“Endless Summer” the official Song for the EURO 2012 in Poland & Ukraine.
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Verizon introduces ‘unlimited everything’ plans – for phones, families, tablets
Verizon Wireless today announced the addition of Share Everything plans. They’re essentially family plans, allowing you, mom, dad, and big or little brother or sister to share from a pool of unlimited voice minutes and text messages, plus a specified amount of data. The service also offers a free mobile HotSpot service to any device …
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New WordPress plugin from Facebok – Facebook for WordPress
Users of blogging platform WordPress can now take advantage of greater integration with Facebook following the social network’s release of a plugin that enables features such as social publishing and mentions. The plugin allows users of both platforms to cross-post their WordPress content to their timeline profiles and pages they manage, as well as to add the names of pages or friends to …
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39 New Scientific Concepts That Everyone Should Understand
Deep time The belief that there is much more time before us than has already elapsed. This creates a more expansive view of the world and the potential of the universe. “Our sun is less than halfway through its life. It formed 4.5 billion years ago, but it’s got 6 billion more years before the …
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Americans’ heads are getting bigger
It’s not clear why—medicine? cars? supermarkets?—but the skulls of white Americans, and perhaps of other races and nationalities, have become slightly taller and roomier, according to new forensic research. New measurements of hundreds of skulls of white Americans born between 1825 and 1985 suggest that their typical noggin height has grown by about a third …
Shakespeare’s Restless World – fascinating new podcast from BBC Radio 4
British Museum Director Neil MacGregor presents Shakespeare’s Restless World, a new series for Radio 4. The 20-part series looks at the world through the eyes of Shakespeare’s audience by exploring objects from that turbulent period. Examining these objects, Neil discusses how Elizabethan playgoers understood and made sense of the unstable and rapidly changing world in …
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Music Video – Gamer Girl, Country Boy – starring Felicia Day
Gamer Girl, Country Boy Starring: Felicia Day & Jason Charles Miller Song on iTunes
UCLA scientists unlock mystery of how ‘handedness’ arises
The overwhelming majority of proteins and other functional molecules in our bodies display a striking molecular characteristic: They can exist in two distinct forms that are mirror images of each other, like your right hand and left hand. Surprisingly, each of our bodies prefers only one of these molecular forms. This mirror-image phenomenon — known …
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World map of social networks
The most dominant social network for each country: Facebook clearly dominates, but a few countries have other favorites: – VKontakte and Odnoklassniki remain strong in Russian-speaking countries – Tencent’s QZone is still king of the hill in China – Vietnam’s most popular social network is Zing – People in Iran seemingly prefer Cloob over Facebook – Drauglem is the top dog in Latvia …
Life Expectancy rises 0.9 years for whites, 2 years for blacks
A recent report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, based on data from 2008, shows a few interesting changes. African-americans are catching up in terms of long life, though still behind. Both white men and women increased their average life expectancy by 0.9 years. African-american men increased theirs by 2 years and …
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