Science
 | ABC News - Canada pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change Monday, saying the accord won't help solve the climate crisis. It dealt a blow to the anti-global warming treaty, which has not been formally renounced by any other country. |
 | Times of India - Canada's environment minister Peter Kent who announced that Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto protocol on climate change. |
 | Mongabay.com - Humans have an ambivalent relationship with snakes. The legless reptiles are often feared and reviled, becoming stand-ins for the Devil and movie monster characters; yet many people have grown to love snakes, raising large, even dangerous, specimens as ... |
 | Voice of America - December 13, 2011 208 New Species Discovered in Southeast Asia VOA News An international conservation group says 208 previously unknown species of flora and fauna were discovered last year within the biologically-diverse ecosystems of Southeast Asia. |
 | Reuters India - Fabiola Gianotti (L), ATLAS experiment spokesperson, speaks next to Guido Tonelli (R), CMS experiment spokesperson, and Rolf Heuer, CERN Director General, during a news conference at the CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) in Meyrin, ... |
 | AFP - JERUSALEM - Israeli medical researchers say they have developed a new technique for blasting cancer tumours from the inside out which reduces the risk of the disease returning after treatment. |
 | Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - This is Allen and Rutan's second foray into space travel. The two launched the suborbital SpaceShipOne in 2004. “I have long dreamed about taking the next big step in private space flight after the success of SpaceShipOne - to offer a flexible, ... |
 | Huffington Post - The Geminid Meteor Shower peaks Tuesday night, so grab your jacket, hat and scarf, and get ready to look up. Like the Perseid, Draconid and Leonid meteor showers earlier this year, the light of a nearly-full moon threatens to wash out some of the ... |
 | msnbc.com - Media Lab postdoc Andreas Velten, left, and Associate Professor Ramesh Raskar with the experimental setup they used to produce slow-motion video of light scattering through a plastic bottle. |
 | Calgary Herald - CALGARY - The global carbon capture and storage industry is breathing a collective sigh of relief after a report released Monday vindicated the world's largest project operated by Cenovus ... |
 | Huffington Post - FOR RENT OR SALE: Large property, offering huge panoramic vistas, idyllic average temperature of 81 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. |
 | The Guardian - I write in regard to an article published on your website which carries a misleading headline which could suggest that donations made in support of relief and recovery efforts in the region affected by the great east Japan earthquake and tsunami have ... |
 | Straight.com - Mechanical engineer Tom Harris is the executive director of the Ottawa-based International Climate Science Coalition. He's also one of Canada's most visible deniers of the scientific consensus that human beings are ... |
 | Nature.com - Planets coalesce out of dust swirling around their parent stars - but where super-Earths form is unclear. By now, it's not surprising that NASA's Kepler space telescope is turning up extrasolar planets by the bushel. |
Technology
 | Caribbean Media Vision - Apple Iphone 5; “Historically the only time they've done this was for an iPhone release,” reads that email. “So we're looking at the last two weeks of September. |
 | New York Times (blog) - Google has uploaded scenes from the Japanese tsunami's aftermath to its Street View service, offering a unique if heart-wrenching virtual peek into the destruction along Japan's Pacific coast. |
 | Written by  in 800 Google+ circles Washington Post - The maker of an app that let users produce their own fake, novelty drivers licenses has fired back at Apple for removing the application from its app store. |
 | WorldCarFans.com - The rumor mill is back in action as a new report is indicating Toyota is developing a Supra successor. According to Motor Trend, the car will likely be launched in 2015 and feature a hybridized 3.5-liter V6 engine with more than 400 hp (298 kW / 406 ... |
 | Philippine Star - MANILA, Philippines - I mean, why settle for tapa, tocino or longganisa when you can have an authentic German banger with extra rice to start your day off? |
 | TechnoBuffalo - Not so long ago I could be found singing a sad song about the newfound trend towards enormous cell phone screens. “Why a 4.3-inch display? |
 | The National - AP WASHINGTON // As few as 12 different Chinese groups, largely backed or directed by the government there, do the bulk of the China-based cyber-attacks stealing critical data from US companies and government agencies, according to US cybersecurity ... |
 | aiCIO - From aiCIO Magazine's Winter 2011 Issue: What can Clay Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma tell us about Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs? |
 | UPI.com - TOKYO, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Japan says it successfully launched an intelligence satellite into orbit with the main mission of monitoring North Korean military facilities. |
 | MocoNews - Sunday was probably the last chance to grab a WebOS tablet for quite some time, and whatever limited supply HP (NYSE: HPQ) made available of its doomed TouchPad went quickly during a brief sale through HP's eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) Store. |
 | CNET - Oh no, they didn't! Looks like Android is getting served, and Microsoft is encouraging some serious playa-hatin' with the promise of a free phone. |
 | Economic Times - NEW DELHI: Indians got the first taste of voice controlled television when Microsoft upgraded its Xbox Live service a couple of days ago. |
 | Written by  in 4,618 Google+ circles PCWorld - Microsoft appears to be fully embracing iOS with a slew of new apps including SkyDrive, Xbox Live, OneNote for iPad, and even an iOS app version of Kinectimals, the popular Xbox 360 Kinect children's' game. |
 | Telegraph.co.uk - The original three-page document that established technology giant Apple has sold for $1.59m (£1.03m), smashing initial estimates of $150000 at a New York auction on Tuesday. |
 | InformationWeek - Deal would be among Apple's most costly acquisitions ever and could ensure a steady supply of an expensive component for its iPhones. |
 | Forbes - Day 12: At a time when tablets like the iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab and Kindle Fire all offer e-books, the standard Kindle still stands as the best option for those interested in heavy reading on an electronic device. |
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