Spanish health authorities launched a virtual portal through Second Life designed to help young people too embarrassed to speak to a doctor about sexually transmitted disease or a drug problem. “This idea started as a way to connect real health professionals and adolescents and to give internet users a reliable space to get health advice.”
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Could ancient life be living today? Locked miles beneath the Antarctic surface, these lakes have not touched our atmosphere for millions of years. What will we find there?
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“There isn’t any greater potential threat to the status quo than the discovery of extraterrestrial life, which is why some people would prefer we didn’t try.”
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The exhibit was intended to promote the theory that humans evolved from primates, as well as eugenics, and scientific racism. At the age of 32, he built a ceremonial fire, chipped off the caps on his teeth, performed a final tribal dance, and shot himself in the heart with a stolen pistol.
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Charles Babbage completed plans for an elaborate, all-mechanical calculator in 1849. His Difference Engine #2 was so complicated, with more than 8,000 separate parts, that it was never built during his lifetime. But now, Babbage’s Difference Engine is on display in Silicon Valley…and it works!
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Grand Theft Auto IV is surprisingly — and subtly — enjoyable. I’ll just get this up front: I enormously enjoyed Grand Theft Auto IV. But here’s the thing: It’s kind of hard to explain why.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Annie Mole’s blog about the London Underground rail system began as a New Year’s resolution to teach herself how to make an Internet Web site and has blossomed into a popular slice of commuter life.The criticisms, witticisms and daily observations posted on her “London Underground’s Blog” www.london-underground.blogspot.com
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People got very excited in 2004 when NASA’s rover Opportunity discovered evidence that Mars had once been wet. Where there is water, there may be life.
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The Water + Life Museums complex in Hemet, California, has just become the first museum to break the LEED Platinum barrier, beating out the California Academy of Sciences and scores of other hopeful projects. The stunning $40 million campus runs 72,000 square feet and was constructed by LA based Michael Lehrer Architects.
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/04/30/hemet-water-and-life-museums/” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title
