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Facebook intern maps world via online 'friends'Washington (AFP) Dec 14, 2010 A Facebook intern interested in seeing how political borders affect friendships around the globe has created a map of the world by sampling data from the social network's 500 million user base. The map displays friendships as lights on a deep blue background. The eastern half of the United States and Europe shine the brightest, while China, Russia and central Africa, where Facebook has little presence, are mainly dark. "I was interested in seeing how geography and political borders affected wher ... read more |
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  Land disputes are worst problem in rural China: report Land disputes are the most volatile social problem in rural China as forced official property seizures trigger growing unrest, state media reported Thursday, citing a top think tank. ... more | .. |
McDonald's to speed up China expansion American fast food giant McDonald's Corp. is planning its biggest expansion yet in China by opening up to 200 new restaurants across the country next year. ... more | .. |
  Decline Of West Coast Fog Brought Higher Coastal Temperatures Last 60 Years Fog is a common feature along the West Coast during the summer, but a University of Washington scientist has found that summertime coastal fog has declined since 1950 while coastal temperatures have ... more | .. |
 Freshwater Sustainability Challenges Shared By Southwest And Southeast Water scarcity in the western U.S. has long been an issue of concern. Now, a team of researchers studying freshwater sustainability in the U.S. have found that the Southeast, with the exception of F ... more |
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  Peak viewing for 'shooting stars' meteor show The best meteor shower of the year, a display of shooting stars known as the Geminids, is set to peak early Tuesday from about 0600 to 0800 GMT, NASA said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Wild seeds seen as world crop 'insurance' British scientists say they plan to collect wild plant relatives of essential food crops including wheat, rice and potatoes to preserve their genetic traits. ... more | .. |
 NASA Satellite Sees An Early Meteorological Winter In US Midwest NASA's Terra satellite captures daily visible and infrared images around the Earth and took a daytime image of a blanket of snow in the Upper Midwest this week. Even though astronomical winter is le ... more | .. |
  US southwest could see 60-year drought: study A worst-case scenario devised by US researchers shows that the American southwest could experience a 60-year stretch of heat and drought unseen since the 12th century. ... more |
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 Forgotten vines help wine makers fight climate change Grapes on the vine crave sunshine, but wine growers in France and elsewhere are starting to worry that global warming is giving them too much of a good thing. ... more | .. |
 No rice please, we're Indonesians Indonesia is one of the world's biggest producers - and consumers - of rice, but in the interests of public health and food sustainability the government has launched an ambitious drive to wean people off their beloved staple. ... more | .. |
 Redrawing The Map Of Great Britain Based On Human Interaction A group of researchers at MIT, Cornell University and University College London have used one of the world's largest databases of telecommunications records to redraw the map of Great Britain. The r ... more | .. |
 Plants Remember Winter To Bloom In Spring With Help Of Special Molecule The role a key molecule plays in a plant's ability to remember winter, and therefore bloom in the spring, has been identified by University of Texas at Austin scientists. Many flowering plants ... more |
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 New Discovery About How Flowering Time Of Plants Can Be Controlled Researchers at Umea Plant Science Center in Sweden discovered, in collaboration with the Syngenta company, a previously unknown gene in sugar beets that blocks flowering. Only with the cold of winte ... more | .. |
Argentine shepherds, farmers protect forests from soy A group of small farmers and shepherds in this northern Argentine town have been protesting the destruction of forests to make way for soy crops by routinely blocking a major highway. ... more | .. |
Shanghai halts sale of suspected 'dyed' oranges: report Shanghai authorities have ordered fruit vendors to stop selling oranges that have allegedly been dyed with a toxic wax, Chinese media said Friday, in the country's latest food safety scare. ... more | .. |
  Phones are a feminist issue in Bangladesh Dressed in a colourful sari, clutching boxes of herbal tea in one hand and a battered old Nokia mobile phone in the other, Monowara Talukder doesn't look like the average business executive. ... more |
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 Geminid Meteor Shower Defies Explanation The Geminid meteor shower, which peaks this year on Dec. 13th and 14th, is the most intense meteor shower of the year. It lasts for days, is rich in fireballs, and can be seen from almost any point ... more | .. |
 Measuring How Farm Animals Feel CSIRO is researching ways to improve the welfare of livestock by developing scientific methods for assessing how animals 'feel' in response to common management practices. The aim is to reduce ... more | .. |
 Nanoparticle Gives Antimicrobial Ability To Fight Listeria Longer A Purdue University research team developed a nanoparticle that can hold and release an antimicrobial agent as needed for extending the shelf life of foods susceptible to Listeria monocytogenes. ... more | .. |
 The Worm That Turned On Heavy Metal Researchers in South America have studied the viability of using earthworms to process hazardous material containing high concentrations of heavy metal for the bioremediation of old industrial sites ... more |
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 Missouri Grapes Hold Key To Improving World Grape Production In a few years, a sip of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot or Pinot Noir may include a taste of the "Show-Me" State. The state grape of Missouri - the Norton variety grown at many vineyards around the stat ... more | .. |
 Fledgling Ecosystem Lets Scientists Observe How Soil, Flora And Fauna Develop How do ecosystems develop? No one really knows, yet. There is however one project, unique in the world, seeking to answer this question. In a former open-pit coal mining area in Brandenburg, Germany ... more | .. |
 Agrilife Researchers Find Way To Cut Food-Irradiation Levels By Half A team of Texas AgriLife Research engineers has developed a way to cut by as much as half the amount of irradiation needed to kill 99.999 percent of salmonella, E. coli and other pathogens on fresh ... more | .. |
 Ethiopia challenges Egypt over Nile water The simmering dispute over the Nile River between Egypt and downstream African states is heating up with Addis Ababa alleging Cairo supports insurgents fighting the government of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. ... more |
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