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[Whistler]

you're not the first to think of it http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009 ... _dad_s.php

[Digit]

Ithkuil. The grammar of this constructed language seems to be very thorough, and insanely complex. I have to wonder what someone raised only to speak that would be like.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/ ... act-crater

Having just finished reading Dan Brown's "Deception Point", I'm a little freaked out by anything to do with meteors right now.

[Yarjka]

Having just finished reading Dan Brown's "Deception Point", I'm a little freaked out by anything to do with meteors right now.

I enjoyed that book quite a bit. Much better than Da Vinci Code. I do with Dan Brown would give his readers a little time to try and figure things out for themselves, though. But his style definitely keeps the pages turning.

[S.A.M.]

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/gadge ... -1C7446180

The HCO will soon require installation in all BYU approved singles housing.

[Digit]

Boy dies after three years without a brain. Nickolas Coke, of Pueblo, Colorado was born with only a brain stem, a condition known as Anencephaly.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

http://news.uk.msn.com/health/squeezing ... top-cancer

[Giovanni Schwartz]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... ivors.html

[Digit]

Med school students can now learn how to perform surgery from their iPhones.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/ ... eath-star/

The Government responds to a petition that it build a Death Star, a la Star Wars.

[Digit]

Cat beats professional wealth managers at picking stocks

[Dead Cat]

Cat beats professional wealth managers at picking stocks

That's like over the break when my family was playing Apples to Apples and my brother won when we played random cards for him for an entire game.

[Katya]

Cat beats professional wealth managers at picking stocks

That's like over the break when my family was playing Apples to Apples and my brother won when we played random cards for him for an entire game.

I had the same experience playing Apples to Apples on a team with my 3yo cousin and letting her pick the cards.

[Yarjka]

Cat beats professional wealth managers at picking stocks

That's like over the break when my family was playing Apples to Apples and my brother won when we played random cards for him for an entire game.

I had the same experience playing Apples to Apples on a team with my 3yo cousin and letting her pick the cards.

My cat usually wins or gets very close to winning Apples to Apples in my family. It has emerged that he has a very dark sense of humor.

[Digit]

U.S. programmer outsources own job to China, surfs cat videos

[Giovanni Schwartz]

Fecal transplants prove more effective than antibiotics to cure certain infections. A guy actually told me about this last semester. I was disgusted. And then fascinated. And then this popped up on Wired, and I had to share.

[Whistler]

oh, I also heard about that a few months ago. I had an intestinal infection once, but thankfully antibiotics and probiotics were able to clear things up (although my intestines have never really felt the same since).

[Digit]

Solar Blob Attacks the Earth!

Headline exaggeration speak for coronal mass ejection for which disruption was minimal, "Weak power grid fluctuations may occur," and "Minor impact on satellite operations possible."

[Giovanni Schwartz]

You know it's a slow news day when THIS is on the front page of MSN.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

"I am wearing a Snuggie under a top and another jacket over that," said Faye Whitbeck, president of the chamber of commerce in International Falls, Minn.,

I feel like this is one of those ridiculous news lines out of a Harry Potter novel.