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Social network founder cashes in Facebook shares to pay tax bill but still owns has a stake worth nearly $136bn,Mark Zuckerberg to sell $2.3bn of Facebook shares

source: -- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, is to cash in $2.3bn (£1.4bn) of his stake in the social network as part of a new share offering. The company announced it is commencing a public offering of 70m Class A shares, of which 41.4m will be sold by Mr Zuckerberg. The placing will capitalise on the strong recent preformance...

Helicopter crashes in to 38-storey luxury apartment block in Seoul

Source : -- http://www.telegraph.co.uk A helicopter plunged to the ground in Seoul, killing both pilots after its propeller clipped the side of a 38-story luxury apartment building. Fire official Cha Yang-oh told reporters Saturday that the helicopter crashed in the upscale Gangnam district in southeastern Seoul. The helicopter belonging to the LG Group was on its way to a nearby landing...

Jameis Winston Defends Himself -- 'I Just Know I Did Nothing Wrong'

source -- http://www.tmz.com/ After months of silence, Jameis Winston is personally defending himself on TV ... saying, "I just know I did nothing wrong."The FSU quarterback went on SportsCenter this afternoon and was asked how he felt about the accuser's lawyer addressing the media this morning and claiming the rape investigation was botched from the start. Jameis played...

HotBoxed Ride -- Justin Bieber on it ?

Justin Bieber better think twice before driving around L.A. in a hotboxed car again -- because TMZ has learned, cops are now on the lookout for ANY of the singer's suspiciously smoking vehicles ... especially that ridiculous black van. Multiple law enforcement sources tell us, cops are pissed at the Biebs for his hotbox stunt outside Power 106 this week -- when he rolled up to...

The Science Tunnel shows the world 3.0

Source -- https://www.deutschland.de/ Germany’s TOP RESEARCH organization, the Max Planck Society, has chosen the title of the travelling exhibition with care: the impressive show about science is touring the world under the name of the Science Tunnel. And at the end of the tunnel, everyone hopes for “More light!” The exhibition offers a relaxed and fascinating environment for its...

Scientists name about 18,000 new species each year. This colorful tarantula, Typhochlaena costae, was recently discovered in Brazil.

In recent years, newfound species have included brilliant blue tarantulas from Brazil, a polka-dotted Pacific Oceannudibranch, and a pink, spiny millipede from Thailand. And who would not coo over a chubby, lumbering Peruvianwater bear or a translucent green glass frog from Ecuador? (See "An Ode to the Odd and Obscure.") I understand the appeal of species like birds and...

Neanderthal Burials Confirmed as Ancient Ritual A 50,000-year-old Neanderthal skeleton discovered in a cave in France was intentionally buried

source -- http://news.nationalgeographic.com/ A Neanderthal skeleton first unearthed in a cave in southwestern France over a century ago was intentionally buried, according to a new 13-year reanalysis of the site. Confirming that careful burials existed among early humans at least 50,000 years ago, the companions of the Neanderthal took great care to dig him a grave and protect his body...

Elephant Foster Mom: A Conversation with Daphne Sheldrick

Orphaned elephants “can be fine one day and dead the next,” says Daphne Sheldrick, a Kenyan conservationist and expert in animal husbandry. She knows. To date, she has fostered over 250 calves, first in partnership with her husband, David Sheldrick, founding warden of Kenya’s Tsavo East National Park and a legendary naturalist, and later (following his death in 1977) as part of the David...

5 Great Mummy Discoveries

Today, mummies are some of the most prized and highly valued artifacts of antiquity, but it might surprise you to know that prior to the 19th century, this wasn’t always the case. Rather than preserving them in museums, people would unwrap mummies and exploit their various parts. Their bones were ground up into powder and sold as medicine, and their wrappings were used to make paint. Some even say...

10 Things You Should Know About William Shakespeare

1. Shakespeare’s father held a lot of different jobs, and at one point got paid to drink beer. The son of a tenant farmer, John Shakespeare was nothing if not upwardly mobile. He arrived in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1551 and began dabbling in various trades, selling leather goods, wool, malt and corn. In 1556 he was appointed the borough’s official “ale taster,” meaning he was responsible...

William Beebe : Explored the ocean at new depths

Before there was Jacques Cousteau, there was Beebe, an explorer and naturalist who in the early 1930s pioneered the use of an underwater craft called the bathysphere to explore the ocean at depths no human had ever gone before. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1877, Beebe attended Columbia University then took a job as a curator of birds at the New York Zoological Park (now the Bronx Zoo), which...

Gertrude Bell: Made her mark on the Middle East

A British adventurer, diplomat and archaeologist, Bell traveled widely throughout the Middle East and played a leading role in the creation of the modern Iraqi state in the early 1920s. Born into a wealthy English family in 1868, Bell studied history at Oxford University then spent a number of years trekking around the world, mastering multiple languages (including Arabic and Persian) and pursuing...

Thor Heyerdahl: Sailed the high seas in primitive crafts

In the second half of the 20th century, Heyerdahl explored the world’s oceans on vessels made of reeds and papyrus in an effort to promote his theories about the migration patterns of ancient peoples. Born in Norway in 1914, Heyerdahl studied biology and geography at the University of Oslo then in the late 1930s spent a year on an isolated Polynesian island, conducting research and living off...

Mary Kingsley: Traveled solo through Africa in Victorian garb

During the Victorian era, a time when British women were expected to carry out their lives in the domestic sphere, Kingsley defied society’s expectations and traveled extensively on her own throughout West Africa, where she studied the customs of local tribes and was the first European to visit certain remote areas. Born into a middle-class English family in 1862, Kingsley had no formal...

Hiram Bingham III: Told the world about Machu Picchu

Bingham is credited with becoming the first outsider, in 1911, to visit the ruins of Machu Picchu, the now-famous Inca settlement in the Peruvian Andes that was built in the 15th century and abandoned around the time of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire in the 16th century. Born in 1875 to Christian missionaries in Hawaii, Bingham earned a Ph.D. from Harvard and married a Tiffany...

Bermuda triangle

The Bermuda Triangle is a mythical section of the Atlantic Ocean roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico where dozens of ships and airplanes have disappeared. Unexplained circumstances surround some of these accidents, including one in which the pilots of a squadron of U.S. Navy bombers became disoriented while flying over the area; the planes were never found. Other boats and...

2013's best and worst phones "Which one is your cell phone?"

We'll remember some of these devices fondly, but there are others that we wish we could forget. (Credit: Lynn La/CNET) With 2014 approaching, we at CNET would like to take this time and reflect. Reflect on our family and friends, our personal accomplishments, and of course, the smartphone highs and lows of 2013 (this is a tech site after all, what were you expecting?). Unsurprisingly,...

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