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How the world might end in 2012 (or maybe later)
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-12-28 19:30)
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Is doomsday coming in 2012? Well, the world has got to end some time, says David Darling
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Apps for apes: Orang-utans want iPads for Christmas
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-12-28 19:00)
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Forget bananas. The biggest hit in zoos this year is an Apple, though orangs have more of a geek streak than gorillas
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Salad-bar strategy: The battle of the buffet
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-12-28 0:00)
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Competition, greed and skulduggery are the name of the game if you want to eat your fill. Smorgasbord behaviour is surprisingly complex
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Short fiction: Experimentation
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-12-28 0:00)
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In this science-inspired work of short fiction, Tania Hershman explores a most bewildering aspect of our human nature
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Smart Guide to 2012: How to win at the Olympics
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-12-27 23:00)
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Athletes have the right combination of genes and will have trained for years, their diets finely honed. It is in their minds where medals will be won or lost
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Enter a dolphin's fluid, hyper-social consciousness
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-12-27 20:00)
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What if we merged brains with other species? Would we have very different psychology? Or wordlessly swap intimate feelings? Jeff Warren asked some friends (full text available to subscribers)
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Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-12-27 19:00)
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A century ago, one of the world's first hackers used Morse code insults to disrupt a public demo of Marconi's wireless telegraph. Paul Marks reports
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We have drift off: Balloons to the edge of space
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-12-27 0:00)
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Space tourism doesn't have to be rocket science, discovers Michael Le Page
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Smart Guide to 2012: How best to test machine IQ
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-12-26 23:00)
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A hundred years since the birth of Alan Turing, his famous benchmark for machine intelligence is both too hard and too narrow, but there's another way
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New Scientist 2011 holiday quiz
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-12-26 21:00)
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Caveman fashion, a giant of both science and literature, Trekkie dreams and much more in our end-of-year quiz
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