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Obama turns to Web to take questions from public (AP)

Obama turns to Web to take questions from public

Technology / Internet

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- President Barack Obama kicked off a first-of-its-kind Internet-era town hall at the White House on Thursday, pushing hard for public support of his $3.6 trillion budget and asking people to be patient ...





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Viewers will receive greatest benefit in presidential town hall debate

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 03, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Next Tuesday night, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama will meet on the debate stage for their second presidential debate, but this time they will not be alone. The candidates will be joined by dozens of "undecided" citizens ...


Seismometer image captured from this morning’s Midwest earthquake

Seismometer image captured from this morning's Midwest earthquake

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 18, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0

A University of Wisconsin-Madison geology department seismometer in Weeks Hall recorded the tremors of a southern Illinois earthquake that shook many areas of the Midwest this morning.


Iowa town seeks status as video gamers' mecca (AP)

Iowa town seeks status as video gamers' mecca

Technology / Software

created May 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- For a brief shining moment in the 1980s, Ottumwa was the unlikely hot spot of the fledgling video game industry as gamers around the globe flocked to this sleepy Iowa city and its video game arcade ...


Great Depression spurred ‘amazing’ period of creativity

Great Depression spurred ‘amazing’ period of creativity

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The hardships of the Great Depression spurred a period of unparalleled creativity according to a University of Manchester historian.


This picture released by the CNRS/Universite de Provence shows a column of Emperor Nero banquet hall

Archaeologists unearth Nero's revolving banquet hall

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Archaeologists have unveiled the remains of a revolving banquet room built by the Roman emperor Nero, who ruled between 54 and 68 BC and was famed for his depraved and extravagant lifestyle, a statement said ...


Melanoma treatment options one step closer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A targeted chemotherapy for the treatment of skin cancer is one step closer, after a team of University of Alberta researchers successfully synthesized a natural substance that shows exceptional potential to specifically ...


Higher health insurance costs force doctors to talk about money with patients

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As health insurers require people to base more treatment decisions on out-of-pocket costs, physicians should learn to talk to patients about money, according to researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.


Tell Edfu, Ancient Egyptian Site

Archaeologists find silos and administration center from early Egyptian city

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 01, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 0

A University of Chicago expedition at Tell Edfu in southern Egypt has unearthed a large administration building and silos that provide fresh clues about the emergence of urban life.


King crab family bigger than ever

King crab family bigger than ever

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Sally Hall, a PhD student at the University of Southampton's School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) has formally described four new species of king ...


World's oldest submerged town dates back 5,000 years (w/ Video)

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Archaeologists surveying the world's oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the Final Neolithic. Their discovery suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some 5,000 ...



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