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Concept paintings of large-scale space colonies commissioned by NASA Ames Research Center.
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Lovely photos of lightning from violent thunderstorms over Washington.
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Pictures of automats, old and new. Related WIRED article.
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Still no copy/paste, MMS, video-recording, bluetooth file transfer, or filesystem browsing, still locked to one network, for $10 more per month. My take.
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Biologist at Michigan State University observes a replicable instance of evolutionary mutation in a specific population of E. coli and their ability to metabolize citrate.
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Question: what does one do to survive if thrown back to the Middle Ages? Via Kottke.
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Historical notes on the medieval Anglo-Saxon life and society.
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On the abduction of a famous ABS-CBN corresponded by Abu Sayyaf terrorists, the network requested a news blackout from other media outlets -- and got it.
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More details on Monday's Orange Line derailment.
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Giles Coren and Sue Perkins feast their way through six epochs of British food, from Shakespearean to the 1970s.
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Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health care system?
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Underground Christian chapel found, dating to before 70AD.
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If you're liberal like me, that is.
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Vignette of New York life and business on a block heavily affected in good and bad ways by the cheap "Chinatown Bus" industry.
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An event where you can fire automatic weapons at explosives-laden cars. This makes me want to go to Oklahoma EVEN MORE. Seriously.
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I miss the man who played Dr. McCoy. I really do.
