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A Bungie representative has confirmed that the developer, best known for working on the wildly successful Halo franchise with Microsoft, is now developing a new game engine from scrap with the aim to use it to power the new video game franchise that it will be developing for publisher Activision Blizzard during the n... |
14 September 2010
17:31 GMT |
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Though the Internet and the media offer the easiest access to information all over the world, certain beauty myths continue to persist and, even more importantly, to enjoy the status of “scientific fact.”Such is the case of the myth that says that you must comb your hair 100 times to make it shiny and hea... |
26 August 2010
13:11 GMT |
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With the spring launch season pretty much done and hardcore players looking to the fall for some other big releases, one of the most important moments of the coming months is the outing of the Halo: Reach multiplayer beta, which is set for May 3. And with that date fast approaching, the people developing the game at ... |
21 April 2010
17:41 GMT |
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As Men’s Health magazine puts it so wonderfully, drinking is often a “buy-now, pay-later” affair, and few are those who have never woken up feeling all sorts of down under the weather after a night of heavy partying. Of course, it is commonly believed that most of us practice moderation even when dr... |
6 July 2009
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Losing weight can be a challenge but seeing it as such is precisely what sets us on the path of failure, health experts and nutritionists have often told us. If that’s not enough of a deterrent for us, then there’s the countless myths that restrict our diet and make it very hard for us to be able to stick... |
11 May 2009
16:21 GMT |
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Some temples and museums in Japan boast the ownership of several of the most rare relics in the world, namely mummies of demons, imp, raiju, Tengu, Kappa, and other mythical creatures. In fact, some institutions in the northern parts of the country even host “living mummies” of human origin, as in people ... |
10 March 2009
14:01 GMT |
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If you have a genius child who already knows everything and keeps pestering you with annoying questions like "How does Santa cover so much space in so little time?" or "How come he knows where everybody lives?" a North Carolina State University professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, Dr. Larry Silverberg, ... |
9 December 2008
17:51 GMT |
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Christmas is, perhaps, the holiday dearest to the majority of people. Almost everybody likes snow, fir trees, presents and to believe in Santa Claus. Although they know it's not real, parents tend to perpetuate the myth of the red-suited jolly old man that brings presents for everyone during Christmas Eve. They ... |
9 December 2008
05:21 GMT |
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Jupiter Research Analyst Michael Gartenberg blogs about the "The Myths of Apple and Business Users" saying that folks see Apple computers as expensive, short on software and based on proprietary protocols. Gartenberg felt compelled to argue each of these convictions in his latest blog post. Here's how the Jupite... |
17 April 2008
08:47 GMT |
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In the history of not checking things that should be double-checked, the eighty Oxfordshire schools, jumping through hoops over the warning of a possible threat of the deadly "Strawberry Meth" or "Strawberry Quick," and the officer propagating the message should have one of the top positions. Truth be told, the schoo... |
5 March 2008
10:14 GMT |
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Today a research says celery is good for potency, tomorrow will come others to say the contrary, after that another research says that goat milk will grow the boobs of your girl, to find from another study one year later that's not true. But some studies have turned into real urban hard-like-stone beliefs, like ... |
21 December 2007
10:10 GMT |
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Like most computer hardware parts, the power supply units are coming attached to a high number of stories, half truths and downright misleading conceptions. While most of the average users do not need to go too deeply into the hardware components of their computers there are some that are interested in doing so and w... |
8 September 2007
08:00 GMT |
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There are a lot, and I really mean a LOT, of myths concerning hardware components, but nothing has attracted more guesses and myths turned into popular knowledge also known as "urban legends" than the hard disk drive did. I mean, how many "did you know..." have you ever heard about USBs? While some of these urban leg... |
17 July 2007
03:31 GMT |
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In North America there's Bigfoot, while in the Amazon we have the mapinguary, the giant slothlike mysterious monster, triggering shivers down the spines of almost everybody who lives in the Amazonian rain forest. And unlike Bigfoot, this monster has a fossil record. The folk stories abound in encounters with the... |
9 July 2007
14:46 GMT |
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Faced with some natural phenomena it could not explain, the human mind went wild and through imagination, misidentification, speculation or outright deception, fantastical mythological creatures appeared in cultures all around the world. But a new exhibition opening at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) th... |
24 May 2007
05:36 GMT |
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There are many historical accounts of spherical lightnings, or "ball lightnings." Although they were once thought to be very rare, a 1960 paper reported that 5% of the US population reported having witnessed ball lightning and another study analyzed reports of 10,000 cases.Ball lightning has the strange tendency to ... |
2 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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