“It is an evolutionary disadvantage to be tasty.”

http://onehungrychef.blogspot.com is very good reading!

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DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show – NYTimes.com

DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show – NYTimes.com.

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I’ll just leave this here: Dust 514

In a Massively post, CCP outlines their plan for console gamers: Dust 514, wherein console mercs kill each other on planets for the amusement and strategy of their pod pilot overlords.

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Scientology: The truth rundown

Scientology: The truth rundown

Worth a read, by the Scientologists’ home town paper.   Just go ahead and read Mission:Earth and tell me Hubbard was not at least a little clinical == daft as a hatter.

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“Arrested” and “convicted” are two very different things in a nation where we’re supposed to be big on innocent unless proved guilty.

Read.

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PBS Frontline – Poisoned Waters

FRONTLINE: poisoned waters: introduction | PBS. – watch the whole two hours before you condemn.   It gets through, inexorably to a quality point.

Wake up, people!

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This is not going to go well…

Yeah… This.

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An individual member of Congress should not have better records than the nation’s premier intelligence agency.

Bob Graham talks turkey about intelligence:

“The unanimous conclusion of our nine members, Republicans and Democrats, was that it is more likely than not that such a weapon will be used in a terrorist attack somewhere before year-end 2013. “

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The Greatest Floridian

The Greatest Floridian. Good read.

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The real scandal at AIG

The real scandal at AIG is the not the bonuses. It’s the payments to counterparties.

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Gravity Probe B

Gravity Probe B is about awesome…

“Imagine a snowflake, which has a fraction of a gram, slowly falling down on to the deck of a supertanker. The acceleration that the supertanker experiences from that snowflake is comparable to the sensitivity of our instrument,” he told BBC News.

More…

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Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense | Video on TED.com

Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense | Video on TED.com.

Just watch it.  It’s amazing.  Watch it all the way through.

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Linkdump!

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Finally.

Obama moves to separate politics and science

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Lastly, E.O Wilson on well… Damn near everything.

Here.

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Yet more link dumpage.

More link dump:

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Link dump!

Warning, this one is going to be large and varied, folks.

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Testing the A380.

Some videos of the Airbus A380 being tested

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Gibson moar prescient?

It’s possible.

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Obama AND the multiverse, bitches!

Structures” tugging at the universe.  

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From the I’m not crazy file.

Yes, Virginia, they can dupe your keys from a photo.  The Street finds its’ own use for things.

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The Google-Fu is strong in this one…..

Read a book to stimulate your brain, or do some Google-Fu for truly brain warming experiences.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/16/internet_stimulates_brain_more_than_books_study/

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Convergence. It happens.

This was shot with a DSLR.

Really.

http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=2086

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Intel and the SSD market.

“Within the next five years we’ll be in a situation where the fans in your system are more likely to fail than your hard drive, and if your drive does happen to fail it’ll tell you well in advance.”

Highly in-depth article.

Admittedly, Intel is not the lowest priced, nor etc.  But, they are using their minus first and second gen CPU processes to do NAND.  And now it appears they are leveraging that agressively.  Yay, technology.  Fail on Write, indeed!

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Electric lamp made of a whale penis

Electric lamp made of a whale penis. SFW, and just what it says.

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