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Is Forbes acquiring Clipmarks?

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:20:21 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: VentureBeat just ran a story stating that Forbes has acquired Clipmarks. I wanted to quickly fill everyone in on what's going on.

First, this article is a bit premature. We have not been acquired by Forbes. However, for the past few months we have been meeting with people at all levels of Forbes and the excitement and support they have shown for what we're creating has been very meaningful to us. As many of you have probably seen already, a number of their writers are already clipping and our technology has been integrated on forbes.com.

For quite a while, we have been in talks with various parties about helping to financially support clipmarks. However, we hadn't yet found the right "partner" to help us complete this journey. A partner who fully understands our vision for making news and information more portable and interactive than ever before. Therefore, we just kept looking.

Continued...

Clip Source: venturebeat.com

Clipmarks, one of the many startups that helps users collect and organize information from around the web, is being bought by Forbes Magazine, an inside source tells us.

Tags: clipmarks, forbes, web, business

Girls entering puberty by the age of six - but are drugs the answer?

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:11:00 GMT

clipped by: michellezm
clipper's remarks: "Early puberty has even been linked to watching too much television. A few years ago, Italian scientists found that children who watched three hours a day produced less of the sleep hormone melatonin - low levels of the hormone play an important role in the timing of puberty.

But perhaps more worrying is the theory that it's exposure to environmental chemicals which is causing the drop in the age of puberty. These chemicals mimic the effect of hormones, disrupting the normal timing of sexual maturing.

Whatever the cause, growing numbers of children are being deprived of childhood and are turning, physically, into mini-adults at an increasingly young age. But without the emotional maturity to deal with these changes, they are vulnerable to exploitation.

In Britain, it is now estimated that up to at least one in six children under ten is affected. Indeed, there is a belief that schoolgirls as young as six are entering puberty".

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Doctors are increasingly worried about the number of girls - and boys - being referred to specialists because of this phenomenon of 'precocious' puberty.

The normal age at which puberty starts in both boys and girls has dropped by about two years since the 19th century, to 14 for boys and 12 for girls. This is largely due to improved nutrition - onset of puberty is believed to be triggered by physical size. Another theory is that the epidemic of obesity is to blame.

Research suggests that children from broken homes experience earlier puberty. The stress of family breakdown apparently alters the balance of growth hormones and other chemicals in the body, speeding up a child's physical development.

Absent fathers may be another cause. American researchers have found that biological fathers send out chemical signals that inhibit their daughters' sexual maturity. Girls whose fathers had left home started their periods earlier.

Tags: puberty, children, paediatrics, hormones, health, medicine

2+2=4 - What is wrong with you people?

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:28:52 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: aguyinthepew.blogspot.com

Eric Michael Johnson is a primatologist and endocrinologist completing a PhD at Duke University, and he blogs at the Primate Diaries. He has two recent posts that are worth reading. First, some provocative humor:

Fundamentalists: believe 2+2 =5 because It Is Written. Somewhere. They have a lot of trouble on their tax returns.

"Moderate" believers: live their lives on the basis that 2+2=4. but go regularly to church to be told that 2+2 once made 5, or will one day make 5, or in a very real and spiritual sense should make 5.

"Moderate" atheists: know that 2+2 =4 but think it impolite to say so too loudly as people who think 2+2=5 might be offended.

"Militant" atheists: "Oh for pity's sake. HERE. Two pebbles. Two more pebbles. FOUR pebbles. What is WRONG with you people?"

Tags: atheism, religion, humour

Amazing Renderings of Mars

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:50:18 GMT

clipped by: Bluephoenix4

Clip Source: www.space4case.com

Olympus Mons

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Ius and Melas Chasma Valles Marineris

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Arsia Mons

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Tempe Terra

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Ophir and Candor Chasma Valles Marineris

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Amazonis Planitia (view west to east)

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Olympus Mons sunrise

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Tharsis Tholus

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Orcus Patera at sunset

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Northpole and Vastitas Borealis

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Schiaparelli sunrise 1

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Mars terraformed.. Chryse

Tags: mars, astronomy, renderings, graphics, cool

Why are intelligent women such fools in love?

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:18:37 GMT

clipped by: michellezm
clipper's remarks: "Without the engagement of the head and the heart, relationships are not a safe place to be, but the bright woman is headstrong enough to tell herself that she will be able to make this work."

In other words, we fall at the first hurdle because we override our gut instinct."

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

the intrinsic emotional make-up of women with an over-developed intellect is flawed, and as a result their ability to choose compatible partners or sustain lasting relationships is impeded

Dr Robert Holden, author of Success Intelligence, is at the cutting edge of psychological relationship research. He explains: "IQ is all to do with your head and the meeting of minds. You could have two incredibly intellectual sparky people who know how to stimulate each other with a fantastic debate, but this in no way means they have what it takes for a long-term relationship.

"To have a successful relationship, you have to have a developed EQ which is emotional empathy and a respect for each other's feelings."

So why is it that intellectually smart women get derailed when it comes to relationships?

"It happens because the logic of emotions is different to the logic of thoughts,"

"With a high IQ, we are often so headstrong that we over-ride what our heart is feeling. We essentially silence our emotions.

Tags: psychology, women

The Sun Flies Like a Bullet

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:17:42 GMT

clipped by: invictus

Clip Source: discovermagazine.com

The Sun Flies Like a Bullet

Our solar system, which careers around our galaxy’s center at nearly half a million miles per hour, isn’t round. It isn’t even symmetrical. Instead, says George Mason University astrophysicist Merav Opher, the sun’s domain is shaped like a slightly squashed bullet and tilts up to 90 degrees away from the plane of the magnetic field of the rest of the Milky Way.

Opher got her results by working with particle and radio-wave data from the two Voyager probes, which are now more than 100 times as far from Earth as we are from the sun, near a boundary known as the termination shock. There, the barrage of particles blasting out from the sun—the solar wind—is slowed by our motion through the galaxy. Using the Voyager data, researchers can now monitor the magnetic field at the edge of our solar system.

Tags: astronomy, sun, solar system, milky way, science

Flashlight Weapon Makes Targets Throw Up

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:36:31 GMT

clipped by: Newfman

Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

It looks like a big flashlight — but it's really a nonlethal weapon designed to make you sick.

Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc., of Torrance, Calif., has been granted a contract by the Department of Homeland Security to develop what it calls the "LED Incapacitator," according to a DHS online newsletter.

The handheld device using light-emitting diodes to emit super-bright pulses of light at rapidly changing wavelengths, causing disorientation, nausea and even vomiting in whomever it's pointed at.

"There's one wavelength that gets everybody," says IOS President Bob Lieberman. "Vlad [IOS top scientist Vladimir Rubtsov] calls it 'the evil color.'"

Tags: odd

Welcome back mugofcoffee!

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:43:57 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator

Clip Source: clipmarks.com

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About me It is true that your work is the reflection of who you really are! In that sense, my clips represents my overall personality, to a large extend...
Why I use Clipmarks Clipmarks is the quick referral point & research pages for me, Clipmarks is where I glance over to catch the latest of news, oddities & wonders of the world... Clipmarks is where I visit to share the community spirit of the clippers & above all, their serious & fun-filled comments...well, I admit that I am a clipaholic! mail: coffee.mugof@gmail.com

Tags: mugofcoffee, clipmarks

The best pictures I have ever taken

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:59:13 GMT

clipped by: djkraz
clipper's remarks: This is of my middle child. We were on the beach of Lake Superior and he started throwing rocks in the air. I never thought they'd turn out as good as they did!

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Stray bullet kills boy fishing in Oklahoma

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:35:14 GMT

clipped by: cpltaiji
clipper's remarks: I am absolutely SPEECHLESS!

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Police officer aiming at a snake apparently shot 5-year-old dead

NOBLE, Okla. - A police officer shooting at a snake apparently killed a 5-year-old boy who was fishing at a nearby pond, officials said.

Austin Haley was fishing with his grandfather, Jack Tracy, when Tracy said he heard a shot and saw something hit the water just a few feet in front of the boat dock where he was standing.

Moments later, a second shot hit Austin in the head.

A Noble police officer who had responded to a report of a snake in a tree apparently fired the deadly shot while trying to kill the snake on Friday, City Manager Bob Wade said.

"I was told that they tried several ways to get the snake down, but it was still hissing at them and firmly lodged," Wade said. "What I was told is that the owner of the home either suggested or agreed that they should go ahead and shoot the snake, and then everything happened from there."

Tags: public safety, nutjobs, law enforcement, human interest, crime, bizarre