You see, leaders of the Christian Science movement realized that if they continue to resist vaccines, their very religion is at stake.

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But one genome pioneer is taking the opposite approach: imitating the open-source movement of computer science, which argues that technology works best when it is given away for free so that everyone can collaborate on it.

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This was a counter-movement by the group Sense About Science.

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The Indiana study attempted to farm 9.7 million tweets posted over ten months in 2008 by 2.7 million twitter users, measured them using the GPOMS and a few other computer science methods, and checked the closing movement of the Dow Jones industrial average for each day.

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One implementation of this strategy is referred to as the lean startup movement, and its methodology has become what many call a science of entrepreneurship.

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Scientists remain unsure as to why glaciers speed up their movement in the summer months and it is hoped that the rubber ducks -- labeled with the words "science experiment" and "reward" in three languages, along with an email address -- will shed some light on the phenomenon.

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The real cutting edge in climate science was publicly exposed recently in a book by one of the long time leaders of the German environmental movement, Fritz Vahrenholt, in his new book, The Cold Sun.

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