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Quantum Diaries quantumdiaries.org

This is the first part of a series of three on super­sym­me­try, the the­o­ry many believe could go beyond the Stan­dard Model. First I explain what is the Stan­dard Model and show its lim­i­ta­tions. …

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Daniel Bitonti, ctvnews.ca

New sugar consumption guidelines issued by the World Health Organization this week suggest that adults should be limiting their sugar intake to six teaspoons per day, or about 25 grams.

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#Assange: Power is a thing of per­cep­tion. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you.

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40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World twistedsifter, twistedsifter.com

If you’re a visual learner like myself, then you know maps, charts and infographics can really help bring data and information to life. Maps can make a point resonate with readers and this collection aims to do just that.Hopefully some of these ma…

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10 interesting quirks about your memory alltop.com

Your mem­o­ry works in strange ways––extreme­ly strange. Take a look at these ten bizarre quirks about your mem­o­ry.

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Study Shows Why It’s Worth Your Employer’s Money To Buy Everyone Walking Desks Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com

Desk jobs are slow­ly killing us. Per­haps even worse than dying early, our office-potato lives are mak­ing us more sus­cep­ti­ble to joint pain, fatigue, and ill­ness. To fight off these mod­ern dis­eases, I use a tread­mill desk, which keeps me …

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A Fuel-Efficient Big Rig From Walmart That Looks Like a Smushed Corvette Keith Barry, wired.com

Efficiency counts when you have one of the world's largest commercial truck fleets. That's why Walmart has developed a new big rig that uses a radical design to increase airflow and cut fuel use.

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A Second Child May Be Cured of HIV Carolyn Cox, geekosystem.com

Last March, doctors in Mississippi announced that extremely early and aggressive treatments had functionally cured a baby girl of AIDS. Yesterday, amazing news from a conference in Boston revealed that a second child appears to be in remission aft…

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This Guy’s House Is A Cat’s Dream Nicole Wakelin, nerdapproved.com

That cat condo in the corner of your living room is going to look really lame once you finish looking at these images of one man’s house in Goleta, California. He’s made the whole thing into a cat’s dream house. The remodel was done by Trillium…

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Joshua Keating, slate.com

As a sign of just how serious the turmoil in Ukraine, which is now spreading throughout the country, has become, commentators are now seriously talking about whether the country has a viable future in its current form. "What we are seeing in Ukrai…

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This Woman Invented a Way to Run 30 Lab Tests on Only One Drop of Blood By Caitlin Roper, wired.com

Phle­boto­my. Even the word sounds archa­ic—and that’s noth­ing com­pared to the slow, expen­sive, and inef­fi­cient real­i­ty of draw­ing blood and hav­ing it test­ed. As a col­lege sopho­more, Eliz­a­beth Holmes envi­sioned a way to rein­vent…

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Live in the present http://bit.ly/1cJl7ha

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How Putin’s Sochi dream was shattered by Ukraine's nightmare Mark MacKinnon, theglobeandmail.com

Vladimir Putin has a dream – and for the past two weeks, the world has been help­ing him to live it.

In this dream, Rus­sia is rich again, a place where the report­ed $51-billion cost of the Win­ter Olympics in Sochi is no object. It’s a nation …

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Jolie Lee, USA TODAY Network, usatoday.com

A plan to divide Cal­i­for­nia into six states is one step clos­er to a vote.

Sil­i­con Val­ley ven­ture cap­i­tal­ist Tim Drap­er got the go-ahead this week to col­lect sig­na­tures for his "Six Cal­i­f …

A sensible thing to better serve the California populations

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Google Developing Internet That’s Over 1,000 Times Faster Than Yours Klint Finley, wired.com

Google is already exploring the next thing: 10 gigabit per second connections, connections that are over 1,000 times faster than the average connection in the U.S. today.

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When everything is data, there’s opportunity in everything Derrick Harris, gigaom.com

Today, near­ly every part of our world can reduced to a num­ber. Phys­i­cal, dig­i­tal, alive, inan­i­mate — every­thing is a source of data just wait­ing to be processed and ana­lyzed. When the tech­nolo­gies for car­ry­ing out that pro­cess­ing …

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Why the Comcast-Time Warner Deal Is Far More Dangerous Than You Think Cade Metz, wired.com

The merger would go beyond the cable TV, commercial broadband, and telephone industries to impact satellite TV, television programmers like ESPN and Fox, online video providers like NetFlix and YouTube, and the massive networks at the very heart o…