SCIENCE
Top Story: Study Of Protein Folds Offers Insight Into Metabolic Evolution - [Science Daily] Researchers at the University of Illinois have constructed the first global family tree of metabolic protein architecture. Their approach offers a new window on the evolutionary history of metabolism.
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TECHNOLOGY
Top Story: Can Cyborg Moths Bring Down Terrorists? - [Times Online] At some point in the not too distant future, a moth will take flight in the hills of northern Pakistan, and flap towards a suspected terrorist training camp. But this will be no ordinary moth. Inside it will be a computer chip that was implanted when the creature was still a pupa, in the cocoon, meaning that the moth’s entire nervous system can be controlled remotely.
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BUSINESS Top Story: Crowdsourcing: Mining the Masses for the Next Big Thing - [Boston Globe] You are the future of the entertainment industry. So's your neighbor, and that person across the breakfast table. At least that's what the proponents of "crowdsourcing" believe. Crowdsourcing essentially means throwing your arms open to the Internet community and inviting them to help create content or software. Often, there is prize money involved, but sometimes people pitch in for fun or glory.
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SOCIETY Top Story: Governments Using Filters to Censor Internet, Survey Finds - [International Herald Tribune]
With the aid of sophisticated software, government censorship of the Internet is spreading into a global phenomenon, with tech-savvy governments filtering forbidden themes from politics and human rights to sexuality and religion, according to a new academic survey of 40 countries.
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GLOBAL POLITICS Top Story: Where Will the Cyber Saboteurs Strike Next? - [Times Online] After three weeks of unrelenting cyber attacks, the most wired country in the West, Estonia, has returned to normality. The tiny Baltic nation has weathered an unprecedented barrage of denial of service attacks that reduced the country’s online banking system, its newspapers and government services to a crawl, knocked out thousands of commercial websites and left its 1.3 million citizens on edge.
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ENVIRONMENT Top Story: Scientists to Fight Global Warming with Plankton - [The Australian] One of the Earth's major natural barriers to global warming could be strengthened by the first commercial venture to grow vast plankton blooms. US eco-restoration firm Planktos intends to drop tonnes of powdered iron into the Pacific in a two-year project which aims to induce the growth of plankton.
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THE FUTURE Top Story: Five Minds for the Future - [Rediff] We live in a time of accelerating globalisation, mounting information, growing hegemony of science and technology and clash of civilisations. Our time calls for new ways of learning and thinking in school, business and professions. Howard Gardner defines the cognitive abilities that will command a premium in future.
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