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USB powered speakers made good to go. Electrical tape hack included |
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Robots to take over all housecleaning in South Korea by 2020. Pusher robots will also help the elderly down the stairs |
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Annoying, overpriced ringtones are now available for your landline |
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All 928 scientific articles reviewed supported the view that human-induced global warming is occuring. And by "all," they mean "13" |
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Top 10 most important games in the history of gaming. Got Pong? |
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By 2050, two-thirds of all people will live in cities. Other third will live in barren wasteland and "Just walk away" |
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Volkswagen’s Amazing Automated 20-Story Garage |
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Space Shuttle Discovery launch discussion thread |
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Scientists create conditions under which light travels a mere 38 miles per hour |
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Touch-sensitive artificial limbs are being worn by U.S. Soldiers. Instead of the old velcro strap and cup these new models are fused directly to the bone and are controlled by controlled by the wearer's brain |
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Silicon Valley, doing what Detroit would not, proves the electric car not dead yet |
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Company develops chewing gum for men that causes the body to emit a rosey smell |
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Website claims evidence of Big Foot is the most significant, mind-shattering discovery in anthropology |
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8 ways to kill someone with the iPod Nano |
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Scientists fail to discover why nails on a blackboard bother people |
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New guided artillery shell leaves nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide |
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Former test pilot creates flying motorocycle (w/ video) |
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Editor of Wired magazine says print media will always be relevant because people are too lazy to "click through as many as 16 screens" to read articles online |
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Statisticians may have discovered the origins of the Adam and Eve story |
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Are you a cheapskate? Then you’ll like these instructions on how to turn a disposable digital camera into a permanent reusable camera |
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During Congressional hearings on videogame violence, Republican admitted to being a gamer, having been an expert at Pong |
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The official "watch for falling debris live during the Discovery launch"-thread (LGT live-link) |
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"The components of this system are mechanisms that react to human occupants as erotic prey. The elements respond with subtle grasping and sucking motions" |
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Automotive engineers have finally managed to eliminate the most dangerous part of an automobile: the driver. Designs a car that can drive up to 150 mph while you scream helplessly in the driver's seat |
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Better beer through nanotechnology |
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Air Force spends $450,000 on study of blogs to determine that they “are typically short and are about something external to the blog posting itself, such as a news event.” |
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Furniture polish, paint and tomato paste. The crucial ingredients of Russian prison moonshine |
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Giant algae bloom off Vancouver Island coast visible from space |
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Ever wished you could find out where your favorite satellite is? Now you can |
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Offshore oil platforms are actually good for fish, says university study and people who make lots of money off offshore oil platforms |
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French lawmakers approve law requiring iTunes offerings to work on rival MP3 players. Apple surrenders |
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10 Greatest Web Design Taboo List |
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Study finds that after one drink people overlook a woman in a gorilla suit walking through a basketball game. After two they think she's hot |
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Lawsuit claims that Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy tool is spyware |
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New Canadian tool can regrow teeth. Expected to hit the British shelves just as soon as they can find a cargo-moose that can swim that far |
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What happens if Vista (or any other 64-bit OS, including Linux) takes the Blue Pill? 100% undetectable malware, that’s what |
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Swedish company offers "P2P Insurance" to cover your legal bills if you're busted by the RIAA |
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Ozone hole over the Antarctic will recover by 2068, unless 80's metal makes a comeback |
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A PC smaller than a credit card now means that getting your wallet stolen may mean losing gigs of glorious porn |
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Romania probes "foreign plot" to worsen its weather |
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This luxury shower is worth more than your car. Well, probably not, but that's what they're charging for it |
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Having eliminated the national debt, Congress has decided to spend $59.9 billion to fund research for mission to Mars. Work to begin next week on converting moon-landing studio used to fake 1969 moon landing |
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♪God said ♪to Noah ♪There's Gonna be a Flood-ee Flood-ee ♪ |
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Doctor in hot water after failing to notice 32-pound cyst in woman's abdomen, prescribing her diet pills |
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Dell adds "Captain Kirk" option to its premium services package. On the downside, you're still stuck with a Dell |
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Top 10 worst arcade-to-console game conversions. If you've ever played the original "Mortal Kombat" on the SNES, this list's for you |
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Good news that the laptop containing data on millions of vets has been recovered is tempered by bad news that two VA data tapes are now missing |
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Western Digital settles class action suit over hard disk size. Lawyers get a boatload of cash, you get to download some software |
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$700 Playstation 3s, $99 games and now the developers are stopping PS3 games because the PS3 is too expensive to develop for. Sony's got a surefire winner on their hands |
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1964 health class film: "Dealing with Your Batshiat Crazy Girlfriend" |
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You know technology has made our lives easier when you buy a universal remote for your entertainment center and it crashes while updating its firmware |
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New "bird" radar installed to protect Space Shuttle from turkey buzzards. Maybe we really need new space transport system |
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Top ten video game series that jumped the shark |
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New telecom bill promises to drag U.S., kicking and screaming, back into the twentieth century |
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From the find-a-need-and-fill-it department: Japanese scientists create device to record smells and allow for later playback |
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Compulab unveils tiny computer smaller then a credit card |
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The Newbie's Guide to Detecting the NSA |
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Your shampoo may be responsible for growing them big man boobs you have |
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Today's expected Shuttle delay brought to you by clouds. If that's really a problem, there's some bad news about re-entry |
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Treasonous newspaper alerts possible terrorists that airport is installing a bomb-sniffing machine |
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"Reservoir Dogs" video game assured of big sales down under now that Australia has banned it |
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Food scientists told that wine is the red-headed stepchild of beer when it comes to health benefits. "Beer, if you looked at it holistically, is healthier than wine. But it is not perceived that way," says researcher |
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1780-year-old public toilet recently discovered in Iran, still occupied by a camel driver muttering, "Whatever you do, don't order the Kabab Barg" |
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Top 500 Supercomputers list published. Sadly, FarkCluster failed to make the list again this year |
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Sony to Microsoft: "Stop copying everything we do." Huh |
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Palm to pay Xerox $22.5 million for handwriting-recognition patent infringement. For that much money, they should have infringed on something that actually worked |
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♪ Spam, spam, spam, spam ♪ Image-based spam ♪ Wonderful spam ♪ |
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New mobile phones prevent drunk dialing. Now they just need to come up with a keyboard that prevents drunk Ebaying |
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Password-protecting ammo. What could go wrong? |
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What's that sound? The violent spinning at Newsbusters.org |
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HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray. What you need to know (beside the fact that consumers will get screwed either way) |
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Just in case you had any doubt that Larry Ellison was the biggest douche in Silicon Valley, now he's yanked a $115-million donation |
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British researchers find people put 300 percent more money in office coffee fund when it is under a poster that seems to be watching them |
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Say hello to voice phishing |
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Sony CEO: Xbox 360 a "transitional product" |
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DNA testing shows China's first emperor outsourced some of his Terracotta warrior mausoleum work 2200 years ago |
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Diet Coke + Mentos frenzy continues |
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Shuttle crew arrives in Forida for this weekend's launch delay |
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Microsoft to introduce Windows "kill switch"? |
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Man creates backyard zamboni which can also serve as a snowblower to clear a driveway, mow a lawn in summer and spread liquid fertilizer from its tank |
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375 GHz computer chip invented. Bad side? You have to move to the Arctic to keep it cool |
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University of Montana to open new freezer lab, kept at 80 degrees below zero. This replaces their old subzero lab, called "North Dakota" |
(7) |
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An overview of all the changes to Discovery since it last flew |
(15) |
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How to photographically make your neighborhood look like its own planet |
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Archaeologists find grouping of granite blocks, declare the area South America's oldest astronomical observatory (with pics) |
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New gizmo lets you brew Guinness at home. Spilling the stuff everywhere gives you an excuse to use the bar towel |
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Chrysler, having had no luck selling current ugly-ass cars, plan to begin offering mega fuel-efficient ugly-ass subcompact cars (with pic of 2007 Chrysler Whatthefarkisthat) |
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You know what I'd do if I were a whooping crane? I'll tell ya. Two chicks at the same time |
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Marvell buys Intel chip unit for $600 million; makes plans to cross-over AMD villains in future issues |
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Space debris abandoned by the United States expected to pass within a few hundred feet of the International Space Station as NASA proves not content with just wrecking its own stuff |
(10) |
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New language called Zlango developed for text messaging although it looks like hieroglyphics and sounds like a caveman talking |
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Starting now, you can pay parking meters from your cellphone, get a text message warning the meter is about to expire and even top up the meter without going outside |
(13) |
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Problem: There are too many farking sites to upload and share video. Solution: This video cheat sheet reveals who charges for sharing and which sites have unlimited bandwidth offers |
(5) |
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AMD may have secret weapon hidden in its AM2 platform that will compete with Intel's new Core 2 Duo launch |
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Scientists okay Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" for accuracy, Reverend Lovejoy voiceover |
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Scorpion venom tested as brain-cancer treatment. One way or another, it's expected to be 100-percent effective |
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Washington, D.C. launches plan to test entire city for HIV. This should get interesting real soon when they head towards Capitol Hill |
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Swiss company patents drone airship for advertisements. "A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies. The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure" |
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IPods create new genre of slang, such as iPodyssey: The lengthy and arduous quest some people undertake to acquire an iPod |
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Company introduces silicone based "artificial human sex companion". Says it will "take the air out" of old-fashioned inflatable dolls |
(165) |
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NASA managment addresses safety problems by firing those who identify safety problems |
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NASA places the odds of astronauts dying in the next shuttle explosion at one-in-100 |
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In a stunning reversal of standard levels of customer service, Comcast doubles up/down speeds in most markets -- 16m/s at no additional cost |
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Google's online payment service to debut this week. Say GBuy to PayPal |
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2,500-year-old sarcophagi uncovered in Egypt, revealing that Terri Hatcher's birth name was Neb Ra Khatow |
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Scientists come up with a whole bunch of new excuses for why you're fat, including air conditioning, lack of sleep, fewer smokers and more sex among obese people |
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Scientists announce breakthrough in rendering E coli harmless. Which is good, since throwing out those green hamburgers would be a waste |
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Major ISPs will combat child porn by building a large database of child porn |
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Air Force refuses to give up on cursed launch site built on top of Indian burial grounds |
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Study finds "senior moments," such as forgetting what you just said, may really be a sign of Alzheimer's after all. Study finds "senior moments" may really be a sign of Alzheimer's. Here comes... something |
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The good news is scientists know where sexual desire originates in women. The bad news? It's not your wallet |
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Scientists discover living specimens of the coelacanth, a nearly 400-million-year-old fish, partying like it's 399,999,999 |
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Japanese university to dispatch female grad students into local schools as "science angels" to attract more females into science |
(79) |
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Apple: "Those rumors of iPod sweatshops are bunk. Move along, nothing to see here" |
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On July 3rd, an asteroid a half-mile wide will come close to Earth. On July 4th, we fight back |
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"Secret" summer health tip: Drink more water. "Obvious" tag suffers from heat stroke and dies |
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Judge orders injunction against Google after it cracks password-protected servers of NC middle school |
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Stealth radar system whose signal is indistinguishable from random noise has been developed, and it can be tuned to penetrate solid walls |
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Scientists shaken to discover link between pesticides and Parkinson's disease |
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Halifax scientists announce plans to attach high-tech equipment to fish, noting that they're one step closer to sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads |
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Studies now show that cellphones excite the part of the brain nearest the phone. But there's no risk of permanent brain damage, says recent monkey bandaid table grawwwwwrooozzzichaise lounge bap bap bzzz bap |
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Nintendo exec, having had a bit too much sake with dinner, drunkenly hints at an October release for the Wii. You know what he must have had to do right afterwards |
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Computers will soon be able to read your mind. In other news, quit fantasizing about Bea Arthur naked |
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Distant father? Overbearing mother? Doesn't matter. Numerous older brothers? You're gay |
(285) |
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Scientists say creativity is independent of thought, proving to be the business model of RIAA |
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Doctor admits that zero-tolerance guidelines for drinking in pregnancy are based on shaky scientific grounds, and are really about protecting doctors from liability. (Read through to end of TFA) |
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German scientists search for gravity's version of MD 20/20 |
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| (Some Guy) |
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College students develop robot that solves Rubik's Cube in 54 seconds |
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Googlezon takes one more step. Tomorrow, the world |
(46) |
| (National Business Review) |
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"It takes a good system to get beer to 100,000 pubs" |
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| (Cal Lit Review) |
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Quantum entanglement explained. Did you know that every time you're transported off the Enterprise your original is destroyed? |
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