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10 years ago+12 12 0Here Are The First 4 Women In History To Complete Marine Infantry Training
Every Marine knows Opha Mae Johnson, the first woman who ever enlisted in the Marine Corps. Now almost 100 years later, the first four females in history have completed the grueling 59-day infantry evaluation course, three of which are graduating Thu ...
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10 years ago+23 23 0How Public Transportation Can Reduce Traffic Congestion
It’s amazing how much space people take up in their cars versus how little when they do when packed into a bus.
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10 years ago+23 24 1 x 2Xbox One Review
Microsoft didn't mean to take over your living room. When it launched in 2005, the Xbox 360 was just a device for games — "the Holy Grail of gaming," in the immortal words of MTV's Sway. It would show your pictures if you plugged ...
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10 years ago+14 14 0Apple’s Siri, What Are Your Political Views? Answer: Ron Paul!
Apple’s Siri Is A Secretly A Huge Ron Paul Supporter
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10 years ago+15 15 0Schneier tells Washington NSA broke Internet’s security for everyone
WASHINGTON, DC—To say that there are a lot of people who are angry with the National Security Agency right now would be an understatement. But the things that are getting the most political attention right now—such as the invasion of the privacy of A ...
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10 years ago+6 6 0 x 1Apple Cores Are a Myth
Earlier this year, in "How to Eat Apples Like a Boss," a video by Foodbeast, the Internet was promised the gift of confidence in apple-eating. Elie Ayrouth ate an apple starting at the bottom, proceeding to up to the top, and finishing with ...
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10 years ago+11 11 08 Incredible Facts You May Not Know About Human Evolution
Homo sapiens evolved about 200-150,000 years ago in Africa, but our story as a species stretches back much further than that with early human ancestors. And the evolution of Homo sapiens is itself a tangled tale, full of unanswered questions and goth ...
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10 years ago+8 8 0How Coffee, Citrus And Nuts Help Cut The Risk Of Diabetes
If you go back to the 1970s, people with a serious coffee habit often had an accompanying habit: smoking. And that's why early studies gave coffee a bad rap. Clearly, smoking was harmful. And it was hard for researchers to disentangle the two ha ...
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10 years ago+17 17 0Wallet hack: can Coin replace your credit cards?
San Francisco startup Coin today announced its first product — a credit card-sized device that digitally stores up to eight credit, debit, gift, or membership cards, and lets you switch between them by pressing a circular button on its surface. You c ...
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10 years ago+18 18 0Your Zodiac Sign, Your Health
Many doctors used to take astrology seriously—and season of birth has been linked to increased risk for a number of serious diseases. Can modern medicine actually learn from stars and seasonality?
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10 years ago+7 7 0Chicago neighbors fight over sex noises with notes
For two Chicago neighbors, the thin line between love and hate is apparently the paper-thin wall separating their apartments. Frustrated by the loud sex noises coming from next door, a fed-up tenant in a Boystown apartment building penned a "pip ...
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10 years ago+26 26 0Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook
Snapchat, a rapidly growing messaging service, recently spurned an all-cash acquisition offer from Facebook for $3 billion or more, according to people briefed on the matter. The offer, and rebuff, came as Snapchat is being wooed by other investors a ...
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10 years ago+19 19 0Microsoft axes its controversial employee-ranking system
Microsoft is killing off its controversial stack ranking system today. While it could be viewed as an internal change that won’t affect consumers directly, it will have a broad effect on current and future Microsoft employees that may just shape the ...
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10 years ago+17 17 0The Throwable, Panoramic Ball Cam Is Finally Here—and It's Incredible
When we first got wind of a throwable, 36-lens compound camera that automatically snaps 360-degree panoramas at the height of its toss, we were already impressed—and that was jus the prototype (seen above on the right). Now, the officially named Pano ...
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10 years ago+24 24 0Journalists Reportedly Banned From Smartphone Photography At Olympics In Russia
Any journalist who snaps Sepia Instagrams of their brunch at the Sochi Olympics will promptly lose their accreditation for the games. “Journalists using mobile phones to film athletes or spectators will be considered a serious violation and will resu ...
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10 years ago+8 8 0Miracle baby: Girl born at airport after pregnant typhoon victim swims for her life
A baby girl was born at the airport in the typhoon-devastated city of Tacloban on Monday, providing a glimmer of hope amid widespread destruction. Cheers rang out when Emily Ortega, 21, gave birth to healthy baby Bea Joy Sagales at an emergency clin ...
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10 years ago+12 12 0Drone Pilots Reveal Debilitating Stress Beyond Virtual Battlefield
In the final years of his nearly 30-year career in the U.S. Air Force, Slim spent 10 to 12 hours a day in a cool, dark room in the Arizona desert, stationed in front of monitors that beamed back aerial footage from Afghanistan. Critics of military dr ...
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10 years ago+17 17 0Apple Said Developing Curved IPhone Screens, Enhanced Sensors
Apple Inc. is developing new iPhone designs including bigger screens with curved glass and enhanced sensors that can detect different levels of pressure, said a person familiar with the plans. Two models planned for release in the second half of next ...
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10 years ago+12 12 0 x 1What Happened When One Man Didn't Clean His Clarinet For More Than 30 Years
Here's a public service announcement for anyone who plays a woodwind, such as a clarinet or saxophone: Clean your instrument! A case study presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology shows that it ...
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10 years ago+14 14 0 x 1Exotic Fruit Fly Three in One Insect
Every so often nature provides something that is stunning in its simplicity. It can also amaze with an almost perfect replication of reality. There is an exotic fruit fly called “Goniurellia tridens” which has been referred to as a 3-in-1 insect. Thi ...