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Michelangelo was a conscientious student of human anatomy and enthusiastically dissected corpses throughout his life, but few of his anatomical drawings survive. This one, a depiction of the human brain and brain stem, appears to be drawn on the neck of God, directly above the altar in “The Separation of Light From Darkness,” another panel from the series of nine depicting scenes from the Book of

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A woman's body shape may play a role in how good her memory is, according to a new study.The more an older woman weighs, the worse her memory, according to research released this week from Northwestern Medicine at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The effect is more pronounced in women who carry excess weight around their hips, known as pear shapes, than women who carry it around

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Former US President George W Bush has created an account on the social networking website Facebook. His account was given the thumbs up, or "liked", by over 20,000 users within its first few hours. Click here to go to his page.

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Guillermo del Toro will no longer direct the two movies based on JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit, reports said. "In light of ongoing delays in the setting of a start date for filming The Hobbit, I am faced with the hardest decision of my life," he said.However, del Toro added that he will continue to co-write the screenplays. The project - which has already been delayed for several years - is expected

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And the winners are:- Palme d'Or - Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul- Best director - Mathieu Amalric for On Tour- Best actress - Juliette Binoche for Certified Copy- Best actor- Javier Bardem for Biutiful and Elio Germano for Our Life (shared)- Best screenplay - Lee Chang-Dong for Poetry- Grand Prix - Of Gods and Men directed by Xavier Beauvois-

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It's official. Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first living cell to be controlled entirely by synthetic DNA. The researchers constructed a bacterium's "genetic software" and transplanted it into a host cell. The resulting microbe then looked and behaved like the species "dictated" by the synthetic DNA. The researchers copied an existing bacterial genome. They sequenced its

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Otto Bock Healthcare, has developed a mind-controlled technology, which is ready to leave the laboratory and be put to everyday use. It involves a new technique known as targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR), where nerves that once controlled a lost limb are used to control a prosthesis. The transplanted nerves allow electrical impulses from the brain to reach the muscles in the chest. The muscles

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This month, Nokia filed a lawsuit against Apple claiming the iPad 3G and iPhone infringe five of its patents. Nokia claims the infringements involve technology used to enhance speech and data transmission and antenna innovations for compact devices.The Nokia lawsuit came on the day Apple announced that its iPad tablet computer will go on sale in nine countries outside the US on 28 May. Go, Nokia!

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Researchers engineered a polymer to reproduce the properties of titin - a protein which largely determines the elastic properties of muscle. The authors suggest that the properties of this material could even be fine-tuned to resemble specific types of muscle by adjusting the compositions of the proteins. Initially, the discovery could assist in the healing of tissue tears, acting as a tough

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Getting less than six hours sleep a night can lead to an early grave, UK and Italian researchers have warned.They also found an association between sleeping for more than nine hours and early death, although that much sleep may merely be a marker of ill health. Sleep journal reports the findings, based on 1.5m people in 16 studies. The study looked at the relationship between sleep and mortality

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A German man has unofficially married his cat after the animal fell ill and vets told him it might not live much longer, Bild newspaper reports.It says Uwe Mitzscherlich, 39, paid an actress 300 euros (£260,$395) to officiate at the ceremony, as marrying an animal is illegal in Germany. Never heard of something like that before...

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Film director Roman Polanski, who is under house arrest in Switzerland, must be present in court in USA if he wants to resolve the case over a conviction for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl. Polanski left the US in 1978 before he could be sentenced and never returned to US. Polanski is afraid US wants to "serve him on a platter to the media of the world than to pronounce a judgment

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A "vaccine" which harnesses the body's own immune system to fight prostate cancer has been approved for use by US drug regulators.The drug is not a "cure" but is used in advanced prostate cancer that has spread to other sites in the body and is no longer responding to standard hormone treatment. Clinical trials showed that the treatment extended the lives of patients by four months.

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People who regularly eat chocolate are more depressive, experts have found. Research in Archives of Internal Medicine shows those who eat at least a bar every week are more glum than those who only eat chocolate now and again. Many believe chocolate has the power to lift mood, and the US team say this may be true, although scientific proof for this is lacking. Which means, when you are depressed,

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Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says aliens almost certainly exist but warns it would be a bad idea to contact them. He said that if extraterrestrials visited the planet the outcome would be similar to when Christopher Columbus landed in America, which, he added, didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.Quite possible...

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James Cameron's 3D sci-fi epic, released in the US on 22 April, sold 4 million DVDs and 2.7 million Blu-rays. The sales brought in $130m (£84.1m). The previous record holder in the US and Canada was The Dark Knight in 2008. It was released on 22 April - "Earth Day" in the US and Canada as well as other countries - to chime with Avatar's environmental theme.

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The Icelandic volcano crisis cost airlines more than USD 1.7 B in lost revenue through Tuesday—six days after the initial eruption, according to estimates of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). For a three-day period (17-19 April), when disruptions were greatest, lost revenues reached USD 400 M per day.Following 9/11, the US government provided USD 5 B to compensate airlines for

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Rio de Janeiro's towering Christ the Redeemer statue has been closed to the public after landslides that hit Brazil, killing some 250 people. The death toll may rise as 200 people are still missing, officials say.Access to the statue was cut off for the first time in its 80-year history as roads were blocked by debris. The landslides in and around Brazil's second biggest city were set off by

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An inability to deal with more than two things at a time may be "hard-wired" into our brain, research suggests.When we try to do two things at once, each half of the brain focuses on a separate task, French scientists say. It might also explain why people are prone to make irrational decisions when choosing from a long list of items.Lead author Dr Etienne Koechlin told the BBC: "You can cook and

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At least 300 people have died and thousands are feared hurt after a magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck China's Qinghai province, officials say. The powerful tremor hit remote Yushu county, 500km (310 miles) south-west of provincial capital Xining, at 0749 (2349 GMT), at a shallow depth of 10km. One official told journalists more than 85% of buildings in Jiegu town near the epicentre had collapsed.

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Scientists have found the first animals that can survive and reproduce entirely without oxygen, deep on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea.They were discovered in the course of three oceanographic expeditions conducted over a decade in order to search for living fauna in the sediment of the Mediterranean's L'Atalante basin. The basin, 200km (124m) off the western coast of Crete, is about 3.5km (

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A team of Russian and American scientists has discovered a new element that has long stood as a missing link among the heaviest bits of atomic matter ever produced. The element, still nameless, appears to point the way toward a brew of still more massive elements with chemical properties no one can predict. The team produced six atoms of the element by smashing together isotopes of calcium and a

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The world's largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang -- a success that kick-started a megabillion-dollar experiment that could one day explain how the universe began. Two beams of protons were sent hurtling in opposite directions toward each other in a 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel below the

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The 29-year-old man, from Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, UK raped his daughter at least twice and carried out other sexual abuse which he recorded on his phone. He has been jailed for life.Now - how sick is that???[source:bbc.co.uk]

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Cher's son Chaz Bono has asked a judge in Los Angeles to formally change his name and gender following the sex change surgery he had last year.The 41-year-old, who was born Chastity Sun Bono, now wants to be known as Chaz Salvatore, according to a petition filed earlier this week. The name Chastity came from the title of the 1969 film Cher made with her first husband Sonny, who died in a skiing

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James Cameron's 3D extravaganza Avatar has won three accolades at the Empire Film Awards in London - best film, best director, and best actress (Zoe Saldana). JJ Abrams' Star Trek movie won best sci-fi/fantasy film. Sir Ian McKellen, who starred in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the X-Men movies, was presented with the Empire Icon award. He is set to reprise his Gandalf role in The Hobbit.I

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British director Ridley Scott's new film Robin Hood, starring Russell Crowe, has been selected to open the annual Cannes Film Festival on 12 May.Director Tim Burton will head the jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Last year's opening film was the hit animated film Up, which won two Oscars earlier this month.

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Simon Cowell is to be honored with an International Emmy award in recognition of his television work, organizers in the US have announced.International Academy president Bruce Paisner said: "Simon Cowell is an entrepreneur and performer in equal measure. He has built an international empire, and in so doing has changed the face of television around the world."Congratulations, Simon!

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The shooting of the film version of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit is set to begin in New Zealand in July.Actor Sir Ian McKellen, who reprises his Lord of the Rings role as Gandalf the Grey, revealed casting is taking place in LA, London and New York. Mexican-born film-maker Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth) will direct the film and its proposed sequel.The films will be prequels to the Lord

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Bloodhound SSC is being built to smash the world land speed record by topping 1,000mph (1,610km/h). Wow!Initial iterations of the car's aerodynamic shape produced dangerous amounts of lift at the vehicle's rear. But the latest modelling work indicates the team has finally found a stable configuration, allowing the project to push ahead with other design areas. It will be powered by a combination

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These spectacular images of the Earth are the most true-colour images of the entire world released to date, according to Nasa scientists. The images were pieced together from thousands of images taken over many months by the satellite's remote-sensing device Modis, of every square kilometre of the Earth's surface.

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A nail dating from the time of Christ's crucifixion has been found at a remote fort believed to have once been a stronghold of the Knights Templar. The nail was found last summer in a decorated box. The nail was found together with three skeletons and three swords. One of the swords had the Knight Templar's cross inscribed on it. Bryn Walters, an archaeologist, said the iron nail's remarkable

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Our planet is an amazing place. For example take a look at Blood Falls.This five-story, blood-red waterfall pours very slowly out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys. Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since,

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The US space agency's (Nasa) Mini-Sar experiment found more than 40 small craters containing water-ice. Temperatures in some of these permanently darkened craters can drop as low as 25 Kelvin (-248C; -415F) - colder than the surface of Pluto - allowing water-ice to remain stable. Dr Paul Spudis, from the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, estimated there was at least 600 million metric

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A UK man was caught driving his car while 'walking' his dog through the window of his moving car. He lost his licence.OK. Now, how stupid and lazy this is? source[bbc.co.uk]

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Gatorade is the latest major company to cut ties with Tiger Woods.This is the third company to end its relationship with Mr Woods. Communications company AT&T and corporate services business Accenture previously cut their sponsorship deals. Male grooming business Gillette and luxury watchmaker Tag Heuer have also distanced themselves from him. General Motors (GM) said recently an arrangement that

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A massive 8.8 magnitude quake hits central Chile, north-east of the city of Concepcion, killing at least 47 people.The quake struck at 0634 GMT about 91km (56 miles) north-east of the city of Concepcion and 317km south-west of the capital, Santiago. Buildings in Santiago were reported to have shaken for between 10 and 30 seconds, with the loss of electricity and communications.

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Teaching stroke patients to sing "rewires" their brains, helping them recover their speech, say scientists.By singing, patients use a different area of the brain from the area involved in speech. If a person's "speech centre" is damaged by a stroke, they can learn to use their "singing centre" instead. The therapy is already established as a medical technique. Researchers first used it when it

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An amazing image of an ant lifting 100 times its body weight has won first prize in a science photography contest.The image shows an Asian weaver ant hanging upside down on a glass-like surface and holding a 500mg (0.02oz) weight in its jaws. It was taken by zoology specialist Dr Thomas Endlein of Cambridge University as he researched insects' sticky feet.Unbelievable![source:bbc.co.uk]

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Roman Polanski has won the Silver Bear for best director at the Berlin Film Festival for his new political thriller, The Ghost Writer. Can't wait to see it.

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Scientists say that a meteorite that crashed into Earth 40 years ago contains millions of different carbon-containing, or organic, molecules.The Murchison meteorite landed in a town of that name in Australia in 1969. It has been examined before by scientists looking for specific compounds but this is the first non-targeted analysis and has confirmed a huge variety of carbon-based chemicals. It is

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The world's largest chip maker and the world's largest mobile phone maker have merged operating systems to create a single platform for mobiles.The new MeeGo platform, unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, will be used to power phones, netbooks, TVs and in-car entertainment systems. The new software will be given away for free but Nokia will make money by selling other products,

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DNA analysis of human hair preserved in Greenland's permafrost has given clues as to what the owner looked like. The researchers say the man, who lived 4,000 years ago, had brown eyes and thick dark hair, was prone to baldness, and his ancestors migrated from Siberia. The man has been named Inuk, which means "human" in the Greenlandic language.Let's play a game. Can you find the differences in

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Haiti's government said about 230,000 people have died in the 12 January earthquake. The death toll is approaching that of the 2004 Asian tsunami, which killed 250,000 people. About 300,000 were injured. There is increasing concern that with the rainy season approaching, the lack of tents and temporary shelter could lead to the outbreak of disease. What a tragedy...[source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/

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A billboard featuring a picture of former President George W. Bush and the words "Miss Me Yet?" stands along I-35 near the town of Wyoming, in the state of Minnesota.The billboard was rented out by a group of small business owners, who wish to remain anonymous, and individuals who just felt like Washington was against them.

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Google is going social as well. Google has just released Google Buzz - a gmail tab right under the inbox tab, labeled "Buzz". The tab provides links to website, content from around the web. Picasa, Twitter, Flickr, and other sites are aggregated.It shows thumbnails when linked to photos from sites like Picasa and Flickr. Clicking on an image though will blow up the images to almost the entire

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Images taken by the Hubble space telescope show the dwarf planet Pluto, on the edge of our solar system, is redder than it used to be.From 1954 to 2000, Pluto didn't change in color when it was photographed from Earth. But after that, it did. The red levels increased by 20 percent, maybe up to 30 percent, and stabilized from about 2000 to 2002.Nasa's scientists believe these are seasonal changes

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Have you ever wondered how much money celebrities make?According to Vanity Fair magazine, Michael Bay topped the survey, with an income of more than $125m (£78m), followed by director Steven Spielberg - $85m (£54m). Third is Roland Emmerich $70m (£44m). James Cameron is at #4 with $50m (£31m).Emma Watson, best known for playing Hermione in Harry Potter, has made more than $30m (£19m) last year.

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Sperm do not start swimming from the moment of ejaculation - they have only limited resources, and to stand much chance of reaching the egg, they need to delay their frantic dash until they are closer to the egg. Scientists discovered that tiny pores on the sperm's surface allow it to change its internal pH, which in turn starts its tail movements. These pores, or Hv1 proton channels, as they

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A piece of a cargo plane broke off as the plane started its descent into Miami International Airport Friday, falling to a Doral mall parking lot without hurting anyone or hitting anything, authorities said.The piece, about 18-feet long, fell of an Atlas Air Cargo 747, a plane going from Santiago, Chile to Miami.Scary, isn't it? Luckily, no one was hurt.[source:miamiherald.com]

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Marko Calasan, a 9 year-old boy from Skopje, Macedonia holds four Microsoft IT certifications (MCP, MCDST, MCSA and MCSE) and has already decided the next certification he will add to his ever-growing resume. He wants to become a "Microsoft Certified Trainer" to share my knowledge with others. Calasan will celebrate his 10th birthday this July. Isn't that impressive? What do you think?

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A 17-year-old bug in Windows will be patched by Microsoft in its latest security update.First appearing in Windows NT 3.1, the vulnerability has been carried over into almost every version of Windows that has appeared since. The ancient bug was discovered by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy in January 2010 and involves a utility that allows newer versions of Windows to run very old

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Ovi Maps have been downloaded 1.4m times overall since the application became available on January 21 2010. It has been most popular in China, Italy, the UK, Germany and Spain. The service provides different direction information for drivers and pedestrians in 74 countries and 46 different languages. I use the application and I am very happy with it. The 3D landmarks are very accurate and

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Are you depressed? Maybe you are browsing too much.There is a strong link between heavy internet use and depression, UK psychologists have said. The study, reported in the journal Psychopathology, found 1.2% of people surveyed were "internet addicts", and many of these were depressed. [source:bbc.co.uk]

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And the nominees are:Performance by an actor in a leading role- Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight) - George Clooney in "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) - Colin Firth in "A Single Man" (The Weinstein Company) - Morgan Freeman in "Invictus" (Warner Bros.) - Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Performance by an

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US President Barack Obama has cancelled the American project designed to take humans back to the Moon - a $18 billion project over five years. With the economy at its low, I support his decision of turning the project to the private sector. What do you think?

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Avatar has passed the $2 billion box office mark worldwide and became the first motion picture in history to do so. Its worldwide gross is at $2,039,222,000 and counting. An incredible movie. If you haven't seen it yet, do so. And go to the movies, this film has to be seen on the big screen.

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Billionaire Sir Richard Branson surprised us with an underwater plane. He expects the sub to be delivered on February 20. The £415,000 prototype submersible is called the Necker Nymph and can dive to depths of up to 130ft. Sir Richard hopes to one day explore depths of 35,000ft - which is far more than the height of Mount Everest.It was designed and built by Graham Hawkes, chief of Hawkes Ocean

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Tonight is the first full moon of 2010 and it will be the biggest full moon this year. The full moon will coincide with the moon's perigee – it's closest point to Earth. The first moon of the year is also known as the Old Moon. Other names are Wolf Moon, Moon After Yule, and Ice Moon. In Hindi it is known as Paush Poornima. Its Sinhala (Buddhist) name is Duruthu Poya. Don't miss it out. Enjoy!

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J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose "The Catcher in the Rye" shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91. Salinger died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, the author's son said in a statement from Salinger's longtime literary representative, Harold Ober Agency. He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in the

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1. One human cell contains 75MB genetic information. 2. One sperm contains a half of that; that is 37.5MB. 3. One ml of semen contains 100 million sperms. 4. In average, ejaculation lasts for 5 sec and contains 2.25 ml semen. 5. This means that the throughput of a man's member is equal to (37.5MB x 100,000,000 x 2.25)/5 = 1 687 500 000 000 000 byte/second = 1,6875 Тerabyte/sec This means that the

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Tim Burton will head the nine-member jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The festival will start on May 12th.

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A woman who was taking an art class at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has accidentally fallen into a Picasso painting and damaged it.The unusually large canvas, called The Actor, measuring 6ft by 4ft (1.8m by 1.2m) depicts an acrobat posed against an abstracted backdrop. The painting sustained a vertical tear of about six inches (15cm) in the lower right-hand corner and will be repaired.[

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The German rock band Scorpions announced today they are going to retire after more than 40 years! on stage. The band was founded by guitarist Rudolf Schenker, 61, in 1965 in Hanover. The current line-up is Klaus Meine, Matthias Jabs, Rudolf Schenker, Pawel Maciwoda and James Kottak. Scorpions was my favorite rock band when I was younger. I will always remember their hits - Holiday, Still Loving

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James Cameron's mega-budget blockbuster surpassed the overseas "Titanic's" (another James Cameron) 13-year international boxoffice record ($1.242 billion).Still to be broken are "Titanic's" domestic boxoffice record ($600.8 million) and its worldwide total ($1.843 billion). "Avatar" has grossed $552.8 million in the U.S. and Canada, and $1.8408 billion globally. Given "Avatar's" current boxoffice

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NASA is working on a personal flying suit. Conceptual designs for the experimental vehicle, called Puffin, were introduced by Mark D. Moore, an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Langley Research Center, at a meeting of the American Helicopter Society on Jan. 20 in San Francisco. The Puffin is designed to be 12 feet in length, with a total wingspan of 14 and a half feet; it would weigh in at 300 pounds

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The NASA astronaut, T.J. Creamer, sent today the first tweet from Space: "Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station -- the 1st live tweet from Space! :) More soon, send yours". The new Crew Support LAN, takes advantage of existing communication links to and from the station and gives astronauts the ability to browse and use the Web. Isn't that amazing? What

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One of the latest inventions is turning cotton and polyester fabrics into batteries. The approach is based on dipping fabrics into a batch of nanotube dye, and is then pressed, to thin and even out the coating. How cool is that? This will allow personal electronic devices to become even slimmer because nowadays the main culprit is the battery. The Nokia Morph may not be not that far away after

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After the Golden Globe Awards, it is time for the Bafta Film Awards, which will be held on 2/21 in London.The nominees are:Best FilmAvatarAn EducationThe Hurt LockerPreciousUp in the Air Outstanding British FilmAn EducationFish TankIn the LoopMoonNowhere BoyDirectorKathryn Bigelow, The Hurt LockerNeill Blomkamp, District 9James Cameron, AvatarLone Scherfig, An EducationQuentin Tarantino,

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YouTube turns into a movie rental business starting tomorrow 1/22/10. The intent is to increase traffic and advertising. The first five films available for rent are "The Cove," "Bass Ackwards," "One Too Many Mornings," "Homewrecker" and "Children of Invention". It is expected that in the near future the site will expand its rental catalogue with television shows and feature films from major

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A new service, called Blippy, was released. It is similar to Twitter, except that it posts your credit card purchases online, so people can see what you are buying, where from and for how much. You may pick one or more of your credit cards and post their transactions online or you can allow websites, like Amazon, Netflix, or iTunes to make your purchases public. I was very sceptical when the

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Conan O'Brien's last show will be this Friday with Tom Hanks and Will Ferrell as guests. But do not worry about Mr. O'Brien. He is walking away with $33 million dollars and his staff will split $12 million dollars. I think this is a pretty good deal, what do you think?

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An amazing video with amazing images of what the earth would look like from different cities and latitudes accross the world if it had rings like Saturn. [source:youtube.com]

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Bill Gates started twittering on twitter.com today and already has 240K followers. I wonder - will twitter become a part of Windows OS?

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Simon Cowell signed a deal with Sony to net him an estimated $1BILLION over the next six years. He will be getting 50% of the profits.Simon is currently worth $200 million and industry sources predict this could run to $1 billion - by 2016 with the launch of US X Factor next year.Congratulations, Simon![source:thesun.co.uk]

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A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti this morning. This earthquake was 10 times lighter than the devastating one last week. Let's hope there won't be additional victims and damages as rescue team are still finding surviors under the wreckage.

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NASA has slashed the price of the 1970s-era spaceships to $28.8 million apiece from $42 million. The shuttles are for sale once their flying days are over, which is scheduled to be this fall.Act now, supplies are limited. ;)[source: nytimes.com]

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Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981, was released from Ankara Sincan prison in Ankara, Turkey on 18 January 2010. Mehmet Ali Agca served 19 years in an Italian prison for shooting John Paul, and another 10 years in Turkey for the earlier murder of a newspaper editor.After the shooting, the Bulgarian Sergei Antonov, was arrested and held for more than

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Citigroup has reported a loss of $7.6bn (£4.7bn) for the final three months of 2009. The loss is mostly due to repaying government loans. JP Morgan reported profits of $3.3bn for the last three months of 2009 last. Surprisingly, at least to me, Citi's shares went up 0.6% on the day. Would you buy stock from Citigroup?

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The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face, maintained since 1947 by the board of directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago, that uses the analogy of the human species being at a time that is "minutes to midnight", wherein midnight represents "catastrophic destruction". The closer the clock is to midnight, the closer the world is estimated to be to global

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Cell phone users can text the word "HAITI" to 90999 to donate $10," and when prompted, hit "YES" to confirm the donation. So far $5,000,000 were donated. While Americans are shocked by the Haiti devastation and trying to help by donating money, some companies are trying to make a profit out of it.MSNBC asked Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint whether or not they're charging for the sms. Verizon

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The Haiti's earthquake reminded us again about how powerful and destructive nature can be. Here's a list of the 15 worst disasters of all time:January 12, 2010 - Casualties resulting from the Haiti quake are still unknown, but the Red Cross estimates that up to 3 million people may have been affected. May 2, 2008 - The death toll from Cyclone Nargis remains uncertain but has been put at 140,000

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A major earthquake, centered 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, stroke Haiti yesterday 01/12/10, shortly before 5pm. The 7-magnitude earthquake flattened the capitol city and some believe that 150,000 could be dead. Most of the buildings have collapsed, there are uncontrolled fires, dead bodies in the streets, no electricity, no water. Pictures from the tragedy look like taken from a

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With the Golden Globe Awards just behind the corner (this Sunday 1/17/2010), let's revise the nominees. (Don't miss the event, Gerard Butler is presenting. :))1. BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA A. Avatar (Lightstorm Entertainment; Twentieth Century Fox) B. The Hurt Locker (Voltage Pictures C/O 42west; Summit Entertainment) C. Inglourious Basterds (The Weinstein Company; The Weinstein Company) D.

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The start of 2010 American Idol is few hours away and Simon Cowell announced that this would be his final season on American Idol. He prepares to bring his hit UK television show "The X-Factor" to the United States. I think it was about time. American Idol becomes really boring after the first two weeks and a lot of people need something fresh. Let's see what will happen.

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Disney has released a website where children can read over 500 of Disney's books online. The design of the site is sleek and turning of the pages is very realistic. The site provides additional features to keep children engaged. Great site to inspire children to dream and imagine and help them in school. Way to go, Disney.Disney Digital Books

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Ford Motor Co. announced technology to let computers read their Twitter feeds to them while behind the wheel. The company has not formally announced technology to let drivers post tweets verbally from behind the wheel, but such an announcement likely will come in the next 12 to 18 months. VanDagens, Ford's global director of connected services, said people read Twitter feeds and send text

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Or is it "The Age of Facebook is Over"?Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told a live audience yesterday that if he were to create Facebook again today, user information would by default be public, not private as it was for years until the company changed dramatically in December. During the years, more than 350 million people signed up and connected to their friends and family through Facebook.

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Did you follow the news coverage about the little boy who floated away in a home-made balloon in October 2009?If you didn't, here is what happened. The parents of a six-year-old boy, Falcon Heene, claimed that he had floated away in a home-made balloon. Local TV helicopters broadcasting live video of the balloon and rescue operation for hours. Eventually, after a 50-mile flight, the balloon

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Scientists in Italy have developed a way of turning rattan wood into bone that is almost identical to the human tissue. The rattan wood has porous properties, which enable blood, nerves and other compounds to travel through it. Within a few months, the real and the artificial bone will be like one continuous bone.A herd of sheep have already been implanted with the bones. So far, there are no

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The world is getting crazier and crazier. Just check out this article:A cleaning lady and her son have been charged over the death of a reclusive, multi-millionaire maths genius whose burned body was found dumped in a field.Walter Sartory, 73, a retired American nuclear scientist, was a savant like the character played by Dustin Hoffman in the film Rain Man and found it difficult to interact with

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Jay Leno's 10:00 PM show will go on hiatus February 1. After the Olympics, Jay will take back his 11:30 PM time slot. What has not been decided - whether Jay's show will be a half hour, followed by Conan, or whether Jay's show will be an hour and NBC says sayonara to Mr. O'Brien.Personally, I prefer Jay's show and this is a interesting development. Let's see what will happen. [source:tmz.com]

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An American woman and her baby daughter were trampled to death by an elephant while on a forest hike in Kenya. This is pretty horrible death. Elephants are usually docile and attack only when provoked, like any other creature would do. I cannot imagine an elephant, after seeing a woman and child in the distance, to go there and attack them. This does not make sense. Probably, the woman and the

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1. The nose can remember 50,000 cents.2. The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. It is approximately 0.11 inches.3. Similar to finger prints, everybody's tongue has a unique tongue print.4. The average human sheds 40 lbs of skin in a lifetime.5. A fingernail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.6. Human tight bones are stronger than

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In addition to the lawsuit that Nokia filed over GSM standards and last week's International Trade Commission complaint, Nokia just filed a second complaint with the federal court, alleging that Apple's infringing several "implementation patents" that cover everything from camera sensors to touchscreens. The biggest bombshell so far is the ITC complaint, in which Nokia's asking the commission to

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1. Domestic pigs can quickly learn how mirrors work and use them to find food.2. Grumpy people think more clearly because negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking.3. High cholesterol levels in midlife are associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia later in life.4. Analysis of Greenland ice samples shows Europe froze solid in less than 12

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World's tallest building was opened in Dubai towering at a height of 828 meters (2,717 feet)and a cost of $1.5 billion. This almost doubles Toronto’s CN Tower, who hold the title as the world’s largest free-standing structure. It checks in at 553.3 meters. The 200-story tower is designed by Giorgio Armani. There are 37 office floors, 1,044 apartments and 160 hotel rooms. It also has the world’s

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Today, two big earthquakes have struck near Solomon Islands. The first one was felt at 8:48 AM local time with a magnitude of 6.5. Another one followed, this time stronger, with a 7.2 magnitude recording at 9:36 AM. There are no warnings posted on the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center web site and no reports of injury or damage.The Solomon Islands archipelago, about 2,500 kilometers east of

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A blue moon is a full moon that is not timed to the regular monthly pattern. Most years have twelve full moons which occur approximately monthly, but in addition to those twelve full lunar cycles, each solar calendar year contains an excess of roughly eleven days compared to the lunar year. The extra days accumulate, so that every two or three years, there is an extra full moon. The extra moon is

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The Indian Council of Medical Research carried out a two-year study which concluded that about 60% of Indian men have penises which are between three and five centimetres shorter than international standards used in condom manufacture. It has led to a call for condoms of mixed sizes to be made more widely available in India.Over 1,200 volunteers from the length and breadth of the country had

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