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A US artist and inventor has combined IT and taxidermy to create a computer housed in a dead beaver.
Kasey McMahon, 34, from Los Angeles, spent three months creating his Compubeaver, reports Metro News.
And, in separate but related news, two more US inventors created a computer mouse housed in a real mouse.
Ms McMahon said of her [...]
We awoke this morning at the crack of dawn, 6 am, when the weak sunlight seeped through the as yet unspring-cleaned dingy window. We lay in bed thinking about aquatic mammals – specifically, why they don’t die of thirst. Can they live, unlike other mammals, without fresh water? Do they somehow desalinize salt water? Do [...]
BAGHDAD, May 1 — The Iraqi government said Tuesday that it was investigating reports from “reliable sources” that the leader of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, had been killed in an ambush by a rival insurgent faction.
Iraqi officials, desperate to show gains against a relentless insurgency, have in the past trumpeted the killing [...]