Slate Magazine – By Alexandra Natapoff – April 27, 2012 esterday, people across America pleaded guilty to crimes they didn’t commit. This isn’t something new or extraordinary. Every year, the American criminal system punishes thousands of people …
You’re starting a business and you have a quirky name that you want to use in connection with the product. You wonder if you can use the name and if so, how you can protect the name so that nobody else uses it. Here are a few things to keep in mind regarding intellectual property law, when putting a new business name or product name into use. Checking availability . Make sure nobody else is using the name. You can’t open up a
Mercury News – By Tracey Kaplan – 04/26/2012 An initiative written by Stanford University professors to scale back California’s tough Three Strikes Law has garnered more than 830,000 signatures of support, virtually ensuring the measure will …
Thiruvananthpuram: The state has decided to seek the intervention of National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) to conserve and preserve the traditional way of life of the state’s only tribal village, Idamalakkudi.
WASHINGTON, April 26 (UPI) — An invasion of giant “cannibal” shrimp into America’s east coast and gulf coast waters appears to be getting worse, U.S. governmental researchers say.
Non-native plant species are extending the growing season in eastern US forests by an average of four weeks, a study has suggested.
ScienceDaily (Apr. 25, 2012) – New research seeks to inform a United Nations debate on whether to call a temporary halt to the release into the environment of artificially created organisms.
Individual neurons in birds’ brains can relay crucial information about Earth’s magnetic field, possibly providing the animals with an ‘internal GPS’, according to research into magnetoreception.
A fire-free farming method practiced by early inhabitants of the Amazonian savannahs could help inform efforts to conserve and rehabilitate these important ecosystems around the world, a study has found.
RAYAGADA, India, Apr 27, 2012 (IPS) – Tribal farmer Harish Saraka has rediscovered the key to sustainable farming in this rain-dependent hinterland of eastern Odisha state – mixed cropping.
