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Interactive game helps teach history to high-school kids

Students who have trouble staying awake in history class now have a new way to learn about the Civil War and other topics: an interactive video game where they try to stop a band of evildoers from changing the past.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Digging up the past

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of St Andrews have discovered what they think are the remains of our earliest known ancestor.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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

Amazon tests waters in India

US online retail giant Amazon has made its first foray into India with launch of a shopping website, Junglee.com, as it tests the waters for a possible full entry into the nation's e-commerce market. ...

Technology / Business

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

True history of Ferdinand Bol paintings revealed

For the past 100 years, four gigantic paintings have hung in the Peace Palace in The Hague. Together with a fifth painting in the State Room in Den Bosch they form an impressive series. This series, painted ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

High planetary tilt lowers odds for life?

Highly-tilted worlds would have extreme seasons, subjecting life to alternating periods of scorching and subzero temperatures. This could make the development of all but hardiest, simplest creatures a long ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Decoding keys to a healthy life

For 74 years, one of the longest-running studies of normal adult development has been examining not disease and illness, but what may be life’s magic question: How can you live long and happy?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Facebook surrenders its privacy in IPO documents

Facebook is baring its business soul.The unveiling came late Wednesday when the company that depends on people to share their lives online filed its plans to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering ...

Technology / Business

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

What Google knows about you

Google knows about you. It knows what you've looked for on its search engine. It knows who you're e-mailing most regularly via Gmail. It knows from Google Calendar what you have going on today. And now, all ...

Technology / Internet

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Study: Vast majority of EU citizens are marginalized by dominance of English language

The European Union has 27 member countries and 23 official languages, but its official business is carried out primarily in one language — English. Yet the striking findings of a new study show that barely a third of ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Learning-based tourism an opportunity for industry expansion

New research suggests that major growth in the travel, leisure and tourism industry in the coming century may be possible as more people begin to define recreation as a learning and educational opportunity ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Survey suggests family history of psychiatric disorders shapes intellectual interests

A hallmark of the individual is the cultivation of personal interests, but for some people, their intellectual pursuits might actually be genetically predetermined. Survey results published by Princeton University researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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