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[Odd] A Romanian couple has named their son Yahoo as a sign of gratitu
Daily Libertatea said on Thursday Cornelia and Nonu Dragoman, both from Transylvania, met and decided they were meant for each other following a three-month relationship over the net.They married and had a baby this Christmas, whom they decided to name after one of the worldwide web's most popular portals."We named him Lucian Yahoo after my father and the net, the main beacon of my life,"Cornelia Dragoman was quoted as saying. Giving Search a Human Touch
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales plans to use open-source software and the collaborative power of wikis to transform the search engine. Google, watch your back. Wired News interview by Michael Calore. Art Restoration: Technique Removes Old Polymer Layers From Sensitive H
Italian researchers have developed a technique to effectively remove old polymer layers from sensitive historic artworks. The new cleaning system involves only a tiny proportion of volatile organic compounds. Tracing Marijuana To Its Roots: Scientists Seek Marijuana's Isotopic F
Scientists at the Alaska Stable Isotope Facility can tell whether marijuana confiscated in a traffic stop in Fairbanks likely came from Mexico or the Matanuska Valley. They're also working on a way to determine whether it was grown indoors or out. A few more years and enough samples and they hope to have something even more precise: an elemental fingerprint that could tell police where and under what conditions a sample of marijuana was grown. Swine Flu vaccination: voluntary system works
Social interaction between neighbors, work colleagues and other communities and social groups makes voluntary vaccination programs for epidemics such as swine flu, SARS or bird flu a surprisingly effective method of disease control. [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. Mescal worm test shows DNA leaks into preservative liquids
Just because you don't swallow the worm at the bottom of a bottle of mescal doesn't mean you have avoided the essential worminess of the potent Mexican liquor, according to scientists. They have discovered that the liquid itself contains the DNA of the agave butterfly caterpillar -- the famously tasty mescal "worm." New Statistical Technique Improves Precision Of Nanotechnology Data
A new statistical analysis technique that identifies and removes systematic bias, noise and equipment-based artifacts from experimental data could lead to more precise and reliable measurement of nanomaterials and nanostructures likely to have future industrial applications. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Country Office Afghanistan:
Reports on topics such as opium poppy production (annual back to 2000), a farmers' intentions survey, and an assessment of drug use in Kabul. Also includes links to a fact sheet about drugs and crime in Afghanistan and to related information. From the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). A Giant Sucking Sound for Sea Turtles -- Nicaragua's Rich Sea Grass Be
Sea turtles that receive the highest protection in Costa Rica and other neighboring countries are dying by the thousands at the hands of unregulated - and unsustainable - commercial fishing in Nicaragua, according to a study by the Bronx Zoo based Wildlife Conservation Society.
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