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Wikipedia founder to help in government's research scheme
Academic spring campaign aims to make all taxpayer-funded academic research available for free online The government has drafted in the Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to help make all taxpayer-funded academic research in Britain available online to anyone who wants to read or use it. The initiative, which has the backing of No 10 and should be up and running in two years, will be announced by the ...
www.guardian.co.uk
Greece's Neo-Nazi Party Is Sending This Death Metal Bassist To Parliament
Do you prefer your neo-Nazi movements with some musical flavor? Giorgos Germenis is better known by his stage name " Kaiada, " which as Matthew Brunwasser observes, was the name of the Spartan death hole into which parents threw undesired children.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops - Der Riese Guide
Zombies is srs bsns. Welcome to.....
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Dinesh D’Souza Digs Himself in Deeper
Dinesh D’Souza has responded to my, uh, criticism of his smear piece that, shamefully, made the cover of Forbes with its claims that Obama is directed by a “Kenyan, anticolonial” worldview (as Newt Gingrich succinctly summarized it) that comes from his dad, whom Obama met once.
www.cjr.org
The end of Earth, the end of us, and the end of the universe
Humanity is obsessed with history. I don't know why, but for the most part we would much rather lose ourselves in reverie than contemplate the future. It is a rare person indeed who thinks of 50 or 100 years in the future -- but what about 1,000 years? Or a million years? Or a billion years? Will humanity still exist? Will the Pyramids of Giza still exist? Will Earth or the Solar System exist?
www.extremetech.com
AC/DC guitarist Angus Young named greatest axeman
AC/DC guitarist Angus Young has been named No. 1 on a list of the top 50 greatest guitar players in Australian history.
news.com.au.feedsportal.com
The closest supernova candidate? | Bad Astronomy
[NOTE: Whenever I write about actual cosmic events that might possibly affect us on Earth, I get scared emails from some folks. So let me be up front: there are no stars close enough to Earth to hurt us should they explode . Nothing I write in this post changes that; I'm talking about a star that can go supernova that's closer than I thought any was, but still much too far away to do much to us ...
blogs.discovermagazine.com
Vegan Soul Food Comes to Oakland Chinatown
Theres something about finding interesting eats at an unlikely location that really gets the ol food writers blood pumping. Authentic ghormeh sabzi at an Oakland Hills delicatessen ?… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Endorsements: Congressional Representative, District 2
With the retirement of Lynn Woolsey, this is Marin's and western Sonoma County's first open congressional race in nearly 20 years. And following redistricting, the newly formed 2nd now runs up along the coast through Mendocino, Humboldt, Trinity and Del Norte counties.
www.pacificsun.com
So, you've learned that the Sun is going to explode... [Starts With A Bang]
"Through that last dark cloud is a dying star... And when it explodes, it will be reborn. You will bloom... and I will live." - The Fountain I want to start off by letting you all know that I, myself, do not have any children of my own. I have taught children, adolescents and adults for nearly a full generation now in varying capacities, and while each learner is different, there's one science ...
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