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Mars Rover Spirit moves 1/2 an inch

Seeded on Fri Nov 20, 2009 5:54 PM EST (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Spirit successfully completed the first step of its planned two-step motion on Sol 2090

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Medibots: The world's smallest surgeons - with video

Seeded on Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:24 PM EST (newscientist.com)

A MAN lies comatose on an operating table. The enormous spider that hangs above him has plunged four appendages into his belly. The spider, made of white steel, probes around inside the man's abdomen then withdraws one of its arms.

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October's GLOBAL temperature was sixth-warmest on record

Seeded on Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:18 PM EST (Examiner)

Combined land and ocean temperatures across the globe were 1.03 degrees F warmer than the 20th century average of 57.1 degrees F, according to a study released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Blog: Breitbart trying toblackmail Dems with more ACORN tapes | Raw Story

Seeded on Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:13 PM EST (Raw Story)

"So if you will get into an investigation," Breitbart concluded, "we will give you the tapes, and if you don't give us the tapes [sic], we will revisit these tapes come election time."

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KBR trying to modify $3M BINDING arbitration award for rape victum.

Seeded on Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:08 PM EST (Raw Story)

Tracy Barker has been awarded almost $3 million by an arbitrator in assault charges against a U.S. contractor and former Halliburton subsidiary, after claiming she was raped in 2005 by a State Department employee in Iraq, the Associated Press reports.

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democrats have an insane idea, actually paying for the Afghan war

Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:03 PM EST (Raw Story)

Influential US lawmakers on Thursday called for levying a new income tax to pay for the war in Afghanistan, warning its costs pose a mortal threat to efforts like a sweeping health care overhaul.

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GOP Officials Urge Candidates to Avoid Shrill Tone Against Obama - WSJ.com

Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:57 PM EST (Wall Street Journal)

Republican governors Thursday urged GOP candidates competing in 2010 elections to not harshly attack President Barack Obama, citing polls that show his personal popularity remaining strong despite unease over his policies.

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Google Chrome OS: Ditch Your Hard Drives, the Future Is the Web | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:22 PM EST (Wired News)

Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks. With a strong focus on speed, the Chrome OS promises nearly instant boot times of about 7 seconds for users to login to their computers.

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downs reversed in mice

Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:57 PM EST (Science Daily)

At birth, children with Down syndrome aren't developmentally delayed. But as they age, these kids fall behind. Memory deficits inherent in Down syndrome hinder learning, making it hard for the brain to collect experiences needed for normal cognitive development.

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U.S. Homes Powered Partially by Russian Nuclear Weapons | Gajitz | Gadgets, Science & Technology

Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:30 AM EST (gajitz.com)

It's a relatively unknown fact of the U.S. power industry: energy from dismantled nuclear bombs accounts for about 10 percent of the electricity that powers our homes every day.

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IBM BlueMatter Blue Gene Build Artificial cat brain with 1.6 billion virtual neurons connected by 9 trillion synapses.

Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:57 AM EST (popularmechanics.com)

BM has revealed the biggest artificial brain of all time, a simulation run by a 147,456-processor supercomputer that requires millions of watts of electricity and over 150,000 gigabytes of memory.

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Google Chrome OS, the end of virii? the end of the hard drive? end of piracy?

Wed Nov 18, 2009 2:21 PM EST

Google is set to release the Google Chrome OS on Thursday. There is a lot of people that are excited. Even more say "it is great to get another OS choice, over linux/apple/windows. I am not so excited. I am not making room on my system to install chromeOS.

Continue reading this entry ...

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Researchers create 'fly paper' to capture circulating cancer cells

Seeded on Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:35 PM EST (PhysOrg.com)

Just as fly paper captures insects, an innovative new device with nano-sized features developed by researchers at UCLA is able to grab cancer cells in the blood that have broken off from a tumor.

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The Obese Don't Always Know It | LiveScience

Seeded on Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:32 PM EST (Live Science)

Some obese individuals don't realize they have a weight problem, a new study finds. That could be an unhealthy attitude as these same people tend not to exercise and have many risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

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When on drive through safari always remember to lock the doors: Lion Opens Car Door with Teeth � Neatorama

Seeded on Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:25 PM EST (neatorama.com)

Thier glee turned to horror as the 300lb lion firmly took the rear door handle with his teeth and pulled it open in one deft movement.

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New Droids secret feature; A camera that only works every other month, scares owner as blurry camera suddenly focuses properly

Seeded on Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:17 PM EST (Wired News)

A rather odd bug in the Droid phone has been mistaken for a secret, silent, over-the-air invasion by Verizon's software-update police.

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Obama tells foxnews: Too much debt could fuel double-dip recession - Yahoo! Finance

Seeded on Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:11 PM EST (finance.yahoo.com)

President Barack Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising U.S. deficits, saying on Wednesday that if government debt were to pile up too much, it could lead to a double-dip recession.

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Forget alien radio and tv signals, some scientist think we are more likely to find intelligent life by looking for pollution

Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 4:46 PM EST (newscientist.com)

DO ALIENS pollute their planets? Let's hope they do, as this would give us a promising way of spotting where they live.

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"Overall, which party -- the Democrats or the Republicans -- do you trust to do a better job in coping with the main problems the nation faces over the next few years?

Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:45 AM EST (pollingreport.com)

the dems pretty much beat the gop on every issue but terrorism.

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Could Jupiter Moon Harbor Fish-Size Life?

Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:19 AM EST (National Geographic)

Below its icy crust Jupiter's moon Europa is believed to host a global ocean up to a hundred miles (160 kilometers) deep, with no land to speak of at the surface. (See "Jupiter Moon Has Violent, Hidden Oceans, Study Suggests.")

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You dont own any of the software you buy. Guy busted for installing mac on a PC

Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:48 AM EST (OSNews)

In any case, this is a good example of the slippery slope I wrote about earlier this week.

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John Knefel - Making a Mockery � CNN paid Lou Dobbs 8 million dollars to stop hating Mexicans on TV - True/Slant

Seeded on Mon Nov 16, 2009 8:27 PM EST (trueslant.com)

In what will certainly be received as fantastic news by xenophobes nationwide, The New York Post is reporting [via TP] that CNN paid rabid person-hater Lou Dobbs 8 million dollars ($US) to stop telling his viewers to personally beat Mexicans they meet with a sock full of "Georg …

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Google invents new protocol to double the speed of downloading webpages

Seeded on Mon Nov 16, 2009 3:01 PM EST (PhysOrg.com)

As part of its effort to speed up the Web, Google is experimenting with SPDY, a new application layer protocol, that it hopes will speed up the conversation between browsers and Web servers and enable Web pages to download up to twice as fast.

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Money Trickles North as Mexicans Help Relatives - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Mon Nov 16, 2009 12:49 AM EST (The New York Times)

During the best of the times, Miguel Salcedo's son, an illegal immigrant in San Diego, would be sending home hundreds of dollars a month to support his struggling family in Mexico. But at times like these, with the American economy out of whack and his son out of work, Mr.

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Another reason to always drink from glass: Plastic-hardening chemical in bottles appears to cause erectile dysfunction .

Seeded on Sat Nov 14, 2009 2:42 PM EST (newscientist.com)

Regular contact with high levels of bisphenol A (BPA), a compound commonly found in plastic food and drink containers, appears to cause erectile dysfunction and other sexual performance problems in men.

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