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Munson: Iowa State professor to proffer panda park plan

shaza — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:40:09 +0000

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

shaza — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:38:28 +0000

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

shaza — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:38:27 +0000

Internet aids endangered world languages

shaza — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:03:53 +0000

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

shaza — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:45:29 +0000

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

shaza — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:44:55 +0000

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

shaza — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:23:46 +0000

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

shaza — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:27:11 +0000

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

shaza — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:29:09 +0000

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?

shaza — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:39:34 +0000

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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