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  Storm virus attacks blogs
...ird parties. Storm virus presents a real danger as it interferes in social networks. A lot of people who visit blog journals are not aware of the threat that may come from the common discussion on related topics with the author they trust. A link that will appear in blog's author site will lure them to check out an interesting video. One of Symantec engineers, Eric Chien, said that some bulletin boards were already s...
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  Happiness Might Appear Before Fortunate Events Occur, Study Says
...e run in a more balanced way are predominantly inclined to feel happy long before the fortunate occurrence in their life. Latest psychological studies have found that the feeling of happiness is not related to outside circumstances or turning points of one's life. This means that prosperity, marriage or health do not determine our subjective well being. This theory has proved to be basically true, but only for some cha...
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  Aggressive women - genes' fault
...A new research has found the true cause of aggressive behavior in women. The University of Pittsburgh conducted a study where it was revealed that variations in serotonin receptor gene are closely related to hostility and ill temper in women. As it was previously showed by various researches, the hormone serotonin plays an important part in regulating aggressive behavior for animals and people. Thus the lower level of ...
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  Chemical Found in Cosmetics, Soaps and Lubricants is Hazardous for Men
...sterone in men. Richard Stahlhut, A Preventive Medicine resident at the University of Rochester said that the exposure to such chemicals leads to the increase of obesity rates and an epidemic of such related disorders like Type 2 diabetes. He outlined that some significant declines in both testosterone levels and quality of sperm have been spotted during the last several decades in the United States and some other cou...
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  Google's List of Class-Action Lawsuits
...#`cmbol#?Sfbe!npsf//=0b?'))) "Parker, who represented himself in the suit, publishes online under the name "Snodgrass Publishing Group". One of his publications was an e-book entitled "29 Reasons Not To Be A Nice Guy" and at some time he posted Reason 6 from this book onto a Usenet forum, the worldwide network of discussion groups". Claims: search engine had breached his copyright in the material. Outcome: "Judge Surr...
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  France Will not Put a Ban on Skinny Models
...ng adolescent girls in the Western world and has one of the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric condition, with approximately 10% of people diagnosed with the condition eventually dying due to related factors. Anorexia nervosa is a complex condition, involving psychological, neurobiological, and sociological components....
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  The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity
... B.C in South-Western Iran); - fifth discovery was named the invention of the optical microscope in the 17th century; - invention of concrete by John Smeaton was placed on the sixth place among the inventions; - the seventh invention in the list was given to the steel processing, found about year 300 B.C. in India; - brass processing in about 5000 B.C. on the present territory of Turkey has taken the eighth entry in t...
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  Beautiful flirty women choose machos for procreation
...r long-term relationships with them. However, her choice of the most suitable mate will change considerably depending on the perception of her own attractiveness, study says. Recent studies on the related theme proved that women are receptive to men's smell at certain time of their periods. The masculine-looking man featuring firm square chin and keen brows are seen as good partners for short-term relationships, while ...
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  Robot to Help Neurosurgery
...Surgery can take a huge step towards the future due to a new surgical robot system, developed at University of Calgary. Surgeons' mistakes will no longer take place because the NeuroArm is going to upgrade the level of neurosurgery as well as other branches of operative medicine. It it the first MRI-compatible robot in the world and its creator is Dr. Garnette Sutherland. For six years he has worked together with a lea...
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  New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans
...One of the latest inventions in the field of light emitting devices might change the way people light their homes and design clothes. The device represents a thin film of plastic able to conduct electricity and create solar power. Scientists working on the international project are looking forward to bring the organic light emitting devices to the masses. Thus the invention could significantly cut costs by billions of ...
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  Nano-nose to help identify illnesses
...Nanoparticles are used by U.S. researchers to 'smell' the scent of illnesses in fluids of the body. The researchers used nanoparticles of gold with different coatings to distinguish among different proteins and detect the illness, as reported by the New Scientist. According to Vince Rotello from the University of Massachusetts the human nose has a series of receptors, which react differently to different compounds. Thu...
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  If Google is 'BigBrother', then YES - BigBrother watches You!
...t and a user on WebmasterWorld said that he was currently working on his site for some time now and he noted that some of the targeted ads from Google are too precise, i.e. they were not even closely related to the theme of the site they appeared on, yet they were highly relevant to the user, as what they advertised was 'commercial pilot' or 'helicopter pilot' (a mere coincidence?). This situation requires some questio...
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  What words are most often frontpaged on digg?
... Word Category Nr. Pages Nr. stories (approx.) Stories frontpaged (pages) Nr. of stories frontpaged (approx.) Most popular story dugg, times Story title URL Game Hardware 2444 36660 155 2325 4862 Guy selling every NES game ever made on eBay!! With pics ...
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  Microsoft Surface - Innovative Table-Like Computer
... drag icons of their meals to their credit cards. Starwood explores the possibilities of using the computers for photo sharing, music play-list browsing, food and beverage ordering, games and game-related activities, and as a 'virtual concierge'. Harrah's wants to use the Surface tables to let people access maps of its different properties, find out the details about events and venues, as well as create their personal ...
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  Australia in Danger of Terrorist Attacks?
... Prof O'Brien held a speech devoted to the issue at the Sydney Human Factors in Security conference. He accentuated that law enforcement authorities must keep track of on-line usage on bomb-making related search strings to protect Australia from terrorist attacks. Powered by www.infoniac.com. ...
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