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World’s first hybrid shark found off Australia

January 3, 2012

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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Analysis, Crazy Stuff, Entertainment, New Discoveries

Ferrari Stretch Limo

January 3, 2012

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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Analysis, Business, Economy, Latest Trend

Men claim two-thirds of new jobs, even jobs in retail

January 3, 2012

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

January 3, 2012

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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Big Problems, Latest Trend

12,000 killed in drug violence in Mexico in 2011

January 3, 2012

Around 12,000 people died in Mexico’s spiraling drug violence in 2011.

Some 12,000 people were killed last year in Mexico’s surging drug violence, according to grim tallies reported Monday by the country’s leading media outlets. Annual indexes of torture, beheadings and the killing of women all showed increases.

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Stone Age temple found in Orkney is 800 years older than Stonehenge

January 3, 2012

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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Death Valley microbe may spark novel biotech and nanotech uses

January 2, 2012

Badwater Basin, lowest elevation in the Western Hemisphere, at Death Valley National Park.

Nevada, the “Silver State,” is well-known for mining precious metals. But scientists Dennis Bazylinski and colleagues at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) do a different type of mining.

They sluice through every water body they can find, looking for new forms of microbial magnetism.
In a basin named Badwater on the edge of Death Valley National Park, Bazylinski and researcher Christopher Lefèvre hit pay dirt…

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Art, Breakthrough Thinking, Education, Historical Perspectives, New Discoveries, New Viewpoints

How to find the perfect portrait lighting using a marble

January 3, 2012

An easy way to figure out how to shoot photos better.

This is a really great portrait photography trick that requires no special equipment: use a black marble to see how the light hits on the eyes of the person you want to photograph…

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Crowdfunding temporarily halts oil extraction in Ecuador

January 3, 2012

No drilling here for now.

Ecuador had agreed last year to accept money in exchange for not drilling foroil in Yasuní National Park, an area of the Amazon rainforest that last year set a record for the most mammal, bird, amphibian and plant species in the world.

But a fundraiser was held last night that collected the $116 million necessary to temporarily halt exploitation of the area for oil…

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Guerrilla Grafters: Turning public trees into fruit-bearing trees

January 3, 2012

Money doesn’t grow on trees, but that doesn’t stop a group of renegade agriculturists from turning public trees into a provider for bountiful harvest by grafting fruit-bearing branches.

Meet the Guerilla Grafters…

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How people are turning to Facebook for organ donors

January 2, 2012

Damon Brown’s Facebook plea for a kidney paid off.

These days people are using Facebook for a lot more than looking at friends’ photos or playing addictive word games. Facebook and other social media sites are quickly becoming a go-to place to find a generous person with a kidney to spare.

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Architecture, Art, Photo Perspectives

5 homes with amazing staircases

January 2, 2012

Staircase slide and bookcase staircase

Circular stairs were commonplace in castle towers during medieval times. Staircases were designed to go the same direction all the way around, ascending clockwise, to suit right-handed swordsmen for ease in hindering the attacker. Fast forward to the late 1800s and stair design changes dramatically when steel and reinforced concrete are introduced, and the use of dramatic curves and fantastic sweeps become important elements in staircase workmanship. Even today, stair-crafting ingenuity continues, with many staircases doubling for incredible feats of gravity and eye-popping works of art. (Pics)

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