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Florida Governor Wants Science Majors To Pay Less Tuition
2008 BYU CommencementWikimedia CommonsA task force commissioned by Florida Governor Rick Scott has an idea that the state will be putting to a vote soon: Giving a tuition discount to students majoring...
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Science Predicts What Kinds Of Toys A Dog Will Enjoy
Science-Approved Dog ToyWikimedia CommonsResearchers have some answers on how to please a picky pup. Dog toy selection is more art than science. Maybe you think it's safe to just go for a classic....
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Daily Infographic: How Many Paths Are There To The White House?
512 Paths To The WhitehouseMike Bostock and Shan CarterTwo candidates, nine swing states, 110 electoral votes, one brilliant interactive flowchart. According to the latest polls, the 2012 presidential...
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Methane Is Scarce, But That Doesn't Mean There's No Life On Mars
Curiosity Self-Portrait The rover used its hand lens imager to take 55 high-resolution images, which engineers stitched together into this self-portrait. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science...
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Scientist Wants To Fly A Blimp Over Mountains To Search For Bigfoot
M-Class BlimpWikimedia CommonsIdaho State University's Jeffrey Meldrum is looking for private donations to build the remote-controlled vessel. Jeffrey Meldrum, an anatomy and anthropology professor at...
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Can Smartphones Replace Onboard Electronics In Cars?
End Of The In-DashSam KaplanThey're not only more efficient--they're better, too. These three gadgets are about to get out of your dreams and into your car. THE TRENDDashboard navigation and...
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Live Map Shows Every Foursquare User Who's Voting Today, Where and When
Foursquare VotingIvotedmapHappy election day! Surely you're not already tired of social media updates about politics, or the self-congratulatory Twitter messages from your friends who got up earlier...
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'We Wanted To Make A Robot That Could Squeeze Through Holes And Change Its...
Do the WormTrevor JohnstonThe muscled Meshworm prototype mimics annelid locomotion. "If you don't have legs, you can propel yourself by deforming your body. Earthworms do this through peristaltic...
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Did Your Team Win Monday Night Football? And 9 Other Weird Questions That...
Go Niners!!!!Wikimedia CommonsIf you're still undecided, somehow, you should know about these weird psychological cues that could sway your vote. Sometimes it's not the big issues--sometimes it's,...
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Hurricane Sandy's Climate-Change-Denying Wikipedia Scribe Banned From...
Ken MampelCourtesy Ken MampelKen Mampel, the Floridian man who repeatedly edited the Wikipedia entry on Hurricane Sandy to remove any mention of climate change, has been blocked from Wikipedia for a...
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Why Can't We Vote By Email Or Text?
Obama PhoneBBCEspecially since it would probably increase voter turnout! It's the 21st century! Why can't we tweet or text our Designated Polling Station and have our votes counted that way? Well,...
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NASA Astronauts Cast Their Votes From Space
Expedition 33 commander Sunita "Suni" WilliamsSPACE.comProof that remote e-voting is possible, even if we haven't figured out how to make it happen on Earth: NASA astronauts aboard the International...
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Gamers Chipping Away At Digital Cube Are Promised 'Life-Changing' Secret
Curiosity CubeCuriosity: What's Inside The Cube?This is how the just-released game Curiosity: What's Inside The Cube? works: Anyone with an iPhone or iPad can download the iOS app. With the app, the...
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The West's First Gene Therapy Goes On Sale Mid-2013
Gene Therapy: Tampering With DNA Using genes to generate protein therapies in the body. National Institutes of HealthWe're tampering with genes to cure a rare metabolic disorder--and that's likely just...
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Your Kinect Will Count The Number Of People In The Room So It Can Charge You...
Kinect Is Watching YouEvan-Amos via WikimediaA Microsoft patent filing reveals a system that uses Kinect to charge per-viewer licensing fees. You already knew your Kinect was watching you, but perhaps...
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DARPA Wants Cheap Head-Up Displays That Work In Any Kind Of Light
PIXNetDARPACameras that can be mounted on helmets or weapons will help warfighters see in the dark and in all kinds of weather. Warfighters have a whole suite of cameras they can use to see in the...
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A Visualization Of The Most Invisible, And Influential, Part Of Political...
MoneyBombsLazer Lab, Northeastern UniversityAn animation by Northeastern University's LazerLab shows what's being donated, and where. When I hear the phrase "political action," I think of public...
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Let's Replace Annoying Billboards With Sky Forests of Bamboo
Bamboo Billboards Bamboo instead of annoying billboards: Vote yes. Urban Air via KickstarterA new Kickstarter project is raising money to turn city billboards into suspended bamboo gardens. In areas...
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Thank You, Bravo, For 'Start-Ups: Silicon Valley' [Review]
Cool PartyBravoA fawning Bravo reality show skewers Silicon Valley more effectively than anyone else who's tried (and many have tried). In a spectacular Sufjan-Stevensesque gimmick, Bravo has quietly...
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'Donuts Inc.' Accused Of Fueling Cybersquatting After Bidding $56 Million For...
Krispy Kreme DonutsWikimedia CommonsThe small company put millions into locking down more than 300 new-suffix domains like .movie and .buy. Cue messy legal squabble. When the so-called top-level domain...
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