News tagged with villages
Olympic Villages: Catalyst for urban renewal, or post-Games hangover?
The Olympic Games are big business and generate substantial amounts of revenue for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) through lucrative television contracts and corporate sponsorship. The Games are now also widely ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 22, 2011 |
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Raising a child doesn't take a village, research shows
It doesn't take a village to raise a child after all, according to University of Michigan research.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 09, 2011 |
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Orange goo near remote Alaska village ID'd as eggs
(AP) -- Scientists have identified an orange-colored gunk that appeared along the shore of a remote Alaska village as millions of microscopic eggs filled with fatty droplets.
Aug 09, 2011 |
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Swiss archaeologists find 5,000-year-old door
(AP) -- Archaeologists in the Swiss city of Zurich have unearthed a 5,000-year-old door that may be one of the oldest ever found in Europe.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 20, 2010 |
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U-M researcher studies 'grey tide' in China (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Deborah Lowry has always liked older people. "They tend to be more comfortable with themselves than younger people are," she said, "and I've always enjoyed hearing about history from someone who's lived through ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 31, 2010 |
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The Mystery Of Cursed Bread & A CIA Agent's Death
(PhysOrg.com) -- For 60 years, the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit has been famous for the events of a few days in August, 1951, when dozens of villagers were struck with unexplainable and horrifying hal ...
Mar 19, 2010 |
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It Takes a Solar Village
(PhysOrg.com) -- Rain didn't ruin the 2009 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. University teams successfully operated 20 net-zero, grid-connected solar power homes for a week on the National Mall. Some used ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Mangroves Save Lives In Storms
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of storm-related deaths from a super cyclone that hit the eastern coast of India in 1999 finds that villages shielded from the storm surge by mangrove forests experienced significantly ...
Apr 14, 2009 |
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How monkey murder brought British coastal towns together
(PhysOrg.com) -- How two British coastal communities, hundreds of miles apart, came to be associated with a centuries-old tale of monkey murder has been investigated as part of a new study.
Jan 12, 2009 |
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