Offshore wind power park to energize Delaware homes
24th June 2008
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Science: Behold the Mother Fish
23rd June 2008
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Italian soldiers floored by 77-year-old Japanese woman
23rd June 2008
Martial arts expert Keiko Wakabayshi, nicknamed the “Samurai Granny”, has been hired by the country’s military to train recruits in hand-to-hand combat.
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Man fights off 15ft crocodile with palm frond
23rd June 2008
Gotta love Australians.
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Anti-Americanism Is Mostly Hype
23rd June 2008
I’d like to be able to believe that.
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Battle of Waterloo re-enacted in Belgium
22nd June 2008
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Injured elephant gets prosthetic leg
22nd June 2008
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You Walk Wrong
22nd June 2008
Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
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Intempo Rebel records songs from FM radio, freaks out RIAA
20th June 2008
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Tensegrity prosthetic foot promises to make walking easier
20th June 2008
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Nanosolar solar film rolls off the presses at 100 feet-per-minute
20th June 2008
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Internet-connected coffee maker leaves your PC, mornings at risk
20th June 2008
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Broadstar Windsystem’s AeroCam wind turbines break elusive price barrier
20th June 2008
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Return of the New Mulatto Elite
20th June 2008
Steve Sailer will say what others are only thinking.
So, the small number of mulattos who grew up with one non-black parent and thus get introduced to a wider range of cultural options beyond rap and hoops are disproportionately taking the plums that people a generation ago assumed blacks in general would be achieving.
For a real eye-opener, read Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class.
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MIT solar dish holds promise for low-cost energy production
20th June 2008
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Stress Boosts Ghrelin Which Increases Appetite
20th June 2008
And chill out.
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Police chase UFO over Cardiff
19th June 2008
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Captain Calamity to create new state in Shetland islands
19th June 2008
“But that trick never works!”
Be the first on your block to get in on the ground floor of this historical political opportunity.
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Spray-on condoms benefit from CSI mention
19th June 2008
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New Evidence on Government and Growth
18th June 2008
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China As An Island
18th June 2008
I especially like the map.
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Online maps to show UK crime hotspots
18th June 2008
We could use those over here.
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Most complex crop circle ever discovered in British fields
17th June 2008
The aliens have a sense of humor. “Hey, let’s have some fun with these guys.”
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The Web Time Forgot
17th June 2008
“This was a Steampunk version of hypertext,” said Kevin Kelly, former editor of Wired, who is writing a book about the future of technology.
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Barack Obama Has Offended Billions of Muslims
17th June 2008
Much the best thing I have ever heard about Barack Obama.
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Optical illusions used as virtual speed humps
17th June 2008
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Everything I needed to know about econometrics, I learned from Arnold Kling
17th June 2008
Megan McArdle explains it all to you.
Correlations are, at best, suggestive. They are not by themselves evidence–nay, not even if you cross your arms, scowl at your opponent, and say “Well, then give me another explanation for this astonishing correlation!” Until you’ve got something better than a simple correlation, the burden of proof remains upon you.
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Frontline Aerospace shows off “Humvee of the air”
16th June 2008
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The Browser Is The New Operating System
16th June 2008
Bill Gates is escaping in good time.
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Italy switches back to nuclear as soaring fuel bills bite
15th June 2008
Guess even hippies don’t like expensive gas.
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Otokinoko Binaural Mic creeps us out in stereo
15th June 2008
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Popcorn fact of the day
14th June 2008
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Evolutionary fault makes dragon lizards run on two legs
13th June 2008
An extensive experiment, which saw 16 species of dragon lizard sprint on a treadmill, concluded that the creatures run on their back legs because the rate of acceleration alters their centre of gravity, making it impossible to keep all four feet on the ground – the reptilian equivalent of a cyclist’s wheelie.
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Why would the police spray protesters with colored water?
13th June 2008
To identify and arrest them later.
What a great idea.
Of course, it doesn’t sit well with those who write for Slate magazine, who appear to think that rioting in the streets is a Constitutional right — hell, a Human Right! — but we reactionaries, who think that children (and they’re mostly children, in thought if not in fact) ought to refrain from inconveniencing others who just want to Get On With It, will applaud.
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Will Obama Kill Bling?
13th June 2008
Kaus thinks maybe.
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Is Benedict planning to take in traditionalist Anglicans?
12th June 2008
He’s a fool if he’s not. They’d be happier in Orthodoxy, though.
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Misplaced wings no sweat for DARPA’s new aircraft control system
12th June 2008
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Solar Soft House converts household curtains into household current
12th June 2008
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Waalbot, the wall-climbing, gecko-footed robot
12th June 2008
Spiderman, here we come.
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Panasonic debuts “hybrid lighting” Pa-Look compact fluorescent bulbs
12th June 2008
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Kucinich Forces Vote On Bush’s Impeachment
12th June 2008
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Delay In Next Solar Cycle Continues
12th June 2008
I could use another little Ice Age, if for no other reason than to shut up AlGore.
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Clever people could live 15 years longer
11th June 2008
And it seems like forever.
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Lesbos islanders want to stop homosexual women calling themselves Lesbians
10th June 2008
Good luck with that.
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Super-strong nanopaper is seven times stronger, 1,000 times smaller
10th June 2008
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Hyperactivity Gene Helps Nomadic Tribesmen?
10th June 2008
Well, it couldn’t hurt….
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Virtually waterless washing machine edges closer to production
10th June 2008
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Olive rustlers plague Australian farmers
10th June 2008
The olive rustlers appear to be better at harvesting the fruit than professional pickers.
I’ll bet branding them is the hard part.
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Watch lost at sea still works after 67 years
10th June 2008
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Design student concocts eco-friendly modular PC
9th June 2008
The sustainable PC runs Windows, consumes just 27-watts of power and has “upgradable components that slide out without the need for tools.”
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