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Researchers studying the universe are ramping up to take the "image of the century" — the first ever image of a supermassive black hole. Since...
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I'm usually drawn to defend the USPS, which I think is often very unfairly beat-up. But this might change my opinions somewhat. Excerpts: Evan...
Putting some data behind the blindingly obvious. A study, to appear in the Fall 2014 issue of the academic journal Perspectives on Politics,...
Lovely expose of the Kingston Coal Sludge Disaster (2008) and how the industry learned nothing, and thanks to lobbying, federal inaction, and...
Fascinating/amusing/depressing article on one scientist's battle against a corporate juggernaut. It's a long read so I expect a number of...
Vanity Fair just posted a crazy interesting article on Vermeer, the famous Dutch painter of the 1650s. Fascinating read. David Hockney and...
I have an autographed clyde drexler basketball. My sister got it for me at a promotion he was doing at a best buy or something. Anyhow, I...
I'm not going to quote the whole thing here as it would just invite a slew of corny "TL;DR" posts, but this is really rather interesting. A...
I thought this was interesting... How to Lose Friends, Citizens and Influence The U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act seeks to co-opt foreign...
After the Watergate scandal taught Richard Nixon the consequences of recording White House conversations, none of his successors has dared to do...
The chips are down, walmart. Amazon has long enjoyed an unbeatable price advantage over its physical rivals. When I buy a $1,000 laptop from...
For fans of the British upstairs-downstairs TV series Downton Abbey, skullduggery may seem evenly distributed among the social ranks. But in real...
My respect for this man just ballooned. Just as he did following the death of New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid in Syria, White House press...
From slashdot: "David S. Miller writes that when Facebook goes public later this year, Mark Zuckerberg plans to exercise stock options worth $5...
Seldom used. It looks like the pic below, albeit the pic is from the Ikea website. Mainly sat in my former office at the house, occasionally...
In honor of our resident expert on bathroom ettiquite, author of such amazing threads as "farting in the public restroom", and "aaargh, crap on my...
I dislike having to make a new thread for this, but not even really old threads seem like an appropriate segue for this essay. Very insightful,...
Unbelievable. Ever since online payments really took off, companies have been pushing for you to opt out of paper billing. The excuses were...
After being held without charge since July 2010 (19 months), in conditions that 295 legal scholars petitioned as violations of the constitution,...