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The United Kingdom’s reproductive technology regulators have just confirmed research done by a team of scientists at Cornell University, who were the first to genetically modify a human embryo. The research was presented in 2007, at the annual American Society for Reproductive Medicine meeting, but wasn’t publicized until the research was confirmed. The embryo was […]

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$5,500,000,000
Microsoft withdrew its bid to buy Yahoo because of that amount of money. When looked at in context, Microsoft was willing to pay $47.5 billion for the seemingly simple search-engine site Yahoo, who was expecting a hardy $53 billion. It is very difficult as college students to grasp that amount of money. You may say […]

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Metallica consists of two parts musician and three parts asshole. Led by their psychotic drummer, Lars Ulrich, they are now adding hypocrite to the list.
Remember that time when Napster reigned supreme and file sharing was a perfect blend of speed and seemingly endless amounts of music? Remember when Metallica ruined that? Or, at least tried.
I […]

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Here are some pretty crazy pictures of Earth:

Happy Earth Day

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Thirteen-year-old German kids are apparently really smart. I’m talking like NASA smart. Well, I guess that’s not an appropriate comparison, seeing how a 13-year-old German kid corrected NASA’s estimate of the chances that an asteroid will strike Earth in 2029. NASA, probably shamefully, re-checked their work and agreed with the kid, Nico Marquardt.
NASA originally estimated […]

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Cool stuff
Peace and respect.

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Just when we’re thinking the polar bears have it bad, Mother Nature throws us into a porta-potty that had just been visited by the entire line-up of a competitive bean eating event.
I know, I know, climate change sucks because of the obvious environmental and social implications surrounding the situation at hand. But that isn’t enough […]

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Marijuana: a gateway drug.
This sickening over-used excuse used by most party-poopers may be proven true. The gateway, however, does not lead to other “harder” drugs, but it is proving to be a gateway to knowledge! Distinguished scientists from institutions like Harvard and Stanford are testing recreational drugs such as marijuana and salvia for their research, […]

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Greetings and salutations,
Man, don’t you miss African colonialism? I miss the smells of economic exploitation, the sights of the conflicts that ensued for hundreds of years after and of course the sounds of us running away after we’re done. Oh wait, you don’t miss that? Me neither, which is why I cannot understand what professor […]

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Tired of those campus dryers leaving your clothes even damper than Britney Spears’ armpits? Well, a 75-year-old Sweedish woman, yes you read that right, is using her internet connection to dry her clothes. That’s right, no more hanging up your undies after the “dryer” fails to do the job described in its title. All you […]

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