LI federal judges recount WWII experiences

Source: Newsday

On Memorial Day , Judge Jack B. Weinstein, 90, will lead the Village of Great Neck parade as its grand marshal. In a remembrance service at the village green, the World War II submarine officer will pay homage ...
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Tiny Planet May Be Doomed

Source: NewsMax

The Universe’s latest planetary candidate is only slightly larger than the planet Mercury, and researchers estimate that because of its tight orbit around its sun, it could completely disintegrate within 100 million years, according to a Space.com repo ...
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42 Knights ring the graduation bell

Source: Guam Pacific Daily News

Like the students before them, St. John's School's graduating class of 2012 lined up before a bell, which stands stationary outside the school's Dale J. Jenkins Gymnasium as a monument of its 50-year hist ...
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Slick invention's got a lot of bottle

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Slick ... a bottle coating that ensures every last bit of tomato sauce slides out. Photo: iStock THE research institution that brought you the fax machine and GPS has come up with another potentially world ...
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Old and New Neurons Trade Roles to Aid Memory

Source: Scientific American

The Wisdom of Psychopaths In this groundbreaking adventure into the worlds of psychopaths, the renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton argues that there is a fine line between a brilliant... Read More » For decades ...
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Video: Five minutes with Chris Hamilton, 2013 Ford Fusion designer [w/video]

Source: AutoblogGreen

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management recently played host to a panel of engineers and scientists from automakers, suppliers and academia for "The Autonomous Vehicle - 2012," a ...
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MIT's computer algorithms can tell why you're smiling better than a human can

Source: The Verge

While some recent studies have found that investment in facial recognition technologies hasn't yet yielded great success, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology continue to move the ball forward with a system t ...
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Texting while walking a dangerous experiment in multitasking

Source: CNN

By S teve Kastenbaum , CNN Radio National Correspondent Listen to CNN Radio's podcast from Steve Kastenbaum about the dangers of texting while walking. The old joke about a not-so-bright person goes, “He’s so dumb, he can’t walk and chew gum at the ...
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Newfound alien planet meting under heat of own sun

Source: FOX News

A potential alien planet that is so close to its parent star that it appears to be disintegrating from the scorching heat was recently found by a team of astronomers. The planetary candidate is only slightly larger than t ...
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