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Research or Biopiracy? Careful what you bring out of the Amazon

Suspended Life How mammals have the freak ability to generate hydrogen sulfide in emergencies, which may have been a life-saving trait during massive die-off 250 million years ago.

What color is that? I always had trouble with my definition of greens/yellows.

How Starbucks actually helps the mom and pops

The School That Fell From the Sky How a downed WW2 pilot returned the favor of the protection afforded him by villagers on New Britain

I fell in love with a female assassin A much more personal story of the ongoing conflict in Colombia

A global map of social-networking frontrunners Astonishing amount of diversity: MySpace in the US, Facebook in Egypt, Orkut in Brazil, Hi5 in Mongolia, Friendster in the Philippines, Bebo in NZ.

Learning to smoke at age 46

A language of whistles

Life exists even in clouds

Life with a seven second memory Twenty years since a documentary of amnesiac agony, life now leans chipper for Chris Weaver

Sao Paulo bans billboards A quote from a dissenter: "Advertising is both an art form and, when you're in your car or alone on foot, a form of entertainment that helps relieve solitude and boredom."

An hour and a half BBC documentary from within Tehran

Baudrillard No Longer Exists Have to admit, I too found out of him through the cameo of his book (Simulacra and Simulacrum) in the Matrix.

Wife of Chinese Cyber Dissident to Sue Yahoo