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Information from a new study into the lives of sheepdogs could be used to model robots after their techniques. This takes on a sinister possibility when we understand that researchers are opening up the Internet to robots for autonomous learning. Robo Brain is being funded by the...

Helsinki, Finland, has proposed a strikingly ambitious mobility on demand system that presents the logical extension of current innovations in passenger travel. The city plans to create a subscriber service that would let users choose from, and pay for, a range of transportation options...

you didn't really think there was a real ebola problem did you? List of West African Oil Discoveries in 2010 - 2011. Ok.., here it is.. One of the most definitive lists of discoveries in West Africa for 2010-2011 so far. There is increasing excitement about the vast potential in...

via sda: Operation Head Explosions Canada delivers military supplies to Iraq. Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced that a Royal Canadian...

Britain's government has raised the country's terror threat level to "severe," Home Secretary Theresa May said Friday. It's the fourth-highest of five potential threat levels. According to the U.K. government, it means an attack is "highly likely." But there is no intelligence to suggest an...

Economist Uses ‘Fagin the Jew’ to Illustrate Article on Criminal Behavior I’m usually the one around the Old Jews poker table who counsels my oversensitive friends not to over-react to perceived slights. As a former English prof, I abhor PC censorship of literature (banning Twain for his use...

Statistics should provoke Britain's media into prolonged period of self-reflection. They probably won't, since 54% of top 100 media professionals went to private schools Seventy-one percent of senior judges in Britain were privately educated. Photograph: Toby Melville/REUTERS Much of the...

Past-life recognition in children is being studied extensively by various scientists and psychiatrists around the world to prove the survival of consciousness beyond the physical realm. Reincarnation research was advanced by Dr. Ian Stevenson in the 1960’s, who interviewed thousands of...

Before following the advice of your medical doctor on immunization (which is not synonymous with vaccination), you may want to reconsider giving any vaccines to your child until you have completed sufficient research on the risks, side effects and actual causes of the diseases you are...

Dean Skoreyko ‏@bcbluecon Keep in mind that the CBC refused to report on Hamas supporters beating Jews and chanting Heil Hitler in Calgary Gregory and Collin Gordon, Calgary brothers, join ranks of Canadians...

CBC News AlertsVerified account ‏@CBCAlerts 56 injured in B.C. tour bus crash. Hospital in #Kamloops calls Code Orange as 6 helicopters,19 ambulances dispatched. http://cbc.ca/1.2749862 A long shot of the bus...

David Barajas and José Banda Jr. A Texas father was found not guilty Wednesday of gunning down the man who killed his young sons in a drunken-driving accident. It took the jury three hours to acquit David Barajas, who was charged in the shooting death of 20-year-old Jose Banda Jr. in...

“Sons of Guns” star Will Hayden has been arrested again, this time for aggravated rape, according to documents sent to FOX411 by the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office. The allegations have prompted the cancellation of his Discovery Channel series. “Given the serious and horrific nature...

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That Could Cover Windows, Electronics Scientists at Michigan State University announced this week the creation of a “transparent luminescent solar concentrator” that could turn windows and even cellphone screens into solar-power generators. This technology could mean that one day entire...

On Monday, Taylor Swift, the artist formerly (slightly) known as country, released the video for “Shake It Off,” the first single from her forthcoming pop (!) album, “1989.” The backlash was instantaneous. The video features Swift “dancing” alongside professional dancers from a number of...

https://twitter.com/gamma_ray239/status/504347271384010752 or if you prefer to try and swallow this one below...who is to really say in these troubled times eh: Arrest made in fight that may have been racially motivated Man reportedly told West Point...

to social media streams near you...be advised...all your 'friends', long lost relatives and any douchebag with a phone will want to spamshare youtube, liveleak, twitter and yes, even CC. Hyperlapse, the new app from Instagram, is about to change the way you watch video online Anyone who has...

When YouTube started to remove gory videos of journalist James Foley's beheading this week, the next stop for some Internet surfers was LiveLeak, a streaming video website that specializes in hosting graphic videos that other sites won't touch. There was so much interest in the Foley...

The University of Mary Washington’s newspaper is changing its name after 96 years. A Virginia university has decided to stop calling its newspaper “The Bullet” over concerns that the name was so insensitive and inappropriate that it could even make people violent. The University of Mary...