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Editors note: This is a condensed version of a post that originally appeared on RealClimate.org It’s the unknown that grabs attention. [More]
Read More »Whooping Crane Migration Grounded in Regulatory Flap
By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A flock of rare whooping cranes on its inaugural winter migration to Florida are grounded in Alabama while a government agency decides whether a plane guiding them will be allowed to proceed. [More]
Read More »YouNow: Like A Digital "Gong Show"
A new social reality entertainment site puts performers up front and gives critics a chance to judge wisely. Andrew Garner dances shirtless to “Friday” by Rebecca Black during his turn to broadcast live on YouNow.com.
Read More »How Brain Scans Can Help Astronomers Understand Stars
A false color image of Cassiopeia A using observations from both the Hubble and Spitzer telescopes, and Chandra X-ray Observatory. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech They may come from completely different fields of study, but brain scans and supernovae have more in common than you would think. [More]
Read More »PAIN Relief: India on Track to Be Declared Polio-Free Next Month
In the mid-2000s, when scientists questioned whether the campaign to rid the world of polio could succeed, skeptics pointed to a problem that some called PAIN . [More]
Read More »Plight of the Condors
The first California condors to enter the wild in five years took a few hesitant hops on a sandstone cliff, craned pinkish necks over the pre
Read More »Obama to Ban Uranium Mining around Grand Canyon
By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is set to ban new uranium mining claims around the Grand Canyon for the next 20 years, a move hailed by conservation groups as a key to the president's environmental legacy. [More]
Read More »Nuance’s Voice Control TV, OLPC’s Tablet For Schoolkids, Netflix Debuts In U.K., PayPal Testing Mobile Payments At Home Depot
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Nuance Brings Voice Control To TV
Read More »U R What U Tweet: 5 Steps To A Better Personal Brand
If you take a look at the top 10 Twitter users you'll see a list of famous men and women, from Justin Bieber to Selena Gomez, who have used the popular platform to further expand their personal brands. Perhaps more interesting, however, is how everyday people are investing more time and energy into social networking for professional purposes. Just over a year ago, a local 16-year-old high school student emailed me out of the blue, proposing that he join me as a guest on a TV show I host.
Read More »Next Ice Age Not Likely before 1,500 Years
By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - High levels of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere mean the next ice age is unlikely to begin for at least 1,500 years, an article in the journal Nature Geoscience said on Monday. [More]
Read More »Pigs like video games too! Interspecies gaming to combat boredom, aggression in livestock.
I like video games (I will rip up some Assassin’s Creed whenever I get a long weekend, do NOT get me started). My cat likes video games too, even though she doesn’t understand that she’s playing them
Read More »"Owner:" Popular Gen Y Job Title on Facebook
Forget teacher or assistant, among those aged 18 to 29 on Facebook, owner is a more popular job title, underlining the strong connection between this generation and entrepreneurship. Exactly how entrepreneurial is Gen Y? That's a contested issue in the blogosphere with some saying today’s young people are a born generation of business owners and others arguing they’re simply victims of the terrible economy forced into finding alternate routes to employment
Read More »Ants at War [Slide Show]
Ants engage in large-scale battles that in many ways call to mind human warfare. Entomologist and photographer Mark Moffett describes their bellicose behaviors in his article in the December issue of Scientific American . [More]
Read More »Shelf-Preservation: Researchers Tap Century-Old Brain Tissue for Clues to Mental Illness
Among the bloodletting boxes, ether inhalers, kangaroo-tendon sutures and other artifacts stored at the Indiana Medical History Museum in Indianapolis are hundreds of scuffed-up canning jars full of dingy yellow liquid and chunks of human brains.
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