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Humans may be losers if technological nature replaces the real thing

There are Web cams focused on falcons, ferrets and fish, virtual tours of the Grand Canyon and Yosemite, and robotic dogs, seals and even dinosaurs. But what about the real deal: observing animals in their natural habitat, ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 6




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In environmental disasters, families respond with conflict, denial, silence

Environmental disasters impact individuals and communities; they also affect how family members communicate with each other, sometimes in surprising ways, according to a paper published by a faculty member ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Ohio man given choice of Facebook apology or jail

(AP) -- A man who was threatened with jail time for posting comments about his estranged wife on his personal Facebook page unless he posted daily apologies for a month says the court ruling violates his ...

Technology / Internet

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 8

US police kill escaped lions, tigers and bears

Police in the US state of Ohio shot dead dozens of lions, tigers, bears and wolves in a frantic hunt after the owner of an exotic farm freed the dangerous animals and then killed himself.

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 17

Premature aging seen as issue for AIDS survivors

(AP) -- Having survived the first and worst years of the AIDS epidemic, when he was losing three friends to the disease in a day and undergoing every primitive, toxic treatment that then existed, Peter Greene ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jun 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Sheen seduces 1.3 million Twitter fans in two days

Troubled American actor Charlie Sheen was Thursday reveling in the fact that his new Twitter account had attracted some 1.3 million followers in just two days.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Researchers show Starbucks' logo redesign could prove beneficial to company

Despite U.S. consumers' threats of protests in response to the redesigned Starbucks logo unveiled yesterday, the new look may be a smart move in the long run as the coffee company expands into Asian markets, ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 07, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

International law permits abusive fathers custody of children

A new survey of court cases against battered women living abroad shows that when the women left their abusive partners and returned with their children to the United States, half of the time, U.S. courts sent the children ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 07, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Air flows in mechanical device reveal secrets of speech pathology

From a baby's first blurted "bowl!'" for the word "ball" to the whispered goodbye of a beloved elder, the capacity for complex vocalizations is one of humankind's most remarkable attributes -- and perhaps one we take for ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Psychiatric experts assess parental alienation

(AP) -- The American Psychiatric Association has a hot potato on its hands as it updates its catalog of mental disorders - whether to include parental alienation, a disputed term conveying how a child's relationship ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 02, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Divorce lawyers: Facebook tops in online evidence

(AP) -- Forgot to de-friend your wife on Facebook while posting vacation shots of your mistress? Her divorce lawyer will be thrilled.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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