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As if animal vision weren’t creepy enough, a new way to see has been discovered. This vision may even be used as a form of communication among the Mantis Shrimp. Not to be mistaken for an insect like the Praying Mantis, that is so often just raoming around your yard and seen randomly on a [...]

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Do you even have Firefox 3 yet? I…well…checks version…2.0.something. Nope. Beta is available in that link.
So…we are already talking about Firefox 4. It won’t even be released this year, but why not get some early scoop on it? In an interview with Chris Beard, VP of Labs for Mozilla, Rafe Needleman discusses some of [...]

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A sniff test of water vapor spewing from Saturn’s moon Enceladus shows it is gushing with organic molecules, increasing the possibility of life existing somewhere in the Saturn system.
So…more evidence that a moon may have harbored some form of life in the past, or even life now. As tiny as the molecules are, it is [...]

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W-W-Whaaaaat? (You ever watch cartoons and find it funny when they say What like this? I do…lol)
Take a look at this camera:

Image from Science Daily
The Science Daily article is pretty interesting actually if you have never sat back and considered the technology behind a camera.
Your typical camera has one lens. One. It is a [...]

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One of the things that I liked so much about the Opera browser was that you were able to highlight a text link and right-click “Go to URL”. It saved the time of the old copy/paste. Then one day I found a Firefox Extension that allowed you to turn text links into real clickable links. [...]

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Every once in a while we hear about the Space Station that is floating around out there. The last few days I have been seeing reports about this new robotic handyman (VIDEO). This thing has 11 foot long freak arms that will be tested. They will also continue outfitting the station’s new Japanese room and [...]

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Have you ever thought about going to Branson, Missouri? I really never even considered it. I didn’t know what all they had to offer, or even where Branson was.
I was reading about vacation packages recently and saw this place. Looked like it had some interesting entertainment possibilities.
It is called the “Live Music Capitol [...]

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An atomic clock that uses an aluminum atom to apply the logic of computers to the peculiarities of the quantum world now rivals the world’s most accurate clock, based on a single mercury atom. Both clocks are at least 10 times more accurate than the current U.S. time standard.
These clocks were observed for a year [...]

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What does that mean? It means that TV has changed our cycles as much as anything according to a recent article in the Science Daily. Pretty interesting article I must say and it isn’t something I have ever given much consideration.
In their forthcoming article for the Journal of Labor Economics, “Cues for Timing and [...]

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NASA has released a significant amount of data this week that portrays how our early universe may have developed, as well as what it is made up of. The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) collected data that measured the earliest light of the universe. The early universe is imprinted on this light, and can be [...]

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