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Gay marriage has been legalised in New York state, after a long and acrimonious passage. The new law will allow gay marriage cermonies to take place in the city from the end of July 2011. The move is part of a wider battle for civil rights in America, that has so far led to same-sex [...]
Nature has published the first ever study that tracked fish across the world. After following fish on their migrations for ten years, two huge areas of the northern Pacific have been discovered to be the ocean equivalents of pristine and massively-abundant wilderness. The Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) data set, built from over a quarter [...]
A rare find of prehistoric art in North America has been confirmed as genuine after two years of tests by experts. Found by a fossil hunter and announced in 2009, the find has since been subject to exhaustive analysis and has now passed all tests. The art shows a mammoth, which died out around 13,000 [...]
Afghanistan is building a pilot internet network, out of trash. The simple lo-tech FabFi network works at high speed. It’s an open source project inspired by MIT’s Fab Lab. Standard off-the-shelf routers are hooked up to simple metallic mesh reflector dishes that can be made from discards and scavenged rubbish. Creative Commons photo of Hammeed [...]
ODE Magazine has launched a new RSS news feed that only pulls in the positive news, from 60 of the world’s mainstream news sources. The system is semi-automated and still ‘in beta’, so it throws up a few false positives — but is generally fairly accurate. The system attempts a basic semantic analysis of a [...]
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