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Sure, it’s a snap–it’s a snap to turn off those annoying previews, that is.

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Wow. Just wow. Andrew Sullivan has a YouTube video of a humvee driving in Bagdad. Wow: Andrew Sullivan | The Daily Dish: A Glimpse of Baghdad

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Quicktime animation of glogal warming via Will Shetterly.

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Great article in Time about “The Mystery of Consciousness “:
Some mavericks, like the mathematician Roger Penrose, suggest the answer might someday be found in quantum mechanics. But to my ear, this amounts to the feeling that quantum mechanics sure is weird, and consciousness sure is weird, so maybe quantum mechanics can explain consciousness.
Via Arts & [...]

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BBC 4’s Big Brother program has recently created a furor over very ugly behavior. In her exit interview, ejected contestant Jade Goody has a revelation:
“I look like a complete and utter nasty small person - the sort of person I don’t like myself,” but continued: “I am not a racist and I sincerely, with my [...]

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In his diary entry for Monday 11 January 1663/64, Samuel Pepys records a Quaker woman at the the court of King Charles II:
This morning I stood by the King arguing with a pretty Quaker woman, that delivered to him a desire of hers in writing. The King showed her Sir J. Minnes, as a man [...]

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The Guardian reports: Carry on flying, says Blair - science will save the planet
Tony Blair today wades into the growing controversy over how individuals can help to tackle global warming by declaring that he has no intention of abandoning long-haul holiday flights to reduce his carbon footprint.
Days after his environment minister branded Ryanair the “irresponsible [...]

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In honor of tonight’s Wolf Moon, Astronomy Picture of the Day has posted a montage of twenty full moons. Be sure to click through to the twenty frame movie.

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