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Human sciences

Papaya sex change in the works
Los Angeles Times - 17 Hours ago
An effort is underway to perform sex changes on papayas. That's right -- the large, yellowish fruit. Papayas, it turns out, have not just one but three sexes: male, female and hermaphrodite. The third

Papaya sex change is in the works Los Angeles Times

U. of I. scientist works on papaya sex changes Chicago Tribune

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Why did our species survive the Neanderthals?
New Scientist - 9 Hours ago
Magazine issue 2733. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. For similar stories, visit the Books and Art and Human Evolution Topic Guides Book information The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals died Add Comment

Kennewick girl donates birthday presents to SARC
Individual.com - 6 Hours ago
For most 6-year-olds, the card accompanying a birthday gift is an afterthought. For Amiah Desgranges, it's all she's going to keep. Clutching a hand-drawn card from her friend Sophia, Amiah's face lit Add Comment

Obesity can affect offsprings' brains; beetle with bifocals
Science News Online - 9 Hours ago
Beetle bifocals CHICAGO â?? Sunburst diving beetle (Thermonectus marmoratus) larvae possess a grand total of 12 eyes, four of which are naturally bifocal, researchers reported October 17 at the Society

Obesity can effect offsprings' brain; beetle with bifocals Science News Online

Obesity's effect on offsprings' brains, beetle bifocals Science News Online

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Linux

Low-cost Linux clusters drive supercomputing use in manufacturing
Mbtmag - 14 Hours ago
The days when only the largest manufacturers could afford supercomputers based on proprietary hardware are giving way to an era of lower-cost high performance computing (HPC) clusters built on x86 processors. Add Comment

Debian GNU/Hurd: the L series
OSNews - 8 Hours ago
. 'This month Philip Charles created a new installation CD, the L series, for the Hurd, which brings us a big step towards installing the Hurd from the Hurd (without the need of a Linux-based installer). Add Comment

Kernel release: 2.6.27.39-rc1
Linux Online - 16 Hours ago
Click '' for changelog and additional information. Files added: 0 Files changed: 37 Files removed: 0 Lines added: 204 Lines changed: 159 Lines removed: 95 in new window There are currently no comments Add Comment

Software Engineer (Java C# C++) Investment Bank
ZDNet UK - 11/7/2009
Software Engineer / Developer (C# .Net C++ Java Windows / Linux) sought by award winning Investment Bank based in Central London. The focus will be on delivering high performance business critical trading

Linux Engineer- Investment Banking- London ZDNet UK

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Cyberculture

Slank entertains facebooker fans at anti-graft rally
Jakarta Post - 8 Hours ago
Slank closed the rally with its popular song KPK di Dadaku (KPK in my heart), and at the end of the performance, lead singer Kaka shouted to the crowd: 'Root out corruption.' KPK is the acronym for the

Slank entertains facebookers at anti-graft rally Jakarta Post

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Too young for social-networking sites?
CNN - 12 Hours ago
A growing number of children are flouting minimum-age requirements on social-networking sites such as Facebook. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Facebook, MySpace require users to be 13, but the sites can't really enforce

Social Networking Sites: The Strongest Community Building Trend UPublish.info

Social networks: How young is too young? CNN

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Thousands of facebookers rally for KPK deputy chiefs
Jakarta Post - 15 Hours ago
Thousands of Facebook users joined an anti-corruption rally at Jakarta's Hotel Indonesia traffic circle on Sunday morning. The heat at the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle did not prevent the facebookers Add Comment

Bigmouthmedia and Netsociety Sign Strategic Partnership
PR News Now - 55 Minutes ago
Bigmouthmedia has announced that it has formed a partnership with the Dutch search marketing agency Netsociety. In a move that extends Europe'ss biggest independent digital marketing agency'ss reach into

Dewa signs agreement on strategic partnership and cooperation with Microsoft International AME Info

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Science

Japan eyes solar station in space (AFP)
AFP via Yahoo! - 48 Minutes ago
TOKYO (AFP) It may sound like a sci-fi vision, but Japan's space agency is dead serious: by 2030 it wants to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves. The

Japan eyes solar station in space Yahoo! Singapore

Japan eyes solar station in space as new clean energy source Taiwan News Online

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Can cloud ships and space sun shades fix the planet?
CNN - 11 Hours ago
Its authors are concerned that excitement about new technology might distract from efforts to cut emissions. 'Geo-engineering is not a magic bullet and nothing we now know about any of these technologies Add Comment

Evidence recovered from dirty DNA samples
New Scientist - 7 Hours ago
CONTAMINATED crime-scene DNA samples that would normally be written off as forensically useless can now be rescued, thanks to amplification enzymes that tolerate pollution. Before a profile can be obtained Add Comment

Journalism

Writers go rogue on Palin
Chicago Tribune - 6 Hours ago
Ex-governor's memoir already drawing parodies, including a coloring book X Text Size WASHINGTON -- The envy of nearly every other first-time author, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's good fortune includes

Palin goes rogue, bans cell... Siasat Daily

Going rogue? Palin bans gadgets, reporters from speech PublicTechnology.net

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Senior CPC leader calls for innovative journalism
SINA - 8 Hours ago
BEIJING, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- A senior leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Sunday called for all news reporters to be innovative while carrying on their predecessors' traditions to provide spiritual

Senior leader calls for unity for peaceful cross-Strait relations China.com

Senior leader calls for cross-Strait unity Xinhua News Agency

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WEEKAHEAD - the view from Reuters Asia news editors
Forbes.com - 3 Hours ago
SINGAPORE, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Following is the view from Reuters Asia editors on the news that is likely to matter most for the week ahead starting Nov. 9: * OBAMA IN ASIA: Focus on trade and Japan ties Add Comment

Editor-At-Large: What a bunch of whingers, and the women are worst
The Independent - 11 Hours ago
They still don't get it, do they? MPs and their lucky relatives on the public payroll insist they're a special case. Thousands of families are facing a bleak Christmas with factories closing, shops going Add Comment

US social policy

House, Senate health care bills detailed
Washington Post - 93 Minutes ago
WASHINGTON -- A comparison of the three health care bills before Congress, including one by House Democrats and an alternative by House Republicans. In the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.,

Democrats confident on House healthcare vote Ottawa Citizen

Obama wins big as House approves health care bill Sydney Morning Herald

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U.S. House approves bill to overhaul healthcare
National Post - 5 Hours ago
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly endorsed on Saturday the biggest healthcare overhaul in decades, giving President Barack Obama a crucial victory in a battle that now moves to

U.S. House Passes Health Care Bill Forbes.com

House poised for historic vote (40 comments) Las Vegas Sun

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Obama visits Hill as U.S. health care vote looms
CNN - 16 Hours ago
Questions about an abortion-related provision had threatened to derail the health care bill in the House. STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: 35 Democrats plan to vote no on legislation that needs 218 votes to pass Add Comment

IP and patents

Software companies eye key patent case in Supreme Court
CBS TV47 - 2 Hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) â?? With the technology industry looking on, the Supreme Court on Monday will explore what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent in a pivotal case that could undermine such

Supreme Court To Hear Key Software Patent Case Huffington Post

Software cos. eye key patent case in Sup... AOL

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USPTO Pilots Program to Accelerate the Patent Process for Small Entity Inventors
Intellectual Property News Agency - 6 Hours ago
WASHINGTON, DC - Under-Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) David Kappos announced that the agency intends to launch a pilot program Add Comment

Masdar moves ahead to meet intellectual capital needs of the industry
MENAFN - 7 Hours ago
MENAFN Press - 08/11/2009 (MENAFN Press) The Board of Trustees of Masdar Institute of Science and Technology held its second annual meeting today to review the achievements of the last year, and to consider Add Comment

Bluebeat Claims It Owns Beatles Copyright By Re-recording Songs; Judge Disagrees
Techdirt - 8 Hours ago
In the US, if you really want to 'protect' your copyrighted works, you have to register the works. Unlike for a patent or a trademark, it's pretty much a rubberstamp process. Every so often the Copyright Add Comment



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