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It's the end of the year and, naturally, a time for prizes and presents. Christmas cheer is all around us and many try to spread it out as well. Yahoo!, on the other hand, has decided to tell the world what it thinks about the impact that some sites have had on the Internet as a whole, on its users and rank the... |
18 December 2007
11:56 GMT |
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You come across these people in many countries; they do not have a national territory or their own government. Legends describe their arrival from Egypt, but these are only fairytales. Ignorant people in the west associate their origin with Eastern Europe, like Hungary and Romania. That's false, even if indeed l... |
28 November 2007
10:43 GMT |
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Some odd study made in the United Stated, reveals that pedestrians walking during the evening rush hour, are three time more likely to be killed or hit by cars, than before the time change. This week-end clocks are turned one hour back, switching from Day Light Saving Time(DST) to Standard Time. The Day Light Savi... |
3 November 2007
06:58 GMT |
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People magazine just named Beyounce Knowles as the best-dressed celebrity of the past year. Truth be told, this has managed to raise a few eyebrows, seeing how the beautiful R&B singer has graced many times the "hit and miss" and "fashion police" sections of magazines both on paper and electronic. A further "fashion ... |
14 September 2007
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No hanky spanky with the Neanderthals, or ape-men (Homo erectus) in our family tree. A new study shows that we are 100 % an African product. This is the result of a comparison of skulls and DNA of human remains found worldwide. It appears that human species living elsewhere in the world did not contribute to our ance... |
19 July 2007
02:58 GMT |
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Robots have been part of human imagination for longer than you think. Though modern science-fiction literary genre has made them so famous, that they've become universal brands, like "Robocop", "Terminator", "Data", "R2-D2" or "iRobot", they have been present in mythology long before.When it comes to robots, so... |
19 June 2007
12:11 GMT |
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007, is the day that marks the major demographic shift of the human population from rural to urban: for the first time in history there will be more city-dwellers than villagers. This is the conclusion of a research made at North Carolina State University and the University of Georgia. The UN has ... |
26 May 2007
04:59 GMT |
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Anthropologists have noticed that most primitive tribes name themselves by the word that in their name means "people". But many others are known by the names other people gave to them. Sometimes, these names are not in conformity with the reality, in other situations they are. Let's see the roots of some names. ... |
2 March 2007
09:49 GMT |
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