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  • A working life: the geneticist

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    28 Jan 2012 | 12:09 am
    Joe Rainger might still have been a chef, but for a degree change that took him out of the kitchen and plunged him into a world of DNA research

  • Reinventing the Schoolhouse: Making High School Look More Fun Than It Really Is

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    27 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am
    Not that anyone in his or her right mind would want to repeat high school. Pretending that you could, however, might the innovative architecture of these structures make it a more compelling proposition?

  • Happy Australia Day: 14 Sexy Women From Down Under

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    27 Jan 2012 | 7:34 am
    Australia is a lot more than Foster's beer, shrimp on the barbie, "Crocodile Dundee," meat pies, kangaroos, the Sydney Opera House, Vegemite on toast and so on.

  • The 15 Most Frustrating Situations in Videogames

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    27 Jan 2012 | 10:38 am
    There is a new king in the land of broken controllers! After receiving almost 1.3 million votes, the most rage-inducing moment has finally been crowned. I’d like to thank the gaming community for the huge turnout, but in reality, it was probably just a couple guys voting a few hundred thousand times each. So this one’s for you, Paul and Mike. You guys really hit it out of the park.

  • Dutch to ban Muslim face veils next year

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    27 Jan 2012 | 4:14 pm
    Minority government set to prohibit niqabs and burqas and other forms of clothing that cover the face.
 
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  • Reinventing the Schoolhouse: Making High School Look More Fun Than It Really Is

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    27 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am
    Not that anyone in his or her right mind would want to repeat high school. Pretending that you could, however, might the innovative architecture of these structures make it a more compelling proposition?

  • China’s Residential Prices Need to Decline 30%, Lawmaker Says

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    27 Jan 2012 | 10:50 am
    China’s property prices need to decline 30 percent to reach a “reasonable” level, according to He Keng, a deputy director of the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress... Housing prices will be at a “reasonable” level when they are equivalent to about six years of salary for a family ... Home transactions will drop in China this year

  • How to Stay Motivated and Avoid Slacking Off While Working From Home

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    27 Jan 2012 | 1:21 pm
    If you have the opportunity to telecommute regularly, or even work from home every now and again, the temptation can be strong to just put your feet up and forget about work unless you have to check in occasionally and clear out your inbox or dial in to a meeting. Occasional slacking is fine, but there's no faster way to get your remote work privileges revoked than to keep that up.

  • 5 Famous Late Bloomers

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    27 Jan 2012 | 3:41 am
    If you haven't found your calling by, say, age 30, it's pretty much hopeless, right? If you were going to make it, you'd have made it by now. Well ... maybe not.

  • Temple for the Godless: Atheist Erection Underway in UK

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    27 Jan 2012 | 2:36 pm
    This looks like a tower in which you'd imprison a princess for 100 years, but it's supposed to be a temple to atheism--or more precisely, a temple to science and nature. These developments may seem quite odd, especially considering non-believers’ sometimes intense rhetoric against faith and religion. But now — there’s another more bizarre project in the works, as a new “atheist temple” is being planned in London, England.
 
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  • The 15 Most Frustrating Situations in Videogames

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    27 Jan 2012 | 10:38 am
    There is a new king in the land of broken controllers! After receiving almost 1.3 million votes, the most rage-inducing moment has finally been crowned. I’d like to thank the gaming community for the huge turnout, but in reality, it was probably just a couple guys voting a few hundred thousand times each. So this one’s for you, Paul and Mike. You guys really hit it out of the park.

  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

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    27 Jan 2012 | 2:50 pm
    This week the IGN UK Podcast crew separate fact from fiction and tackle the rumours of Xbox 720, God of War and Syphon Filter 4, and Microsoft phasing out points. Join Alex, Chris, Keza, Stu and Tom for your weekly edification.

  • Retrospective: Why Final Fantasy IV Remains a Masterpiece After All These Years

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    27 Jan 2012 | 11:04 am
    While time has dulled its innovations, the first 16-bit Final Fantasy made its mark in big ways.

  • New 2D Mario Coming to 3DS

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    27 Jan 2012 | 10:03 am
    Buried in its latest fiscal report, Nintendo revealed it plans to bring Mario back to the 3DS within its next fiscal year - this time in 2D.

  • Video Game Hardware sales figures for 2011 revealed - 360 and PS3 both sell 11 million

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    27 Jan 2012 | 6:31 am
    In an interesting twist, it looks like the 360 has clawed back the lead built up by the PS3 due to the holidays in the US. Both the consoles sell 11 million each.
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  • Dutch to ban Muslim face veils next year

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    27 Jan 2012 | 4:14 pm
    Minority government set to prohibit niqabs and burqas and other forms of clothing that cover the face.

  • Five Surprising Foods That Boost Immunity

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    27 Jan 2012 | 8:24 am
    You’ve probably heard that orange juice and chicken soup can help kick a cold or combat the flu, but there are less obvious (and more appetizing) mealtime choices that help an ailing immune system.

  • AAA Puts Spare Tires On The Endangered List Thanks To Fuel Economy Rules

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    27 Jan 2012 | 2:11 pm
    No one likes changing a flat tire. In fact, just storing the spare can be a problem: if it's inside the vehicle, it can take up valuable cargo space, and if it's kept outside, it may prevent you from using bike racks or other accessories. But AAA says that thanks to new fuel economy regulations, we may not have to worry about either of those things much longer...

  • Can Your Pizza Delivery Guy Do This?

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    27 Jan 2012 | 1:31 pm
    When I think of self portrait photos, duck lips and kissy-faces taken at an arms length for a Facebook profile pic usually come to mind. How refreshing it was to see Kyle Thompson’s unique, dreamlike collection of auto-photography that is unlike most of the self-taken photos out there.

  • Sex by Numbers: It’s Only Natural Edition

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    27 Jan 2012 | 10:09 am
    Nobody’s drinking, nobody’s going out, and it’s probably raining. Wouldn’t it make you feel better to read a string of sex-related facts?
 
 
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  • Ball boy earns huge ovation at Australian Open

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    27 Jan 2012 | 1:52 pm
    Tennis fans at the Australian Open were treated to a thrilling spectacle when Rafael Nadal beat Roger Federer in a pulsating semi-final on Thursday. But one of the biggest cheers of the night was reserved for the ball boy, who … Continue reading →

  • Super Bowl 2012 - Breaking down Tom Brady and Eli Manning

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    27 Jan 2012 | 2:25 pm
    Prior to the 2011 NFL regular season, Eli Manning claimed that he was in that elite category with Tom Brady as a professional quarterback. While many snickered and poked fun at Manning, who's Super Bowl victory is often credited more to his defense and David Tyree despite him winning the MVP, I initially felt it was a fair statement.

  • Mark Thompson to step down as BBC boss after Olympics

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    26 Jan 2012 | 2:14 pm
    Director general will quit at the end of 2012 or early in 2013 after eight years in charge of public broadcaster.

  • 10 Must-Haves For Your Super Bowl Party

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    25 Jan 2012 | 11:03 am
    Even if this year’s Super Bowl matchup isn’t as exciting to you as Super Bowls in year’s past, there is still something to look forward to–the party. Here are 10 things that every party must have to be totally and completely amazing.

  • Mark Cuban Wants NBA Players Banned from Olympics

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    25 Jan 2012 | 2:16 pm
    Mark Cuban has renewed his lobby of David Stern to ban NBA players from participating in the Olympics. He obviously is putting financial interest over national pride.
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  • How a Rwandan Hospital Became the Symbol of Public-Interest Design

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    27 Jan 2012 | 8:47 am
    A team of students proved that public interest design can and should be culturally appropriate, location-specific, and built for the long haul. Almost exactly a year ago, a world-class hospital opened its doors in rural Rwanda, bringing health care to a district of 400,000 people who had never had access to doctors and nurses.

  • Cuba Oil Project Drilling to Start [VIDEO]

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    27 Jan 2012 | 6:43 am
    Cuba is to begin exploratory drilling in search of oil - this weekend a rig will begin drilling for oil just 100 kilometres from Florida.

  • If required by law, Twitter says now ready to censor

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    26 Jan 2012 | 4:50 pm
    New technical ability affords Twitter ability to react on country-by-country basis when required by local laws

  • Opponents protest signing of ACTA without adequate debate

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    27 Jan 2012 | 1:29 pm
    Almost two dozen European nations signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on Thursday, leading to protests. In the US, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) called ACTA "more dangerous than SOPA."

  • Samsung's second German 3G patent lawsuit against Apple dismissed

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    27 Jan 2012 | 8:30 am
    Samsung suffered another reversal in its patent battle with Apple Friday morning, as the Mannheim Regional Court in Germany dismissed the Korean company's second patent complaint related to 3G/UMTS technology. Last week, the same court rejected another similar Samsung complaint about 3G tech.
 
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  • Apple doesn’t care about workers?

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    27 Jan 2012 | 8:21 am
    On the heels of a record quarterly profit, Apple was slammed in the press yesterday by a lengthy New York Times article highlighting the poor working conditions in the Chinese factories that make Apple products.

  • Apple CEO Calls NYT Report on Worker Conditions "Patently False and Offensive"

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    27 Jan 2012 | 7:58 pm
    A couple of recent articles in The New York Times painted a less than rosy picture of Apple and its role in allegedly urging its suppliers in China to take shortcuts despite concerns to worker safety. It's a hot topic considering the multiple reports of poor working conditions at Foxconn, a top supplier of Apple's iDevices along with many...

  • For Apple, best numbers yet, mixed press on how it got there

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    28 Jan 2012 | 6:23 am
    We talk record breaking earnings, and reports of trouble in Apple's supply chain that made that possible in this week's edition of Apple Talk Weekly. Read this blog post by Josh Lowensohn on Apple Talk.

  • ICS Theme Go Launcher Ex V1.0 (1.0) Android Apk ~ Mobile Million

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    28 Jan 2012 | 6:01 am
    ICS Theme Go Launcher Ex v1.0 (1.0) Android Apk: ICS Theme Go Launcher Ex 1.0 For Android 2.0+ Devices. Summary: This is the most beautiful Ice Cream Sandwich theme in the store! Instructions on how to install theme: 1. Download and install this theme. 2. Download Go Launcher EX from the market (search Go Launcher or Go Launcher EX) 3. After downloading Go Launcher EX press the “home” button on your phone and select “Go Launcher” 4. Press menu on your phone then select “Preferences” 5. Select “Themes Preferences” 6. Select “ICS Theme”

  • Escape Room: Strange House V1.1 (1.1) Android Apk Game ~ Mobile Million

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    28 Jan 2012 | 5:58 am
    Escape room: Strange House 1.1 For Android 2.3+ Devices. Summary: The hero has infiltrated the house of the most eccentric man in the city. As the rumors implied, the rooms were filled with odd objects. Creepy antiques, eerie paintings… This wasn’t a place to linger around for too long. The hero has infiltrated the house of the most eccentric man in the city. As the rumors implied, the rooms were filled with odd objects. Creepy antiques, eerie paintings… This wasn’t a place to linger around for too long. The hero turned on his heels and reached out for the door. But the door had alr
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  • China’s Residential Prices Need to Decline 30%, Lawmaker Says

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    27 Jan 2012 | 10:50 am
    China’s property prices need to decline 30 percent to reach a “reasonable” level, according to He Keng, a deputy director of the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress... Housing prices will be at a “reasonable” level when they are equivalent to about six years of salary for a family ... Home transactions will drop in China this year

  • Apple doesn’t care about workers?

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    27 Jan 2012 | 8:21 am
    On the heels of a record quarterly profit, Apple was slammed in the press yesterday by a lengthy New York Times article highlighting the poor working conditions in the Chinese factories that make Apple products.

  • Subpoenas issued to financial firms in expanded probe

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    28 Jan 2012 | 5:44 am
    "The Justice Department issued civil subpoenas to 11 financial institutions as part of a new effort to investigate misconduct in the packaging and sale of home loans to investors, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday. Holder declined to provide specifics, including the names of the firms."

  • Symantec may have identified a botnet string of Android apps

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    27 Jan 2012 | 10:17 pm
    Symantec claims to have found a string of "malicious" applications in the Android app store that resemble botnets. According to a blog post by the company, these applications are pushing out a t...

  • SEO Outsourcing India Provide You With Services

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    28 Jan 2012 | 5:02 am
    SEO Outsourcing India provide you with services of Google SEO experts who make sure that the strategies applied to your website are ones that help it in a positive manner.
 
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  • How the Recession Changed the Reasons Students Go to College

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    27 Jan 2012 | 8:38 am
    Students increasingly go to college as a path toward better jobs, not to pursue particular interests. Researchers found that 85.9 percent of freshmen said they're in college "to be able to get a better job."

  • China: The gates are open

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    27 Jan 2012 | 12:09 pm
    There is a wealth of fellowships and postdoctoral openings in China for foreign researchers who aren't afraid of culture shock. Jacob Wickham knew just a few words of Chinese and still struggled to use chopsticks when he first set foot in Qingtongxia, a remote village in western China. In 2008, Wickham, then a PhD student studying insect biology at the State University of New York in Syracuse, had a fellowship from the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI), part of the US National Science Foundation (NSF).

  • Managing an Organized Freelance Work Schedule

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    27 Jan 2012 | 9:52 am
    It takes a lot of time and dedication to build a freelance career. The hours are long, work can be tedious, and often you need to multitask like crazy. But the freedom of release from a regular work schedule can be fantastic.

  • How Poor Performance in College Sets Students Up for a Lifetime of Difficulty

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    26 Jan 2012 | 8:47 am
    College students not used to being asked to study are struggling in the real world. Last year, a controversial academic report-turned book touched off a debate over whether college is worth the money.

  • What the Top 1% of Earners Majored In

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    25 Jan 2012 | 11:01 am
    The majors providing the best entree into the top income rank are pre-med, economics, biochemistry, zoology and biology.
 
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  • 7 Big Privacy Concerns for New Facebook and the Open Graph

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    27 Jan 2012 | 9:37 pm
    It’s not always clear how Facebook apps interact with the data you share. Here are some things to check before connecting your accounts.

  • BREAKING: Facebook to File for IPO Next Week [REPORT]

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    27 Jan 2012 | 12:50 pm
    The long-awaited tech IPO of the year -- perhaps of the decade -- is on. Facebook will file its paperwork for an Initial Public Offering on Wednesday, acco

  • Angry Facebook sues firm for alleged 'likejacking' scam

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    28 Jan 2012 | 6:27 am
    Facebook’s zero tolerance policy against those it believes are abusing its network has seen it file a lawsuit against a company it accuses of using a ‘clickjacking’ scam to trick users into divulging personal information.

  • Facebook Could be the Biggest Tech IPO in History

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    27 Jan 2012 | 4:49 pm
    People familiar with the matter say that Facebook could file for its initial public offering as soon as next week, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal. The source also says that Facebook is close to picking Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter. The filing could happen next Wednesday, and the company is aiming for a $75-$100 billion valuation. It is looking to raise $10 billion in stock. Facebook started in 2004 as a college-only social network. It opened to the public in September 2006, dropping the minimum age requirement from 18-years-old to 13-years-old. In little over…

  • Love, Life and etc....: Few people to thanks for this blog

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    28 Jan 2012 | 4:44 am
    As one post of my blog came on the first page of the Google search, I think it time to say proper thanks speech for making this blog readable.
 
 
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    Top news for Digg Occupy Wall Street Protests Newsroom

  • Subpoenas issued to financial firms in expanded probe

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    28 Jan 2012 | 5:44 am
    "The Justice Department issued civil subpoenas to 11 financial institutions as part of a new effort to investigate misconduct in the packaging and sale of home loans to investors, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday. Holder declined to provide specifics, including the names of the firms."

  • Occupy Wall Street mentor Adbusters issues latest tactical briefing. Chicago. May. Occupy.

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    28 Jan 2012 | 5:51 am
    "Vancouver’s Adbusters Magazine sent the initial callouts to occupy Wall Street, to be the natural successor to unfinished revolutions in Tahrir Square and Madrid. Quickly enough it escaped their grasp. Adusters has issued two dozen “Tactical Briefings” since before September 17 to advise the growing rebellion, to be interpreted coming from a valued mentor, albeit an outsider, technically now, a non-occupier. The distinction was never more obvious than when one of their briefings advised striking the camps and waiting out the winter. But their briefing #25 offers more than retreat, it…

  • Occupy Movie

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    27 Jan 2012 | 9:28 pm
    This inspiring documentary highlights the unified voices of Occupy movement participants.

  • The Truth About Police Misconduct at Occupy Wall Street West

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    27 Jan 2012 | 2:36 pm
    Brian: What were law enforcement in the area doing before they encircled and arrested you? Sonya: They were putting riot gear on and getting there belly clubs out. The officer that That threw me was walking bank executives from a location across the street to the entrance of the Wells Fargo building. Protesters were only marching in that location and not confronting any employees. The police then formed 3 troupes that locked the area down and one large group with a set of police on motorcycles that went into the street forcing themselves against protesters that were just chanting the 99% me

  • Occupy protest seizes UC Davis building, blocks bank - sacbee.com

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    27 Jan 2012 | 5:03 pm
    Taking advantage of some extra patience on the part of administrators who came under heavy criticism for the pepper-spraying of demonstrators in November, student protesters on the UC Davis campus have seized control of a vacant campus building and are sporadically blocking access to an on-campus bank.
 
 
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  • Temple for the Godless: Atheist Erection Underway in UK

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    27 Jan 2012 | 2:36 pm
    This looks like a tower in which you'd imprison a princess for 100 years, but it's supposed to be a temple to atheism--or more precisely, a temple to science and nature. These developments may seem quite odd, especially considering non-believers’ sometimes intense rhetoric against faith and religion. But now — there’s another more bizarre project in the works, as a new “atheist temple” is being planned in London, England.

  • YOU GAZE

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    28 Jan 2012 | 6:04 am
    We tend to gaze at others in our Christian circle and see how they conduct themselves and how spiritual they are. We also measure ourselves against them and believe things about them that places th...

  • Interactive: Is God Hearing Your Climate Change Prayers?

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    28 Jan 2012 | 3:32 am
    Five faith leaders in America's most religiously diverse neighborhood face the challenge of climate change.

  • Baby Monitor Hauntings

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    28 Jan 2012 | 2:55 am
    Baby monitors are often depicted as portals to the other worldly. In films such as Insidious, they pick up the voices of the ghosts haunting their house. In movies like Signs, they pick up Alien voices as the aliens plan an invasion. Baby monitors are natural receivers and many believe they pick up more than the sweet voices of the babies they are designed to monitor.

  • January 27, 2012 ~ Egypt Revolution Anniversary | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

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    28 Jan 2012 | 4:39 am
    Egypt’s recent parliamentary elections have raised concerns about the imposition of an Islamist agenda by Islamist groups and parties, but Middle East expert Kate Seelye says “the hope is that once in office they will move more to the center and that won’t be the case.”
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  • Has the 'Era of Easy Oil' Ended?

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    27 Jan 2012 | 2:56 pm
    A new analysis concludes that easily extracted oil peaked in 2005, suggesting that dirtier fossil fuels will be burned and energy prices will rise.

  • A breathtaking aurora from Earth’s largest geomagnetic storm in almost 10 years

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    28 Jan 2012 | 4:51 am
    A powerful geomagnetic storm creates extreme auroras in the skies above Abisko National Park in Sweden. This video was shot in three hours by Lights Over Lapland photographer Chad Blakley

  • Sperm Can Be Stored In Females' Bodies For Years, Study Shows

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    28 Jan 2012 | 6:22 am
    Sometimes babies come along at inopportune times - after sex, the human body can only delay fertilization for 3 to 5 days. But what if each woman had her own personal sperm bank?

  • Jumping Spider Uses Fuzzy Eyesight to Judge Distance

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    27 Jan 2012 | 8:32 am
    One of the ways in which humans determine distance is by estimating the sharpness of an image—closer objects produce a sharp image, while those further away are out of focus. For us, this is a minor additional method of judging distance, but now scientists in Japan have for the first time found an animal that appears to use this method as its primary means of depth perception.

  • A working life: the geneticist

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    28 Jan 2012 | 12:09 am
    Joe Rainger might still have been a chef, but for a degree change that took him out of the kitchen and plunged him into a world of DNA research
 
 
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  • What You Should Know About ACTA and Your Rights

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    27 Jan 2012 | 3:42 pm
    President Obama signed this treaty on October 1, 2011, effectively ratifying it on behalf of the United States!

  • Does Apple Help iPhone Thieves?

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    27 Jan 2012 | 4:30 pm
    The theft of smartphones is rising and thieves have been turning in stolen iPhones for replacements. If the warranty is still good, the support centers just swap out the iPhone with no questions asked. This is making it easy for thieves to “launder” the stolen iPhone.

  • SOPA and PIPA are on the wrong side of history

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    27 Jan 2012 | 10:35 pm
    Author Neil Gaiman said in an interview this week that the media industry is trying to "put genies back in bottles" with laws like SOPA and PIPA, and the Internet has fundamentally changed the landscape, just as Gutenberg's invention of the printing press did.

  • 7 Big Privacy Concerns for New Facebook and the Open Graph

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    27 Jan 2012 | 9:37 pm
    It’s not always clear how Facebook apps interact with the data you share. Here are some things to check before connecting your accounts.

  • Facebook Could be the Biggest Tech IPO in History

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    27 Jan 2012 | 4:49 pm
    People familiar with the matter say that Facebook could file for its initial public offering as soon as next week, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal. The source also says that Facebook is close to picking Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter. The filing could happen next Wednesday, and the company is aiming for a $75-$100 billion valuation. It is looking to raise $10 billion in stock. Facebook started in 2004 as a college-only social network. It opened to the public in September 2006, dropping the minimum age requirement from 18-years-old to 13-years-old. In little over…
 
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