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Patient who lost both legs at mid-thigh gets replacements in operation by famed Spanish surgeon Dr. Pedro Cavadas
Read More »Alain Mikli Goes High-Tech
Eyewear designer Alain Mikli is known for his extravagant use of color and avant-garde styling, but his newly launched MATT collection of sunglasses proves he’s also adept at working in high-tech materials and new technologies. The sunglasses use materials like cellulose acetate, a by-product of cotton that has been embedded ...
Read More »Comedian Discovers Facebook Video Call Bug, Recommends Paper Towel Patch
New York comedian Tom Kelly has discovered an unnerving flaw for Safari users attempting Facebook's new video calling feature: You can’t hang up. “You might think you hung up on the call, but the friend you’re talking to is actually watching you in your bedroom--or wherever you make your call,” Kelly says in the most recent episode of his web series The Tom Kelly Show
Read More »PGT: Haney disses Americans’ British Open chances
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Read More »Online dating: Over 40 years old already
More than three decades before eHarmony made potential soulmates fill out an hour-long questionnaire, New York City's first computer-generated dating service required answering more than 100 multiple-choice questions.
Read More »Leap Year, Episode 6: That Kind of Day
The office server goes missing and overworked and mildly unstable Bryn faces a crisis of both conscience and sanity. The office server goes missing and overworked and mildly unstable Bryn (Alexis Boozer) faces a crisis of both conscience and sanity
Read More »Women Vying for Spot on the Inc. 5000
As we process applications for this year's Inc.
Read More »Kenny Powers Returns For Second K-Swiss Campaign
No longer a spokesman, Powers is now the MFCEO. Multi-league lockout threats. Sex scandals involving Perkins waitresses
Read More »Coming Soon: Pharmaceutical Testing On Mice With Human-Like Livers
Researchers at MIT have figured out how to grow "humanized" livers inside of mice--so the little critters could soon accurately predict how our livers will respond to drugs. Mice are a boon to biomedical research; they can often predict how humans will react to certain conditions, and not too many people get upset if they die from an overdose of toxic chemicals. But mice aren't as useful in pharmaceutical research because their livers react to drugs differently than human livers
Read More »Twitter Is The Newest Tool For Self-Published Stories
This week kids' favorite SpongeBob SquarePants will be the center of a new story on a wholly new medium: Twitter . The Ice Race Cometh--A Twitter Tale is an original story, from the official SpongeBob writing team, and will consist of multiple tweets and images broadcast throughout each day from July 12th to July 15th
Read More »11 ways you risk killing yourself this summer
Think summer is all about being carefree? Think again
Read More »Couple divides apartment to stay together
A New York couple says living apart is the secret to staying together. Allen Sheinman, 58, and wife Collette Stallone, 56, have divided their 576-square-foot apartment with plastic walls and other clear dividing lines.
Read More »Google Is Now Pushing More (Share) Buttons Than Twitter
According to one set of analytics, the Google+ social network has resulted in such rapid adoption of a "+1" button on websites that it's outclassed sharing stalwart Twitter already. Here's why that matters--only a little
Read More »GolfChannel: Curtis, Bjorn separated no longer
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