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10 years ago+12 12 0Juvenile specimen of Megaraptor (Dinosauria, Theropoda) sheds light about tyrannosauroid radiation
Megaraptorids are a group of predatory dinosaurs that inhabited Gondwana from Cenomanian to Santonian times (Late Cretaceous). Phylogenetic relationships of megaraptorids have been matter of recent debate, being alternatively interpreted as basal coe ...
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10 years ago+15 15 0The 120-Year-Old Mind-Reading Machine
In the 1890s, when technologies like telephones and automobiles and lightbulbs were still strange and wonderful and new, inventors promised another remarkable device would soon be ubiquitous: the mind-reading machine.
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10 years ago+13 13 0Nadal wins ninth French Open title
Rafael Nadal saw off the threat of Novak Djokovic for another year to win his ninth French Open title and a record fifth in succession. The Spaniard, 28, coped better in hot conditions as he won 3-6 7-5 6-2 6-4 in three hours and 31 minutes. Nadal is ...
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10 years ago+24 24 0Hezbollah leader says war on Assad has failed
The head of the Lebanese movement Hezbollah has said opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has failed, after his victory in presidential elections on Tuesday. Hassan Nasrallah, a staunch ally of Assad, said Syrians had prevented US plans to ...
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10 years ago+15 15 0Pakistan clerics issue stoning death decree
A coalition of Pakistani religious leaders has issued a religious edict declaring 'honour killings' to be a "highly condemnable" and "un-Islamic" action. The All Pakistani Ulema Council is also organising a summit on Jun ...
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10 years ago+9 10 1The Sex Factor Reality Porn Competition: $1M Prize!
The Sex Factor is a reality competition where eight guys and eight girls will compete for porn stardom and a ONE MILLION DOLLAR PRIZE. None of the sixteen contestants have been filmed before and America will vote to decide the winners.
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10 years ago+7 8 1Street Fighter Red Tape: Blanka
Blanka swears he's not a baby-eating monster, but Dale (Pete) has his doubts.
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10 years ago+22 22 0ISIS Destroys 3000 Year-old Assyrian Artifacts in Syria
According to a report from the website www.apsa2011.com, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) has destroyed Assyrian statues and artifacts believed to be 3000 years old. The Assyrian archaeological artifacts were illega ...
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10 years ago+14 14 0The Near-Impossible Challenge of Designing the 9/11 Museum
For the museum’s designers and curators, that tension led to a tangle of quandaries: How can you present a lasting memorial to an event whose impact is still unspooling through developments such as the Edward Snowden leaks and the Senate’s torture r ...
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10 years ago+25 25 0How to Build a Time Machine - Teaser
How to Build a Time Machine is a documentary about two men on separate quests to build their own time machines.
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10 years ago+17 17 0How We Failed the Girls Kidnapped by Boko Haram
We were fascinated with the search for the Malaysian plane and the search for survivors on the South Korean ferry. Why wasn't the media also focused on searching for the missing girls?
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10 years ago+17 17 0 x 1Does the Science of Human Behavior Only Show Us What We Want to See?
The behavioral sciences have become a popular oracle like never before. But they are suffering a crisis of credibility. Can psychology repair itself?
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10 years ago+16 16 0Listen to the fake sounds that could keep electric vehicles from hitting people
The roar of internal combustion engines is a familiar sound to anyone living in a large city, but whisper-quiet electric vehicles (EVs) pose a different problem—they provide almost no audible warning for pedestrians and cyclists. Regulators are consi ...
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10 years ago+34 34 0Jamaica sees green in ganja
After more than a century, the island of music and marijuana seems ready for legalization.
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10 years ago+18 18 0Google Chrome now remembers the passwords your bank doesn’t want it to
Google Chrome 34 arrived on the Stable Channel yesterday, and it brought with it the usual security patches and stability tweaks as well as a few new features. Among them: the password manager will now store passwords for sites that normally block th ...
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10 years ago+18 18 0The people who stare at video games
Still, this concept is usually met with arched eyebrows and smirks, even from some gamers themselves — 45 million of whom still go to Twitch every month to gobble up hours and hours of what I just described: Watching someone play a game.
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10 years ago+26 26 0 x 1The Wide World of Bookies
Betting on sports is only legal in four states: Delaware, Montana, Nevada, and Oregon. The rest of the country has to make its bets illegally, through bookies. As with any enterprise that holds the promise of easy money, there’s never a shortage of h ...
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10 years ago+14 14 0Child organ trafficking ring busted by Mexican police
Police in Mexico's western state of Michoacan detained an alleged member of the Knights Templar cartel who is suspected of kidnapping children to harvest their organs, an official said Monday.
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10 years ago+16 16 0Advertisements telling smokers “why” to quit more successful than “how” messages
Brief exposure to emotionally compelling anti-smoking television ads with messages about why to quit smoking can influence a smoker to quit within a month, while ads about how to quit smoking do not influence smoking behaviors, according to new resea ...
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10 years ago+12 12 0Facebook's 'I Fucking Love Science' making the jump to TV
Neil deGrasse Tyson's new version of Cosmos is a more populist take on science programming than most, but an upcoming show could take the genre even further from staid professors and opaque equations on blackboards. Discovery is bringing I Fucki ...