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9 years ago+6 6 0Thug Lives
You either die a rapper or...
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9 years ago+16 16 0Schwarzenegger’s Statement on President’s Plan to Use Clean Air Act to Cut Carbon Pollution
Former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger today issued the following statement after Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy’s announcement that the EPA will use the Clean Air Act to carry out President Obama’s Cli ...
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9 years ago+19 19 0Death Penalty on Hold in Ohio after Federal Court Ruling
US District Judge Gregory L. Frost blocked executions from taking place in Ohio until Aug. 15, 2014, while issues surrounding the state's new lethal injection methods are resolved. Two executions had been scheduled to occur before Aug. 15, with ...
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9 years ago+21 21 0Naughty Summer Low Ride Luck
Hot N' Sweaty Quick Summer Mix... A Hip Pop Electro Hop House Mashedup Remix Refixed
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10 years ago+9 9 0Median Incomes v. Average College Tuition Rates, 1971-2012
In 1971 the tuition for a public 4-year college was $428 ($2,456 adjusted for inflation) per year. By 2012 tuition had risen to $8,646 ($8,816 adjusted for inflation) per year, a 1,920% (259% for inflation-adjusted numbers) increase. Meanwhile, the m ...
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10 years ago+42 42 0Hello, Naia! 12,000-Year-Old Girl's DNA Reveals First Americans' Roots
In the depths of an underwater cave in Mexico, the bones of an unlucky girl named Naia preserved clues to the origins of the First Americans for 12,000 dark years. Now her bones, and those clues, have finally come to light....
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10 years ago+20 21 1Monsanto plans to patent genetically modified marijuana brand in Uruguay
U.S. corporation Monsanto plans to launch production of genetically modified marijuana, and companies such as Drug Policy Alliance y Open Society Foundation are going to create our own brand,
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10 years ago+32 33 1Legal Pot in the US Is Crippling Mexican Cartels
Following weed legalization in some states, Mexican cartels can no longer import so much north. And the DEA doesn't seem too happy about it.
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10 years ago+18 18 0Apparently This Matters: America invades virtual Denmark
So, the Danish government sanctioned the creation of a replica version of their country within "Minecraft" to use as a progressive teaching tool for schoolchildren, educating them about Denmark's geography...
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10 years ago+24 24 0 x 1Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help
Donate a Few Hours to Help Us Create a Free Software Backend for Contacting Congress, Make the World a Better Place for Digital Rights For years, EFF has been helping concerned technology users contact Congress. The EFF community stopped SOPA, we fou ...
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10 years ago+26 26 0US seizing tax refunds of children over parents' debt?!
The US is going through old records and can now seize tax refunds of the children of people it overpaid on Social Security.
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10 years ago+25 25 0Cannabis Studies the Government Wished it Had Never Funded
Sometimes they wish they hadn't been trying so hard... because it has backfired.
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10 years ago+17 17 0Social Media Dipshits: Stop Treating Us Like Fuckwits
And stop calling yourselves "social media snipers," "digital Sinatras," "digital inventionists," "technology whisperers," "content kings," "brand activators," "brand pollinators," ...
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10 years ago+19 19 0German officials confirm 18 million emails and passwords stolen
Police in northern Germany have uncovered a trove of millions of stolen email addresses and passwords. The find comes less than three months after a similar case of cyber crime involving 16 million hacked accounts.
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10 years ago+12 12 0Three Mozilla Board Members Resign over Choice of New CEO
Mozilla named a new chief executive this week to lead the non-profit Web organization as it tries to keep its Firefox browser relevant in the mobile age. The appointment has proved controversial in more ways than one.
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10 years ago+26 26 0 x 1Facebook, Google, And Sony Are Getting Ready To Fight A Cyberpunk War
The next big thing in tech is to change the very nature of the way you experience reality, as Facebook's acquisition of Oculus VR suggests. Does the...
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10 years ago+21 21 0Tesla could help customers go off the grid
Morgan Stanley’s investigation into the potential of consumers to go off-grid in a major way in the US depends on a number of factors. The falling cost of solar we know about, and the rising cost of poles…
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10 years ago+17 17 0 x 1Before There Was the Like Button, There Was ... the 'Radiovota'
In the 1930s, an engineer tried to bring two-way communication to mass media.
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10 years ago+30 30 0Brazilian Billionaire Creates Plan to Beat Death
Abilio Diniz can run backward. On a treadmill. In the dark. At age 77.
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10 years ago+3 3 0Police Seek Couple Who Had Public Dumpster Sex on St. Patrick's Day
A couple decided to screw like no one was watching on St. Patrick's Day. Unfortunately, everyone was watching, because they were in a parking lot behind a Dunkin' Donuts dumpster during broad daylight.