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Digital Life: Celebrities take to Twitter, but for most, it's a one-way tweet

Stars -- they're just like us!

Technology / Internet

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A lost world? How zooarchaeology can inform biodiversity conservation

A new study of tropical forests will provide a 50,000-year perspective on how animal biodiversity has changed, explored through an archaeological investigation of animal bones.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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Netflix light on flicks as viewers soak up TV shows

Like most fresh faces that arrive in Hollywood, Netflix wanted to be a movie star. But now it's learning what many in Tinseltown have known for decades: Movies are sexy, but the real money is in television.

Technology / Business

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

'Pyramids' planted to revive Philippine corals

Thousands of small "pyramids" are being planted off the Philippines' famous Boracay resort island in an effort to bring its nearly destroyed coral reefs back to life, an environment group said Thursday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

'Flipped classroom' teaching model gains an online community

Researchers at Harvard University have launched the Peer Instruction (PI) Network, a new global social network for users of interactive teaching methods.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Lefties more likely to look before they leap

(Medical Xpress) -- New research from the University of Abertay Dundee has found evidence that left-handed people may be better decision makers than their right-handed counterparts.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Mexico road project sets up fight over ruins

(AP) -- When neighbors in the hills east of Mexico City saw backhoes ripping up pre-Hispanic relics for a highway, they did something unexpected in a country where building projects often bulldoze through ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Behavior of parent organisms may influence genes passed on to next generation

Timing is everything, and if there was ever a scientist whose legacy was tarnished by bad timing, it was Jean Baptiste Lamarck. The French naturalist lived from 1744 to 1829 - and published his own evolutionary theory decades ...

Biology / Evolution

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UCSF leaders explore bioinformatics in research, patient care and education

In the world of bioinformatics, the rush is on to extract gold from a data mine.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Just another pretty face: Professor investigates neural basis of prosopagnosia

For Bradley Duchaine, there is definitely more than meets the eye where faces are concerned.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Where's the snow? Not in Lower 48, but elsewhere

(AP) -- Snow has been missing in action for much of the U.S. the last couple months. But it's not just snow. It's practically the season that's gone AWOL.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0


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