A group on Facebook was started to celebrate Darwin's 200th anniversary, and they are well over the 200,000 fans they wanted to acquire before February 12th. They have also organized a free phone seminar with 10 of what they consider to be the world's leading biologists and...
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SACRAMENTO, CA - A young man is recovering, following an attempted suicide which was broadcast via webcam from his home. He'd been chatting online with another young man from Camden, New Jersey and using a...
created by Mary Richard | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 560 views | 58 recommendations | 6 comments
Scientists in India have launched an Agricultural Wikipedia, which will act as an online database of agricultural information in the country. It goes by the name of Agropedia. It provides crop and region...
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This is really exciting news. The archive at the National Film Board of Canada (the NFB) is pure gold and has up until now been fairly inaccessible. "The National Film Board of Canada has launched a new project to allow Canadians to see its films through online streaming....
created by kate | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 259 views | 13 recommendations | 3 comments
Good news for all Scrabulous fans - it's back on Facebook! It's pretty much the same, except it's now named Lexulous, and for those of us playing it when it went off last summer, our unfinished games,...
A mass online protest movement is gathering after Facebook banned some breastfeeding photos from their social network site. Many people are upset that Facebook is classifying these photos "obscene," and are...
This sounds good. "Intel (NSDQ: INTC) over the weekend introduced a new mobile quad-core chip, which Acer started offering Monday in its latest Aspire laptop for multimedia and gaming enthusiasts. In addition,...
Retailers have reported a stark decrease in sales this holiday season, citing the economy and bad weather as two major reasons for the decline - a drop of between 4 and 8% in total sales. Normally around this time...
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Like popping bubbles in bubble wrap? Don't we all? A Brooklyn man has designed a calendar that will drive fanatics bubble-popping mad." Stephen Turbek, 36, who works nine-to-five in the financial...
In the deepening economic recession there is some good news for business, Millions of shoppers are logging on the internet Christmas Day to grab hevy discounts offered by desperate retailers. The retailers are...
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This story was originally published by BetaTales.com U.S. newspapers are finally embracing Web 2.0 in their web operations, according to a major survey. But is it too late? Every year, The Bivings Group conducts a study of the web features of America’s largest newspapers...
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In the article that CNN published about suspect Serbian war criminal Ratko Mladic on its website earlier this month, the agency mistakenly used the photo of Tomislav Nikolic, the current leader of the Serbian...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 419 views | 29 recommendations | 4 comments
This seems like a good idea...I think? "The Estonian parliament (pictured) has just approved a bill to let Estonian citizens vote via their mobile phone. This makes the country the first country in the world to do so, and comes about 20 months after Estonia held its first...
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If you're sticking around Vancouver for the Games here's how you can actually watch them. "Tickets for Vancouver's 2010 Olympic Games were for sale on the internet just a few short hours after the people who won the...
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