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A heated debate over the last few months seems not ended but getting fuel underneath. It’s all about Microsoft’s buying of Yahoo!. For the last four years Yahoo!’s rival Google’s stock has gone up 440%, while Yahoo!’s one remained flat. Microsoft moved to a bid to offer $33 per share making the total value of $47.5 bn. But Jerry’s team demanded $37/share. Therefore MS retreated. But shareholders anger and frustration persisted.

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The ‘Crazy Rasberry Ants’

Well they have ‘engineering brain’ and they do follow a ‘sustainable strategy’ – when their fellows get killed by pesticides they simply use the ‘corpses’ as bridges to safely move over the surface treated with pesticides 🙂 . The complaints against them are piling up daily. Our subject is an ‘ant’. No not one, they are many – they are the ‘crazy rasberry ants’ of Texas.

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Complete understanding of everything

Our Universe is made of particles – the smallest, most indivisible building blocks of our world are particles. – No, not any more!!

The world is made of extremely small vibrating loops called ‘strings’ and they must vibrate in 11 dimensions to properly constitute the Universe. The String theory says this. A string is one-dimensional contrary to the elementary particles which have no dimensions. Now the different ways the strings vibrate give particles their unique properties. That’s why a book is different than a tree.

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Cyclone in Myanmar and the earthquake in China

Cyclone Nargis took a toll of more than 34,000 lives, while more than 27,000 are missing (according to the Government of Myanmar) although United Nations estimates death toll between 63,000 to 100,000. The tropical cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar on May 2.

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Travelling through the Universe

Microsoft has released the software for its WorldWide Telescope (WWT) program to download and install onto desktops turning computers to function as virtual telescopes to travel through night sky. A fancy not only for kids but for adults as well.

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Exhausted…

The 2007 Nobel literature prize winner Doris Lessing seems not enthusiast any more to continue writing. She is now 88. That means she won the Nobel Prize at the age of 87. May be the highest recognition came very late. She is the oldest person ever to win the award.

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Bought but never touched = £6 billion

Guardian reports that Britons waste about 10 billion pound sterling worth of food a year. 60% or £6 billion worth of food is never opened at all but simply thrown away. Decomposition of organic wastes (food as an example) will release CO2 to the environment, which is one of the major concerns of climate changes. This is about Britain but what about other countries?

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