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When Brain Damage Unlocks The Genius Within
The Genius WithinPaul Lachine and Graham MurdochBrain damage has unleashed extraordinary talents in a small group of otherwise ordinary individuals. Will science find a way for everyone to tap their...
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Homeland Security May Soon Deploy Commercial Planes For Cheaper Border Patrol
Super King Air 350Wikimedia CommonsWith budget cuts looming, the DHS could replace some of its military aircraft with easier-to-maintain commercial planes. With the War in Iraq over and the War in...
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How Amateur Videos Will Help Astronomers Reconstruct Meteorite's Life History
Fireball in the sky! ScreenshotAstronomers can retrace space rocks' paths to find their birthplace. Last April, a minivan-sized chunk of leftover primordial planet punched through Earth's atmosphere at...
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3-D-Printing Pen Adds Dimension To Your Doodles
3DoodlerWobbleWorks LLC/KickstarterA new Kickstarter project lets you draw in the air, then watch a scribble form in plastic. We've seen fun drawing/doodling inventions before, but this one, put on...
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Here's A Video Of Last Week's Asteroid Fly-By
The 150-foot-wide chunk of rock and ice passed within the orbit of the moon and geosynchronous satellites. Hours after dashcams in Russia recorded a fiery, 50-foot-wide meteor hurtling through Earth's...
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Hands On: HTC's New Flagship Phone Comes With A Totally New Interface
HTC OneDan NosowitzA totally re-thought version of Android on a gorgeous phone--but why is it so inflexible? Today at a simultaneous announcement in New York City and London, HTC announced the HTC One,...
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When Did Primates Learn To Metabolize Alcohol? A Chemist Reenacts Drunk History
Go Home Chimp, You Are Drunk wwarby via FlickrAccording to this laboratory study, the desire for a stiff drink could go further back than we think. Humans have been fermenting alcoholic beverages since...
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[Updated]: NASA Restores Communications With The Space Station
International Space Station Above EarthNASABlackout lasted about three hours. During an update to flight computers earlier this morning, the International Space Station lost communications with ground...
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Drunk Mice Sober Up Fast After Nanoparticle Injection
NegroniWikimedia CommonsMultiple enzymes delivered in a nanocapsule could work as an alcohol antidote, reducing blood alcohol levels and preventing liver damage. A new nanostructured enzyme complex can...
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What The Average American Porn Star Looks Like [Infographic]
Average porn actress face A mashup of the most popular female faces in porn. Jon Millward, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 One man's study of 10,000 porn actors reveals their most popular names, roles, hair color and...
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All Of Twitter Hacked, Basically
@MTV "Hacked"via @MTVYesterday, the password for Burger King's official Twitter account was stolen, and whoever was behind it began doing some kinda funny things, like pretending Burger King had been...
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The Moon Has Had Water Its Whole Life, New Study Says
Genesis Rock This sample of lunar unbrecciated anorthosite collected during the Apollo 15 mission was thought to be a piece of the moon's primordial crust. In a new paper, researchers report that...
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A Look Inside The European Horse Meat Trade [Infographic]
Italian Horsemeat ImportsThe GuardianAn interactive map breaks down countries' imports and exports of meat from hinnies, horses, mules, and asses. One month into the great European horse meat scandal,...
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A 12-Story Hacker Headquarters In Shanghai Is The Future Of Espionage
Shanghai skyline at night It is believed that China's Unit 61398 is based in Shanghai. Wikimedia CommonsA new report links a major spree of business hacking to a single unit of the Chinese army. Here's...
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Gamer Faces $50K Fine For Mapping A Train Station
Transit officials are afraid a custom level of Montreal's Berri-UQAM metro station will cause panic among riders. If you give a gaming community the tools to create a custom level, or "map," you'll end...
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8 Things You Didn't Know About Copernicus
A portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus painted in 1580Image file from Wikimedia CommonsHe went to three different universities, but there are no records of his ever getting a degree, for example. Happy...
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Watch This Childlike Humanoid Robot Begin To Comprehend Language
iCub Learning The iCub humanoid robot will now be able to understand what is being said to it and even anticipate the end of a sentence. © Inserm / P. LatronRobot iCub uses an artificial neural network...
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Volvo's New Exterior Airbags Protect Pedestrians
Volvo V40's Pedestrian AirbagVolvoAn automatic pedestrian-detection system can warn drivers when people are likely to step out onto the road, and cushion a collision. Volvo, the Swedish carmaker known...
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How To Steal A Diamond
A Bunch Of Diamonds You Should StealWikimedia CommonsFour tips in case you wanted to follow in the footsteps of the $50 million Brussels diamond theft and heist yourself some valuable jewels. On Monday...
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Proposed Asteroid-Destroying Satellite Sounds An Awful Lot Like A Death Star
DE-STAR (Definitely Not A Death Star)UC Santa BarbaraI mean, a LOT like a Death Star. After the double-whammy of a meteorite hitting Russia and a near-miss with an asteroid, some scientists have been...
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