Jan 16, 2015 Sometimes, there is a story within a story. On The CBS Evening News the other night, our colleague Dr. Jon LaPook had one about the dramatic use of an Automated External Defibrillator - AED - to save a man's life... |
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Jan 16, 2015 Accurate measurement is always important in science. I think that I shall never see the volume of a living tree without 3D technology or with laser scanning, see how dense a forest is - some are immense. Of such things science can make sense... |
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Jan 16, 2015 This is a big anniversary for Broadway. On this day in 1964, a new show opened in New York - which became a huge hit, gave its star the role of a lifetime and helped breathe new life into musical theater: Jerry Herman's "Hello, Dolly!"... |
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Jan 16, 2015 Robots are becoming more and more common these days. In fact, many people might not even realize how much they're being used now. Hospitals are using them to disinfect exam rooms, and Amazon employs an army of robots to fill orders... |
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Jan 15, 2015 The things we hear are just as important as the things we see. This being a radio program, we're well aware of that. But sound and music are vitally important in visual media like television and the movies, too... |
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Jan 15, 2015 There's a fast-growing business concept known as "peer-to-peer sharing." Spinlister is a good example. If you have a bicycle and don't use it all the time, you can list it with Spinlister - and you can let somebody else use it for a fee... |
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Jan 15, 2015 It's easy to cut yourself while shaving - or slicing up food in the kitchen. But one person's cut may be another person's opportunity. Some scientists say they have developed a gel that can stop bleeding from a cut in just seconds... |
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Jan 15, 2015 Recently, a lot has been written and said on the subject of police cameras. But it's microphones that are behind one of the latest crime-fighting technologies. The tool is called ShotSpotter - and police are using it in Camden, New Jersey... |
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Jan 14, 2015 The Cover Story on our Sunday Morning TV broadcast this week was about how the old-young Governor Jerry Brown of California came back decades later as the new-old Governor Brown - and turned things around... |
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Jan 14, 2015 On our earlier broadcast, John Blackstone was telling us about the once-and-present Governor of California, Jerry Brown - who's just started his fourth term. Can Washington learn some lessons from what's he's done in the Golden State? |
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Jan 14, 2015 Ever wonder why airline food, no matter what it is or how well it's cooked, always tastes a little strange? Well, so have the experts. They think that they have figured it out - and they say that it's not entirely the airlines' fault... |
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Jan 14, 2015 Building a house takes a lot of time and a lot of money. But today, a London-based design firm called The WikiHouse Foundation has found a way for people to build their own homes for a lot less time and a lot less money... |
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Jan 13, 2015 The most prolific living American inventor is Dean Kamen, who now holds more than 400 U.S. and foreign patents - but whose best known invention is that personal transportation device called the Segway. Erin Moriarty visited him... |
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Jan 13, 2015 On our earlier broadcast, our CBS News colleague Erin Moriarty was telling us about her visit with inventor Dean Kamen. Some 63-year-olds start thinking about retirement, but not Kamen. He's done alright for himself - and for others, too... |
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Jan 13, 2015 A company in Israel called PlaySight has recently come out with "SmartCourt," a computer vision system that's exciting the tennis world both for its ability to improve officiating - and to improve a player's game... |
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Jan 13, 2015 How big, do you think, should a piece of glass be? That's a very good question, you see. Is it a movie screen - or a TV? Is it a smartphone or a tablet to which you refer? Is it a mirror to see yourself in? A window to look out - or in? |
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Jan 12, 2015 MAD Magazine's signature cartoon character Alfred E. Newman is always saying, "What, me worry?" But when our "Sunday Morning" broadcast asked MAD's editor-in-chief John Ficarra to talk about the attack on Charlie Hebdo, he was worried... |
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Jan 12, 2015 Malaria is one of the deadliest diseases in the world. A company in France says it has developed a way to turn an iPhone into a portable tool that can speed up the diagnosis of malaria - and help to save lives... |
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Jan 12, 2015 Robert Frost once wrote a poem called "Fireflies in the Garden" - and this is how it began: "Here come real stars to fill the upper skies. And here on Earth come emulating flies, that though they never equal stars in size..." |
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Jan 12, 2015 A Swedish company has come up with a touch-free interface that you manipulate by holding your hands around an imaginary sphere, without touching it. You swipe and roll - moving one hand up, the other down - one hand left, the other right... |
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Jan 9, 2015 The people who design and build robots have made a lot of progress in recent years - their creations are more and more like us. But robots have not been very good at recognizing and responding to human faces until - well, until "NAO"... |
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Jan 9, 2015 Do you like vanilla ice cream? A lot of people do - and most people think that the vanilla flavor in vanilla ice cream comes from vanilla beans, which it does not. Well, the flavor in vanilla ice cream is synthetic... |
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Jan 9, 2015 It's a wheelchair called "Get Up" - and with a touch of a button, it lifts its occupant and safely locks them into a standing position. Juan Ayala was born with cerebral palsy and is now confined to his wheelchair... |
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Jan 8, 2015 When a strong wind whips through a forest full of trees, the sound can be powerful, indeed. What if you could harness the power of that wind - and somehow turn it into electricity? You would need a special tree to do that... |
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Jan 8, 2015 You know about the Internet, of course - we all know about that by now. But have you heard of something called "The Internet of Things"? Well, imagine a world in which all sorts of devices talk to all sorts of other devices, more than ever before... |
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Jan 8, 2015 On a trip to Hawaii, our CBS News colleague Chip Reid learned a lot about sharks from people who've had experience with sharks. Of course, how you feel about sharks has a lot to do with the nature of that experience... |
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Jan 8, 2015 One of the hottest pieces of sporting equipment now out is a mask that makes it more difficult for you to breathe. Why in the world would anybody want to pay 80 dollars to make it hard to do anything, let alone breathe? Good question... |
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Jan 8, 2015 There are devices that people can strap on to monitor their hearts and alert them, even their doctors, in the event of a problem. Now, an Israeli technology company - HealthWatch - has developed a heart monitor out of an everyday garment... |
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Jan 7, 2015 Millions of smartphones and tablets now let you use a fingerprint in place of a password. That's all very well, but there are now concerns that your own fingerprints can be hacked. Says our CBS News colleague John Blackstone... |
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Jan 7, 2015 More and more people are having sleep disorders - but there is a small, portable, LED kind of light therapy called "The Re-Timer" - worn on the bridge of your nose like a pair of glasses. Psychologist Leon Lack developed it... |
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Jan 7, 2015 Think about all the times that you've used a shovel to clear the snow out of the driveway or do yard work around the house - and you know how sore your back, your hands and your muscles can be. But, an "ergonomic shovel" may lighten the load... |
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Jan 7, 2015 Baristas do not work at bars. That comes as no shock. Baristas are at every single Starbucks on the block. But what you are about to hear about a growing trend in beer is with each new microbrewer, the beers they brew appeal to fewer... |
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Jan 6, 2015 Today - under a U.S. Capitol Dome covered by scaffolding and undergoing a 60-million-dollar repair job to mend thousands of breaks and cracks and fractures - the U.S. Congress convenes. As our CBS News colleague Wyatt Andrews puts it... |
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Jan 6, 2015 Theodore Roosevelt is enshrined on Mount Rushmore - along with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. What made him the man he was? Our Sunday Morning colleague Mo Rocca met with T.R.'s great-grandson... |
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Jan 6, 2015 Our Sunday Morning colleague Mo Rocca went to the Dakota Badlands to see for himself where Theodore Roosevelt found peace and comfort in the beauty of nature, and the challenge of a strenuous life in the great outdoors... |
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Jan 6, 2015 Long before YouTube, some of you will remember there was a man named Robert Ripley - who entertained millions of Americans with tales of the weird and the wondrous. Ripley called these tales "Believe It ... Or Not!" And strangest of all? |
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Jan 5, 2015 Prosthetics have come a long way over the years. People who need to wear prosthetic limbs can do more with them now than ever before. What if there was a stretchy skin to wrap around a prosthetic limb that would mimic the sense of touch? |
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Jan 5, 2015 As we get older, we need more help to keep seeing clearly, from stronger prescriptions with bifocals or progressive lenses to surgery for cataracts or astigmatism. Well, there is a lens implant in Britain called "Symfony" that is doing some good... |
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Jan 5, 2015 The nose knows - and one thing that it really knows how to do is multitask. For the nose to do so many things takes great precision - and there's an idea for what is called a "digital nose" that could be even more precise... |
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Jan 5, 2015 Introducing: Shape-Shifting Houses, the home of the future - according to an exhibit at Barcelona's Institute of Advanced Architecture, which includes a prototype of a home that expands and contracts as heat is applied... |
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Jan 2, 2015 Have you heard about all the American boots on the ground in Northern Iraq? Twenty-five thousand pairs since November - another 60,000 yet to come? No, not combat boots - rubber boots in children's sizes - gifts from Americans... |
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Jan 2, 2015 Some people in the People's Republic of China are living well - some are living very well - and a privileged few are living very well, indeed - so much so that in some circles, there's a growing need for and shortage of butlers... |
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Jan 2, 2015 There's nothing like a good night's rest - but if you have to work the overnight shift, you know that getting enough rest during the day is quite a struggle for your body clock, creating a sense of chronic jet lag.,, |
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Jan 2, 2015 Smartphones are power-hungry critters, aren't they? Since we use smartphones to do so many things - often, to do many things at the same time - it isn't long before they do run out of power, and then we have to charge them up again... |
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Jan 1, 2015 If you park your car illegally on a city street, chances are it will towed away - no matter how fast you run back to your vehicle. That is a sticky situation - but there is a "smart sticker" that could help drivers to avoid all that... |
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Jan 1, 2015 There are medical glues that either aren't strong enough or are toxic to us. But there's a natural superglue that's found on the threads on the mussel's outer shell, and researchers in Denmark have come up a chemical equivalent of that.,. |
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Jan 1, 2015 When someone suffers a cardiac arrest, every minute makes a difference between life and death. But, there may be a solution on the horizon: a drone that could one day bypass traffic and bring life-saving equipment to the scene... |
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Jan 1, 2015 Engineers in Germany are not looking to recreate Willy Wonka's Wonkavator, but they do say that they have found a way to send elevator cars sideways - adapting a technology already used on some high-speed trains called "magnetic levitation"... |
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Dec 31, 2014 New Year's resolutions are like political campaign promises - easy to make, difficult to keep. The difference is that we make these resolutions to ourselves - and we're pretty easy on ourselves in accepting our own excuses. As for politicians... |
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Dec 31, 2014 It's New Year's Eve - and so tonight at 12, the ball will drop - and the year 2014 will stop - and 2015 will appear. We'll all say "Happy New Year," sing "Auld Lang Syne" as glasses clink. And what will happen, do you think? |
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Dec 31, 2014 It's no fun waking up to an alarm, even though you know you have to. You probably wish you were wearing earplugs - but then, you might worry about sleeping through your own alarm. Unless, of course, your earplugs were your alarm... |
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Dec 31, 2014 Over two hundred years ago, an old man sang a tune that touched the heart of Robert Burns - and so, he wrote it doon. Tonight once more, we lift a cup for Auld Lang Syne. For Auld Lang Syne, my dear, for Auld Lang Syne... |
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Dec 30, 2014 This year more than ever, many of the Christmas tree lights you see are not conventional bulbs, but light-emitting diodes - or LED's. Did you know this same source of light could revolutionize farming - bring it indoors and upwards? |
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Dec 30, 2014 In the movies, robots have been interacting with humans for some time now. In the real world, Georgia Tech is working on the latest generation of "social" robots, suitable for the home - which means making them less 'robotic'"... |
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Dec 30, 2014 What if instead of operating the computer at your desk with your fingers, you turned your chair into a mouse: a spring-mounted exoskeleton that bends and flexes with every movement of your body? |
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Dec 30, 2014 "One man's trash is another man's treasure," as the saying goes. What if you took plastic fishing nets that littered the coastline - or maybe even got dumped in the ocean - and instead, recycled the plastic to make skateboards? |
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Dec 29, 2014 There's been a bridge between New Jersey and Pennsylvania over the Delaware River since 1836 that's been owned by one family for the last century and still has the charter that allows them to collect tolls... |
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Dec 29, 2014 There are many ways to describe a person with many talents - "Renaissance Man" is one of them. And perhaps the greatest "Renaissance Man" of all was Leonardo da Vinci. What made Leonardo so talented in so many ways? |
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Dec 29, 2014 My CBS News colleague Steve Hartman has a story to tell about a football player who did well. Number 60 Jason Brown was one of the best centers in the NFL. He played so well and was paid so well, he took home many million clams... |
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Dec 29, 2014 Testing for cancer of the esophagus begins with an endoscopy. But doctors at Cambridge University in Britain have created the sponge which you swallow to help screen for that cancer. It's called the Cytosponge. How does it work? |
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Dec 26, 2014 A time capsule is a postcard about life today that we send to a far-off tomorrow - meant to be opened by some future generation years, perhaps centuries, from now. Imagine a time capsule beneath the surface of the Moon... |
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Dec 26, 2014 Some people find it difficult to speak without using their hands. But now, smartphones are getting so smart that they can understand hand gestures - and follow what the gesturing caller is trying to tell them... |
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Dec 26, 2014 According to the National Speakers Association, there are more than 40,000 paid speakers in the U.S. And roughly a third - around 13,000 - work primarily as the motivational kind. It's quite a flourishing business... |
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Dec 26, 2014 Many Americans do want to be motivated to do better than they're doing now. Is there something about the American character that admires winning - and shuns losing? Remember the pep talk in the movie "Patton"? |
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Dec 25, 2014 Mel Tormé and Bob Wells once wrote a classic Christmas song on a hot summer day: "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose, Yuletide carols being sung by a choir and folks dressed up like Eskimos..." |
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Dec 25, 2014 They say that a third of the people in this country are traveling someplace this Christmas, the other two-thirds staying someplace. The place - if only in our dreams - is home. "I'll be home for Christmas. You can plan on me..." |
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Dec 25, 2014 The news as reported long ago by the evangelist St. Luke: "And it came to pass that there went out a decree that all should be taxed each from his own city - and Joseph went up from Galilee and the City of Nazareth into Judea and the City of David..." |
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Dec 25, 2014 At Christmastime one year, when I was just a little guy, I thought I saw a tear in some grownup person's eye. And I couldn't understand why such a thing as that should be, at a time that seemed so happy and so wonderful to me... |
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Dec 24, 2014 Did you know that the song "White Christmas" is set in Beverly Hills? Irving Berlin set it there for a good reason. "I'm dreaming of a White Christmas just like the ones I used to know, where the treetops glisten and children listen..." |
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Dec 24, 2014 Have you heard about Skiplagged - or its 23-year-old computer whiz founder, who with a few clicks of a mouse can tell you how to save lots of money on plane tickets with so-called "hidden city" fares? Our CBS News colleague Michelle Miller says... |
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Dec 24, 2014 An EEG machine can record the brain's electrical activity - and as musician Katinka Kleijn has discovered, it can also serve as a musical partner. She is a cellist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra who can play with other musicians... |
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Dec 24, 2014 The dog is often said to be Man's Best Friend. But if the man is a meteorologist trying to figure out the size, strength and course of a tropical storm or hurricane, your best friend might turn out be one of the ocean's top predators... |
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Dec 23, 2014 If you live in one place and you work in another, then by definition I say you're a commuter - like millions of others who do the same thing every day. Thurmond Alford of Richmond, Virginia is a family man and wouldn't have it any other way... |
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Dec 23, 2014 Has handwriting really become a thing of the past - a victim of the digital age? Well, if so, why are designers at Microsoft working under Ralf Groene spending millions of dollars on something that may bring handwriting back - big time? |
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Dec 23, 2014 Nothing has told us more about the Universe and its origins than the Hubble Telescope. Something even more dramatic is in the works. The James Webb Space Telescope will see well beyond what Hubble can - and much further back in time... |
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Dec 23, 2014 There's an agency at the Pentagon that sounds like the wackiest, but over time has turned out to be perhaps one of the most important in the whole building. Our CBS News colleague Chip Reid knocked on the door at what's known as DARPA... |
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Dec 22, 2014 What's good for motorists and homeowners - cheap gasoline and heating oil - are worrisome to folks in Amite County, Mississippi. They worry that with the current oil price freefall, they'll soon go bust again... |
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Dec 22, 2014 Nothing says Christmas like a fresh crop of candy canes. So, how did a peppermint stick with a hook come to be the symbol of the season? Well, the tale, it seems, has as many twists as those tasty stripes - and most are the stuff of legend... |
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Dec 22, 2014 Do you think that there would be a big market for a device that people could carry around with them anyplace in the world - and be able to scan any object, analyze its components on a molecular level? Would you like to have one of those? |
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Dec 22, 2014 Algorithms - mathematical models that can predict a lot of things - are now being used to predict what a student has to do to get admitted to the top school that he or she wants to get into. Meet a man who says he's cracked the code... |
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Dec 19, 2014 Next month, a new spacecraft will be launched. It's called DSCOVR - the Deep Space Climate Observatory. DSCOVR will revolve around the Sun and provide better tracking of solar storms to forecasters here on Earth... |
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Dec 19, 2014 Thirty years ago, 37 percent of the computer science graduates were women. Since then, computers have changed the world. There are millions holding such degrees, but now only 12 percent of them are female. Reshma Saujani wants to change that... |
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Dec 19, 2014 The earliest-known effort to successfully record the pattern of a human heartbeat goes back to the 19th Century, when a German scientist used a cumbersome apparatus that allowed him to trace pulsations on a moving strip of paper... |
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Dec 19, 2014 We like to name things - everything from animals to mountains to planets - to give ourselves a sense of order and familiarity. And that is why astronomers are asking for your help now in naming some features on a planet far, far away... |
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Dec 18, 2014 What President Obama said about Cuba yesterday came out of the blue: "We will end an outdated approach that for decades has failed to advance our interests - and instead, we will begin to normalize relations between our two countries"... |
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Dec 18, 2014 One hundred years ago this month, something extraordinary happened with British and German troops facing one another in trenches along the front lines of the First World War. It had not been ordered or authorized - a Christmas truce... |
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Dec 18, 2014 Did you ever see the 1970's movie "Escape from Alcatraz"? Tells how a prisoner - played by Clint Eastwood - gets two others to attempt an escape from the notorious and supposedly escape-proof prison, telling them... |
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Dec 18, 2014 London is one city where no address is too obscure - if you're a cab driver. That's because the cab drivers there have an encyclopedic grasp of the city that they call "The Knowledge." The test has been called the hardest in the world... |
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Dec 17, 2014 Since the summer, our CBS News colleague Michelle Miller has been following the progress of high school dropouts being given a second chance at the National Guard's Sunburst Academy near Los Angeles - and now, she says... |
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Dec 17, 2014 The thing that high school dropouts lack the most is pride, because most of them have done very little to be proud of. It's a very different story at the Sunburst Academy, as Principal Karen Hudgins told our colleague Michelle Miller... |
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Dec 17, 2014 Remembering all our different usernames and passwords these days is a pain in the neck. Now, there's technology that can see your face, look into your eyes and tell that it's you - without you having to remember your username or password... |
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Dec 17, 2014 They say that an elephant never forgets. But elephants not only have good memories - they may also be good at predicting whether it's going to rain. But scientists at Texas A&M University say the reason why is that elephants hear so well... |
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Dec 16, 2014 When you think of California crops, grapes come to mind - avocados maybe - but not coffee. Even so, our CBS News colleague Carter Evans tells us that nestled in the hillsides near Santa Barbara is a cash crop of coffee, indeed... |
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Dec 16, 2014 Thanks to our smartphones and tablets, a lot of us check our work email over and over from wherever we are, answering messages whenever they come in - because we dread missing anything from anyone, whether urgent or not... |
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Dec 16, 2014 Right now in the United States, we have far too many of an invasive species called the Leaping Asian Carp. They have no natural enemies in this part of the world - with the possible exception of people like Chef Philippe Parola... |
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Dec 16, 2014 At his lab at the University of Southern Maine, Charles Largay teaches people how to think like hackers to stop the hacking. He has been in computer security since before there was an Internet - and he tells his students it is bound to get worse... |
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Dec 15, 2014 This holiday shopping season has seen not only the expanding amount of online buying, but also an ever-shrinking amount of consumer spending at the malls and the retail stores that are there, says our CBS News colleague Ben Tracy... |
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Dec 15, 2014 Drunk driving is a deadly problem not only in the United States, but around the world - and there is an idea that someday might keep impaired drivers off the road and help save lives, by analyzing a driver's voice... |
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Dec 15, 2014 We seem to be moving away from relying on usernames and passwords to protect our identities - and instead, to something unique about us: our fingertips, for example - or the retina in our eyes - or maybe even our own heartbeat... |
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Dec 15, 2014 Nature has inspired musicians for ages. And now, a symphony might be played in the Brazilian rainforest as well as in a concert hall. The composer wants to bring some of the natural world to the stage... |
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