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Gamers Have Ordered $1 Million In Pizza Hut Through Xbox 360
Pizza Hut's Xbox 360 app: The dream is real. Pizza Hut says that gamers bought more than $1 million worth of food from the chain last year between April and August, without picking up a phone, leaving...
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Infographic: Scientists Who Doubt Human-Caused Climate Change
Mighty thin slice: In over 2,200 peer-reviewed articles about climate change by over 9,000 authors, published between November 2012 and December 2013, just one author and paper rejected human actions...
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Overflowing Garbage And Rats: There's (Gonna Be) An App For That
A Rat in New York David Shankbone via Wikimedia Commons A new idea could help reduce overflowing garbage cans and rat outbreaks: fitting trash receptacles with sensors that can tell how full they are,...
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100 Years Of Smoking Studies In Popular Science
Art from a 1958 Popular Science Feature on Smoking Fifty years ago tomorrow, then-U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry held a press conference announcing that, among other ills, smoking caused lung...
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Well-Preserved, 2,000-Year-Old Skeleton Found In South Florida
Digging Deep All Florida construction sites must be surveyed to ensure no historical objects are destroyed. Archaeological and Historical Conservancy In the process of installing a waterline in Davie,...
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Another Effect Of Racism: Accelerated Aging
Scientists examine the biological impact of racial discrimination Diego Vito Cervo | Dreamstime A new study from the University of Maryland found that racism may speed aging at the cellular level....
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Will This Helicopter Truck Fly?
The Black Knight Transformer Advanced Tactics It's a lot easier to "leave no man behind" when the rescue crew is robotic. Advanced Tactics, an El Segundo-based firm, plans to test a remotely operated,...
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How Dangerous Is The Chemical Spilled Into West Virginia Waters?
Drink At Your Own Risk At a chemical plant near Charleston, W.V., a 48,000-gallon tank of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, or MCHM, was found to be leaking into the Elk River yesterday (January 9). The...
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Real-Life Emoji And Other Amazing Images From This Week
Liza Nelson Liza Nelson took the text icons of emoji and created real versions of them. They're weird. Also great. Liza Nelson via designboom   Â
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Software Accurately Predicts Books' Popularity By Analyzing Their Sentences
Books! Greg Friedler/Getty Images Maybe this is something we can apply to Popular Science posts? A team of computer scientists has developed software that's able to predict whether a book will be...
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Why Are These Stars Fleeing The Milky Way?
Hypervelocity Stars Top and side views of the Milky Way Galaxy show the position of four of the new class of hypervelocity stars. The colored bands show the general directions from which the stars...
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This African Fish Can Catch and Eat Flying Birds
African tigerfish Smithsonian Channel / YouTubeBirds sometimes eat fish. This we know. In my mind's eye I can picture a bald eagle majestically scooping a salmon from the water. But this ain't that....
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Mystery Gas Cloud On Course To Enter Supermassive Black Hole At Milky Way's...
Center of the Milky Way As imaged by the Swift X-ray Telescope. This image includes data from 2006-2013. Nathalie Degenaar Astronomers expect a mysterious gas cloud to cross paths with the black hole...
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A Few Questions For Peter W. Singer About The Future Of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs To Know by P. W. Singer and Allan Friedman. Buy it here.Peter W. Singer and Allan Friedman's brand new book is an impressively comprehensive guide to...
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With India On Board, Southeast Asia Could Soon Be Declared Polio-Free
Polio Drops A child gets polio drops during a vaccination campaign in Nepal. Adam Bjork, CDC Three years ago today, India reported its last case of polio. Five years ago, the country was home to...
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Military Attracts Youths Who Are Delinquent, But Not Too Delinquent
Color Guard The U.S. Joint Service Color Guard at Fort Myer, Virginia in October 2001. U.S. Department of Defense via Wikimedia Commons Being a delinquent youth doesn't exactly help your career...
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The Volkswagen XL1 Is The Most Efficient Car Ever
Volkswagen XL1 Courtesy Volkswagen For years, automakers have worked to push fuel economy beyond 100 miles per gallon. Reaching that mark typically meant three things: cutting weight, maximizing...
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9 Swedish Women Receive Womb Transplants, Will Try To Get Pregnant
Transplant Surgery In September 2011, University of Gothenburg physicians performed the world's first mother-to daughter uterus transplantation. Sahlgrenska akademin / You Tube Nine Swedish women have...
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An Infection Turns Swarming Locusts Into Solitary Grasshoppers, Study Finds
Locusta migratoria From Tierdoku.com, CC BY-SA 2.0 DEThe difference between a locust and a grasshopper is at once great and maybe much, much less than you'd think. I'll let this Aeon magazine article...
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Six Years After Chemical Ban, Fewer Female Snails Are Growing Penises
Doing Better Shells of dog whelks, a type of sea snail that suffered from imposex because of TBT. Photo by Manfred Heyde, CC BY-SA 3.0When do you want to see penises disappear? (I mean, besides on...
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