This one is pretty neat: biologists at UC San Diego created a living “neon signs” made from glowing bacteria that fluoresce in unison…
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Why Best Buy is gradually going out of business
Best Buy
Electronics retailer Best Buy is headed for the exits. I can’t say when exactly, but my guess is that it’s only a matter of time, maybe a few more years.
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Google busted for violating own rules and will lower search ranking for Chrome
Google got BUSTED!
But Google apparently didn’t know it was doing this.So, with full denial still on its lips, Google has decided to slap its own wrist and downgrade the page rank on Google Chrome for at least two months, reports Search Engine Land.
In a statement published to Search Engine Land, Google said…
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Online university helps adult learners finish college
An estimated 37 million Americans have some college credit but no degree. Western Governors University is trying to change that. The nonprofit online school is challenging many traditional concepts about higher education with a new approach aimed to help adult students finish college.
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Parasitic flies attack honeybees turning them into zombies
“Zombie” fly parasite causing decline of honeybee population.
A pile of dead bees was supposed to become food for a newly captured praying mantis. Instead, the pile of bees ended up revealing a previously unrecognized suspect in colony collapse disorder a mysterious condition that for several years has been causing declines in U.S. honeybee populations, which are needed to pollinate many important crops. This new potential culprit is a bizarre and potentially devastating parasitic fly that has been taking over the bodies of honeybees (Apis mellifera) in Northern California.
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Ten paradoxical traits of the creative personality
Of all human activities, creativity comes closest to providing the fulfillment we all hope to get in our lives. Call it full-blast living.
Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. Most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the result of creativity.
What makes us different from apes–our language, values, artistic expression, scientific understanding, and technology–is the result of individual ingenuity that was recognized, rewarded, and transmitted through learning…
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Record 1.2 billion global apps downloaded in a week
All that time off during the holidays paid off for app developers, with a record-breaking 1.2 billion global downloads combined from Apple’s App Store and Android Market, a big bump of 60 percent from early December.
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World’s first hybrid shark found off Australia
A hybrid black tip shark containing both common and Australian black tip DNA
Scientists said on Tuesday that they had discovered the world’s first hybrid sharks in Australian waters, a potential sign the predators were adapting to cope with climate change.
The mating of the local Australian black-tip shark with its global counterpart, the common black-tip, was an unprecedented discovery with implications for the entire shark world, said lead researcher Jess Morgan…
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Ferrari Stretch Limo
A stretch of fancy.
Meet the world’s fastest stretch limo: a Ferrari Modena 360 limousine by Dan Cawley of Style Limousines and Prestige Limousine in Birmingham, England. They did cut a regular 360 Modena in two to create the behemoth. And of course, there’s disco lighting…
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Men claim two-thirds of new jobs, even jobs in retail
Men are grabbing most new jobs as the economy recovers.
Men are grabbing more than two-thirds of the private-sector jobs created as the economy recovers, reversing a long-running trend that came within a whisker of giving the U.S. its first-ever majority-female workforce.
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Moviegoers attendance drops to 16-year low
Ticket sales and box-office grosses decline in 2011.
In 2011, Hollywood dropped the ball as the movie business saw a decline in ticket sales and attendance fell to a 16-year low.
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Stone Age temple found in Orkney is 800 years older than Stonehenge
Stonehenge may not have been the centre of Neolithic culture after all.
A 5000-year-old temple in Orkney could be more important than Stonehenge, according to archaeologists.
The site, known as the Ness of Brodgar, was investigated by BBC2 documentary A History of Ancient Britain, with presenter Neil Oliver describing it as ‘the discovery of a lifetime’.
So far the remains of 14 Stone Age buildings have been excavated, but thermal geophysics technology has revealed that there are 100 altogether, forming a kind of temple precinct…
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