trot-trotThe Seeds Of The EU's Crisis Were Sown 60 Years Ago (bloomberg.com)
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"One nation (under Germany)" by Ben Laurance (marketoracle.co.uk)
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"The silk that spiders use to build their webs, trap their prey and dangle from your ceiling is one of the strongest materials known. But it turns out it's not simply the material's exceptional strength that makes spider webs so resilient" by trot-trotin TrueReddit
Oh, What A Toughened Web They Weave!: "The silk that spiders use to build their webs, trap their prey, and dangle from the ceiling is one of the strongest materials known. But it turns out it's not just the material's exceptional strength that makes spiderwebs so resilient." by trot-trotin science
"An Egyptian physics student has successfully created a new propulsion device that could accelerate space probes and artificial satellites through quantum physics and chemical reactions instead of the current radioactive-based jets and ordinary rocket engines." (onislam.net)
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"President Barack Obama, hoping to spur U.S. innovation in the explosive field of mobile communications, on Wednesday [23 May 2012] ordered all major federal agencies to make many more of their services available on mobile phones within the next year." (reuters.com)
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Stars and Aurora Australis photographed on 10 March 2012 at 13:20:33 GMT by an Expedition 30 astronaut orbiting high above Planet Earth's Pacific Ocean aboard the International Space Station. by trot-trotin space
"Photographed by the Expedition 31 crew aboard the International Space Station and easily spotted at top center in this image is the gray shadow of the moon, cast on bright clouds of the northern Pacific Ocean, as the May 20 [2012] solar eclipse point tracked towards the Aleutian Islands" by trot-trotin space
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!["Photographed by the Expedition 31 crew aboard the International Space Station and easily spotted at top center in this image is the gray shadow of the moon, cast on bright clouds of the northern Pacific Ocean, as the May 20 [2012] solar eclipse point tracked towards the Aleutian Islands"](http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-31/hires/iss031e041635.jpg){kind=link}
"Crystals formed in the molten rock of a volcano may help predict the next eruption of Mount St. Helens or Mount Vesuvius as far as a year in advance, researchers said. Drawing from data of the explosions of Mount St. Helens in 1980 through 1986 in Washington, scientists found that" by trot-trotin science
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