Extinction Countdown
Surveys Find No Sign of Endangered Vietnamese Pheasant
Are we looking at Asia’s first pheasant extinction? The endangered Edwards’s pheasant (Lophura edwardsi) has not been observed in the wild since 2000, and now surveys conducted by the World Pheasant Association (WPA) in the bird’s two most likely habitats in Vietnam have failed to turn up any sign of the species. Edwards’s pheasant was [...]
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Sentiment-sensing software could aid in weeding hostile online comments
September 29th, 2010 |
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If the adage "if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all" were applied to the Web, most comment threads would be empty. Some comments posted in response to a news article, blog, video or other online content successfully advance a debate and/or challenge assertions made by reporters, bloggers and editors. [...]
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