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Human sciences

Argentine couple ready for region's first same-sex marriage
The Age - 3 Hours ago
A gay man tying the knot next week in Latin America's first same-sex marriage predicted Thursday that his ground-breaking wedding will inspire other homosexual couples to follow suit. "Our December 1

Couple ready for first same-sex marriage in Latin America Philippine Daily Inquirer

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Weight loss using body but not brain
Life Science Lab - 6 Hours ago
Current drug-based weight loss therapies try to stop the brain from sending hunger signals to the body. These therapies tend to be fairly ineffective. So, the researchers tried the reverse approach of Add Comment

Intelligence poorly related to brain size
The Money Times - 3 Hours ago
London -- British scientists say they've found brain size is much less related to the complexity of an organism's thought and behavior than is currently assumed. Professor Lars Chittka of the Queen Mary's Add Comment

Polyphenols and polyunsaturated fatty acids boost the birth of new neurons
Bionity.com - 4 Hours ago
niversitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) researchers have confirmed that a diet rich in polyphenols and polyunsaturated fatty acids, patented as an LMN diet, helps boost the production of the brain's stem

Polyphenols and Polyunsaturated Fatty Aacids Boost the Birth of New Neurons Nutrition Horizon

Polyphenols and polyunsaturated fatty acids boost the birth of new neurons, study Science Daily

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Linux

Wind River and Kontron Sign Global, Multi-Year Distribution Agreement for VxWorks
Enterprise Open Source Magazine - 6 Hours ago
Wind River and Kontron today announced a global, multi-year agreement under which Kontron will distribute Wind Rivers industry leading VxWorks and Wind River Linux operating systems. This agreement extends

Wind River and Kontron Sign Distribution Agreement for VxWorks and Wind River Linux Army Technology

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Tech Tip: View Apple Movie Trailers with Firefox on Linux
Linux Journal - 115 Minutes ago
A few months ago Apple updated their movie trailers site. This update restricts the viewing of Apple Trailers on non-approved systems. Unfortunately, as Linux users, we fall into the category. Thankfully Add Comment

Giving Thanks For FOSS
Linux Today - 5 Hours ago
'There are many things I can say I'm thankful for in the FOSS world. The first would be Linux, a free operating system with no strings attached. Sure, it's got its quirks, but what OS doesn't? And despite Add Comment

Three Simple Tweaks for Better SSD Performance
Linux Today - 5 Hours ago
'The first one is to disable the sreadahead service. The sreadahead tool helps to speed up the boot process with conventional hard disks, but it actually slows the boot with SSDs. To disable the service, Add Comment

Cyberculture

White House crashers face 16 lawsuits
CNN - 71 Minutes ago
NEW: Tareq and Michaele Salahi named in at least 16 lawsuits, filed for Chapter 7 in February Couple posts Facebook photos purportedly showing them at inauguration events Secret Service admits it 'did

Couple crashes White House party Sydney Morning Herald

White House Party Crashers Shock Outsiders CBS News

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Social Networking For Fun and Profit
San Francisco Chronicle - 80 Minutes ago
Profit at , 12/1/2009 - SF Gate z_page_type z_temp_type z_action z_seo_location z_id z_cat_name_0 'Gaming & z_cat_name_1 z_controller Zvents.opt Zvents. Object.combine(Zvents.opt, p ) Zvents. Factory.callback Add Comment

Breakfast Briefing: German company claims Smartbook name, Wikipedia responds, and
Guardian.co.uk - 82 Minutes ago
Smartbook AG owns the Smartbook trademark and is taking legal action to discourage its use as a generic term, Wikipedia has responded to stories about its vanishing editors, and you're invited to explain Add Comment

Mashableâ??s Ben Parr Gives Facebook Privacy Tips on CNN [VIDEO]
Mashable - 2 Hours ago
Facebook, originally a private network for friends and college networks, is increasingly becoming more open, allowing users to make some or all of their content public. Thatâ??s causing some confusion, Add Comment

Science

Scientists to complete turkey genetic map
RBC Dain Rauscher - 3 Hours ago
U.S. scientists have secured funding to complete the genetic map of the North American domesticated turkey adorning millions of U.S. dinner tables Thursday. The Turkey Genome Sequencing Consortium --

Mapping the genetic makeup of turkeys Nashua Telegraph

Scientists get US funds to crack the turkeys genetic code Boston Globe

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LHC dismisses petitions of Sugar millers against Punjab Govt
Individual.com - 87 Minutes ago
Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday dismissed identical petitions of Sugar Millers against the Punjab governments orders of getting sugar from the mills. The court dismissing Add Comment

Agilent Technologies Expands Life Science Disease Research Portfolio with Eurofins
Spectroscopy Now - 92 Minutes ago
Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced it has purchased the MassCode Tag technology from Eurofins MWG Operon, a division of Eurofins. The purchase includes the MassCode trademarks and intellectual Add Comment

Second Meeting of SAARC Ministers of Science & Technology held in Colombo
Nanotechnology News - 93 Minutes ago
The Meeting also considered the matters connected to funding modalities to undertake science & technology programmes and projects under the implementation of the SAARC Action Plan on Science & Technology, Add Comment

Journalism

The strange, sad death of journalism
Washington Post - 3 Hours ago
Behind a long rack of preserved, historic front pages, there is a kind of journalistic mausoleum, displaying the departed. The Ann Arbor News, closed July 23 after 174 years in print. The Rocky Mountain Add Comment

Two freed foreign journalists arrive in Kenya
China Post - 6 Hours ago
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Two foreign journalists freed after 15 months in captivity in Somalia arrived in neighboring Kenya yesterday. Canadian Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan flew out of the

Freed Canadian journalist safe in Kenya Hamilton Spectator

Freed Western Journalists Leave Somalia Digital Chosun

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U.S. journalist says she was delayed at border, questioned about speech
Globe and Mail - 3 Hours ago
EST An American author and broadcaster claims Canadian border officials questioned her about whether she would discuss the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games at a speaking engagement Wednesday evening in Vancouver.

U.S. journalist grilled at Canada border crossing The Pilot News

Canada-U.S. border crossing braced for thousands on Black Friday Vancouver Sun

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Guerrilla stings of ACORN don't meet standards of journalism
Los Angeles Times - 104 Minutes ago
Videos shot of workers at the liberal social service organization offer great political theater but don't shed insight into its operations. It's been two months since a couple of young political guerrillas Add Comment

US social policy

Blitz of health care ads a windfall for TV
USA Today - 3 Hours ago
WASHINGTON The congressional debate over health care has produced an unexpected recession windfall: a television advertising boom in the home states of pivotal lawmakers. POLL: Opposition to health care Add Comment

Volunteers serve up Thanksgiving dinner
KSL-TV - 4 Hours ago
There isn't one detail left out of the feast at Eagle Ranch Ministries. They served up turkey and all the trimmings to the city's needy and homeless. Jennie Dudley, with Eagle Ranch Ministries, said,

Bethesda Mission serves up Thanksgiving meals Patriot-News

Free meals served on Thanksgiving Day WANE-TV

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Employers urged getting social security for workers
Individual.com - 4 Hours ago
Sindh Minister for Labour and Chairman Governing Body Sindh Employees Social Security Institution (SESSI) Amir Nawab Khan has said the employers should get registered their workers in Social Security Add Comment

* Census US Oct Soybean Crush: 163,062,569 Bushels
Individual.com - 6 Hours ago
(DowJones) (MORE TO FOLLOW) Dow Jones Newswires 11-25-09 0802ET Add Comment

IP and patents

ASEZA partners with JTI to fight fakes, protect IP
MENAFN - 2 Hours ago
(MENAFN - Jordan Times) Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) will crack down on illegal trading and protect intellectual property under a new public-private partnership, a top ASEZA official Add Comment

The UK stakes a claim to world IP thought leadership
Intellectual Asset Management - 7 Hours ago
It is free to view this article, however you must first register below or login using the 'Subscriber login' link above. I would also like a free trial to IAM magazine First name Address 1 Address 2 Confirm Add Comment

The growing global impact of the US patent exhaustion doctrine
Intellectual Asset Management - 7 Hours ago
Patent exhaustion is a fundamental doctrine of US patent law, first enunciated by the Supreme Court more than 130 years ago in Adams v Burke. According to this doctrine, a patent's monopoly ends with Add Comment

WIPO Domain Name Decision D2009-1286 for oakleyvenezuela.com
World Intellectual Property Organization - 6 Hours ago
WIPO Case NumberD2009-1286 Domain name(s)oakleyvenezuela.com ComplainantOakley, Inc.RespondentKate Elsberry, Elsberry CastroPanelistMichaelson, Peter L.Decision Date18-11-2009DecisionTransfer

WIPO Domain Name Decision D2009-1151 for autostrader.org World Intellectual Property Organization

WIPO Domain Name Decision D2009-1297 for sapnetweaverpros.com World Intellectual Property Organization

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