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Friday, December 17, 2010

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Airport Body Scanners: Are they a Health Threat?

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Are the scanners a heath threat, or is that an overreaction?

Ladybug plays with sprinkles!

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A ladybug in my dorm room started playing with some sprinkles. SO CUTE!

That Sounds Like a Good Deal! [Img]

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Is Twitter really worth $3.7bn?

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The news that Twitter is now worth, on paper at least, $3.7bn has left some observers shocked.

Fun fact: the brain will learn any word it hears 160 times over 14 minutes.

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Neuroscientists from the University of Cambridge in England monitored the brain activity of 16 volunteers as they repeatedly listened to a voice saying a nonsense word.

New York's Great Trash Caper

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In tough times, trash starts to look a lot more like treasure. When you can't pay your Internet bill, your local subway trash can is likely to contain a discarded newspaper, which you might think of something akin to an analog version of the Huffington Post. There's tossed food in those dumpsters, if you dare. Even a broken printer or computer monitor might be worth nabbing, if only because it might score you a few bucks on eBay, or serve as material for the art project that will make you famous, or even make for a good present, at least for an undiscriminating friend. But an old air conditioner, refrigerator or freezer, lying broken on the curb? You don't just throw that over your shoulder in the hopes of a few extra bucks. Still for some reason, these things are disappearing en masse from the streets. City officials and at least one waste contractor aren't just mad, reports

10 PlayStation Minis Worth a Look

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PlayStation Minis seemed like an odd idea at first - cheap, little games that you can play on either your PS3 or PSP. But there are some real gems in the Mini library. Here are 10 of the best.

Fantastic Super Mario Bros. 3 super play videos

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Nintendo has released a new round of "super play" videos demonstrating tricks and tips in Super Mario Bros. 3. Invincible Mario. 1ups, shortcuts, speed runs and more!

The 100 Top Science Stories of 2010

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Every year DISCOVER sorts through the scientific accomplishments of the past 12 months, and assembles a list of the coolest experiments, most brilliant discoveries, and most world-changing events. As you page through the countdown to the #1 science story, we think you'll come to the same conclusion we did: 2010 was quite a year.

X-rays From Lightning

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Using a custom-built camera the size of a refrigerator, Florida researchers have made the world's first crude pictures of X-rays streaming from a stroke of lightning.

10 Most Devious Street Cons (And How to Avoid Them)

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photo: Caitlin Childs) Everyone thinks they're too smart to fall for a scam until it happens to them.

Opportunity Rover Finds Fresh Crater on Mars

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The Mars rover Opportunity has just rolled up to a fresh new crater that could hold clues to when and why Mars dried up.

Who else does this? [PIC]

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Admit it, when the elevator gets to your floor, you do the little hand gesture thing as if you were opening the door via the force. It's OK if you do

Will All That Money Make Twitter Too Serious?

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Updated: An interesting thing happened on Wednesday, after All Things Digital reported Twitter had closed a giant round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Byers, which values the micro-blogging network at close to $4 billion. The story contained the full text of a blog post from Twitters CEO Dick Costolo but the version All Things Digital originally posted is significantly different from the one that is currently on the Twitter blog. The first version contained a number of witticisms from Costolo, including the title Stocking Stuffer, but the new version i

7 Insane Black Markets You Won’t Believe Actually Exist

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Hey man, do you know where we can score some bull semen?

Bill requiring sound device for electric vehicles, hybrids approved

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Ever since the introduction of the first electric vehicles and hybrids there have been questions raised regarding the safety factor of these quiet vehicles hitting an unsuspecting pedestrian. Now, after many years of fruitless debate, the House has voted to approve the bill following the Senate's approval vote last week.

Worst Cosplay Ever! (Gallery)

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Valuable lessons in how not to dress as your favorite character.

Potato Flakes Derail Train

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At least, that's what Union Pacific is alleging in a lawsuit against Idahoan Foods, which makes one of the best substitutes for homemade mashed potatoes available, assuming one has no interest in ever mashing an actual potato.

Professional fund-raisers pocketed more than half the money raised for charity

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Based on a surey of more than 600 campaigns, charities received an average of 43 percent of the money raised in their name, the Massachusetts AG says.

Worldwide Trade Movements For Oil [Infographic]

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