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Workplace Safety? (0)

Published on Fri, 30/04/10 | Home, International, News
Workplace Safety?

Apparently, OSHA does not have a branch office in Moscow


Boy purportedly born with extra fingers, toes (0)

Published on Thu, 15/04/10 | International, News
Boy purportedly born with extra fingers, toes

Doctors check the feet of a six-year-old boy at a hospital in Shenyang, Liaoning province, April 8, 2010. The boy who was born with 15 fingers and 16 toes underwent surgery on March 23 to have the extra limbs removed, and after a recovery period he is scheduled to leave the …


Yahoo and Microsoft claw back search share – Google Declines (0)

Published on Wed, 14/04/10 | International, News
Yahoo and Microsoft claw back search share – Google Declines

Yahoo and Microsoft claw back search share Google declines Yahoo and Microsoft have managed to fight for small increases in their share of the US online-search market. According to market research firm comScore Google posted a slight decline in March while its rivals Yahoo and Microsoft gained ground slightly. Americans used search giant Google for [...]


Twitter to start pumping out ads (0)

Published on Wed, 14/04/10 | International, News

From http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/357199/twitter-to-start-pumping-out-ads By Barry Collins Posted on 13 Apr 2010 at 09:35 Twitter has unveiled plans to incorporate advertising into the microblogging service for the first time. “Promoted Tweets” will appear on the site’s search results pages, with companies able to buy relevant search keywords in a similar fashion to the way they do with [...]


Diets may determine dementia risk (0)

Published on Wed, 14/04/10 | International, News
Diets may determine dementia risk
BBC NEWS

Diets may determine dementia risk The foods we choose to eat may determine our risk of dementia, mounting evidence suggests. Latest work in Archives of Neurology shows sticking to a diet rich in nuts, fish and vegetables significantly cuts the chance of developing Alzheimer’s. A “Mediterranean diet” containing plenty of fresh produce and less …


Eggstinct – But Scientists Hope For DNA Clues (0)

Published on Mon, 15/03/10 | International, News
Eggstinct – But Scientists Hope For DNA Clues
The egg was laid in the early 17th century, by the now extinct  Great Elephant Bird of Madagascarto

2:13pm UK, Wednesday March 10, 2010 Andy Jack, Sky News Online Scientists are hopeful of finding out more about ancient birds and why they died out after extracting DNA from a huge fossilised elephant bird egg. An egg laid by the now extinct Elephant Bird, which weighed half a ton An international team of researchers [...]


Religion Among the Millennials (0)

Published on Fri, 5/03/10 | International, News
Religion Among the Millennials

Religion Among the Millennials Less Religiously Active Than Older Americans, But Fairly Traditional In Other Ways By some key measures, Americans ages 18 to 29 are considerably less religious than older Americans. Fewer young adults belong to any particular faith than older people do today. They also are less likely to be affiliated than their [...]


Porsche unveils ‘green’ supercar for petrol-heads (0)

Published on Wed, 3/03/10 | International, News
Porsche unveils ‘green’ supercar for petrol-heads

Porsche unveiled a futuristic hybrid supercar this week that it claims can hit 100km/h in just 3.2 seconds while emitting just a tiny fraction of the carbon put out by most sports cars. The 918 Spyder prototype is the German carmaker’s offering to the growing market for hybrid cars that combine an internal combustion engine [...]


Golden Plates goes on Display (0)

Published on Mon, 22/02/10 | Books, Church, International, News
Golden Plates goes on Display
Etruscan book

The world’s oldest multiple-page book – in the lost Etruscan language – has gone on display in Bulgaria’s National History Museum in Sofia. It contains six bound sheets of 24 carat gold, with illustrations of a horse-rider, a mermaid, a harp and soldiers. The book dates back to 600BC The small manuscript, which is …


Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995 (0)

Published on Mon, 15/02/10 | International, News

Climategate U-turn as scientist at center of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995 The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information. Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil [...]