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09/30/07
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British Library Books Go Digital
Good news from the British Library System, finally, some rare books are set to be available in digital form. From the BBC: More than 100,000 old books previously unavailable to the public will go online thanks to a mass digitization …continue reading »
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09/18/07
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Big Brother is Watching us All
There’s a line in the quintessentially paranoid film Enemy of the State where Gene Hackman’s character suggests that all the technology being used to track Will Smith’s characheter is nothing, antiquated, compared to what could be used. Judging by this …continue reading »
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09/08/07
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Photo ID Cards for Indian Cattle
From the land of the bizarre (via the BBC): “Indian border guards are photographing cows in villages in the eastern state of West Bengal and issuing them with identity cards, officials say.” “Border Security Force (BSF) spokesman GK Sharma said …continue reading »
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08/14/07
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Ancient Forest Found in Hungary
From the BBC: “An ancient forest of cypress trees, estimated to be eight million years old, has been discovered in Hungary. “Archaeologists found the 16 preserved trunks in an open cast coal mine in the north-eastern city of Bukkabrany. “The …continue reading »
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06/25/07
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Girl, 2, Becomes Member of Mensa
This is pretty damn amazing. From the BBC: “A two-year-old girl from Hampshire has become the youngest ever female member of British Mensa.” “Georgia Brown, from Aldershot, Hampshire, astounded experts by scoring 152 in an IQ test — putting her …continue reading »
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06/18/07
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Khmer Rouge Trials Ready to Start
No one has ever faced charges for the Cambodian genocide perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s and 80s. Pol Pot who was largely responsible for the deaths of an estimated two million Cambodians during the Khmer Rouge’s reign …continue reading »
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05/17/07
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Bright Idea Creates 25-hour day
If I’m not mistaken the man who stumbled upon chaos theory was living on a 25 hour day at the time. Anyway according a new study, funded by NASA, it’s possible to cram an extra hour into the day. The …continue reading »
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12/28/06
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100 Things We Did Not Know Last Year
My favorite end-o-the-year list. From the BBC, here’s some spoilers: 1. Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like “baby-talk in Portuguese”. 2. There are 200 million blogs which are no longer being updated, say technology analysts. …continue reading »
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06/21/06
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Top of the Pops axed
Forty-two years after the Rolling Stones opened the first show with I Wanna Be Your Man, the BBC is finally calling time on Top of the Pops.continue reading »
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05/17/06
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Britain’s Secret Sex Survey
The Kinsey Report of 1948 famously lifted the lid on American sexual behaviour. But when a similar study was conducted in Britain the following year, the findings were so outrageous they were suppressed. Only now have they been revealed. The …continue reading »