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Feed SubscriptionWorld’s tallest man Sultan Kosen stops growing
Sultan Kosen of Turkey, the world's tallest man, stands at 8 feet 3 inches
Read More »New Incubator Focuses on Female Founders
Three New York City businesswomen are launching their own incubator to focus on start-ups with a female founder and a mobile product or service. Tech incubators, such as Y Combinator and TechStars, graduate astonishingly low rates of woman-run companies. Instead of complaining about the gender gap, three New York City businesswomen are launching their own incubator
Read More »How Googley Is Yandex Anyway?
The Russian search company has just announced a collaboration with Twitter. Here's how they're becoming more like Google--and also how they also zag with every Google zig.
Read More »Tom Turkey’s Terrific Vision
Not since Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd has there ever been such a set of rivals as Tom Turkey and Hunter Bob. Hunter Bob just can t seem to get a turkey today. He s new to hunting and said he wanted to bag his own bird this Thanksgiving.
Read More »Protecting iPhones From Snoopers
Hotspot Shield has just released an iOS version that gives iPhone and iPad users easy, secure VPN access. However, there's a difference: Unlike the PC product, mobile isn't free.
Read More »Laptop Light Helps Woman Survive Turkey Quake
By Omer Berberoglu and Jonathon Burch VAN, Turkey, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Trapped under the [More]
Read More »Income and Health Inequalities Cut U.S.’s High Marks for Development
This chart shows the shift in the U.N. development index for Norway (top purple), the U.S. (second purple), Turkey (green) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (red) from 1990 to 2011 If global development were a horse race, would you put your money on the slow-and-steady contenders or a fast new contender
Read More »A Geologist’s-Eye-View of the Van Earthquake
The death toll from Sunday’s magnitude 7.2 earthquake in the Van Province in eastern Turkey has now risen to over 500 people , and will undoubtedly continue to rise as rescuers continue to search the hundreds of buildings that collapsed during the shaking. The tectonic forces ultimately responsible are quite straightforward to explain, but as is often the case, the picture becomes more complicated when we take a closer look – a fact that has consequences for the people caught up in this disaster. The big tectonic picture [More]
Read More »Turkey Struggles to Shelter Thousands after Quake
* Turkey requests international aid * Complaints of survivors grow [More]
Read More »"Seismic Storm" Makes Turkey Earthquake Savvy
By Ben Hirschler LONDON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Turkey is much better placed to [More]
Read More »2011’s Coolest Office
There's an indoor skateboarding bowl, a converted railway station in Milan, a converted 1940s warehouse, and a tiny atelier open to the sky and earth in Japan.
Read More »Turkey|Gocek: Luxury Catamaran Sunreef IPHARRA available in Gocek!
Join Sunreef Yacht Ipharra for a Getaway Weekend in Gocek, Turkey!!!
Read More »Lizard Genome Unveiled
Publication of the genome of the North American green anole lizard has filled a yawning genome-sequence gap in the animal lineage. The paper, which appears today in Nature , is the first to sequence the genome of a non-avian reptile. "This fills out a clade that has been completely ignored before," says lead author Jessica Alf
Read More »Hacking the Grocery Store
Caitlin Shetterly, 36, knows how to eat on the cheap: In 2009, her husband, Dan, lost his job and the couple and their newborn baby moved from Los Angeles to Portland, Maine, to live with Shetterly's mother until they could get back on their feet. Her new book Made For You and Me chronicles the family’s journey, including how they managed to eat well—and organic—on very little. (Their grocery bill, including feeding two adults, a baby and two pets, was about $88/week.) Here's how they did it
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