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Teeny, Tiny, Adorable Orphaned Fruit Bat Learns To Fly

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This adorable video shows a teeny, tiny orphaned fruit bat learning to eat solid food and then learning to fly. He is just so cute and very fun to watch while he eats being held so gently by people who really care. Bat World Sanctuary looks like they're doing awesome work!

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Eating Human Fetuses A Big No! No! In Oklahoma

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Just when you were thinking human fetuses would be great ingredient in your favorite foods, the Republicans ruin your day. This utter nonsense is going on in Oklahoma where State Senator Ralph Shortey got some hair-brained idea(without any actual proof) that human fetuses may have been used for some food research. So, now human fetuses for food will be banned if the bill passes. Who comes up with this nonsense? Oh right, that's the Republicans, banning practices that don't even exist. Lets all think up some stupid yucky ideas that are never done and then ban them.

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Tree Music

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Trees are of course essential to our planet's health. They are beautiful and do clean our air but now they make music as well. A German artist Bartholomäus Traubeck built a record player capable of reading tree rings like vinyl records. The music is beautiful and sounds like it would fit right in on a walk through a forest.

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BP Fires Employee For Cleaning Up Oil

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A BP employee who was part of the clean-up of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill is suing after being fired. August Walter noticed that BP was not staying on track with the clean-up and when they wanted him to overlook statistics that showed more work done than really was he had to speak up. BP rewarded Mr. Walter by firing him and that doesn't make him happy at all. I guess it doesn't really come as a surprise that BP walks all over their employees, they already walk all over the environment.

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Egg-Laying Hens Will Get To Be More Comfortable

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The egg producing industry gets a lot of negative attention which for the most part is justly deserved. So many hens live in tiny spaces in disgusting conditions. The United Egg Producers and the Humane Society of the United States are planning to change that with legislation which would give hens more room to get comfortable. More needs to be done to improve egg-laying hens conditions but this is great step in the right direction.

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Fukushima Still Unfolding for Families in Japan

With U.S. corporate and public media seeming to fixate on establishing that the Fukushima disaster is "not all that bad," what has been missing from the discussion so far is the human toll of this disaster on the Japanese people. The nation of Japan now faces uncertainty as their food, water and even land shows signs of widespread radioactive contamination. In a tiny country with a large population, tens of thousands of people are now displaced and homeless after being led in a frantic mass exodus from their communities and now must find new lives and shelter with friends, family and the state. Studies are now emerging showing possible global links to the radiation emitted from the plant. And there is still the matter of the reactors, which TEPCO officials say is nearly cooled enough to begin containment, but will have to be disassembled or buried to seal off contamination, a project that could take years.  It is unclear what the future holds for the people of Japan and the world for that matter, but what is clear is that this story is far from over.