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Mega Engineering: Floating New Orleans | Discovery | video

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Rebuilding New Orleans as a City At Sea may be its best protection from future disasters.

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New Orleans prepares for a southern bio-boom | WWL - AM870


A delegation from New Orleans is in Atlanta today as part of an effort to lay the groundwork for the expected future boom in the biotechnology industry in southern cities. The scientists, researchers and economic development leaders are attending the 2009 Bio International Convention.
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Scientists boycott Louisiana because of law

The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology contends that education is the only way for science to thrive. Recently, the Society boycotted Louisiana, which has a law that the Society says is detrimental to important scientific education in that state. The law in question is SB 561. It was signed by Gov. Bobby Jindal and is titled the "Louisiana Academic Freedom Act." 
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The Return of the Pink Dolphin

Image: Eric Rue, Calcasieu Charter Service.

A rare pink Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, has resurfaced two years after it had first been seen in Lake Calcasieu, an inland saltwater estuary, north of the Gulf of Mexico in southwestern Louisiana.

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Freedom Reigns In Louisiana Classrooms

The Louisiana Science Education Act allows objective discussion in public school classrooms on subjects such as evolution, global warming, and human cloning. The “Science Education Act” is the latest measure in a series of “Academic Freedom” bills that have swept across Louisiana, Missouri, Alabama, and Michigan. READ STORY

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