This is excellent. It's one thing when Vancouver has a carfree day but when it happens in NYC it's a little different. "NEW YORK - In Paris, they call it La Plage, or the beach. And in Bogota, Colombia,...
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"At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new $214 million infectious disease laboratory in Atlanta, scientists are conducting experiments on bioterror bacteria in a room with a containment door sealed with duct tape."
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Sunscreen use is highly recommended by doctors and dermatologists to help prevent melanoma and other skin cancers and diseases. However, once you dive into the water and it starts to come off, where does all that...
Starlings can tell if you are watching them, according to a study thathas shown for the first time that starlings respond to a human's gaze."Starlings will keep away from their food dish if a human is looking at it....
Finding a plastic wrap that really works, sealing properly or even better tight, easy to cut to size all that without shriveling can be challenging.Tiffany Martini (Chow) tries to get an answer How Does Plastic Wrap Clings by putting the nagging question to Clair Hicks,...
"BT has admitted that it secretly used customer data to test Phorm's advertising targeting technology last summer, and that it covered it up when customers and The Register raised questions over the suspicious...
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Noteworthy. I'm looking up some links from the 1990s with hypertext novels and such and will write more about this. This is interesting because Penquin has been experimental in the past. Shane Richmond says the story itself is a bit weak, but it is an intriguing idea to...
"That’s right! This is a feat for the ages. NOTHING, or a reasonable facsimile in the form of a VACUUM, has finally been captured, placed in storage, and successfully retrieved. Actually, what was captured and...
"US Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off at 7.45pm this evening after two months of delays. It is on on a mission to deliver the European Columbus space lab to the International Space Station.
It is carrying a crew of seven, including a Frenchman, a German and five...
"The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles – the fundamental...
A crushing blow to evolutionists, I wonder?"VIENNA, Austria - Austria's Supreme Court has ruled today that a chimpanzee cannot be declared a person.
An animal rights group had sought to have the chimp, Matthew Hiasl...
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Cell Phone Technology, Toronto Canada's hidden secret !I have taken the liberty of photoshopping what a typical high tech canadian modern businessman of the 1940's era utilizing cell phone technology in...
It's time to get out of the armchair and apply empiricism to epistemology..."now a restive contingent of our tribe is convinced that it can shed light on traditional philosophical problems by going out and gathering...
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Inspired I guess by the likes of Fernan Adria and Luis Bollo, 2 fellows from Belgium invite us to experiment with flavors and combinations via Foodpairing. If I check Blue in Dairy (as blue cheese) for example in the Foodpairing Tree option here is what comes up...
Interesting piece here from the Associated Press. Many countries provided shelter to Nazis during WWII and after. MexicoReporter.com covered a Nazi memorabilia store in Mexico City last year - click here for the...