Forbidden to die
9th June 2008
Strictly forbidden.
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Silicon wafer directs and filters out cancer cells
8th June 2008
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Astronomy study proves mathematics theorem
7th June 2008
Read it.
Now don’t say that we don’t deal with important matters here.
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Bear-worshipping Ainu to flourish again
7th June 2008
Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
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TSA’s Millimeter scanners see through clothes, installed at 10 airports
7th June 2008
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US Walks Away from UN ‘Human Rights’ Council
7th June 2008
And about time, too. Our government needs to cease lending credibility to these oxymoronic international corruption-fests.
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Dirty Harry comes clean
6th June 2008
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Worried About a Recession? Don’t Blame Free Trade
6th June 2008
Recessions are caused by government interference in free trade, not by free trade. You ought to know that by now.
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Climate-Change Collapse
6th June 2008
Read it.
Environmentalists are stunned that their global warming agenda is in collapse. Senator Harry Reid has all but conceded he lacks the vote for passage in the Senate and that it’s time to move on. Backers of the Warner-Lieberman cap-and-trade bill always knew they would face a veto from President Bush, but they wanted to flex their political muscle and build momentum for 2009. That strategy backfired. The green groups now look as politically intimidating as the skinny kid on the beach who gets sand kicked in his face.
Good news? How’d that get in here?
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Low Serotonin Increases Desire To Punish Unfairness
6th June 2008
Hmmmmm….. That would explain a lot.
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Car Computers Networked To Foil Thieves
6th June 2008
Take that, vile miscreants!
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Magic Wheel to help commuters beat crowds
5th June 2008
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The secrets of Britain’s own lost city of Atlantis are to be uncovered by scientists.
5th June 2008
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The tricycle that works on land and on water
5th June 2008
Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
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Japanese consortium disguises solar cells as leaves
4th June 2008
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UAH: Global Temperature Dives in May
4th June 2008
Must be Global Warming. Wake up AlGore.
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Hayfever sufferers given hope by vaccine
4th June 2008
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World War II US D-Day invasion tank unearthed in France
4th June 2008
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Cyclone Waste Heat Engine promises power on the cheap
4th June 2008
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Facial Recognition Finds A Purpose… And It’s Advertising, Not Surveillance
4th June 2008
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Jillaroos bring feminine touch to Outback farms
4th June 2008
Trust the Australians to have a name for it. “Cowgirl” just doesn’t have the same ring.
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Burma: Who’s in the Junta?
3rd June 2008
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North to Greenland
2nd June 2008
DNA samples extracted from 3,000-year-old human hair excavated in Greenland indicate that the first humans to live in the far north were migrants from East Asia and were unrelated to Native Americans or the ancestors of modern Eskimos.
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Man teaches heron to fly by flapping his arms
2nd June 2008
Hey, whatever works.
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Immigration Prosecutions Hit New High
2nd June 2008
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MIT fabricates nanowire mats to selectively absorb oil
2nd June 2008
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Boredom Can Be Good For You
2nd June 2008
The trouble is that people who are afraid of being bored soon become too busy to stay effective. In all their rush and haste to stay active, they have no time left to think about what they are doing, let alone add any new tricks to their repertoire.
Not to mention that they’re tiresome to the rest of us.
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Cities and Ambition
1st June 2008
Paul Graham ponders how important where you live might be, career-wise.
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U.S. regulators probe crude oil market
1st June 2008
And about time, too.
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Stiff upper lip best way to deal with shock
1st June 2008
Sometimes the old ways are best.
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Hair cloning could provide cure for baldness
1st June 2008
Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
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AI Researchers Find Body Knows How To Move Itself
1st June 2008
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George W Bush bumps chests with graduate
31st May 2008
Once a frat boy, always a frat boy.
On the other hand, I can’t see Barack Obama doing that.
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How the Irish will save civilization
31st May 2008
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Michael Crichton, Vindicated
30th May 2008
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Holmes, Sweet Holmes: A Floorplan of 221B Baker Street
29th May 2008
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Huge halibut hooked in Norway
28th May 2008
Probably Global Warming. I blame George Bush.
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Let Aussies Fight
28th May 2008
You gotta love Australians.
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Graphene-polymer hybrid composites look to oust carbon nanotubes
28th May 2008
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Thousand-year-old Lombard warrior skeleton discovered buried with horse in Italy
28th May 2008
No doubt PETA is on the case.
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Stop Trying to Be Liked and Start Being You
27th May 2008
Newsflash 1: Some people aren’t gonna like you.
Newsflash 2: That’s okay.
And that’s the truest word you’ll see today.
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Quality Health Care for Peanuts: How Singapore Does It
27th May 2008
The reason the system works so well is that it puts decisions in the hands of patients and doctors rather than of government bureaucrats and insurers. The state’s role is to provide a safety net for the few people unable to save enough to pay their way, to subsidize public hospitals, and to fund preventative health campaigns.
How weird is that?
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Hippo surfing into danger
27th May 2008
A footloose hippopotamus which has been tracked down the South African coast for months has fascinated locals by surfing in the waves.
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Japanese scientist claims breakthrough with cold fusion experiment
26th May 2008
If anybody can do it, it would be the Japanese.
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Designer proposes VEIL Solar Shades to help power schools
26th May 2008
Those weird shades look like cobras.
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Physicists develop plastic semiconductors for laser diode use
26th May 2008
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Shark bites US surfer off Mexico coast
25th May 2008
Read it.
I think the lesson here is, don’t go surfing off the Mexico coast.
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WCI student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags
24th May 2008
Boy, that’s going to piss off the Greenpeace crowd.
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The Minnesota Department of Transportation admits that Republican Sen. John McCain was right about that bridge collapse.
23rd May 2008
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