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Developer IntuApps is preparing (hoping?) for the approval of a Swine Flu Tracker app for iPhone and iPod touch, a tool that will enable every handset owner on the planet to successfully zig-zag through the hotbeds of the infection. The app will be distributed free of charge, following its approval in the App Store. ... |
4 May 2009
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A chalk carved toy-like figurine representing a pig or a hedgehog was discovered lying next to the body of a child that was either stillborn or dead at a very young age, next to the Stonehenge monument. The figurine was calculated to be more than 2 millennia in age, and it appears to have been sculpted in the memory... |
23 October 2008
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About one month ago, the folks at Panda Labs warned that a new MSN Messenger worm was spotted on the web, searching for vulnerable computers through the popular instant messaging client. The "kissing pig" worm still exists on the web, according to some users, but what's more important is that the majority of ant... |
15 May 2008
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The process of regenerating fingers would not benefit only injured soldiers or hurt civilians, but could also be a first step on the way of regenerating entire limbs or damaged parts of skin (in the case of scars), hearts and spinal cords. Some animals can regenerate their limbs naturally, like the salamanders (starf... |
6 May 2008
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We know that pork is not very healthy, but pig brain proves harmful in a very unexpected way. 18 pork plant workers in Minnesota, 5 in Indiana and 1 in Nebraska have been detected so far with a mysterious neurological disease got while removing brains from slaughtered pigs, as signaled at the American Academy of Neur... |
18 April 2008
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Indonesia makes the world's largest archipelago, with 17,000 islands. One of its largest islands is Sulawesi (Celebes), which is like a bridge between Australia and Asia. A particular universe in Sulawesi is represented by Tana Toraja ("the Land of the Highlanders"), in the southern part of the island, dominated... |
13 March 2008
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Just one female cat can generate 420,000 offspring in its lifetime. Only in US, 7 million dogs and cats are euthanized annually. In Texas, the 3-4 million feral hogs have turned into a serious problem to farmers and ranchers. The elimination of large predators, like wolves and grizzlies, has led to a deer population ... |
26 February 2008
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We use to call "pig" an insensitive person. But why do we offend pigs this way? Pigs can be so romantic... While humans are desperate to make love woos and express their affection on Valentine's Day, this little English piglet offers us all its affection in an image.Named, of course, Valentine, the female piglet... |
13 February 2008
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If so many stars and starlets can introduce all kind of synthetic stuff in their lips for a sexier look, then why not an implant derived from pig intestines? In fact, the new product could come with a longer lasting period than injections for filling out thin lips, as pointed by the new research published in the Arch... |
29 January 2008
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Soon, we could make barbecue during nighttime, as the pigs of the future seem to be fluorescent. The protein named aequorin, from the luminescent jellyfish Aequorea victoria and many other marine organisms, produces a blue glow in the presence of Ca2+ ions, due to a chemical reaction, that's why it has been used... |
11 January 2008
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I was really in the mood for a bit of a diva scandal, especially with all the Britney drama going on. My stomach simply could not take in any more serious theories and big words such as "multiple personality", "bipolar disorder" and the likes. I just couldn't. So I was extremely happy yesterday when news came ou... |
9 January 2008
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Indigenous and rural people, staying in a closer contact with nature, can predict the weather by "reading" flora and fauna. For example, in Europe, people know when a rainfall is approaching because lettuces, Hipochoeris radicata (a forb), and wall lettuces open their leafs. Bees, too, hurry up to their hive, the but... |
21 December 2007
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These are the New World's native wild boars: the peccaries. And till now, the largest pig-like species have stood hidden from scientists in the southeastern Amazon region of Brazil. It is the largest peccary in the world, about the size of a large dog.The new species, the forest giant peccary (Pecari maximus) wa... |
5 November 2007
03:56 GMT |
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Could you imagine your life without ham? Pork is essential for the European cuisine. Now, a team has attempted to shed light on how pig husbandry emerged in Europe. Livestock herding appeared in the Near East about 11,000 years ago, when sheep were the first meat-providing domesticated animals. Three hypotheses have ... |
5 September 2007
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This is the Year of the Pig in the Chinese zodiac. Accidentally or not, some bizarre pigs were born in China this year and they are being given special attention. The birth of these pigs is likely to be seen as a particularly good omen. Or a bad one.In January in Quanzhou a two-faced four-eyed piglet was born, in Mar... |
4 August 2007
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After the mad cow, why not the demented pig? This is what Danish researchers at Institute of Human Genetics, Aarhus University, and University of Copenhagen, led by Associate Professor Arne Lund Jorgensen, are going to produce: the first pigs containing genes that trigger the Alzheimer's disease. The first clone... |
6 July 2007
06:33 GMT |
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Pigs are not just for ham; indigenous pigs can trace the origin of the people that raise them. DNA analysis of wild and domestic pigs has made archaeologists change the ideas of where the Malayo-Polynesian colonists originated and which their migration routes were so that they reached the remote Pacific islands.Resea... |
13 March 2007
06:17 GMT |
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