 19, 2012 11:56am EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - 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Consumer Reports is urging U.S. limits for arsenic in rice after tests of more than 60 popular products -- from Kellogg's Rice Krispies cereal to Gerber infant cereal -- showed that most contained some level of inorganic arsenic, a known human carcinogen.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dPRAJ','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dPRAJ\\'>West Nile cases in U.S. up 19 percent in latest week-CDC</a>Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:08pm EDT (Reuters) - The number of U.S. cases of West Nile virus rose by 19 percent in the latest week, slowing slightly from its earlier pace but still putting this year on track to be the worst outbreak since 2003, government figures showed on Wednesday.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.reuters.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Reuters</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/dPRAJ\">West Nile cases in U.S. up 19 percent in latest week-CDC\u003c/a>Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:08pm EDT (Reuters) - The number of U.S. cases of West Nile virus rose by 19 percent in the latest week, slowing slightly from its earlier pace but still putting this year on track to be the worst outbreak since 2003, government figures showed on Wednesday.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dPRw8 ','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dPRw8 \\'>Cancers on the rise in pregnant women: study</a>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The number of pregnant women diagnosed with cancer has increased over the past couple of decades, a new study from Australia suggests. In 2007, the most recent year studied, researchers found 192 out of every 100,000 pregnant and postpartum women received a cancer diagnosis - up from 112 per 100,000 women in 1994.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.reuters.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Reuters</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/dPRw8%20\">Cancers on the rise in pregnant women: study\u003c/a>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The number of pregnant women diagnosed with cancer has increased over the past couple of decades, a new study from Australia suggests. 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If you guessed something like the Chevron facility that caught fire in Richmond last month, you\\'d be wrong. 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If you guessed something like the Chevron facility that caught fire in Richmond last month, you'd be wrong. 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[...] experts in the illicit antiquities trade also wondered about the motive of the fragment\\'s anonymous owner, noting that the document\\'s value has likely increased amid the publicity of the still-unproven find.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.sfgate.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Sfgate</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/15/20/04/3473698/3/150x150.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">Harvard claim of Jesus' Wife papyrus scrutinizedScholars on Wednesday questioned the much-publicized discovery by a Harvard scholar that a 4th century fragment of papyrus provided the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus was married. [...] experts in the illicit antiquities trade also wondered about the motive of the fragment's anonymous owner, noting that the document's value has likely increased amid the publicity of the still-unproven find.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Sfgate\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dPPuj','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/15/16/74/3469070/3/150x150.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dPPuj\\'>Pot compound seen as tool against cancer</a>Marijuana, already shown to reduce pain and nausea in cancer patients, may be promising as a cancer-fighting agent against some of the most aggressive forms of the disease.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.sfgate.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Sfgate</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/15/16/74/3469070/3/150x150.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/dPPuj\">Pot compound seen as tool against cancer\u003c/a>Marijuana, already shown to reduce pain and nausea in cancer patients, may be promising as a cancer-fighting agent against some of the most aggressive forms of the disease.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Sfgate\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44120\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/19/culture-clash-of-cats-birds-and-conservation/kumatongue/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44120\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-44120\" title=\"kuma\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/kumatongue.jpg\" alt=\"domestic house cat\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Domestic bliss: Born under a bush in Guerneville, this once feral cat now enjoys the comforts of home. Patience, dedication, and gentle handling can transform a frightened, suspicious feral cat into a trusting, loving companion. (Photo: Barry Bergman)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We humans have an uneasy relationship with nature. Lest you doubt it, consider that the 1964 Wilderness Act defines wilderness as “an area where the earth and community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notion that people live apart from nature might explain our sometimes skewed views of wildlife—Americans keep as many as \u003ca href=\"http://bigcatrescue.org/2012/big-cats-and-public-safety-protection-hr-4122\">20,000 tigers, cheetahs, and other big cats\u003c/a> as pets—and our seemingly unique capacity for \u003ca href=\"http://e360.yale.edu/feature/too_many_people_too_much_consumption/2041/\">destroying natural resources\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By recent estimates, we’re using resources 50 percent faster than they can recover. Despite mounting evidence linking human well-being to healthy ecosystems, we seem constitutionally \u003ca href=\"http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000330\">incapable of changing our behavior\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservation biologists try to inspire people to act in environmentally-friendly ways, but often inspire emotional confrontations instead. That’s why some biologists are looking to social psychologists for advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Conservation Psychology\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt’s no surprise that conflicts arise when two groups view the facts of a situation through a different lens. But the hope is that understanding the social roots of conservation conflicts—how people’s values and beliefs shape their behavior—will suggest strategies for resolving them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0044616\">study published earlier this month\u003c/a> researchers led by Nils Peterson at North Carolina State University applied this approach to a particularly contentious issue: feral cats and their impacts on birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feral cats are simply house cats that, without the care and love of an owner, behave like a wild animal. And it’s hard to imagine a group more emotionally invested in an issue than the women who take care of feral cats. (I should know. I once looked after a mini-colony in the backyard of my Sunset District rental.) As several studies show, cat colony caretakers tend to be women, many of whom also have tame cats at home, see their feral charges as pets, and often cite sympathy, ethical concerns, and \u003ca href=\"http://avmajournals.avma.org/doi/abs/10.2460/javma.2002.220.1627?journalCode=javma\">love of animals as their main motivators\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44296\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/19/culture-clash-of-cats-birds-and-conservation/rsgranne_-_cats_cats_cats_arrow_rock_missouri_20050703_03_by-sa/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44296\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-44296\" title=\"Rsgranne_-_Cats_cats_cats!_(Arrow_Rock,_Missouri,_20050703)_03_(by-sa)\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/Rsgranne_-_Cats_cats_cats_Arrow_Rock_Missouri_20050703_03_by-sa-540x360.jpg\" alt=\"feral cat colony\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This feral cat colony lives in an Arrow Rock, Missouri, backyard and neighboring grounds. (Photo: Scott Granneman, St. Louis, MO)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No one knows how many feral cats live in the U.S., though the American Veterinary Medical Association suspects the number rivals that of cats living as pets, estimated at 86 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By most accounts, feral cats face a miserable life. \u003ca href=\"https://www.avma.org/News/Journals/Collections/Documents/javma_225_9_1399.pdf\">One study looking at reproductive rates\u003c/a> in feral cats found that 75% of kittens died or disappeared within six months. Most were either run over by cars or killed by stray dogs. Feral cats have twice the rate of FIV of house cats and significantly higher rates of bacterial and parasitic infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s understandable why kind-hearted people take care of cats left to fend for themselves. Unfortunately, these natural-born killers are doing what comes naturally. And wildlife populations, including species common and rare, are paying for our good intentions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Study after study documents the toll feral cats take on wildlife. Most experts think the \u003ca href=\"https://www.avma.org/News/Journals/Collections/Documents/javma_225_9_1377.pdf\">cats kill hundreds of millions\u003c/a> of native birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and fish in the U.S. each year. Wildlife rehabilitation specialists at Walnut Creek’s Lindsey Museum handled more than 1,000 birds with cat-related injuries in 2003 alone. Of course, no one knows how many birds died in backyards or wound up in cats’ bellies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates say feeding cats controls their predatory instincts, but the evidence suggests otherwise. \u003ca href=\"http://www.tws-west.org/transactions/Hawkins%20Grant%20Longnecker.pdf\">A 1999 study of two East Bay parks\u003c/a> found that in sites with regularly fed cat colonies, “native birds were markedly less abundant and less likely to nest, and ground-foraging species such as California quail and thrasher were entirely absent.” Feral cats also endanger native raptors by depleting their prey base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Polarized Views\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAgainst this background, Peterson and his team polled 338 cat colony caretakers and 239 bird conservation professionals (from the Audubon Society, American Bird Conservancy, and similar groups) about their views of feral felines, the cats’ impacts on wildlife, and strategies to control their populations. Many feral cat advocates promote the use of trap-neuter-and-return programs to control colonies, though studies fail to support their effectiveness. That’s probably partly because people abandon their animals faster than caretakers can sterilize them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, the two groups held opposite views on nearly every question. “Bird people” viewed feral cats as “pests” and considered “euthanasia” an appropriate management strategy. Just 20% of “cat people” thought feral cats endanger native birds and just 6% thought feral cats carry disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44109\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/19/culture-clash-of-cats-birds-and-conservation/africanwildcat/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44109\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-44109\" title=\"AfricanWildCat\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/AfricanWildCat-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"African wildcat\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genetic studies trace the origins of the house cat to at least five wildcat species (\u003cem>Felis silvestris\u003c/em>), originating in the Near East. The African Wild Cat (\u003cem>Felis silvestris lybica\u003c/em>), above, is the house cat's most recent ancestor in the history of domestication. (Photo: Sonelle, Johannesburg Zoo, South Africa)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the record, feral cats can transmit rabies and numerous other diseases to wildlife, either indirectly—for example, when feces-borne parasites enter the watershed and infect otters and other marine life—or directly, by spreading FIV to mountain lions and critically endangered Florida panthers who prey on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A surprising 59% of caretakers thought feral cats play a natural role as predators. That was true \u003ca href=\"http://www.pnas.org/content/106/suppl.1/9971.full\">for their progenitors, Near East wildcats\u003c/a> (\u003cem>Felis silvestris lybica\u003c/em>), which started hanging around farmers and their rodent-infested grain silos in the Fertile Crescent some 10,000 years ago. (Experts think, given the cat's notorious independent nature, domestication happened as cats adopted people rather than vice versa.) But domestication released these felines from the constraints of natural selection and paved the way for a new species, \u003cem>Felis catus\u003c/em>, thousands of years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Path to Compromise\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWith little common ground between bird people and cat lovers, whose positions are so tied to personal views of the problem, public education campaigns probably won’t work, the researchers say. Feral cat advocates care passionately about the welfare of individual cats while bird conservation workers (and wildlife biologists) care about the long-term prospects of wildlife populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44135\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/19/culture-clash-of-cats-birds-and-conservation/injuredphoebe/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44135\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-44135\" title=\"injuredphoebe\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/injuredphoebe-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"kitty cam and injured bird\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The \"kitty cam\" outfitted on a house cat as part of a research project shows an injured phoebe. Sixty pet cats in Athens-Clarke County, Georgia, wore cameras for 7 to 10 days on their outdoor adventures. The research is a joint project of the University of Georgia and National Geographic. (Photo: University of Georgia)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What might help is engaging cat caretakers in research on feral cat behavior—it’s hard to deny what you see with our own eyes—as well as in programs to protect wildlife. Plus, as other studies show, the best solutions will likely be site specific. Where birds and other wildlife populations are in decline, a more aggressive control strategy might be called for. But in healthier ecosystems or areas that harbor smaller colonies, trap-neuter-and-return might be a reasonable solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some think an even better solution might be housing cats in enclosed sanctuaries, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.belleglensanctuary.com/\">Belleglen Sanctuary in Chico\u003c/a>, which protects wildlife while keeping feral cats safe from disease and injury. But such shelters \u003ca href=\"http://www.plosone.org/annotation/listThread.action?inReplyTo=54039&root=54039\">quickly fill to capacity.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the survey found highly polarized opinions, it also showed that both groups share a love of animals—many “bird people” owned cats and many “cat people” said they love birds too. What’s more, caretakers were optimistic that they could work with biologists to find better ways to manage feral cats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/sowb/state\">one in eight bird species threatened with extinction\u003c/a>, this is an opportunity for collaboration we can’t afford to squander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s one thing no one disputes. The kind souls who take care of feral cats didn’t create the problem. People who abandon the animals that depend on them did. It’s illegal to abandon your pet in most states, including California, but enforcement is notoriously difficult. Clearly, we need new strategies to stop this cruel and inhumane behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the cats I’ve ever adopted were once stray or feral. It takes time, effort, and patience to socialize a feral cat, but there’s nothing like watching mistrust turn to affection. I love to watch the vestigial gestures of wild felids in my house cats, but I know they didn’t evolve as natural predators on the American landscape. They depend on us for food, shelter, and safety. Animal shelters take in 6 million to 8 million cats and dogs each year and euthanize about half of them. We have an ethical duty to take better care of our animals—domesticated and wild—and learn to tell the difference.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44120\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/19/culture-clash-of-cats-birds-and-conservation/kumatongue/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44120\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-44120\" title=\"kuma\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/kumatongue.jpg\" alt=\"domestic house cat\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Domestic bliss: Born under a bush in Guerneville, this once feral cat now enjoys the comforts of home. Patience, dedication, and gentle handling can transform a frightened, suspicious feral cat into a trusting, loving companion. (Photo: Barry Bergman)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We humans have an uneasy relationship with nature. Lest you doubt it, consider that the 1964 Wilderness Act defines wilderness as “an area where the earth and community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notion that people live apart from nature might explain our sometimes skewed views of wildlife—Americans keep as many as \u003ca href=\"http://bigcatrescue.org/2012/big-cats-and-public-safety-protection-hr-4122\">20,000 tigers, cheetahs, and other big cats\u003c/a> as pets—and our seemingly unique capacity for \u003ca href=\"http://e360.yale.edu/feature/too_many_people_too_much_consumption/2041/\">destroying natural resources\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By recent estimates, we’re using resources 50 percent faster than they can recover. Despite mounting evidence linking human well-being to healthy ecosystems, we seem constitutionally \u003ca href=\"http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000330\">incapable of changing our behavior\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservation biologists try to inspire people to act in environmentally-friendly ways, but often inspire emotional confrontations instead. That’s why some biologists are looking to social psychologists for advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Conservation Psychology\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt’s no surprise that conflicts arise when two groups view the facts of a situation through a different lens. But the hope is that understanding the social roots of conservation conflicts—how people’s values and beliefs shape their behavior—will suggest strategies for resolving them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0044616\">study published earlier this month\u003c/a> researchers led by Nils Peterson at North Carolina State University applied this approach to a particularly contentious issue: feral cats and their impacts on birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feral cats are simply house cats that, without the care and love of an owner, behave like a wild animal. And it’s hard to imagine a group more emotionally invested in an issue than the women who take care of feral cats. (I should know. I once looked after a mini-colony in the backyard of my Sunset District rental.) As several studies show, cat colony caretakers tend to be women, many of whom also have tame cats at home, see their feral charges as pets, and often cite sympathy, ethical concerns, and \u003ca href=\"http://avmajournals.avma.org/doi/abs/10.2460/javma.2002.220.1627?journalCode=javma\">love of animals as their main motivators\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44296\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/19/culture-clash-of-cats-birds-and-conservation/rsgranne_-_cats_cats_cats_arrow_rock_missouri_20050703_03_by-sa/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44296\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-44296\" title=\"Rsgranne_-_Cats_cats_cats!_(Arrow_Rock,_Missouri,_20050703)_03_(by-sa)\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/Rsgranne_-_Cats_cats_cats_Arrow_Rock_Missouri_20050703_03_by-sa-540x360.jpg\" alt=\"feral cat colony\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This feral cat colony lives in an Arrow Rock, Missouri, backyard and neighboring grounds. (Photo: Scott Granneman, St. Louis, MO)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No one knows how many feral cats live in the U.S., though the American Veterinary Medical Association suspects the number rivals that of cats living as pets, estimated at 86 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By most accounts, feral cats face a miserable life. \u003ca href=\"https://www.avma.org/News/Journals/Collections/Documents/javma_225_9_1399.pdf\">One study looking at reproductive rates\u003c/a> in feral cats found that 75% of kittens died or disappeared within six months. Most were either run over by cars or killed by stray dogs. Feral cats have twice the rate of FIV of house cats and significantly higher rates of bacterial and parasitic infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s understandable why kind-hearted people take care of cats left to fend for themselves. Unfortunately, these natural-born killers are doing what comes naturally. And wildlife populations, including species common and rare, are paying for our good intentions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Study after study documents the toll feral cats take on wildlife. Most experts think the \u003ca href=\"https://www.avma.org/News/Journals/Collections/Documents/javma_225_9_1377.pdf\">cats kill hundreds of millions\u003c/a> of native birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and fish in the U.S. each year. Wildlife rehabilitation specialists at Walnut Creek’s Lindsey Museum handled more than 1,000 birds with cat-related injuries in 2003 alone. Of course, no one knows how many birds died in backyards or wound up in cats’ bellies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates say feeding cats controls their predatory instincts, but the evidence suggests otherwise. \u003ca href=\"http://www.tws-west.org/transactions/Hawkins%20Grant%20Longnecker.pdf\">A 1999 study of two East Bay parks\u003c/a> found that in sites with regularly fed cat colonies, “native birds were markedly less abundant and less likely to nest, and ground-foraging species such as California quail and thrasher were entirely absent.” Feral cats also endanger native raptors by depleting their prey base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Polarized Views\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAgainst this background, Peterson and his team polled 338 cat colony caretakers and 239 bird conservation professionals (from the Audubon Society, American Bird Conservancy, and similar groups) about their views of feral felines, the cats’ impacts on wildlife, and strategies to control their populations. Many feral cat advocates promote the use of trap-neuter-and-return programs to control colonies, though studies fail to support their effectiveness. That’s probably partly because people abandon their animals faster than caretakers can sterilize them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, the two groups held opposite views on nearly every question. “Bird people” viewed feral cats as “pests” and considered “euthanasia” an appropriate management strategy. Just 20% of “cat people” thought feral cats endanger native birds and just 6% thought feral cats carry disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44109\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/19/culture-clash-of-cats-birds-and-conservation/africanwildcat/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44109\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-44109\" title=\"AfricanWildCat\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/AfricanWildCat-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"African wildcat\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genetic studies trace the origins of the house cat to at least five wildcat species (\u003cem>Felis silvestris\u003c/em>), originating in the Near East. The African Wild Cat (\u003cem>Felis silvestris lybica\u003c/em>), above, is the house cat's most recent ancestor in the history of domestication. (Photo: Sonelle, Johannesburg Zoo, South Africa)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the record, feral cats can transmit rabies and numerous other diseases to wildlife, either indirectly—for example, when feces-borne parasites enter the watershed and infect otters and other marine life—or directly, by spreading FIV to mountain lions and critically endangered Florida panthers who prey on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A surprising 59% of caretakers thought feral cats play a natural role as predators. That was true \u003ca href=\"http://www.pnas.org/content/106/suppl.1/9971.full\">for their progenitors, Near East wildcats\u003c/a> (\u003cem>Felis silvestris lybica\u003c/em>), which started hanging around farmers and their rodent-infested grain silos in the Fertile Crescent some 10,000 years ago. (Experts think, given the cat's notorious independent nature, domestication happened as cats adopted people rather than vice versa.) But domestication released these felines from the constraints of natural selection and paved the way for a new species, \u003cem>Felis catus\u003c/em>, thousands of years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Path to Compromise\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWith little common ground between bird people and cat lovers, whose positions are so tied to personal views of the problem, public education campaigns probably won’t work, the researchers say. Feral cat advocates care passionately about the welfare of individual cats while bird conservation workers (and wildlife biologists) care about the long-term prospects of wildlife populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44135\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/19/culture-clash-of-cats-birds-and-conservation/injuredphoebe/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44135\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-44135\" title=\"injuredphoebe\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/injuredphoebe-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"kitty cam and injured bird\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The \"kitty cam\" outfitted on a house cat as part of a research project shows an injured phoebe. Sixty pet cats in Athens-Clarke County, Georgia, wore cameras for 7 to 10 days on their outdoor adventures. The research is a joint project of the University of Georgia and National Geographic. (Photo: University of Georgia)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What might help is engaging cat caretakers in research on feral cat behavior—it’s hard to deny what you see with our own eyes—as well as in programs to protect wildlife. Plus, as other studies show, the best solutions will likely be site specific. Where birds and other wildlife populations are in decline, a more aggressive control strategy might be called for. But in healthier ecosystems or areas that harbor smaller colonies, trap-neuter-and-return might be a reasonable solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some think an even better solution might be housing cats in enclosed sanctuaries, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.belleglensanctuary.com/\">Belleglen Sanctuary in Chico\u003c/a>, which protects wildlife while keeping feral cats safe from disease and injury. But such shelters \u003ca href=\"http://www.plosone.org/annotation/listThread.action?inReplyTo=54039&root=54039\">quickly fill to capacity.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the survey found highly polarized opinions, it also showed that both groups share a love of animals—many “bird people” owned cats and many “cat people” said they love birds too. What’s more, caretakers were optimistic that they could work with biologists to find better ways to manage feral cats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/sowb/state\">one in eight bird species threatened with extinction\u003c/a>, this is an opportunity for collaboration we can’t afford to squander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s one thing no one disputes. The kind souls who take care of feral cats didn’t create the problem. People who abandon the animals that depend on them did. It’s illegal to abandon your pet in most states, including California, but enforcement is notoriously difficult. Clearly, we need new strategies to stop this cruel and inhumane behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Despite the accident last year at a nuclear plant in Fukushima, Japan, here in the United States, some policymakers – including President Obama – are pushing to expand nuclear energy as a source of abundant carbon-free electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To meet our growing energy needs and prevent the worst consequences of climate change, we’ll need to increase our supply of nuclear power. It’s that simple,” said Obama in Feb. 2010, during a \u003ca title=\"Video of Obama press conference\" href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4eyH2haWWU\" target=\"_blank\">press conference at a Maryland nuclear plant\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Work has started on four new multi-billion dollar reactors in \u003ca title=\"Southern Company\" href=\"http://www.southerncompany.com/nuclearenergy/construction.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia \u003c/a>and South Carolina, the first to begin construction in the United States in more than 30 years. But observers disagree over exactly what this means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, we don’t know if there is a nuclear renaissance,” said Per Peterson, chair of the \u003ca title=\"UC Berkeley Department of Nuclear Engineering\" href=\"http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">University of California, Berkeley’s Department of Nuclear Engineering\u003c/a>. “That will depend on whether these new plants that are under construction now can be built on schedule, on budget, at a reasonable cost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, nuclear energy provides \u003ca title=\"U.S. Energy Information Administration\" href=\"http://www.eia.gov/energy_in_brief/nuclear_industry.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">20 percent of U.S. electricity\u003c/a> – far more than all solar, wind and other renewable sources combined. And a recent EPA study shows that in order for the country to reduce its carbon emissions enough to slow down climate change, it will need to boost its nuclear energy production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But skeptics argue that the country doesn’t need nuclear energy to meet its goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The notion that nuclear is the only option we have to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions is preposterous,” said \u003ca title=\"Ralph Cavanagh bio\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/about/staff/ralph-cavanagh\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Cavanagh\u003c/a>, co-director of the energy program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cavanagh said that cost and risk have pushed utilities around the country away from nuclear energy and towards other renewable energy sources, energy efficiency and natural gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has two nuclear plants, the \u003ca title=\"Diablo Canyon Power Plant\" href=\"http://www.pge.com/myhome/edusafety/systemworks/dcpp/\" target=\"_blank\">Diablo Canyon Power Plant\u003c/a>, near San Luis Obispo, and the \u003ca title=\"San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station\" href=\"http://www.sce.com/PowerandEnvironment/PowerGeneration/SanOnofreNuclearGeneratingStation/default.htm?goto=songs\" target=\"_blank\">San Onofre plant\u003c/a>, near San Diego, which has been closed \u003ca href=\"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/08/san-onofre-cuts-raise-questions-about-nuclear-plants-future.html\" target=\"_blank\">since Jan. 2012\u003c/a>, after problems were found with some of the tubes that carry steam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44378\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/Per_Peterson_at_Diablo_Canyon_resized.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-44378\" title=\"Per_Peterson_at_Diablo_Canyon_resized\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/Per_Peterson_at_Diablo_Canyon_resized-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Per Peterson, member of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant's Independent Safety Committee, in the plant's turbine room. Photo: Gabriela Quirós.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Prospects for the development of new nuclear plants in the state stalled long ago. The Rancho Seco nuclear plant, in Sacramento, was closed in 1989 after a public vote. And California still has in place a 1976 moratorium on building any new nuclear plants until the federal government creates a permanent site to dispose of nuclear waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California and the rest of the country, nuclear accidents from the past continue to cast a shadow on the technology. The worst one to date happened with a devastating explosion and fire at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine in 1986, which released radiation across Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-eight rescue workers died from radiation exposure. 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Fourteen deaths from thyroid cancer have been documented so far. And scientists are still following the population for other health effects that might appear later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of nuclear energy say that the risks of an accident should be weighed against the health effects from burning fossil fuels. 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"content": "\u003cp>Here's today's roundup of science, nature and environment news from the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width: 600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dNSLC','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site568/2012/0917/20120917_071526_ssjm0918cassidy90_400.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dNSLC\\'>Cassidy: Space shuttle Endeavour expected to take final flight over Silicon Valley - San Jose Mercury News</a>Click photo to enlarge If all goes as planned, the Bay Area will be treated to the stunning spectacle Friday of the space shuttle Endeavour riding across the region\\'s sky and dipping low toward the ground on the back of a 747 carrying a piece of American ingenuity into retirement.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.mercurynews.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Mercurynews</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width: nullpx; max-height: nullpx;\">\u003cimg class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" src=\"http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site568/2012/0917/20120917_071526_ssjm0918cassidy90_400.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/dNSLC\">Cassidy: Space shuttle Endeavour expected to take final flight over Silicon Valley - San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a>Click photo to enlarge If all goes as planned, the Bay Area will be treated to the stunning spectacle Friday of the space shuttle Endeavour riding across the region's sky and dipping low toward the ground on the back of a 747 carrying a piece of American ingenuity into retirement.\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right; display: block;\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mercurynews\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width: 600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dNUqF','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dNUqF\\'>First mother-to-daughter uterus transplant carried out in Sweden</a>STOCKHOLM | Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:14pm EDT STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Doctors in Sweden have performed the world\\'s first mother-to-daughter uterus transplants, a medical team said on Tuesday. 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The University of Gothenburg said two Swedish women, both in their 30s, received wombs from their mothers in surgery carried out in a hospital in western Sweden over the weekend.\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right; display: block;\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://www.reuters.com\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width: 600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dNTaf ','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/files/2012/09/downtown_oakland2_sm-300x225.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dNTaf \\'>Filling the Gaps in Oakland\\'s Climate Plan</a>Filling the Gaps in Oakland\\'s Climate Plan Study could help city prepare for impacts already on the way The City of Oakland is forging a comprehensive Energy and Climate Action Plan aimed at mitigating climate change.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://blogs.kqed.org\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Kqed</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width: nullpx; max-height: nullpx;\">\u003cimg class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" src=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/files/2012/09/downtown_oakland2_sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/dNTaf%20\">Filling the Gaps in Oakland's Climate Plan\u003c/a>Filling the Gaps in Oakland's Climate Plan Study could help city prepare for impacts already on the way The City of Oakland is forging a comprehensive Energy and Climate Action Plan aimed at mitigating climate change.\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right; display: block;\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org\" target=\"_blank\">Kqed\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width: 600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dNTlg','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/09/18/science/18ROBO1_SPAN/18ROBO1-thumbLarge.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dNTlg\\'>A Robot With a Delicate Touch</a>The sensation that Baxter conveys is not creepy, but benign, perhaps even disarmingly friendly. And that is intentional. 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And that is intentional. Baxter, the first product of Rethink Robotics, an ambitious start-up company in a revived manufacturing district here, is a significant bet that robots in the future will work directly with humans in the workplace.\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right; display: block;\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">Nytimes\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width: 600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dNV0l','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/food/Screen%20Shot%202012-09-18%20at%2010.34.26%20AM-615-330.png\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dNV0l\\'>In 20 Years, More Than Half of Americans in 39 States Will Be Obese</a>The national cost of obesity, in terms of lost annual productivity alone, would be around $580 billion. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Here's today's roundup of science, nature and environment news from the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width: 600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dNSLC','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site568/2012/0917/20120917_071526_ssjm0918cassidy90_400.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dNSLC\\'>Cassidy: Space shuttle Endeavour expected to take final flight over Silicon Valley - San Jose Mercury News</a>Click photo to enlarge If all goes as planned, the Bay Area will be treated to the stunning spectacle Friday of the space shuttle Endeavour riding across the region\\'s sky and dipping low toward the ground on the back of a 747 carrying a piece of American ingenuity into retirement.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.mercurynews.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Mercurynews</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width: nullpx; max-height: nullpx;\">\u003cimg class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" src=\"http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site568/2012/0917/20120917_071526_ssjm0918cassidy90_400.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/dNSLC\">Cassidy: Space shuttle Endeavour expected to take final flight over Silicon Valley - San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a>Click photo to enlarge If all goes as planned, the Bay Area will be treated to the stunning spectacle Friday of the space shuttle Endeavour riding across the region's sky and dipping low toward the ground on the back of a 747 carrying a piece of American ingenuity into retirement.\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right; display: block;\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mercurynews\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width: 600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dNUqF','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dNUqF\\'>First mother-to-daughter uterus transplant carried out in Sweden</a>STOCKHOLM | Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:14pm EDT STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Doctors in Sweden have performed the world\\'s first mother-to-daughter uterus transplants, a medical team said on Tuesday. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44268\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/18/california-wildlife-mural-celebrates-its-third-birthday/cougar/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44268\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/cougar.jpg\" alt=\"Zoom of mural by Debbie Bakker\" title=\"cougar\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44268\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/cougar.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/cougar-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Coastal Range\" section of California wildlife mural by Debbie Bakker\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2009, after \u003ca href=\"http://westvalley.edu/\" title=\"West Valley College\">West Valley College\u003c/a> built its brand new biology building, a group of faculty stood in the natural history lab staring at a blank wall. \"It's too empty,\" they agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44280\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 337px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/18/california-wildlife-mural-celebrates-its-third-birthday/blank-wall/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44280\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/blank-wall-337x253.jpg\" alt=\"Gallardo, Bakker, and Svensson discussing the mural with the blank wall in the background - photo by Molly Schrey\" title=\"blank wall\" width=\"337\" height=\"253\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gallardo, Bakker, and Svensson discussing the mural with the blank wall in the background - photo by Molly Schrey\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"How about a mural?\" suggested biology and genetics instructor \u003ca href=\"http://instruct.westvalley.edu/schrey/\" title=\"Molly Schrey\">Molly Schrey\u003c/a>. She knew an artist from her church, and asked the woman--\u003ca href=\"http://www.debbiebakker.com/index.html\" title=\"Debbie Bakker Art\">Debbie Bakker\u003c/a>--if she could paint a teaching mural. \"Of course,\" said Bakker, who was still in art school and had never attempted such a feat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bakker has worked as a teacher in both her homeland of Canada and her current habitat of San Jose, and she carries a lifelong passion for education. But for a long time, she says, \"I didn't draw because it was never good enough.\" She changed her mind one day on a field trip with her daughter's school class to visit an illustrator who did pen and ink drawings of historical buildings. \"I could do that,\" she thought, and began to take art classes at De Anza and West Valley College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44281\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 168px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/18/california-wildlife-mural-celebrates-its-third-birthday/working/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44281\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/working-168x253.jpg\" alt=\"Bakker working on the wildlife mural at West Valley College - photo by Molly Schrey\" title=\"working\" width=\"168\" height=\"253\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bakker working on the wildlife mural at West Valley College - photo by Molly Schrey\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2007 Bakker enrolled in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.academyart.edu/\" title=\"Academy of Art University\">Academy of Art University\u003c/a> in San Francisco to work part-time toward a BFA. Eager to avoid a required digital art class (\"Old dog, new tricks,\" she explains succinctly), Bakker signed up for a replacement course in wildlife illustration--and fell in love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when the invitation came to paint a wildlife mural, Bakker wasn't about to say no. She talked to Schrey and the other biology instructors and put together a proposal, complete with scale drawings, that convinced the college administrators to hire her. Schrey credits the fact that the project ever got off the ground to West Valley's identity as a teaching-driven community college, rather than a high-powered research university. \"The instructors here all focus on people,\" she says. \"They're very open to collaborations like this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bakker worked continuously with ecologists \u003ca href=\"http://instruct.westvalley.edu/gallardo/\" title=\"Leticia Gallardo\">Leticia Gallardo\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://instruct.westvalley.edu/svensson/\" title=\"Peter Svensson\">Peter Svensson\u003c/a> to get everything right--not just anatomy, but behavior too. In the \"Sierra Yellow Pine\" region, a ponderosa pine showcases the classic activities of two woodland birds: a brown creeper creeps its way up the tree, while a red-breasted nuthatch climbs down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44282\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 359px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/18/california-wildlife-mural-celebrates-its-third-birthday/flowers_slug/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44282\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/flowers_slug-359x253.jpg\" alt=\"Wild ginger flowers and Steller's jays in the Coastal Range - Debbie Bakker\" title=\"flowers_slug\" width=\"359\" height=\"253\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44282\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wild ginger flowers and Steller's jays in the Coastal Range - Debbie Bakker\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Partway through the project, Gallardo suggested each ecological region include appropriate wildflowers. 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Sifting through thousands of proteins, researchers have identified an antibody that not only prevents the influenza virus from taking hold of its victims\\' cells, but also cures already infected animals.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://californiawatch.org\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Californiawatch</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://californiawatch.org/files/flu_0.jpeg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/dLUjX%20\">Researchers pinpoint antibody critical to fighting flu\u003c/a>Wilson Lab/ Scripps Research Institute Researchers have discovered an antibody (in red) that neutralizes the flu (in blue). 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I walked from a hotel near campus to the Claremont Metrolink station, where I grabbed a commuter rail train to Union Station in downtown Los Angeles....<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.slate.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Slate</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/business/pivot/2012/09/120914_RedLine.jpg.CROP.thumbnail-small.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/dLUnP%20\">How Los Angeles-Yes, Los Angeles-Is Becoming America's Next Great Mass-Transit City\u003c/a>On a recent visit to Southern California, I began my day in Claremont, where I'd spoken the previous evening at a Pomona College event. I walked from a hotel near campus to the Claremont Metrolink station, where I grabbed a commuter rail train to Union Station in downtown Los Angeles....\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Slate\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dLUve','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site568/2012/0915/20120915__ssjm0916salmon~1_VIEWER.JPG\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dLUve\\'>California salmon fishermen see improved, though not stellar, 2012 season - ContraCostaTimes.com</a>Click photo to enlarge It didn\\'t live up to eye-popping preseason forecasts, but the 2012 salmon season represented a marked improvement for embattled California fishermen. With the season ending in two weeks, the Pacific Fishery Management Council released a preliminary estimate Saturday of this year\\'s catch of Chinook salmon, whose population plummeted so far just a few years ago that the 2008 and 2009 commercial seasons were canceled to protect the species.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.contracostatimes.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Contracostatimes</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site568/2012/0915/20120915__ssjm0916salmon~1_VIEWER.JPG\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/dLUve\">California salmon fishermen see improved, though not stellar, 2012 season - ContraCostaTimes.com\u003c/a>Click photo to enlarge It didn't live up to eye-popping preseason forecasts, but the 2012 salmon season represented a marked improvement for embattled California fishermen. With the season ending in two weeks, the Pacific Fishery Management Council released a preliminary estimate Saturday of this year's catch of Chinook salmon, whose population plummeted so far just a few years ago that the 2008 and 2009 commercial seasons were canceled to protect the species.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Contracostatimes\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dLUzM ','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dLUzM \\'>320 tons of debris removed from state\\'s waterways during California Coastal Cleanup - San Jose Mercury News</a>From foggy Ocean Beach in San Francisco to the creeks of Silicon Valley to the baking hot beaches of sunny Los Angeles, tens of thousands of Californians turned out Saturday to pick up mountains of trash at 850 locations across the state.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.mercurynews.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Mercurynews</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/dLUzM%20\">320 tons of debris removed from state's waterways during California Coastal Cleanup - San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a>From foggy Ocean Beach in San Francisco to the creeks of Silicon Valley to the baking hot beaches of sunny Los Angeles, tens of thousands of Californians turned out Saturday to pick up mountains of trash at 850 locations across the state.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Mercurynews\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dLUTS','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://www.sfgate.com/img/modules/siteheader/brand.png\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dLUTS\\'>NASA postpones final ferry flight of Endeavour</a>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The beginning of space shuttle Endeavour\\'s final flight to California has been postponed because of weather along the flight route. NASA had planned for the 747 carrying the shuttle to take off from Kennedy Space Center on Monday. The flight is now scheduled to take off at sunrise Tuesday.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.sfgate.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Sfgate</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://www.sfgate.com/img/modules/siteheader/brand.png\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">NASA postpones final ferry flight of EndeavourCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The beginning of space shuttle Endeavour's final flight to California has been postponed because of weather along the flight route. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Here's today's roundup of science, nature and environment news from the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dLUjX ','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://californiawatch.org/files/flu_0.jpeg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dLUjX \\'>Researchers pinpoint antibody critical to fighting flu</a>Wilson Lab/ Scripps Research Institute Researchers have discovered an antibody (in red) that neutralizes the flu (in blue). Sifting through thousands of proteins, researchers have identified an antibody that not only prevents the influenza virus from taking hold of its victims\\' cells, but also cures already infected animals.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://californiawatch.org\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Californiawatch</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://californiawatch.org/files/flu_0.jpeg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/dLUjX%20\">Researchers pinpoint antibody critical to fighting flu\u003c/a>Wilson Lab/ Scripps Research Institute Researchers have discovered an antibody (in red) that neutralizes the flu (in blue). Sifting through thousands of proteins, researchers have identified an antibody that not only prevents the influenza virus from taking hold of its victims' cells, but also cures already infected animals.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Californiawatch\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/dLUnP ','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/business/pivot/2012/09/120914_RedLine.jpg.CROP.thumbnail-small.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/dLUnP \\'>How Los Angeles-Yes, Los Angeles-Is Becoming America\\'s Next Great Mass-Transit City</a>On a recent visit to Southern California, I began my day in Claremont, where I\\'d spoken the previous evening at a Pomona College event. 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