(VIDEO) Internet advertising was key to increasing profit significantly for Russian Search-Engine company Yandex. The ...
(VIDEO) Internet advertising was key to increasing profit significantly for Russian Search-Engine company Yandex. The company posted on Thursday a nearly 80-percent increase in first-quarter profits. And Bloomberg reports the company’s net income rose to 2.25 billion rubles ($72 million) from 1.26 billion rubles in the last year. Yandex currently holds about 62 percent of [...]
‘Unheard-of’ might be a fitting characterization of the journey 31-year-old David Curry took from auto mechanic to particle physicist whose current research helps explain the origins of the universe. Before Curry became a Ph.D. student working at the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (LHC-CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, he was [...]
At first glance the place could be mistaken for a masochist’s wonderland: dental drills, nude plastic body parts strapped to chairs and poles. Hanging on the walls of a back room are photographs of the curator, naked, as he poses in Yoga-like positions that would make a contortionist proud. Children come here on school-sponsored trips. [...]
UPDATE: This month, doctors announced they had achieved a ‘functional’ cure for HIV patients in France by administering antiretroviral drugs soon after the patients contracted the virus. Another scientific team achieved similar results for a child in Mississippi who was born with HIV. A person is ’functionally’ cured of HIV when the virus is reduced to levels low enough that it can not be detected by standard blood tests. For the Berlin [...]
David Zentz is a photographer. More than that, he is versatile storyteller. In pictures, he captures Adolf Kiefer, the oldest living Olympian, taking laps at a pool near Chicago. Keifer competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and is the first man to break the 1-minute mark in the 100m backstroke. In other images, Zentz shows [...]
Weeping willow trees stand along the banks of the Spree. Across the river, protesters gathered Sunday near the East Side Gallery. Beyond Berlin, preserving the past has taken form through environmental renewal. After more than two decades of grassroots advocacy to create a nature reserve, a protective zone thrives along the corridor of the former East-West border, harboring wildlife under threat in other regions of [...]
It’s been 43 years since Germany last had such an overcast winter. So this weekend, when the sun appeared to say Hello, haven’t you missed me? many Berliners headed outdoors to the Botanisher Garten to enjoy the rays. The Cactus Garden is located in a humidity-induced greenhouse and is one of 16 greenhouses on this 126-acre complex. But the tropical and subtropical plants provide a surreal reality check: Berlin is still months from [...]
berlinSCI.com is interested in how innovation out of Germany shapes the rest of the world, and whether that influence later alters society in Germany. Our first glance at this ‘phenomenon’ is that of scientific discoveries affecting small-town America. Specifically, Gainesville is a college town in Florida, the Sunshine State. At a population of slightly more than 125,000, many of Gainesville’s [...]
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Today we celebrate a holiday of love, commitment, chocolate… and 19th-century norms on reproduction and dating? Yes, the 1800s: A reminder that sex wasn’t always fun or accurate. And there’s no better antiquarian book to savor on Valentine’s Day than ‘Physiological Mysteries and Revelations in Love, Courtship, and Marriage; An Infallible Guide-Book [...]
