Saturday, October 14, 2006 An American inventor has patented a pair of new time formats with a footprint less than 50% of that of conventional four-digit time. The more unusual of the two new formats, called “TWELV”, dispenses with numerals altogether. In place of clock hands or digits, the new clock uses color to convey […]
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Find Out More About: Solar Passive House Design South Australia Adelaide Passive Home Design Submitted by: Swati Tomar As real-estate foreclosures rise, committing to tax liens may be a strategy you desire to go after if you require to generate cash by way of real-estate investing. It is vital to realize that some of the […]
Read MoreGastric bypass surgery performed by remote control
Sunday, August 21, 2005 A robotic system at Stanford Medical Center was used to perform a laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery successfully with a theoretically similar rate of complications to that seen in standard operations. However, as there were only 10 people in the experimental group (and another 10 in the control group), this is not […]
Read MoreStrike ballot to go ahead despite British Telecom’s belated new pay offer
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 The UK’s Communication Workers’ Union have effectively rejected a belated revised pay offer by telecoms giant British Telecom. Their statement, released early this evening, indicates a formal ballot on strike action is inevitable – unless the company revises their two percent offer for 2010. The deadline set by the Communication Workers’ […]
Read MoreKennedy Center names 2007 honors recipients
Friday, September 14, 2007 The Kennedy Center announced that its 30th presentation of the Kennedy Center Honors would go to pianist Leon Fleisher, comedian Steve Martin, singer Diana Ross, director Martin Scorsese and musician Brian Wilson. The Center was opened to the public in 1971 and was envisioned as part of the National Cultural Center […]
Read MoreWays To Prevent Dog Bites
Find Out More About: Cavoodle Puppies For Sale Buy Cavoodle Puppy Nsw Submitted by: Jack Hazelton We may think that our dog will never bite us or anyone else. However, 4.5 million people in the United States are bitten by dogs every year and most of them are by dogs they know. Of these, 885,000 […]
Read MoreCategory:Animal rights
This is the category for animal rights. A tangentially related topic, for which Wikinews also has a category, is animal sacrifice. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 30 April 2020: Neuroscientists tell Wikinews about empathy and harm aversion observed in lab rats 16 May 2019: Actor Doris Day dies at 97 10 March […]
Read MoreApes and birds are able to plan ahead: psychologists
Friday, May 19, 2006 According to psychologists in Leipzig, Germany, apes and some birds are able to plan their actions ahead of time. Psychologists Nicholas Mulcahy and Josep Call at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology say that apes are able to save tools to use at a later time, that will assist them in […]
Read MoreWhy Shops That Offer Stylish Tattoo Designs Are Becoming Popular
Find Out More About: Verge Site Professional Designer Port Moresby byadmin Don’t be surprised if you notice the family man next door sporting a brand-new tattoo. The colorful body art has gone mainstream, and it is becoming very common for professionals like Da Vinci Tattoo to provide Stylish Tattoo Designs for many segments of the […]
Read MoreOntario Votes 2007: Interview with Communist Party candidate Shona Bracken, Toronto Danforth
Sunday, October 7, 2007 Shona Bracken is running for the Communist Party in the Ontario provincial election in Toronto—Danforth. Wikinews interviewed her regarding her values, her experience, and her campaign.
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