NOVA | Intelligent Design on Trial | PBS

At the end of the trial, Judge John Jones issued a 139-page verdict supporting the teaching of evolution and characterizing intelligent design as a religious idea with no place in the science classroom. It was a landmark decision, all the more so because Judge Jones was appointed by President Bush and nominated by Republican Senator Rick Santorum.

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Tesla Coils Playing Mario Bros. Theme song... Unsurprisingly Awesome

Twin Solid State Musical Tesla coils playing Mario Bros theme song at the 2007 Lightning on the Lawn Teslathon sponsored by DC Cox (Resonance Research Corp) in Baraboo WI. The music that you hear is coming from the sparks that these two identical high power solid state Tesla coils are generating. There are no speakers involved.

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Tesla Coils Playing Mario Bros. Theme song... Unsurprisingly Awesome

Twin Solid State Musical Tesla coils playing Mario Bros theme song at the 2007 Lightning on the Lawn Teslathon sponsored by DC Cox (Resonance Research Corp) in Baraboo WI. The music that you hear is coming from the sparks that these two identical high power solid state Tesla coils are generating. There are no speakers involved.

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A Visual Guide to Subnetting a Network

This is a very valuable resource to networking students who are struggling with the concepts of subnetting. Many diagrams and a handy quiz are available for those of us who arent networking geniuses.

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Absolutely Hilarious Indian Music Video

When they are not answering your tech support questions most Indian people spend their free time choreographing large multi-person dances and filming really cool music videos.

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Once thought dead, 'Net neutrality roars back to center stage

Network neutrality has lost some steam, but the boilers have returned to full pressure after two senators ask Congress for an investigation. AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast have only themselves to blame.

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Defect Suspected in Fabric of Space-Time

Eddies in the space-time continuum? Scientists think that shortly after the Big Bang, as the universe cooled and expanded, exotic particles transformed into the particles we know today via phase transitions similar to the gas-liquid-solid transitions that matter now experiences on Earth. One artifact of this may be an enormous 'cold spot'.

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The craziest thing you will see on youtube. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is no way for me to describe this video other than WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Scientists Create Quantum Cascade Laser Nanoantenna (New Device)

In a major feat of nanotechnology engineering researchers from Harvard University have demonstrated a laser with a wide-range of potential applications in chemistry, biology and medicine. Called a quantum cascade (QC) laser nanoantenna, the device is capable of resolving the chemical composition of samples, such as the interior of a cell, with...

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She swallowed a fish four times her size [pic]

The black swallower is a deep-sea fish with a small mouth but a big stomach. A Cayman fisherman recently landed one that may be heading into the world record books. It was found at the surface with a snake mackerel four times it size bursting from its stomach.

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Twine: The First Mainstream Semantic Web App?

Tomorrow Radar Networks is announcing a new Semantic Web application called Twine. It's a "knowledge networking" application built with Semantic Web technologies.

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Findings From the Web Design Survey - A List Apart

Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey’s 37 questions, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide. Working with statisticians, we crunched raw data into meaningful findings

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"Second Earth" found--20 lightyears away!

Scientists have discovered a warm and rocky "second Earth" circling a star, a find they believe dramatically boosts the prospects that we are not alone.

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The Structured Web - A Primer

A critical piece of the next web evolution is the introduction of structured information. This article examines the key drivers, such as the rise of APIs and vertical applications that run on top of existing data, an increase in classic Semantic Technologies and Microformats, and more.

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Pictures: The Weirdest Insects in the World

There are over a million described species of insects, and even more that haven’t been studied. A little research indicates they are all strange in different ways. It was not easy to pick a dozen for this list, but these are all pretty weird.

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Yale scientists make 2 giant steps in advancement of quantum computing!

Two major steps toward putting quantum computers into real practice they report that superconducting qubits, or artificial atoms, have been able to communicate information not only to their nearest neighbor, but also to a distant qubit on the chip.

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That's no space station....

An image of the moon Mimas taken by the Cassini spacecraft in 2004.

From JPL

LEGO's Ultimate Collectors Millennium Falcon Unboxed, Now Shipping (PICS)

The biggest LEGO set ever, the $499 Ultimate Collectors Millennium Falcon is now shipping, 5,000-pieces and heavy ring-binded manual included. Yes, this thing is massive. Julie Stern from LEGO confirms: "We're a bit ahead of schedule, so some people who preordered now have their sets." In other words: "great shot kid, that was one in a million

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The Theory of Intelligent Design [pic]

Need I say more?

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Velociraptor was a feathered fiend

"The terrifying velociraptors that ripped apart everyone they could catch in Jurassic Park should have been given feathers by the director Steven Spielberg. After analysing fossilised bones they have discovered that the velociraptor was not the smooth-skinned creature portrayed in the film, but had feathers."Did I hear someone say feathered fiend? :-)

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New Grow Game - Grow Island

A new grow series game.To play Grow games, you must choose items, that build on each other, to add to a world.Follow the correct path to get all items matured to the maximum level.

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Pretend to be a Time Traveller Day

This might be as good as TLAP. Mark your calendars for Dec. 8, 2007.

http://forums.koalawallop.com/viewtopic.php?t=1719

How dare you call me a fundamentalist - by Richard Dawkins

The hardback God Delusion was hailed as the surprise bestseller of 2006. While it was warmly received by most of the 1,000-plus individuals who volunteered personal reviews to Amazon, paid print reviewers gave less uniform approval. Cynics might invoke unimaginative literary editors: it has “God” in the title, so send it to a known faith-head.

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Antiparticles form new matter

Fragile particles rarely seen in our Universe have been merged with ordinary electrons to make a new form of matter.

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Alex the Parrot has died!

Alex also had the emotional level of a 2yr-old child After repeating some learning trials dozens of times, Alex would become tired and throw objects off the trays with his beak. When visiting the vet. Alex would go back in his cage and slam the door. How would Alex say goodbye? "You be good. I love you. See you tomorrow." Thank Dr. Irene Maxine

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'Clearest' images taken of space

A team of astronomers from the US and the UK has obtained some of the clearest pictures of space ever taken. They were acquired using a new "adaptive optics" system which sharpens pictures taken from the Mount Palomar Observatory in California. The images are twice as sharp as those from Hubble Space Telescope.

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Partial Face Transplant Celebrity Photoshop Gallery

Photoshopped photos with the right half of a face from one celebrity and the left half from another... Tom-Kat is scary as one face...

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Top 10 Windows Vista Speed Tweaks

10 Speed Tweaks that can make a huge difference in Vista performance.

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Ultimate Web Development Cheat Sheets

So your sitting there on Saturday morning, sipping on a nice warm cup of coffee or tea, smell the freshness of the morning, and whipping up some html, CSS and trying out some new AJAX programming. Your stuck on something, you wish you had a quick cheat sheet to get you back on track.

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The Most Amazing [Extinct] Animals

From the Quagga --half zebra, half horse-- to the Irish Deer --the largest deer that ever lived--, an impressive list with pictures of 10 amazing animals we will never see.

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15 Web Addresses for Wasting Time ... View At Your Own Risk!

"There’s a lot of articles around about how to make your time more productive. But some days I really don’t want to be productive, and while..."

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Gaping hole found in universe

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A giant hole in the Universe is devoid of galaxies, stars and even lacks dark matter, astronomers said on Thursday. The team at the University of Minnesota said the void is nearly a billion light-years across and they have no...

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First hands on preview of Spore

From 1up.com: "Spore is finished. That's the first thing I learn as I head in to my demo at the Leipzig Games Convention. Obviously, the game isn't finished finished (as in ready to ship), but in terms of its offering, it's all there -- the game is complete. At this point, EA is spending the next several months paying attention to feedback from players."

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Production Line Built From Legos Builds Lego Cars

This is amazing. Someone's built a production line out of legos capable of building little lego cars all by itself.

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The Top 100 Sci-Fi Books

A statistical survey of the all-time Top 100 sci-fi books

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Amazing Fish and rare aquatic lifeforms [PICS]

Discover 27 stunning images of the strangest and most exotic sea creatures hidden in the ocean's depths

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