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Rogue Wikipedia Editors Blackmail Small Businesses
Blogs have become so much more than online rants. A study from ContentPLUS found that blogs are 63% more likely to influence the purchasing decisions of consumers than magazines are, while HubSpot discovered that companies that blog also get 55% more traffic, and have 434% more pages indexed in search engines. This means that bloggers can increase…
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Bolt Cutters Used to Release Man From Stuck Titanium Ring
Emergency rooms see a fair number of medical catastrophes each day; in fact, across America there are approximately 110 million annual emergency room visits. Doctors have to deal with deadly viruses, injuries, and other severe medical conditions on a day-to-day basis. But doctors at the Sheffield Teaching Hospital in the U.K. were forced to deal with…
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Melting Arctic Ice Opens New Sea Routes
What once were impassable ocean routes are now open thruways. The some 55,000 ships in the world’s cargo carrying fleet have new shipping routes, and it’s all thanks to the melting of arctic ice. Back in August 2013, the Yongsheng became the first Chinese cargo ship to travel through the Arctic’s formerly frozen northeastern sea route. The…