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Visualized: Worldwide Shark Attacks Since 2000
At the Florida Museum of Natural History, filling up two five-drawer file cabinets are 2700 detailed accounts of shark attacks that collectively make up what's called the International Shark Attack File. The name of the database might be somewhat misleading—two recent stories suggest that shark-human interactions should be referred to as "incidents" rather than "attacks." But whether we think of
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What Makes a State Fat or Thin?
Colorado is the leanest state once again, while Mississippi has the highest rates of obesity. How does geography play a role?



In Mississippi, the state government added healthy foods to vending machines in state office buildings. Some cities open school gyms to community members on weekends and afternoons, providing safe places to exercise.



Still, the Centers for Disease Control and Pre
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Modern medicine: Microbes maketh man
POLITICAL revolutionaries turn the world upside down. Scientific ones more often turn it inside out. And that, almost literally, is happening to the idea of what, biologically speaking, a human being is.



The traditional view is that a human body is a collection of 10 trillion cells which are themselves the products of 23,000 genes. If the revolutionaries are correct, these numbers radically un
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China Is Building an Army of Noodle-Making Robots
In the face of rising labor costs, Chinese restaurateur Cui Runguan is selling thousands of robots that can hand slice noodles into a pot of boiling water called the Chef Cui. Runguan says in the report below that just like robots replacing workers in factories, "it is certainly going to happen in sliced noodle restaurants." The robots costs $2,000 each, as compared to a chef, who would cost $4,7
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Huawei: The company that spooked the world
BANBURY, a little English town best known for a walk-on part in a nursery rhyme and as the eponymous origin of a fruitcake, is an unlikely fulcrum for the balance of power in the world of telecoms. But the “Cyber Security Evaluation Centre” set up there by Huawei, a Chinese telecoms giant, in 2010 marks a new way of persuading purchasers, and the British government, that equipment from the manufa
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NASA - More Eruptions from Active Region 1476
Active Region 1476 has now rotated to the right side of the sun's disk. It has been quiet for a few days, but erupted with an M-class flare that peaked at 9:47 PM EDT on May 16, 2012. A coronal mass ejection or CME was also associated with the flare. It burst from the sun at 9:48 PM EDT and is traveling at over 930 miles per second. NASA models suggest that it will not impact Earth and cause a ge
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Microsoft Details Office Web Apps Enhancements
Microsoft is test driving a new version of its Office Web Apps suite, whose applications are hosted by the vendor and accessed by users via a web browser.



Improvements in the suite, which includes online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, center on four areas: document authoring, touch interface support, collaboration and performance, Microsoft said on Friday.
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The Sad Twist Ending of the Most Heroic Video of the Week
At this link, you will find video of an act of kindness that you'd normally only see in a Hollywood movie. A man who goes by the wildly-appropriate-in...
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Do Business Schools Incubate Criminals ?
The recent scandals at Barclays Plc, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and other banks might give the impression that the financial sector has some serious morality problems. Unfortunately, it’s worse than that: We are dealing with a drop in ethical standards throughout the business world, and our graduate schools are partly to blame.