Martin Laine
Digital Journalist based in Lunenburg, MA, United States.
Joined on Nov 11, 2009
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Finnish game developer Rovio – creators of the wildly successful Angry Birds - has acquired the rights to the game “Casey’s Contraptions” with plans to launch a re-worked version under a different title this summer.
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Swedish and UK conservationists are squaring off over a plan to reintroduce an extinct species of bumblebee into England using queen bees from Sweden.
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Imagine waking up first thing in the morning, looking out your window and seeing an open coffin complete with a body, out in the street below you.
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Sweden’s furniture giant Ikea is expanding its reach still farther with a line of home electronics built into their furniture. A home entertainment system will go on sale in five countries this summer, then extended to the rest of the world next year.
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A team of Swedish researchers say they have developed a blood test to determine if a child has autism. Their findings come as the number of children affected is rising, and experts struggle to understand the causes and determine a course of treatment.
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In a case closely followed by nuclear power advocates and opponents, a federal judge has ruled in favor of the nuclear industry, over-ruling the Vermont legislature’s attempt to shut a troubled nuclear power plant because of safety concerns.
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It was bad enough when officials learned that a man with fake credentials posed as a doctor for a decade before being discovered. They now fear it is only the tip of a very disturbing iceberg that may include more bogus doctors as well as nurses.
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The Vermont moose that attained celebrity status after he was orphaned and then spared from being euthanized by a gubernatorial pardon, has died.
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Italian traveller Salvatore Qvero was on his way to Boston from Austria last month when his flight made a stopover in Iceland. He got off the plane easily enough, but when it was time to get back on, he wasn't allowed to board.
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A Swedish court this week rejected automaker Saab’s request for protection from creditors, and the company has not yet been able to meet its August payroll, but a glimmer of hope comes from a Chinese carmaker thinking about investing in the iconic brand
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An elk who’d already had a bellyful of fermented apples apparently went to reach for just one more when he got tangled up in the branches and couldn’t get down.
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Routine tests on fish taken from the Connecticut River near the Vt. Yankee nuclear plant are showing the presence of Strontium-90, a powerful radioactive isotope.
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The scientist who sounded the alarm over the threat to polar bears from the melting polar ice cap is being investigated by the Inspector General’s office, though no reason has been given, and the scientist has been ordered not to talk about it.
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DNA tests on a mountain lion struck and killed on a Connecticut highway last month show it originally came from South Dakota. Somehow, over the past two years, it made its way through Wisconsin and Minnesota all the way to Milford, Ct., about 1,500 miles.
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A restaurant owner in Gothenburg takes the old adage “waste not, want not” to new heights. He throws out customers who don’t finish the food on their plates and tells them not to come back.
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A rupture at a BP pipeline closed for maintenance spilled 4200 gallons of a mixture of methanol and oily water onto the Alaskan tundra over the weekend.
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A federal judge in Vermont yesterday refused to grant an injunction that would have allowed the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant to operate beyond its scheduled closing date of March 2012.
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Dogs have been trained to sniff out everything from bedbugs to bombs, but a sperm-sniffing dog that helped catch a rapist in Sweden could be a first.
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After two days of hearings on the appeal of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to Sweden, judges of the UK’s High Court have not yet indicated when they will render their decision.
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The Danish pharmaceutical firm H. Lundbeck A/S has announced it will no longer provide U.S. prisons with a drug used in lethal injection executions.
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