An evolutionist's point of view

Web service performs last online wishes

Seeded on Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:14 PM EST (The Globe and Mail)

New service based in Sweden called Webwill offers to manage e-mail and social networking accounts after death.

death, social, life, odd-news, networks, flickr, networking, facebook, twitter, social-netowrking

3 men share 2009 Nobel Prize in physics for work in networking society, digital photography

Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:40 PM EST (The Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Three scientists who created the technology behind digital photography and helped link the world through fiber-optic networks shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday.

technology, digital, physics, photos, photography

Ondra Redpoints Legendary Swiss Multipitch

Seeded on Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:16 AM EDT (climbing.com)

The teenage Czech climber Adam Ondra has done the first redpoint ascent of WoGü (5.14), a super-sustained mini–big wall of limestone in the mountains of Switzerland.

switzerland, sports, climbing, ondra, big-wall, multi-pitch

Leopard savaging a crocodile caught on camera

Seeded on Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:49 PM EDT (Telegraph)

The astonishing spectacle of a leopard savaging a crocodile has been captured for the first time on camera.

crocodile, africa, nature, science, photos, photo, biology, amazing, leopard, photograph

Rands Sends South African V12

Seeded on Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:32 AM EDT (climbing.com)

Lisa Rands sent Nutsa (V12) despite rainy weather at the sandstone mecca of Rocklands, South Africa. Rands had tried the problem on previous trips to the area, but bad weather and injury hindered her success last year.

sports, africa, climbing, escalade, bouldering, rands

New High-Altitude 5.13 in Colorado

Seeded on Tue Jul 8, 2008 6:53 PM EDT (climbing.com)

Rocky Mountain High (5.13a) is a two-pitch line with a crux 170-foot corner protected mostly with traditional gear. The route got its name from Mike Patz, who did the second ascent and said he was so addled from lack of oxygen that he forgot sequences on the crux pitch.

sports, colorado, hard, climbing, routes, high-altitude

Artist Joshua Allen Harris Turns Garbage Bags Into World's Greatest Balloon Animals

Seeded on Tue Jul 8, 2008 11:17 AM EDT (New York Magazine)

Using only tape and garbage bags, Harris creates giant inflatable animals that become animated when fastened to a sidewalk grate. In the video above, watch him do a bear, a giraffe, and one that looks not unlike the Cloverfield monster.

new-york, animals, city, video, arts, urban, garbage-bags

Nose Speed Record is Broken

Seeded on Tue Jul 8, 2008 12:01 AM EDT (climbing.com)

According to a text message that Florine sent to Chris McNamara of Supertopo.com after the climb on July 2, the time of their ascent was 2:43:33.

sports, climbing, nose, el-capitan

Rowling Testifies Against Lexicon Author

Seeded on Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:59 AM EDT (The New York Times)

But she had flown to New York from her Edinburgh home for the occasion, she testified, because she felt so strongly about someone else turning 17 years of her labor on the Harry Potter series into an encyclopedia.

books, potter, court, harry, law, arts, encyclopedia, rowling, lexicon

Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison

Seeded on Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:13 AM EDT (The New York Times)

For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words "Mary had a little lamb" on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound.

music, paris, science, edison, audio, sound, berkeley, phonograph, phonautogram

Programming Pioneer Weizenbaum Dead

Seeded on Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:26 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer programmer who invented the natural language understanding program known as ELIZA and later grew skeptical of artificial intelligence, has died, his family said Thursday. He was 85.

technology, death, programs, dead, computers, language, artificial-intelligence, obituary, ai, computer-science

Greed In the Name Of Green

Seeded on Fri Mar 7, 2008 11:09 PM EST (The Washington Post)

Let us buy Anna Sova Luxury Organics Turkish towels, 900 grams per square meter, $58 apiece. Let us buy the eco-friendly 600-thread-count bed sheets, milled in Switzerland with U.S. cotton, $570 for queen-size.

gore, green, nature, organic, society, world-news, sociology, environmentalism, environmentalist, capitalist

Online donors buy breast implants for Calgary woman

Seeded on Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:19 AM EST (CBC)

A Calgary woman has become the first Canadian to receive enough donations from strangers through a U.S. website to get breast augmentation surgery.

internet, donations, odd-news, breast, funny, social-networks, breast-implants

Military warns soldiers not to post info on Facebook

Seeded on Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:00 AM EST (CBC)

The Defence Department is advising Canadian soldiers not to post personal photos and information on social networking websites like Facebook, citing security concerns.

army, politics, soldiers, social-networking, defence, facebook, social-networks

New York accent: Still talking the tawk?

Seeded on Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:40 PM EST (amny.com)

The New York accent is very much alive, linguists will happily tell you, but like all dialects -- and that's what our accent is -- it's changing.

new-york, science, accents, languages, linguistics, dialects, linguistic

Humans 'evolving to have children later'

Seeded on Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:06 PM EST (Telegraph)

Good news for future generations of career women: we are evolving to have more children later in life, according to a recent study.

evolution, science, human-evolution

A house is a home, not an investment

Seeded on Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:43 PM EST (CBC)

I live in a home, not a house. It is not an investment. It is where I hide from the world and I don't care what it's worth because if I sold it, I would still need another hideout, which would cost the same.

home, housing, politics, investment, houses, toronto, home-owners, mortages, house-owners

Harrington, Sharma Are National Champs

Seeded on Mon Jan 28, 2008 7:10 PM EST (climbing.com)

Emily Harrington and Chris Sharma topped very strong fields at last weekend's comp near Salt Lake City to be named adult national champions in lead climbing.

sports, climbing, sharma, indoor-climbing, lead-climbing

Turn off your lights, make a difference

Seeded on Mon Jan 28, 2008 7:00 PM EST (bonuel.ca)

A short introduction to the whole idea of "Earth Hour". Everybody should join in this wonderfully simply idea. The idea is simple, turn off your lights for one hour on March 29th, 2008. From their offical website:

energy, global-warming, australia, lights, electricity, earth, world-news, activism, conservation, earth-hour

Preparing for an Interview Presentation

Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:48 AM EST

There are, I've learned, different types of job presentations. For instance, in the academic world, a job talk, as *they* call it, can be very different than an interview presentation given to a Wall Street firm.

Continue reading this entry ...

business, interview, research, work, powerpoint, presentations, public-speaking, presentation, job-talks

Last Alaska language speaker dies

Seeded on Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:57 PM EST (BBC News)

A woman believed to be the last native speaker of the Eyak language in the north-western US state of Alaska has died at the age of 89. Marie Smith Jones was a champion of indigenous rights and conservation. She died at her home in Anchorage.

alaska, world, usa, science, languages, linguistics, natives, native-speakers, indigenous-languages, eyak

Canadarm sale sparks revolt

Seeded on Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:33 PM EST (Toronto Star)

American engineer Paul Cottle left the United States to move to Canada several years ago because he could not reconcile his tax dollars going to pay for the development of weapons such as bombs and land mines.

technology, space, arms, engineer, engineering, land-mines, mines, canadarm

Chess genius Bobby Fischer dies in Iceland

Seeded on Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:18 AM EST (Canada.com)

Bobby Fischer, America's first and only world chess champion, who beat the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in a blaze of Cold War publicity in Reykjavik in 1972, has died in Iceland at the age of 64.

politics, chess, fisher, iceland

How drinking coffee keeps you healthy

Seeded on Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:55 AM EST (healthandfitness.sympatico.msn.ca)

Not only does Lesli's coffee taste good, but new research suggests that it may also be good for her.

health, alzheimer, parkinson, coffe

China bans plastic shopping bags

Seeded on Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:46 AM EST (CBC)

Chinese authorities on Tuesday said they're outlawing the plastic shopping bag because of pollution and energy concerns.

energy, china, global-warming, politics, pollution, plastic

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