Author of My Billion Year Contract reflects on life in elite Scientology group

Thursday, January 14, 2010 Wikinews interviewed author Nancy Many about her book My Billion Year Contract, and asked her about life working in the elite Scientology group known as the “Sea Org“. Many joined Scientology in the early 1970s, and after leaving in 1996 she later testified against the organization. Published in October, Many’s book […]

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This is the category for science and technology. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 20 October 2017: Arrangement of light receptors in the eye may cause dyslexia, scientists say 8 October 2017: Researchers find preserving spotted owl habitat may not require a tradeoff with wildfire risk after all 6 September 2017: Peggy Whitson, […]

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Blender Foundation launches open movie, open game projects

Monday, June 11, 2007 The Blender Foundation, which maintains the open source 3D tool Blender, has announced two new projects, codenamed Peach and Apricot. Project Peach will be a new open source movie, following in the footsteps of last year’s Elephants Dream project (which was initially codenamed Orange). Apricot, on the other hand, will use […]

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Hope fades for families of trapped Mexican miners

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 Almost 600 desperate family members and others remained camped outside the Pasta de Conchos coal mine near San Juan de Sabinas, in the northern Mexico state of Coahuila where 65 Mexican miners were trapped by a gas explosion around 2:30 a.m. (0830 GMT) Sunday. Some are threatening to storm the mine […]

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Edmund White on writing, incest, life and Larry Kramer

Thursday, November 8, 2007 What you are about to read is an American life as lived by renowned author Edmund White. His life has been a crossroads, the fulcrum of high-brow Classicism and low-brow Brett Easton Ellisism. It is not for the faint. He has been the toast of the literary elite in New York, […]

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Al Sharpton speaks out on race, rights and what bothers him about his critics

Monday, December 3, 2007 At Thanksgiving dinner David Shankbone told his white middle class family that he was to interview Reverend Al Sharpton that Saturday. The announcement caused an impassioned discussion about the civil rights leader’s work, the problems facing the black community and whether Sharpton helps or hurts his cause. Opinion was divided. “He’s […]

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Comedian George Carlin dead at age 71

Monday, June 23, 2008 American comedian George Carlin has died at the age of 71 after suffering heart failure. Carlin was taken to the Saint John’s Health Center located in Santa Monica, California after he experienced chest pains and died in the early evening. Carlin has made several HBO specials and nearly two dozen comedy […]

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Study: Herd animals detect Earth’s magnetic field

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 Large herd animals may have the ability to detect earth’s magnetic field, concluded scientists in Germany in a report published in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences after performing studies of cattle and deer grazing and sleeping patterns. The animals tended to face north-south oriented toward the earth’s […]

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Different Avenues Of Advertising}

Different Avenues of Advertising by worldwideadvertising Advertising is a means not an end. Advertising offers more than brand promotion. Through proper advertising you can build up a bond between customers and products. There are a variety of strategies and media involved in the process of advertising. Advertisements may come out in various forms including radio, […]