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Accidental Activist Finds Cause in Japan's Surging Part-Timers
2014-05-31 07:15:14| IT Services - Topix.net
Miho Marui, a former contract employee for KDDI Corp., poses for a photograph in front of the KDDI Corp. building, center, in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo.
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Why do we have a love affair for curved screens and devices? Because your brain finds curves beautiful.
2014-05-30 20:25:57| Extremetech
Have you ever stopped to wonder why we seem to have such an infatuation with curvy things? Why do we think that a curved smartphone or TV is better than the planar version? Why did we go gaga for the Nexus S, which had a curve that can probably be measured in fractions of a millimeter? Why has the highlight of CES for two years running been a curved Samsung or LG TV? According to some neuroaestheticists (my new favorite word), it has nothing to do with improved functionality, or even some kind of rational response -- it seems our brains are just hard coded to find curvy things more beautiful.
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Texprocil Study Finds Robust Figures For Cotton Yarn Export From India, Outlook Bright
2014-05-30 12:14:42| textileweb Home Page
A study conducted by The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council, (Texprocil) has revealed that India’s Cotton Yarns exports are meeting their targets barring the seasonal fluctuations generally witnessed every April and inspite of high raw cotton prices
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Majority Of Americans Want Obamas Carbon Rules For Coal Plants, Poll Finds
2014-05-30 08:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Americans as a whole support putting strict regulations on the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from existing coal-fired power plants in order to fight global warming and improve public health, a Yale University poll released Thursday showed. According to the poll conducted in April, 64 percent of the 1,013 Americans surveyed said they support a strict policy to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants, while 35 percent said they opposed it - a support ratio of nearly two to one. However,...
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Study finds airplane traffic a major contributor to particle pollution in Los Angeles
2014-05-29 17:30:27| Green Car Congress
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