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Lost 'Steve Jobs Time Capsule' unearthed after 30 years
A time capsule that was buried more than 30 years ago at the close of the International Design Conference containing, among other things, the mouse that Steve Jobs used during his Lisa computer presentation, has been unearthed in Aspen, Colorado.
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Dinosaur Feathers Found in Ancient Amber
Instead of digging through rocks and rubble to find fossils, a group of Canadian paleontologists decided to dig through museums’ amber collections instead. Their unique approach paid off when they discovered feathers and never-before-seen structures, which they think are something called dinofuzz.
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Pablo Escobar Visiting The White House
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Colombian drug lord and leader of one of the most powerful criminal organizations ever assembled. During the height of his power in the 1980’s, he controlled a vast empire of drugs and murder that covered the globe. He made billions of dollars, ordered the murder of hundreds if not thousands of people, and ruled over a personal empire of mansions, airplanes, a private zoo and even his own army of soldiers and hardened criminals.
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World timekeepers wrangle over scrapping leap second
Timekeeping experts failed Friday to reach a decision on scrapping the four-decade-old practice of adding extra seconds to clocks, a system opponents say causes headaches in a hi-tech, interconnected world.
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A Timeline of Net Neutrality
This is a timeline of net neutrality from your friends at Public Knowledge. Each entry contains links that should help you better understand the history of net neutrality and what was going on at the time of the action.
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Does Obama Want to See a Merkel Victory?
When U.S. President Barack Obama was candidate Obama back in 2008, he asked to give a speech in front of the iconic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. It’s a site not just rich in meaning as the former dividing line between East and West Berlin but also in American history
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The woman who wrote Liberty Valance
Bob Greene says Dorothy Johnson wanted to break into the boy's club of writers of Westerns, and she did -- big time
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The ice is not melting, yet still the scaremongers blunder on
The real global warming disaster: green taxes, a suicidal energy policy and wasting billions on useless windmills.
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Dawn of a revolution
When Bill Gates was at Harvard, he wrote software code that helped to launch the personal computer era
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In Life, Man Immune To HIV Helped Scientists Fight Virus
Stephen Crohn, a man best known for staying alive during the early days of the AIDS epidemic, died Aug. 23 at age 66. Throughout his lifetime, the New York artist helped researchers uncover vital clues about HIV and how to stop it.
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Petra, Jordan’s Ancient Rock-Carved Capital
Petra, also known as the Rose City, is an ancient city in Jordan that experts claim was built as early as 312 BC. Its defining feature is the massive structures carved out of the rock walls that make up the city. The architecture of this city is definitely impressive, but the perspective of this photograph adds even more emphasis to the size and grandness of this place.
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A brief history of conspiracy theories
Throughout our history, Americans have been sure someone was plotting against us
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Steve Jobs childhood home may soon become historical site
The home where a young Steve Jobs built the first Apple computer may soon become a protected historical site. The seven-member Los Altos Historical Commission has scheduled a "historic property evaluation" for the single-story, ranch-style home on Monday.
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Penis Fossils Show How Extinct Bear Mated
Penis bones offer the first hard evidence of how an extinct species of bear lived and mated, a new study says.
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What the Spies Knew: The Secret World of Anglo-American Intelligence
As military action in Syria hinges on the work of British and American spies, a new book examines the often cozy, sometimes fraught relationship between the Anglo-American intelligence worlds. Emma Garman on its decline.
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What Did the Continents Look Like Millions of Years Ago?
An artist-geologist renders the history of the Earth with maps.
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World’s Largest Stamp Gallery to Open in Washington, D.C.
America's most famous stamp, the Inverted Jenny, goes on permanent view for the first time in history
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Exclusive: Damon Lindelof Explains the Truth Behind Leaked Early ‘Lost’ Document
A document recently leaked online detailing a version of the hit TV show Lost that never was. It details a show that’s much more episodic, less mythological and almost the exact opposite of the show that ran for six seasons on ABC. Dated May 5, 2004, four months before the first episode aired, some might look at this document and laugh. “Oh look, they really didn’t ever understand what this show is!”
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Medical Terms That Still Bear the Mark of the Third Reich
Dr. Hans Reiter achieved the one thing most likely to keep a physician’s name in textbooks forever: He got an illness named after him. While working as a medic in the German army in World War I, he once treated a case of simultaneous inflammation in the joints, eyes, and urethra. This became known as Reiter’s syndrome.
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Can Mayors Save the World?
Untangling the theory that local ideas can fix global problems.
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