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| 164 views | articles.businessinsider.com
"Iran is our neighbor," Rogozin said. "If Iran is involved in any military action, it's a direct threat to our security." Rogozin now is the deputy Russian prime minister and is regarded as anti-Western. He oversees Russia's defense sector.
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| 141 views | images.4channel.org
putting things into perspective. this is brilliant - check it out!
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| 128 views | torrentfreak.com
In a month The Pirate Bay will no longer offer downloads of .torrent files. Instead, the largest torrent site on the Internet will only provide so-called magnet links to its visitors. The first step in this direction was made today with The Pirate Bay replacing the current default torrent download links with magnets. Could this be the end of an era?
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| 138 views | www.bbc.co.uk
A "church" whose central tenet is the right to file-share has been formally recognised by the Swedish government. The Church of Kopimism claims that "kopyacting" - sharing information through copying - is akin to a religious service.
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| 264 views | www.news.com.au
US drone dubbed "The Beast of Kandahar" now in Iran's hands after going missing on a secret CIA spy operation.
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| 154 views | www.newscientist.com
An online revolt has forced US Congress to rethink a draconian piracy bill, but the war isn't over.
Internet Activists 1 - Big Media 0
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| 197 views | www.buzzfeed.com
What a year it has been! Here's to 2012 being a more quiet and less destructive
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| 183 views | www.livescience.com
While hunting alone in a remote part of Western Nevada recently, Robert Pitzer bagged himself a UFO. In fact, there wasn't much of a chase: The unidentified flying object touched down almost on top of him.
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| 34 views | www.livescience.com
Physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator at CERN Laboratory in Switzerland, are trying to slam particles together hard enough to break them into never-before-seen pieces, which could solve some of the biggest puzzles in nature.
But UFOs — unidentified falling objects, that is — keep getting in their way.
mildy misleading title.
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| 34 views | www.livescience.com
Almost half of the 535 current members of Congress are millionaires, according to a new study by the Center for Responsive Politics.
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| 974 views | www.livescience.com
Most people would likely avert their eyes when passing by a man with a mouth full of writhing worms, or, say, the sight of a pile of excrement. But some are more disgusted than others, and new research suggests those individuals who respond with a more intense "yuck" are more likely to hold conservative political views and specifically are more likely to oppose same-sex marriage.
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| 71 views | www.newscientist.com
Even for the most ardent Catholic, it can sometimes be tricky making the time to confess your sins. So the Church, as part of a new technology-friendly push, has now approved an iPhone app that lets busy Catholics admit their wrongdoings while on the move.
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| 111 views | www.newscientist.com
Sodium thiopental – an anaesthetic used in US executions – is no longer to be made in the country. Last week, Hospira, the sole US manufacturer of the drug, announced that it will stop production. New Scientist looks at the implications for the death penalty and the research surrounding lethal injection.
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YANKTON, S.D. — When birds started falling dead in Yankton on Monday, there was understandable alarm.
There have been several recent mass die-offs of birds in various parts of the United States and even Sweden, and explanations have ranged from some sort of climate change-related cause to the birds running into each other aloft.
But there's an absolute explanation for the Yankton event: The U.S. government poisoned them.
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| 108 views | www.livescience.com
Sleeping with, kissing and being licked by your pet can make you sick. Although they are not common, documented cases show people contracting infections by getting too cozy with their animals, according to work by researchers in California.
not really an interesting article or anything, but i had to post it because of the title.
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| 133 views | www.newscientist.com
Just 13 days after receiving a pioneering larynx transplant, a Californian woman was able to speak her first words in a decade. Her own larynx was permanently damaged by an operation 11 years ago.
her husband said "shut up & get my dinner made bitch!"
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| 50 views | www.digitalspy.co.uk
A cat has been called up for jury duty in Boston, Massachusetts. The Daily Mail reports that tabby cat Sal has been asked to report to Suffolk Superior Court. Sal's owners applied for disqualification on the grounds that their cat cannot speak or understand English. They included a letter from their vet with the application.
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| 60 views | www.newscientist.com
PRESCRIPTIONS for antipsychotic drugs have more than doubled in the US over the past 15 years, often given for conditions for which there is scant evidence they work.
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| 50 views | www.newscientist.com
PlayStation 3 hackers have been hit with a lawsuit from Sony for publishing details of how to bypass the security features on its game console. Sony claims that disclosing this information has caused "irreparable injury and damage" to the company because it now allows people to run pirated games on the PS3.
yeah, good luck with that lawsuit sony, you'll need it.
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| 66 views | www.livescience.com
Rome wasn't built in a day, but now that city, can be digitized in just a matter of hours. A new computer program combs through hundreds of thousands of tourist photos on photo sharing sites and reconstructs the city - pixel by pixel.
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| 55 views | www.livescience.com
The future could be "like living in a mental nudist colony," if these scientists are successful. They're mapping brain activity and programming computers to reveal thoughts. Skynet may soon know when we're lying...
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| 46 views | www.livescience.com
Over the last few years, engineers have proposed a number of arcane materials, such as graphene or quantum computer chips, as alternatives for the silicon chips that run modern computers. With the development of actual software to go along with the futuristic hardware, circuit components called memristors have now taken the lead in the race to replace silicon. Even more promisingly, memristors behave like neurons in many ways, allowing scientists to use this software to create a kind of digital brain.
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| 64 views | www.newscientist.com
The sci-fi books that we should have read, but probably haven’t – as nominated by leading scientists and writers.
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| 84 views | www.bbc.co.uk
Two hundred years ago, Ascension Island was a barren volcanic edifice. Today, its peaks are covered by lush tropical "cloud forest".
What happened in the interim is the amazing story of how the architect of evolution, Kew Gardens and the Royal Navy conspired to build a fully functioning, but totally artificial ecosystem.
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| 60 views | www.newscientist.com
Lifting the lid on the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks and its enigmatic hacker-turned-activist founder
Editorial: Will someone leak the leaker's secrets?
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| 145 views | www.newscientist.com
Religious attacks on evolution are nothing new, but now a conservative website is taking aim at a seemingly unlikely target: general relativity
