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Lost transgender memoir from 1921 discovered by Drexel researcher

Dr. Randall Sell, a professor at the Drexel University School of Public Health and director of the LGBT Health Program, announced today that he has discovered significant parts of the long lost third volume of memoirs, entitled ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 13, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

E-book release delayed for Kennedy memoir

(AP) -- E-book fans will have to wait for a download of Sen. Ted Kennedy's memoir.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The Memoir: Samsung, T-Mobile USA Introduce New 8-Megapixel Camera Phone

Samsung Mobile and T-Mobile USA today announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Memoir, a full touch-screen mobile phone equipped with an 8-megapixel camera and premium multimedia features, placing ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 06, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (47) | comments 0




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Briton with locked-in syndrome wants right to die

(AP) -- Former rugby player Tony Nicklinson had a high-flying job as a corporate manager in Dubai, where he went skydiving and bridge-climbing in his free time.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Book on Richard Feynman nets honors for Arizona State professor

"Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science," ASU Foundation Professor and Director of the Origins Project Lawrence M. Krauss' recent book about a legendary and sometimes very public modern physicist, has been chosen ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Known and unknown: Great travellers of the Pacific

When a well-known travel magazine set out to identify the top ten travellers of all time, the names it came up with held few surprises. Top of its list, which encompassed Charles Darwin and Christopher Columbus, ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Spoiler alert: Stories are not spoiled by 'spoilers'

Many of us go to extraordinary lengths to avoid learning the endings of stories we have yet to read or see – plugging our ears, for example, and loudly repeating "la-la-la-la," when discussion threatens to reveal the ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Whither astronauts? Corps shrinks as shuttles stop

(AP) -- NASA's mighty astronaut corps has become a shadow of what it once was. And it's only going to get smaller.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Space shuttle commander Kelly to retire from NASA

Mark Kelly, the US astronaut who commanded the final flight by the shuttle Endeavour, announced Tuesday he is retiring to spend more time with his lawmaker wife as she recovers from a gunshot wound to the head.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Wind, war and weathermen

Well into the 20th century, American weather forecasting was not a rigorous science, but an “art,” as a National Research Council report stated in 1918. Forecasters knew, among other things, that ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First man in space: A 50-year-old feat remembered

(AP) -- It was the Soviet Union's own giant leap for mankind, one that would spur a humiliated America to race for the moon. It happened 50 years ago this Tuesday, when an air force pilot named Yuri Gagarin ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 10, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Microsoft co-founder slams Bill Gates in new book

Bill Gates plotted to grab Microsoft shares from his cancer-stricken business partner Paul Allen, the software firm's co-founder has claimed in a new memoir.

Technology / Business

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Peaceful bonobos may have something to teach humans

Humans share 98.7 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees, but we share one important similarity with one species of chimp, the common chimpanzee, that we don't share with the other, the bonobo. That similarity ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (24) | comments 161 | with audio podcast


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