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South Africa Directory, South African Business, South Africa Tours, South Africa Guide
NetSouthAfrica.com provides you with various categories of websites linking to South Africa travel, business, guide, education, health, shopping, real estate, art, culture, history, holid...
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http://www.netsouthafrica.com
Austria Net - Austria Directory, Austria Business, Austria Travel & Tourism
NetAustria.com offers links and resources related to Austria including business & economy, education, travel & tourism, culture, country guides, recreation & sports, social science.
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http://www.netaustria.com
Flirting with Palin earns Pakistani president a fatwa
A leading religious leader condemned Asif Ali Zardari's comments to Sarah Palin at the UN.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1002/p04s01-wosc.html
FOXNews.com - Review: Foneshow makes podcasts available by cell phone - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News
Review: Foneshow makes podcasts available by cell phone,
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http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008May14/0,4670,TechTestFoneshow,00.html
Going Deep - washingtonpost.com
The new Sant Ocean Hall of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092501017.html
Palin treads carefully between fundamentalist beliefs and public policy - Los Angeles Times
Palin apparently told a left-wing Alaska blogger that she believed that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time" back in 1997. Via BoingBoing Annotated link http://www.di...
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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-palinreligion28-2008sep28,0,3643718.story?track=rss
Ovablastic: Sound Waves
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http://ovablastic.blogspot.com/2008/09/sound-waves.html
Easy Java Simulations Wiki | Main / Home page
Easy Java Simulations, also known as EJS or Ejs, is an authoring tool written in Java that helps non-programmers create interactive simulations in Java, mainly for teaching or learning pu...
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http://www.um.es/fem/EjsWiki
Why is it so? - Features - The Lab - Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Gateway to Science
Why is it so? - the ground-breaking TV series with the enigmatic Professor Julius Sumner Miller - ran on the ABC from 1963 to 1986. Professor Miller's infectious enthusiasm for physics de...
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http://www.abc.net.au/science/features/whyisitso
Human Genome Project Information
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http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/home.shtml
Norway Directory, Norway Business, Real Estate, Travel
DirectoryNorway.com is a Norwegian directory providing information about Norwegian business & economy, travel & tourism, culture, history, organization, education, employment, real estate...
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http://www.directorynorway.com
ABC News: Easily Startled? It Could Reflect Your Politics
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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/story?id=5832571
What Happens When We Die? - TIME
I'm curious about this.
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http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1842627,00.html?cnn=yes
Falando pelos Cotovelos - 5 Strangest Materials
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http://rvincoletto.multiply.com/journal/item/358
GIANTmicrobes
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http://www.giantmicrobes.com
Slashdot | LHC Flips On Tomorrow
Slashdot readers anticipate the LHC starting up.
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http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/09/09/2142259.shtml
Charting the River of Time
Ken Olem presents a theory speculating that time travel is impossible. Damn.
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http://www.fqxi.org/data/articles/Olum_Ken.pdf
FQXi Community: Shutdown of the LHC, by Kevin Black
As the LHC supposedly gears up, Harvard physicist Kevin Black, based at CERN, investigates rumors that the particle accelerator may, in fact, soon be shut down—by ripples from the future.
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http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/230
Competing Arrows of Time
Strange little idea about the nature of dark matter in the overall scheme of the cosmos.
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http://www.aip.org/png/html/timearrow.html
Synthetic Black Hole Event Horizon Created in UK Laboratory
Researchers at St. Andrews University, Scotland, claim to have found a way to simulate an event horizon of a black hole in the laboratory.
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http://www.universetoday.com/2008/02/13/synthetic-black-hole-event-horizon-created-in-uk-lab...
:: SCRIPPS OCEANOGRAPHY NEWS : : Oceans on the Precipice: Scripps Scientist Warns of Mass Extinctions and 'Rise of Slime' ::
Jeremy Jackson talks about the "rise of slime" in the world's oceans -- toxic bacteria, jellyfish, algal blooms, et cetera.
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http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu/Releases/?releaseID=920
A Primeval Tide of Toxins - Los Angeles Times
As we dump more and more nitrogen and CO2 into the oceans, conditions of eutrophia and hypoxia develop. The resulting enormous algal blooms kill coral reefs and starve fish. This is the "...
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-me-ocean30jul30,0,952130.story
Jared Diamond, "The Golden Phonebook," The New York Review of Books (April 13, 2000) (review of Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Peoples, and Languages, North Point/FSG)
I don't have access to the full article, but I am bookmarking this because I really want to get hold of it.
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=146
Losing the Yeti in Forgotten Nation of Bhutan | LiveScience
An interesting piece of research showing that traditional beliefs in the Yeti have been disappearing -- or, more precisely, are more and more often linked with backwardness and ignorance ...
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http://www.livescience.com/culture/080810-ap-losing-yeti.html
Monsters, Ghosts and Gods: Why We Believe | LiveScience
This is not a bad article, but it drives me crazy that the writer never consulted a specialist in religion. The quoted "scientific" explanations for ancient religious beliefs were basical...
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http://www.livescience.com/culture/080818-monsters-ghosts-gods.html
The airship's latest incarnation
A California-based company is developing a prototype of a new generation of zeppelin. It has a range of several thousand miles, can be powered by fuel-cell-generated electricity, flies at...
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http://www.popsci.com/aeros/article/2006-02/flying-luxury-hotel
High childhood IQ linked to antitraditional attitudes in adults
A study of a large representative sample of the UK population shows that high childhood IQ is correlated with antitraditional (i.e., liberal, mostly) attitudes in adults (described as "an...
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http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119410400/abstract
A man–mongoose–robot team takes on Sri Lankan minefields
A Sri Lankan engineer controls a robot which in turn guides a mongoose around a minefield. The mongoose sniffs for explosives and is trained to sit up when he finds one. The mongoose, by ...
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http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/09/man-mongoose-and-machine.html
Beatles music more than 'auditory cheesecake', scientists find - Telegraph
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2699645/Beatles-music-more-than-aud...
The science of happiness - Los Angeles Times
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http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-happy8-2008sep08,0,3855201.story
Great science books for little kids, from HarperChildrens
This is an excellent series. Short, easy-to-read, beautifully illustrated books on simple science topics -- like bugs, seeds, storms, seasons, sleep, and teeth -- written in engaging lang...
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http://www.harperchildrens.com/hch/lrfo/stage1.asp