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Pew Internet Survey: It's Good To Be White, Male, Young, Rich, And Educated 27 Aug 2013 | 02:30 am
Happy Young White Rich Male With Internet Access Wikimedia Commons If you want broadband internet access, that is. The latest Pew internet survey, which is conducted annually (though not always wit...
Latest U.S. Measles Outbreak Traced To Vaccine-Skeptical Megachurch 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
Not Too Scared to Watch A young girl gets a vaccine in the thigh James Gathany, CDC The church ran an immunization drive afterward, but still put out some dubious claims. The latest outbreak of me...
John Kerry: The Assad Regime Used Chemical Weapons 27 Aug 2013 | 01:15 am
Secretary of State John Kerry Wikimedia Commons Speaking from the podium at the State Department briefing room today, Secretary of State John Kerry lambasted the government of Syrian President Basha...
How Seahorses Survive With Squishable Armor 27 Aug 2013 | 12:45 am
Squishable Armor Courtesy University of California, San Diego And how researchers want to make a robotic arm out of the technique Crabs, birds, and manta rays regularly try to crush sea horses for ...
A Full-Scale Wood Cylon Because Why Not 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
Wood Cylon Dmitry Balandin The Battlestar Galactica 'bot is 6-foot-4 inches of lazy Sunday activities Ukrainian crane operator Dmitry Balandin created this Cylon (a robot from the sci-fi TV series ...
Pitch Drop Experiment Scientist Dies Without Ever Seeing A Drop Fall 26 Aug 2013 | 11:30 pm
John Mainstone and the Pitch Drop Experiment, Pictured in 1990 John Mainstone and The University of Queensland, photo accessed via Wikimedia Commons Nobody has ever witnessed a drop fall from this d...
Is Google Shutting Out Indie Development On The Chromecast? 26 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
Sling To Chromecast Google The Chromecast can't become a great gadget without developers. And yet one of the biggest indie developers for Chromecast is convinced he's being intentionally shut out. ...
I Met The World's Smartest Dog 26 Aug 2013 | 10:29 pm
Chaser With Fluffy Dan Nosowitz Chaser isn't just learning objects by name: she's beginning to understand the basic structure of human language. "Chaser, this is Dan. Chaser! This is Dan," said Deb...
This 3-D Printed Skateboard Is The Geekiest Way To Shred 26 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
3-D Printed Skateboard Sam Abbott Extra nerd cred: the bottom looks like the moon For too long, skateboarding has been the domain of cool kids. This geeky 3-D printed skateboard brings the pastime ...
This DIY Team Is Trying To Build 1,000-MPG Autonomous Vehicles 26 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
Meet Elcano For now, project Elcano is a self-driving electric tricycle. But its makers have far more ambitious plans using the power of crowdfunding. Jigsaw Renaissance/RocketHub Meet project Elca...
