Posts Tagged ‘science’
Monday, March 8th, 2010
Sex.com, often touted as one of the most valuable Internet domain names, is due to head to the auction block next week.

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Lender putting www.sex.com on auction block (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Last Sunday, Buffalo Street Books (formerly The Bookery II) hosted its third Works-In-Progress reading for ten local writers. This was an opportunity for the writers to gauge the audience’s reaction to their unpublished prose and verse.

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Buffalo Street Books (The Cornell Daily Sun)
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman sold Monday for $1 million, smashing the previous record price for a comic book.

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Superman's debut comic book sells in NYC for $1M (AP via Yahoo! News)
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman has sold for $1 million, smashing a record set just last year.

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Rare Superman's debut sells for $1 million (Deseret News)
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
A rare manuscript by the 18th-century libertine Casanova, recalling his sexual conquests and many adventures, has entered the collection of France's National Library.

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French library gets Casanova's sex diaries (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
The rare female screenwriter working in non-romantic comedy genres, Laeta Kalogridis has had her hands on a diverse array of scripts in the past 15 years -- "Scream 3," "Tomb Raider," "Wonder Woman," "Something Wicked This Way Comes," "Night Watch," and "Alexander," to name a few. She also served as an uncredited helper on James Cameron's record-busting "Avatar."

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"Shutter Island" scribe raised on violent myths (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
DALLAS, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Bidding in a U.S.

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First Batman comic breaks auction record (UPI)
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Elif Batuman’s odd and oddly profound study of her favorite Russian authors is also an exploration of the question: How do we bring our lives closer to our favorite books?

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Tolstoy & Co. As Objects of Obsession (New York Times)
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
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