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Blog Assignment #6

USH: Pick the invention that you feel is the best invention made by a US citizen of all time. Talk about the story of the invention and the impact it has had on our country/world.

CWI: Pick a European country and blog about it. Try to hit interesti

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dog plays acordian without using paws!!

how can an animal play an instrument that he cant even hold?

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A double amputee solider keeps fighting

nothing can stop this double amputee soldier from anything!!

get the story here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100925/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_amputee_soldier

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10 Replies · Reply by 5 Broghan Oct 2, 2010

A war's survior chance at reunion!

A survivor of the Holocost is able to reunite with a family that helped her years and years ago..

get the story here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100924/us_yblog_upshot/after-62-years-holocaust-survivor-reunites-with-lost-friend-whose-passp

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14 Replies · Reply by 8jena Oct 4, 2010

20 Ways the World Could End-#3

Collapse of the Vacuum

In the book Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut popularized the idea of "ice-nine," a form of water that is far more stable than the ordinary kind, so it is solid at room temperature. Or ice. Unleash a bit of it, it merges with the all

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11 Replies · Reply by 3Dejanira Sep 27, 2010

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Rogue Black Holes

Our galaxy is full of black holes, collapsed stellar corpses just a dozen miles wide. How full? Tough question. After all, they're called black holes for a reason. You can't see them until they're swallowing up the stars around them

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15 Replies · Reply by JB N ME 2GETHER 4EVER Oct 5, 2010

20 Ways the World Could End-#5

Solar Flares

Solar Flares-more scientifically known as coronal mass ejections—are enormous magnetic outbursts on the sun that bombard Earth with a torrent of high-speed subatomic particles. Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field negate the potentially

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3 Replies · Reply by 4jordanG Oct 3, 2010

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Magnetic Field Reversal

Every few hundred thousand years Earth's magnetic field dwindles almost to nothing for perhaps a century, then gradually reappears with the north and south poles flipped. The last such reversal was 780,000 years ago, so we may

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4 Replies · Reply by 4jordanG Oct 3, 2010

20 Ways the World Could End-#7

The Super Volcano

In 1783, the Laki volcano in Iceland erupted, spitting out three cubic miles of lava. Floods, ash, and fumes wiped out 9,000 people and 80 percent of the livestock. The ensuing starvation killed a quarter of Iceland's population. At

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3 Replies · Reply by 2 leah Sep 28, 2010

20 Ways the World Could End-#8

Disease

If Earth doesn't do us in, our fellow organisms might be up to the task.

Germs and people have always coexisted, but occasionally the balance gets out of whack. The Black Plague killed one European in four during the 14th century; influenza to

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3 Replies · Reply by 3chelsea Oct 4, 2010

20 Ways the World Could End-#9

Global Warming

Yeah, we've all heard it before. We all know it, but here's a little more scientific gloom and doom on it.

The Earth is getting warmer, and scientists mostly agree that humans bear some blame. It's easy to see how global warming could f

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1 Reply · Reply by JB N ME 2GETHER 4EVER Sep 28, 2010

20 Ways the World Could End-#10

Ecosystem collapse

Images of slaughtered elephants and burning rain forests capture people's attention, but the big problem—the overall loss of biodiversity—is not as obvious but highly dangerous.

Billions of years of evolution have produced a world i

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5 Replies · Reply by 5 Broghan Oct 2, 2010

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Biotech disaster

While we are extinguishing natural species, we're also creating new ones through genetic engineering.

Genetically modified crops can be hardier, tastier, and more nutritious. Engineered microbes might ease our health problems. And ge

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1 Reply · Reply by JB N ME 2GETHER 4EVER Sep 28, 2010

20 Ways the World Could End-#12

Particle accelerator mishap

Theodore Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, raved that a particle accelerator experiment could set off a chain reaction that would destroy the world.

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Surprisingly, many sober-minded physicists have had the same

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1 Reply · Reply by JB N ME 2GETHER 4EVER Sep 28, 2010

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Nanotechnology disaster

Before you've even gotten the keyboard dirty, your home computer is obsolete. Mostly because of incredibly rapid progress in miniaturizing circuits on silicon chips.

Like Mr. Bruns "Shift Happens". Even our own intelligence i

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1 Reply · Reply by JB N ME 2GETHER 4EVER Sep 28, 2010

20 Ways the World Could End-#14

Environmental toxins

From Donora, Pennsylvania, to Bhopal, India, modern history abounds with frightening examples of the dangers of industrial pollutants.

But the poisoning continues.

In major cities around the world, the air is thick with diesel p

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1 Reply · Reply by JB N ME 2GETHER 4EVER Sep 28, 2010

20 Ways the World Could End-#15

Global war

Whoo-hoo! If the world and bacteria can't kill us, lets just do it ourselves!

Together, the United States and Russia still have almost 19,000 active nuclear warheads. Nuclear war seems unlikely today, but a dozen years ago the demise of

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4 Replies · Reply by 3 Josh Oct 6, 2010

20 Ways the World Could End-#16

Robots take over

People create smart robots, which turn against us and take over the world. Yawn. We've seen this in movies, TV, and comic books for decades. After all these years, look around and still—no smart robots.

Yet Hans Moravec, one of the f

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1 Reply · Reply by JB N ME 2GETHER 4EVER Sep 28, 2010

20 Ways the World Could End-#18

Alien invasion

Okay, I admit. This one is pretty out their and I personally rank it near zombies in terms of likelyhood.

At the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, a cadre of dedicated scientists sifts through radio static in search of a tel

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1 Reply · Reply by JB N ME 2GETHER 4EVER Sep 28, 2010

20 Ways the World Could End-#17

Mass insanity

While physical health has improved in most parts of the world over the past century, mental health is getting worse.

The World Health Organization estimates that 500 million people around the world suffer from a psychological disorder.

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