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Facebook tests prompt asking you to snitch on your friends

http://thenextweb.com

Facebook tests prompt asking you to snitch on your friends who aren’t using their real name. Facebook’s ongoing war on pseudonyms is well-documented. The company wants everyone to use their real name on the social network, and ideally this would be their only identity on the Internet.

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Watch light in slow motion

http://www.dailymail.co.uk

MIT researcher have created a camera that can record light in motion. Article links to TED talk showing light moving through a 2l coke bottle filled with water and another showing light moving over an apple.

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Physicists say they've found evidence of 'God particle'

http://www.latimes.com

To cheers and standing ovations from scientists, the world's biggest atom smasher claimed the discovery of a new subatomic particle Wednesday, calling it "consistent" with the long-sought Higgs boson -- popularly known as the "God particle" -- that helps explain what gives all matter in the universe size and shape.

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Created by MikeGPA 46 weeks 15 hours ago – Made popular 46 weeks 8 hours ago
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The Silk Road is collapsing – did hackers, gov't or Bitcoin kill it?

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk

At 6am this morning, I got an email from one of my sleazier contacts. It simply said "looks like Silk Road has collapsed". I fired the Tor browser you need to connect to the site and, indeed, it wasn't there.

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Monsanto weedkiller/GM maize implicated in shocking new cancer study

http://www.thegrocer.co.uk

The world’s best-selling weedkiller, and a genetically modified maize resistant to it, can cause tumours, multiple organ damage and lead to premature death, new research published today reveals.

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Bruce Willis Legal Fight to Leave iTunes Library "Purchases" to Family

http://www.dailymail.co.uk

Think you own your iTunes downloads? Think again. According to the UK Daily Mail, Bruce Willis is considering legal action against Apple in battle over who owns songs downloaded from iTunes. Read the original article for more details.

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Paul Fest Live!

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The Ron Paul Fest is three days of music, entertainment, and activism featuring national known musicians, comedians, and entertainers.

Event Hours:
Friday, August 24 - 3:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M.
Saturday, August 25 - 11:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M.
Sunday, August 26 - 11:00 A.M. to 10:00 P.M.

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Created by snowdog2012 38 weeks 6 days ago – Made popular 38 weeks 6 days ago
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SilkRoad On The Verge Of Collapse; Suffering Massive Hyperdeflation

http://au.businessinsider.com

We’ve written on the hyperdeflation problem before. Basically, with Bitcoin prices surging, nobody wants to buy anything, you just want to hold onto your Bitcoins. Conversely, when they collapse, nobody wants to sell. So volatility means nobody wants to transact in Bitcoins, because there’s a good chance that the next day someone will feel like a fool.

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Created by Deslock Darkstar 3 weeks 17 hours ago – Made popular 3 weeks 15 hours ago
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Ron Paul Calls on UN to Confiscate Domain Names of His Supporters

http://www.ronpaul.com

Is Ron Paul right or wrong in this dispute? Are trademarks valid property? I tihnk he is wrong because he was fine with them using his name while it benfitted his campaign.

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Created by StrayLite 14 weeks 4 days ago – Made popular 14 weeks 2 days ago
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"Surveillance-proof" app makes calls, messages and sends files!

http://www.slate.com

A “surveillance-proof” smartphone app to allow people to make secure phone calls and send texts easily. The groundbreaking encrypted data transfer app also enables people to send files securely from a smartphone or tablet at the touch of a button.

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Created by awagele 15 weeks 1 day ago – Made popular 14 weeks 6 days ago
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Coming soon: 100% renewable power

http://www.smartplanet.com

One day in the not-too-distant future — probably sooner than many expect — some parts of the world will have power grids that are completely powered by renewables. Eventually, the entire world could be powered by renewables.

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Created by thefatalepic 22 weeks 5 days ago – Made popular 22 weeks 4 days ago
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Patent granted on handcuffs that would shock, inject sedatives

http://news.cnet.com

A patent for next-generation handcuffs offers a future in which the detained can be zapped directly from their restraints, and even injected with a medication, sedative, irritant, paralytic, or other fine substance.

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Created by phonon 23 weeks 16 hours ago – Made popular 22 weeks 5 days ago
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The iBrain and the Emotiv: Hacking the Human Brain

http://silverunderground.com

iBrain is a headband designed to diagnose sleep disorders by literally reading electrical signals in the patient’s brain while they’re asleep. Now Dr. Low is working with Professor Stephen Hawkings to see if the device can be used to read thoughts directly from his brain.

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5 Ways Your Brain Tricks You into Sticking With Bad Habits

http://www.cracked.com

Bad habits can ruin your life. Whether you're gorging on Haagen-Dazs or dressing up like a Power Ranger and flaying hobos every night, you know on some level that things have to change, or disaster will follow. But no matter how badly you want your life to be different, things just keep plowing on the way they are. Why?
Because your brain has a long list of diabolical mechanisms intended to keep your habits exactly as they are.

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Created by Karrde188 34 weeks 10 hours ago – Made popular 33 weeks 3 days ago
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The ugly math of low sales, high costs

http://finance.yahoo.com

General Motors Company sold a record number of Chevy Volts in the month of August. This is not good for the company's bottom line, however, as GM is losing as much as $49,000 on each Volt sold, according to industry analysts and manufacturing experts. GM is estimated to be years away from making money on the Volt, and will soon face new competition from Ford, Honda, and others. The Volt's steep ($39,995) base price and complex technology have kept buyers away from Chevy showrooms.

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Created by Number_Six 36 weeks 2 days ago – Made popular 36 weeks 1 day ago
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Magnet experiment saves baby big surgery

http://www.cnn.com

It occurred to Scaife that in the skilled hands of a surgeon, magnets might be a useful tool instead of a hazard. If he placed a magnet on either side of Patrick's blockage, their attraction might make a hole and destroy the membrane, allowing stool to pass.

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Created by stuntmantdave 41 weeks 4 days ago – Made popular 41 weeks 2 days ago
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Little Words with Absolutely Huge Meaning - Use Them

http://www.dumblittleman.com

Little Words with Absolutely Huge Meaning - Use Them

As children many of us hyped the statement, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Clearly, it doesn’t take long to realize that words have far more weight than we want to realize. They influence thoughts, feelings, actions and states of mind. Even little words often have big meaning.

Think about it. Whether you want to land your dream job, improve your friendships, save your marriage or retain your employees; the words you choose can make all the difference.

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Created by Mattfree88 43 weeks 5 days ago – Made popular 43 weeks 3 days ago
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5 Ways Your Brain Is Tricking You into Being Miserable

http://www.cracked.com

Your brain contains more than 100 billion neurons that flawlessly work together to create consciousness and thought. It is an astonishing marvel of evolution and adaptation, and it is also a huge dick.What do we mean by that? Well, everyone wants to be happy, but the biggest obstacle to that is the mushy thing inside your skull that you think with. Evolution has left your brain with all sorts of mechanisms that are heavily biased toward misery. We can't guarantee that reading this article will help, for your brain is as crafty as it is sadistic. But at least you'll understand it better.

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Download this bong: 3D printer templates for getting your buzz on

http://arstechnica.com

3D printers are gaining in popularity, with uses spanning the spectrum from moon bases to firearms, but there's another area where the ability to construct complex shapes is beginning to provide benefits: getting high. Online magazine Motherboard has published the story about the slow but inevitable rise of 3D-printed bongs.

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Using 3-D Printers To Make Gun Parts Raises Alarms

http://www.npr.org

From NPR a Story about the possibility of printing guns with a3-D printer:
You may have heard about 3-D printing, a technological phenomenon that uses a robotic arm to build objects one layer at a time. As people get imaginative and create items in a one-stop-shop fashion, one more creation has been added to the printing line: gun parts.

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