6 posts and columns on Nature

Viral Video: Sloth-tastic!

in News on July 14, 2010 at 12:15 am PT

BoomTown is feeling rather warm and fuzzy today, so it’s the perfect time to trot out the sloths. As in, from this viral film shot at a Costa Rican sloth sanctuary. Like too many living creatures in peril today–thanks, BP!–these super-adorable animals are under siege from man’s incursions against nature.

Chinese Scientists Recalibrate Google’s Evil Scale

in News on February 26, 2010 at 3:01 am PT

Evidently, Baidu isn’t nearly as effective an academic research tool as Google, because the latter’s threatened withdrawal from China has got the country’s scientists pretty worried. A survey of 784 Chinese scientists by science journal Nature found that many feel the search engine is indispensable to their work, particularly if it requires English-language searches for material outside China.

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Google: Pretty Pictures? Sure, We Can Do That

in News on June 18, 2009 at 5:01 am PT

Hmmmm….I wonder where they came up with this idea…. Google announced that “to kick off the summer season,” it has launched a new collection of nature themes for iGoogle, its personalized home page service.