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• How Gowalla landed $8.4M for location-based game

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Bookmark this categorySocial game startup Gowalla has defied the conventional wisdom that there’s no venture capital available and that businesses today need to prove a profitable revenue model to attract investors. The 11-person Austin-based company has secured an $8.4 million second round of funding atop the $2 ...
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• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
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• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate ...
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• Fossil of the Day Award: And the winner is…

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The UN Conference on Climate Change is a weighty gathering of serious folks looking for a way to cut carbon emissions. Its also a great place to bring some much-needed humor and along the way hammer a few perceived laggers in the fight against global warming. Enter the Fossil of the Day Awards, a tongue-in-cheek ...
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• Icebergs, Copenhagen hot topics in Southern Ocean

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Southern Ocean is toying with us, like some killer whale tossing its prey before devouring it. The small French research ship l’Astrolabe is being battered by 55 kmh (35 mph) winds and tossed like a cork in icy, three metre (9 feet) waves. Many onboard have retreated to the safety of their bunks where, ...
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• Smartphone Religion at the Duke Divinity Call & Response Blog

  
  Praxis Habitus - Blogging Race Religion & Culture — Authority: 99
  Christmas season is in full gear at the Marti house -- finishing up my classes, the kids homework projects before the end of the year, community activities here in Davidson. In the midst of it all, Ive been able to take Jason Byasees invitation to again contribute last week to the Faith & Leadership Blog at Duke ...
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• Obama says legalising prostitution not his job strategy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Allentown (Pennsylvania, US), Dec. 5 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has said that it is not his job strategy to legalise prostitution, marijuana and non-violent crimes as a remedy to boost the economy. Obama was at Lehigh Carbon Community College here to field questions from the public about the economy, to ...
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• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
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• Obama Fields Prostitution Question During Economic Town Hall ("That will not be my job strategy")

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  A man in the crowd, a sophomore at the college, asked the president if he would consider legalizing prostitution, marijuana and non-violent crimes as a remedy to boost the economy. "I appreciate the boldness of your question," Obama replied. "That will not be my job strategy." The president added: "Part of what youre ...
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• Forest carbon schemes – new hope for the Amazon?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  By Stuart Grudgings In the tiny settlement of Boa Frente on the banks of a tributary to the Amazon river, bright blue butterflies flitting through trees and the constant squawks of parrots add to the feeling of a paradise on earth. The poverty endured by most of its residents quickly shatters that illusion, but ...
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• What to do while the world burns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A firefighter puts out a fire at a village near Bangkok March 31, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang This opinion piece by Mort Rosenblum originally appeared in GlobalPost . The views expressed are his own. For the full article, click here . PARIS, France — Back when primal-scream therapy was the rage in ...
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• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
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• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
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• LCD Motion Blur: Fact and Fiction

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 169
  LCD motion blur is always mentioned as a major HDTV problem, but heres why conventional wisdom isnt always that wise. read more
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• The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  From the brains behind Irans Green Revolution to the economic Cassandra who actually did have a crystal ball, they had the big ideas that shaped our world in 2009. Read on to see the 100 minds that mattered most in the year that was.5. Rajendra Pachauri for ending the debate over whether climate change ...
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• Saturated Fat and Coronary Heart Disease, Part III: Cognitive Dissonance

  
  Free The Animal — Authority: 468
  In Part II of this series I wrote that this installment would be about the "best research" those supporting the saturated fat-cholesterol-heart disease link or "causal chain" might use (heres Part I ). In the process of doing my homework for that post I came across something I think fits in here because I ...
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• Naked Feet

  
  Free The Animal — Authority: 468
  Well I dont know about the GW overtones or global Kumbaya, but otherwise a good message. I go barefoot as often as possible, even out in public -- such as last night to the hotel room and back to the in-laws this morning. Coming up on 24 straight hours of barefoot. No related posts.
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• Comfortable conservation and global warming

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  -- John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own -- Energy efficiency will have to make the single most-important contribution if policymakers are serious about limiting greenhouse gas emissions and dampening growing demand for fossil fuels. Energy efficiency will not remove the need to invest ...
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• When you eat as important as what you eat

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Washington, Nov 26 (IANS) When you eat may be just as vital to your wellbeing as what you eat, says an Indian-American researcher.Experiments in mice revealed that the daily waxing and waning of thousands of genes in the liver — the body’s metabolic clearinghouse — is mostly controlled by food intake and not by ...
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