Topic: Green - on November 17, 2007 at 10:15:00 AM CET
Solar Powered Lamps and Water Filtration Equals Sustainable Business In Nepal
San Jose, Calif- Nora McDevitt sat down with the 2007 Accenture Economic Development Laureate for the Tech Museum Awards, Anil Chitraker from Nepal. Anil Chitraker is with the Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness which harnessed Nepal’s 300 annual days of sun into a safer light source and an economic opportunity by developing a solar-powered lamp and water filtration system.
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Topic: NATURE - on November 17, 2007 at 10:12:00 AM CET
7 Incredible Natural Phenomena you've never seen
The atmospheric phenomenon known as a circumhorizon(tal) arc, or "Fire rainbow", appears when the sun is high in the sky (i.e., higher than 58° above the horizon), and its light passes through diaphanous, high-altitude cirrus clouds made up of hexagonal plate crystals.
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Topic: NATURE - on November 17, 2007 at 10:10:00 AM CET
Whale found 1,000 miles inside Amazon
Biologists and villagers in a remote corner of the Amazon rainforest were searching for a 12-tonne whale yesterday that had reportedly lost its way and become stranded 1,000 miles from the ocean.
The five-metre long (16ft) creature, which biologists said was probably a minke whale, became stranded on a beach on the Tapajos river, 39 miles from the city of Santarem. Environmental experts said the whale had probably become separated from its group in the Atlantic Ocean, off northern Brazil, after falling ill or being hit by a boat.
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Topic: NEWS - on November 17, 2007 at 10:04:00 AM CET
Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything
Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything - Garrett Lisi, 39, who completed his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1999 at the University of California, San Diego.
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Topic: TV - on November 17, 2007 at 9:57:00 AM CET
Help Pick The Years Funniest Commercials
Head over to TBS's VeryFunnyAds.com to vote on their choices for FUNNIEST COMMERCIALS OF THE YEAR: 2007, the network's annual celebration of the cleverest and most humorous commercials from the United States and around the world. Then after the votes are tallied, the winning ads will be featured in a one-hour TBS special hosted by comedian Kevin Nealon (Saturday Night Live, Weeds).
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Topic: MUSIK - on November 17, 2007 at 9:54:00 AM CET
Gene Simmons blames college kids for ruining music biz
Music pirates have made a powerfully bitter enemy of Gene Simmons, bass guitarist for the 1970s band Kiss.
In a recent interview with Billboard, Simmons curmudgeonly blames "college kids" for the "mess" the record industry is in, and blasted artists like Radiohead and Trent Reznor for seeking a different businesses model to vend their music.
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Topic: WEB - on November 17, 2007 at 9:53:00 AM CET
Will There Be A New Bittorrent?
At the end of October one of the admins of the world's largest Bittorrent site sat down for an interview and predicted the protocol's demise. Citing Bittorrent, Inc.'s corporate ties and some technical limitations, brokep announced that The Pirate Bay was working on a new protocol to succeed Bram Cohen's Bittorrent. The idea's been percolating throughout the filesharing scene since then: a small survey of top site admins conducted by TorrentFreak found opinion divided over whether Bittorrent will be replaced.
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