Interesting reading…

Sorry, Ashley: Your 15 Minutes Are Almost Up - “Prostitute at Center of Spitzer Scandal Must Act Quickly if She Hopes to Capitalize on Her Instant Notoriety; She’s Already Lost $1 Million…”

Uncovering the Secrets of Nature’s Most Magical Substance - “Few substances in nature are more magical than royal jelly, a protein confection secreted by worker bees and eaten by bee larvae…”

Sink or swim: eight fish who guard the health of millions - “In a small brick shed in the Southern Highlands eight tiny fish stand guard, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, over the water flowing to more than 4 million people…”

Gates Predicts Big Technological Leaps - “In a speech to the Northern Virginia Technology Council, Gates speculated that some of the most important advances will come in the ways people interact with computers: speech-recognition technology, tablets that will recognize handwriting and touch-screen surfaces that will integrate a wide variety of information…”

5 Ways to Synchronize Your Body’s Clock - “When you go to bed and when you get up are keystones to restful, refreshing sleep. Once you learn to synchronize your body’s biological clock, your body will know when to sleep and when to be alert…”

Artificial Muscle That Can Power Your Devices - “Researchers from the UCLA have developed an artificial muscle that is self-healing and it generates enough energy to power up a portable device like an iPod or iPhone. Qibing Pei, one of the authors of the study, said that one day this technique could be used to create walking robots…”

Google Plan Would Open TV Band for Wireless Use - “Google proposed a plan on Monday that may let wireless Internet devices use vacant television airwaves without interfering with current equipment…”

Cut Forces NASA to Park a Mars Rover - “Scientists plan to put one of the twin Mars rovers to sleep and limit the activities of the other robot to fulfill a NASA order to cut $4 million from the program’s budget, mission team members said Monday…”

Followup: NASA: Mars Rovers Won’t Be Cut

Six organs removed - “To get to the tumor, which was buried deep in Brooke Zepp’s abdomen and threatened to kill her within months, the organ transplant specialist said he first had to remove her stomach, pancreas, spleen, liver and small and large intestines. The organs were chilled and preserved outside Zepp’s body during a painstaking 15-hour operation at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center…”

Smile you’re on ele-vision: How a camera attached to an elephant’s trunk captured amazing jungle views - “Cheeky langur monkeys, a rare sloth bear, spotted deer and a leopard with her cub are just some of the other animals that film-maker John Downer came across in his fascinating experiment…”

Left behind - “A fond farewell to 209 once-common things that are either obsolete or well on the way…”

Giant Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses - “New satellite images reveal what scientists call the “runaway” collapse of an enormous ice shelf in Antarctica as the result of global warming. The chunk of coastal ice was some 160 square miles (415 square kilometers) in area—about seven times the size of Manhattan….”

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