Monthly Archives: January 2008

Blue-Eyed People Have One Common Ancestor

A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye color of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today.
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Cosmetic products may cause fatal infections in critically ill patients

Healthy consumers can handle the low levels of bacteria occasionally found in cosmetics.
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Gene Expression Differences in Mice Fed Human and Chimp Diets

Using mice as models, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology traced some of the differences between humans and chimpanzees to differences in our diet.
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Doublet Earthquakes And Earthquake Dynamics

Earthquakes occurring at the edges of tectonic plates can trigger events at a distance and much later in time, according to a team of researchers reporting in Nature. These doublet earthquakes may hold an underestimated hazard, but may also shed light on earthquake dynamics.
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Slashdot Founder Questions Crowd’s Wisdom

One of the oldest rivals to the community news site Digg is pointing to recent unrest at the site as evidence that the social news model is flawed.
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The race for mobile open-source software is on, and it’s Nokia vs. Google

Until recently, Nokia’s software efforts have been perceived as the opposite of open: closed.
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The MacBook Air is Now Shipping

As early as Tuesday night, some early buyers of the MacBook Air received emails informing them that their orders had shipped and that they would receive their MBAs on Friday. This was confirmed today in an Apple press release, but that was the extent of the MBA love. None of the Apple stores I checked […]

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Website Gives Tax Rules For 2008 Every Person Should Know

The tax deadline is only two and a half months away. This year, there are some new tax credits added, hopefully changes giving you back more money. We have tax tips you need to know this year. If you’re a home owner, this tax season’s for you. The government’s expected to give back the most […]

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Former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada,Louise Arbour, supports plan to end Zionism

Canadian News,Terror

Louise Arbour, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, has thrown her support behind a major pan-Arab human rights charter that commits to the elimination of Zionism.

Some critics say the wording is code for the destruction of Israel, but in a statement from her Geneva headquarters, the former justice of the Supreme Court […]

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Making exceptions for Ethiopia

Western policy towards Africa is ill-informed and inconsistent. That’s the message of Ethiopia’s prime minister, Meles Zenawi, in his interview in the Guardian last week.
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