Posts Tagged ‘technology’

A rare peek inside Google’s HQ (Guardian Unlimited)

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Just what makes this mighty media organisation tick? An exclusive extract from a new book about the company offers some insights To visit Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, is to travel to another planet

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A rare peek inside Google's HQ (Guardian Unlimited)

Sex, death … and Reading (Forbes)

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Suffering from erectile dysfunction or benign prostatic hyperplasia? Go out and buy a book.

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Sex, death ... and Reading (Forbes)

Comics good as gold (Stuff)

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

THE PEOPLE pounding the pavements above are oblivious, but under the streets of central Auckland lies a vault holding comic books of such worth that they have been brought out of their secure holding only three times in the past eight years.

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Comics good as gold (Stuff)

The mystery of the silent aliens (New Scientist)

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

As SETI approaches its 50th anniversary, three books tackle the question of why we have not yet found evidence of alien intelligence

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Pieces of rare biblical manuscript reunited (3news)

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Two parts of an ancient biblical manuscript separated across centuries and continents were reunited for the first time in a joint display Friday.

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Rare Superman Comic Sells For $1 Million (NY1 News)

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman sold yesterday for a record $1 million to an unnamed buyer in New York.

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Rare Superman Comic Sells For $1 Million (NY1 News)

Superman’s debut comic book sells for $1-M (Manila Bulletin)

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

NEW YORK (AP) -- A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman sold Monday for $1 million, smashing the previous record price for a comic book. A 1938 edition of Action Comics No.

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Superman's debut comic book sells for $1-M (Manila Bulletin)

First Superman comic sells for $1 million (Everett Herald)

Tuesday, February 23rd, 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. A 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1, widely considered the Holy Grail of comic books, was sold from an unidentified seller to an unidentified buyer.

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First Superman comic sells for $1 million (Everett Herald)

Superman’s debut comic book issue sells for $1 million (The Kansas City Star)

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. The 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1, widely considered the Holy Grail of comic books, was sold from a private seller to a private buyer, who did not release their names.

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Superman’s debut comic book issue sells for $1 million (The Kansas City Star)

Termites feasting on Gandhi books in his ashram (New Kerala)

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

Gandhinagar, Feb 21 : Books on Mahatma Gandhi are an endangered lot in his own hermitage, the Sabarmati ashram in Ahmedabad. Over a hundred books on the Mahatma and some of his photographs were consigned to a fire last week after termites feasted on them.

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Termites feasting on Gandhi books in his ashram (New Kerala)