Jan
30
2009
You can’t hide from Google Earth – some marijuana growers in Switzerland found that out. While using Google Earth, Swiss police just happened to find a two-acre marijuana plantation hidden inside a corn field.


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Jan
30
2009
Review of 2 of the latest bad boy supercars by Top Gear. Amazing power and cars.


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Jan
30
2009
Douglas Melton, the co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute is one of the leading figures in the search for cures for presently incurable diseases, and his breakthrough work is challenging many long-held beliefs about the ways biology and human development work. But it was a personal experience that brought Melton to stem cell research.


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Jan
30
2009
Free online games had a big surge in 2008, thanks to the ailing economy, market researcher comScore reported today.


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Jan
30
2009
Economical upgrades that will extend the useful life of your PC


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Jan
30
2009
Women participating in the Kinsey study were shown 224 photos of men’s faces, some of which had been “masculinized” or “feminized” using photo-morphing software. MRI scans revealed higher levels of brain response to the masculinized photos, particularly in women who were in the phase of their menstrual cycle immediately preceding ovulation.


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Jan
30
2009
A TV Shop themed demonstration of a Turing Machine made in LEGO Mindstorms. It was made as part of a project at computer science at Aarhus University.


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Jan
30
2009
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Jan
30
2009
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a blunt warning to Republicans Thursday: Their party must regain lost supporters plus blacks, Hispanics and voters on both coasts — or risk becoming a permanent minority party with a limited power base.


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Jan
30
2009
A federal court has rejected a former student’s First Amendment suit against school officials who punished her for calling them “douchebags” in a Live Journal post. Administrators are entitled to qualified immunity from suit unless they are clearly violating an established right, the court held; and the scope of student rights to online speech is a


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