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We’ve all heard of tin-foil hatters spreading conspiracy theories about an entity called “the man” wanting to screw over “the people” in order to gain personal wealth. In this case though, Professor Lisa Martino-Taylor, a sociologist at St. Louis Community College, is the one pushing the allegations. She is not...
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Enjoy breathing helium to obtain that high… pitched voice that comes out when you then talk whilst exhaling the rare gas? Well think again because scientists are saying that we are about to be struck by a helium shortage. Professor Tom Welton of London’s Imperial College warns that because...
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Naegleria fowleri, other than sounding like the name of an obscure and sinister African made amphibious automobile, is the actual scientific name of an amoeba that lives in lukewarm water. Historically, this amoeba hasn’t been much of a problem because most water where it could thrive was too cold for...
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As you might have heard over the news in the past week or so, actor Bruce Willis was deemed to have undertaken a lawsuit against Apple in order to obtain the right to leave his iTunes library to his children after his death. This now has turned out to...
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Who said that robots need to absolutely look human? Check this one out. Not only does it have the best use ever for a robot, but it looks nothing like a human being, in fact it doesn’t even resemble a humanoid. However, it will get you drunk. The Inebriator,...
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A recent urge to go back to our roots seems to be sweeping the planet, initially triggered by the economic crisis that’s ravaging the world, the need to grow our own food has begun to take more and more room in our everyday lives as we try to become...
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Australian billionaire Clive Palmer is a businessman from Queensland, Australia, most widely known as owner of Mineralogy and his investments in other natural resource companies. As of March 2012 his net worth was estimated by Forbes magazine to be A$8 billion. He is also somewhat set on his plans to...
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Other than having the dubious quality of being named after a South American delicacy, Enceladus is one of the largest moons of Saturn. Discovered in 1789 by William Herschel it is now attracting some attention. Why? Because a group of NASA scientists have recently claimed that it’s possibly the...
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And make you look like a complete tool. Seriously, a few months ago there was an episode of The Big Bang Theory where two of the (male) characters designed a USB kissing attachment to practice kissing onto their computers (or amongst each other via the Internet.) That was funny...