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123D Creature Is an Awesome Exercise in Facing Your Monsters
2013-03-11 13:00:00| TechNewsWorld
When I saw Autodesk's 123D Creature, an iPad app that lets you build three-dimensional monsters, I filed it away in the back of my mind as an app to try out on a lazy Sunday afternoon. I finally tried it, and I wish I would have done so sooner. Not because I'm awesome at creating creatures: I wish I would have tried it sooner because 123D Creature has revitalized my faith in humanity.
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Cold-weather lizards facing climate crunch
2013-03-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit Voice: Lizards that give birth to live young may be headed for a climatic cul-de-sac in the next 50 years, according to a new study by scientists with the University of Exeter and the University of Lincoln. Climate change must not be underestimated as a threat to modern patterns of biodiversity," said University of Exeter biologist Dr. Dave Hodgson. "Our work shows that lizard species which birth live young instead of laying eggs are restricted to cold climates in South America ... high in the Andes...
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Google Maps facing ban in Germany as trial advances
2013-03-08 01:47:35| CNET News.com
At a hearing today, a judge appears to be siding with Microsoft, according to a report. [Read more]
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Millions of Indians facing worst drought in decades
2013-03-07 14:36:22| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Millions of people in western India are suffering their worst drought in more than four decades, with critics blaming official ineptitude and corruption for exacerbating the natural water shortage. Central areas of Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, are facing a water shortage worse than the severe drought in 1972, the state's chief minister Prithviraj Chavan told AFP. "In recorded history the reservoirs have never been so low in central Maharashtra," he said. "With every passing...
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Emerging economies facing extreme risk despite natural disaster respite
2013-03-07 03:39:09| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: It will come as little consolation to the victims of Hurricane Sandy or Typhoon Bopha, but 2012 was the least deadly year for natural disasters in the past decade, according to new figures from risk management firm Maplecroft. The company today reports that fewer 10,000 people lost their lives as a result of natural disasters last year, meaning fatalities stood at nine per cent of the decadal average of 106,000 deaths a year. The number of recorded natural disaster also fell to 251 events, a drop...
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