Wednesday, November 10, 2010 On Monday, Symbian Foundation discontinued Symbian OS, as a result of its lost popularity since Android came to market. The Finnish telecommunications company Nokia, being one of the few hardware manufacturers who use the system on some of the models, announced that it has taken over the operating system’s development. Nokia…
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Plane crashes into office block in Austin, Texas/suicide note
This is the online suicide letter authored by Andrew Stack, the man believed to be responsible for flying a light aircraft into a building in Austin, Texas. It was originally posted at Stack’s site, http://embeddedart.com/. The hosting company, T35, took the site offline per an FBI request. The note is reproduced here in its entirety….
Belize Real Estate The Perfect Retirement Paradise For You
More On This Topic: Reverse Mortgage For Seniors Australia How does one prepare for retirement? That is a question that boggles the mind of a lot of people who are wishing to say goodbye to their laborious life. In fact, there are a lot of things to consider when retiring. These things may vary from…
Canada pursues new nuclear research reactor to produce medical isotopes
Friday, July 10, 2009 The Saskatchewan provincial government alongside the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) have come together to establish a CA$500 million, 10 megawatts research nuclear reactor to produce medical isotopes. “In 1949 … cobalt-60 treatment was tried for the first time here in Saskatchewan, where it saved a woman battling cervical cancer….
Study links foie gras consumption with Alzheimer’s, arthritis, diabetes, other diseases
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 A study published on June 18 in the American Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found a link between the consumption of foie gras and other meat products and a number of diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes mellitus type 2, tuberculosis, and amyloidosis. The link exists in…
Plastic Surgery As A Solution To Medical Problems}
More On This Topic: Reduce Cheek Fat Plastic Surgery As A Solution To Medical Problems by Stewart WrighterEveryone knows that plastic surgery can improve your appearance. People choose to undergo procedures fairly frequently in an effort to change something about their bodies they did not like. Procedures can be extensive and very invasive or they…
Wikinews’ overview of the year 2008
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Also try the 2008 World News Quiz of the year. What would you tell your grandchildren about 2008 if they asked you about it in, let’s say, 20 years’ time? If the answer to a quiz question was 2008, what would the question be? The year that markets collapsed, or perhaps…
Imperfect immune systems help avoid autoimmune disease
Thursday, September 15, 2005 The body’s immune system is less effective at quashing disease than it could be – but if it were better the immune system might do more harm than good, according to new research by Michael Deem and colleagues of Rice University in Houston. The immune system has apparently evolved to be…
Wikinews interviews Brian Moore, Socialist Party USA presidential candidate
Sunday, March 30, 2008 While nearly all cover of the 2008 Presidential election has focused on the Democratic and Republican candidates, the race for the White House also includes independents and third party candidates. These parties represent a variety of views that may not be acknowledged by the major party platforms. As a non-partisan news…
Nutritional And Organoleptic Aspects Of Goat Milk
More On This Topic: Cattle Yard Designs Australia Nutritional properties and flavor A very important food in the history of human nutrition, goat milk, after having registered a sharp decline in consumption at the beginning of the twentieth century, is now regaining its lost prestige. Its dietary-nutritional properties are noteworthy, so much to make it…