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Ted Williams, Diamonds and How to Wring an Extra $20 out of a Used Car

A slightly used car. Image: Flickr/JoiseyShowaa cc license Ted Williams entered the final two games of the 1941 season batting .39955. If he d sat them out, the average would ve been rounded up to .400, making him the only MLB player in the modern era to bat the milestone

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Counterterrorism Czar: China’s Hacked Every Major U.S. Firm

Legendary spook Richard A. Clarke's gone on the record claiming Chinese hackers have infiltrated every major American corporation. He warns that the effects for American innovation--and especially corporate R&D--will be brutal

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How wings really work

(PhysOrg.com) -- A 1-minute video released by the University of Cambridge sets the record straight on a much misunderstood concept – how wings lift.

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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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Let It Snow: The Science of Snowflakes

There’s a scene in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird — one of my all-time favorite novels — where the little girl-narrator, Scout, sees pretty white snow flakes falling and assumes the world is ending. She’s never seen snow before, since it’s a very rare occurrence in rural Alabama. The world didn’t end then, and it’s not ending now, but it’s just one more bit of evidence that weather is a very wacky thing.

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First lady targets world record for jumping jacks

Michelle Obama will lead hundreds of children in an event on the South Lawn of the White House Tuesday in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the most people doing jumping jacks in a 24-hour period.

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Jack says Tiger can still get 18

PGT: Jack Nicklaus says Tiger Woods can pass his record if “he gets the five inches between his ears squared out.”

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World record: The strongest magnetic fields created

On June 22, 2011, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf set a new world record for magnetic fields with 91.4 teslas. To reach this record, Sergei Zherlitsyn and his colleagues at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory Dresden (HLD) developed a coil weighing about 200 kilograms in which electric current create the giant magnetic field – for a period of a few milliseconds

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Record Wool Bale Yields World-Class Suits

In the 11 years since Loro Piana introduced its World Wool Record Challenge Cup competition aimed at rewarding merino sheep breeders who cultivate the world’s finest wools, the Italian fabric and clothing maker has procured rare wools measuring as fine as 10.9 microns, about 10 times finer than human hair.

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McIlroy to take 3-week break after US Open victory

Rory McIlroy has returned to Britain, basking in his record-breaking U.S Open triumph and ready for a three-week break before he returns to the course to look for a second straight major victory.

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McIlroy setting records at US Open

Rory McIlroy shot 5-under 66 at the U.S. Open on Friday to finish at 11-under 131, setting the record for the best score after 36 holes in the 111-year history of the tournament.

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