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The Science of Saving Art: Can Microbes Protect Masterpieces? Art conservationists, curators and scientists from around the world are gathering this week in Caracas, Venezuela, to address some of the burgeoning concerns about the state of art and artifact collections around the world–particularly those in tropical climes, which are under assault from mold, fungus and insects. At the Forum on Cultural Heritage Conservation, researchers are highlighting the many macro-abilities of microorganisms in the art world, which range from detecting whether a gallery's air quality might be harmful to delicate objects d'arts to actually cleaning a dirty piece with helpful bacteria. [More] Scientific AmericanEnvironmentalists urge luxury Dubai hotel to release whale shark into wild Environmentalists renewed their call yesterday for a marine-themed luxury Dubai resort to release a whale shark on display inside the hotel's giant aquarium.Wildlife activists and environmentalists claim the managers of the $1.5bn Atlantis hotel are endangering the life of the whale shark, which is listed as a threatened species, by keeping it in the massive resort's open-air aquarium along with 65,000 fish, stingrays and other sea creatures.'The risk to the animal being held is greater than if the animal is released,' Lisa Perry of the Emirates Wildlife Society/World Wild Fund told The Associated Press. Releasing the 13-foot long female whale shark back into the wild 'is the right thing to do for Atlantis and for the animal,' she said.Representatives of Atlantis resort, which is located on an artificial island built in the shape of a palm tree, were not immediately available for comment yesterday. They have said they rescued the whale shark in August after it swam into the shallow wat AlterNetMilwaukee: Witness to Robbery Killed Lt. Raynard Richards says police suspect two men were selling drugs before a group of teenagers tried to rob then around 6:45 p.m. Saturday. topix.netDay fire fell from the sky - 108 die in Australian inferno Marysville is the town that disappeared. Once known as Melbourne's honeymooning centre, with its pretty guesthouses and century-old oaks, the town, about 60 miles from the Victoria state capital, is now a smouldering, post-apocalyptic wasteland.From the air, nearby St Fillans resembles a row of campfires - piles of powdery ashes with the embers trampled out. The landscape is deserted, with caravans, boats and burned-out cars abandoned in the middle of roads. Many appear to have been trapped by flying debris - huge sections of what were once walls which have blocked the road. A house under construction is untouched by fire, but the savage winds have scattered its beams, like a child's game of pick-up sticks amid the scorched earth and blankets of smoke.Some calamity appears to have destroyed civilization - it's like a film set, perhaps for Cormac McCarthy's post-nuclear novel The Road.On the Maroondah Highway a shrouded corpse lies on scarred earth, surrounded by police tape. Black d Guardian.co.uk |
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Feedzilla is a news aggregator which categorizes news stories by topic. It is a platform where webmasters and bloggers can find an unmatched selection of easy to use, automatically updating and professional news widgets for their sites. Feedzilla supports the building of widgets in various formats, as well as allowing the addition of news widgets to different blogging platforms and social networks.
Feedzilla manually aggregates news summaries found in RSS feeds, and redistributes them in either RSS format or as a news widget. Content is collected 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from an ever-growing list of providers.
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9th of September 2009 - Interview of Feedzilla's founder at the IFA in Berlin. [More]