Federal court rules against Texas voter photo ID law
Source: www.csmonitor.com - Thursday, August 30, 2012
Greg Abbott, Texas's attorney general, said he will appeal the ruling to the US Supreme Court, confident of prevailing there.
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Nature Comes Into Full View On Twitter
Source: www.npr.org - Thursday, August 09, 2012
by Barbara J King Brendan Hoffman / Getty Images The sun begins to rise over the Atlantic Ocean at Virginia Beach, VA, in August 2011. On Sunday, I went swimming in the Atlantic Ocean at Virginia Beach. As I swam along laterally, in the trough between two lines of waves, I daydreamed about how far those waves had traveled and which other animal species had encountered them along the way. That evening, tired in that good way that comes from hours in sun and sea, I lazily scrolled through my Twitter feed and found a blog post that expanded my wave-imaginings in fun ways. Oceanographer Kim Martini (@ rejectedbanana ) described internal waves, huge waves that flow in the ocean's depths. Just as the surface waves that break on the beach occur where air meets water, internal waves occur where layers of different seawater densities meet. This sort of thing happens frequently: I gain deeper appreciation for something in nature (including our varied human natures) because scientists share blog posts, articles or videos on Twitter. On vacation in New Jersey last month, we drove up the coast from Seaside Heights to Long Branch. About mid-way, we encountered some darkly magnificent storm clouds. The multiple lightning flashes were impressive, and we got to speculating about sky-to-ground versus ground-up lightning. Downward Positive Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Flash Triggers Upward Positive Leaders from Towers from ZT Research on Vimeo . On 
