World's smallest mother to risk giving birth (Pics)
dailymail.co.uk — The world’s smallest mother is about to give birth for the third time - despite warnings she is risking her life. Stacey Herald, who is just 2ft 4in tall, was told that becoming pregnant could kill her, but bravely defied doctors to have two babies half her height. (Submitted by bettverboten) More…
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Longevity Genes: Why Some of Us Live Longer
dailygalaxy.com — Scientists have long been baffled as to why some people live so much longer than others. Diet and exercise account for some of it, but researchers have found that genetics also factor heavily into the equation, and that long life is somewhat hereditary as it is with living bristlecone pine that were alive when Caesar ruled Rome. (Submitted by RunDiggMC) More…
How Skype Can Quickly and Easily Become a Social Network
gigaom.com — Because of already established business model Skype doesn’t need to sell advertising, which means that it doesn’t need to infringe on users’ privacy by turning their personal information into a salable commodity for advertisers — in my mind the fundamental flaw of web-based social networks. (Submitted by Kiters) More…
Build a Bootable Rescue SD Card For Your Mac
maclife.com — For the hardcore users out there, Apple decided to give the SD port super powers -- you can use it to build a bootable SD card. That bootable card can then become an awesome tool for performing emergency hard drive repairs, data recovery, recovering deleted files, and much more. (Submitted by backwardscompat) More…
The 10 BIGGEST Videogame Explosions...
gamespy.com — ...and how they failed to settle minor disputes. (Submitted by YME1280) More…
The Fight Over the Future of Food
reuters.com — Nearly 5,000 miles away, in laboratories in St. Louis, Missouri, hundreds of scientists at the world's biggest seed company, Monsanto, also want to feed the world, only their tools of choice are laser beams and petri dishes. (Submitted by CaliforniaEagle) More…
World's Freakiest Worm Gets Expanded Family Tree
wired.com — Five years after discovering some of the strangest creatures in the world — mouthless worms that live in the bones of dead whales — scientists have taken a peek into their genes. Though not complete, the glimpse shows these creatures to be far more complicated than was known. (Submitted by mtnboy) More…
Hollywood's antipiracy charm offensive has FCC in crosshairs
arstechnica.com — Can Hollywood and Big Cable get the FCC and Congress to give them carte blanche on their war against movie piracy? An impending decision on a proposal to block analog streams to HDTVs may show how much clout the studios have with the new FCC. (Submitted by louiebaur) More…
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