
Google Earth can now take you back in time. When you download the newest version of the software, you can select to see the world as it was depicted on a 1790 world map , and several other options. Up next" Google Time Machine.

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A new Washington Post-ABC News poll is getting attention today because it seems to show a new low in public approval of Obama. Four months...

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OurGoods is a new barter network for New York creative types that helps users trade the skills or stuff they have for the ones they seek.

A vaccination campaign started in Nicaragua will save countless children's lives and could be a lesson to other countries.

After independence there will be lots for southern Sudan to do, but they already have a soaring national anthem. They planned for that six months ago.

The feminized dudes of New Girl fit perfectly into the economic zeitgeist.