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Meet the PR Guru Who Wants to Help Corporations Write Wikipedia
Image: Flickr, CC Phil Gomes is a senior vice president with Edelman Digital, the online arm of the world's largest public relations firm. He thinks PR professionals should be spending more time on...
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How Yvonne Brill's Rocket Design Works
President Obama presents Yvonne Brill with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation during a White House ceremony in 2011. Photo: Ryan K Morris/National Science & Technology Medals...
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Nuclear Power Might Have Saved Your Life
Image: Fotopedia, CC No other power source casts as terrifying a shadow as nuclear power—but NASA research shows it might have just saved your life. Nuclear power is an Eisenhower mushroom cloud, a...
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Pay Attention, Daydreaming May Be Making You Unhappy
It’s a solid bit of advice, forged over thousands of years in eastern philosophy and folk idiom, familiar to anyone who’s ever taken a meditation class or read a self-help book: Be here now. Live in...
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OMNI: The Forgotten History of The Best Science Magazine That Ever Was
I first discovered the best science magazine ever published at an estate sale. The deceased had been geeky, and among the comic books, star charts, and vertiginous towers of science fiction paperbacks...
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Block Heads: The Best Early Mobile Phone Ads
Forty years ago today, a young division manager with Motorola stood outside the New York Hilton on 6th Avenue, punched a couple numbers into the keypad of a hulking mass of plastic and glass and...
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Camera Companies Making Rifle Scopes Isn't Hypocritical
Image via Kendall Morton/UNR/Flickr According to a piece from the Independent that's getting passed around in photography circles, some wildlife photographers are up in arms about the fact that Nikon...
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Jeff Berwick, the Founder of Bitcoin ATM, Says His Machine Is the Real Deal
Bitcoin ATM's user interface, courtesy Jeff Berwick When I read Jeff Berwick’s press release last Monday, detailing his plans to unleash the world’s first bitcoin-powered ATM in Cyprus, it struck me...
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Massive, Destructive Algal Blooms May Be Lake Erie's New Normal
Almost the entirety of Dave Spangler's life takes place on or very near Lake Erie. If he's not piloting a charter fishing boat around the Great Lake, he's home in Toledo at his condo--just 100 feet...
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A Tiny, See-Through Fish Was Recently Discovered in the Amazon, Is Totally...
Cyanogaster noctivaga, via the Natural History Museum in London A joint Brazilian-British team just found a new species of fish, which also is the sole member of a new genus, in the Rio Negro in the...
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If You've Ever Been Accused of Stealing, Your Name Is in a Database That Will...
Image: Screenshot, Brazil My first job was in retail. As a wild and fun-lovin' deeply insecure teenager, I may or may not have let an acquaintance of mine, one that I evidently wanted to impress, talk...
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Stunning Photos: Watch a Standoff Between Juvenile Cougars and Coyotes Unfold
Photo: Lori Iverson, USFWS You might think that mountain lions don't fear much, but if you're a young cougar and a pack of coyotes show up to chase you away, you can be darn sure that you'd turn tail...
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'Going Dark': What's So Wrong with the Government's Plan to Tap Our Internet?
Photo via Qfamily / Flickr We know it's open season on our data. Simply by examining your online interactions, your trades of email or gender in exchange for access, it’s not that difficult for big...
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Is This Mark Zuckerberg's First Website?
A funny thing happened on Hacker News today. Seemingly out of nowhere, someone posted a vintage-looking link and the eye-popping title: "Mark Zuckerberg's first website is still on Angelfire."...
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Whole Foods Is Getting into the Farming Business, and Naturally It's in Brooklyn
Do you ever walk around the produce section at Whole Foods and think, "My gosh this stuff looks fresh. Any fresher and they'd have to grow inside the store!" Oh yuck yuck, you're so absurd. How on...
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Are Cats Spies Sent by Aliens? A Deep Examination of One of the Internet's...
Are those big eyes recording your every move for their alien masters? One conspiracy theory says yes. Image by Keith Kissel via Wikimedia Commons Attention cat people. There’s a burgeoning theory...
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I Got Paid to Party at Notch's Skrillex Show
Game developers are the most socially inept of all geeks. As such, it is only fitting that our awkward gropes toward pop cultural acceptance come at the expense of many misguided steps from both party...
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I Bought My First Bitcoin This Week and So Far I've Made $50
Image: Flickr I'd been bugging a friend of mine to sell me one of his bitcoin for months. He'd always demur—until last Monday, when I got a late-night message. He would let me have one, he said, at...
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Why Was a Student in Montreal Arrested for Photographing a Piece of Graffiti?
The infringing artwork. Found via Statigram. VICE Canada -- On Wednesday night, news broke that a 20-year-old “supporter of the student movement,” Jennifer Pawluck was arrested in Montreal for posting...
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Gang Members Are Taking the Street Corner to YouTube
You don’t need to visit a rival gang’s street corner (or even leave the comfort of your couch, for that matter) to talk smack, because now you can do it through YouTube. A recent Google Ideas-funded...
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