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Sony promises to undercut its own PS3 with a cheap Blu-Ray player. In other words, this stock is a SELL SELL SELL |
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"At the moment, there is almost a McCarthyism movement in science where the greenhouse effect is like a puritanical religion and this is dangerous" |
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Man sues Microsoft because FBI was able to recover his dolphin flogging fodder from his PC. Bonus: he's already settled with HP and Circuit City |
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The coolest ultraviolet picture of the sun you’ll see today |
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How long does it take to rebuild bone lost during space flight, and what negative effects will loss of bone density have on cross country kidnappings? |
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New study reveals that pot relieves pain that narcotics like morphine and OxyContin have hardly any effect on, like the pain of not understanding Frank Zappa's music |
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Professor says that current obesity epidemic is caused by... plastic? |
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Two scuba divers in the Yucatan peninsula have discovered what is the world’s longest underground river known so far |
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216 million Americans are scientifically illiterate |
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AMD demos Barcelona, claims 42% floating-point edge over Xeon, 6 point edge over Real Madrid |
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Experts conclude that they don't call them Crackberrys for nothing |
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Scratch 'n sniff internet porn coming soon to a computer near you |
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Adam Zaretsky once spent 48 hours playing Engelbert Humperdinck's "Greatest Hits" to a dish of E.coli bacteria to determine whether vibrations or sounds influenced bacterial growth |
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This is why you should always keep a close eye on your laptop bag when going through airport security checkpoints |
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If you guessed "the sweat of Turkish Olympic wrestlers" as this week's new and exciting hepatitis B source, come forward and claim your prize |
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NYC may never win the war on rats, reports the Institute for Stating the Perfectly Obvious |
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Study: Driving games lead to real-life speeding. In other news. Obvious and Unlikely tags put the pedal to the metal to see who will front this link |
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Museum IDs new species of dinosaur that was not mentioned in the Bible |
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Some sensible researcher finds that there is no scientifically verifiable linkage between violent video games and violent kids |
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Scientists have discovered a large area thousands of square kilometres in extent in the middle of the Atlantic where the Earth's crust appears to be missing |
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The Pigeon Revolutionary Front has gone cyborg, planning coo |
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And you all thought chiropractors were full of crap: it turns out that they can cure the pain that comes from staring down at your Blackberry all day. Submitter stands corrected |
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Hello world? Take this programmer's personality test |
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HP praised for collecting beer-soaked servers, Diet Pepper-sprayed keyboards and computer screens for recycling in world's biggest high-tech chop shop |
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When Noah's flood carved out the Grand Canyon, 6,000 years ago, God was also busy creating two new species of albino millipedes |
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Tracking anomaly that sent Pioneer space probes drifting hundreds of thousands of miles off course may mean that scientists have got theory of gravity all wrong. Theories of evolution, climate change unavailable for comment |
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R.I.P. Computer mouse : 1981-2008 |
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Last week, TSA began using "backscatters," which look through clothes to show passengers "as good as nude." I'll be in my overhead compartment |
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14,000 years ago, would you have hit it?(pic) |
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"Fetch me the metric hammer" and other tales of torturing the new employee |
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Would you spend $8800 on a 61-stage, two-week car wash? |
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Nuclear lab develops world's greatest... dust rag? |
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What it's really like to move to a Mac |
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Archaeologists believe they discovered Blackbeard's ship. ARR RLY? |
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Say goodbye to webcasting. The rates are going way up |
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Wasabi threatens the International Space Station |
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Day of reckoning for cheapos who refuse to pay for cable but watch TV is coming in two years. All four of you have been warned |
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Health club hooks up treadmills to generators to capture human energy. Agent Smith nods approvingly |
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Robotic "sea snake" could harvest ocean's waves to produce power, hunt for Sarah Connor |
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Having multiple partners increases sexual pleasure in men and women. Bummer: Extremely unneeded pic of Mick Jagger included |
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Longest underground river found in Mexico. U.S. Border patrol to investigate |
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A Japanese dolphin is squealing with delight after receiving a prosthetic tail to replace one amputated due to a skin disease |
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Scientists discover what Richard Gere already knew, that size matters in rodents |
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Scientists create material which reflects no light, making it a virtual "black hole" -- opening the door to new photonic technologies, totally emo rooms |
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Strange gadgets you can control with your brain |
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The coolest pics of Saturn and its rings you'll see today |
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Sony's "I'm butt hurt cuz you talked about me on the interweb tubes" blockade of Kotaku backfires -- alienating a popular blog isn't the way to help increase brand popularity |
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New device burns calories with microwaves. Now you can truly eat a burrito and get a workout at the same time |
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Scientists figure out what makes hurricanes rapidly intensify. Surprisingly, it's not Al Gore's electric bill |
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AT&T will reach 18 million or 19 million subscribers with U-verse by 2007. Or 2008. Unless they don't, in which case none of this ever happened |
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Customer is looking for someone to code out a complete operating system that is completely functional, has all of the features of Windows XP, is unhackable and compatible with all existing files. Budget: $1000 - $3000 |
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The Ear Scope. Combines the fun of cleaning your ears with the excitement of television, because apparently Q-Tips weren't entertaining enough |
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The UN solves global warming by issuing a sternly worded memo forbidding the temperature to rise any more. No, really |
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Scientists begin study of world's poles. Early reports suggest that they are, on average, about six to seven inches |
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Wired Magazine ’s parent company, Condé Nast, owns Digg competitor Reddit. Ironic tag unavailable for comment |
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The one thing you need to know about quantum computers |
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Jesus Christ's tomb was discovered clear back in 1980, but somehow the archeologists and other pros involved never knew whose it was until James Cameron showed up |
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Swingline embeds RFID tags into next-gen staplers. No word yet on whether they'll be available in red |
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Giant ocean found 800 miles beneath the surface of Asia |
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Coolest picture of a prototype moon-base unit you'll see today. Lawn, wacky neighbor still in development |
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Blogger tells how he bought Diggs. In other news, Submitter paid 5 bucks a month for this redlight |
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Firefox 3 to have more browser/OS integration. Wait, haven't we been down this road before? |
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Ice cream is good for fertility. Here comes the fat-assed welfare mom science |
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Hiccup! Hiccup! Hiccup! *Silence.* Ahhhhh finally... |
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Why RIAA boycotts are painfully stupid |
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Community website Myfilms launches huge ad campaign promoting the URL "Myfilms.com." Then someone thinks to ask "Wait, we did register that domain, didn't we?" You'll never guess the answer |
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Smart briefcase knows when it's being stolen, notifies police. No word on what it does if stolen by a cop |
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Scientists create the thinnest material in the world, only one atom thick. Still no cure for cancer, but wait till you see the bikinis they'll make out of this stuff |
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Transformer responsible for "unusual event" and reduced power output at Exelon nuclear plant. Cars and trucks loaded with glowing cubes seen speeding away from scene |
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For the second time, Consumer Reports picks all Japanese cars for its top 10 most reliable list |
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Don't clean your toilet seat. You could be erasing the Library of Congress that belongs to an ancient alien civilization |
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"We are turning harmful waste into something useful." If you guessed the story is about turning McDonald's used french-fry oil into a skin cream, here, have a cookie |
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Total lunar eclipse this Saturday night. As a matter of fact, it will be all dark |
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"Powers of Ten" -- from the visible universe down to a proton |
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New battery powered by urine, tears, blood and/or semen. I'll be in my bunk, charging my batteries |
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Legal prostitutes surveyed report having high job satisfaction, say the work is quite fun if you have a taste for it |
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Old and Busted: Giving someone "the finger". New Hotness: Express your Road Rage concisely with an LED message board |
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Anakin Skywalker, your new jet boat is waiting |
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RIAA launches P2PLawsuits.com so you can can apply for a settlement by entering your case number, and even pay it online. Ain't that handy? |
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Supercar company that nobody has ever heard of set to take on Bugatti Veyron for "World's Fastest Production Car" mantle |
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Twenty-five percent of HDTV television owners are unaware they're not watching in HD, safe to assume they spent at least $500 on Monster cables |
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Super Mario gets his own mobile game. Well, kind of. It's called Mobario, and has NOTHING to do with Nintendo, but does feature a fat plumber, turtles, coins and mushrooms. Call the lawyers |
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Pictures of statues and buildings from a lost city in India that was apparently a very open-minded place to live. (Not safe for workish ancient statues) |
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FDA approves first drug to cure car sickness in dogs. Still no cure for cancer |
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Ramblings on why the Gap sucks above. More importantly, how to send the Black Fax of Doom to junk faxers below |
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It's Opposites Day at Sony, where they pretend that the Wii isn't kicking their arse |
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Aristocrat buried 90 years ago to be exhumed because his lead-lined coffin may have helped Spanish flu virus survive. What could possibly go wrong? |
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Good news: South Africa's elephant population is increasing. Bad news: There are now too many, so some will be killed. Elephants, never learn do they |
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Crawl along the ground, nose to the ground and bottom in the air, and you too can track scents like a dog. Your dog wants you to help him find his missing steak |
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Despite vast amounts of supercomputing power, machines still need humans to perform menial tasks like identifying photos, earning cash on WoW, finding Sarah Connor |
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New "eco-car" is a motorcycle-car hybrid that goes 100 mph and leans into turns. While not usually a fan of Loser Cruiser hybrids, submitter has to admit that he wants one |
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With Google raking in advertising money and announcing new software suite, Microsoft finally realizes that they can't keep spitting on consumers' cupcakes and calling it frosting |
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Twenty delicious new fish species discovered in Indonesia |
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MySpace account with over 100,000 friends sells for $2,125 |
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CERN's Compact Muon Solenoid about to go online, citizens of Alderaan crapping their pants |
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Study shows monkeys become increasingly motivated to obtain nicotine, hang around outside of neighborhood 7-11s |
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The ultimate LCD setups for geeks -- includes the "Wall-O-Monitors" |
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Why can't U.S. cars get more than 40 mpg? Submitter would tell you but he is too busy doing 0-60 in three seconds |
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Study finds up to 70% allergic to marijuana pollen "The data suggests that marijuana pollen may be a relatively common airborne pollen pollutant in the Southwest" |
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Studies say antioxidants are useless ... don't keep oxen away at all |
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How to cook using a car |
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NOAA: "La Nina is brewing, bringing with it more hurricanes for the Atlantic." Note: La Nina is NOT spanish for "Global Warming" |
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Man with no medical training invents machine that kills cancerous cells while leaving nearby cells alone. Still no cure for...waitaminute |
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Instant greenlight |
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Christian group exposes the Wii as a "portal to porno". There's no telling yet how this stunning development might affect sales |
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Popular Science presents the future of work: Pimp Your Cube 2017 |
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Vesuvius' computer simulated eruption kills 300,000 |
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NASA's plan for astronauts who go bonkers in space? Same way submitter gets a date -- duct tape and tranquilizers |
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Scientists develop real-life tricorder. Still no cure for Tribbles |
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Headline:"Scientists discover strange new creatures in Antartica". This never turns out well in the movies |
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Number of dementia sufferers set to rise sharply in the next 15 elbow peanut THEY'RE STEALING MY FEET |
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So long, and thanks for all the honey |
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Select theaters in USA will try replacing movie previews with 20 minutes of audience-interactive video games |
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Scam artist who stole sex in the late 90s is now broke and owes rightful owner $65 million |
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Gamer builds a robot to help him with his life's greatest achievement |
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New Royal Navy destroyers powered by Windows. Expected to recieve orders to rescue Nigerian Emperor any day now |
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Worrying about a math test will cause you to perform poorly on the test. Might as well have that second beer, then |
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Florida weather causes damage to shuttle. That, my friends, is why we don't have a moon base |
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The New Horizons probe will make its closest pass by the Jupiter at 12:45 a.m. EST Wednesday in a cosmic stopover on its long trek to photograph Pluto, the Kuiper Belt, streetlights |
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National Guard swarming over Western Ky in response to earthquake that has not yet happened. EVERYBODY PANIC |
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The earth is going to turn into a sun finally making our solar system a normal multi-star one; here comes the Russian science |
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Powerful people cannot draw a reversed "E" on their foreheads |
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Top research scientist says old coal burning plants must be bulldozed. In other news, Jimmy Hoffa prepares to share quarters with top research scientist in near future |
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Declassified documents reveal British defence officials investigated using "alien military technology" to defend earth against extraterrestrial attack |
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Scientists wary of Lake Superior warming when it's really the Witch of November they should be watching out for |
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Symantec releases Norton 360, which combines antivirus, antispyware, firewall, intrusion protection, anti-phishing, backup and tune-up. Also makes you breakfast and takes out the trash |
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"If you find yourself tied up and doused in petrol don't worry if all your assailant has is a lighted cigarette: scientists have proved you won't end up as a human fireball." Here comes the thermodynamics |
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Study shows birds plan for the future, making them officially one step smarter than Donald Rumsfeld |
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Decoding the 39 ingredients in a Twinkie |
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All that garlic you've been eating to lower your cholesterol? Yeah, it doesn't work. And your breath smells like schiat too |
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Drug may treat mental symptoms of Down syndrome. Charlie Gordon rejoices |
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Harvard researchers just now remember that repressed memory is a 19th-Century creation |
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Man recreates iPhone user-interface on an E-TEN M600 Pocket PC. Even THIS isn't enough to make anyone want a PDA |
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New website allows customers to buy "hot friends" they can add to their Myspace profile |
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Studies paid for by drug companies show more favorable results. In other news, Pope is Catholic, sky is blue, bears seeking toilet paper in the woods |
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Today is the 16th anniversary of the tool that allows billions of people to discretely get pornography. It may have other uses in the future as well |
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Robofridge launches beers to your couch. Submitter welcomes our beer-catapulting overloads |
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Thanks to global warming, Canada is rapidly disappearing |
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Scientific experts gather to discuss how they don't understand women. Men everywhere nod knowingly |
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F-22 Raptor is the most advanced fighter in the world, so you can imagine how embarrassed Lockheed was to discover that it was defeated by the International Date Line |
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Scientists discover how to diagnose lung cancer by smelling breath. 1) Sniff breath. 2) Smell cigarette smoke? 3) Dude, you've got cancer |
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Antartic Ice Shelf collapses to expose large area sea bed with new, unidentified species present |
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No, you're not crazy, that slot machine really was sending subliminal messages |
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Indian workers complain about outsourcing of jobs to the Philippines. Ironic tag polishes resume, looks glum |
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The PC mod that looks like a warp core from Star Trek: Enterprise. For the PC user who already has a Tribble-shaped mouse and a monitor shaped like a Klingon's head |
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Study shows that the way kids form cliques is more complex than previously thought. Of course, most kids don't spend a long Saturday detention together baring their souls to each other and dancing in the library |
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Scientists discover link between bowel discomfort and perfectionism. So you weren't far off when you described your perfectionist boss as a massive pain in the arse |
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Why does the camera add ten pounds? Here comes the fattie science |
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The coolest photo of Earth's atmosphere you will see today |
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Theoretical physics is stuck, needs scientists with more of an up and atom attitude |
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