Post Overview
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Expression
10 years ago+11 11 0Buildings That Don’t Exist: Fake Facades Hide Infrastructure
Is there something strange about the exterior of that building? This Paris facade and others like it around the world are actually hiding ugly infrastructure.
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Analysis
10 years ago+12 12 0The flip side to Bill Gates' charity billions
Microsoft’s former CEO has made massive donations to global health programmes through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but with some unpleasant side-effects.
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Current Event
10 years ago+11 11 0New security holes found in D-Link router
A new spate of vulnerabilities have been found in a D-Link router, a security researcher said Monday. The D-Link 2760N, also known as the D-Link DSL-2760U-BN, is susceptible to several cross-site scripting (XSS) bugs through its Web interface, report ...
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Analysis
10 years ago+15 15 0A hunger expert explains what happens now that food stamps are cut
Joel Berg: Prematurely expired, it's important to add, due to the actions of the president and Democrats in Congress. Advocates don't talk about that a lot, as we don't want to upset our friends, but the truth does matter.
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Analysis
10 years ago+13 13 010 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy
Ten mega corporations control the output of almost everything you buy; from household products to batteries. But it gets even crazier who when you see who controls the money.
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Current Event
10 years ago+11 11 0'We Hurt A Lot Of People,' Westboro Pastor's Granddaughter Says
Nearly a year after breaking with the Westboro Baptist Church, two of Pastor Fred Phelps' granddaughters are enjoying a new freedom. But as they tell a Canadian newspaper, they also want to extend empathy to those they hurt in the name of a caus ...
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Analysis
10 years ago+5 7 2Finnish Doctors Are Prescribing Video Games for ADHD
There’s a problem with the drugs used in mental health care: You have to be on them for them to work. Even then, they can be expensive and have detrimental side effects. Ville Tapio had an idea to do it better. He runs a private psychiatry center in ...
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Current Event
11 years ago+14 14 0French Senate votes to ban child beauty pageants as part of women’s rights law
France’s Senate has voted to ban beauty pageants for children under 16 in an effort to protect girls from being sexualized too early. Anyone who enters a child into such a contest would face up to two years in prison and 30,000 euros in fines. A page ...
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Current Event
11 years ago+12 12 0Entire village in India relocates so Nature can move in
Up until recently, the village of Ramdegi was a bustling farming community in central India's Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve. Today, the village's human population stands at exactly zero, though its streets and fields are now teeming with a d ...
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Review
11 years ago+8 8 0How Male Power Spreads HIV
The roles of gender and stigma in the epidemic in the Mexican state of Chiapas
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Expression
11 years ago+9 9 0The Moral Dilemmas of Doctors During Disaster
In the late summer of 2005, the waters loosed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina laid siege to New Orleans. At Memorial Medical Center, the power and then the backup generators failed, creating a silence one doctor described as the “sickest sound” of h ...
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Analysis
11 years ago+6 6 0Why Firefighters Are Scared of Solar Rooftops
So long as a solar panel is getting sunlight, it's impossible to turn off. "During daylight, there can be enough voltage and current to injure or even kill a firefighter who comes in contact with the energized conductors," Matthew Pais ...
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Video/Audio
11 years ago+10 10 0Acetone and Styrofoam
The Acetone is not actually "dissolving" the Styrofoam. Here is what is happing. When styrofoam is placed in acetone, the long polymer strands are dissolved, releasing the trapped air and causing the structure to disintegrate.
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Expression
11 years ago+11 11 010 Intricate Paintings Made by Fingerprint Patterns
Are you looking to find some art you could really identify with? That's what artist Nicolas Jolly hopes to create with paintings that use intricate whorl patterns reminiscent of the van Gogh style of post-impressionist artwork, that appear to be ...
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Expression
11 years ago+15 15 0Can Microsoft Be Saved? Maybe Not
Is Microsoft going the way of the Soviet Union? Vivek Wadhwa, vice president for academics and innovation at Singularity University, director of research at Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, and a fellow at Stanford Law School, thinks so. ...
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Expression
11 years ago+4 4 0Red Sox broadcaster disgusted with son over murder allegations.
Former Boston Red Sox second baseman and current television analyst Jerry Remy said Saturday he could not describe his "disgust and remorse" over allegations his son fatally stabbed his girlfriend a day after being released from custody for ...
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Video/Audio
11 years ago+14 14 08 Amusingly Dated Vintage Drive-in Movie Theater Ads
Summer moviegoing has really lost a lot of its romance since the demise of the drive-in. Another thing it lost was a whole set of individually-tailored ads, some of which Internet Archive has thankfully preserved for us.
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Expression
11 years ago+11 11 0The woman who nearly died making your iPad
Tian Yu worked more than 12 hours a day, six days a week. She had to skip meals to do overtime. Then she threw herself from a fourth-floor window.
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Analysis
11 years ago+16 18 2China’s Collapse Will Be Worse Than Soviet Union, Xinhua Says
Russell Leigh Moses notes at China Real Time that a recent Xinhua News Agency headline, “The consequences of China’s collapse will be even worse than the Soviet Union’s,” has sparked a strong debate on Chinese social media sites.
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11 years ago+14 14 0Ever wonder where those wine bottle corks come from? Wonder no more.
The ancient cork cultivated in these oak forests is a major world export. The bark from the oak is harvested every nine years, through traditional methods