Winters in the Gobi desert are usually long and very cold but the winter of…
Month: December 2011
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Great apes make sophisticated decisions
Chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans make decisions carefully. Great apes weigh their chances of success, based…
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New findings about the prion protein and its interaction with the immune system
Scrapie is a neurodegenerative disease which can function as a model for other diseases caused…
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Community Conservation in Zanzibar: Not just mangroves and monkeys
The sustainable development goals of community conservation in Zanzibar raise more complex issues than just…
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Stratfor delays website launch after hack attack (Reuters)
Reuters – Private intelligence analysis firm Strategic Forecasting Inc., which was attacked by online hackers…
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Gameloft sale prices Android games at $0.99 starting Thursday (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends – Android gamers, youâre getting some post-Christmas attention from Gameloft. The French game…
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Verizon users hit with third data outage in December (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends – According to a report out of Reuters, Verizon is investigating yet another…
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Fast Five, Hangover II make the top ten list of most pirated movies in 2011 (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends – According to BitTorrent news site TorrentFreak, the fifth entry in the Fast and the…
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Alibaba hires U.S. lobbying firm as it eyes Yahoo (Reuters)
Reuters – Alibaba Group has hired a Washington lobbying firm in a sign that the…
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Verizon looking into reports of 4G network problem (Reuters)
Reuters – Verizon Wireless is investigating reports that some customers were experiencing trouble accessing its…