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At Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored conference, things got heated between Reddit and Y Combinator's Alexis Ohanian and USC professor Jonathan Taplin, director of the Annenberg Innovation Lab, former tour manager of The Band, and friend of its drummer Levon Helm, who died the day after this debate. On Wednesday,

The extreme weather, including a near-record number of tornadoes , in 2011 forced the debate of the impact of climate change on severe weather to resurface. [More]

Flying Dinosaur Bot There's a big debate about how modern bird evolved from flying dinosaurs, and another about how those dinosaurs learned to fly: Did they gradually get better at gliding like a flying squirrel, or did they run-flap along the ground giving them better hunting speed and the ability to easily leap onto perches?

Google was in Washington Wednesday for a less voluntary reason , but Thursday night, the search giant happily enters the political arena to co-host the "Fox News-Google" GOP debate at 9 p.m. EST.

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann said that, after the debate this week, a woman approached her in tears and said her daughter was given the HPV vaccine and suffered "mental retardation" as a result.

Kids spend an increasing fraction of their formative years online, and it is a habit they dutifully carry into adulthood. Under the right circumstances, however, a love affair with the Internet may spiral out of control and even become an addiction

Pluto, please step aside.