Month: December 2012

Culture

The 21 Craziest Things The TSA Found In Travelers’ Luggage This Year

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Alex Davies TSA Every day, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screens about 1.8 million passengers, along with all of their luggage.  Those searches produce a lot of interesting results. Every week, dozens of firearms are found, along with inert grenades, cleverly-concealed knives, exotic animals, throwing stars, and a surprising number of swords hidden in canes. The TSA blog posts a weekly roundup of various and interesting prohibited items its agents discover. From…

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Pure News Story

High School Student Suspended For Saying She ‘Understands’ Adam Lanza’s Rampage

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Abby Rogers   A 17-year-old student at California’s Life Learning Academy has been suspended for writing in a personal notebook that she understands the elementary school massacre Newtown, Conn. I understand the killings in Connecticut,” Courtni Webb wrote in a personal notebook, The Daily Mail reported Monday. “I know why he pulled the trigger. Why are we oppressed by a dysfunctional community of haters and blamers?” Adam Lanza killed 20 students and six adults at Sandy Hook…

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Government Politics

China’s Newest And Deadly Warship Has Entered The South China Sea

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Robert Johnson Jeff Head via PLA Type 054A warship As five other countries claim ownership of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, and its supposed billions in oil and gas deposits, China’s backing its claim by sending the newest warship it has to the region.  The Taiwan-owned China Times reports the Liuzhou Type 054A warship entered the South China Sea Fleet of China’s PLA Navy, making it the sixth 054 warship in the…

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Story

How to Learn to Love Healthy Food (Even If You’re a Picky Eater)

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As reported on LifeHacker. by  Melanie Pinola One of the most common goals many of us have (beginning of the new year or not) is to start “eating healthy.” That’s easier said than done for those of us who don’t enjoy the usual healthy foods or are simply picky eaters. Whether you have the taste palate of a toddler or are bored to tears by health food, a few simple tricks could help get started eating better.…

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Story

12 Tech Moments of 2012 That Made You Say ‘WTF?’

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As reported on Wired. BY ROBERT MCMILLAN The tech world never ceases to amaze. Sometimes, people build amazing things. And sometimes, the people who build amazing things do other stuff that leaves your jaw on the floor. Some of it’s good. Some of it is oh so very bad. And some of it is just plain weird. Here, we give you our 12 most amazing tech moments of 2012. (Click on the images above.) Yes, you’ll…

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Story

Monstrous Mechanical Marvels: 9 Enormous Gadgets

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As reported on Wired. BY BRIAN X. CHEN When it comes to phones, notebooks and portable game consoles, smaller is nearly always better. But sometimes a gadget just needs to be really, really huge. True to their size, gigantic contraptions accomplish tasks enormously useful to our everyday lives. Take for example the Bagger 293 (above), a 31.3-million-pound bucket-wheel excavator capable of mining 220,000 tons of brown coal in a day. And if the only cost-effective way…

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Military Story

How Real Navy SEALs Would Handle Famous Movie Missions

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As reported on Wired. BY SHANE SNOW Navy SEALs are having the best year and a half ever. We’ve been inundated with tell-all books, documentaries, and big-budget action movies (the upcoming Zero Dark Thirty) about the special-ops frogmen… and then there’s that whole Team-Six-killing-Osama thing. We’re beginning to think there’s no task too big for these badasses. Just to make sure, we asked 17-year SEAL veteran Don Mann—author of the US Navy SEAL Survival Handbook and a Team Six…

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Military Must Prep Now for ‘Mutant’ Future, Researchers Warn

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As reported on Wired. BY DAVID AXE Lockheed Martin tests its Human Universal Load Carrier exoskeleton. Photo: Lockheed Martin The U.S. military is already using, or fast developing, a wide range of technologies meant to give troops what California Polytechnic State University researcher Patrick Lin calls “mutant powers.” Greater strength and endurance. Superior cognition. Better teamwork. Fearlessness. But the risk, ethics and policy issues arising out of these so-called “military human enhancements” — including drugs, special nutrition, electroshock,…

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Entertainment Story

Some Xbox Live users unable to sign in, access Xbox website or use Marketplace (update)

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As reported on Polygon. By SAMIT SARKAR Some Xbox Live users are currently experiencing a variety of issues with the service, including an inability to sign in or access the Xbox website, and Microsoft is working on the problem. According to the Xbox Live status page, which a few of us are currently unable to load, some users are having trouble buying content on Xbox Live Marketplace, adding Microsoft Points to their accounts and viewing their…

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Entertainment

These are the most pirated movies of 2012

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As reported on The Verge. By Ben Kersey TorrentFreak has once again compiled a list of the most pirated movies of the year. It shouldn’t come as any surprise to see blockbusters such as The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises make the list, but some may not recognize the front runner. Project X beat out Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol as the most pirated film of 2012, reaching an estimated download count of 8.72 million despite the poor critical receptionand lackluster box office performance. There are also some…

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