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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com After meeting with President Obama, several key Democrats expressed an openness to entitlement benefit cuts as part of a broader budget bill that includes higher taxes. Their statements shatter the conventional wisdom in Washington...
news.nationalgeographic.com Early humans didn't adopt wolves to help them hunt, argue scientists. Instead, wolves made the first move toward friendship.
www.huffingtonpost.com (Adds details from speech) By Pedro Nicolaci da Costa NATIONAL HARBOR, Md., March 16 (Reuters) - The largest U.S. banks are "practitioners of crony capitalism," need to be broken up to ensure they...
www.wired.com Ultra-secret national security letters that come with a gag order on the recipient are an unconstitutional impingement on free speech, a federal judge ruled Friday.
www.bbc.co.uk A Radio 4 documentary, based on declassified tapes of President Lyndon Johnson's telephone calls provide an extraordinary insight into his world.
www.nypost.com To police, he was a gang-banger with a gun. But to his school, he was a lovable 16-year-old who strove to be a better student by taking on extra work.
www.theatlantic.com Scientists have sequenced a line of HeLa cells, and found them to be "a mess."
www.nbcnews.com Researchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, cooling systems or fluids. Their so-called Wave Disk Generator could greatly...
www.businessinsider.com As oil forces a state of emergency in Peru.
rt.com As US Army veteran Eric Harroun awaits trial in Virginia for allegedly fighting alongside al-Qaeda supporters, the man’s father claims he was working for the CIA and was reporting back to the agency from Syria.
rt.com United States President Barack Obama has signed a bill into law that was written in part by the very billion-dollar corporation that will benefit directly from the legislation.
www.hangthebankers.com "This gesture, they claim, is in response to my suggestion that they had censored us and should be taken as evidence of their “spirit of radical openness”."
betabeat.com Bad news for everyone who's been dreaming about intergalactic intercourse since those heady tween years: a new study found that sex in space could actually present some rather life-threatening illnesses. Studies on plant cells showed that...
www.guardian.co.uk Crossrail project finds 12 skeletons below Charterhouse Square, suspected part of 14th century Black Death mass burial ground
thenextweb.com Dropbox has announced the acquisition of the popular email client Mailbox. In a blog post, the company noted that it "fell in love" with the application and realized that ...
www.allgov.com This week, BP agreed to 11 counts of manslaughter for the workers killed during the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, when the Deepwater Horizon oilrig blew up. But no one from the oil giant will serve time for the convictions. Instead,...
sustainablepulse.com A new peer-reviewed scientific paper has been released in the US stating that glyphosate-based herbicides such as Roundup are contributing to the modern diseases that are reaching epidemic proportions in recent decades. A direct link...
www.kickstarter.com Create GLOWING PLANTS using synthetic biology and Genome Compiler's software
lifehac.kr There are a ton of browser extensions that promise to protect your privacy, which leads to some natural questions: Which is the best? Do they all do the same thing? What should I really download? In this guide, we're going to look at the most...
rogerebert.suntimes.com Where do I start? With his tattooed lady? With how he hugged the mongoloid children to coax performances from them? Perhaps with the elephant's funeral, when the enormous casket went tumbling down the hillside, and the shanty people...
www.pressherald.com Consumers have a right to know whether their food has genetically engineered ingredients.
sabotagetimes.com Twitter went mental as the fastest minds whirred to make the most of Thatcher's demise. Here's the 25 best.
www.nytimes.com Redefining companies as real estate investment trusts can nearly — even completely — eliminate federal taxes.
mashable.com A California lawmaker has introduced a bill that would compel companies like Facebook and Google to disclose and show users what personal data they hold.
www.salon.com A digitally altered photo of the flooding in Pyongyang is not the first -- or worst -- of government tampered pics
