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There is. Or may be, if the current research versions of Thorium reactors pans out. I still don’t think nuclear is the way to go, and I still think that conservation should be the number one priority, but if this technology could be made to work, I could get behind it as a temporary measure.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - A continuing mobile phone boom in emerging markets in Asia and Africa mostly offset a drop in demand for expensive models caused by global market turmoil, a survey showed on Monday.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) said it would reveal on Wednesday whether Microsoft had won the support needed to have its document format made into a global industry standard.
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“WebmasterWorld members discuss ways to speed up site performance, including tips on graphics and servers.” (-subscription required)
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Above is a still from a very special BBC iPlayer promotion for a new BBC series Miracles of Evolution, in which film-maker and writer Terry Jones follows in the footsteps of Charles Darwin and his Voyage of the Beagle in 1831 – “a voyage which was ultimately to revolutionise the natural sciences with the publication of On The Origin Of The Species.”
The first episode “presents spectacular footage, which has never been caught on camera before, of a unique colony of Adelie Penguins as they fly thousands of miles across the frozen wasteland of Antarctica to the Amazon Rainforest.”
The full promo can be seen here on the BBC iPlayer and on here on the BBC’s You Tube Channel..
I’ve also embedded it from You Tube:
Nick Reynolds is editor, BBC Internet Blog
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A UK government scientist questions the wisdom of switching to biofuels when they may do more harm to the climate than fossil fuels
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British scientists have finally deciphered a mysterious ancient Assyrian clay tablet discovered 150 years ago, and believe they have solved a riddle over a giant asteroid impact more than 5,000 years ago in an area that is now the Austrian Alps.
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“Yahoo unwraps a content-portal targeting women, a step away from sales niches (travel, finance, autos) and concentrating on a social demographic.”
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Bloggers mixed wild rumors with gallows humor on Monday as Zimbabweans waited on tenterhooks for the result of the most crucial election since independence.
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You will have hopefully already noticed that the BBC Sport website has a new look. I explained in a previous post why we felt we needed to make some changes – and I also promised I’d come back onto the blog to run through in more detail what we’ve done.
The first point to make is that this ‘site refresh’ is being carried out in conjunction with our sister service, BBC News. A quick flick between the News and Sport homepages will soon highlight the fact that, although the two sites have much in common, there are also some fundamental differences in style. Steve Herrmann, the editor of the News site has outlined what the changes mean for News on The Editors’ Blog.
The second key point is that this is not a one-off relaunch. It is the first phase of a work-in-progress, and one that is based on the foundations of extensive audience research. There will be more improvements to come as we build up to what promises to be a superb summer of sporting action.
Read more and comment at the BBC Sport Editors Blog.
Ben Gallop is the Head of BBC Sport Interactive.
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When it comes to measuring an area’s biodiversity, top predators such as tigers get all the ink, but smaller species may give a better overall picture
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This week’s patent applications include nuclear plants cooled by flowing diamonds, better snowboard bindings, and a trick to advance the arrival of superfast spintronic computing
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Public marketing campaigns boosted sales of a combination drug later found to have little effect on heart disease
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One of the world’s deadliest diseases, caused by the Ebola virus, may finally be preventable thanks to US and Canadian researchers, who have successfully tested several Ebola vaccines in primates and are now looking to adapt them for human use.
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Experiments to test microbial life’s response to the conditions of an asteroid smash boost the possibility of life travelling between planets
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This morning we launched a new look for the BBC News website, you can see what it looks like here on the right, with previous versions further down the page. We’ve been working on this for the past few months, and in fact it is still a work in progress, because the changes will continue to roll out across the site in the coming days and weeks, and beyond that we have further improvements planned for later in the year.
But for now – here’s what we’ve done:
First - we did some research asking you what you thought we should change about the site. Many of those we asked said leave it alone - don’t change a thing. But it was also clear from the feedback we got that there were others who thought the site design could do with a bit of a revamp – something we’d been thinking about doing for a while.
So our designers embarked on a mission that they have called a “site refresh” - they say it’s “like gardeners doing a bit of pruning and weeding, but not digging it up and starting from scratch” ie it’s not a fundamental redesign of everything – many of the basics stay the same, because we know they work.
Specifically, here’s what HAS changed:
Read more and comment at the BBC News Editors Blog
Steve Herrmann is editor of the BBC News website
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