Posts Tagged ‘technology’
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)
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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)
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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)
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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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The mystery of the silent aliens (New Scientist)
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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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Pieces of rare biblical manuscript reunited (3news)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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. 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)
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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)
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