Shade-Grown Coffee Not Just For The Birds

Shade-grown coffee is sometimes called “bird friendly coffee,” but a new paper in the journal Current Biology suggests that the plantations also help maintain the genetic diversity of native tree species. Study author Shalene Jha discusses the research and its implications.

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Audubon’s Annual Christmas Bird Count

Get out those binoculars and notepads. For the 109th year, birders throughout the Americas are navigating tropical forests and crunching through snowy meadows to tally up birds. Count director Geoff LeBaron and Cornell ornithologist John Fitzpatrick discuss the annual event.

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Tweets From Frolleagues And Other 2008 Lingo

The language of our lives is changing faster than you can download an iPhone app. Wired magazine’s “Jargon Watch” columnist (and conceptual artist) Jonathan Keats runs down the top tech jargon terms of 2008.

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How To Make New Year’s Resolutions Stick

Are you vowing to stop smoking or start exercising on Jan. 1, 2009? Nearly half of U.S. adults will make resolutions to change in the New Year. Clinical psychologist John Norcross explains how to increase your odds for success.

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30+ Incredibly Beautiful Custom Designer Toys

Only talented designers have the ability to create incredibly detailed works of art to represent the heart and soul of their creativity. Today i wanted to showcase something different and unrelated to web design, may be that’s because i am in a good mood for the holidays. So today i wanted to showcase some of [...]

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