The Allen Institute for Brain Science today unveiled the groundbreaking Allen Spinal Cord Atlas, the world's first genome-wide map of the mouse spinal cord. Researchers can immediately access the free online data...
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Stephen Hawking, the famous theoretical physicist whose work in quantum mechanics and black hole theory, amongst other things, is considering moving to Canada. The news comes after Hawking lashed out at the British government for $160 million worth of cuts in science funding...
Speed cameras - are they just a cash cow or do they really help prevent accidents? Accidents are caused by many factors but speed certainly increases the risk of serious injury or death when an accident happens. In...
UPDATE: I was looking around trying to figure out why Iran would lie about this. I don't think it has anything to do with Iran's Shahab-3 missile being based off of North Korea's No-dong (no kidding) missile. Maybe...
"Pakistan and the United Nations have agreed in principle to set up a UN panel to investigate the killing of Pakistani ex-PM Benazir Bhutto. Pakistan's foreign minister said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had...
There is speculation that the Chinese government is starting to crack down on what they see as unofficial media. We'll have to see how this develops as the Olympics starts up. My guess is that we'll...
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Update- Death toll has increased to 40 and sources in Indian government have confirmed the death of defence attache and another senior diplomat."A defence attaché in the rank of Brigadier and an IFS officer were...
I prefer face to face meetings, rather than internet meeting. But then that's me. What about you?" What's to love about LinkedIn? Melanie Lindner, Forbes Published: Friday, June 27, 2008 In the Internet age,...
The elite meet so we may continue to tweet. Twitter, that darling of the microblog world, has closed its venture capital round, apparently to the tune of fifteen million bucks, valuing the company at $100 million....
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"eLearners.com, a web resource of EducationDynamics, today announced the launch of “Project Working Mom 2”, an advocacy campaign that provides working mothers the opportunity to receive a full-ride scholarship to...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor For Now Public Readers, I have some knowledge of this case. This person has many strikes against him, fraud using a forged passport, soon marrying a lovelorn French Canadian woman, some say was duped in order for him to stay...
Certainly distressing when an entire town must be evacuated before it is swallowed up forever. It is also reported that the State of Iowa is under 2/3 of water. Where do you relocate a state?...
More confidential government files have been found on a train in London earlier this week.What is going on? Who is taking these on a train and then just casually leaving them behind? It's not like an umbrella you...
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"WASHINGTON - The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for Mississippi to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms...
Good for Twitter. It's one of the few web 2.0 success stories that, despite its ongoing downtime and wide-ranging technical glitches, outages, and problems, is still insatiably in demand by its fast-growing user...