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bbcrd's zeitgeist at master - GitHub
"BBC Research & Development has released Zeitgeist, a directory of the most shared BBC links on Twitter.

Tweets and stories are indexed by topic and location and can be filtered by time period to include only the last 24 hours or 7 days."
twitter  analytics  news 
september 2010 by amy
Gene Weingarten - Gene Weingarten column mentions Lady Gaga.
An awfully good and funny piece about the news business, as it was and as it is.
journalism  media  news  from twitter_favs
july 2010 by amy
Random Guardian
guardian roulette
gae  news 
march 2010 by amy
40 most recent links from @jayrosen_nyu
These are the 40 most recent links I've pushed through Twitter, ranked by the number of times they've been clicked.
twitter  aggregator  news 
august 2009 by amy
Stopping Deforestation, Greening Agriculture Better Than Carbon Capture & Storage, UNEP Report Says : TreeHugger
A new report from the UN Environment Programme says what many small-t treehuggers have been saying for quite some time: Stopping deforestation, restoring marshes and peatlands, and practicing more sustainable agricultural techniques are probably a better bet for combatting climate change, not to mention less expensive, than investing tens of billions of dollars in carbon capture and storage at power plants.
environment  news 
june 2009 by amy
Tracker News: Health, Humanitarian and Tech Articles & Resources
TrackerNews.net is an aggregator with a few twists. Its beat covers health issues, humanitarian work, technology that supports both and is broadly defined. "Health," for example, includes animal, plant and planetary health along with human health.
news  health  human_rights  activism  journalism 
may 2009 by amy
BBC NEWS | Africa | Carter shocked by Zimbabwe crisis
Former US President Jimmy Carter has said the crisis in Zimbabwe is "far worse" than he had imagined....The country's basic structure was "broken down", he said, pointing to the cholera epidemic that has swept Zimbabwe, killing at least 300 people and affecting some 6,000.
world  politics  health  news  society 
november 2008 by amy
Mailman fails to deliver, becomes local hero - Los Angeles Times
It should come as no surprise that the U.S. Postal Service did not receive a single complaint from Padgett's customers about missing mail during the years he withheld pizza circulars, oil change discount notices and Chinese menus.
news  mail 
november 2008 by amy
How DNA Repairs Can Reshape Genome, Spawn New Species
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) have shown how broken sections of chromosomes can recombine to change genomes and spawn new species.
genetics  news  science  research 
august 2008 by amy
Man accused of trying to cash check for $360,000,000,000 | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Latest News
A man has been accused of attempting to pass a $360 billion check, which he claims was given to him by his girlfriend’s mother to start a record business, Fort Worth police said.
news  texas 
may 2008 by amy
Drug that protects against radiation effects - Telegraph
The new drug protects animals' bone marrow and gut cells from being destroyed by radiation therapy, without reducing radiation's effectiveness against tumour cells, say today's studies.
medicine  news 
april 2008 by amy
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