Longest coffee table symbolises World Fair Trade Day in Belgium

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Saturday, May 12, 2007 Oxfam and several other fair trade-organisations organised coffee tables all over Flanders to celebrate the World Fair Trade Day. The combined length of the tables at different locations was meant to exceed 2015 meters (to remind people of the U.N. millennium development goals for 2015), but eventually reached over 3000 meters. […]

NASA announces water on Mars

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Thursday, October 1, 2015 On Monday, NASA announced that signs of liquid water have been found on Mars. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft found evidence of the liquid on the Martian surface, in long dark spots on the Red Planet thought to be formed because of water flow. In a news conference, NASA’s planetary science […]

Crossing guard killed by truck in Glasgow, Scotland

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Friday, January 15, 2010 An elderly woman who was a crossing guard or a “lollipop lady” has been killed in an accident involving a truck in Glasgow, Scotland. The woman has been identified as 59-year-old Catherine Gibson, who came from the Dennistoun district of Glasgow. At around 0850 GMT on Thursday, Gibson was assisting children […]

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Understanding What Near Infrared Spectroscopy Is All About}

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Find Out More About: Optic Fibre Cabling Fibre Optic Cables Understanding What Near Infrared Spectroscopy Is All About by [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOagVDZLQnA[/youtube] Alexa Anderson The NIRS is a non-invasive method for brain function imaging. There are other related modalities such as the NIRI (near infrared imaging), DOI (diffuse optical imaging) and OT (optical topography). It is a […]

Utah legalizes homebrewing

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Sunday, March 29, 2009 The United States state of Utah has legalized homebrewing of beer and wine. H.B. 51, “Exemption for Alcoholic Beverage Manufacturing License”, was signed into law by Utah governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. on March 24 after being passed by large majorities in both houses of the State Legislature. The bill was […]