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Scientists Want To Crash Into Asteroids To Learn How To Stop Them
A team of European and American scientists has an ambitious plan to deal with dangerous asteroids: Smash a space probe into one to see exactly how to stop them. This “cosmic crash” will occur in 2022,...
View ArticleLucky Breaks Are Useless Unless You Already Know How To Work
What would you do for a million dollars?If that kind of money was truly in your grasp, what would you -- legally, ethically, and morally, of course -- be willing to do?Think about it for a minute.Now...
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New Study Shows How High Speed Rail Improves The Quality Of Urban Life
Economists studying the effects of implementing high-speed rail systems say that the benefits to people and places where they are built make the technology a winning infrastructure investment.Public...
View ArticleHow To Be The Luckiest Guy On The Planet In Four Easy Steps
I told my dad, “I’m a lucky guy.” He said, “But are you lucky in love?” I was six years old. Love was the most disgusting thing in the world to me. What the hell was he talking about? Love was living...
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The Star-Studded 'Zombieland' Movie Is Becoming A TV Show
[Update: Check out the newly released image of the show's cast below.]Still reeling from all the undead action in the latest World War Z trailer? Zombie fans, rejoice. Amazon Studios announced on...
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TurboTax Does Whatever It Can To Keep Free Tax Filing Out Of Americans' Grasp
This story was co-produced with NPR.Imagine filing your income taxes in five minutes — and for free. You'd open up a pre-filled return, see what the government thinks you owe, make any needed changes...
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MAP OF THE DAY: Boston Gets Gentrified
Author's Note: This is the 10th of a series of posts that explore the class divides across America's largest cities and metros. Using data from the American Community Survey, each post explores the...
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How One Woman's Divorce Ruined Her Credit
Over the years we’ve received an incredible amount of email from people who have gone through a divorce.Their story is almost always very similar. They’ve all had their credit destroyed because of...
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The 25 Least Visited Countries In The World
Are you up for going on that unique trip that almost no one has done before you?The problem might just be finding the right destination. The least visited country in the world may not be the one you...
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Nike's New Tiger Woods Ad Has A Brazen Message For His Critics
Nike, one-time sponsor to suspected murderer Oscar Pistorious and Oprah-approved doper Lance Armstrong, pushed out its latest Tiger Woods comeback ad last night on Facebook, where it's been shared more...
View ArticleFew People Understand The Difference Between Risk And Genuine Uncertainty
What are the odds that your new idea will succeed? If it does, what will the return to you be?One of the problems that we have in business (and life!) is that we often can’t know the answer to...
View ArticleEurope Is Politically Bankrupt
Over the past week, Europe, or rather the present EU leadership, has done damage to itself it will never be able to repair.It seems to escape everbody, but that doesn't make it any less true: people...
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The Chinese 5th Generation Fighter Has Some Truly Clever Engineering
In order to preserve their stealthiness and keep the RCS (Radar Cross Section) as low as possible, radar-evading planes rely on weapons bay: bombs and missiles to be fired are kept inside the bays...
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SHILLER: 'We're Living In A Totally Artificial Real Estate Economy'
Housing data released Tuesday was mixed, showing home prices jumped while new home sales dropped, prompting renowned economist Robert Shiller to call the housing recovery positive in the short-term,...
View ArticleThe 8-Part Playbook Of Insolvent Governments
Reporting from Sovereign Valley Farm, ChileTo anyone paying attention, reality is now painfully obvious. These bankrupt, insolvent governments have just about run out of fingers to plug the dikes. And...
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What Twitter Can Learn From Google About Tracking Tweets That Go Viral
With Twitter and Pinterest showcasing their new and updated analytics features recently, a lot of the focus has been on how to ensure your content reaches as large a group as possible. While first...
View ArticleWHITE TIGER GOLD – MINIMUM FOR MAXIM, FIN DE FINSKY
By John Helmer, MoscowOligarch ownership hasn’t given Russian goldmines a good name, or at least not a stable one. So if you take the 5-year view and judge that the gold price has peaked, while the...
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Mysterious Creature Has Seven Sexes
With seven different sexes to choose from, the single-celled organism Tetrahymena thermophila determines its biological mating type in a game of molecular chance, new research finds.Tetrahymena are...
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9 Mistakes That Will Kill Your Credit
Credit can be a tricky thing — some behaviors are obviously harmful to your credit, like paying late (or not at all), or maxing out your cards. But some mistakes aren’t all that obvious, and in fact...
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Uncle Sam Wants You: 600 Young Student Hackers
There are “new and rapidly growing threats” of a cyberstrike to the US homeland – perils that will require hundreds of young, college-age hackers to counter an alarming number of daily incursions into...
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