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Some 13 millennia ago, what is now the territory of North America was occupied by the Clovis culture, the oldest identifiable culture in the region. The civilization lasted between 200 and 800 years, depending on the source providing the information, but consensus places its life span at somewhere around 500 years. A... |
22 October 2009
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In spite of the fact that we spend more than one third of our life sleeping, science has not been able to explain yet why we need to close our eyes at night (or during the day, depending on jobs and preferences). While some may argue that sleeping is essential for relaxing the organism and recharging one's batte... |
25 August 2009
10:42 GMT |
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In an effort to streamline the process and tasks associated with either the conversion to or the integration of Team Foundation Server (TFS), Microsoft unveiled a new online destination on its portal for developers. With the Team Foundation Server Migration and Integration Solutions, the Redmond company is essentiall... |
13 July 2009
06:49 GMT |
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According to a group of environmentalists from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the great blue whales, the largest animals to have ever lived on the planet, are beginning to reestablish their migration patterns around the globe. These lanes were disrupted by excessive human activity and ... |
12 May 2009
03:43 GMT |
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Microsoft is already providing customers running its Windows Server operating system with the necessary resources to streamline the process of migrating not only server roles, but also operating system settings, and even data to Windows 7 Server (Windows Server 2008 R2). The Server Migration solution for Windows Serv... |
10 March 2009
11:58 GMT |
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Until this point in time researchers have believed that the Asian turtles that moved to America several millions of years ago did so by going around Alaska, and then spreading into the new land. However, recent discoveries, made by a team of investigators from the University of Rochester, seem to prove the fact that ... |
2 February 2009
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Belkin is proud to announce a new product for Mac users, which allows them to make the switch easier than ever before, the company says. Symbolically dubbed Switch-to-Mac Cable, Belkin's new offering provides a way for PC/laptop owners to move their files and settings onto a Mac, without losing precious data, an... |
13 November 2008
08:16 GMT |
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A recent discovery indicates that early humans have first known the principles of fire-making 790 millennia ago, when mastering this skill allowed them protection against wild animals, and also ensured light and warmth in their sturdy hearths. This superiority made them boldly explore and expand the territorial domin... |
27 October 2008
07:44 GMT |
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A long time ago, population movement specialists with the U.N. were arguing that the world was facing its largest migration to date. Millions were giving up their lives in their native countries only to start over somewhere else. New statistics show now that density is the main reason why people tend to leave their h... |
30 September 2008
05:39 GMT |
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Recent simulations performed by astrophysicists demonstrate that in galaxies such as Milky Way, stars like our sun travel far from their place of origin. Back in 1633, Galileo Galilei came up with a theory that placed Earth in the orbit of the sun and that led to the Church and public opinion, under fire, threa... |
16 September 2008
05:35 GMT |
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Humans have been fascinated for centuries by the capability of migratory animals to navigate the globe, sometimes even returning to exactly the same spot from which they left, after retracing more than 15,000 kilometers. The markers that guide them in their voyage are a mystery even today, although most researchers b... |
23 July 2008
10:52 GMT |
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No, the reason why European game developers are leaving European countries and move to Canada is not the latest Byron Review - that might be a reason for the more sensitive gamers to leave. No, the actual reason why game developers prefer Canada is represented by the tax incentives received by the Canadian companies.... |
31 March 2008
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We all know the theory that Native Americans came from Siberia. So far, we have had archaeological and genetic proofs for this. Now, we have the first linguistic link: a nearly extinct language of central Siberia has a common origin with one of the largest groups of Native American languages, Na Dene, spoken thousa... |
27 March 2008
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This is the main character of all documentaries made on the savanna. We like to watch lions, hyenas or wild dogs hunting and in most cases they hunt wildebeests. That's because this is the most common African antelope of the savanna. Today wildebeests live only in eastern/southern Africa, but 300-400,000 years a... |
12 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Dive right into Windows Vista! This seems to be the message coming from Microsoft, as the company has unveiled no more and no less than a springboard in order to facilitate the transition to its latest Windows client. Via the Windows Vista Springboard Series users will be able to benefit from a luxuriant variety of "... |
4 December 2007
06:11 GMT |
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There is a vivid debate if Native Americans from both South America and North America entered the continent in a single wave 12,000 years ago coming from Siberia through the Bering Strait land bridge or whether ancient Americans also came from other Asian areas or Polynesia, coming by sea as well as by land, starting... |
27 November 2007
02:56 GMT |
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As the careful company that it is, Google is always trying to attract more and more clients to its warm, soft and appealing bazoom. A while ago, it gave the world the means to migrate email from old IMAP mail systems to Google Apps, for those who were reluctant to step into the future without bringing along the email... |
16 November 2007
04:58 GMT |
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Butterflies are renowned usually for their beauty. But amongst the 750 species of butterfly encountered in US and Canada, this is the most known worldwide, due to its amazing migration records. The black and orange beauty bears the name of monarch butterfly because the first English settlers of America associated it ... |
14 November 2007
14:11 GMT |
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You may associate a catfish with going fishing in a pond. But a new research has found that a species of Southeast Asian catfish, Pangasius krempfi, is anadromous: it moves from coastal waters into rivers to spawn, just like salmons do, in an over 600 mi (1,000 km) journey from the South China Sea into the Mekong Riv... |
13 September 2007
04:26 GMT |
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It was long believed for a long time that the Amerindians met by the Europeans in the 15th century in the Americas were the first inhabitants of the New World and that 12,000 years ago, three waves of Proto-Mongoloid migratory people crossed the Behring area to the Americas. But new and not so new discoveries reveale... |
31 August 2007
14:46 GMT |
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I do not know who invented canned tuna, but I guess he/she did it for a workmate coming to annoy you with all those scents at the meal time. Anyway, tuna is one of the most prized commercial fishing species and in Japan they pay fabulous prices for this fish, highly appreciated for making sushi. The species of tuna a... |
14 August 2007
03:08 GMT |
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Google announced today a new feature for all the AdSense registered members that will allow them to upgrade the account and change their private information. Basically, the AdSense login will be updated to a Google account and you'll be able to use the same information entered for other products designed by the ... |
2 May 2007
03:05 GMT |
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This is particularly difficult for human pilots master formation flight: it takes years of practicing. But for migratory birds that's piece of cake. 65 % of the birds species do migrate. The way birds migrate varies a lot: some will do it alone (like the cuckoo), others in pairs, while others in large flocks. T... |
23 April 2007
09:19 GMT |
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Whales could feel insulted when we call an overweight person "whale", because, unlike people, these mammals move a lot.In fact, the longest movement of any mammal, as a recent research detected, belongs to humpback whales which migrate over 5,100 miles (8,300 km) from their feeding areas off Antarctica to the mating ... |
11 April 2007
07:21 GMT |
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65 % of the bird species migrate. The ancients, like Aristotle for example, thought that during the winter birds go inside the mud of the bottom of the swamps or in caves, where they pass the winter, and reemerge in the spring. In the 13th century, the German emperor Frederick the Second, passionate hunter, was the f... |
6 March 2007
03:25 GMT |
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