Heidi the Cross-Eyed Opossum Is Big in Germany... and Beyond If you're an opossum in a zoo, it helps to have a gimmick. Heidi the cross-eyed opossum, as her name suggest, has just such a thing. Heidi the opossum...
Of Neanderthals & Homosapiens - The Neanderthal In Most All Of UsWhen someone makes a simple mistake, some people call out the person making the mistake by saying, "You Neanderthal!" Growing up this was a...
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Filipinos will mark the 112th death anniversary of Dr. Jose P. Rizal today with a number of activities, led by the Order. (http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/dec/30/yehey/top_stories/20081230top6.html) Dr....
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" German scientists have developed a new enzyme-blocking method which nearly halts the formation of protein deposits associated with Alzheimer's. Still, it could be years before the treatment becomes reality. For more than a decade, Hans-Ulrich Demuth and his team at a...
Is this "art" or is it just tasteless, tacky, and insulting? There's bound to be an uproar over this use of 9/11 as "installation art."Was that uproar the purpose? This might have been just a way of getting attention."Attendees at the Leipzig Games Convention in eastern...
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You might be familiar with "the Sims". If you're not, you should really consider looking into it."LEIPZIG, Germany (Reuters) - Video games publisher Electronic Arts (ERTS.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz)...
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"Chimps are smart, but humans are a lot smarter. Until now, there have been two competing ideas to explain why. The general-intelligence theory says that our bigger and more complex brains give us an overall edge....
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""We could not be more excited about Ampac and Floeter joining together. This is a remarkable combination of organizations, technology and capabilities. The company's long standing reputation as a frontrunner and technology leader for preformed retort pouches makes the...
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With no real suprises they anounced the list of the nominees in all popular gaming platforms."Representatives from this week's Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, have announced their "Best of GC" nominees today. To be eligible for nomination, entries must be in a playable...
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"At the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2006, Sony executives announced that the company's Connect service would bring music and video downloads to the Playstation Portable in two months. That didn't happen....
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Only in Europe could a book festival drawn crowds in the hundreds of thousands (127 000 to be exact). I'm not saying we're not so sophisticated here across the pond, but I highly doubt that there would be one such...
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A German couple, brother and sister by birth but raised separately, have four children together. The courts took custody of the kids while the case gets sorted out, as incest is a criminal offense in Germany, and the brother has already done time in prison for this. The...
The potential for application of this technology--for people who are paralysed, for example--is very exciting. But there is also potential for invasion of privacy..."Brain scans have been developed which it is claimed can predict what a person is about to do.
German, British...
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February 3, 2007
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and Cranbrook Art Museum debut Shrinking Cities. The project, which examines urban decline in cities across the globe is sponsored by Germany's Federal...
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Scientists are reconstructing the genome of Neanderthals - the close relations of modern man. The ambitious project involves isolating genetic fragments from fossils of the prehistoric beings who originally...
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