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Words torn, unseen, unseemly, scene some far suburb’s mall lot Summer’s theme: this year’s humid —to sweat is to know— pen squeezed too tight yields ink as blood or pus so the phrase scraped, removed offending thine eye: “Outsource Bush” Against which, insource what? Who will do it? Most...

Tony Rennel Daily Mail Dec 4, 2010 For many baby-boomers whose formative years coincided with the Swinging Sixties, a mild Monday in early December 1980 will always be remembered as the day the music died. In New York, the enigmatic, charismatic – and frankly often loony – ex-Beatle John...

Hit Apple’s (AAPL) online store today and you’ll see a banner ad below all the usual images advertising products like the iPhone and iPod Nano. Proclaming, “Wrap it up this Friday,” the ad boasts a “special one-day shopping event” for the upcoming Black Friday, the massive shopping day that...

05-23-2010 03:33 AM 'Pavlov, the behavioral scientist, discovered that when he paired a neutral object with something desirable, eventually the subject would manifest the same physiological response to both. He paired food with a ringing bell. That is, he presented a dog with food while...

10. Big Pharma Almost everybody (except investors) loves to hate the drug companies. Drugs cost too much, drug company profits are obscene, and it seems that every few months some drug once claimed to be safe is yanked off the shelf after patients die. It's little wonder that the drug industry...

History's greatest conspiracy theories Part 1 Sunday, February 15, 2009 1. September 11, 2001 - Thanks to the power of the web and live broadcasts on television, the conspiracy theories surrounding the events of 9 / 11 - when terrorists Attacked the World Trade Center in New York and the...

Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered. The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It's the compressed heart of an old star that...

English students at the University of Wyoming are being encouraged to consider the possibility that humanity might one day make contact with aliens and then not know what to say. "Interstellar Message Composition", a creative writing class, is believed to be the first of its kind to...

NASA on Monday will broadcast the Beatles’ song “Across the Universe” across the galaxy to Polaris, the North Star. This first-ever beaming of a radio song by the space agency directly into deep space is nostalgia-driven. It celebrates the 40th anniversary of the song, the 45th anniversary of...