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And they say the army isn't good for anything...
From the US Army Survival Manual: (replaced "soldier" with "grad student")

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The age of Internet anonymity is coming to a close in Europe. Germany has recently drafted legislation would require telecommunications providers to collect and keep private information on their German customers for six months, reports Tech Spot ( Read more... )

LOS ANGELES - Don Herbert, who explained the wonderful world of science to millions of young baby boomers on television in the 1950s and '60s as "Mr. Wizard" and did the same for a later generation of youngsters on the Nickelodeon cable TV channel in the 1980s, died Tuesday. He was 89.

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(don't laugh, it's totally not what i would've though would cause a straight line). You should read this. I think the guy has suffered too many idiots

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Mathematicians have come up with a formula that predicts how the head on a pint of beer will change after pouring.

Excerpt: Their advance could shed light on why the foam on a pint of lager quickly disappears, but the froth on a pint of Guinness sticks around ( Read more... )

Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious 'colony collapse' of bees
By Geoffrey Lean and Harriet Shawcross
Published: 15 April 2007

Excerpt:The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from ( Read more... )

The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days." Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition 7*7 (49) times as much ( Read more... )