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POPSDoomsday - The Mayan Prophesy December 21st, 2012. I probably won't be home that day, but I'll catch it later on youtube, I reckon. Jokes aside, they say the Mayan (or Atzec) calender is the most accurate ever made. Their doomsday is not so much about the end of time, but of the beginning or dawn of a new age of enlightenment. I think it's worth a gander. ;) This video explains the Mayan calender pretty well. Part one of three; The Mayan Calender Unveiled
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POPSDisappearance of Bees Finally Solved ? I really hope that this will start to clear up the mystery of the disappearing honeybees. They are an integral part of our harvest cycle and its really important we find out why the colonies are collapsing.
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POPSAmazing Close Up Views Of Tornados This one is for my mom. She absolutely is terrified and fascinated by tornadoes she is absolutely going to love these photos. They are just fantastic. Mother Nature will never cease to be an amazing and awe inspiring joy to watch. While I will never feel anything but sympathy for the terror and destruction that these storms leave in their path from these photos I can see the reason why my mother is glued to the TV anytime live video of these monsters comes up. Enjoy, I know my mom will ;)
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POPSNatalie Portman, Neuroscientist How many actors do you know take a break from acting and peruse this kind of alternative job? This is great to actually see an actor using their brain. How wonderful ! Cheers to you Natalie. If you click on this link you can get a copy of the paper Ms. Portman is on at the bottom of the page.
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POPSKindness Does Extend Beyond Us Just an interesting little study about a debate that I am sure will not rest here. I have worked with chimps in the past and I do not find it very surprising that chimps would be so giving to unrelated members of their species. But as it usually is in science, what you feel is not always what you find. Let the debates continue.
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POPSCNN Makes Paris More Important than Health Care CNN, in my opinion, is no longer to be considered a reputable source of important and relevant news. Although I realize Michael Moore is publicizing his new film SICKO, which is of course, self-serving, the film is about an issue of great importance and relevance to the entire country. To bump this discussion of such a critical matter in favour of an interview with Paris Hilton who is relevant to nothing of importance in the overall serious issues confronting our country is an insult to what the news media is supposed to be all about.
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POPSGoogle Browser Coming Your Way Soon? I think the most interesting think to note out of this whole article is the fact that Google has regestered the domain name gbrowser.com. While they may just be covering all of their bases I think that this bodes well for a future release of their own browser. I am sure that some of you will see this as another indication that Google is taking over the world, and while that may be true, I am not quite convinced that Google is as evil as some are making them out to be. Or maybe they are taking over Mwahahahah :)
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POPSLife Imitating Art, Reversing Fragile X Syndrome How wonderful is this. While this does not directly translate into a cure for fragile x it does give hope that future breakthroughs will leads us closer to a workable therapy for this disease. Thumbs-up to the researchers at M.I.T.
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POPSCockroaches Are Not Morning People Just could not help clipping this seemingly useless piece of information. I wonder how much money was allocated for this study? Another waste of tax dollars perhaps?
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POPSCan Your Plants Recognize You? Plants have a secret social life. Apparently they can tell their siblings from plants not related to them, and in doing so compete against unrelated plants. Wow, and I thought the neighborhood cats were interesting.
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POPSVirtual Business Interesting article. Despite the drawbacks I believe that it can be assumed that the future of the web, and business conducted on the web, will be done more virtually than it is done at the present time. Because of this business will have to adapt and learn how to run within a virtual environment like Second Life. Despite the present drawbacks I believe that this is all very exciting for the future of business and the web.
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POPSOld Mac Commercial: Rip. Mix. Burn. Cool old commercial before digital music was so prevalent on the scene. Very neat having all those artist on stage together. Check out the appearance of Aimee Man and Iggy Pop.
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POPSMust See, Kid Rapping About Physics This is just great. If more kids could get this interested in science and learning so much could change in this country. Not to mention that this just freaken cool :)
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POPSArt Controlled By Apple A really cool art instillation by Brian Eno who's work consists of a bank of screens displaying constantly evolving images and sounds, all controlled by massive Apple computers.
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