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| What?s in a number? |
| Is technology dumbing people down? asks Rachel Metz |
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cellphone-user, when was the last time you memorised a
phone number? It may have been before you got your cellphone,
because ? perhaps unintentionally ? you?ve become reliant
on the gadget as both a communication device and a phone
book ... | Read.. |
| Spider silk secret cracked |
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silk will come handy for the making of airbags and
bulletproof vests, among other things. After 15
years of study, biologists at the University of
Wyoming, US, have cracked the code of this amazingly
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| Thermal fallout |
| It’s part of a student’s
doctoral work at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
in Kharagpur — an eight-page research paper published
in a journal ... | Read.. |
| Water crisis at Cherrapunji |
| How to cope with the scarcity
of drinking water following a tsunami, like the one that
hit the coastal areas of the Indian Ocean recently? ... |
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| Better mousetrap |
Google has so firmly staked out its place as the
Internet search-engine leader that it has even earned
a place as a verb in the English lexicon. Paradoxically,
because of its popularity, there may be no better
time to try something different. ... |
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| QED: To Link, or Not to Link
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The tentacles of copyright acts never seem to set the World Wide Web
free. The French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) has sued the
Internet search giant Google for $17.5 million in damages for copyright
infringement for publishing photos, headl ... | Read.. |
| Recommended:
Serious look into UFOs
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ALIENS:
WHY THEY ARE HERE
Bryan Appleyard
Scribner; £ 15.99 ... | Read.. |
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Why Corner
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| Why are mobile phones banned in a petrol pump? |
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You?ve had a cold for five to seven days and thought you
were getting better. Then it grew worse. More congestion,
increasing fatigue and now headache or facial pain around
your nose or eyes or upper teeth. You guessed it was a
sinus infection. ... | 
