What do you get when you combine Google Maps with hyper-local news and comments?
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Maps + News = YourStreet - 0 views
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The site detects where you are located and serves up news stories about events that recently occurred in your city or neighborhood, as well comments from YourStreet members who live nearby.
VOA News - Haiti Seeks New Prime Minister After Food Riots - 0 views
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Leaders in Haiti are looking for a new prime minister as the Caribbean nation tries to recover from a week of deadly food riots.
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Six people have been killed in Haiti during violent protests against the high cost of food. The victims include a United Nations peacekeeper from Nigeria who was shot and killed in the capital of Port-au-Prince.
ABC News: Unmaking the Band, Facebook for Music - 0 views
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Indaba, which launched earlier this year, provides a meeting ground for musicians. Anyone can upload a track — whether it's a beat, or a melody or a full-fledged song — and can solicit other musicians to record new or different parts. Similarly, musicians looking to add or build on other people's songs can search for these open "sessions," which are tagged by genre and instrument. They can ask to be invited to play and can send audition tracks.
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Though the Indaba guys were at Harvard at the same time as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and plan to release their own Facebook application
BBC NEWS | Business | World Bank tackles food emergency - 0 views
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crisis has sparked recent food riots in several countries including Haiti, the Philippines and Egypt
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Emergency help would include an additional $10m (£5m) to Haiti, where several people were killed in food riots last week, and a doubling of agricultural loans to African farmers.
Google Unveils Tool To Track Refugees Worldwide - TechNow News Story - KNTV | San Franc... - 0 views
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Internet search giant Google Inc. unveiled a new feature Tuesday for its popular mapping programs that shines a spotlight on the movement of refugees around the world. The maps will aid humanitarian operations as well as help inform the public about the millions who have fled their homes because of violence or hardship, according to the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, which is working with Google on the project.
THE END(S) OF ETHNOGRAPHY: Social/Cultural Anthropology's Signature Form of Producing K... - 0 views
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Today's investment in and calls for public anthropology are one symptom of the profound rupture and reorganization of the research agendas of social/cultural anthropology as it moved away from the four-field organization of anthropology into an alignment with certain humanities-driven, energetically interdisciplinary appropriations of the concerns of the social sciences in the name of "theory." In anthropology, this story can most cogently be told by focusing on what happened to its central professional culture of method: what ethnography looks like today and the conditions of research, encompassing fieldwork, that produce it. This article is an examination of this reorganization of social/cultural anthropology, which has left the center of the discipline intellectually weak relative to the vitality of its diverse interdisciplinary and even nonacademic engagements. It asks whether this post-1980s reorganized social/cultural anthropology might rediscover and reunite with some of its historic core associations (four-field as well as topical) in the new terrains of research and partnerships on the peripheries of its old disciplinary center.
Tree man 'who grew roots' may be cured - Telegraph - 0 views
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"roots" began growing out of his arms and feet after he cut his knee in a teenage accident.
CNN enters the virtual world of Second Life - CNN.com - 0 views
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CNN aims to find out by opening an I-Report hub in Second Life, a three-dimensional virtual world created entirely by its residents.
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Just as CNN asks its real-life audience to submit I-Reports -- user-generated content submitted from cell phones, computers, cameras and other equipment for broadcast and online reports -- the network is encouraging residents of Second Life to share their own "SL I-Reports" about events occurring within the virtual world.
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CNN's in-world I-Report hub includes a news desk where CNN producers will hold weekly editorial discussions, and an amphitheater for larger in-world events, such as training sessions and appearances by CNN anchors and correspondents.
Smarty Plants: Inside the World's Only Plant-Intelligence Lab - 0 views
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"If you define intelligence as the capacity to solve problems, plants have a lot to teach us," says Mancuso, dressed in harmonizing shades of his favorite color: green. "Not only are they 'smart' in how they grow, adapt and thrive, they do it without neuroses. Intelligence isn't only about having a brain."
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plants have a lot to contribute in fields as disparate as robotics and telecommunications. For instance, current projects at the LINV include a plant-inspired robot in development for the European Space Agency. The "plantoid" might be used to explore the Martian soil by dropping mechanical "pods" capable of communicating with a central "stem," which would send data back to Earth.
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Mancuso decided to use the controversial term "plant neurobiology" to reinforce the idea that plants have biochemistry, cell biology and electrophysiology similar to the human nervous system.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Deadly plague hits Warcraft world - 0 views
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the numbers of characters that have fallen victim is thought to be in the thousands.
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The digital disease instantly killed lower level characters and did not take much longer to kill even powerful characters.
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Many online discussion sites were buzzing with reports from the disaster zones with some describing seeing "hundreds" of bodies lying in the virtual streets of the online towns and cities.
Paste Magazine :: News :: Dispatch to release Zimbabwe benefit DVD (Page 1) - 0 views
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The DVD features two hours of footage from the band’s first performances since its 2004 farewell show, and will be packaged in eco-friendly material. In addition, the set comes with a 10-track bonus CD featuring some of the best songs from the shows, as well as a 30-minute documentary on Zimbabwe. Part of the profits from the sale of the DVD will go to benefit the Dispatch Foundation.
Oksapmin Society and World View: Aesthetic Realism & and the Anthropology of Papua New ... - 0 views
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You all might be interested to know that the Oksapmin are in the same culture area as the people I work with in New Guinea. They are part of the same traditional religion revolving around the travels of the great heroine, Afek.