Archive for February 18th, 2010

  • Albatross

    Albatross

    An albatross is the grandest living flying machine on Earth. An albatross is bone, feathers, muscle, and the wind. An albatross is an art deco bird, striking of pattern, clean of line, epic in travels, heroically faithful. A parent albatross may fly more than 10,000...

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  • Google’s Buzz Word

    Google’s Buzz Word

    Last week, Google launched Buzz, a social networking service that would, among other things, automatically generate a friends list based on your Gmail contacts. Of course, said service immediately sparked concerns about privacy – you email your mom, but do you really want her automatically...

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  • Tutankhamun- A fragile Pharoah?

    Tutankhamun- A fragile Pharoah?

    Tutankhamun The golden boy of the ancient Egypt king Tutankhamun wasn’t exactly a strapping sun god a new study reveals. Instead, a DNA study says, King Tut was a frail pharaoh, beset by malaria and a bone disorder—and possibly compromised by his newly discovered incestuous origins....

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  • Inukshuk

    Inukshuk

    The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics emblem depicts an inukshuk, a symbol used by the Inuit people, or Eskimos, of Canada’s Arctic regions. The Vancouver 2010 emblem is dubbed Ilanaaq—”friend” in an Inuit language—and is an “eternal expression of the hospitality of a nation that warmly...

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  • The Pollution Within

    The Pollution Within

    Many of us think the pollution we absorb are from the gases released from the roaring automobiles. But while going through some medical journals I came across this very interesting revelation. Found in mattresses, carpets, the plastic casing of televisions, electronic circuit boards, and automobiles,...

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