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Monolithic Apparition of the Human Hand above the Surface of a Cometary Nucleus One Second before Impacting Earth during the Late Cretaceous

Digital Collage

February 26, 2015

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Friday Night, Saturday Morning - Monty Python's Life of Brian

Debate about Monty Python's Life of Brian with the makers of Life of Brian and clergymen 

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Water clouds tentatively detected just 7 light-years from Earth

They're the first water clouds ever seen beyond our solar system

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The 2014 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Selling Space

Space exploration is entering a new era. Dozens of aerospace companies have emerged in recent years, all with the goal of commercializing space as never befo...

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Does non-belief in free will make us better or worse?

Studies have shown that people who believe things happen randomly and not through our own choice often behave much worse than those who believe the opposite.

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Getting Drunk on God

God is descending on Minneapolis in the form of invisible spliffs and imaginary lines of coke. 

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Increasing mutation rates through inducing stress

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We need to talk about TED

Benjamin Bratton: Science, philosophy and technology run on the model of American Idol – as embodied by TED talks – is a recipe for civilisational disaster

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bitcloud

Toward decentralized Internet services

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Coming to an office near you

"INNOVATION, the elixir of progress, has always cost people their jobs. 

One recent study by academics at Oxford University suggests that 47% of today’s jobs could be automated in the next two decades."

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Kerouac, the movie 1986 (King of Beats)

Original title: Kerouac, the movie Director: John Antonelli Country/Year: USA,1986 Known ...

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Hero Saddam; Last Interview 2003 by Dan Rather

 Text: http://www.channel4.com/news/2003/02/week_1/04_saddam_benn.html

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They're just cool.

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"The study was conducted as part of the 2008 ODNI SHARP (Summer Hard Problem) program and was just released under the Freedom of Information Act in redacted (and partially illegible) form. Though sponsored by ODNI, it was prepared by a mix of governmental and non-governmental authors and does not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. intelligence community."

http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2014/01/virtual-worlds/

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Public’s Views on Human Evolution

Six-in-ten Americans say that “humans and other living things have evolved over time,” while a third reject the idea of evolution, saying that “humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.”

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The Mike Wallace Interview: Erich Fromm (1958-05-25)

The Mike Wallace Interview: Erich Fromm (1958-05-25) Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and social critic, talks to Wallace about society, materialism, relationships...

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"This is because we can not observe, how many baby universes exist out there, waiting to join on to our region of the universe...There could be a population explosion of baby universes."