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The Art of Fossil Hunting: Love Art London Meets Dale Rogers

Chris Pensa | Posted 25.04.2012 | Home
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As job descriptions go, fossil hunter is right up there with chocolate taster, ninja, paradise island caretaker and senior armageddon avoidance engineer. But no-one really does this for a living, right? Wrong.

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Felicity Aston's Top Ten Antarctic Tech Tools

HuffingtonPost.com | Melanie Hick | Posted 25.04.2012 | UK Lifestyle

She's just survived the deprivations needed to become the first woman to complete a solo coast-to-coast crossing of Antarctica but now she's wearing e...

Partial Solar Eclipse Viewed From Space - WATCH

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 24.02.2012 | UK Tech

It's less total eclipse of the heart, more partial eclipse of the side of the sun. On 21 February 21, 2012, Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory sate...

Win A Nikon1 J1 Camera

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 25.04.2012 | UK Tech

Win a Nikon 1 J1 camera thanks to The Huffington Post UK Tech and the friendly folk at Nikon. The Nikon 1 J1 is a stylish looking, mirrorless, com...

Best Facebook Thread Ever: Girl Tattoos New Boyfriend's Face On Her Arm After One Week

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 25.04.2012 | UK Tech

There's Facebook SNAFUs and then there's this. Possibly the best ever airing of dirty laundry and general idiocy on the social network, a girl appears...

How Earthquakes On The Red Planet Could Sustain Alien Life (PICTURES)

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 25.04.2012 | UK Tech

Recent earthquakes on Mars point at the existence of active volcanoes and liquid reservoirs that could sustain life on the Red Planet. A recent qu...

Happy Birthday Steve Jobs - PHOTOS

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 24.02.2012 | UK Tech

Today, 24 February 2012 would have been Steve Jobs' birthday. The Apple founder was born back on 24 February, 1955. A year ago, we were wishing Job...

Augmented Reality To Come To The London Eye

The Telegraph | Melanie Hick | Posted 24.04.2012 | UK Tech

From the London Eye to London Fashion Week, the latest technology to hit the mainstream is reconstructing reality itself. So-called "augmented reality...

Australian Scammer Scams Nigerian Email Scammers

SMH | Melanie Hick | Posted 24.04.2012 | UK Tech

A Brisbane woman fleeced Nigerian scam artists by stealing more than $30,000 from their internet car sales racket, a court has been told. Sarah Jan...

Branson Buys Back His Porn Site RichardBranson.xxx

BBC | Melanie Hick | Posted 24.04.2012 | UK Tech

Sir Richard Branson has won control of the domain name richardbranson.xxx. The tycoon had been in dispute with Australian Sean Truman, who register...

Go Virtual Diving With Google Earth Under The Sea

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 24.04.2012 | UK Tech

Sufferers of galeophobia, fear of sharks, can finally have the dream diving trip they're too timid to take. The Catlin Seaview Survey has take...

CERN’s Loose Cable To Blame For Proving Einstein Wrong

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 24.04.2012 | UK Tech

Note to Einstein naysayers - check your equipment before trying to prove the chief geek wrong. A loose wire may be to blame for CERN's claim late ...

Legless Amphibians Found Burrowing In India (PICTURES)

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 23.02.2012 | UK

A new family of legless amphibians has been found burrowing in the earth of a remote northeastern village in India. The chikilidae stems from the ...

YouPorn Password Breach Catches Users With Their Pants Down

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 23.04.2012 | UK Tech

We've all been told not to use the same password for everything we do online. Now YouPorn users have learned the hard way just how important online se...

Borderlands 2 Official Trailer

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 23.04.2012 | UK Tech

The Borderlands 2 trailer has just been released, tempting gamers with a potential June 2012 release. The new edition will be the first update to ...

The First 3D Dessert At The Oscars - 3D Glasses Required

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 22.04.2012 | UK Tech

Great news for fans of multiple dimensions, the first ever 3D dessert is set to be served at the Oscars. You may think that dessert usually came i...

Murdoch Hails 'Brilliant' Salmond and Backs Scottish Independence

Huffington Post UK | Posted 21.02.2012 | UK

It's the endorsement every politician dreads... Rupert Murdoch has appeared to give his backing to Alex Salmond's drive for Scottish independence. ...

In the Digital Age, Why are So Many Young People Confident, but Not Competent Internet Users? And What are the Implications?

Rebecca_Ford | Posted 22.04.2012 | UK Tech
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As the digital world continues to grow and to play an increasingly central role in how we all learn and form opinions about the world and each other, it is more important than ever to be able to tell good information from the bad, truth from lies, and to ably navigate the grey area of opinion in the middle.

Fake Pokemon App Hits iTunes Top Ten

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 22.04.2012 | UK Tech

Apple has been criticised after a malfunctioning iPhone app masquerading as an official Nintendo game was allowed to rise to the top of the iTunes Sto...

Rupert Murdoch Supports Scottish Independence And Mocks Britain's Military

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 21.02.2012 | UK Politics

It's the endorsement every politician dreads... Rupert Murdoch has appeared to give his backing to Alex Salmond's drive for Scottish independence. ...

Top Ten Most Anticipated Games For PS Vita

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 22.04.2012 | UK Tech

With PlayStation Vita launching on 22 February in the UK, stores are hoping they can once more feel nervously excited about selling a shed load of ga...

Apple's Nike Moment Over Foxconn

Guardian.co.uk | Melanie Hick | Posted 21.02.2012 | UK Tech

Apple is facing a "Nike moment" which hit the shoe company in the 1990s when its use of cheap labour in the far east was revealed, one of the inspecto...

Website To Reveal Crime Hotspots

PA | Melanie Hick | Posted 21.04.2012 | UK Tech

A website allowing victims of street crime to formally report and map where in the capital they were robbed or assaulted was launched today. Street...

Young Tech City Entrepreneurs Beat Youth Unemployment

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 20.02.2012 | UK Tech

What do you do when you've just left university and you're faced with the highest youth unemployment since 1992? London's young tech entrepreneurs ...

Blumenthal To Serve Synthetic Meat Grown In Dutch Lab?

PA | Melanie Hick | Posted 21.04.2012 | UK Tech

Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal is famous for his scientific approach to cooking. But the beefburger he could be serving up in eight months' time ...