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Japan’s ‘Toxic’ Monster Creeping Towards USA
from foxnews.com: An enormous debris field is creeping toward the U.S. in the wake of the massive earthquake and tsunami that shook Japan in 2011, killing nearly 16,000 people and launching 1.5 million tons of floating objects into the sea. That most concentrated part of the junk field is easily broader than Texas and centered…
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Hybrid Solar Eclipse Happens This Sunday
from usatoday.com: This Sunday a rare eclipse will take shape … a Hybrid solar eclipse. For the first 15 seconds of this phenomena, the moon will be perfectly aligned, dead center in front of the sun … creating a distinct, fiery ring of orange. Then the eclipse will continue to cover the entirety of the…
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FAA Allows Use of Electronic Devices Throughout Flights
from nytimes.com: Airline passengers can use electronic devices to listen to music, read and play games in “all phases of flight,” the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday, but using a cellphone to talk and text will still be banned. The changes will most likely take effect before the end of the year, the F.A.A. said,…
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Halloween grinch in North Dakota? Fat notes replace candy
from cnn.com: Instead of handing out candy, a local woman called into a radio station, saying she plans to pass out letters to trick-or-treaters she feels are “moderately obese.” How do you say killjoy? “I just want to send a message to the parents of kids that are really overweight,” said the woman, who identified…
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Oklahoma Man Destroys Own Apartment After Meeting ‘Gay Demon’
from boingboing.net: Jeremy Jarnell Anderson, 22, was taken to jail and charged with arson Thursday after “going ballistic” in his Oklahoma City apartment, reportedly kicking doors off hinges, pouring salt and soap over himself, and setting fire to it. Officers arrived to find him “screaming random things on the front porch,” according to KFOR-TV: “Anderson…
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Dark Matter Still Missing After 100-Day Experiment
from theregister.co.uk: The most sensitive dark matter detector ever built has failed to detect any dark matter. It’s not yet a problem for the instrument, the LUX Dark Matter Collaboration that The Register described here and here. What it might mean is, in an echo of the kind of iterative narrowing-down that characterised the hunt…
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Take a Hellish Tour of America’s Most Satanic Landmarks
from theatlanticcities.com: All right, kids, the bags are in the trunk and we’re ready to get this road trip started. Let’s just grab the map to see where we can go. Devil’s Swamp – hmm, that doesn’t sound very fun. Mount Evil… uhh, no. Satan Hill. Lucifer Falls. Lake Chaos. Wait a second – what…
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Motorola Wants Everyone To Build Smartphones Like Legos
from readwrite.com: Google has teased us before. Rumors swirled for months that Motorola would introduce a customizable smartphone that would let consumers decide what kind of hardware — a bigger battery, choice of processor, a better camera—they wanted. The notion of a consumer-grade open hardware platform quickened the heartbeats of geeks across the globe. What…
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Do Food Stamps Riot Predictions Give Blank Check for Mayhem?
Food Bank CEO Warns of Riots over Major Food Stamps Cuts* from rt.com: The US food stamp system is to be reduced by $5 billion starting in November. The average benefit will shrink and the overall number of people receiving it will diminish by millions. The CEO of America’s largest food bank says the cuts…
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California City Sues Sriracha Factory Over Stench
from bbc.co.uk: A California city has sued the maker of Sriracha hot sauce saying the factory’s smell makes the area uninhabitable. The city of Irwindale has asked a judge to prevent Huy Fong Foods from making the spicy condiment until the factory submits plan to reduce the smell. Huy Fong representatives have said they are…
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Fuku-what?: Climate Change Pact Signed By California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia
from mercurynews.com: Saying that the West Coast must lead the way in battling climate change, the governors of California, Oregon and Washington, along with a representative of the premier of British Columbia, signed an agreement Monday committing the Canadian province and the three states to coordinate global-warming policies. Each state and the Canadian province promised…
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Penn State to pay nearly $60 million to 26 Sandusky sex abuse victims
from csmonitor.com: Penn State said Monday it is paying $59.7 million to 26 young men over claims of child sexual abuse at the hands of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. The school said 23 deals are fully signed and three are agreements in principle, but it did not disclose the names of the recipients.…
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The mystery of Google’s floating barges
from usatoday.com: A mysterious four-story barge floating near Treasure Island here has people wondering what Google is up to. A local TV station and CNET offer two theories behind the contents of the boat, which is stacked with shipping containers. CBS-affiliate KPIX, citing an unnamed source close to the project, says Google is constructing an…
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Death Ritual Found in Himalaya
from news.nationalgeographic.com: The remains of 27 ancient men, women, and children have been found in cliffside caves in Nepal. Many of the bones bear cut marks that point to a previously unknown Himalayan death ritual, experts say. The corpses—many of which had been stripped of flesh—were placed in the high mortuaries some 1,500 years ago,…
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Yes On 522: GMO food fight brings in big bucks to Washington
from america.aljazeera.com: A bitter fight in Washington state over whether to label foods with ingredients that have been genetically modified has attracted tens of millions of dollars in spending, more than $27 million if you add the funds of both sides together. The amount of cash and other donations rivals previous fiercely fought battles for…