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Free ebooks correlated with increased print-book sales

A new study from two academics at BYU tracking the sales of printed books following free ebook releases found that generally, a free ebook release is correlated with increased sales. Interestingly, the exception is for a group of ebooks that were rele [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Chile Earthquake Moved Entire City 10 Feet to the West

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The magnitude 8.8 quake that struck near Maule, Chile, Feb. 27 moved the entire city of Concepcion 10 feet to the west. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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CT scan may increase cancer risk

Annual radiation doses from medical imaging have soared sevenfold since the early 1980s, according to a report last year from the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements. Meanwhile, as many as 14,500 people a year may end up dying [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Seniors are actually safer drivers than the general population

But the reality is, licensed seniors driving in Florida are far less likely to be involved in crashes -- both fatal and nonfatal -- than their youngest counterparts sharing the road. Seniors ages 70 to 74 had fewer than 100 crashes per 10,000 licen [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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To Cut Calories, Eat Slowly

In a study last month, scientists found that when a group of subjects were given an identical serving of ice cream on different occasions, they released more hormones that made them feel full when they ate it in 30 minutes instead of 5 . The scientist [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Two-thirds of the human race have a mobile phone subscription

By the end of 2010, another 400 million mobile phone subscriptions will have been signed up, according to a new report from the International Telecommunications Union, taking the global total to over 5 billion. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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What happened to Haiti could happen in any major city

"You can name about 25 cities that are like Port-au-Prince. They're not going to shake but every 250 years [on average]. But if you can name 25 of them, you're going to have an event like this every 10 years," said David Wald, a seismologist with the  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Sun-powered water splitter makes hydrogen tirelessly

To generate the gas Thomas Nann and colleagues at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, dip a gold electrode with a special coating into water and expose it to light. clusters of indium phosphide 5 nanometres wide on its surface absorb incomin [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Drink 2 cokes a week- double your pancreatic cancer risk

Drinking as little as two soft drinks a week appears to nearly double the risk of getting pancreatic cancer, according to a new study. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Color effects productivity

In the study, published Thursday on the Web site of the journal Science, researchers at the University of British Columbia conducted tests with 600 people to determine whether cognitive performance varied when people saw red or blue. Participants perf [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Flyfire - floating LED pixel-helicopters

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the Flyfire project sets out to explore the capabilities of this display system by using a large number of self-organizing micro helicopters. Each helicopter contains small LEDs and acts as a smart pixel.  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Lack of morning light keeping teenagers up at night

"If you remove blue light in the morning, it delays the onset of melatonin, the hormone that indicates to the body when it's nighttime," explains Dr. Figueiro. "Our study shows melatonin onset was delayed by about 6 minutes each day the teens were res [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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