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Icahn resigns from Yahoo's board on friendly terms

Technology / Internet

created Oct 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Activist investor Carl Icahn has decided his work is done at Yahoo Inc. after muscling his way on to the slumping Internet company's board nearly 15 months ago.


How would Einstein use e-mail? Letter writers of yore had same correspondence patterns as e-mail users today

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

You're not as different from Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin after all, at least when it comes to patterns of correspondence.


New Mexico library has Billy the Kid letters (AP)

New Mexico library has Billy the Kid letters

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- The handwritten letter to the governor is polite, articulate and to the point. "Dear Sir," begins the missive. "I wish you would come down to the jail and see me."


Franklin letters found

Franklin Find: Researcher Discovers Trove of Founding Father's Letters?

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A trove of Benjamin Franklin letters has turned up in the British Library. Discovered by University of California, San Diego professor Alan Houston, the letters are copies of correspondence that hasn't been ...


UK fingerprint 'developer' can read a letter from its envelope

UK fingerprint 'developer' can read a letter from its envelope

Chemistry /

created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (40) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UK scientists have discovered a fingerprint'“developer' which can highlight invisible prints on almost any surface – and read the text of a letter just from the envelope it was sent in.