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POPSEtoys lessons a sampler of teaching curriculum for the EToys program on the XO laptop
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POPSTraffic Android Traffic Android is THE online bookmarking tool. Will save you hours. Hurry while there is a Free Trial offer.
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POPSAll Points Bulletin Evolved All Points Bulletin : Evolved is a community fansite for the upcoming massively multiplayer online hybrid "APB", developed by Realtime Worlds. Here you will find all the latest news, media, game information, and beta updates.
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POPSAre Meerkats Naturally Altruistic?
For centuries, there's been a debate over whether true altruism exists among humans. Helping others at our detriment is risky behavior, evolutionarily speaking. Say you're overcome with an urge to give your last piece of bread to someone else. The other person eats, but you don't. Ultimately, after enough of these selfless acts, you'll starve and die, and your dangerous habit of helping others should die along with you. In the animal kingdom, altruism poses an equally prickly problem to explain. Why some animals exhibit generosity is a real mystery to biologists. It's not like they're thinking about the tax write-off they can get by donating money. Meerkats have one of the most cooperative societies in the animal kingdom. These African desert dwellers are perfect subjects for an investigation into altruism. For one, they live in a harsh habitat, quite a long way from easy street. Danger lurks around every corner because they sit at the bottom of the food chain.
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POPSGoogle Launching Translation Service It may seem odd that Google is merely pairing up real-world translators with clients, and not offering some sort of machine translation, like the now-Yahoo-owned Babel Fish. But it's likely this service is a first step towards that -- if Google can scan and analyze all the translated documents that go through this service, it will improve their technology considerably.
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POPSCelebrity Meter Although there are a few different standards for highlighting links like these, most social networking sites, blog software and hosting services support one or more. They're relying on site builders to highlight such links by using special markup. Google uses this information to build a graph of all sites and their links to one another. Rather than request the API from each site individually (Twitter followers, MySpace friends, etc.), Google provides a single RESTful API to send a simple query in one shot. While there are limits to this data (Facebook info is currently not available in this widget), the information we're getting is real and the friend information we're getting isn't a simple number but a list of live URLs that Google has vetted for us.
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