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Tesla's Industrial-Grade Solar Power Storage System
Courtesy SolarCitySolarCity panels installed on homes at the Davis Monthan Air Force Base near Tucson, ArizonaBy Ashlee Vance December 06, 2013It’s weird to see the big, red Tesla Motors “T” logo...
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"How Sports Are Ruining High Schools: The Real Reason Students Are Falling...
by Amanda Ripley - The AtlanticEvery year, thousands of teenagers move to the United States from all over the world, for all kinds of reasons. They observe everything in their new country with fresh...
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Frank Deford: Sportswriter And National Treasure
Frank Deford is a national treasure - a really smart sports writer who moves from "the particular" to "the general" with the philosophical dexterity of a wise man.In the "menu" below I especially...
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The American Right Supported Apartheid. Many Still Vilify Mandela
December 6, 2013 | I tried to honor Nelson Mandela on the day of his death, and love my political enemies. But the white-washing of Mandela’s legacy, as well as the role of the United States in...
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Peter Higgs Of Higgs-Boson Fame Couldn't Get Job Today - Not Productive Enough
Plodding productivity is often counterproductive.At heart, Americans are Puritans who grossly underestimate the cornerstone importance of leisure and play.The resulting lack of inspiration - and...
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Tech titans to make winners of ‘Breakthrough Prize for Life Sciences’ into...
Breakthrough Prizes are Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner's ideahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Milner***Silicon Valley hosts lavish ceremony for Breakthrough prize that aims to give scientists...
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This American Life: Until The Late 20th Century, Love Was Defined As Pathology
Alan: We easily forget that American psychological credos were profoundly pathological until the last 50 years. Long after my birth in 1947, breastfeeding was considered inferior to formula and mothers...
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"Gunpowder Money" and "Turn On The Lights," from "Snap Judgment, Live"
"Gunpowder Money"Gypsee Yo (Jonida Beqo) http://gypseeyo.wordpress.com/about/"She blew the place away. We've had standing ovations before but never in the middle of the performance."Robert Gunn,...
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"Inside The Box: We Say We Like Creativity, But We Really Don’t"
Inside the BoxPeople don’t actually like creativity.By Jessica OlienIn the United States we are raised to appreciate the accomplishments of inventors and thinkers—creative people whose ideas have...
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Seeing Is Not Believing. You Will Doubt Your Senses... And Should
Which lozenge is darker: The one on top, or the one on bottom?What’s the illusion, you ask? Those two vertical lozenge-shapes are the same shade!Viral Illusion Will — and Should — Have You Doubting...
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Capitalist Drivel And Pope Francis. Jon Stewart's Catholic Theology Is Spot-On
"Pope Francis' Links"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/pope-francis-links.html***"Politics and Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You...
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Goodbye Amazon, Hello Ninth Street
You say hello and I say goodbye***Goodbye Amazon, hello Ninth StreetBy Melissa Rooney, Durham News, 8 December 2013Last year I hoped Americans would boycott the holiday materialism that feeds the...
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Can "Hacking The Brain" Heal Disease? Cures Now For Parkinson's And Depression
Alan: Univeristy of Toronto Neuro-Surgeon Andres Lozano has devised surgical-electrical interventions whose curative outcomes are "miraculous.""Can Hacking The Brain Make You Healthier?" (TED Talk)...
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Assisted by AT&T, The FBI Can Secretly Turn Your Laptop Camera On
AT&T rejects ‘transparency report’ shareholder demand; FBI can secretly turn your laptop camera onBy George ChidiDecember 7, 2013 In the age of modern digital surveillance, AT&T can keep its...
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Westboro Baptists ‘booking flights’ for Johannesburg to protest Mandela’s...
By George ChidiSaturday, December 7, 2013 The Westboro Baptist Church has a long history of media-soliciting domestic and international hate protests, with pickets targeting the funerals of dead...
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Newlyweds Celebrate At Strip Club After Fulfilling Dream Of ‘Killing Someone...
By Scott KaufmanSunday, December 8, 2013Police in Sunbury, Pennsylvania arrested a pair of newlyweds who used Craigslist to lure a man to his death “because they wanted to kill someone together.”Elytte...
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US Crimes Against Humanity In Korea?
Remembering The Korean WarThe Boston Globehttp://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/remembering_the_korean_war_60.html***by Jay Janson / March 30th, 2013 1945, September 8 -- US State Department...
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Have We Found The Lost Colony Of Roanoke Island?
Roanoke Colony was found abandoned without a trace of the colonists—but some researchers might have uncovered some clues. ILLUSTRATION BY NORTH WIND PICTURE ARCHIVES/ALAMYRemote-sensing techniques have...
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The 13 Best Psychology And Philosophy Books Of 2013
'Never have so many people felt so unfulfilled in their career roles, and been so unsure what to do about it.'***After the best biographies, memoirs, and history books of 2013, the season's subjective...
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Everybody Wants To Be A Cat. (Why?)
Everybody, everybody, everybodywants to be a cat.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I1_5mSXinQ
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