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The Higgs Boson explained.

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"We’re doing a grand experiment. We’re trying to design the first cell from scratch."

-Craig Venter

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In October of 1973, Bruce Severy — a 26-year-old English teacher at Drake High School, North Dakota — decided to use Kurt Vonnegut's novel,Slaughterhouse-Five, as a teaching aid in his classroom. The next month, on November 7th, the head of the school board, Charles McCarthy, demanded that all 32 copies be burned in the school's furnace as a result of its "obscene language." Other books soon met with the same fate. On the 16th of November, Kurt Vonnegut sent McCarthy the following letter. He didn't receive a reply.

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Welcome to the Genomic Revolution

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It was perhaps the best demonstration yet — albeit only in an animal model — that stem cell biology sits potentially on the cusp of a completely new kind of clinical therapy, one in which a patient’s own cells are rebooted into an embryonic-like state, genetically repaired, differentiated back into a desired cell type, and returned to the body.

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Who won the Iowa GOP Debate?  Ron Paul rallies the Green Monster.

Also: www.2012twit.com

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Something Ventured - Risk, Reward, & the Original Venture Capitalists #documentary @venturemovie #startups

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The Pentagon's 13K MPH Ride is fast enough to travel from New York to LA in 12 minutes.

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  #Energy consumption as a product of Urban density #urbanization 

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Pension payments usually are sacrosanct. But a Rhode Island law enacted in July upends the traditional pecking order of who gets paid first when a city or county becomes insolvent.

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De humani corporis fabrica (On the fabric of the human body)

-Andreas Vesalius, 1543

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Lucille Ball, one of the all time greatest, would have turned 100 years old on 8/6/11.

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What happened that night in Abbottabad.

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How we work: ... 3. S/he who codes, rules. ... 7. You must code.

-angel.co

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Paul Bloom:  The origins of pleasure

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"We have no engine of growth," she says. "You are never going to have that engine unless you have great schools, great libraries and great infrastructure. And you will never have that unless you fix pensions."

-Gina Raimondo, Rhode Island General Treasurer