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When humans venture into space for long periods, their muscles tend to weaken. The heart of the matter is that muscles don't have to work as hard without gravity.
One of the challenges of working in the IT field is staying on top of emerging technologies - while letting go of those that are becoming obsolete. This Global Knowledge article lists 10 areas that are fading into obscurity.
Google is making a big run at new markets with business software and mobile phones. However, it will not succeed in either market unless it changes the way it builds its products. Both of these markets will reject Google's "continuous beta" philosophy.
Billy Mays reportedly did not wake up the morning after a rough flight the previous day. He was 50 years old.
Officials in the city of Bozeman, Montana are asking job applicants to turn over their user names and passwords to social networking sites like Facebook as part of their background checks.
A press release out of Sweden tries to convince us that Blizzard has now confirmed a 2009 release for the first installment of StarCraft II. Press2Play.tv claims to have it on good authority that this is indeed the case.
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Work on HTML 5 started in 2004 and even after 5 years of work we are no where close to having a final draft. According to the co-editor of HTML 5, Ian Hickson, we might have to wait till 2022 for the final proposed draft of HTML 5.
Johnson County Community College has recorded its highest summer enrollment ever, up 9.7 percent from last year. Slightly more than 10,000 students are taking summer classes, compared with 9,141 last summer.
We've all sat through mind-numbing PowerPoint presentations, but presentation software appears to have established a permanent foothold in the classroom, so we might as well figure out how to use it properly.
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Over 400 deer are present at Shawnee Mission Park in Shawnee, KS, which some experts say is 7 times more than the park can handle. At night, you can see stunning views of the deer all packed together at various locations.
Thomas, a football standout at Blue Springs South High School, is close to making a decision on which college he'll attend. The son of the late Kansas City Chief Derrick Thomas had considered the University of Alabama, where his father played.
In an unprecedented scientific endeavor — and what may be one of the coolest space missions ever — NASA is preparing to fly a rocket booster into the moon, triggering a six-mile-high explosion that scientists hope will confirm the presence of water.
Astronomers believe they may have discovered the first planet ever detected in another galaxy. The new world was apparently glimpsed in the closest giant spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, Messier 31 in the constellation of Andromeda.
Gamers can be hard to shop for, because they always have in mind a list of games they want, and if the game you bought them isn't on that list, it'll get traded in for one that is.
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