News tagged with amsterdam
San Francisco vs Amsterdam in green city rivalry
Dec 02, 2009 |
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San Francisco and Amsterdam set an online stage for an environmental rivalry regarding which city is more nature-friendly.
Dutch, making peace with water, tackle overcrowding
Oct 18, 2009 |
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About a hundred houses float on a lake in the Amsterdam neighbourhood of Ijburg --a testament to how the Dutch are trying to turn their traditional enemy, water, into an ally against overcrowding.
Philips posts surprise profit as cost cuts help
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Dutch electronics giant Philips reported on Monday a surprise profit for the third quarter as a series of cost cutting measures to cope with the global slump helped the bottomline.
Amsterdam pays residents to scrap polluting old cars
Jul 01, 2009 |
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The Dutch capital Amsterdam announced Wednesday a cash bonus of up to 1,000 euros (1,400 dollars) for residents who scrap their old cars to buy newer, environmentally friendly ones.
Newborn infants detect the beat in music
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 27, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam demonstrated that two to three day old babies can detect ...
Switchboard in the brain helps us learn and remember at the same time
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Jan 13, 2009 |
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The healthy brain is in a constant struggle between learning new experiences and remembering old experiences, a new study in this week's PLoS Biology reports. Virtually all social interactions require the rapid exchange of new ...
