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...wonders of eBay allowed the scientists to purchase a $130 bag of 20,000-year-old woolly-mammoth hair from a vendor in Moscow, and the wonders of science allowed them to extract the mammoth's genetic information in the most successful attempt to date to sequence an extinct animal's DNA. DNA in general breaks down after 60,000 years or so, making the possibility of a real Jurassic Park scenario - complete with flying pterodons and bloodthirsty tyrannosaurs - remote. Still, scientists see the completion of the genome as the first step to uncovering and understanding the reasons behind...
...sense that a lot of those businesses that went away bought a lot of our products. Not just Herman Miller chairs, but also racks of servers and laptops and stuff. For a long time, throughout most of 2001, you could buy a lot of surplus servers on eBay for a third or tenth of the price. So there was a clear artificial bubble in terms of sales that got dissipated over the subsequent years. I don't see that same phenomenon in this crisis particularly. The servers that were at Bank A, which is no longer a stand-alone bank...
Kawasaki likes his rookie entrepreneurs to be young, hungry and determined and sleepless. "Success takes crazy passionate people who believe they can change the world," he says. "Success doesn't take 'professional' and 'proven' people." His ultimate role models are megasuccessful outfits such as Apple, Microsoft, eBay, Google, HP and YouTube. The author delivers inspirational tough love to his minions: "My theory is that when you're young, you should work 80 hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world...
...economic crisis is not the only trigger for the diminishing media of print publications. Giles acknowledges the role that the internet has played in the downfall. “There’s so many places you can go for information for stories, for advertisements. Google comes along and eBay comes along and they have not only taken advertisers away from magazines, but their search capacity is so extraordinary that you can just find things so easily.”In an age when physical newspapers are getting too costly and nearly any story is available at the click...
...attempting to sell Banksy's street works can be a risky business. Last month, five of the artist's street pieces failed to sell at auction because Banksy refused to verify their authenticity. In January, a wall Banksy painted received a final bid of over $400,000 in an eBay auction, but the sale was never finalized, according to Banksy's publicist. The organization that authenticates Banksy's artwork, Pest Control, refuses to approve street pieces because the artist prefers the work to remain in situ and "building owners tend to become irate when their doors go missing because...