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Image via Wikipedia Google's top execs refuse to testify at Senate hearing - USATODAY.com : " Google's top executives have flatly refused to appear at a hearing by the Senate's antitrust subcommittee about business practices in the search industry. Instead, the search giant has assigned Google Chief Legal Officer David Drummond to show up. The hearing is slated for later this summer, before the Senate's August recess." Related articles Google Could Face Subpoenas from FTC and Senate (adweek.com) Panel Pushing Google To Send Page Or Schmidt To Hearing (techdailydose.nationaljournal.com) FTC, Senate rachet up Google antitrust probes (news.cnet.com) Critics Cheer Possible Google Antitrust Probe (techdailydose.nationaljournal.com) FTC to hit Google with antitrust probe, report says (digitaltrends.com) Google faces subpoenas in antitrust probe (oregonlive.com) FTC launching antitrust probe over Google search, ad businesses (arstechnica.c...

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ESA Portal - New ice thickness map of the Arctic unveiled : "However, to understand fully how climate change is affecting the fragile polar regions , there is a need to determine exactly how the thickness of the ice is changing. ESA's ice mission To answer this question, a group of scientists together with Prof . Duncan Wingham from University College London proposed the CryoSat mission to ESA in 1998. The loss of the original CryoSat satellite in 2005 as a result of a launch failure has unfortunately made this a longer than normal wait." Related articles Research aircraft Polar 5 returned from spring measurements in the high Arctic (eurekalert.org) "Obama launches new national policy to strengthen management of oceans" and related posts (taragana.com) Arctic reindeer moves closer to endangered listing (yubanet.com) Record loss of ozone over Arctic (yubanet.com) Satellite-based inventory and monitoring: snow and glaciers of the Hima...

Image via Wikipedia Black holes abound in early universe - CNN :  "Scientists say at least 30 million black holes had formed before the universe was 1 billion years old, which is quite early in the universe's 13.7 billion-year history" Related articles Black holes abound in early universe (cnn.com) Rutgers contributes to findings that black holes were surprisingly common in early universe (eurekalert.org) X-ray telescope finds new voracious black holes in early universe (eurekalert.org) The Hole Picture: Growth of Black Holes and Galaxies Linked from an Early Age (scientificamerican.com) NASA's Chandra Finds Massive Black Holes Common in Early Universe (spacefellowship.com) Giant black holes a window into origins of earliest galaxies (csmonitor.com) Black holes there from the start in the Universe's first galaxies (arstechnica.com) Chandra tags ancient black holes (go.theregister.com) Most distant black holes ever found reveal secrets...

Image via Wikipedia RIP unlimited data: Tiered data plans coming to Verizon July 7th | ZDNet :  "For $30 a month, customers will get 2GB of data, a clear pay-more-for-less deal in comparison to the unlimited deal it offers to new iPhone customers. 5GB and 10 GB plans wil go for $50 and $80, respectively. Verizon will also offer tethering plans, which cost $20 per extra 2GB. In all, the rates are a tad bit higher than the equivalent plans offered by AT&T." Related articles [Rumor] Verizon Implementing Tiered Data Plans On July 7th, And They're Not Pretty (androidpolice.com) Verizon plans to kill unlimited data plans as the global iPhone 5 draws near (zdnet.com) Rumor: T-Mobile and Verizon Offering Unlimited Plans Soon? (pocketnow.com) Family data plans being considered by Verizon Wireless (geek.com) Verizon Eliminates Unlimited Data Plan, Embraces New Pricing (livescience.com) Verizon Wireless may end unlimited data plans this summer (tuaw.co...

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Image via Wikipedia Life expectancy by county, sex, and race (US), 1987-2007 | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation : " Discover how life expectancy changes in the United States from 1987 to 2007.  Click on maps to explore those changes by county, sex, race, and in relation to other countries." Related articles U.S. Found to Be Losing Ground in Life Expectancy (nlm.nih.gov) Life Expectancy in U.S. Counties Drops (abcnews.go.com) Life expectancy in most US counties falls behind world's healthiest nations (scienceblog.com) Life expectancy in most US counties falls behind world's healthiest nations (eurekalert.org) U.S. Life Expectancy Lags Behind (webmd.com) Everything Is Caused By Obesity... Or Not (huntgathermedicine.com) You: Life expectancy of U.S. women slips in some regions (latimes.com) Utah life expectancy leads the nation, but falls behind some struggling countries () How Long Will You Live? Check the Map and the Mir...

Scientists restore memory of drugged rats, hope to do the same with people -- Engadget :  "Researchers at Wake Forest University and the University of Southern California used a group of medicated rodents to demonstrate a method by which memory can be restored with the flick of a switch." Related articles Memory Implant Gives Rats Sharper Recollection (nytimes.com) The On-Off Memory Switch (bigthink.com) Scientists successfully implant artificial memory system (thetruthiswhere.wordpress.com) Restoring Memory, Repairing Damaged Brains With An Artificial Hippocampus (neurosciencenews.com) Researchers Design Memory-Strengthening Implant (science.slashdot.org) Restoring memory, repairing damaged brains (eurekalert.org)

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Pyramids of " America ": The Mississippians Related articles Riddle of pyramid's secret hieroglyphs solved (gadling.com) Proud to be a Mississippian (nukegingrich.com) Only 34 percent of Mississippians glad Union prevailed (atlmalcontent.wordpress.com)

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