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2 Trees Twice Thought to Be Extinct Rediscovered in Tanzania

How’s this for luck? Two tree species that scientists believed were extinct twice have been rediscovered in a remote area of Tanzania. According to a paper published in the Journal of East African Natural History , the two species were rediscovered in the remote, highly fragmented and rarely explored Namatimbili Ngarama Forest, 35 kilometers inland from the Indian Ocean.

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55-Hour Week? You’re Wasting Time

Research shows that consistently working more than 40 hours a week is simply unproductive. For many in the entrepreneurship game, long hours are a badge of honor. Starting a business is tough, so all those late nights show how determined, hard working and serious about making your business work you are, right

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"Boy CEO" Mark Zuckerberg’s Two Smartest Projects Were Growing Facebook And Growing Up

Mark Zuckerberg, oft-parodied young CEO, didn't build the most important company of the Internet era by accident. How he fashioned Facebook--and himself--for success. From studying leaders he admired to taking elocution lessons, Zuckerberg made his evolution into a world-class CEO a personal project

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Facebook Rolls Out New Brand Pages

In a charm offensive to woo advertisers before its IPO, Facebook pitched brands new features to guarantee they reach fans' timelines and profile pages. Facebook announced a redesign for Pages at its marketing conference, fMC, held today in New York City

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How Plants survived the Ice Age

“ No such hypothesis is sufficient to explain either the cataclysms or the glacial phenomena; and we need not hesitate to confess our ignorance of this strange, this mysterious, episode in the history of the globe…. ” BRISTOW, H.G. (1872): The world before the deluge by Louis Figuier – Newly edited and revised by H.W

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Internet Freedom Fighters Build a Shadow Web (preview)

Just after midnight on January 28, 2011, the government of Egypt, rocked by three straight days of massive antiregime protests organized in part through Facebook and other online social networks, did something unprecedented in the history of 21st-century telecommunications: it turned off the Internet.

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Why 2012 Will Be Cybercrime’s "Hell Year"

We're barely six weeks into 2012, and the year is turning out to be one of the worst for cyberattacks in recent memory. Here are a few reasons why. For online security professionals, 2012 is turning out to be a banner year.

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Romney Campaign: Square "Could Be Huge," And Other Digital Trends In Politics

If 2008 was the year that Facebook and YouTube cracked the mainstream in politics, then 2012 will be the year that most every other digital tool breaks the dam wide open on the campaign scene. It's no longer enough for politicians to just be on Twitter--now almost all serious candidates aiming for a seat in Washington must be on Tumblr, Google+, Foursquare, and more

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5 Tech Rules Entrepreneurs Should Live By

How you use technology not only reflects on you personally, but also on your company and its reputation. We now have the possibility to be connected continually: text messages, emails, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn… all of which can be accessed from our smartphones, our iPads, our computers

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