Man Tries to Improve Nation's Geography IQ
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Roger Andresen wants to make sure you know that Mount Everest is the world's tallest mountain, Minsk is the capital of Belarus and the hottest place on earth is in Ethiopia.
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By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  May 30--"Google wants you" to help it win the mapping war, John Hanke, the director of Google Earth and Google Maps, told a crowd of location-obsessed technologists Tuesday at the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose.
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Can 'unsettle a country's foundations'
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The country has long lagged behind in Olympic sports. And that's why grandmaster Viswanathan Anand is a national hero
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New Internet-based technology could soon turn regular computer users into armchair spies, a Canadian inventor said on Monday. Vincent Tao, an engineer at Toronto&#39;s York University, said he has invented a mapping
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One of the pioneers of offshoring tries to cash in.
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An artist known for contrasting nature and culture continues to explore visual and behavioral patterns with new videos.
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A professor of genetic programming at Stanford has concocted a plan for states to skirt the Electoral College.
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At age 7, Terence Tao was taking high school math classes. At 31, he is one of the worldâs top mathematicians, tackling an unusually broad range of problems.
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Scientist-inventor Russ Cohn is a man on a mission: to help reduce global warming by rerouting half the world's trash from the landfill to the garden.
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SLINGERLANDS, New York  - Gently extolling the  virtues of "learning and laughter," an elderly upstate New York  man has become a unlikely advice guru in China, a land he's  never even visited.
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Experts pinpoint a brain part that may hold the key to recognising places we have previously been.
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Daphne Koller is pushing the limits of building computer programs that learn efficiently and reason intelligently. Third in a series profiling this year's MacArthur 'genius award' winners. By Kari Lynn Dean.
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A government campaign will seek to encourage people to upgrade their skills through education and training.
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A U.S. geographer says he believes an urban landscape of circular parks, lawns and even buildings can help reduce the urban heat island effect.
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His trip includes Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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A man arrested for trespass and burglary  is baffling those trying to identify him, his nationality and language.