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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Twitter are currently not in discussions on the mobile technology giant taking a stake in the popular social networking site, sources familiar with the matter said.

Apple in recent months has held negotiations with Twitter to explore investing hundreds of millions of dollars in the company, The New York Times reported on Friday, citing people briefed on the matter. The Wall Street Journal said such discussion were held over a year ago, citing a person familiar with the matter.

It is unclear if the two companies talked about a deal in the past and at what level such discussions were held, but there are no current, formal talks between the companies on an investment or acquisition, the sources said.

Both Apple and Twitter declined to comment.

The iPhone and iPad maker typically does not take equity stakes in companies and prefers to acquire technologies by buying up smaller startups that are lesser known. Twitter executives have said repeatedly they are in no rush to seek additional financing, either privately or on public markets, since they have "truckloads" of cash.

Apple has never delved deeply into the social media space dominated by Facebook Inc (FB.O), but it has dabbled in trying to make music more social by launching a social network on iTunes called Ping, which has not caught on.

Twitter, the Internet phenomenon with some 140 million users that allows people to "tweet" 140-character messages, is already well integrated into Apple smartphones and tablets. Apple customers can directly share their comments on Twitter when on their iPhones, iPads or Mac line of computers.

Twitter, the San Francisco-based startup that is viewed as the most significant candidate for the public markets following Facebook, is ramping up its efforts to generate revenue from the 400 million tweets that cross its networks daily.

(Reporting By Poornima Gupta and Jonathan Weber; Editing by Peter Cooney)

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Jaga Novata welcomes tourists into the photographic gallery on New Yorks famous Broadway every minute of every day. The Indian, who has lived in Americas biggest city for 16 years, sits by a desk and points tourists upstairs. Hes part security, part information.

How much to get into the gallery? I ask.

Zero, he replies with a smile. Or a duck as you say in cricket in your country. Are you coming from England?

Yes.

Im going on holiday there in September. To London. Do you know how to get to Manchester from London? I want to go to Manchester.

I think I can help you there.

The Olympics have given London an even higher profile than usual. Britains predominant city is receiving a better press than ever, with serious reportage claiming its the best city in the world. The Rough Guide to Britain dedicates 81 pages to London, 12 to Manchester, seven to Liverpool and six to Birmingham, but as everyone from outside the capital knows, theres far, far more to Britain than London.

Jaga appreciates this and Im soon writing down instructions about how to get the cheapest rail fares from London to Manchester. That is book early and youll get a great deal, pay on the day and youll need to remortgage your house.

I want to see both Old Traffords, Jaga explains. Thats why Im going to Manchester for a day.

He wants to know to get from Piccadilly to the Old Traffords, how long it will take and the cost.

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Thursday 26th July saw the launch of SciLogs.com, a new English language science blog network. SciLogs.com, the brand-new home for Nature Network bloggers, forms part of the SciLogs international collection of blogs which already exist in German, Spanish and Dutch. To celebrate this addition to the NPG science blogging family, some of the NPG blogs are publishing posts focusing on Beginnings.

Participatingin this cross-network blogging festival is nature.coms Soapbox Science blog, Scitables Student Voices blog and bloggers from SciLogs.com, SciLogs.de, Scitable and Scientific Americans Blog Network. Join us as we explore the diverse interpretations of beginnings from scientific examples such as stem cellsto first time experiences such as publishing your first paper. You can also follow and contribute to the conversations on social media by using the #BeginScights hashtag. Bora

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Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. Sir Winston Churchill, British politician (1874 1965)

In the 18th and 19th century collections of natural oddities and specimens were very popular among rich people. Most displayed material was collected by lucky discoverers, assistants or students, only much later also the noble men themselves got into the field, even is such activity was considered more a necessity to gather unique specimens than to understand nature.

The Swiss professor of philosophy Horace-Bndict de Saussure (1740-1799) was one of the first to propose to the savants of the time the necessity to gain also observations and measurements in the field. Savants was a general term adopted simply to well educated people interested in various arts like philosophy and medicine which often included studies of natural phenomena. Natural philosophy included all observable phenomena in nature, from the physiological reaction of the human body on the summit of a mountain to the rocks composing such a mountain. Natural philosophy was only loosely divided in three sub-disciplines- zoology, botany and mineralogy based on the collectable specimens (like animals, plants and minerals).

Fig.1. James Hutton (left) and Joseph Black portrayed as philosophers or early geognosts, caricature published in 1787 by John Kay (Edinburgh).

A much specific approach, to the structure of earth itself, was initiated by a new science emerging from geography and adapted to the necessities of the mining industries to understand better the underground.

In Germany the art called geognosie (earth knowledge) included the description and representation of the surface of earth, like geography, but widened its approach to the third dimension, hidden below the surface of earth. This science was referred also as mineralogical geography or with the french term of gographie souterraine (geography of the underground). Its goals are best understandable in the Italian name anatomia della terra anatomy of earth.

Fig.2. Luigi Ferdinando Marsili On the Structures of Mountains, published in 1705. Early geognosts mapped and developed a classification scheme for the various landscapes observed in nature; however a theory, explaining the formation of these features, was lacking.

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File: California Gov. Jerry Brown announces his public employee pension reform plan October 27, 2011 at the State Capitol in Sacramento.

Gov. Jerry Brown is a quotable man with a penchant for saying things that cause listeners to cock an eyebrow. At a press conference Wednesday, he told reporters, "I want to get s--- done." David Siders of the Sacramento Bee explains JerryBrownSays, a Twitter account devoted to curating the politician's one-liners.

"He's always putting things in an interesting way, and I think that's what's good about the account," Siders said. "We could just put quirky things he says that are only funny, so we could just laugh, but because he says things in a different way, it's interesting. He called the budget earlier this year a 'pretzel palace of incredible complexity.'"

Siders added that the only challenge with maintaining the Twitter feed is keeping up with Brown's vocabulary.

"I'm not sure if all the time the words actually exist. It's certainly composed of more than one language. He tends to speak in Latin, sometimes, which is beyond me. So that requires a turn to the dictionary," Siders joked.

We've gathered several of Brown's sidesplitting moments from @JerryBrownSays:

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It's a pretzel palace of incredible complexity (state budget)Jerry Brown Says

Hi, this is Gov. Jerry Brown. I'm calling because California really needs your help. http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/04/jerry-brown-appeals-in-robo-calls-mailer-for-tax-initiative.htmlJerry Brown Says

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