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How to build a great academic department

From an interview of mathematician Christopher Zeeman by Justin Mullins in the July 21, 2007, New Scientist: Q: You built a world-class mathematics department from scratch at the University of Warwick...

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Surgical modification for iPhone?

A North Denver Newsarticle article by James Benfly reported: Thomas Martel, 28, of Bonnie Brae is a big guy. So he has a hard time using the features on ever-shrinking user interfaces on devices like...

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Bugs marketed as features: diet fork

I found out from FARK about a diet fork with the following features: Shorter and dulled teeth inhibiting user from grasping larger pieces of food at any one time Smaller triangular shaped surface area...

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Bush's missionary position

I heard on the January 26 episode of "Wait Wait... Don't Tell me!" about President Bush's misconceptions about the favorite painting he hung in the Oval Office. According to The Bush Tragedy:In an...

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Straight-talking homeopaths

From the February 2 New Scientist: Thanks to Alex Gough for pointing us in the direction of FairDeal Homeopathy, online purveyors of homeopathic remedies. Their website is intriguing, and not at all...

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More trouble with automated suggestions

The online world is abuzz over the above Amazon search result for "terrorist costume", with outraged readers of the LA Times Blog vowing never to shop at Amazon again. Despite being an Obama supporter,...

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Anti-same-sex marriage ad and spoof

The so-called National Organization for Marriage issued a strange ad against legalizing same-sex marriage: While Human Rights Campaign has issued a rebuttal of the ad's claims, the ad has more...

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Don't worry: They're not racists

Boston police officer Justin Barrett sent an email [1] to the Boston Globe and his National Guard colleagues saying that Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates behaved like a "banana-eating jungle monkey"...

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Another Not a Racist

Add to the list of not a racists Georgia businessman Patrick Lanzo, who put up a large sign outside of his bar, reading: "OBAMAS HEALTH CARE PLAN - NIGGER RIG IT". Lanzo explained:"I've used the N-word...

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"Not a racist" justice of the peace denies marriage license to interracial...

Via the Associated Press: A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell,...

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