the random restaurant selector

Having trouble deciding where to go for lunch or dinner? Do you live in the United States? If so, you are in luck! The new site: http://www.restaurantselector.net, through the power of PHP rand() can decide for you! The site lists 20 restaurants and uses AJAX to give you a phone number and review! Visit the site today!

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The Simpsons on Conan O Brien (video)

This is a video of the guys who do the Simpsons voices on Conan O Brien

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Engineering Gems of the U.S. Highway System

The U.S. interstate highway system is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The system of highways profoundly changed American society: where we live, how we live and how much we depend on our cars. In honor of this milestone, Melissa Block and Michele Norris talk to three civil engineers about their favorite part of the system.

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How to Photograph Fireworks

I�ve had many emails from readers asking how to photograph fireworks, quite a few of whom have expressed concern that they might just be too hard to really photograph. My response is always the same - �give it a go - you might be surprised at what you end up with�.

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New Freedom Tower design unveiled (w/ pictures)

"Unlike most other glass-clad office buildings, the Freedom Tower will appear clear because they will remove the iron, which tints glass green." - SOM

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The End of L.A. Car Chases

LAPD will begin testing a system where they "shoot GPS homing devices like darts and stick them to the back of" lawbreaking vehicles. Rather than chase the perpetrator, the police vehicle that shot the dart will back off while police headquarters tracks the vehicle.

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A Lego Crossbow!

A semi-automatic pump-action lego crossbow that took four blocks in the handle and one in the chamber. It can fire a standard lego brick about 20 yards. It's not terribly accurate, but believe me, you don't want to fire this thing at the family pet.

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Who restarts the Internet after a major disaster?

If our nation is hit by a cyber Katrina that wipes out large parts of the Internet, there is no coordinated plan in place to restart and restore the Internet.

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Learn to shave the correct way -- avoiding razor burn etc.

This article is an interesting read providing tons of tips on proper shaving and the proper tools needed.

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How To Get 50% Off Cable TV Bill

Article on how to get discounts on your cable bill. This applies to a lot of your current bills.

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Never pay a cell phone termination fee ever again.

What is the little known secret to getting out of your cell phone contract early without paying a termination fee? Make your carrier lose money by keeping you.

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Autistic Spends 16 Years Designing an Amazing World

Gilles Trehin is an autistic 28-year-old. Since the age of 12, he has been designing an imaginary city called Urville. He has created detailed historical, geographical, cultural, and economic descriptions of the city, as well as an absolutely extraordinary set of drawings. Check out the pics!

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INSANE Mosaic! Check this out... crazy.

This is crazy. It goes on forever... please. I'm begging you. Check it out...

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Coolest photo you will see today

Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour. This is a five minute exposure taken from about 7 miles away from the pad. Taken with a borrowed all-manual Nikomat camera, 24 mm lens, f/16, Kodak Royal Gold 100 film. When the exposure was stopped in this shot, the shuttle was approximately 229 statute miles downrange.

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Study: People think their emails are twice as funny as they really are

Think that email you're sending off to your coworker is pretty funny? According to a recent study, the odds are that she'll find only half as funny as you do.

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Macro Photographs of Insects

Nice collection of highly detailed, vivid photographs of a number of cool insects, and a frog.

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Want to know why Papa John's Pizza won gold...

Check it out, one of the smartest advertising I've ever seen.

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Nice and unique IQ test

You have 38 statements to answer if they're true or false (approx. 20 seconds for each). I found it to be very entertaining and precise, enjoy! :)

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Gravity Waves: Rare Weather Event Over Iowa (Pics)

A weather phenomenon filled the skies of Eastern Iowa Tuesday, and meteorologists say it's something we might not see again.
Some say it looked like a scene from the movie �Independence Day.�

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Google Maps: British Military Base in Indian Ocean?

One of the more unlikely places you'd guess seeing a military base...

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Cheney Calls Tapping of Bank Records Essential

"A secret program that allowed U.S. officials to examine hundreds of thousands of private banking records from around the world in search of terrorist ties has been "absolutely essential" to protecting the country from further attacks, Vice President Cheney said yesterday."

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KC-135 Caught Refueling C-5 Galaxy in Mid-Air in Google Earth

Someone just discovered this satellite photo of a KC-135 refueling a C-5 in flight. Learn about the photo, why there are blue ghost images, and see links to other planes in flight in Google Earth.

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Beautiful Nasa Photos

Here is a collection of Beautiful Nasa photos.

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the unfunny truth about scientology 2

codebot.org taken down due to scientology legal threats. check out the ytmnd that lays it down.

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The Unperson: Shunned by Scientology

Scientologists who cross their religion can be declared suppressive persons, shunned by peers and ostracized by family. Another Scientology policy � called �disconnection� � forbids Scientologists from interacting with a suppressive person. No calls, no letters, NO CONTACT.

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Scientology Orientation Video on YouTube!

Here's video of a cam that was snuck into a Scientology orientation session, shouldn't be long before this gets censored by the CoS.

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Don't Bother Me - When DDR goes crazy

Down at your local arcade there's always some kid who spends more money playing DDR then you do on rent each month. Prepare to meet that guys idol.

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video of an RC Helicopter With machine gun

A video of an RC helicopter with a machine gun flying and fireing the gun

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Flock of European Starlings almost take down a tree [VIDEO]

A swarming flock of European Starlings descend on a tree and almost bring it down.

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Trees in Berlin May Die Because of Too Much Urine

Because of the lack of public toilets in Berlin for the world cup, many fans are resorting to peeing in the bushes.

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Cadbury's will bury 250 tons of chocolate

The company said more than a million chocolate bars and Easter eggs recalled from shop shelves and warehouses will be buried at landfill sites across Britain.

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Charles Darwin's tortoise dies

THE world's oldest animal in captivity has died on the Sunshine Coast at the ripe old age of 176.
Giant Galapagos tortoise Harriet has died of a suspected heart attack.

She was a star attraction at Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo since the 1980s and even features in the Guinness Book of Records for her longevity.

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Countersuit in the MySpace Case?

Now it is MySpace's fault he assaulted the girl. "A 14-year-old girl is suing the social networking site, where she met the man charged with sexually assaulting her. Now the man she says assaulted her may pursue his own legal case against MySpace"

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READ THIS!!!

Hasbrouck Heights (NJ) Library Director Michele Reutty is under fire for following the 4th amendment and not giving private info to the police without a subpoena. She faces a 30 day suspension without pay.

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What Scientology Doesn't Want You To See

Hey dad, knew you liked reading about the other stuff on scientology so I put this one up for you too:



In light of what happened to codebot.org, here are top-secret religious materials from the Church of Scientology that they don't want the public to see. Posting material like this online has, in the past, caused legal threats and even forced Slashdot to infamously remove a comment. Enjoy, and educate yourself about this organization!

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Old Trick To Stop Telemarketers

If you call a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service you will hear 3 short tones, "doo dah dee." When the telemarketers� software detects these 3 tones at the beginning of your outgoing message, it thinks it has reached a line that is disconnected. So, it disconnects and does not log your phone number as a working number.

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The Government Sells Machinima As Terrorist Propaganda

This is a video news item from ABC News that shows how highly paid people in our goverment are trying to sell a piece of machinima as terrorist propaganda just because of certain websites it was found on.
It uses Team America soundbytes. Are they effin retarded? Don't answer that. If you're old enough to pay taxes like me, are you pissed like me?

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Man Makes $100-$300 a Day Sitting In Cars

Creative idea.

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"Robot" harvests trees underwater

The Sawfish Underwater Harvester works under water by remote control. Equipped with 8 video cameras and a 55 inch chain saw, this 7000 pound beast harvests forests left behind after dams were built and reservoirs flooded.

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Amazing Pictures of Petra!

Remember in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the "temple" built into the rock face? That was Petra, and the whole city was carved from rock. Plenty of pictures to explore.

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Can a psychiatrist really tell what's wrong with you?

The question has dogged mental-health clinicians for more than 30 years, ever since a famous experiment showed that healthy people will be labeled sick if they go to a psychiatric emergency room and act sick. Recently, a new study tried to repeat the experiment and failed, proving that shrinks aren't as clueless today as they were then.

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Sea lions and dolphins may join war games

Alongside the submarines, ships and airplanes participating in large-scale military exercises in the Pacific this month, a team of sea lions and dolphins are expected to patrol the sea.These marine animals will be flown in from San Diego for simulated mine recovery and mine detection during the biennial RIMPAC war games.

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Q: How BIG is this page?

A: This page is 9 quadrillion pixels wide by 9 quadrillion pixels tall.

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Mummified Brachylophosaurus holds secrets millions of years old

"This specimen could be as important to the field of paleontology as the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon," said Nate Murphy, curator of paleontology at the Judith River Dinosaur Institute.

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The Blog of a Homeless Guy

"Thank you for caring enough to learn about homelessness. I hope this blog will be helpful to you. You can email me at thehomelessguy at gmail dot com."

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The Size Of Our World

Graphical display of the relative size of our Sun, our Planets and other stars.

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First Molecular Proof That Some Aspects of Aging Are Out of Our Control

A study provides the first direct evidence that the molecular machinery of our cells providing function to our tissues and organs spins irreversibly out of control as we age.

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The 11 Mile Webpage.

Scaling an atom to 11 Miles. Crazy stuff

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If you love Digg you might be a Neophiliac, a newly diagnosed disorder

Anyone who has to have the latest and greatest in technology and information is at risk for this disorder. An interesting read. I don't feel so bad about being a neophiliac personally.

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Fake Band Hyped on Myspace.

Spoof indie band "with no talent whatsoever" invented by Q magazine in order to prove that the Rupert Murdoch-owned site is now just another cog in the older industry phenomenon of hype lands huge gigs!

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Amazing Photos of Starling Flocks

Here's what a flock of a million starlings looks like. In Denmark, they call it the Black Sun.

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How to Find True North Without a Compass

Which way is north? Whether you're lost in the woods or you're trying to install a sundial in your yard, you're bound to want to find true north from time to time, and chances are when the time comes you won't have a compass.

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AOL IS FRIGGIN EVIL

Vincent Ferrari appeared on NBC today to talk about his notorious experience with a rude and persistent AOL rep who tried to convince him not to cancel his account.

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Will dinner be a cheeseburger fresh from the bioreactor?

It will probably be a long time before they can make a nice juicy steak, but scientists believe minced meat for things like hamburgers, sausage, and pizza may only be a few years away. They also will have nutrients tailored to our needs. If it tastes good enough this should even be good for the environment.

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AT&T rewrites rules: Your data isn't yours

AT&T has issued an updated privacy policy that takes effect Friday. The new policy says that AT&T -- not customers -- owns customers' confidential info and can use it "to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process."

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"Secret" UV messages on your credit cards and driver's license

If you have a UV light handy, you'll discover a world of secret messages printed on licenses, credit cards, and other official documents as an anti-counterfeiting measure. This web page has some nice photos of the UV ink on a Visa Card, a Master Card, and a CA driver's license.

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California primed for a big quake near L.A.

"When will California experience its next big quake along the San Andreas Fault? It's hard to say, but conditions are ripe for a big one near Los Angeles and San Diego."

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Nuclear Weapon Effects Calculator

Check this out incase kim jong il nukes us, its shows the effects of different nuke yields. You choose the american city and it shows you a map then you choose the yield. Believe 4 megatons makes a mess.

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Lego Laying Off 1200 / Ending US Production

How sad of a day! Lego will be ending it's US production and laying off a good chunk of it's workforce.

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Inventor Patents Crazy Emergency Landing System for Airplanes

Inventor Polchai Phanumphai's idea is for the aircraft to spin its way down for an emergency landing.

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Fish oil 'calms children better than Ritalin'

A daily dose of fish oil is better at treating hyperactivity than Ritalin - the 'chemical cosh' linked to the deaths of children, stunning research has revealed.

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Another Reason AOL BLOOOOOWWWWSS!!!

When this woman's mother died in a car wreck, and tried to cancel her AOL service, AOL refused and said that her mother would need to call and cancel the service herself. Outrageous!

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Directv titanium: every channel for only $7500/year

as the site says: Every channel. Every movie. Every Pay per view. Every sport package. Every porn channel. Every HDTV channel. 10 HD DVRs. for only $7500/year! stop reading and sign up today and your first 3 months are free (not).

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'Thirst for knowledge' may be opium craving

The brain's reward for getting a concept is a shot of natural opiates

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Can you see the motion magic eye????

everyone where i work has spent the last 30mins seeing if they can or can't see the image in this picture. i can't.

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Find answers in a 1-second nap

"Isaac claims that the 1-second nap will often offer up the solution to a problem you're working on in the form of a dream, citing the 1-second nap as used by Thomas Edison as an example." via lhacker.

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Researchers Get Closer-Than-Ever View of Individual Atoms

Researchers at Cornell have developed a technique to get a closer-than-ever look at individual atoms within crystal molecules -- allowing them, for the first time, to see the polarity, or physical alignment, of those constituent atoms and to get a view of the smaller atoms.

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Bill Gates Time Line

Forbes has a pretty good look at the past 28 years for Bill Gates. It starts with "In December 1978, the company recorded more than $1 million in sales of BASIC and two other programming languages. " Then ends in 2006 with "Gates, 49, announces his intention to depart in 2008"

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Rare "Rainbow" Spotted Over Idaho (photo)

The arc isn't a rainbow in the traditional sense it is caused by light passing through wispy, high-altitude cirrus clouds. The sight occurs only when the sun is very high in the sky (more than 58° above the horizon). The hexagonal ice crystals that make up cirrus clouds must be shaped like thick plates with their faces parallel to the ground.

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Smithsonian Museum Kills Electric Car Exhibit

The Smithsonian in D.C. has removed General Motors' EV1 electric car from display this week. The twist is that a documentary called "Who Killed the Electric Car?" is coming out next week (and it makes GM look pretty bad) and GM is one of the museum's biggest donors.

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Satellite imagery of N. Korea missile site

The missile test facility causing all the stir is called the Musudan-ri test facility. A series of satellite images reveal the preparations for testing. Other links contain additional diagrams and discussions.

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Surviving the New Killer Bug

Jewaun Smith, a 9-year-old boy from Chicago, is lucky to be alive. A scrape on his left knee that he picked up riding his bike last October turned into a runaway infection that spread in a matter of days through the rest of his body, leaving his lungs riddled with holes.

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Website taken down by Scientology after being dugg

Codebot.org was given a takedown notice by the Church of Scientology after getting 2800+ diggs. Here's the discussion from the original link: http://digg.com/links/Amazingly_Scary_In-depth_Look_at_Scientology_

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The Supersonic Shape-Shifting Bomber

When completed, it will cruise with its 200-ft. long wings like a normal airplane. But just before the craft breaks the sound barrier, its single wing will swivel around 60 degrees so that one end points forward and the other back. This configuration redistributes the shock waves that pile up in front of a plane at Mach speeds and cause drag.

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Get your genetically engineered pets. Kids love 'em!

Maybe you've been seeking a non-allergenic cat. Or maybe you had something more exotic in mind. (Concerning the latter: Before you freak out... stop. Think.)

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Top 10 Super Cars Most of Us Can't Afford

But we would love too!

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Construction of Norway's Doomsday Vault Begins Today

"It sounds like something from a science fiction film�a doomsday vault carved into a frozen mountainside on a secluded Arctic island. But Norway's ambitious project is on its way to becoming reality Monday when construction begins on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, designed to house as many as 3 million of the world's crop seeds."

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Anything Into Oil

Turkey guts, junked car parts, and even raw sewage go in one end of this plant, and black gold comes out the other end... The catch? It may not happen in the United States.

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How a month and a half on Paxil taught me to love being shy

They promise ease in a pill. An end to social anxiety. Does my degree of shyness warrant medication? It was enough to make me want to see what life was like without being shy. I wondered what Paxil could do for me. Was a smoother, suaver Seth just 20 milligrams away?

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What do butterflies do when it rains?

An average monarch (butterfly) weighs roughly 500 milligrams; large raindrops have a mass of 70 milligrams or more. What do butterflies do in the rain? Michael Raupp, professor of entomology at the University of Maryland, offers this answer.

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Bathe Less, Have Less Allergies?

researchers at Duke University Medical Center have found evidence that may help to explain why people in industrialized societies that greatly stress hygiene have higher rates of allergy and autoimmune diseases than do people in less developed societies in which hygiene is harder to achieve or considered less critical.

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Top 10 Muscle Car Stars

A list of the fastest-rising muscle cars in terms of auction values includes many cars that are rare and valuable today because, when they were new, nobody wanted them.

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Vampire bats remember the sound of their victims.

They say an elephant never forgets. But the vampire bat may go one better, in a fittingly chilling way. The bats may not only remember the sound of each victim's breath, but also make use of that memory to seek out the same animal for future feeds.

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Oceans Reaching the Point of No Return

The UN has warned the world's governments that humankind's exploitation of the sea could be passing the point of no return.

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Japan's Broadband Under Attack...FROM CROWS!

Tokyo's futuristic image as the world's most technologically advanced broadband internet-enabled city is under attack from a vicious but decidedly low-tech foe: the crow.

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Amazingly Scary In-depth Look at Scientology!

I researched Scientology for my college graduate studies project and here's what I found. They are a dangerous cult that employ spies and a variety of dirty tricks to intimidate, scare, and threaten their critics, all the while bilking million of dollars from their followers. A video follows.

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US Govt. Plans Super Highway from Canada to Mexico!

Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.

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Astonishing Two-stroke illusion explanation

Flash version of this incredible illusion explained clearly.

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How to Make Colossal Structures Look Like Toys in Photographs

In an artist's photographs, the six-acre Roman Colosseum resembles an upside-down soda cap, Las Vegas and Rome look like model-train landscapes, and an 80,000-ton boat seems as if a child could pluck it from the water.

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Very Difficult Analytical Puzzles

Can you solve these?

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Proof: 'artificial' light causes breast cancer

Sleep in the dark, and you could reduce the chances of getting breast cancer. Dramatic new research shows the risks to women of artificial lights at night, in or out of bed. The research is "the first proof" of a link between artificial light at night and cancer.

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Einstein's Writings on Science and Religion

"The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap.�

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CBS responds to 'fabricated' 'teen sex orgy' claim

CBS was recently hit with a record fine of US$3.3 million, courtesy of the FCC. CBS affiliates are now protesting the fine: "There were no true complainants from actual viewers," the stations said. To be valid, complaints must come from an actual viewer in the service area of the station at issue, the filing said.

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Becoming a father changes your brain

Becoming a father tends to change a man's outlook, but now scientists are showing it might also change his brain. This ScienCentral News video explains that new research in father mice reveals how time spent with their young benefits the brain.

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Analysis: What Bill Gates's Departure Means for Microsoft

Bill Gates may be the public face of Microsoft, but his departure from daily operations at the company could actually strengthen it--and even pave the way for better products.

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Vitamin D: The Wonderdrug?

New studies are suggesting that simply taking vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, can help a person's body in numerous ways possibly even against cancer, MS, and diabetes; some doctors are recommending that we take more, much more of it every day.

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How to build the best paper airplane in the world

The perfect weapon for that boring meeting.

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World's most expensive car wont travel more than 10 blocks

LA based car dealer Mark Johnston bought the car of his dreams a Mercedes AMG CLK-GTR Limited Edition Roadster for $ 1.7 million. Only to find never ending problems after the first driive and a Merc engineer from Germany who dismantled the car and took parts to Germany to never return back.

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Advice to Students: Pack a Mac

BusinessWeek Online�s Stephen Wildstrom is recommending a Mac over Windows for the first time. Thought you might be interested.


By Stephen H. Wildstrom
Advice to Students: Pack a Mac
Apple's software has improved, but Windows has been stuck in a rut

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Two Butterfly Species Evolved Into Third (Previously thought impossible)

A butterfly species from South America has been revealed as nature's answer to Frankenstein's monster, scientists say. Animals are thought usually to evolve in the opposite manner, when a single species gradually splits into two over many generations.

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One Red Paperclip guy gets offered a Town!

The town of Kipling, Saskatchewan has offered to trade Kyle MacDonald a fully serviced residential lot, a key to the city, to be mayor for a day, and to build the world's largest Red Paperclip, all in exchange for his latest item that he traded up for from a paperclip. Check the current offers.

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Amazing photo set of a trip to North Korea

REALLY INTERESTING. Forum post with amazing photos from N. Korea - many taken where they probably should not have. It's incredible how restrictive this country is - electrified barb wire on the beaches so you can't swim away etc.

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Rube Goldberg Machine Made Out of Sticks and Stones

An awesome Rube Goldberg machine made out of only sticks and stones!

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Earth's heart of gold

There's enough gold buried deep within the Earth's core to cover the entire land surface of the planet to a depth of half a metre, an Australian researcher says.

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NASCAR teen uses video games to become racer

Playing video games is the only way most people live out their pro sports dreams. For Brad Coleman, all those hours locked away in his bedroom helped turn his hopes into reality.Two weeks after graduating from high school, Coleman debuted in nascar.

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How The Brain Decodes Complex Smells

Duke University Medical Center researchers have discovered how the brain creates a scent symphony from signals sent by the nose.

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Milky Way's Sister Galaxy Shines in New Portrait

The Triangulum galaxy emerges from the shadows to reveal stunning swirls of stars and dust dotted with brilliant pink nebulae.

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A supersonic business jet aims for takeoff

Imagine jetting from New York to Miami in an hour and a half, or flitting from New York to Tokyo in less than 10 hours - including a stop to refuel. That's the $1.4 billion dream of aerospace pioneer Bill Tracy, whose startup Aerion is hoping to build the first supersonic business jet, or SBJ.

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Worlds Largest Marine Sanctuary to Be Created in Hawaii

"It's the ocean equivalent of Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon all rolled into one."

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Airplane Travel By Night May Change the Earth's Climate

At certain altitudes, aircraft produce contrails - the vapor wake caused when water in the chilly atmosphere is condensed by the plane's hot exhaust. These contrails have a surprisingly big but also complex effect on the climate.

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15% of the fuel in your gas tank actually moves the car, 85% wasted

Only about 15% of the energy from the fuel you put in your tank gets used to move your car down the road or run useful accessories, such as air conditioning. The rest of the energy is lost to engine and driveline inefficiencies and idling.

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Standard and Poors Lifts Apple to Strong Buy

"We believe Apple can trade at 2.5 times this estimate, based on our view of its strong cash position, faster growth than peers, and its unique position to capture the digital home market"

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Scientists Produce Flatulence-Free Beans

Beans may no longer be the magical fruit, though they'll still be good for your heart.

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Why breeding White Tigers is wrong (With PICS)

Did you know that breeding White Tigers is not natural and more than 80% of the cubs die of birth defects? White Tigers can ONLY exist in captivity by continual inbreeding, such as father to daughter, brother to sister, mother to son and so forth. In several cases, the White Tiger has facial deformation and is rejected by the Zoos.

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Coffee could provide shield from radiation

Researchers at India's Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) discovered mice injected with caffeine survived high doses of normally lethal radiation. Although the study was limited to animals, Kachadpillill George, the head of the research team, believes the findings could have implications for humans.

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The Rewards of Being Shy

Shy people may be quiet, but there's a lot going on in their heads. When they encounter a frightening or unfamiliar situation--meeting someone new, for example--a brain region responsible for negative emotions goes into overdrive. But new research indicates that shy people may be more sensitive to all sorts of stimuli, not just frightening ones.

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Shoot down a crash test dummy over the internet

This real-time webcam game lets you shoot tennis balls at a crash test dummy glued to the ceiling. Which will crash first - the dummy, or the website?

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Ever wanted to see things from a Balloon?...at 85000 feet?

This page has sequential images from a weather balloon that was released over a farm near Northwood, ND. Theres a vertical and horizontal image at every major stage of its flight till it gets to its maximum. Its amazing to see what the atmosphere looks like at that height which is quoted to be at at 85,945 feet (26 kms).

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Huge (Beautiful) Hi-Res Photo of 'Infrared Andromeda' with 1 Trillion Stars

...the full mosaic image is composed of about 3,000 individual frames. The data confirm that Andromeda (aka M31) houses around 1 trillion stars, compared to 4 hundred billion for the Milky Way

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Scientists respond to Gore's warnings of climate catastrophe

"Scientists have an independent obligation to respect and present the truth as they see it," Al Gore sensibly asserts in his film "An Inconvenient Truth." With that outlook in mind, what do world climate experts actually think about the science of his movie? Is the movie full of "junk science"?

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Manchester Researcher: Child Abuse Can Cause Schizophrenia

The groundbreaking and highly contentious theory has been described as "an earthquake" that will radically change the psychiatric profession. Clinical psychologist and writer Dr Oliver James commented: "The psychiatric establishment is about to experience an earthquake that will shake its intellectual foundations [and] may trigger a landslide."

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Amazing photoshop work - all done with a mouse - plus tutorial

This guy is amazing... he has created a photorealistic image using just Photoshop 6.0 and a mouse... no graphics tablets here. Pure talent.

He has also created a nice step-by-step tutorial on how it was created.

Final image: http://www.wade.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/FinalPic.png

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Researchers Teach Computers To Perceive Three Dimensions in 2-D Images

Program Automatically Generates 3-D Models From a Single Photograph

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The Math Behind Weird Al's Raw iTunes Deal.

A digg the other day pointed to this quote from Weird Al Yankovic, "I actually do get significantly more money from CD sales, as opposed to downloads."

So I went and did the math. What follows is an idea of where the money goes when you buy music on iTunes. (Hint: Apple and the record label keep most of it)

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AMAZING Collection of Scanning Electron Microscope Pictures

This a very cool page on the Iowa State University's website; showcasing tons of pictures of humans, food, bugs, and other objects taken with a Scanning Electron Microscope. These images are fascinating!

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How Holograms are Made

I always wondered how they made holograms. Cool video explaining the process.

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Black Holes: Gravity's Relentless Pull

Explore the world of black holes in an award-winning Web site created by a team led by Roeland van der Marel, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute. The interactive Web site, called "Black Holes: Gravity's Relentless Pull," rescues black holes from the realm of science fiction and puts them back into the domain of science.

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The Best Buildings of the Year

The 11 projects recognized with this year's AIA Honor Awards for Architecture include several museums, as might be expected given the undiminished power of museum mania. But there are also an equal number of libraries and government buildings, a happy sign that municipal agencies are increasingly respectful of good design.

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Big Gallery of Hubble Heritage

These photos are amazing to check out. They are worth it just save as your desktop wallpaper.

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New Pixar Trailer -- Ratatouille (2007)

This movie is being directed by Brad Bird, the guy who brought you The Incredibles and The Iron Giant.

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MPAA: The Grateful Dead's Success Was An Abomination

Witness this bizarre exchange between John Perry Barlow and the MPAA's Dan Glickman debating the future of the entertainment industry. Barlow notes that he made an awful lot of money as a songwriter for the Grateful Dead, which encouraged its fans to make tapes of its shows for free.

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Hollywood Producer tricks San Francisco in to "Death Documentary"

"For an entire year the cameras rolled, capturing death amid the eerie fog and shifting tides. One by one, filmmaker Eric Steel documented the final moments of nearly two dozen despondent men and women, and the agonizing, four-second fall after they leaped off the Golden Gate Bridge...."

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First impressions of Google Browser Sync

Keeping your Firefox brower information straight between different
PCs and even different operating systems has just gotten a lot easier with this new Google extension.

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The Simpsons almost disprove Fermat's Last Theorem

This is so cool; remember the Halloween episode where two dimensional Homer gets sucked into the third dimension? Remember this innocent-looking equation: 178212 + 184112 = 192212 floating by?

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Nicotine could save 250,000 Americans a year

The nicotine that gets people hooked on cigarettes can be implicated in hundreds of thousands of deaths in the U.S. each year. But immunologist Luis Ulloa has found that it can also reverse the condition called sepsis, which kills some 250,000 Americans a year.

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Hell Tycoon

Hell Tycoon: a game in which you maximize agony margins, establish pain paradigms and engineer exciting new initiatives to eternally torture the damned.

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Pentagon Sets its Sights on MySpace

The National Security Agency is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks, and could combine combine data with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals.

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Have @ It: A history of the @ symbol

Pretty cool history and info on the @ symbol.

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Record meteorite hit Norway

As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima.

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The Great Sheep Escape

Great story about sheep that weren't so dumb and figured out how to escape. Pretty good.

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MIT Super Battery recharges "in a matter of seconds"

"It could be recharged many, many times perhaps hundreds of thousands of times, and ... it could be recharged very quickly, just in a matter of seconds rather than a matter of hours"

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Regrowing the Damaged Brain

"Electrically stimulating the cerebral cortex could help stroke recovery. In recent years, scientists have discovered that the brain has a remarkable capacity for self-repair. Hoping to take advantage of this ability, researchers have developed a technology to deliver electrical stimulation directly to brain tissue."

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The rise and rise of geek TV

The Age is running a story on the increasing portrayal of geeks in a positive light on popular cinema and television.

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Drug clears most HIV from blood "in a matter of hours"

"In a small trial the drug rapidly cleared most HIV from the blood, driving down levels tenfold in a matter of hours�

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CARS 17 hours per FRAME using 3,000 computers.

The average time to render a single frame of film for "CARS" was 17 hours. Even with a sophisticated network of 3000 computers, and state-of-the-art lightning fast processors that operate up to four times faster than they did on "The Incredibles," it still took many days to render a single second of finished film.

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The internet's favorite color

Based on uploaded Flickr images, this page will show you what the most used color on Flickr is.

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Researchers create great balls of fire (VIDEO)

Ball lightning � the mysterious slow-moving spheres of light occasionally seen during thunderstorms � has been created in the lab. Physicists used underwater electrical discharges to generate the luminous plasma clouds that lasted for nearly half a second and were up to 20 centimetres across

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Crows Have Human-Like Intelligence, Author Says

Crows make tools, play tricks on each other, and caw among kin in a dialect all their own. These are just some of the signs presented in a recent book that point to an unexpected similarity between the wise birds and humans.

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Magnetic Fields May Help Brain Work

Australian researchers say magnetic fields could make ordinary people capable of extraordinary mental feats.

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Dance therapy calms boys with ADHD, and helps girls with depression.

It's a little more complicated than just dancing your troubles away. The program starts at high intensity, and then has the children listening and mimicking before moving to slow controlled moves. It has been shown to help boys with school work and playing better with others. It also helps curb self-destructive behavior in girls.

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The Great Rose Bowl Prank of 1961

"This prank was so beautifully orchestrated– and in front of such a large audience– that it has become the yardstick against which all other college pranks are now measured. Despite the ingenuity of Caltech's subsequent efforts, the Great Rose Bowl prank is still unequaled."

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Deadly Vortex found in Ocean; 220km in Diameter; 1000 meters Deep

"We were in a 70-metre boat and you could immediately feel the shift in the ship's tract, so you can certainly tell that there's something unusual going on out there,"

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Human Heart Beats in a Box!

A bloody human heart is kept beating while in transit between donor patients. Creepiest thing you're likely to see this week.

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Loss of natural teeth, by state

Nice looking graphs from all 50 states, and the percentage of people who lose their teeth. The top ten states don't surprise me at all.

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How to Stop Smoking: Simply Don't Plan On It

Want to quit smoking? Don't plan on it, and don't despair.

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Development of a hummingbird (pics included)

Likely the only time in your life you will see the development of a hummingbird. Includes some props as scale towards the end. It's quite increduble how small the chicks are!

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AIDS Prevention Possible With Lime Juice?

Some scientists are suggesting that the use of lemon and lime juice after sex can help prevent the spread of AIDS in developing countries, but critics warn that if the right concentration is not used, it can be potentially harmful.

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Wired: What If Google Were Evil?

Google's mantra is "Don't be evil," which as corporate mottoes go is the equivalent of "Build an eternal bonfire in the parking lot and fuel it with thousand-dollar bills and the occasional Gutenberg Bible."

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10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid

How many of these errors have you seen on digg?

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Scientists help bodies grow new organs

A team of scientists and surgeons at a Melbourne hospital has developed a method of growing new organs within a patient's body.

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Implanting a magnet in your fingertip adds a sixth sense

The result is a kind of "magnet sense" -- people who've had the implant report that they can tell when a wire is live and when they're going through a magnet security-scanner at a store, even when their laptops' hard drives are spinning up.

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F-35 Guts Revealed

Now you can see the jet as as it looks under construction, guts and innards exposed to the world.

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howto: Photograph Sunrises and Sunsets

While sometimes wonderful sunrise and sunset shots can be taken spontaneously without any forethought it�s often the case that the best ones come out of planning. Scope out places that might be good for sunsets in the day or two before your shoot.

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Scent of a Terrorist

The military wants to turn odor recognition into a science to help fight terror. The "Unique Signature Detection Project," is designed to help identify terrorists based on scents they secrete in their sweat, tears, urine and other bodily fluids.

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Milky Way arms pinned down

Astronomers have made the most detailed map ever of our galaxy's overall shape, showing that its spiral arms extend much further than expected.

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The "5-Second Rule" Rules

Researchers at the University of Illinois say the so-called "5-Second Rule" isn't a myth.

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Science proves Einstein's brain was different

It was, without doubt, one of the finest minds of all time. Now scientists have proved that Albert Einstein's brain was not only unique in its ability to process concepts: it was also physically different.

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New research discovers first crop planted by humans

Before humans started farming wheat, barley or oats, they probably had fig plantations, new research finds. Figs were domesticated around 11,400 years ago, roughly 1,000 years before the major staple crops.

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The two biggest storms in the solar system are about to go bump

Storm #1 is the Great Red Spot, twice as wide as Earth itself, with winds blowing 350 mph. The behemoth has been spinning around Jupiter for hundreds of years. Storm #2 is Oval BA, also known as "Red Jr.," a youngster of a storm only six years old.

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The sheep who thinks she is a dog

Mr Roberts, a regular at Crufts, is convinced that Rolo is more intelligent than the average sheep, and that she picked up tricks from watching him train his sheepdogs. "She is growing up exactly like a dog. You can tell she thinks of herself as a dog."

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