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Book swap and art coming to Helsinki Airport

If buying books from airport kiosks is your financially damaging weakness, Helsinki Airport has an idea that may help – it is set to introduce a new book swap service.


Google+ predicted to hit 400 million users by end of 2012: Report

According to new estimates, Google’s social network Google+ (G+) is growing bigger every day, adding 625,000 new users to its total every 24 hours.


Biggest urban threat to your hearing? MP3 players, study finds

New research announced last week finds that nine out of ten urban dwellers are exposed to enough loud noise to damage their hearing. But rather than noisy construction sites and roaring buses and subways, the main culprits are MP3 players and stereos, according to the findings.


Fast food chain cooks up foie gras burger in Japan

US fast-food chain Wendy’s, known for its square beef patties and baked potatoes, on Tuesday unveiled a foie gras burger as it sprang back into life in Japan.


Broadway turns to Hollywood for inspiration

As Broadway theater experiences unprecedented success with its highest-grossing year of US$1.1 billion (RM3.5 billion) in ticket sales and the US film box office dips by up to 5 percent, according to The Wrap, it is no wonder that Hollywood is turning its films into musicals.


Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs is compelling. No airbrushing of Jobs’ tyranny and tendency towards self-delusion.

Remembering 2011 in memes

The Internet: McLuhan’s Global Village. Disrupter of traditional economics and media. And home to the Nyan Cat. While there can be no doubt that Web has made our life immeasurably better, it also has a twisted, humourous side that lies in the depths of sites like 4Chan, Reddit and ICanHazCheezeburger.


Broadway turns to Hollywood for inspiration

As Broadway theater experiences unprecedented success with its highest-grossing year of US$1.1 billion (RM3.5 billion) in ticket sales and the US film box office dips by up to 5 percent, according to The Wrap, it is no wonder that Hollywood is turning its films into musicals.


HIV trial is ‘breakthough’ of 2011

A landmark clinical trial that showed HIV drugs can be as effective as condoms in preventing transmission of the virus that causes AIDS was declared Science magazine’s breakthrough of the year on Thursday.