Source: Space.com
The original "Star Trek" television series featured technology that had first appeared decades earlier in science fiction stories. Pulp heroes had been wielding ray guns, flying faster than light and teleporting from place to place ...
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Source: News24
None of us alive today* will see the distant future; the atoms of our mortal remains will return via microbes or incineration to the earth, to then become nitrogen in the grass for cattle, carbon for new bodies, an ...
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Source: Lefsetz Letter
It’s still light out! I don’t know what time it is there, but it’s ten after nine here, eleven now, and the sun still hasn’t set… I don’t know if it’ll ever set, when I slept at Richard’s house three years back during the summer solstice i ...
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Source: Pittsburgh Entertainment
He's the pitcher with the 99 mph heat who still can fan the Mendoza Line hitter with a filthy curve. He's the quarterback capable of a full-stride Hail Mary who still can look off the safety and audible a screen. And f ...
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Source: The Washington Post
Yesterday I noted here that Republicans in the grip of Washington scandal-mania run the risk of a rerun of 1998, in which overreach amid the Monica Lewinsky scandal led to backlash against Bill Clinton’s tormentor ...
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Source: ReadWriteWeb
Android, it seems, is the worm that eats away at Apple's core. According to Gartner, Android-based handsets outsold iOS-based handsets 4-to-1 on a worldwide basis in the first quarter of 2013, up from a ratio of abo ...
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Source: VentureBeat
Give me your smart, your educated, your startup founders yearning to build companies? The Startup Visa provides immediate permanent residency in Canada if a founder meets just three criteria. An applicant must: S ...
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