https://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/3d-printed-artificial-reefs-bring-back-sea-life-persian-gulf.html

see, this is the kind of thing that could be used in conjunction with indoor growing tactics to maximize yield while minimizing environmental impact.
http://phys.org/news/2013-12-genetic-discovery-bigger-yields-tomato.html

even the early brain signals don't make a lot of sense: what are they reacting to? clearly, our brains don't just make things up, that's preposterous. the only way to make sense of it is to bring in an independent entity, like a parasite, that is in control.
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110831/full/477023a.html

http://phys.org/news/2013-12-apple-court-samsung-tablets.html
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/12/solar-variability-has-a-small-effect-on-climate-change/

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/syrian-rebels-have-taken-iconoclasm-to-new-depths-with-shrines-statues-and-even-a-tree-destroyed--but-to-what-end-9021017.html

http://phys.org/news/2013-12-solar-key-climate.html
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/12/thorium-put-to-use-kills-a-few-more-versions-of-supersymmetry/
http://phys.org/news/2013-12-carbon-dioxide-picture-global.html
https://phys.org/news/2013-12-scientists-closer-rna.html
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/21/amaz-d21.html
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/12/20/why_obamas_hints_at_intel_reform_are_mostly_window_dressing
http://fpif.org/u-s-determined-re-freeze-thaw-relations-iran/
http://fpif.org/bluster-blowback-beirut/
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/23/pers-d23.html
http://libcom.org/blog/protesters-clash-police-rote-flora-social-centre-eviction-hamburg-22122013
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11237
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20604-detroits-dan-gilbert-henry-ford-or-henry-potter
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11225
http://libcom.org/gallery/1932-ford-hunger-march-massacre
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/12/19/the_political_science_of_syria_s_war
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/23/the-last-chance-for-peace-in-syria/
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/20803-inequality-government-is-a-perp-not-a-bystander
http://intercontinentalcry.org/guatemalas-high-court-affirms-right-of-consent-for-indigenous-and-rural-communities-21455/
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/10/bushs_shrinking_world_george_w_bush
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/23/suda-d23.html
http://phys.org/news307038787.html