This Week In The Future, October 8-12, 2012 Baarbarian
In the future, the global financial market will be controlled by a small group of polar-bear executives. No one will believe the conspiracy theorists.
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- The More Chocolate A Nation Eats, The More Nobel Prizes It Gets
- Daily Infographic: What Is The Real Status Of The Polar Bears?
- Meet Polaris, The First Ice-Drilling Lunar Prospector-Bot
- With Basic Physics, You Can Beat the House At Roulette
And don't forget to check out our other favorite stories of the week:
- Should Satellite Map Data Be Uncensored For All To Enjoy?
- 5 Secrets Of A Successful Space Dive
- Remember When The Nobels Used To Be Inspiring?
- GameSci: Where's Our Virtual Reality?
- 1 In 10 People Believes The World Will End In 2012 [Infographic]
- The Alien Origins Of Felix Baumgartner's Attempt To Skydive From 23 Miles Up
- Out Today: 'Modernist Cuisine At Home,' Now Smaller And Cheaper
- Chanting "Party Hard!" While A Man Gets Zapped With A Million Volts
- You Built What?!: A Tesla Coil Gun That Produces Foot-Long Sparks
- FYI: If I Did A Bag Of Lance Armstrong's Blood, Could I Bike Up A Mountain?
- BioLite CampStove Review: Cook Your Food And Charge Your Gadgets In the Wilderness
- How Do We Know We're Not Living Inside A Massive Computer Simulation?
- The 'Impossible' Instant Camera: PopSci Breaks Open The Polaroid SX-70
- Everything You Need To Know About The Deadly Meningitis Outbreak
- Inside The Swarming Quadrotor Lab Of KMel Robotics
- Dear Mystery Algorithm That Hogged Global Financial Trading Last Week: What Do You Want?
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