Video | NASA's Climate Report

The decade from 2000 to 2009 was the warmest in the modern record. This video illustrates how NASA satellites enable us to study possible causes of climate change. The video explains what role fluctuations in the solar cycle, changes in snow and cloud cover, and rising levels of heat-trapping gases may play in contributing to climate change.

Most Expensive Camera in the World

How much a digital camera can cost you? You can easily buy a good camera in $1000, but not one of the best. Meet the Hasselblad H3DII-50, the multi-shot full-color camera with a 50-megapixel CCD sensor that captures four shots in a row and moves the sensor by one pixel between each shot to record full RGB values at each position. So, what is the price? Not much - just $34,000.

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Most and Least Corrupt Countries

Corruption can easily be termed as the cancer of modern societies. Like cancer, it also spreads slowly without showing any signs of worry and takes over the body of a society, an organization or a whole nation.

Each year, Transparency International comes up with the corruption perceptions index. According to the data released for year 2009, following is the list of ten most and least corrupt countries:

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Video | What is Google Voice?

Google Voice gives you more control over your phone calls. With Google Voice, you get one number for all your phones, cheap international calls, voice-mail like email, and more, for free! (US only). Learn more at http://www.google.com/voice.

Top 10 Best Companies for Leadership

Management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things. – Peter F. Drucker

Leadership quality is vital for the success of any organization. Good leaders help companies to stand firm in the times of turbulence and stay calm during happier times. They bring new ideas on the table along with a framework to implement them. They motivate team members by their words and lead from the front with their actions.

Another quality of a good leader is that they love to work in a team. They love to be part of an organization which is conducive to innovations. So which companies are the most conducive for leaders? Here’s the list of 10 best companies for leadership, according to a study carried out by Hay Group and BusinessWeek.

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Most Popular Goals in the World

Goals are dreams with deadlines. – Diana Scharf Hunt

We all love to set some kind of goals in our life regardless of their outcome. Setting goals is in a way extension to dreaming. When we take a resolution to fulfill our dreams, they become goals. And when we achieve our goals, they become reality.

However not all people try that hard to achieve their goals. But achieving or not, people seem to be in love with setting goals. So, what goals are most popular among the people? Here’s the list of top 10 most popular goals, according to 43things.com – a website that motivates people to set goals and achieving them.

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Best Looking Nations

United States of America is home to the most attractive people in the world, according to a survey conducted by an online research company, WWWOnePoll.Com, UK. Five thousand Britons participated in the poll and revealed their choices. Brazil and Spain grabbed second and third place respectively.

Here is the list of the top 20 best looking nations.

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World’s Most Livable Cities in 2010

As many as three Canadian cities featured in the list of top ten livable places in the world, according to the latest livability report by The Economist. Once again Vancouver, Canada topped the list, repeating its performance in 2008, with an impressive score of 98%. Two other Canadian cities, Toronto and Calgary secured their names in the list. Other country that dominated the list is Australia, featuring no less than 4 countries.

Below is the list of top 10 most livable cities:

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Video | Greatest Love Songs of All Time

Valentine day is just few hours away and is a better way to celebrate it with your favorite love song. I found this compilation 20 greatest love songs of all time. The list consists some really great songs. Enjoy...

Google Buzz Features

On Tuesday, Google launched Buzz, a social networking and media sharing product that has almost all the features a product of its should have. Google Buzz is integrated with Gmail and allows you to share updates, photos, events and videos. You can also start conversations and share your ideas with the whole world or just your closest friends. Existing Twitter, Picasa, Flicker and Google Reader’s users can import updates directly to Buzz stream.

Let’s have a close look at the features:

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World’s Largest Exporters

China is the new world leader in exporting. China surpassed Germany to become no. 1 exporter in the world. Chinese exports soared by 17.7 per cent in December 2009, compared to the same month in year 2008, according to the data released by Chinese custom agency.

This is the list of world’s top 10 exporters.

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Most Expensive Car in the World

Most of us dream to own a dream car. But how a dream car would look like? How speed it would carry? And most importantly, how much it would cost? Here is the answer to all these queries.

Shelby Super Cars', Ultimate Aero is the most expensive car in the world. It was also titled world’s ‘fastest production car’ in 2008. Let’s have a look at some of the coolest features of the car.

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Snowstorm Washington, DC 2010 Timelapse | Video

Timelapse video of the snowstorm in the Washington, DC area. Started around 2:30pm on 2/5/10 and ended with the sun going down around 5:30pm on 2/6/10.

Top 10 Sports Brands in the World

Business, sports and celebrities make a deadly combination. Forbes came up with its inaugural list of top global sports brands. Have a look:

1. ESPN $7.5 billion

2. Nike $5.6 billion

3. Adidas $2.4 billion

4. Under Armour $2.2 billion

5. EA Sports $2 billion

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Most Useful Websites

We all know about Google, Facebook and Wilkipedia. But life on web is more than these Internet majors. There are several other useful websites and tools that can be used for our day-to-day tasks. These websites can increase our productivity, save time and make life easier.

But, it is never always easy to find them among the millions of websites. Here is the Popular Something’s list of top 10 most useful websites.

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Hitler Responds to iPad | Video

Hitler has been dreaming about the day that Apple's tablet will be announced. That day has come and he is not pleased....

World’s Best Universities

Which are the best universities in the world? Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings found these to be world's top universities at the end of 2009.

1. Harvard University
United States

Overall Score: 100.0
Academic Peer Review Score: 100
Employer Review Score: 100
Student to Faculty Score: 98
International Faculty Score: 85
International Students Score: 78
Citations per Faculty Score: 100

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World’s Freest Economies of 2010

The term ‘free economy’ refers to a market system where buyers and sellers have the power to determine the price of goods and services. The prices are fixed by the forces of supply and demand of the respective commodities. When the demand of a commodity falls, the price of respective commodity also falls. But when the demand of a commodity increases and supply is inadequate to meet the demand, the prices also rise. Free economy is also synonym to free trade where government has lesser control over the market.

However, free markets are hallmark of relatively wealthier nations where people can afford high prices of commodities. Governments in relatively poor nations are forced to impose regulations over pricing and trade to feed it’s not so resourceful population.

For last one and half decade The Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation have been studying the economic freedom around the world. The combo each year releases the index of economic freedom. The list is prepared on the basis of 10 benchmarks of free trade and economic freedom.

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