By Michael Balter, ScienceNOWA team of paleontologists thinks it may have identified the earliest known dinosaur—a creature no bigger than a Labrador retriever that lived about 243 million years ago. That’s at least 10 million years earlier than the oldest known dinos and could change researchers’ views of how they evolved. But some scientists, including the study’s authors, caution that the...
“The Message” deemed greatest hip hop song ever
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The 1982 hit “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was named the greatest hip hop song of all time on Wednesday, in the first such list by Rolling Stone magazine to celebrate the young but influential music genre.“The Message,” which tops a list of 50 influential hip hop songs, was the first track “to tell, with hip hop‘s rhythmic and vocal force, the truth...
Willis Whitfield, Clean Room Inventor, Dies at 92
Label: HealthThe enemy was very small but it was everywhere. World peace, medical advancement, iTunes — all would eventually be threatened. Half a century ago, as a rapidly changing world sought increasingly smaller mechanical and electrical components and more sanitary hospital conditions, one of the biggest obstacles to progress was air, and the dust and germs it contains. Stray particles a few...
DealBook: Freeport to Buy Plains Exploration and McMoRan
Label: BusinessFreeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold said on Wednesday that it would buy two oil and natural gas companies, Plains Exploration and Production and the McMoRan Exploration Company, in a return to the energy business.The two transactions will create a natural resources titan worth about $60 billion, including debt, and will formally reunite Freeport with McMoRan, the oil exploration company it spun off in...
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Villaraigosa says ports, union to use federal mediator to try to end strike
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For $10,000 an Hour You Can Talk to Mark Cuban Too
Label: Technology There is a lot you can buy with $166. A wool coat for winter. A cheap plane ticket (one way) from Los Angeles to New York. Four nights of paying for all the beer your friends drink. Or spending a minute of time on the phone with Dallas Mavericks owner and investor Mark Cuban.It’s a calculus you wouldn’t be forced to make, except for the rise of Clarity, a startup that pairs budding entrepreneurs...
Fleetwood Mac readies tour and new music
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — Fleetwood Mac is heading back on the road, and that means the top-selling group will release new music — sort of.On its 34-city North American tour, which kicks off April 4 in Columbus, Ohio, the band will perform two new songs, and it could mean a new album will follow. Or not.Stevie Nicks recently sang on tracks that Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie worked on, calling...
Software Programs Help Doctors Diagnose, but Can’t Replace Them
Label: HealthSAN FRANCISCO — The man on stage had his audience of 600 mesmerized. Over the course of 45 minutes, the tension grew. Finally, the moment of truth arrived, and the room was silent with anticipation. At last he spoke. “Lymphoma with secondary hemophagocytic syndrome,” he said. The crowd erupted in applause. Professionals in every field revere their superstars, and in medicine the best...
Republicans Balk at Obama’s Short-Term Stimulus
Label: BusinessWASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats are struggling to find common ground on a long-term debt deal. But as economic growth has weakened this quarter, they are at odds over what the flagging recovery needs in the immediate future, too. The Obama administration is arguing that the sluggish economy requires a shot in the arm, and it included tens of billions of dollars of little-noticed stimulus...
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