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10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America

Okay, many Americans may not like this. I can understand that. Still, there’s a ring of truth in this article that I found at “Bananenplanet“: 10 things Americans don’t know about America. 1. Few People Are Impressed By Us Unless … Continue reading

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Heaven’s Gate Mountain. Zhangjiajie City, China

The elevation of Tianmen Mountains is 1518.6 meters (the highest one in Zhangjiajie); people may feel amazing that about 40 peaks inside the mountain area are over 1000 meters. Due to the high elevation of the mountain, the day time … Continue reading

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Stunning places

If you want to see some stunning places, like this one: then visit The Cool Hunter.net.

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We are our data storage

DNA: The Ultimate Hard Drive ENLARGE IMAGE Genetic hard drive. Scientists have found a way to store an entire textbook in the code of DNA. Credit: Sergey Volkov/iStockphoto   When it comes to storing information, hard drives don’t hold a candle to … Continue reading

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Dutch Ministry Proposes Powers for Police to Hack into Computers

Dutch Ministry Proposes Powers for Police to Hack into Computers, Install Spyware, Destroy Data Written by  Ravi Mandalia The Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security has proposed some rather over the line measures and wants to extend such powers to the … Continue reading

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How Steampunk Can (Help) Save the World

From Tor.com’s STEAMPUNK WEEK 2012: Boldly Into Our Patina’d Future: How Steampunk Can (Help) Save the World by MARGARET KILLJOY Photo by ’Riding Pretty’ Steampunk is, in part at least, a re-envisioning of humanity’s interaction with the things that we make and … Continue reading

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Bill Nye: Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children

Creationism is not for children. They need to be aware of the real world, the dinosaur bones, and the stars that existed before the sun and the ones that started after that.

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Crop circles. Made by aliens?

Crop circles. Who has not heard of them, and seen pictures of impressive, beautiful and incomprehensible patterns that seem to have been stamped into fields all over the world? The first crop circles appeared in the 1970s. These were small … Continue reading

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Some mothers do ‘ave ‘em…

 

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Carl Sagan – You Are Here (Pale Blue Dot)

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and … Continue reading

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