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Pirating Science

from economist.com
As he follows the trail blazed by our first ancestors (see "Out of Africa," Jan. 2013), journalist Paul Salopek is uncovering local stories with worldwide repercussions, like this one about an unexpected side effect of Somali piracy ~ blocked from access to certain areas, anthropologists and other scientists are unable to proceed with their work and are forced to rely on old data: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130425-pirates-somalia-indian-ocean-seafloor-drilling-climate-change-science/

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