February 2012
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Dead for 32,000 years, arctic plant is revived →
The New York Times reports:
Living plants have been generated from the fruit of a little arctic flower that died 32,000 years ago, a team of Russian scientists reports. The fruit was stored by an arctic ground squirrel in its burrow on the tundra of northeastern Siberia and lay permanently frozen until excavated by scientists a few years ago.
Photo by Svetlana Yashina
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3 dead in an avalanche in Stevens Pass, WA →
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Researchers capture shark eating shark
Australian researchers spotted a tasseled wobbegong shark consuming headfirst a somewhat smaller brown-banded bamboo shark on the southern Great Barrier Reef. Read more on msnbc.com.
(Photo by Tom Mannering)
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Whitney Houston dies at age 48
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BREAKING: Publicist Kristen Foster says singer Whitney Houston has died at age 48
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 12, 2012
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Watchshortformblog:
Here’s the Prop 8 decision, in Scribd format. (Thanks Towelroad)
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Super Bowl XLVI sets viewership record →
From NBC Sports: Super Bowl XLVI is the most-watched television program in U.S. history, according to fast national data released by The Nielsen Company. The game was seen by a record 111.3 million viewers.
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Mitt Romney will win Nevada GOP caucus by... →
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BREAKING: Komen pledges to continue funding... →
From The Dallas Morning News: In a statement from Nancy Brinker and the Susan G. Komen Board of Directors, Komen for the Cure said:
“We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives.”
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Tumblr hires writers, editors to cover Tumblr →
The New York Times reports:
Chris Mohney, a senior vice president for content at BlackBook Media, will be the site’s editor in chief. Jessica Bennett, a senior writer and editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast, will be the executive editor and, she said, a kind of Tumblr correspondent.
Their work — both documenting the Tumblr service and marketing it to users — will appear on the Web site’s...
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Letter from Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, in...
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Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected. We think it’s important that everyone who invests in Facebook understands what this mission means to us, how we make decisions and why we do the things we do. I will try to outline our approach in this letter. At Facebook, we’re...
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January 2012
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“I hereby officially and enthusiastically endorse Newt Gingrich for president of...”
– Herman Cain - @thehill (via brooklynmutt)
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