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Big Pictures for Small Spaces
Toshiba's new projector brings home theater to tiny living rooms. In Gear Factor. ITunes for Linux: Don't Bet On It
Penguin fans petition for a custom version of the popular Apple software, but they shouldn't get their hopes up. In Cult of Mac. Rebuild New Orleans Public Library
This website for the New Orleans Public Library (NOPL) provides information about recovery efforts following hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The site features information about current services, photographs and damage assessments for libraries, weekly progress reports, and opportunities for donating to the rebuilding efforts. Includes links to related information about Hurricane Katrina recovery. New, More Direct Pathways From Outside The Cell-to-cell Nuclei Discove
Researchers have shattered a long-held belief that no direct pathway exists between material outside of a cell and the cell nucleus. The cell is the smallest metabolically functional unit of life. [Ironic] LONDON: A jailed cocaine dealer is working as Santa Claus on
John Tams, who dons beard, boots and red suit to work in a cafe's Christmas grotto, said he wanted to give something back to the community... [Stupid] Hint: It's Above South Korea
TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea has menaced Japan with missiles, kidnapped its citizens and stands between it and a place in the soccer World Cup finals, but one in four Japanese high-school students can't place the country on a map. Web 2.0 Winners and Stinkers
What social web services do you get the most out of? And which ones are just a waste of venture capital? We want to know. In Monkey Bites. Hearing Loss From Chemotherapy Underestimated
An Oregon Health &Science University study found the incidence and severity of childhood hearing loss from ototoxicity, a condition in which platinum-based chemotherapy drugs damage tiny hair cells in the inner ear, has long been underreported by the medical community. It says a well-known classification system used for reporting toxicities in patients doesn't consider high-frequency hearing loss, allowing the magnitude of ototoxicity in children treated with platinum agents for tumors to be miscalculated. Fighting Diseases Of Aging By Wasting Energy, Rather Than Dieting -- W
By making the skeletal muscles of mice use energy less efficiently, researchers report that they have delayed the animals'deaths and their development of age-related diseases, including vascular disease, obesity, and one form of cancer. Those health benefits, driven by an increased metabolic rate, appear to come without any direct influence on the aging process itself, according to the researchers. Krakatoa: Volcano of Destruction
Companion to a "dramatized documentary that reconstructs the weeks before, and the struggle for survival during ... [the] cataclysmic eruption"in 1883 of the Krakatoa volcano. Features video clips, survivor diaries, a build-you-own volcano interactive feature, an illustrated essay, and puzzles. From Discovery Channel.
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