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Any excuse!
For the love of chocolate: by Marissa de Crom, FYI Want to cut your risk of heart disease in half? Try eating a little chocolate each day. That’s right chocolate lovers, indulge! Consuming moderate amounts of the popular treat is associated with reduced incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD), as reported in a study recently…
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ERIS AND PLUTO FIND COMMON GROUND
Analysis by Ian O’Neill, DiscoveryNews They may have their differences, but it seems that dwarf planets Eris and Pluto have a lot more in common than just their planetary status. The larger Eris orbits the sun at a distance three-times that of Pluto, so it may not seem possible that we’ll ever get a glimpse…
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Seen Online
It’s looking very likely that, come 2015, we will still need roads. #docbrownlied — SethMacFarlane Actors dressed as characters from Planet Of The Apes should be the only ones to greet the Chilean miners when they’re freed. — GerryDuggan A horse walks into a pub. “Why the long face?” asks the barman. The horse, unable…
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Trivia Thursday
Who was originally supposed to do the opening monologue for every Twilight Zone episode? What, and how many, afflictions did P.K. Dick’s Palmer Eldritch suffer? What writer borrowed the name of Kurt Vonnegut’s fictional SF writer Kilgore Trout to publish the book Venus on the Half Shell under? What amusement facility hosted the California Voodoo…
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A Breakdown of Scientific News Reporting
This is really scary… It’s supposed to be a parody, and it rings true. Is it any wonder the average reader is completely uninterested in science news. It certainly explains why it is increasingly difficult to find news reports on the latest in science efforts and achievements. This is a news website article about a…
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Speculations (Stan Lee)
on twitter.com/theRealStanLee: (in sequence…) disclaimer: maybe i’m just easily amused. it did strike me as very funny when he first tweeted these — Hey , remember when I said I’d always warn you if I was gonna toss an ad at you? Okay, get ready for a real good one—about 2 hours ago via web…
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Whatever (John Scalzi)
“When the Yogurt Took Over: a short story” — “When the yogurt took over, we all made the same jokes – “Finally, our rulers will have culture,” “Our society has curdled,” “Our government is now the cream of the crop,” and so on. But when we weren’t laughing about the absurdity of it all, we…
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This Would Totally Work
(From Savage Chickens)
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Trivia Thursday
Who is the first of the 4th Expedition to be killed in Martian Chronicles?A) ParkhillB) WilliamsC) BiggsD) LustigE) Hinkston In Lost in Space, what was the name of the Robinson’s spaceship? This writer, primarily known for short stories, wrote the novel Past Master. Which cartoonist played a cameo role on Babylon 5? Which two regular…
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Tik Trek
I…um…yeah.