AL JAZEERA News, Apr 18, 2012

Gulf Seafood Deformities Raise Questions Among Scientists And Fisherman (VIDEO) Huffington Post Al Jazeera reports that both the government and BP maintain that Gulf seafood is safe. BP released a statement last week, saying, "Seafood from the Gulf of Mexico is among the most tested in the world, and according to the FDA and NOAA, ... See all stories on this topic »

Photos show US soldiers with dead Afghans Aljazeera.com Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher, reporting from Washington DC, said the US military "didn't want [the images] published. They asked the LA Times to not put them into the public domain". He said the US soldier who leaked the images did so because they showed ... See all stories on this topic » Aljazeera.com

Deformities in Gulf Seafood Found After BP Oil Spill Popular Science Right: Erika Blumenfeld/Al Jazeera Al Jazeera just published a thoroughly disturbing report on the deformed fish and shellfish that are being pulled from the Gulf in the wake of the BP oil spill. Shrimp without eyes or even eye sockets, snapper with ... See all stories on this topic »

BP Oil Spill Aftermath: Eyeless Shrimp, Clawless Crabs and Fish with Oozing Sores Gizmodo Al Jazeera just published an astonishing report on the after-effects of the BP oil disaster, and it's not pretty. There are an alarming number of deformities in sea creatures: mutated shrimp, fish with sores and lesions, eyeless crabs and more. See all stories on this topic »

New media opens United States to Al Jazeera 7DAYS Hi-tech mobile applications are allowing Arab media giant Al Jazeera to bypass conservative American cable networks and instantly connect with Middle Eastern expats in the United States. That's the message from the Qatar-based broadcaster's Global ... See all stories on this topic »

Israeli Minister Agrees Ahmadinejad Never Said Israel 'Must Be Wiped Off the Map' New York Times (blog) By ROBERT MACKEY Video of an Al Jazeera interview with Dan Meridor, a deputy prime minister of Israel. In a reminder that Persian rhetoric is not always easy for English-speakers to interpret, a senior Israeli official has acknowledged that Iran's ... See all stories on this topic »

Julian Assange bows talkshow: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is first guest Chicago Tribune MOSCOW -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange interviewed Hezbollah leader Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah Tuesday in the first of a series of new talkshows, "The World Tomorrow," broadcast by Russia Today, the Kremlin-backed English-language international ... See all stories on this topic »

Qatar Coup Attempt – Report Business Insider Qatar is home to to Al Jazeera, perhaps the most influential news outlet in the Middle East, that had a significant role in reporting about the Arab Spring in Middle Eastern and North African countries. There is also talk that the leaders were flown to ... See all stories on this topic »

Iraqi Kurds discover valued trading partner Aljazeera.com The Kurds are increasingly looking to Iran and Turkey as trading partners and, despite some border tensions, trade is booming. Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf reports from Haji Omran, on the mountainous border with Iran. See all stories on this topic »

Timbergate - Sorious Samura's Work Was Perfect, but No Indictment for VP ... AllAfrica.com Commissioner Joseph Kamara told journalists, while responding to questions regarding the indictment of Momoh Konteh and Alex Mansaray who were alleged in the Al-Jazeera documentary to be working closely with the Vice President, that the Commission was ... See all stories on this topic »

Breivik glorifies Norway mass killings - World News San Francisco Luxury News Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull, reporting from Oslo, said his testimony, which is expected to last for several days, would not be shown live. Dressed in a dark suit, Breivik again appeared to make a far-right salute as his handcuffs were removed inside the ... See all stories on this topic »

Legacy Of BP Oil Spill: Eyeless Shrimp And Fish With Lesions ThinkProgress Al Jazeera reports: “At the height of the last white shrimp season, in September, one of our friends caught 400 pounds of these,” [Louisiana commercial fisher Tracy] Kuhns told Al Jazeera while showing a sample of the eyeless shrimp. See all stories on this topic » ThinkProgress

Are Food Deserts Really the Problem?; Japan's Nuclear Ambivalence The Atlantic Wire Al Jazeera on the deformities of Gulf's critters The ecological distaster that was the oil spill has outdone even The Simpsons. At its two-year anniversary, there's renewed media focus on the BP oil spill this month. And today, Al Jazeera files a ... See all stories on this topic » The Atlantic Wire

Controversial Islamic Scholar Youssef El-Qaradawi to Visit AllAfrica.com Contrary to several Tunisian media and Facebook reports, the Ennahda Movement has not extended an invitation to the Islamic scholar Youssef Qaradawi, one of the most controversial Islamic theologians in the Arab-Islamic world, to come to Tunisia. See all stories on this topic »

2 years after BP oil spill, marine life exhibits deformites and decline in... God Discussion It's almost two years since BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and according to an investigative report compiled by Al Jazeera, scientists are saying that they are finding deformities among seafood and a great decline in the numbers of marine life. See all stories on this topic » God Discussion

Deformed Fish, Eyeless Shrimp Linked To BP Oil Spill, Researcher Says International Business Times That November fisherman started reporting they saw fish with sores and lesions, according to Cowan. Gulf fishermen continue to catch hundreds of pounds of eyeless shrimp, Tracy Kuhns, a Louisiana commercial fisher, told Al Jazeera. See all stories on this topic » International Business Times

Must-Reads from Around the World: April 18, 2012 TIME (blog) Clutching at Straw – With former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw now being accused of complicity in the rendition and alleged torture of Libyan dissident Abdel Hakim Belhadj, The Week investigates why MI6 agents have let blame fall upon the... See all stories on this topic » TIME (blog)

Following island crisis, Iran is the great villain The Times of Israel Qatari foreign minister Hamad bin Jassem Al Thani told reporters he believed the ceasefire's prospects of success were no more than 3%, adding that Qatar had favored Arab military intervention in Syria from the start, Al-Jazeera reports. See all stories on this topic » The Times of Israel

Report: Gulf of Mexico seafood deformities alarm scientists WWL "Tracy Kuhns and her husband Mike Roberts, commercial fishers from Barataria, Louisiana, are finding eyeless shrimp. "'At the height of the last white shrimp season, in September, one of our friends caught 400 pounds of these," Kuhns told Al Jazeera ... See all stories on this topic »

Iraq plans to privatize oil refineries Trend.az Iraq plans to begin the gradual privatization of the country's oil refineries to attract investments in the oil sector, Iraqi Deputy Oil Minister Ahmed Al-Shamma said, the Al-Jazeera TV channel reported on Wednesday. Old oil refineries will also be ... See all stories on this topic »

The quest for justice Morning Star Online Last weekend there was a remarkable conference in the Qatar capital Doha organised by the Palestine Return Centre and supported by the Al-JazeeraCentre for Studies. The conference, which was broadcast on the Al-JazeeraArabic channel, was attended by ... See all stories on this topic »

Amnesty International slams Bahrain over 'inadequate' reforms DigitalJournal.com Amnesty International in a report has stated Bahrain has failed to bring justice for the countless protesters as human rights violations are still continuing in the island kingdom. UPI and Al Jazeera have reported upon the release of thisreport by ... See all stories on this topic » DigitalJournal.com

Julian Assange Starts Talk Show on Russian TV New York Times Mr. Assange says the theme of his half-hour show on RT is “theworld tomorrow.” But there is something almost atavistic about the outlet he chose. RT, first known as Russia Today, is an English-language news network created by the Russian leader... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

UN wives appeal to Asma al-Assad Aljazeera.com Both countries have taken a hard line against Assad and Syria at the UN, andnow Voss-Wittig and Lyall Grant are coming down just as hard on Asma al-Assad, who has stood by her husband. Al Jazeera's Kristen Saloomeyreports from New York. See all stories on this topic »

Bahrain crown prince surrounded by angry protesters in run up to opposition ... GlobalPost (-/AFP/Getty Images) Witnesses told Al Jazeera that an angry throng of anti-government demonstrators surrounded Bahrain's Crown Prince Sheikh Salam bin Hamad al Khalifa in a flashpoint city today, a high-profile confrontation that comes as the mainly ... See all stories on this topic »

South Sudan dubbed 'enemy' in Khartoum - World News San Francisco Luxury News Al Jazeera's Harriet Martin, reporting from Khartoum, said that ”bombings have targeted sites like bridges by which people cross into Sudan from the South”. “There has been consistent bombing by Sudan, but a military spokesman has denied that any ... See all stories on this topic »

Eyeless Shrimp and the BP Oil Spill The Atlantic Wire Scott Eustis from the Gulf Restoration Network recently showedAl Jazeera English's Dahr Jamail some of those shrimp. It's easy to see what's wrong with them: They have no eyes! In other parts of the Gulf, fisherman are finding fish covered in black ... See all stories on this topic » The Atlantic Wire

Julian Assange Launches Talk Show While Under House Arrest RTT News (RTTNews) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made his debut as a talk show host on his new series "The World Tomorrow" on the Russian RT network this week. The show is filmed from Assange's country estate in Britain where he has been under house arrest ... See all stories on this topic » RTT News

10 Egyptian presidential candidates drop out The Voice of Russia Among the drop-outs is former Muslim Brotherhood's deputy leader Khairat al-Shatir, Al-Jazeera reports. Now the Muslim Brotherhood is fielding Mohammed Morsy, head of its political wing, as the party's nominee, who has already received Khairat... See all stories on this topic » The Voice of Russia

Julian Assange's Debut on Russia Today - The Serious People Say it Was Really Bad! Forbes Julian Assange's new show “The World Tomorrow” recently debuted on Russia Today (RT) and featured a roughly 30 minute discussion with Hassan Nasrallah. Considering that the reclusive leader of Hezbollah hadn't given an interview to the Western media in ... See all stories on this topic »

Palestinian inmates go on hunger strike on 'Prisoner Day' DigitalJournal.com Members of Hamas, Islamic JIhad, PFLP and the DFLP held in Israeli jails today went on hunger strike marking the Palestinian "Prisoners Day". As reported by UPI, the Jerusalem Post and Al Jazeera some 1200 Palestinian security prisoners have declared a ... See all stories on this topic » DigitalJournal.com

Syria 'has respect' for Annan plan Aljazeera.com Al Jazeera's Rula Amin, reporting from Beirut in neighbouring Lebanon, said the final logistical details regarding the UN monitors in Syria have yet to be finalised. "Issues that need to be addressed include how much access will the monitors have, ... See all stories on this topic »

Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists Aljazeera.com New Orleans, LA - "The fishermen have never seen anything like this," Dr Jim Cowan told Al Jazeera. "And in my 20 years working on red snapper, looking at somewhere between 20 and 30000 fish, I've never seen anything like this either. See all stories on this topic »

Breivik quizzed about far-right 'network' Aljazeera.com Al Jazeera's Paul Brennan, reporting from Oslo, said prosecutors were questioning Breivik's credibility. "They questioned his claims of writing a manifesto for the 'Knights Templar' and Breivik on many occasions refused to answer some of the questions ... See all stories on this topic »

Conflicting Reports of Attempted Coup in Qatar Tripoli Post While Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani was in Malta to discuss bilateral relations and a number of issues of joint interest, informed sources close to the royal family in Qatar are reported telling Iran's Fars News Agency and Pakistan's The News ... See all stories on this topic »

Middle East Syria urged to implement peace plan Aljazeera.com Al Jazeera's Steve Chao, reporting from outside the meeting in Doha, said Arab leaders were "highly sceptical about Syria's intentions". "The Arab League did not say exactly how much time they would give Kofi Annan … before they basically rule this ... See all stories on this topic »

Al Jazeera Faked Syria, Libya News Reports Says Producer A producer from the Arab satellite network Al Jazeera reveals the newschannel ... Qatar invaded Libya, now invades Syria – English pravda.ru Qatar via Qatar ... PRESS Core – Evidentiary News, World News, SpecialReports, Technology, ... blog.alexanderhiggins.com/.../exclusive-video-al-jazeera-fake...

Mobiles Republic Signs Content Partnership with Al Jazeera - FOX ... "Al Jazeera English is a recognised leader in world news - reporting from... Al Jazeera English is part of the Al Jazeera Network, which now consists of the ... www.foxcarolina.com/.../mobiles-republic-signs-content-partn...

Karzai wants 'intelligence failure' probed - Central ... - Aljazeera Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith, reporting from Kabul, said: "They [Taliban] have ... " There are now of course, serious questions about intelligence failings that .... Top News Accordion. Top News. Norway mass killer denies 'criminal guilt' · Karzai wants 'intelligence failure' probed · World Bank names US doctor as new president ... www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/.../201241634322630352.html

Mobiles Republic Signs Content Partnership with Al Jazeera ... "Al Jazeera English is a recognised leader in world news - reporting from... Al Jazeera English is part of the Al Jazeera Network, which now consists of the ... www.marketwatch.com/.../mobiles-republic-signs-content-part...

Al Jazeera Faked Syria, Libya News Reports Says Producer ... A producer from the Arab satellite network Al Jazeera reveals the newschannel ... All the world's a stage for these sickos. See dallasgoldbug's channel about all the actors he's identified at the Dallas Occupy (fake) demonstrations today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=98PhkaEGufg

Kingdom of False News Fabrication- Al Arabiya, Al Jazeera Home · World News ... Until now 19494 news and content added. ... On March 26, Al Arabiya put the number at 60, and Al Jazeera reported a count of 76. www.islamicinvitationturkey.com/.../kingdom-of-news-fabrica...

PressTV - 'Al-Jazeera now a weapon to further Qatari foreign policy' A top ex-manager with the Al-Jazeera news channel says the network has gone ... Of course, now the talk of Al-Jazeera is very different around the Arab world; .... used in certain coverages not only in opinion pieces, but in actual reporting, ... www.presstv.ir/detail/236548.html

Al Jazeera correspondents resign over biased coverage of Syria ... According to Wikipedia, Al Jazeera is an independent news station yet is owned by the ... Subsequently, a slightly older report of Russia Today(February 13) ... www.mathaba.net/news/?x=630184

uncensored.co.nz: Al Jazeera Faked Syria, Libya News Reports ... Alternative Media World News 24/7uncensored.co.nz: Al Jazeera Faked Syria, Libya News Reports Says News Producer As He Resigns In Protestworld news ... www.truth24.co.za/alternative.../14076.html

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Must-Reads from Around the World: April 17, 2012 TIME (blog) By TIME.com | April 17, 2012 | + Thinly Veiled – Following Monday's UN Security Council censure of North Korea for its recent failed rocket launch, China's Global Times issued a stern editorial — “Pyongyang must remember to heed China's advice. See all stories on this topic »

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KTVN Channel 2 - Reno Tahoe News Weather, Video - Kenya's Wesley Korir, Cherop ... KTVN I guess my biology degree kicked in a little bit." Singing religious songs as he trudged along the scorching pavement, the native Kenyan - a permanent resident of the United States - retook the lead from Levy Matebo in the final mile to cross the ... See all stories on this topic »

Eagle parents return to feed their chicks WSLS The Richmond Eagle Cam feed was restored with archived video, but the action you're seeing today is not live. Parents Virginia and James left the nest on Friday. Scientists don't know why. Virginia flew into the nest today about 7:30 am and fed the ... See all stories on this topic »

KTVN Channel 2 - Reno Tahoe News Weather, Video - Army sergeant receives 2nd ... KTVN He earned a degree in biology and was working as a martial arts instructor when he decided to join the Army. In 2010, he became a dual citizen of Brazil and the United States. He said he never expected his life to take the path it has - from an ... See all stories on this topic »

Education Portal Academy's Free Courses Lead to Low-Cost College Credit SYS-CON Media (press release) Education Portal Academy launched with 103 video lessons for Psychology 101. Recently, college-level lessons in biology, calculus, algebra, English literature and Western civilization were added to its offerings. There are now more than 200 lessons on ... See all stories on this topic »

Could Military Mind Control Get Out of Hand? [VIDEO] Mashable Jonathan Moreno, a professor of bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Mind Wars: Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century, wrote an essay published in PLoS Biology about ethical questions of utilizing mind-altering ... See all stories on this topic »

WSU to build $93M biotech hub Crain's Detroit Business By Tom Henderson Crain's first reported the story of Wayne State University's planned biomedical research project in its inaugural video newscast of This Week in Crain's. The newscast debuted Friday. This Week in Crain's features Southeast Michigan's ... See all stories on this topic »

Leaves guide plant's battle for sunlight IANS The findings may offer new ways of developing crops which would produce higher yields of foods and biofuels than existing strains, said Joanne Chory, professor and director at the Salk's Plant Biology Lab, who led the study. See all stories on this topic » IANS

Researchers investigate how some bats survive with white-nose syndrome Bucknell University Two Bucknell University biologists are leading an investigation into how and why some bats survive - and others die - when exposed to the tell-tale fungus that causes white-nose syndrome. Associate Professors of BiologyDeeAnn Reeder and Ken Field have ... See all stories on this topic » Bucknell University

Greenroofs.com's “This Week in Review” on GreenroofsTV: April 13, 2012 Greenroofs.com (blog) by Linda Velazquez Each week you can expect to learn What's New here onGreenroofs.com through our “This Week in Review” video. Here is the transcript from April 13, 2012 from our daughter, Anjuli – click on the photo below to see the video, or here. See all stories on this topic »

Flipping the classroom: Professors move to hands-on learning The Republic "I thought the videos outside of class would take a lot of time. I wondered if I could keep up, if I could contribute. You're really accountable." Blake Gillespie, the chemistry professor who teaches the class, has flipped two of the three courses he's ... See all stories on this topic »

Online Tool Could Diagnose Autism Quickly, Developers Say U.S. News & World Report The process relies on seven questions plus a short home video of an individual child. The research team said its method could reduce by nearly 95 percent the time it takes to diagnose autism and could be easily included in routine child screening ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA's Viking robots found life on Mars in 1976, new study says DigitalJournal.com But scientists ignored the evidence from this experiment and concluded that though there were signs of geological activity, there were no signs of biological activity on Mars. The latest analysis by Miller et al., took a different approach based on the ... See all stories on this topic » DigitalJournal.com

New hope in HIV prevention research: International Microbicide Conference ... EurekAlert (press release) Other research presented at the conference on Monday looked at the biology of mucosal transmission of HIV and rectal microbicides. In a plenary session, Betsy C. Herold of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx in the US noted that there... See all stories on this topic »

Student Artists Flavor Work Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries The Choate News During her junior year, Lubetkin created a music video as an assignment for biology. This fostered an interest in videography that in turn facilitated her involvement with time-lapse photography as well as stop motion videos. See all stories on this topic »

Online Tool for Faster Autism Diagnosis PsychCentral.com Harvard researchers, led by Dennis Wall, Ph.D., an associate professor of pathology and director of computational biology, believe they have discovered a highly accurate strategy that could significantly reduce the complexity and time of the diagnostic ... See all stories on this topic » PsychCentral.com

Local Filmmaker Receives Second Emmy Nomination MarketWatch (press release) As a biologist Musburger has worked for NOAA, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the University of Hawaii, the New England Aquarium, the Pacific Marine Resource Institute, the American Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, NRAS, ... See all stories on this topic »

Noel Edmonds issues Facebook plea after meeting internet 'troll' The Guardian Edmonds said in a video on website iwannameet that people using social networking websites should police their own behaviour more effectively before they are censored by the "state and politicians". Edmonds said in the video that he does not use social ... See all stories on this topic »

Harvard researchers develop tool that could diagnose autism in minutes Examiner.com Dennis Wall, associate professor of pathology and director of computational biologyinitiative at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, has been working to reduce the wait time while still providing an accurate diagnosis of ... See all stories on this topic »

Ohio Valley University to hold birding classes Parkersburg News Classes will focus on identification, birding gear, the basics of bird biology, conservation and backyard bird watching. Classes will consist of lectures, discussions, pictures, videos and guest speakers. The course encompasses five classroom sessions ... See all stories on this topic »

UBC student pleads guilty to taking part in Stanley Cup riot Vancouver Sun Four days after the June 2011 riot, a smiling Cacnio was identified in a YouTube videoleaving the smashed-up Black & Lee Formal Wear store at Richards and Granville holding an item of clothing. The next day, Cacnio issued a 3500-word public apology ... See all stories on this topic »

Has NASA already found life on Mars? Skymania News But NASA decided against a biological cause at the time. Now a team of scientists and mathematicians have carried out a detailed analysis of the data gathered by the experiment and compared it to the results that would be obtained from bug-free soil. See all stories on this topic » Skymania News

IPFW group to get up close look at pandas in China WANE Frank Paladino, IPFW's Jack Schrey Distinguished Professor of Biology,is working to remotely track giant pandas that are being introduced from captivity into semi-wild reserves in Chengdu. This past January six pandas were released. See all stories on this topic »

Meet Thanatos: Real Life Superhero The Market Oracle Thanatos may be a psychological drive that is deeply rooted in humanbiology, but it is also influenced greatly by the socioeconomic and cultural environment in which that biology exists. The good news is that this unrestricted, exploitative market ... See all stories on this topic » The Market Oracle

Longer Looks: Diagnosing Autism In Minutes; Finding New Uses For Old Drugs Kaiser Health News ... computational biology initiative at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and associate professor of pathology at the school, combines computer algorithms along with a seven-point parent questionnaire and a home video clip ... See all stories on this topic »

A Season in Hell Boing Boing 9 Dr. Gershon, who chairs the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at New York–Presbyterian, is the author of The Second Brain, whose cover bears a tagline worthy of Ed Wood: “Your gut has a mind of its own.” (Might I suggest, for the revised edition ... See all stories on this topic » Boing Boing

Teacher Network newsletter: the secret of Finnish education plus teachers in tutus The Guardian (blog) We've had a selection of very useful resources for A-level biology students who are learning (or revising) about stem cells. Or for English teachers we have an alternative look at Robert Browning's My Last Duchess. Primary Medieval cures role play 80 ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian (blog)

FOX Carolina 21How to time travel with the family in Birmingham, England WHNS Greenville Working steam engines and nimble auto-assembling robots wowed the steampunk-loving adults, but Nina was more enthusiastic about the exhibits upstairs coveringbiology, recycling, and the future of robotics. Pulling Nina away from Thinktank's life-sized ... See all stories on this topic »

Century student athletes Pryor Daily Times After graduation, she plans to attend Oklahoma State University with a major in biology, then attend the University of Oklahoma Medical School and looks forward to becoming an anesthesiologist and starting a family. The assistant editor from the ... See all stories on this topic »

Researchers find new information on causes of autism Public Radio International PRI ... Wall, director of the computational biology initiative at Harvard Medical School, may have found a method to replace the evaluations currently used. It combines computer algorithms along with a seven-point parent questionnaire and a home video clip ... See all stories on this topic »

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