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DNA sequencing has located the oldest living thing on Earth, and scientists say that is... some seagrass.
Very anticlimactic, yes, but the discovery seems to have unearthed a plant that is far older than the previous oldest living ...
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This instructional video is not only quite interesting, but you internet people might recognize some geeky shoutouts.
[via TDW]
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Taken out of the context of Facebook's ubiquity, the 96% figure in itself is pretty astounding.
Do 96% of Americans eat at McDonald's? Drink Starbucks? Shop at Target? Then again, the study that yielded the findings was a ...
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A video has appeared on YouTube alleging to show hacking of video screens in Times Square using nothing more than an iPhone and a video transmitter.
According to the blurb for the video:
"the way it works is pretty ...
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Have you ever fallen in love almost instantly?
More levelheaded folks might scoff at the idea of love at first sight, but scientists say it happens and that 'first sight' can be a rather short period of time. ...
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A Canadian artist has created what could possibly be a world first: a porn book for the blind.
Tactile Mind is "is a handmade thermoform book consisting of 17, 2-D tactile photographs on white thermoform plastic pages with ...
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New York City is a strange and wonderful place, made all the more bizarre by the fact that its 8 million inhabitants are confined to the tiny island of Manhattan- posing difficulties in reinforcing an infrastructure that's ...
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The exponential growth of the internet never fails to amaze me.
Every year, you think it couldn't possibly be more influential, or huge, or humanity uniting, and then you see videos like this one. Plus, it's done in ...
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OKCupid is interesting for a variety of reasons, one being that they don't bombard us with suicidal thought-inducing commercials that could be mistaken for Cialis ads, featuring depressing people frolicking on a boat.
Another cool thing is the ...
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It's oft repeated and likely untrue that there's an old Chinese "curse"- "may you live in interesting times."
The years between 2000 and 2010- while certainly interesting- have also been largely a dazzling mosaic of suck. Wars, unrest, ...
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The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), the robot drone that famously crashed into the moon on the same day Barack Obama was announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize this year, has uncovered ...
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Medical marijuana has evolved into a state vs. federal law argument, with the notable example of a thriving medical marijuana industry in California.
Aside from California, 13 other states allow use of marijuana for medical reasons ranging from ...
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In their marketing materials, lipgloss manufacturer "2 Love My Lips" cites a survey of 750 women by a British newspaper about the use of date rape drugs such as GHB and Rohypnol.
The survey, which was conducted over ...
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Some people have said that the moon landing was the last great moment of American triumph, even if Buzz Aldrin still has to, at an advanced age, smack around doubting Thomases for challenging the event's veracity.
But a ...
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OKCupid is a popular free alternative to expensive dating sites like Match.com and EHarmony.
The site uses mysterious algorithms to deduce percentages of "match" and "enemy" that users are in relation to one another. But the site's stat ...
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Wired has an interesting list up today of all the things your children will probably never know about or understand.
It's likely familiar ground for those of us that came of age with technology of a different sort- ...
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A Japanese spacecraft has detected Uranium on the moon.
The Japanese Kaguya spacecraft detected uranium with a gamma-ray spectrometer as part of a projet to map the moon's surface composition. The finding in theory could mean that ...
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