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China claims world’s longest high-speed rail line, takes travelers 1,428 miles in a workday

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As reported on Enagdget. By Jon Fingas China has a thing for pushing the limits of trains. As of today, that includes distance: the country claims to have the world’s longest high-speed rail line. Paying ¥865 ($139) will take you 1,428 miles from Beijing in the north to as far as Guangzhou in the south. The 8-hour, 186MPH trip is technically slower than flying, but it’s cheaper and potentially less stressful than the often protracted airport boarding process. It’s certainly…

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Why The US Should Force People To Buy Insurance If They Want Guns

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by The Economist The.Rohit via Flickr NOURIEL ROUBINI, a guy who knows a lot about risk, tweets in favour of mandatory liability insurance for gun owners:  If we had liability insurance on guns, as we do 4 cars, we will see which insurance company would insure at which price folks with arsenals It’s an idea that seems to be gathering a bit of steam. At Forbes.com, John Wasik lays out the logic behind treating firearm deaths as…

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The Biggest Box-Office Bombs Of 2012

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Kirsten Acuna Sony Pictures / Columbia Kate Beckinsale’s “Total Recall” remake didn’t totally take off this summer at theaters. While “The Avengers” and “The Dark Knight Rises” both saw more than $1 billion at the box office worldwide this year, there were many films which came up short at theaters.  From Kate Beckinsale and Jennifer Aniston to Judd Apatow to Disney’s Andrew Stanton, big name actors and producers were not…

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How to Use Multiple Dropbox Accounts on One Computer

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Thorin Klosowski Dropbox is one of out favorite ways to backup and store files, but unfortunately it doesn’t allow you to sign into multiple accounts at once. To solve this, blogger Daniel Mann figured out a way to run two different instances of Dropbox on a Mac using an automator script. Get Multiple Account Support on Windows On Windows, you have a couple different options for getting multiple instances of Dropbox…

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Three Quick and Easy Ways to Quiet Your Mind

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Matthew E. May Neuroscience tells us that, to be more productive and creative, we need to give our brains a break. It’s the quiet mind that produces the best insights. But it’s a challenge to take that sort of time off in the midst of a busy day. Here are three specific, quick, and easy ways to build purposeful break time into your day. Quick Meditation New research from the UCLA Laboratory…

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Overhyped, Overpriced: 2012′s Insanely Expensive Gear

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As reported on Wired. BY NATHAN OLIVAREZ-GILES If you look back at the year and think of the gear that stands out, it’s probably a short list despite the hundreds of phones, tablets, Kickstarter projects, headphones and laptops that flooded the market. There have been plenty of standouts, and more than a few clear fails. And there are a few products that wowed us not with innovation or stupidity, but with their stupefying price. From alligator-skinned watches to…

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Autopia’s 2012 Lust List: 10 Rides That Make Us Beg for More

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As reported on Wired. BY DAMON LAVRINC We’ve driven, ridden and flown some serious kit this year. But only a handful of rides left us weak in the knees and ready to lighten our wallets. This is our Lust List. What we’d mortgage our house, our kids and maybe a few extraneous body parts to park in that decommissioned hangar we’ve had our eye on. Some are obvious, others require that secret handshake for those in…

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New York newspaper posts map with names and addresses of handgun permit owners

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As reported on The Verge. By Adrianne Jeffries “Where are the gun permits in your neighborhood?” That’s the question posed by The Journal News, a New York newspaper that published a Google map on Sunday that shows the names and addresses of pistol or revolver permits in Westchester and Rockland counties.   The timing of the Journal News report is especially sensitive because of the gun control debate sparked by the fatal mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. The information was…

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Home for the holidays: how to use today’s technology to bring your family closer together

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As reported on The Verge. By Verge Staff Gadgets can isolate us, but they don’t have to By Dan Seifert and Andrew Webster Traditionally, the holidays are for family. For many people, it’s a chance to see family members that may live a great distance away, spend time with new in-laws or new arrivals, and of course, exchange gifts. But frequently, those very gifts actually separate us from our family, isolating us from others. Popular items…

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You’ll shoot your eye out: on Christmas, Americans flaunt their new firearms online

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As reported on The Verge. By T.C. Sottek While the debate over gun control and gun culture has gripped the nation following a series of high-profile shootings this year, leading some groups to momentarily step out of the spotlight, scores of firearm owners have taken to Twitter and Instagram on Christmas day to show off their new lethal hardware.   Joe Kemp@jkemp1775 Well, my 10 year old cousin got brass knuckles and an AR-15 for Christmas…pretty jealous…

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