2011 July 19 « Frugal Café Blog Zone

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Pea Pod Tribute to Father of Genetics at Google: Gregor Mendel’s 189th Birthday (video)

| July 19, 2011

  Today’s Google homepage is comprised of pea pods, in tribute to Czech-German genetics scientist/friar Gregor Mendel’s 189th birthday. Mendel’s experiments with pea plants were revolutionary in proving the inheritance of certain traits and determining inherited dominant and recessive characteristics. I stumbled upon this amusing music video in honor of Mendel’s genetics work, performed by [...]

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Flash Mob Brilliance: Belgium Train Station Flash Mob: “Do-Re-Mi” (video)

| July 19, 2011

  Flash mobs (also spelled “flashmobs”) have been around since about 2003. As of late, they seem to have become more popular than streaking was with college students in the 1970s. Well, maybe not “more” popular, but flash mobs are less likely to have run ins with the law because of public nudity. A brilliant [...]

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Sad Good-bye to Borders: 10,700 More People Will Be Out of Work… Thank You, Mr. President

| July 19, 2011

  And another one bites the dust — the leitmotif of Obama’s Era of Hopenchange™. Reported by Wall Street Journal, Borders Forced to Liquidate, Close All Stores: Borders Group Inc. said it would liquidate after the second-largest U.S. bookstore chain failed to receive any offers to save it. Borders, which employs about 10,700 people, scrapped [...]

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