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View from the ground at Microsoft’s Spring Showcase 2011
As the dust fell on Microsoft’s 2011 Spring Showcase it wasn’t just the Xbox 360’s – on the go from midday until midnight – which were relieved to have survived.
By Michael Plant | Games, Notebook | Friday, 4 March 2011 at 12:00 pm
Online House Hunter: Millionaire row
The stamp duty rise on £1m-plus properties draws near. So get your bids in quick.
By Alan Cleaver | Property | Friday, 4 March 2011 at 11:57 am
World of weather: cane toads
Cane toads were introduced to Australia in the 1930s to resolve theproblem of beetles decimating Queensland’s sugar cane crops. From an original 102 toads, the population soon rose to 3,000. But instead of going after the beetles, the toads ate insects, birds’ eggs and native frogs and its toxic skin killed off fish.
Today there are [...]
By Dr Liz Bentley | Notebook | Friday, 4 March 2011 at 11:54 am
Caught & Social: Dame Helen’s stormy view
Daily gossip from the world of celeb
By Luke Blackall | Notebook | Friday, 4 March 2011 at 11:45 am
Digital Digest
Links to the best of the web
By Laura Davis | Digital Digest | Friday, 4 March 2011 at 11:01 am
Online House Hunter: Fun with postcodes
Postcodes have never been so much fun. Our Online House Hunter shows how they can help you learn about your new home
By Alan Cleaver | Property | Friday, 4 March 2011 at 7:15 am
Dispatches from the red planet
Cheers echoed around the huge conference hall as the name was finally announced. For the second year running, Texas Republican Ron Paul had won the straw poll for the Presidential nomination at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). For most in attendance, particularly the 1100 or so supporters of the Texas Governor who had made [...]
World of weather: Towering termite mounds
Towering termite mounds are one of the spectacular sights in Savannah grasslands of Africa but just how much do these mounds tell us about annual rainfall patterns? Scientists from Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology have founda relationship between termite mounds and the hydrology and soil conditions.
Termites play a critical role in the ecosystem of [...]
By Dr Liz Bentley | Notebook | Thursday, 3 March 2011 at 11:23 am
Caught & Social: Meet Willow, the next Smith star
Daily gossip from the world of celeb
By Luke Blackall | Notebook | Thursday, 3 March 2011 at 11:07 am
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