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Astronomers measure temperature - 11 billion years ago
space.newscientist.com — We cannot go back in time and stick a thermometer in the early universe, but astronomers have done the next best thing, using an indirect technique to find out what the universe's temperatureMore… (Space)
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Wildlife populations are plummeting at a shocking rate
news.bbc.co.uk — Between a quarter and a third of the world's wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to the Zoological Society of London. Populations of land-based species fell by 25%, marine by 28% and freshwater by 29%. Humans are wiping out about 1% of all other species every year in one of the "great extinction episodes" in Earth's history.More… (Environment)
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WereWolf Boy (PIC)
telegraph.co.uk — I didn't even know there was a syndrome called "WereWolf" It's sad that somebody would have to go through something like that. I wish the kid goodluckMore… (People)
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Avoid these 5 Common Airline Ticketing Errors
cnn.com — As far as mistakes go, the one Janet Gordon recently made didn't seem like a big deal. She booked an airline ticket from Toronto to London under the name "Jan." More… (Travel & Places)
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Yahoo downgrades antispam measure
guardian.co.uk — The problem arose when Yahoo decided as an anti-spamming measure to stop any emails going through the servers, which it runs for its partner BT, that did not have a matching BT/Yahoo address in the From: fieldMore… (Software)
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UEFA Cup Final - CCTV shows fans chasing police
news.bbc.co.uk — Police in Manchester have released CCTV images of up to 200 football fans chasing officers and attacking one of them after the Uefa Cup final.More… (Soccer)
SirPopperMcCain Was for Talking to Hamas Before He Was Against It
washingtonpost.com — Given his own position on Hamas, McCain is the last politician who should be attacking Obama. Two years ago, just after Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections, I interviewed McCain for the British network Sky News's "World News Tonight" program. Here is the crucial part of our exchange: More… (US Elections 2008)
SinacaApple OK with Safari's "Carpet Bombing" Vulnerability
theregister.co.uk — Next time you get nagged to install Apple's Safari browser keep this in mind: The company's security team has dismissed research that shows a simple way for miscreants to use the browser to litter an end user's machine with malicious files.More… (Security)
America’s Decline Is Largely Self-Inflicted
newsweek.com — In a month of horrific natural disasters it's instructive to consider what one of the biggest UNnatural disasters in memory looks like. That is the decline in America's position in the world from where we were when George W. Bush inherited power on Jan. 20, 2001.More… (World News)
MookiBlaylockFrom Atari Joyboard to Wii Fit: 25 years of "Exergaming"
gadgets.boingboing.net — After hugely successful launches in Japan and Europe, Nintendo's Wii Fit exercise game is coming to the United States May on 19th, where it is sure to find sales success. But Wii Fit is hardly the first example of an attempt to meld videogaming and exercise — it's not even the first fitness offering from Nintendo.More… (Gaming Industry News)
O.K., Avatar, Work With Me - Wii Fit
nytimes.com — WHEN Nintendo released the Wii 18 months ago, it upended the notion of what video games could be. Moving beyond the sunlight-deprived young men at gaming’s core, Nintendo appealed to the rest of the world with an intuitive, family-friendly entertainment experience.More… (Health)
How to Escape From a Black Hole
universetoday.com — According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, black holes are regions of space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. In the 70's Stephen Hawking asserted that any information sucked inside a black hole would be permanently lost. But now, researchers have shown that information can be recovered from black holesMore… (Space)
mklopezBritain's Tallest 6ft 5in Shire Horse
dailymail.co.uk — He's about as heavy as a family car - and costs almost as much to run. Duke the shire horse stands 19.3 hands, or around 6ft 5in at the shoulder.More… (Pets & Animals)
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Indiana Jones 4 - The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
news.com.au — It's been almost 20 years since he last wore the crumpled fedora, but Harrison Ford was not suffering from any last-minute nerves in the lead up to the world premiere of Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in Cannes. More… (Movies)
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