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  • abenomics (13 March 2014) Abenomics refers to the economic policies advocated by Shinzō Abe since the December 2012 general election, which elected Abe to his second term as Prime Minister of Japan. Abenomics is based upon "three arrows" of fiscal stimulus, monetary easing and structural reforms.[1] ...
  • urbexing (13 March 2014) Urbexing is the act of exploring urban areas that are generally off-limits to regular civilians. Urban exploration (often shortened as urbex or UE) is the exploration of man-made structures, usually abandoned ruins or not usually seen components of the man-made ...
  • ultra-orthodox (13 March 2014) Haredi Judaism, also called ultra-Orthodox Judaism, is the most theologically conservative form of Judaism. The term "ultra-Orthodox" is controversial, as it is often considered to be pejorative, and is rarely used by the people to whom it is applied; they generally prefer ...
  • black twitter (13 March 2014) Black Twitter is a cultural identity[1] on the Twitter social network focused on issues of interest to the black community, particularly in the United States. Feminista Jones described it in Salon as "a collective of active, primarily African-American Twitter users who have ...
  • gene mapping (13 March 2014) Gene mapping refers to one of two different ways of definitively locating the gene on a chromosome. The first type of gene mapping is also called genetic mapping. Genetic mapping refers to the use of linkage analysis to determine how two genes on a chromosome relate in ...
  • valueact (13 March 2014) Microsoft says it had appointed Mason Morfit, the president of activist investment firm ValueAct Capital, to its board of directors. ValueAct Capital was initially formed in June 2000 to manage the capital of its founders, along with the capital of a limited number of ...
  • driverless car (13 March 2014) Three states have already signed driverless (aka autonomous) cars into law; California, Nevada and Florida. Google has been testing theirs for a while, and as of a year ago (August 2012) had logged over 300,000 miles with only two incidents. The Google driverless car is ...
  • Malaysia Flight 370 Mystery (12 March 2014) The wild speculations and conspiracy theories that surrounded the sudden disappearance of the Malaysia Flight MH370 in the early morning hours on March 8, 2014 over the South China Sea. Despite an extensive 10 nation sea and air search for 6 consecutive days, the Boeing 777 ...
  • Normal Barbie (6 March 2014) "Barbie" with the average female body is coming to life. Lammily is the forthcoming plastic doll whose motto is, "Average is beautiful!" Her body shape is based on averages of data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control that is more often used to track the American ...
  • carmat (6 March 2014) The first patient fitted with an artificial heart made by the French company Carmat has died, the hospital that had performed the transplant in December said on Monday.

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