Munson: Iowa State professor to proffer panda park plan
Iowa is renowned as home to 19 million rural pigs. But if Paul Shao's dream comes true, their thunder might be stolen by a pair of Chinese pandas that would take up residence in downtown Des Moines.
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Munson's blog: Right now, it's just a vision … of giant pandas in Des Moines
A peek at Munson's next column: What if downtown Des Moines were to include an elite research facility with a pair of Chinese pandas, a center dedicated to preserving the endangered animals with uniquely Iowan expertise in animal and plant genetics?
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Munson's blog: Right now, it's just a vision … of giant pandas in Des Moines
A peek at Munson's next column: What if downtown Des Moines were to include an elite research facility with a pair of Chinese pandas, a center dedicated to preserving the endangered animals with uniquely Iowan expertise in animal and plant genetics?
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Internet aids endangered world languages
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 20 (UPI) — Near-extinct languages, spoken by only small groups of people around the world, could be saved by social media networks and the Internet, U.S. researchers say.
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Digital technologies reversing extinction of languages
Digital technologies are the new life-savers for languages on the verge of extinction, linguists said Friday as they announced eight new dictionaries at a major science conference in Vancouver.
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Native Americans Fight to Save Endangered Languages
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Many of the world's minority languages, some spoken by only a handful of speakers, are on the brink of extinction, and community activists and scientists are teaming to try to keep them alive.
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E-zoo to save vanishing languages
A "zoo" for endangered languages has been set up on the internet in a bid to save thousands of ancient tongues from extinction.
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Feds braced for lawsuit demanding official status for aboriginal languages: documents
The Canadian government is braced for a possible lawsuit aimed at forcing it to give "certain aboriginal languages" the same official status as English and French, according to an access-to-information document obtained by Postmedia News.
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ArcGIS Online Now Available in Nine Additional Languages
REDLANDS, Calif., Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — To better serve the global community, Esri has localized ArcGIS Online in nine additional languages. The translation of the ArcGIS Online website into languages …
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Apple iPad 3: Siri Lies Saying Can Speak Japanese; Is Siri-Enabled iPad 3 with Expanded Language Repertoire Possible?
If you ask Siri what languages it can speak, it will now add Japanese also to the already available options – English, German and French, despite the fact that the language is not yet available as a choice in its preference pane. Now rumors are gaining momentum saying Apple will announce Siri's expanded language repertoire with the rumored iPad 3 release sometime in March.
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