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Sand is a cheap and easy to find water filter. It's also not a very good water filter

U.S. nukes are safe! As they can be...

Friday, August 19 Annette Funicello and Jimmie Dodd, fans’ favorite mouseketeers. | Photograph courtesy of Everett Collection (Mickey Mouse Cub) Think Comic-Con, but replace the superheroes with princesses. This year's D23 Expo -- the second gathering of the fast-growing Disney official fan club -- will welcome fanatics to Anaheim, California, for three days of archival costume and prop showcases (Annette Funicello's Mickey Mouse Club sweater!), celebrity sightings (Johnny Depp!), trivia tournaments, and advance screenings of upcoming movies.

The worst of the economic plummet appears to be over. Use this upswing to your advantage with these tips on getting the money your business needs. It would be an understatement to say small business lending has taken a significant blow over the past few years.

Party is a creative lab that marries entertainment, product development, technology, and advertising. The partners plan to work with brands, and on entertainment and self-driven projects across platforms and borders. Call it a creative supergroup if you like, but please don’t call it an agency

Ever wonder what is really motivating you to hit "retweet," "like," or "share"?

Hewlett-Packard is gearing up to launch the TouchPad tablet this week, but already CEO Leo Apotheker is thinking about what comes next. In an interview with Bloomberg Wednesday, Apotheker said the company is in talks with third parties to license WebOS, the software piloting its mobile devices. That should certainly raise red flags for Google , which has pinned the future of its mobile business on licensing its Android platform out to hardware makers such as Motorola and Samsung .

Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson says pills' musty odor caused by compound that's also linked to mild stomach symptoms

Final decision lies with FDA commissioner, but unanimous vote to withdraw widely-used cancer drug is significant

Do you really need--or want--"contextual information about people you're interacting with" via email? As part of Google 's new social spree that just gave field testers Google+ , Google's also added a new social feature to Gmail--the People Tab . It's a panel to the right of your Gmail inbox that displays "contextual information about people you're interacting with in Gmail" because "the people you communicate with" are as important as "what you're communicating about." To some, it will amount to another doodad on the already cluttered dashboard.

How Arianna Huffington, Larry Page, Richard Branson, and others, keep on top of it all.

National Resources Defense Council tested water from 3,000 beaches to list 10 worst offenders in U.S.

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A project of the Long Now Foundation, the aim is to make sure we preserve the knowledge contained in dying languages: "If languages are our how-to guides for living on planet Earth, we are handing our descendants an encyclopedia with almost all of the pages ripped out." The Long Now Foundation--currently breaking ground in Texas at the future site of its first monument-sized 10,000-year clock --is pursuing several programs in addition to the clock. One of these, the Rosetta Project, takes as its daunting mission the documentation of every human language currently in use; some 7,000 in total, the majority of which are in danger of disappearing without a trace. Directing this ambitious venture is Laura Welcher, a linguist who has specialized in building archival resources for indigenous North American languages.

A new app for Android phones blurs faces, strips metadata, integrates easily into Facebook, and is open source. It's great news for activists and protesters--and also for keg-standing partiers who want to make their photo albums safe for work.