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Everything bad is good for you.

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So far, it’s worked in mice for up to 140 days.

Mice always get the good stuff.

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A hiker who became lost in mist-shrouded fells was saved after she used her BlackBerry to send rescuers a photograph of the surrounding landscape.

We have the technology.

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After all, dirt is so … bucolic, don’t you know, and vulgar — the sort of thing that Republicans do out there in Flyover Country.

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Full disclosure: I don’t like Rick Perry for our next president. I have my reasons that aren’t worth going into here. However, when I was watching the GOP debate and pro-Perry people started bringing up Rick Perry’s job numbers as a cudgel against other candidates, I looked into the BLS data on Texas jobs. Having familiarized myself with the data, I started noticing claims on the Texas jobs data that started popping up that directly contradicted what I was seeing in the data. So I wanted to clear up a couple of these common misconceptions.

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Everything bad is good for you.

Don’t like this finding? Wait a month or two, and they’ll change it.

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The researchers also say numerical talent does not appeared to be linked to all round intelligence.

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Just a little reminder that Islam isn’t the only enemy out there.

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The Knigge Society says the practice of greeting colleagues and business partners with a kiss on the cheek is uncomfortable for many Germans.

Yeah, if they wanted to be French, they’d move.

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If, of course, that’s what you should want to do.

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Scientists are reporting the first clear success with a new approach for treating leukemia _ turning the patients’ own blood cells into assassins that hunt and destroy their cancer cells.

They’ve only done it in three patients so far, but the results were striking: Two appear cancer-free up to a year after treatment, and the third patient is improved but still has some cancer. Scientists are already preparing to try the same gene therapy technique for other kinds of cancer.

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When asked by reporters whether officers would consider arresting tweeters in relation to incitement to violence, Mr Kavanagh said “absolutely”.

He later added: “That investigation is already under way and that is exactly the sort of thing we are looking at.”

Just a reminder: Ain’t no Bill of Rights in Britain, and the European Human Rights Commission is already backed up.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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For all those poor people out there who can’t eat healthy food because capitalism is ‘pressin’ ’em.

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 It’s taken three years to find a winner that could meet the high standards set forth by the DOE, specifically “ensuring that performance, quality, lifetime, cost, and availability meet expectations for widespread adoption and mass manufacturing.” Requirements further stipulated that the 60W incandescent killer use less than 10 watts of power, and provide energy savings of 83 percent.

Lileks is on the case.

On this web page I will be showing some of the buildings of Mayberry that were used in 2 episodes of Star Trek, the orginal series. The Episodes are “Miri” and “The City on the Edge of Forever”. Both have some great glimpses of Mayberry that we normally never see in a TAGS episode.

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Last week a federal judge in Orlando ruled that Florida’s Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention & Control Act violates the constitutional right to due process because it allows conviction without proof of mens rea, the “guilty mind” that is normally considered a crucial element of a criminal offense. The decision could have a sweeping impact, casting doubt on convictions under the law since 2002, when the statute was enacted in its current form. “It has one of the largest potential effects on criminal law in the past decade,” a local defense attorney told the St. Petersburg Times. “We’re talking hundreds of thousands of drug cases.”

Thank God. The trend toward removing the mens rea requirement from offenses was getting pretty ugly.

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And, even if they haven’t, can they convince a gullible public that they have?

In reality, based on the somewhat blurry images, no one is quite sure what exactly the object is; its mysterious dimensions have already caused quite a bit of speculation, and of course UFO enthusiasts are already preparing their “I told ya so” stories. Whatever it may be, its seemingly circular shape is somewhat of an anomaly for the sea floor.

Take a close look at the picture and see for yourself.

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Wouldn’t it be amusing if some Presbyterian flew a plane into it?

Just sayin’.

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Don’t ever say we don’t have useful stuff here.

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This fearsome contraption is the handiwork of a couple of amateur DEFCON-types who reckoned that any self-respecting spy plane ought to be able to impersonate cellphone towers. And that’s exactly what the Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform does — it tricks AT&T and T-Mobile handsets into connecting to it, then re-routes the incoming calls via VOIP so they don’t drop, while simultaneously recording all conversations to 32GB of onboard storage. It can also handle a bit of WiFi snooping on the side, thanks to a Linux-based hacking toolkit and a 340 million word dictionary for guessing passwords. What’s more, the WASP apparently achieves all of this without breaking a single FCC regulation.

Women and minorities hardest hit.

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A team from the University of Southampton has produced the world’s first fully “printed” airworthy plane – a 1.5-metre-wingspan UAV created in just five days by selective laser sintering (SLS).

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One of the world’s most famous fossil creatures, widely considered the earliest known bird, is getting a rude present on the 150th birthday of its discovery: A new analysis suggests it isn’t a bird at all.

Chinese scientists are proposing a change to the evolutionary family tree that boots Archaeopteryx off the “bird” branch and onto a closely related branch of birdlike dinosaurs.

Well, that’s a disappointment.

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The law was challenged on the grounds that it does not include an intent requirement, meaning that a defendant can be convicted of a cocaine offense in Florida even if the defendant did not know he was selling cocaine. Or, as the judge put it in her ruling, in Florida, a “person is guilty of a drug offense if he delivers a controlled substance without regard to whether he does so purposefully, knowingly, recklessly, or negligently.”

Florida is the only state in the nation to have expressly eliminated intent as an element of drug offenses, according to the ruling.

“Other states have rejected such a draconian and unreasonable construction of the law that would criminalize the ‘unknowing’ possession of a controlled substance,” Judge Scriven wrote, concluding that Florida’s drug law is unconstitutional “on its face.”

Well done, thou good and faithful (public) servant. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of laws on the books, especially federal laws, where you can get it packed up your pooper regardless of intent (which has always been a component of criminal offenses, until the present degenerate age).

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We have the technology.

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Remember: Just because it’s irrational doesn’t mean it isn’t real.

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A 63-year-old California man has tried to operate on his own hernia by cutting open his stomach with a six-inch butter knife.

Hey, if it was easy, anybody could do it.

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Prices for rare earth elements have gone through the roof in recent years, with China basically monopolizing the market for these rare substances (the country currently produces a whopping 97 percent of all rare earths used globally). But in the field of electric vehicles, the dependence on rare earths could be a thing of the past soon: Professor Nobukazu Hoshi’s Lab from the Tokyo University of Science has developed an electric car that doesn’t require any kind of rare earths.

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Is nothing sacred? Some fiends apparently fake Scotch brands. Fortunately, researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland have devised some new methods involving optic fibers for distinguishing between authentic and counterfeit Scotch whisky brands

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Guess he’s not all that disabled, after all.

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I am not making this up.

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Siegel-Spaeth ideology scores that indicate “progressive” ideology were negatively correlated with the Stanford-Benet estimates.  The Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient (-0.61) provides strong evidence of a negative relationship between progressive ideology and intelligence.

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Never say that we don’t have useful stuff here.

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I’m sure he’ll be pleased.

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Well, isn’t that convenient.

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Slow news day.

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Police in England are to use new laser scanners at the scene of serious motorway crashes so they can clear the roads more quickly.

The technology saves time by making a 3D image of the site, rather than investigators having to painstakingly log everything at the scene.

It is hoped that getting traffic moving again will save the economy hundreds of thousands of pounds each year.

This is a superb idea. We already have the technology. (Google, are you listening?)

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Nature is more resilient than people give it credit for.

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The British Library is attempting to raise the money to buy the St Cuthbert Gospel, the oldest intact book in Europe.

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Melinda Beck looks at health quality in urban areas compared with that in rural ones, finding that cities generally come out on top. But the suburbs fare better than either, she writes, with fewer low-birth-weight babies, homicides, sexually transmitted diseases and premature deaths than either their urban or rural counterparts.

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We have the technology.

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Any why not? We’ve already got humans who talk like robots. AlGore comes immediately to mind.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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China’s most senior military officer has criticised the United States for claiming to want peace in the South China Sea and then carrying out repeated naval war games.

Who knew the Chinese were Democrats?

Oh, wait, no … they’re Communists.

I’m sure there’s a difference. Let me think about that for a while.

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Once again, rats get all the good stuff.

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“Basically what it says is, this person, and it lists his name, complained and so I actually have the personal information of the people complaining, and I will then be turning that info over to the police as well.”

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Orange sherbet will do much the same thing.

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Over 1.5 million Americans travel abroad each year for medical procedures in what is called Medical Tourism. Services typically sought by medical tourists include elective procedures as well as complex specialized surgeries such as heart surgery, dental surgery, joint replacement, and cosmetic surgeries. However, virtually every type of health care, including complementary & alternative treatments, psychiatry, and convalescent care are attracting Americans by saving as much as 90% off of medical procedures.

U.S. based healthcare providers have taken notice as have self-funded employers and health plans. The reality is most people, if given the choice, would rather travel for medical purposes to Tucson than Thailand to save time and uncertainty. Top surgical facilities realized they can be price competitive and have extra capacity so they have embarked on a program of domestic medical tourism. The byproduct, if you follow it to the logical extreme, is the creation of a national market for non-emergent surgery that has historically been strictly a local market. As the USA Today recently reported, costs commonly vary in healthcare by 600% or more (Source: change:healthcare) for the same procedure and same outcome even in the same city let alone from one to another.

The less friction there is to impede information flow, the more efficient markets become.