January 7, 2010

Fishsteps

New fossils in Poland appear to show that fishes walked onto land much earlier than previously thought. Ayesha Durgahee reports for CNN

Source: Scientists discover oldest footprints [CNN]

January 6, 2010

Irving, Is That You?

Former NBC News correspondent Irving R. Levine, who died last year, may have looked nebbishy with his ever-present bow tie but he was a trailblazing journalist and a man of mystery. Pete Williams reports for NBC News

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Duration: 2:40

Source: Irving R. Levine, Mystery Man [NBC]

January 3, 2010

High Anxiety

Dubai opened the world's tallest building, Burj Khalifa, with a blaze of fireworks. The building is so high the temperature at the top is ten degrees colder than at the bottom. Now the question is, can they fill it with paying tenants? Nicholas Glass reports for Channel 4 Europe via NBC

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Source: Tallest Tower Opens [MSNBC]