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New Lethal ‘Distracted Doctoring’
Image via Wikipedia A new threat to surgery patients But phoning while driving still seems more lethal ‘Hospitals and doctors’ offices, hoping to curb medical error, have invested heavily to put...
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Brazil’s Wealthy Trample Nature Preserves
Image via Wikipedia More and more are squatting there. Is that a brilliant or beastly idea? ‘From the sparkling, emerald-green waters of the Atlantic off the east coast of Brazil, Cavala Island looks...
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Print Copies of Encyclopaedia Britannica Hot Now
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition, with Britannica book of the year 2002, with white library labels. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Last Print Edition Has a Sales Boom If you...
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Typical American Diet Linked to Autism
A boy with autism. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I keep noticing that processed foods – hotdogs, sausages, etc… – keep getting sweeter and sweeter and it’s just revolting ‘The typical American diet may be...
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When Gmail Went Down
Wikibooks-Gmail (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The massive online reaction on Gmail’s recent outage – just about 30 minutes – sounded like the end of the Net and proves how huge the number of its users is....
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Tech in Literature
Español: Rasgos semánticos de la metáfora. English: Semantic features of the metaphor. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A unique metaphor-recognizing software ‘An innovative project, called Autonomous Dynamic...
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US Cities That Libraries and Bookstores Love
The surprising list of America’s Most Well-Read Cities ‘Alexandria was one of three Virginia cities on the Amazon.com list of the 20 most well-read cities. It topped Cambridge, Massachusetts, the home...
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Taliban Targeting Another Activist Girl
And Hina Khan says the police won’t protect her. She publicly denounced militants’ atrocities in 2009 ‘Following the deadly attack on activist Malala Yousafzai a few weeks ago, another schoolgirl from...
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E-Commerce Proves Germany Best Book Lover
Research Bar (Photo credit: Rice-Aron Library) ‘June research from Arbeitsgemeinschaft Online Forschung (AGOF) suggests that lower-ticket purchases may be at least partially responsible for those...
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Another Rare Blogging Lawsuit
Blogger Sued Over Rape Story Reaches Settlement The last blog (plagiarism) lawsuit that made it to the headlines before this was the case of a publisher against food blogger Monica Gaudio in 2010...
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Should Amazon Ban Short-Short Fiction?
Cover via Amazon How Short a Short Story Is ‘A work that is less than 7,500 words is typically defined as a short story, and a short-short can be as short as a thousand words.’ Just a few days ago, I...
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New School of Thought Divides Social Psychologists
Failure to replicate intelligence-priming effects ignites row in research community ‘…In their paper, Shanks and his colleagues tried to obtain an intelligence-priming effect, following protocols in...
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Promoting Homosexuality in Children’s Schools
English: Uniform of the Boy Scouts of America in 1974. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) They finally STEPPED OVER THE LINE. When will the world system ban heterosexuality next!!? I won’t even be surprised if...
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Music Industry’s New Grammar Rules
Music grammar rules aims to make songs easier to find ‘Released last month at the National Association of Recording Merchandisers’ annual convention, rock ‘n’ roll’s new rule book aims to establish...
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Social Media Lingo and Oxford Snobbery
Why ‘To Tweet’ Is Lowercase but ‘To Google’ Is Not ‘The linguistic snobs over at the Oxford English Dictionary have accepted “tweet” — as in to post something on Twitter — into its exclusive language...
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Why You Deserve to Lose Your Privacy
To the apathetics: did you know that you even have freedoms? Probably not to the extent that you should. Let me explain some of them. Full story Nillabyte is a discussion forum where you can submit...
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The Rise of Education Tech
English: Librarians against DRM (Photo credit: Wikipedia) ‘Gone are the days when all that’s needed is a chalkboard and textbook to reach students. Educators who really want to have an impact are...
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Surprising 10 One-Hit Wonder Authors
Authors You Didn’t Realize Never Wrote Second Novels J D Salinger being in the list really surprised me list If You Don’t Tell Your Story, They’ll Tell It For You And that happened to me just hours...
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2 Major Problems for American Colleges
The entrance to the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As Universities Go Global, Free Thought Goes Missing Is Yale and NYU sacrificing academic...
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J.K. Rowling’s Secret and a Linguist Sleuth
English: J. K. Rowling, after receiving an honorary degree from The University of Aberdeen (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A Forensic Linguist Explains How He Figured Rowling’s Pseudonym Out As explained by...
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