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Art from gaol
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2013
Men in a South Carolina prison for juveniles and professors of library science from the University of South Carolina have joined hands to fight AIDS with a graphic novel.
Taken to tusk
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2013
Google came under fire at the recently concluded international wildlife meet in Bangkok. Conservation groups accused the Internet giant of helping fuel a dramatic surge in ivory demand in Asia that is killing African elephants at record levels.
Mother tongue love
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2013
A Belarusian activist has been jailed for five days after staging a demonstration aimed at protecting the Belarusian language.
Look who’s watching
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2013
Google representatives have been asked to appear before European data protection officials over concerns about the way the site collects data on web users. The date for the inquisition has, however, not been fixed.
Chef, scientist come to blows
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2013
A bird scientist interviewed by celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall for his TV series has posted a letter on Facebook saying she was portrayed in an “unfair light” on Fish Fight.
Father’s missive
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2013
“Dear Michael, Jim Watson and I have probably made a most important discovery,” so begins a letter written on March 19, 1953, by Francis Crick to his 12-year-old son.
Guided tour of birdlife
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2013
AT the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, scientists, conservationists, engineers, educators and students all work together for a common purpose: to understand birds and other wildlife, to involve the public in scientific discovery, and to use this knowledge to protect biodiversity. This website showcases the work of this project.
Like it or not
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2013
Facebook is facing legal action over its use of the “like” button. In a suit filed in the Virginia Federal Court in the US, Rembrandt Social Media, a patent-holding company acting on behalf of a dead Dutch programmer, Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer, has alleged that Facebook’s success was based, in part, on using two of Van Der Meer’s patents without permission.
Attack on critics
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2013
Authorities in Nigeria’s northern state of Kano have pressed criminal charges against two radio journalists in connection with their criticism of local officials’ handling of a polio vaccination campaign.
