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(Photo H/T: The Daily Telegraph ) He does what politicians do . Where the ozone goes . How the other half lives. The top 10 TED talks . The...

Cheer up. We're winning this War on Terror | Gerard Baker - Times Online : "And yet the evidence is now overwhelming that on all fr...

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Dodd Deserves Financial Scrutiny -- Courant.com : "When Christopher Dodd is in the room, it's a rare occasion when he's not on...

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I don't suppose that I could prevail upon the Obama campaign to stop pissing off Canada? | Redstate : "*Yes, feel free to argue th...

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This I remember somehow. Though in a different context - from a summer concert at the Hollywood Bowl. I was about eight years old. So t...

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Who's side are we on again? Phew! A changing physical constant of the universe is constant after all. The virtue of hypocrisy . The mo...

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The Flickr founders leave Yahoo . Guzzle coffee , live longer. Microsoft the underdog . China obtains a virtual monopoly on mining rights i...

The decline of the Senate . The DirectX tutorials. The end of free speech in Canada. The visual history of Python . Wise, honest, independ...

Evolution by random mutation observed in the lab. Some workers are finally more equal than others. Just which way does antimatter actually...

Things are far better than you think. Bacteria from the past resist the antibiotics of the future. Winning the Iraq War. Confessions of a...

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