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When medieval clans wanted to downsize and dispose of unwanted folks without murdering them, they just burned their houses to the ground as a small hint. Thus the phrase "to get fired"
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On this day in 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts James B. Irwin and David Scott first used the four-wheeled, battery-powered Lunar Roving Vehicle to extensively explore the Moon's surface, in particular the Hadley-Apennine site.
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guitarist Dave Davies tried to steal a french fry from one of his brothers, singer Ray Davies. In retaliation, Ray stabbed Dave in the chest with a fork.
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Before he became a home-repair guru on U.S. television, Bob Vila was a Peace Corps volunteer in Panama.
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On February 17, 1964, the FBI launched a sweeping investigation into a problem that threatened to subvert the nationâ€â€namely, were the lyrics to the song "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen filthy or not? After months of intensive analysis, the bureau was unable to conclude what the actual lyrics were, and the case was dropped.The tune, written by Richard Berry, remains the nation’s most popular party song.
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The sensitivity of the human eye is so keen that on a clear, moonless night, a person with 20/20 vision standing on a mountain can see a match being struck as far as 50 miles away. Much to their amazement, astronauts in orbit were able to see the wakes of ships.
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To keep a corpse’s lips shut, undertakers pass a suture through the nasal septum and tie it to the lower lip. Sometimes they use an injector needle gun to place wires into the lower and upper jaws; the wires are then twisted together to close the mouth.
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n 1886, Herman Hollerith had the idea of using punched cards to keep and transport information, a technology used up to the late 1970s. This device was originally constructed to allow the 1890 census to be tabulated. The Tabulating Machine Company was founded by him in the same year. Twenty-eight years later, after several takeovers, the company founded by Hollerith became known as International Business Machines (
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The practice of ear cropping began among dogs bred for protection, on the theory that cropped ears were less likely to be injured. Tail docking was done to prevent damage in hunting dogs going through thick brush. Over time, they became the fashion, and in some breeds, an expectation.
By Elizabeth Weise
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Banfield, The Pet Hospital, the nation's largest network of animal hospitals, has announced it will no longer do tail docking, ear cropping or devocalization on dogs.
Headquartered in Portland, Ore., Banfield is the nation's largest general veterinary practice, with more than 730 hospitals and 2,000 veterinarians nationwide.
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TW Rhys Davids, and other 19th century western "Buddhologists" arrived in Asia brimming with Orientalist idealism about the pure wisdom of the ancient east. Then they looked around and concluded that the people of Asia were largely an ignorant lot who didn't appreciate "authentic" Buddhism as well as them. Olcott in particular made it his mission to explain Buddhism to the Sinhalese, publishing a Buddhist catechism and organising Buddhist Sunday schools.
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TW Rhys Davids, and other 19th century western "Buddhologists" arrived in Asia brimming with Orientalist idealism about the pure wisdom of the ancient east. Then they looked around and concluded that the people of Asia were largely an ignorant lot who didn't appreciate "authentic" Buddhism as well as them. Olcott in particular made it his mission to explain Buddhism to the Sinhalese, publishing a Buddhist catechism and organising Buddhist Sunday schools.
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP)  The leader of the Islamist sect blamed for days of violence in northern Nigeria has been shot and killed while in police custody, officials said Thursday.
The police commander of Borno state announced on state radio that Mohammed Yusuf, the leader of the sect some call the Nigerian Taliban, has "died in police custody."
He gave no further explanation, "I saw his body at police headquarters. I believe he was shot while he was trying to escape."
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The sperm whale has the biggest brain of any mammal. Its brain weighs up to 20 pounds, while the human brain weighs 3 pounds.
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A bowl of lime Jell-O, when hooked up to an EKG machine, exhibited movements virtually identical to the brain waves of a healthy adult man or woman.
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A committee reviewing NASA's goals has outlined a scheme to send astronauts on progressively longer space trips – including dockings with asteroids and flybys of Venus – to prepare for an eventual landing on Mars.
The White House set up the committee, chaired by former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine, to review NASA's plans for human spaceflight, which are currently focused on returning astronauts to the moon by 2020.
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TAMIL Nesan front paged a report of a security guard who was said to have been slapped by ghosts in Port Dickson.
It said S. Albert 32, was making his rounds of bungalow houses in Taman Indah Mas at about 5.30am on Friday when he heard noises coming from a vacant unit.
He shone his torchlight through the window and was shocked to see mysterious white figure with red eyes and long hair.
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A 400-year warm spell helped the ancient Inca to build the largest empire ever to exist in the Americas, a new study has established.
Beginning around 1100 A.D., the increase in temperature served as a "perfect incubator" for the Inca's expansion, an international team of researchers report in the current issue of the journal
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(CNN) -- The lawyer for the woman who faces 40 lashes for wearing clothes that Sudan deemed indecent called the law "degrading."
Lubna al-Hussein was told she had trousers considered too tight and a blouse too transparent.
"They ought to stop it," Nabil Adib said on Thursday. "It is quite unnecessary and degrading. It is harassment."
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Artificial photosynthesis has yet to be cracked, but electrical engineers in the US think that synthetic leaves could be used to generate electricity in a different way – by sweating.
Natural leaves constantly lose water through evaporation in a process called transpiration, which draws water from the roots to the very top of even the tallest trees.
The new synthetic leaves also lose water through evaporation to create that mechanical water pump effect, and use it to generate power.
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Think that being called a Neanderthal is an insult? Neanderthal man, the first human being in the true sense, had a brain capacity 100 cubic centimeters larger than modern man’s (or woman’s).
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Iranian police have clashed with mourners gathered at a cemetery in Tehran for a memorial to those killed in post-election violence, reports say.
State TV said police used teargas to disperse crowds from the grave of Neda Agha Soltan, whose death became a symbol of post-election unrest.
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still stuck I see....
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A Sydney bus company has apologised to one of its customers after the driver argued with a Muslim woman over her right to wear a niqab, or veil.
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Iranian police have arrested mourners who had gathered at a cemetery in Tehran for a memorial to those killed in post-election violence, reports say.
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Been looking for a reason to join Twitter, but haven’t been able to quite take the plunge?
Forget Shaq and William Gibson: Alerts about asteroids cruising near Earth have come to Twitter. @AsteroidWatch will let you know any time a space rock gets within a few lunar distances. Much more asteroid info will be distributed via a new NASA/JPL website. (Though if you want to know if a nuke is the best way to stop an asteroid, you’ll still need to come to Wired Science.)
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Dubbed the “bare-faced bulbul†because of its unusual feather-free head, the newly discovered species is the only example of a bald songbird in Asia and the first new type of bulbul reported in the last hundred years.It’s not clear how such a distinctive-looking bird escaped detection for so long, but the creature’s preference for rugged terrain probably played a role. including new species of rabbit and rat discovered in the last decade.
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A strange spot emerged on Venus last week, and astronomers are not sure what caused it. They hope future observations will reveal whether volcanic activity, turbulence in the planet's atmosphere, or charged particles from the sun are to blame.
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A snake is capable of eating an animal 4 times larger than the width of its own head. Most varieties of snake can go an entire year without eating a single morsel of food.
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A snake is capable of eating an animal 4 times larger than the width of its own head. Most varieties of snake can go an entire year without eating a single morsel of food.
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Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
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Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
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Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible. Alan Watts
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The caterpillar has more than 2,000 muscles.
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Umberto I was the king of Italy from January 9, 1878, until his death. Officially nicknamed "the Good," he was deeply loathed in left-wing circles because of his hard-line conservatism. His support of General Bava-Beccaris, who ordered his troops to fire muskets and cannons at demonstrators protesting rising bread prices,
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Shark fossil records date back more than twice as far as those of the dinosaurs.
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walla walla bing bang
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we be stuck
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hey is it working right yet?
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When medieval clans wanted to downsize and dispose of unwanted folks without murdering them, they just burned their houses to the ground as a small hint. Thus the phrase "to get fired"
-Balance through Chaos
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On this day in 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts James B. Irwin and David Scott first used the four-wheeled, battery-powered Lunar Roving Vehicle to extensively explore the Moon's surface, in particular the Hadley-Apennine site.
-Balance through Chaos
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guitarist Dave Davies tried to steal a french fry from one of his brothers, singer Ray Davies. In retaliation, Ray stabbed Dave in the chest with a fork.
-Balance through Chaos
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Before he became a home-repair guru on U.S. television, Bob Vila was a Peace Corps volunteer in Panama.
-Balance through Chaos
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On February 17, 1964, the FBI launched a sweeping investigation into a problem that threatened to subvert the nationâ€â€namely, were the lyrics to the song "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen filthy or not? After months of intensive analysis, the bureau was unable to conclude what the actual lyrics were, and the case was dropped.The tune, written by Richard Berry, remains the nation’s most popular party song.
-Balance through Chaos
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The sensitivity of the human eye is so keen that on a clear, moonless night, a person with 20/20 vision standing on a mountain can see a match being struck as far as 50 miles away. Much to their amazement, astronauts in orbit were able to see the wakes of ships.
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To keep a corpse’s lips shut, undertakers pass a suture through the nasal septum and tie it to the lower lip. Sometimes they use an injector needle gun to place wires into the lower and upper jaws; the wires are then twisted together to close the mouth.
-Balance through Chaos
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n 1886, Herman Hollerith had the idea of using punched cards to keep and transport information, a technology used up to the late 1970s. This device was originally constructed to allow the 1890 census to be tabulated. The Tabulating Machine Company was founded by him in the same year. Twenty-eight years later, after several takeovers, the company founded by Hollerith became known as International Business Machines (
-Balance through Chaos
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The practice of ear cropping began among dogs bred for protection, on the theory that cropped ears were less likely to be injured. Tail docking was done to prevent damage in hunting dogs going through thick brush. Over time, they became the fashion, and in some breeds, an expectation.
By Elizabeth Weise
-Balance through Chaos
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Banfield, The Pet Hospital, the nation's largest network of animal hospitals, has announced it will no longer do tail docking, ear cropping or devocalization on dogs.
Headquartered in Portland, Ore., Banfield is the nation's largest general veterinary practice, with more than 730 hospitals and 2,000 veterinarians nationwide.
-Balance through Chaos
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TW Rhys Davids, and other 19th century western "Buddhologists" arrived in Asia brimming with Orientalist idealism about the pure wisdom of the ancient east. Then they looked around and concluded that the people of Asia were largely an ignorant lot who didn't appreciate "authentic" Buddhism as well as them. Olcott in particular made it his mission to explain Buddhism to the Sinhalese, publishing a Buddhist catechism and organising Buddhist Sunday schools.
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TW Rhys Davids, and other 19th century western "Buddhologists" arrived in Asia brimming with Orientalist idealism about the pure wisdom of the ancient east. Then they looked around and concluded that the people of Asia were largely an ignorant lot who didn't appreciate "authentic" Buddhism as well as them. Olcott in particular made it his mission to explain Buddhism to the Sinhalese, publishing a Buddhist catechism and organising Buddhist Sunday schools.
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP)  The leader of the Islamist sect blamed for days of violence in northern Nigeria has been shot and killed while in police custody, officials said Thursday.
The police commander of Borno state announced on state radio that Mohammed Yusuf, the leader of the sect some call the Nigerian Taliban, has "died in police custody."
He gave no further explanation, "I saw his body at police headquarters. I believe he was shot while he was trying to escape."
-Balance through Chaos
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The sperm whale has the biggest brain of any mammal. Its brain weighs up to 20 pounds, while the human brain weighs 3 pounds.
-Balance through Chaos
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A bowl of lime Jell-O, when hooked up to an EKG machine, exhibited movements virtually identical to the brain waves of a healthy adult man or woman.
-Balance through Chaos
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A committee reviewing NASA's goals has outlined a scheme to send astronauts on progressively longer space trips – including dockings with asteroids and flybys of Venus – to prepare for an eventual landing on Mars.
The White House set up the committee, chaired by former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine, to review NASA's plans for human spaceflight, which are currently focused on returning astronauts to the moon by 2020.
-Balance through Chaos
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TAMIL Nesan front paged a report of a security guard who was said to have been slapped by ghosts in Port Dickson.
It said S. Albert 32, was making his rounds of bungalow houses in Taman Indah Mas at about 5.30am on Friday when he heard noises coming from a vacant unit.
He shone his torchlight through the window and was shocked to see mysterious white figure with red eyes and long hair.
-Balance through Chaos
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A 400-year warm spell helped the ancient Inca to build the largest empire ever to exist in the Americas, a new study has established.
Beginning around 1100 A.D., the increase in temperature served as a "perfect incubator" for the Inca's expansion, an international team of researchers report in the current issue of the journal
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(CNN) -- The lawyer for the woman who faces 40 lashes for wearing clothes that Sudan deemed indecent called the law "degrading."
Lubna al-Hussein was told she had trousers considered too tight and a blouse too transparent.
"They ought to stop it," Nabil Adib said on Thursday. "It is quite unnecessary and degrading. It is harassment."
-Balance through Chaos
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Artificial photosynthesis has yet to be cracked, but electrical engineers in the US think that synthetic leaves could be used to generate electricity in a different way – by sweating.
Natural leaves constantly lose water through evaporation in a process called transpiration, which draws water from the roots to the very top of even the tallest trees.
The new synthetic leaves also lose water through evaporation to create that mechanical water pump effect, and use it to generate power.
-Balance through Chaos
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Think that being called a Neanderthal is an insult? Neanderthal man, the first human being in the true sense, had a brain capacity 100 cubic centimeters larger than modern man’s (or woman’s).
-Balance through Chaos
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Iranian police have clashed with mourners gathered at a cemetery in Tehran for a memorial to those killed in post-election violence, reports say.
State TV said police used teargas to disperse crowds from the grave of Neda Agha Soltan, whose death became a symbol of post-election unrest.
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still stuck I see....
-Balance through Chaos
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A Sydney bus company has apologised to one of its customers after the driver argued with a Muslim woman over her right to wear a niqab, or veil.
-Balance through Chaos
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Iranian police have arrested mourners who had gathered at a cemetery in Tehran for a memorial to those killed in post-election violence, reports say.
-Balance through Chaos
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Been looking for a reason to join Twitter, but haven’t been able to quite take the plunge?
Forget Shaq and William Gibson: Alerts about asteroids cruising near Earth have come to Twitter. @AsteroidWatch will let you know any time a space rock gets within a few lunar distances. Much more asteroid info will be distributed via a new NASA/JPL website. (Though if you want to know if a nuke is the best way to stop an asteroid, you’ll still need to come to Wired Science.)
-Balance through Chaos
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Dubbed the “bare-faced bulbul†because of its unusual feather-free head, the newly discovered species is the only example of a bald songbird in Asia and the first new type of bulbul reported in the last hundred years.It’s not clear how such a distinctive-looking bird escaped detection for so long, but the creature’s preference for rugged terrain probably played a role. including new species of rabbit and rat discovered in the last decade.
-Balance through Chaos
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A strange spot emerged on Venus last week, and astronomers are not sure what caused it. They hope future observations will reveal whether volcanic activity, turbulence in the planet's atmosphere, or charged particles from the sun are to blame.
-Balance through Chaos
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A snake is capable of eating an animal 4 times larger than the width of its own head. Most varieties of snake can go an entire year without eating a single morsel of food.
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A snake is capable of eating an animal 4 times larger than the width of its own head. Most varieties of snake can go an entire year without eating a single morsel of food.
-Balance through Chaos
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Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
-Balance through Chaos
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Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
-Balance through Chaos
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|
Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible. Alan Watts
-Balance through Chaos
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The caterpillar has more than 2,000 muscles.
-Balance through Chaos
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Umberto I was the king of Italy from January 9, 1878, until his death. Officially nicknamed "the Good," he was deeply loathed in left-wing circles because of his hard-line conservatism. His support of General Bava-Beccaris, who ordered his troops to fire muskets and cannons at demonstrators protesting rising bread prices,
-Balance through Chaos
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Shark fossil records date back more than twice as far as those of the dinosaurs.
-Balance through Chaos
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walla walla bing bang
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we be stuck
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hey is it working right yet?
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