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Bee symposium broaches barcodes on bugs
Bee experts are abuzz at York University this week, discussing a plan to put barcodes on bees for targeting crop pollination."International bee experts have converged on Toronto to develop a plan to catalogue all...
created by Rob Peters | 5 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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3203 views | 22 recommendations | 55 comments
Ban bread as bird food - it does more harm than good
Apparently spending a lazy afternoon in the park feeding the birds and lying on the grass is not a great way to spend the day. Bread should be banned as a bird food because it is unhealthy and dangerous and can... Burmese Name Dropping: "Gee "Who Didn't See That One Coming?
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorAs I mentioned previously in posts, the only reason for Burmas Military Junta to not allow Aid workers to distribute food to the starving masses is one reason and one...
created by Barry ORegan | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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503 views | 32 recommendations | 11 comments
Experts: The Young "Turned Off" by Old People ...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorGranted Youth are turned off by Oldies wearing spandex at the local gym complete with generous amounts of "Turkey Wattle" bulging from every area of their Aged...
created by Barry ORegan | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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690 views | 22 recommendations | 10 comments
Wine Taste: Status, Image, and Actual Flavor
Is expensive wine better than cheapo plonk? Depends on what you mean by "better"... Flavor?Status?Cool factor?Pretty label?All or some of the above?Wine consumers' decisions are often based on factors other than...
created by Jordan Yerman | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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199 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
UN relief supplies finally arrive in Myanmar
It's been five days since the cyclone hit Myanmar, and only now is the first UN aid arriving in the country, due to complications over the ruling junta allowing foreign aid into the country."The first seven tons...
created by Dave Keating | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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252 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
Government set to defy its own experts and upgrade cannabis again
The Labour government in the UK is set to do a U-turn on its Cannabis policy today, reclassifying the drug as a 'class B' offense after it had downgraded it to 'class C' in 2004 in order to free police to deal with more serious drug cases."The home secretary, Jacqui Smith,...World still faces great threat of flu pandemic
""The globe still faces a great threat of a flu pandemic and countriesneed to speed up their preparations for a worldwide outbreak, healthexperts saidUK CCTV use called 'an utter fiasco'
Fortunately, it is not nearly as bad here in Ireland (yet) ... how is it where you live? I am often asked to cease taking photographs but no one asks for my permission to be videoed (I am referring to street...
created by infomatique | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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486 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
First US execution by lethal injection after moratorium
UPDATE - May 6 | 5:28 pm PDT - William Earl Lynd was pronounced dead at 7:51p.m. EDT."It came less than an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected efforts to block it. The
roughly three dozen states around the... Peak Latte: Starbucks Sees Profits Drop 28% in Second Quarter
Is the DIY generation plugging the coffee maker back in?"CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- Amid disappointing earnings yesterday, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz sought to quell fears about the company's future by offering...FDA Embarks on Major Hiring Initiative for its Public Health Mission
"Agency will fill more than 1,300 positions within the next several monthsBiologists, chemists, medical officers, mathematical statisticians and investigators are among the experts in demand as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration begins a multi-year hiring initiative.The...Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime
The computer does not even need to be shut down to extract evidence."Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes.The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online... Two glasses of wine a day 'puts breast cancer risk up by 50 per cent'
I am a lover of red wines, so this is very sad and alarming to me!A study released today states that two large glasses of wine a day can raise the risk of breast cancer by more that half. I wonder though, what is... Web could collapse as video demand soars
As internet video gros in popularity and people anticipate it to be the main source for television viewing in a matter fo time, some are starting to question whether the internet, in its current form, can handle it."The internet could grind to a halt within two years under...
created by Dave Keating | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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389 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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