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Platypus is found to have a cocktail of genomes
The Platypus is one of nature's strangest animals. It has a bill like a duck, fur like a mammal, and venom like a snake. But scientists in Australia say they have now mapped the genetic makeup of the platypus, and...Teaching bacteria to drink CO2 and belch methane
The highlighted article refers to a recent technology and design conference in California. Geneticist Craig Venter disclosed that he is working on a project involving modified bacteria. The goal is to increase the...What if SEO & Search Had Action Figures
"We see them everyday, in our RSS feeds, in our daily paths as we seek out our industry news. Those commentators who scoop the headlines or are so engraved in the search engine marketing industry that future babies will bare their name (ok, I took that a little too far but...Nabaztag Wifi Smart Rabbit
"So you are probably wondering if a rabbit can really be “smart”? Well this bunny can teach you tai chi, read your e-mail, report the weather or stock market, pull RSS feeds and tell you the time. We’d say...
Google Launches Green Calculator
If lowering your carbon footprint means lowering your fuel cost then its a good thing."Google has today launched the UK Carbon Footprint Project , allowing you to calculate your personal carbon footprint, choose... Google Gains More Power
"The Google News site robotically scans hundreds of news sources and provides a faux front page of popular news items, with hundreds, if not thousands, of redundant links to those stories (as they are carried by...Full RSS Feeds VS. Partial Feeds. Are there benifits?
great article about full vs partial rss feed aggregationUS town set to ban saggy trousers
US town set to ban saggy trousers A man wearing low-slung trousers, exposing his underwear Low-slung trousers are fashionable among some young people A mayor in the US state of Louisiana says he will sign into law a proposal to make wearing saggy trousers an act of indecent... A better way to deal with Afghanistan's poppy crop
"Afghanistan provides more than 90% of the world's heroin, which is made from poppies. The amount has skyrocketed since the Taliban regime that sheltered
Osama bin Laden was toppled in 2001.
The poppy boom feeds... Web 2.5
"It seems, these days we are moving on from Web 2.0 to Web 2.5. Let me explain: When I started off in the Internet, some 15 years ago, things were nice and simple. You used a program called gopher to retrieve information. Later a new gadget called Lynx appeared. It was a... Miss America Pageant distances itself from 'other' pageants
"While Miss USA winners were frantically trying to cling to their crowns last month in the wake of scandals, a collective groan could be heard rising from Miss America fans who felt the guilt by association. "Nobody knows the difference," said Miss Michigan Angela Corsi, who...Racial Hate Feeds a Gang War’s Senseless Killing
"LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16 — The Latino gang members were looking for a black person, any black person, to shoot, the police said, and they found one. Cheryl Green, perched near her scooter chatting with friends, was shot dead in a spray of bullets that left several other young...Calf Born With Two Faces
One of the newest arrivals at Kirk Heldreth's dairy farm is drawing crowds. A calf with two faces was born Dec. 27 at Heldreth Dairy Farm, and word has spread in southwest Virginia as residents flock to his farm.The animal is normal from its tail until its unusually large...Wikia Launches OpenServing Blog Platform
"Wikia, the for-profit project from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, announced a project called OpenServing today. OpenServing is a community content platform that will provide free storage, bandwidth, software and computing power. What's more, they'll give site owners...
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