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Your Appendix Could Save Your Life

Your appendix may save your life that is, if you have one. If you don t, well, I will get to that. First I want to tell you about a guy I know, Bill Parker Bill Parker grew up in Arkansas and is, by my precise calculation, fifty percent pure backwoods Arkansan and fifty percent intellectual wild man

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Silicon Superego

The most buzzed-about new feature in the latest iPhone is Siri, the virtual minion. You can give her an amazing range of spoken commands, without any training or special syntax, and marvel as she does your bidding

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5 alcohol-isms for New Year’s

1. Drunk walking contains a bigger risk factor than you might think. The journal of Injury Prevention cites January 1 with the high incident rates of pedestrian-motor vehicle crashes (PDF)

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Faster-than-light neutrinos: a timeline

2011 has been a busy year for particle physicists. They’ve found a new particle , closed in on the elusive Higgs boson , and witnessed some neutrinos acting pretty strangely, amongst other things.

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The Math behind Screening Tests

It seems like every few months a new study points out the inefficacy of yet another wide-scale cancer screening. In 2009 the U.S.

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Solar Paint Converts Light To Electricity

Instead of installing solar panels on your roof--how about just giving your house a new paint job? Of course you’d have to be sure to use solar paint. That’s what a group of Notre Dame researchers has created, detailing the recipe in the journal ACS Nano .

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Court Issues Delay of EPA Rule on Coal Power Plants

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday issued a last-minute order delaying the January 1 implementation of stricter federal limits on pollution from coal-fired power plants, according to a court filing.

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Federal Judge Blocks California Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rules

By Dan Levine and Noel Randewich SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A judge blocked one of California's signature attempts to lower greenhouse gas emissions, a victory for out-of-state ethanol producers and refiners that has California's air quality board vowing to appeal.

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