Facebook�s Users Ask Who Owns Their Information - NYTimes.com

Reacting to an online swell of suspicion about changes to Facebook's terms of service, the company's chief executive moved to reassure users on Monday that the users, not the Web site, "own and control their information."

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The Orienting Stone: The Study Of "Otoliths" (or "Ear Stones") In Fish

Fish otoliths are among the strangest and most wonderful bits of vertebrate anatomy. They are strikingly sculptural, and their clean surfaces tend to display an alluring opalescent sheen.

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Japan scientists eye made-to-order bones

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Allergic to exercise? - The Body Odd - msnbc.com

By Melissa Dahl Does all that exertion on the elliptical machine make you nauseous? Have you ever been convinced that if you spend even one more minute on the treadmill, you will actually die? Maybe it's not all in your head.

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Cops Arrest Malaysia's Anwar

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim arrived at the city police headquarters here at 1.15pm Wednesday in a white Pajero after being arrested by the police. He was earlier arrested in front of his house in Bukit Segambut.

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Lessons in Love, by Way of Economics

If economics is the study of the allocation of scarce goods and services, what could be scarcer or more precious than love?

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Malaysia - No-confidence motion rejected, Opposition MPs walk out

"Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia rejected an emergency motion of no-confidence against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and his Cabinet, which prompted a walkout by Opposition MPs. ... The motion was rejected by the Speaker due to the "wrong choice of words."

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Warning - Habits May Be Good for You - NYTimes.com

A FEW years ago, a self-described "militant liberal" named Val Curtis decided that it was time to save millions of children from death and disease. So Dr.

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People With Gene Variant Are More Likely to Crave Sweets, Study Finds

Researchers have found that people with a common variant of a gene that helps the body handle sugar are more likely to crave foods like soda and cake.

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Optical Illusions Show How Brain Anticipates the Future to 'See' the Present

In an experiment originated by Dr. Nijhawan, people watch an object pass a flashbulb. The timing is exact: the bulb flashes precisely as the object passes. But people perceive that the object has moved past the bulb before it flashes.

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Watch that's back from the seabed... And it's still working, after 67 years

The last time Teddy Bacon saw his expensive gold watch it was sinking down into the harbour in Gibraltar. That was in 1941, and the watch had slipped off his wrist when Lieutenant Bacon threw a line to shore from his ship, HMS Repulse.

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Burma and China: Tale of two disasters

The BBC's Paul Danahar reported on the aftermath of the cyclone in Burma before flying to China to cover the Sichuan earthquake. Here he compares the two disasters, and the response from both governments.

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How Stereotyping Yourself Contributes to Your Success (or Failure): Scientific American

An old one but a good one, while it doesn't say anything we *think* we already know, it bears repeating.

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Thomson Reuters axes 140 journalist jobs

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Malaysia's Mahathir quits party

Malaysia's former prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, has resigned from the ruling party in protest at its poor showing in the general election. Dr Mahathir said he would not rejoin the United Malay National Organisation until current PM Abdullah Badawi quit.

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Tiny Bodies in a Morgue, and Grief in China

Several schools in nearby Dujiangyan collapsed while classes were under way. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao visited two of them, including Xinjian Primary School, where parents say officials told him the death toll was 20 pupils.

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A Bean Bag That Delivers Web Widgets

I adore these kinds of ideas

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Virtual telescope opens night sky

Nearly tagged this as "travel" :) "Microsoft has launched WorldWide Telescope, a free tool that stitches together images from some of the best ground- and space-based telescopes.

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Launch of a new semantic search engine

The San Francisco startup Powerset went live on Monday (12th May 2008) with its new semantic search engine for the Internet.

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Google helps the web to go social

Charlene Li, principal analyst at Forrester told BBC News in the end it all comes down to money.

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